(A)You have rejected me, declares the Lord;
    (B)you keep going backward,
so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you—
    (C)I am weary of relenting.
(D)I have winnowed them with (E)a winnowing fork
    in the gates of the land;
I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people;
    (F)they did not turn from their ways.
I have made their widows more in number
    than (G)the sand of the seas;
I have brought against the mothers of young men
    a destroyer at noonday;
I have made anguish and terror
    fall upon them suddenly.

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