so shall thy sons marry thee The harshness of the conception is obvious; and it is hardly relieved by pointing to the double meaning of the verb bâ-al("marry" and "possess"). Lowth and others, by a slight emendation of the text, read "so shall thy Builder (Jehovah) marry thee." (So Cheyne, who refers to Psalms 147:2: "Jehovah is the builder up of Jerusalem.") See on Isaiah 49:17.

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