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24 They will be starved and sick.
    They will be destroyed by terrible diseases.
I will send them vicious animals
    and gliding, poisonous snakes.
25 In the streets the sword will kill.
    In their homes there will be terror.
Young men and women will die.
    So will babies and gray-haired men.
26 I will scatter them as I said.
    And no one will remember them.

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24 I will send wasting famine(A) against them,
    consuming pestilence(B) and deadly plague;(C)
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,(D)
    the venom of vipers(E) that glide in the dust.(F)
25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
    in their homes terror(G) will reign.(H)
The young men and young women will perish,
    the infants and those with gray hair.(I)
26 I said I would scatter(J) them
    and erase their name from human memory,(K)

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