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14 “Are the people of Israel slaves?
    Were they born into slavery?
        Why, then, have they become someone’s property?
15 Young lions have roared very loudly at them.
    Young lions have turned the land into a wasteland.
    The cities have been burned down, and everyone has left.
16 People from Noph and Tahpanhes have cracked your skulls, Israel.

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14 Is Israel a servant, a slave(A) by birth?
    Why then has he become plunder?
15 Lions(B) have roared;
    they have growled at him.
They have laid waste(C) his land;
    his towns are burned(D) and deserted.(E)
16 Also, the men of Memphis(F) and Tahpanhes(G)
    have cracked your skull.

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