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# Do not learn the ways of the nations
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"Do not act like the other nations act"
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# dismayed
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worried or upset
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# by the signs in the heavens
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"by strange things in the sky"
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# for the nations are dismayed by these
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Here "the nations" refer to the people who live in them. This can be written in active form. Alternate translation: "for the people of the nations are afraid of the strange things they see in the sky" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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