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# Were these not the same words ... were inhabited?
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Yahweh uses a question to scold the people. This question can be translated as a statement. Alternate translation: "These are the same words ... were inhabited." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# by the hand of the former prophets
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Here "hand" is a metonym for the words spoken by the mouth. Alternate translation: "by the words of the former prophets" or "through the former prophets" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# when Jerusalem and the surrounding cities were inhabited and prosperous
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"you still lived in Jerusalem and everyone who lived in the surrounding cities was prosperous"
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