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11 Then I said, “Lord, how long?”

He answered,

“Until cities are waste without inhabitant,
    houses without man,
    the land becomes utterly waste,
12     and Yahweh has removed men far away,
    and the forsaken places are many within the land.
13 If there is a tenth left in it,
    that also will in turn be consumed,
as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stump remains when they are cut down;
    so the holy seed is its stock.”

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11 Then I said, “For how long, Lord?”(A)

And he answered:

“Until the cities lie ruined(B)
    and without inhabitant,
until the houses are left deserted(C)
    and the fields ruined and ravaged,(D)
12 until the Lord has sent everyone far away(E)
    and the land is utterly forsaken.(F)
13 And though a tenth remains(G) in the land,
    it will again be laid waste.(H)
But as the terebinth and oak
    leave stumps(I) when they are cut down,
    so the holy(J) seed will be the stump in the land.”(K)

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