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Then all her idols will be broken in pieces,
    and all her prostitution wages will be burned in the fire,
    and all her idols I will make a desolation,
For from the wage of a prostitute she gathered them,
    and to the wage of a prostitute they will return.
On account of this I will lament and wail.
    I will go about barefoot and naked.
I will make a lamentation like the jackals,
    and a mourning ceremony like the ostriches.[a]
For her wounds are incurable,
    because it has come to Judah.
    It has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 1:8 Literally “daughters of an ostrich”