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17 “Woe to the nations that rise against my people!
    the Lord Almighty will requite them;
    in the day of judgment he will punish them:
He will send fire and worms into their flesh,(A)
    and they will weep and suffer forever.”

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17 More and more, humble your pride;
    what awaits mortals is worms.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 7:17 Worms: i.e., corruption; the Septuagint adds “fire.”

11 Down to Sheol your pomp is brought,
    the sound of your harps.
Maggots are the couch beneath you,
    worms your blanket.”(A)

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24 [a]They shall go out and see the corpses(A)
    of the people who rebelled against me;
For their worm shall not die,
    their fire shall not be extinguished;
    and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.

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Footnotes

  1. 66:24 God’s enemies lie dead outside the walls of the New Jerusalem; just as in the past, corpses, filth and refuse lay in the Valley of Hinnom (Gehenna) outside the city; cf. 34:1–4; 2 Kgs 23:10.

23 At once the angel of the Lord struck him down because he did not ascribe the honor to God, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.

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