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11 You will plant your grapevines one day and try to make them grow.
    The next day they will begin to grow.
But at harvest time everything will be dead.
    A sickness will kill all the plants.

12 Listen to the many people!
    They are crying loud like the noise from the sea.
Listen to the noise!
    The crying is like the crashing of great waves.
13 The people roar like those waves.
    But when God speaks harshly to them, they will run away.
They will be like chaff on the hills being blown by the wind.
    They will be like tumbleweeds blown away by a storm.

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11 though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
    and on the morning(A) when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the harvest(B) will be as nothing(C)
    in the day of disease and incurable(D) pain.(E)

12 Woe to the many nations that rage(F)
    they rage like the raging sea!(G)
Woe to the peoples who roar(H)
    they roar like the roaring of great waters!(I)
13 Although the peoples roar(J) like the roar of surging waters,
    when he rebukes(K) them they flee(L) far away,
driven before the wind like chaff(M) on the hills,
    like tumbleweed before a gale.(N)

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