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20 The bed is too short to stretch out on.
    The blanket is too narrow to serve as a cover.
21 Yahweh will rise as he did on Mount Perazim.
    He will wake up as he did in Gibeon Valley.
    He will do his work, his unexpected work,
        and perform his deeds, his mysterious deeds.
22 Now stop laughing, or your chains will be tightened,
    because I have heard that Adonay Yahweh Tsebaoth
        has finally determined to destroy the whole land.

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20 The bed is too short to stretch out on,
    the blanket too narrow to wrap around you.(A)
21 The Lord will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim,(B)
    he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon(C)
to do his work,(D) his strange work,
    and perform his task, his alien task.
22 Now stop your mocking,(E)
    or your chains will become heavier;
the Lord, the Lord Almighty, has told me
    of the destruction decreed(F) against the whole land.(G)

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