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31 Wail, you gate!
    Cry out, you city!
        Melt away,[a] all you Philistines!
For smoke comes from the north,
    and there’s no one to take measure[b] in its festivals.[c]
32 How will they[d] answer the messengers of the nation?
    “The Lord has founded Zion,
        and in it[e] the afflicted among his people will find refuge.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:31 Or melt in fear
  2. Isaiah 14:31 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsao MT read no straggler
  3. Isaiah 14:31 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsao reads ranks
  4. Isaiah 14:32 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads one
  5. Isaiah 14:32 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads her