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24 For rain the Lord will give your land powdery dust, which will come down upon you from the heavens until you are destroyed. 25 The Lord will let you be beaten down before your enemies; though you advance against them from one direction, you will flee before them in seven,[a] so that you will become an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.(A) 26 Your corpses will become food for all the birds of the air and for the beasts of the field, with no one to frighten them off.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 28:25 From one direction…in seven: see note on v. 7.

24 The Lord will turn the rain(A) of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

25 The Lord will cause you to be defeated(B) before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven,(C) and you will become a thing of horror(D) to all the kingdoms on earth.(E) 26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds(F) and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.(G)

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