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Even your own brothers and members of your own family
    are making plans against you.
    They are crying out against you.
Don’t trust them,
    even when they say nice things to you!

“I have left Israel;
    I have left my people.
I have given the people I love
    over to their enemies.
My people have become to me
    like a lion in the forest.
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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