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If someone asks, “What are these wounds on your arms?” he will say, “I was struck in the house of my close friends.”

Striking the Shepherd, Scattering the Sheep

“Awake, O sword, against My shepherd
    and the man of My association,”
    says the Lord of Hosts.
Strike the shepherd,
    and the sheep will scatter.
    I will turn My hand against the small ones.
And it will happen in all the land, says the Lord,
    that two-thirds will be cut off and die,
    and one-third will be left in the land.

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