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16 I will scatter them around the world, to be strangers in distant lands; and even there the sword of destruction shall chase them until I have utterly destroyed them.

17-18 The Lord Almighty says: “Send for the mourners! Quick! Begin your crying! Let the tears flow from your eyes.

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16 I will scatter them among nations(A) that neither they nor their ancestors have known,(B) and I will pursue them with the sword(C) until I have made an end of them.”(D)

17 This is what the Lord Almighty says:

“Consider now! Call for the wailing women(E) to come;
    send for the most skillful of them.
18 Let them come quickly
    and wail over us
till our eyes overflow with tears
    and water streams from our eyelids.(F)

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