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38 A drought is on her waters,
    and they will be dried up;
for it is a land of engraved images,
    and they are mad over idols.
39 Therefore the wild animals of the desert
    with the wolves will dwell there.
The ostriches will dwell therein;
    and it will be inhabited no more forever;
    neither will it be lived in from generation to generation.
40 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh,
    “so no man will dwell there,
    neither will any son of man live therein.

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38 A drought on[a] her waters!(A)
    They will dry(B) up.
For it is a land of idols,(C)
    idols that will go mad with terror.

39 “So desert creatures(D) and hyenas will live there,
    and there the owl will dwell.
It will never again be inhabited
    or lived in from generation to generation.(E)
40 As I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah(F)
    along with their neighboring towns,”
declares the Lord,
“so no one will live there;
    no people will dwell in it.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:38 Or A sword against