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Even your own brothers, your own family, have turned against you. They have plotted to call for a mob to lynch you. Don’t trust them, no matter how pleasantly they speak. Don’t believe them.

Then the Lord said: I have abandoned my people, my inheritance; I have surrendered my dearest ones to their enemies. My people have roared at me like a lion of the forest, so I have treated them as though I hated 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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