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17 More and more, humble your pride;
    what awaits mortals is worms.[a](A)

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  1. 7:17 Worms: i.e., corruption; the Septuagint adds “fire.”

24 [a]They shall go out and see the corpses(A)
    of the people who rebelled against me;
For their worm shall not die,
    their fire shall not be extinguished;
    and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.

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  1. 66:24 God’s enemies lie dead outside the walls of the New Jerusalem; just as in the past, corpses, filth and refuse lay in the Valley of Hinnom (Gehenna) outside the city; cf. 34:1–4; 2 Kgs 23:10.

48 where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’(A)

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