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12 Soldiers will march over the hills in the wilderness.
    They will come to destroy the whole land.
I, the Lord, will use them as my weapon.
    I will punish everyone.
    Nobody will be safe.
13 My people will plant seeds of wheat,
    but they will only have weeds at harvest time.
They will work very hard,
    but they will get nothing.
At harvest time,
    they will have no crops to be proud of.
Because I am very angry,
    they will not have any food.’

14 This is what the Lord says: ‘I will punish the wicked nations that came to attack the land of my people. It was the land that I gave to Israel's people to be their home. But those enemies destroyed it. So I will remove them from their own lands. I will rescue the people of Judah from among them.

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