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Your foes have roared within your holy place;
    they set up their emblems there.(A)

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11 Our holy and beautiful house,
    where our ancestors praised you,
has been burned by fire,
    and all our pleasant places have become ruins.(A)

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For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah that were torn down to make a defense against the siege ramps and before the sword:[a](A)

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  1. 33.4 Meaning of Heb uncertain

They are coming to fight the Chaldeans and to fill them with the dead bodies of those whom I shall strike down in my anger and my wrath, for I have hidden my face from this city because of all their wickedness.(A)

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20 From their[a] beautiful ornament, in which they took pride, they made their abominable images, their detestable things; therefore I will make of it an unclean thing to them.(A)

21 I will hand it over to strangers as plunder,
    to the wicked of the earth as spoil;
    they shall profane it.(B)
22 I will avert my face from them
    so that they may profane my treasured[b] place;
the violent shall enter it;
    they shall profane it.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 7.20 Syr Symmachus: Heb its
  2. 7.22 Or secret