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\c 4
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\q1
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\v 1 Previously our people were like pure gold,
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\q2 but now they are worthless.
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\q1 Just as our enemies have scattered the sacred stones in the temple,
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\q2 so they have also scattered our young men.
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\q1
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\v 2 The young men of Jerusalem were as valuable as large amounts of gold,
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\q2 but now people consider them to be as worthless as ordinary clay pots.
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\q1
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\v 3 Even the female jackals feed their pups,
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\q2 but my people act cruelly toward their own children;
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\q1 the mothers are like ostriches in the desert that abandon their eggs.
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\q1
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\v 4 My people's infants' tongues cling to the roofs of their mouths
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\q2 because they are extremely thirsty;
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\q1 the children plead for some food,
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\q2 but no one gives them any.
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\q1
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\v 5 People who previously ate fine food
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\q2 are now starving in the streets;
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\q1 those who previously wore fine clothes
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\q2 now lie upon the rubbish heaps with nothing to eat.
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\q1
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\v 6 The people of Sodom died very suddenly in a disaster,
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\q2 and there was no one to rescue them;
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\q1 but God has punished my people
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\q2 more severely than the people of Sodom.
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\q1
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\v 7 Our leaders were could be compare to snow or milk,
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\q2 so they were clean and spotless.
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\q1 Their physical bodies were healthy,
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\q2 and their health and strength could compare
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\q2 to brilliance and beauty of sapphires.
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\q1
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\v 8 But now their faces are blacker than soot,
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\q2 and no one recognizes them in the streets.
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\q1 Their skin has shriveled on their bones,
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\q2 and it has become as dry as a wooden stick.
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\q1
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\v 9 It is better to die in a battle
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\q2 than to die of hunger.
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\q1 There was no food to harvest in the fields,
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\q2 so the people slowly starved until they died.
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\v 10 Women who usually acted with love and compassion
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\q2 have killed and cooked their own children;
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\q1 they ate them when there was no other food,
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\q2 when Jerusalem was being destroyed by attacking armies.
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\q1
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\v 11 Yahweh has shown to everyone how angry he was with his people!
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\q1 His anger spread like a fire in Zion (the city of Jerusalem)
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\q2 that burned the city down to its rock foundations.
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\v 12 None of the kings on the earth or anyone else
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\q2 believed that any of our enemies could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
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\q1
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\v 13 But that is what happened;
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\q2 it happened because the prophets sinned;
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\q1 the priests also sinned
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\q2 by causing innocent people to die.
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\q1
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\v 14 The prophets and priests wander through the streets
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\q2 as though they were blind.
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\q1 No one will touch them
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\q2 because their clothes are stained with the blood of those innocent people.
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\q1
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\v 15 These prophets and priests shout, "Stay away from us!
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\q2 Do not touch us!"
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\q1 So the prophets and priests have fled from Israel,
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\q2 and they wander around from one country to another,
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\q2 but people in each country keep saying to them, "You cannot stay here!"
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\q1
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\v 16 It is Yahweh himself who has scattered them;
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\q2 he no longer is concerned about them.
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\q1 People do not welcome our priests any longer, and they care nothing for the elders.
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\q1
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\v 17 We continued to look for someone to help us before it was too late,
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\q2 but it was useless.
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\q1 We continued to watch to see if one of our allies would save us,
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\q2 but none of the nations that we were waiting for was willing to help us.
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\v 18 Our enemies were pursuing us,
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\q2 so we could not even walk in our streets because they could take us as prisoners.
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\q1 Our enemies were about to capture us;
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\q2 it was time for them to kill us.
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\q1
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\v 19 Those who ran after us were faster than eagles flying in the sky.
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\q1 Even if we fled to the mountains
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\q2 or hid in the desert,
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\q2 they went there ahead of us and waited to attack us.
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\q1
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\v 20 Our king, whom Yahweh had appointed,
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\q2 the one who enabled us to live,
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\q1 the one whom we trusted to protect us
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\q2 when we had to live in the other nations as slaves—
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\q1 the enemy captured him,
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\q2 as you would capture an animal in a pit.
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\q1
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\v 21 You people of Edom and Uz,
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\q2 you should be happy while you can,
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\q1 but Yahweh will punish you also.
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\q2 You will become so drunk that you will strip off your own clothes.
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\q1
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\v 22 You people of Zion (whose home is in Jerusalem),
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\q2 the time when Yahweh punishes you for your sins will come to an end.
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\q1 He will bring an end to the time you must spend in exile.
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\q2 But you people who are from Edom, Yahweh will punish you for your sins
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\q2 and he will make known to everyone the wicked things you have done.
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