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Your relatives and the members of your father’s
    household have betrayed you.
They have raised a loud outcry against you.
Do not trust them when they speak friendly words to you.
I have abandoned my house.
I have forsaken my heritage.
I have given the one I love dearly into the hands of her enemies.
My heritage has become like a lion in the forest to me.
She roars at me, so I hate her.

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Your relatives, members of your own family—
    even they have betrayed you;
    they have raised a loud cry against you.(A)
Do not trust them,
    though they speak well of you.(B)

“I will forsake(C) my house,
    abandon(D) my inheritance;
I will give the one I love(E)
    into the hands of her enemies.(F)
My inheritance has become to me
    like a lion(G) in the forest.
She roars at me;
    therefore I hate her.(H)

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