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873 B
873 B
For the fortified city is desolate, the habitation is deserted and forsaken like the wilderness
AT: "The cities that were strong and had many people living in them will become empty like a wilderness."
When the boughs are withered, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them
AT: "When the branches wither, women will come and break them off and make fires with them." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive)
this is not a people of understanding
AT: "this is not a people who understands Yahweh or his law." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)
Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them, and he who made them will not be merciful to them
"Because they do not understand, Yahweh, the one who made them, will not show mercy to them."