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\c 2
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\q1
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\v 1 Terrible things will happen to you who lie awake at night,
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\q2 planning to do wicked things.
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\q1 Then you get up at dawn, and you do those things
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\q2 as soon as you are able to do them.
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\q1
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\v 2 You want fields that belong to other people,
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\q2 so you seize them;
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\q2 you also take their houses.
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\q1 You cheat people to get their homes,
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\q2 taking away the property that belongs to their families.
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\s5
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\p
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\v 3 Therefore, this is what Yahweh says:
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\q1 "I will cause you people of Israel to experience disasters,
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\q2 and you will not be able to escape from them.
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\q1 You will no longer walk around proudly,
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\q2 because when that happens, it will be a time of much trouble for you.
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\q1
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\v 4 At that time, your enemies will make fun of you rich people;
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\q2 they will ridicule you by singing this sad song about you:
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\q1 'We Israelites are completely ruined;
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\q2 Yahweh is taking our land from us,
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\q1 and he will give it to those who capture us.'"
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\q1
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\v 5 So when it is the time for the land to be given back to you people who belong to Yahweh,
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\q2 there will be no one alive among you rich families to receive back any of that land.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 6 The people who heard me say that replied to me,
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\q2 "Do not prophesy such things!
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\q2 Do not say that Yahweh is going to humiliate us by causing us to experience disasters!"
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\q1
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\v 7 But you people talk like that!
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\q2 You say that Yahweh never gets angry,
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\q2 and that he never really punishes us."
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\q1 Of course, what I say certainly helps those who live in the right way.
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\q1
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\v 8 But Yahweh says,
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\q2 "Recently my people have been acting toward me like an enemy.
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\q1 You rich people refuse to return the coats of those who have borrowed money from you,
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\q2 the coats they gave you to promise that they would repay their debts.
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\q2 You take their coats without warning, surprising them as much as soldiers returning from war would be surprised by attacks instead of safety at home.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 9 You have forced women to leave their nice homes,
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\q2 and you have stolen from their children forever the blessings that I wanted to give them.
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\q1
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\v 10 So get up and leave here!
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\q2 This is not a place where you can rest and be safe,
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\q1 because you have defiled it.
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\q2 I will make sure it will be completely destroyed.
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\q1
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\v 11 You people want a prophet who will lie to you,
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\q2 saying, 'I will preach that you should drink plenty of wine and other alcoholic drinks!'
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\q2 That is the kind of prophet who would please you."
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 12 "But some day, you descendants of Jacob, I will bring back from exile the Israelite people who have survived.
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\q1 I will gather you together
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\q2 like a shepherd gathers his sheep into a pen,
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\q2 and there will be many of you in your land.
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\q1
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\v 13 Your leader will enable them to leave the countries where they have been exiled;
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\q2 he will lead them out of the gates of their enemies' cities,
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\q2 back to your own country.
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\q1 Your king will lead them;
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\q2 it is I, Yahweh, who will be their king!"
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