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\h Nahum
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\toc1 The Book of Nahum
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\toc2 Nahum
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\toc3 Nam
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\mt Nahum
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\s5
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\c 1
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\p
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\v 1 The declaration about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum, the Elkoshite.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 2 Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges; Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath;
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\q Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he continues his anger for his enemies.
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\q
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\v 3 Yahweh is slow to anger and great in power; he will not allow the wicked to go unpunished.
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\q Yahweh makes his way in the whirlwind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 4 He rebukes the sea and makes it dry; he dries up all the rivers.
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\q Bashan is weak, and Carmel also; the flowers of Lebanon are weak.
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\q
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\v 5 The mountains shake in his presence, and the hills melt;
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\q the earth collapses in his presence, indeed, the world and all people who live in it.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 6 Who can stand before his wrath? Who can resist the fierceness of his anger?
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\q His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 7 Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he is faithful to those who take refuge in him.
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\q
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\v 8 But he will make a full end to his enemies with an overwhelming flood; he will pursue them into darkness.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 9 What are you people plotting against Yahweh?
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\q He will make a full end to it; trouble will not rise up a second time.
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\q
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\v 10 For they will become tangled up like thornbushes; they will be saturated in their own drink;
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\q they will be completely devoured by fire like dry stubble.
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\q
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\v 11 Someone arose among you, Nineveh, who planned evil against Yahweh, someone who promoted wickedness.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 12 This is what Yahweh says,
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\q "Even if they are at their full strength and full numbers, they will nevertheless be sheared;
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\q their people will be no more. But you, Judah: Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
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\q
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\v 13 Now will I break that people's yoke from off you; I will break your chains."
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\s5
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\q
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\v 14 Yahweh has given a command about you, Nineveh:
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\q "There will be no more descendants bearing your name.
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\q I will cut off the carved figures and the cast metal figures from the houses of your gods.
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\q I will dig your graves, for you are contemptible."
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\s5
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\q
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\v 15 Look, on the mountains there are the feet of someone who is bringing good news, who is announcing peace!
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\q Celebrate your festivals, Judah, and keep your vows,
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\q for the wicked one will invade you no more; he is completely cut off.
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\s5
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\c 2
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\m
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\q
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\v 1 The one who will dash you to pieces is coming up against you.
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\q Man the city walls, guard the roads,
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\q make yourselves strong, assemble your armies.
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\q
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\v 2 For Yahweh is restoring the majesty of Jacob, like the majesty of Israel,
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\q although the plunderers devastated them and destroyed their vine branches.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 3 The shields of his mighty men are red, and the soldiers are clothed in scarlet;
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\q the chariots flash with their metal on the day that they are made ready, and the cypress spears are waved in the air.
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\q
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\v 4 The chariots speed through the streets; they rush back and forth in the wide streets.
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\q They look like torches, and they run like lightning.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 5 The one who will dash you to pieces calls his officers; they stumble over each other in their march;
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\q they hurry to attack the city wall. The large shield is made ready to protect these attackers.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 6 The gates at the rivers are forced open, and the palace falls to ruins.
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\q
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\v 7 Huzzab is stripped of her clothes and is taken away;
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\q her female servants moan like doves, beating on their breasts.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 8 Nineveh is like a leaking pool of water, with its people fleeing away like rushing water.
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\q Others shout, "Stop, stop," but no one looks back.
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\q
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\v 9 Take the silver plunder, take the gold plunder, for there is no end to it,
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\q to the splendor of all Nineveh's beautiful things.
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\q
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\v 10 Nineveh is empty and ruined. Everyone's heart melts, everyone's knees strike together,
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\q and anguish is in everyone; their faces are all pale.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 11 Where now is the lions' den, the place where the young lion cubs were fed,
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\q the place where the lion and lioness walked, with the cubs, where they were afraid of nothing?
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\q
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\v 12 The lion tore his victims to pieces for his cubs; he strangled victims for his lionesses,
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\q and filled his cave with victims, his dens with torn carcasses.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 13 "See, I am against you—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts.
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\q I will burn your chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions.
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\q I will cut off your prey from your land, and the voices of your messengers will be heard no more."
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\s5
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\c 3
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\m
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\q
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\v 1 Woe to the city full of blood!
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\q It is all full of lies and stolen property; victims are always in her.
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\q
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\v 2 But now there is the noise of whips and the sound of rattling wheels,
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\q prancing horses, and bounding chariots.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 3 There are attacking horsemen,
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\q flashing swords, glittering spears,
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\q heaps of corpses, great piles of bodies.
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\q There is no end to the bodies; their attackers stumble over them.
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\q
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\v 4 This is happening because of the lustful actions of the beautiful prostitute, the expert in witchcraft,
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\q who sells nations through her prostitution, and peoples through her acts of witchcraft.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 5 "See, I am against you—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts—I will raise up your skirt over your face
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\q and show your private parts to the nations, your shame to the kingdoms.
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\q
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\v 6 I will throw disgusting filth on you and make you vile; I will make you someone that everyone will look at.
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\q
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\v 7 It will come about that everyone who looks at you will flee from you and say,
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\q 'Nineveh is destroyed; who will weep for her?'
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\q Where can I find anyone to comfort you?"
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\s5
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\q
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\v 8 Nineveh, are you better than Thebes, that was built on the Nile River, that had water around her,
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\q whose defense was the ocean, whose wall was the sea itself?
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\q
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\v 9 Cush and Egypt were her strength, and there was no end to it;
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\q Put and Libya were allies to her.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 10 Yet Thebes was carried away; she went into captivity;
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\q her young children were dashed in pieces at the head of every street;
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\q her enemies threw lots for her honorable men,
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\q and all her great men were bound in chains.
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\q
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\v 11 You also will become drunk; you will try to hide,
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\q and you will also look for a refuge from your enemy.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 12 All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the earliest ripe figs:
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\q if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
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\q
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\v 13 See, the people among you are women;
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\q the gates of your land have been opened wide to your enemies;
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\q fire has devoured their bars.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 14 Go draw water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses;
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\q go into the clay and tread the mortar;
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\q pick up the molds for the bricks.
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\q
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\v 15 Fire will devour you there, and the sword will destroy you. It will devour you as young locusts devour everything.
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\p
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\q Make yourselves as many as the young locusts, as many as the full-grown locusts.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 16 You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars in the heavens; but they are like young locusts: they plunder the land and then fly away.
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\q
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\v 17 Your princes are as many as the full-grown locusts, and your generals are like swarms of them
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\q that camp in the walls on a cold day.
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\q But when the sun rises they fly away to no one knows where.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 18 King of Assyria, your shepherds are asleep; your rulers are lying down resting.
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\q Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
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\q
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\v 19 No healing is possible for your wounds. Your wounds are severe.
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\q Everyone who hears the news about you will clap their hands in joy over you.
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\q Who has escaped your constant wickedness?
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