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## Cut her trees ##
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"Cut down the trees." Yahweh is speaking to the army that will attack Jerusalem.
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## siegeworks ##
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"siege mounds." These are mounds of dirt that will allow the enemy to attack the walls of Jerusalem.
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## because it is filled with oppression ##
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"because its people are always oppressing each other"
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## Just as a well keeps giving water, so this city keeps producing wickedness ##
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A well is supposed to keep producing water. Like a well remains with its water, Jerusalem has remained with its wickedness, even when Yahweh punishes it. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-irony]])
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## Violence and disorder are heard in her ##
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AT: "I hear violence and robbery in her." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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## Suffering and plague are continually before me ##
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AT: "I constantly see sickness and suffering." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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## Accept discipline, Jerusalem ##
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Yahweh speaks to Jerusalem as though she was a person. AT: "Learn from your punishment, you people of Jerusalem." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-apostrophe]], [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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## an uninhabited land ##
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"a land that has no people living in it"
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