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Even your relatives and members of your father’s household betray you.
    They have also formed a mob to find you.
        Don’t trust them when they say good things about you.

“I have abandoned my nation.
    I have left my own people.
    I have handed the people I love over to their enemies.
My people have turned on 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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