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17 who turned the world into a desert,
    who ·destroyed [overthrew] its cities,
who captured people in war
    and would not let them go home?”

18 Every king of the nations ·has been buried with honor [lies in glory],
    each in his own ·grave [L house].
19 But you are thrown out of your grave,
    like an ·unwanted [loathed; rejected] branch.
·You are covered by bodies [L Clothed with the slain]
    that ·died in battle [L were pierced with a sword],
    by bodies to be buried in a rocky pit.
You are like a ·dead body other soldiers walk on [trampled corpse].

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17 the man who made the world a wilderness,(A)
    who overthrew(B) its cities
    and would not let his captives go home?”(C)

18 All the kings of the nations lie in state,
    each in his own tomb.(D)
19 But you are cast out(E) of your tomb
    like a rejected branch;
you are covered with the slain,(F)
    with those pierced by the sword,(G)
    those who descend to the stones of the pit.(H)
Like a corpse trampled underfoot,

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