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virgin. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for the house of Israel, a young girl who is beloved, as in Hosea. Compare Isa_37:22; Isa_47:1. Jer_14:17; Jer_46:11, &c.
she. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Syriac and Vulgate, read "and shall not": i.e. cannot rise again.
land = soil. Hebrew. 'adamah.
there. Some codices read "and [there]".