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\c 33
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\p
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\q1
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\v 1 Woe to you, destroyer who has not been destroyed!
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\q2 Woe to the betrayer whom they have not betrayed!
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\q1 When you stop destroying, you will be destroyed.
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\q2 When you stop betraying, they will betray you.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 2 Yahweh, be gracious to us; we wait for you;
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\q1 be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 3 At the loud noise the peoples flee; when you arise, the nations are scattered.
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\q1
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\v 4 Your spoil is gathered as the locusts gather; as locusts leap, men leap on it.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 5 Yahweh is exalted. He lives in a high place. He will fill Zion with justice and righteousness.
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\q1
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\v 6 He will be the stability in your times,
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\q1 abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of Yahweh is his treasure.
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\s5
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\p
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\q1
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\v 7 Look, their envoys cry in the streets; the diplomats hoping for peace weep bitterly.
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\q1
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\v 8 The highways are deserted; there are no more travelers.
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\q1 Covenants are broken, witnesses are despised, and mankind is not respected.
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\f + \ft Instead of \fqa witness are despised \fqa* , some versions have \fqa cities are despised \fqa* . \f*
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\q1
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\v 9 The land mourns and withers away; Lebanon is ashamed and withers away;
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\f + \ft Some versions have \fqa The land dries up and withers away \fqa* . \f*
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\q1 Sharon is like a desert plain; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
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\q1
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\v 10 "Now will I arise," says Yahweh; "now I will be lifted up; now I will be elevated.
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\q1
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\v 11 You conceive chaff, and you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.
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\v 12 The peoples will be burned to lime, as thornbushes are cut down and are burned.
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\q1
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\v 13 You who are far away, hear what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might."
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\q1
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\v 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless ones.
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\q1 Who among us can sojourn with a raging fire? Who among us can sojourn with everlasting burnings?
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\q1
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\v 15 He who walks righteously and speaks honestly;
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\q1 who despises the gain of oppression,
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\q1 who shakes his hand so that it will not accept a bribe,
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\q1 who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed,
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\q1 and who shuts his eyes from looking on evil—
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\q1
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\v 16 this is the man who will dwell on the heights,
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\q1 his place of defense will be the fortress among the cliffs,
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\q1 his food will be given, and his water will be in steady supply.
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\q1
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\v 17 Your eyes will see the king in his beauty; they will see a land off in the distance.
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\v 18 Your heart will recall the terror; where is the scribe, where is he who weighed the money? Where is he who counted the towers?
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\q1
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\v 19 You will no longer see the defiant people, a people of a strange language, whom you do not comprehend.
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\q1
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\v 20 Look at Zion, the city of our feasts;
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\q1 your eyes will see Jerusalem as a quiet habitation, a tent that will not be removed,
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\q1 whose stakes will never be pulled up nor will any of its cords be broken.
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\q1
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\v 21 Instead, Yahweh in majesty will be with us, in a place of broad rivers and streams.
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\q1 No warship with oars will travel it, and no large ships will sail by.
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\v 22 For Yahweh is our judge, Yahweh is our lawgiver, Yahweh is our king; he will save us.
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\q1
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\v 23 Your riggings are slack; they cannot hold the mast in place; they cannot spread the sail;
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\q1 when the great spoil is divided, even the lame will drag off the spoil.
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\q1
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\v 24 The inhabitants will not say, "I am sick;" the people who live there will be forgiven for their iniquity.
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