Israel was (A)holy to the Lord,
The (B)first of His harvest.
(C)All who ate of it became guilty;
Evil came upon them,” declares the Lord.’”

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11 “Because you are glad, because you are jubilant,
You who (A)pillage My heritage,
Because you skip about [a]like a threshing (B)heifer
And neigh like [b]stallions,
12 Your (C)mother [c]will be greatly ashamed,
She who gave you birth [d]will be humiliated.
Behold, she will be the least of the nations,
A (D)wilderness, a dry land and a desert.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:11 Another reading is in the grass
  2. Jeremiah 50:11 Lit mighty ones
  3. Jeremiah 50:12 Or has become
  4. Jeremiah 50:12 Or has become

For the Lord of armies says this: “After (A)glory He has sent me against the nations that plunder you, for the one who touches you, touches the [a](B)apple of His eye.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 2:8 Lit pupil

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