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Geneva Study Bible Commentary

Isaiah 52:5

Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nothing? they that rule over them make them to wail, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day [is] (f) blasphemed.

(f) That is, by the wicked, who think that I have no power to deliver them.

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