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11 Women, you are ·calm [complacent] now, but you should shake with fear.
    Women, you feel ·safe [secure; self-confident] now, but you should tremble.
·Take [Strip] off your nice clothes
    and put ·rough cloth [burlap; sackcloth] around your waist [C a sign of sorrow or despair].
12 Beat your breasts [C a sign of mourning or grief], ·because the fields that were pleasant are now empty [L for the pleasant fields].
    ·Cry, because the vines that once had fruit now have no more grapes [L …for the fruitful vine].
13 ·Cry for [L …for] the land of my people,
    in which only thorns and weeds now grow [Gen. 3:18].
·Cry for [L …for] the city that once was happy
    and for all the houses that once were filled with joy.

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