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28     Because you have raged against Me,
        because your arrogance has flooded My ears,
    I am going to insert My hook into your nose
        and harness your lips with My bridle,
    And I will send you back in the direction
        from which you came.

29 “This will be the sign for you: for the first year, you will feast on what grows on its own; for the second year, you will feast on what grows from the original source; and for the third year, you will prepare the soil, gather, plant vineyards, and feast on their fruit. 30 Whatever is left of Judah’s house will again spread its roots down into the soil and grow upward with fruit.

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28 Because you rage against me
    and because your insolence has reached my ears,
I will put my hook(A) in your nose
    and my bit(B) in your mouth,
and I will make you return(C)
    by the way you came.’

29 “This will be the sign(D) for you, Hezekiah:

“This year you will eat what grows by itself,(E)
    and the second year what springs from that.
But in the third year sow and reap,
    plant vineyards(F) and eat their fruit.
30 Once more a remnant(G) of the kingdom of Judah
    will take root(H) below and bear fruit above.

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