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These men are your own brothers.
    Members of your own family are making plans against you.
    People from your own family are crying out against you.
Don’t trust them,
    even when they speak to you like friends!

“I have left Israel.
    I have left my people.
I have given the people I love
    to their enemies.
My people have become
    like a lion in the forest to me.
They roar at me.
    So I hate them.

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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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