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You have turned cities into ruins,
    fortified cities into piles of rubble,
        and foreigners’ palaces into cities that will never be rebuilt.
That is why strong people will honor you,
    and cities ruled by the world’s tyrants will fear you.
You have been a refuge for the poor,
    a refuge for the needy in their distress,
    a shelter from the rain, and shade from the heat.
    (A tyrant’s breath is like a rainstorm against a wall,

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