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\c 7
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\q1
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\v 1 I am very miserable!
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\q1 I am like someone who is hungry, who searches for fruit to eat
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\q2 and who finds no grapes or figs to eat
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\q1 because all the fruit has been picked.
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\q1
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\v 2 Everyone who honored God has disappeared from this land;
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\q2 not one of them is left.
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\q1 The people who are left are all murderers;
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\q2 it is as though everyone is eager to kill his fellow countryman.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 3 They do what is evil with all their might.
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\q2 Government officials and judges all ask for bribes.
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\q1 Important people tell others what they want,
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\q2 and they plot together about how to get it.
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\q1
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\v 4 Even the best people are as worthless as briers;
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\q2 the people who we thought to be the most honest are worse than thornbushes.
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\q1 But Yahweh will soon judge them.
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\q2 Now is the time that he will punish people,
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\q2 when they will be very confused because of it.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 5 So do not trust anyone!
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\q2 Do not trust even a friend;
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\q1 even be careful what you say to your wife, whom you love.
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\q1
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\v 6 Boys will despise their fathers,
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\q2 and girls will defy their mothers.
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\q1 Women will defy their mothers-in-law.
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\q2 Your enemies will be those who live in your own house.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 7 As for me, I wait for Yahweh to help me.
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\q2 I confidently expect that God, my Savior, will answer me when I pray.
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\q1
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\v 8 You who are our enemies,
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\q2 do not gloat about what has happened to us,
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\q1 because even if we have experienced disasters,
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\q2 those disasters will end, and we will be prosperous again.
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\q1 Even if it is as though we are sitting in the darkness,
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\q2 Yahweh will be our light.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 9 We must be patient while Yahweh punishes us
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\q2 because we have sinned against him.
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\q1 But later, it will be as though he will go to court and defend us.
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\q2 He will make sure that the judge makes a right decision about us.
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\q1 It will be as though he will bring us out into the light,
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\q2 and we will see him rescue us.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 10 Our enemies will also see it, and they will be disgraced
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\q2 because they ridiculed us, saying
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\q1 "Why is Yahweh, that God of yours, not helping you?"
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\q2 But with our own eyes we will see them be defeated;
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\q2 we will see them trampled
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\q2 like mud in the streets.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 11 You people of Israel, at that time your cities will be rebuilt,
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\q2 and your territory will become larger.
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\q1
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\v 12 Your people will come back to you from many countries,
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\q2 from Assyria, from near the Euphrates River in the east, and from Egypt in the south,
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\q1 from the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean Sea,
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\q2 and from many mountains.
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\q1
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\v 13 But the other countries on the earth will become desolate
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\q2 because of the evil deeds that their people have done.
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\q1
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\v 14 Yahweh, protect your people as a shepherd protects his sheep with his staff.
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\q2 Lead the people whom you have chosen to belong to you.
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\q1 Even though some of them live by themselves in a forest,
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\q2 give them the fertile pastureland
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\q1 in the regions of Bashan and Gilead,
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\q2 which they possessed long ago.
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\p
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\v 15 Yahweh says,
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\q1 "Yes, I will perform miracles for you
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\q2 like the miracles that I performed when I rescued your ancestors from being slaves in Egypt."
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 16 People from many nations will see what Yahweh does for you,
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\q1 and they will be ashamed
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\q2 because they do not have any power.
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\q1 They will put their hands over their mouths and their ears because they will be very amazed at what Yahweh does.
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\q2 They will not be able to say anything or hear anything, because they will be terrified.
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\q1
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\v 17 Being very humiliated, they will crawl on the ground like snakes.
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\q1 They will come out of their homes trembling
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\q2 and stand to honor Yahweh our God.
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\q1 They will be very afraid of him
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\q2 and will tremble in front of him.
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\q1
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\v 18 Yahweh, there is no God like you;
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\q2 you forgive the sins that the people who have survived committed,
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\q2 the people who belong to you.
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\q1 You do not remain angry forever;
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\q2 you are very happy to show us that you faithfully love us.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 19 You will again act kindly toward us.
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\q2 You will get rid of the scroll on which you have written the sins that we have committed,
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\q2 as though you were trampling it under your feet
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\q2 or throwing it into the deep ocean.
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\q1
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\v 20 You will show that you faithfully do what you promised for us and faithfully love us,
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\q2 just as you solemnly promised long ago to our ancestors Abraham and Jacob that you would do.
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