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# General Information:
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In these verses, the word "her" refers to the city of Babylon.
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# because of the fear of her torment
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This can be restated to remove the abstract nouns "fear" and "torment." Alternate translation: "because they will be afraid of God tormenting them they way he torments her" or "because they will be afraid of suffering the way she is suffering" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])
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# weeping and mourning loudly
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This is what the merchants will be doing. Alternate translation: "and they will weep and mourn loudly"
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