68 And the Lord (A)will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that (B)you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”

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68 The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again.(A) There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

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12 I will take the remnant of Judah who have (A)set their faces to come to the land of Egypt to live, and they shall all be consumed. (B)In the land of Egypt they shall fall; by the sword and by famine (C)they shall be consumed. (D)From the least to the greatest, they shall die by the sword and by famine, (E)and they shall become an oath, a horror, (F)a curse, and a taunt.

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12 I will take away the remnant(A) of Judah who were determined to go to Egypt to settle there. They will all perish in Egypt; they will fall by the sword or die from famine. From the least to the greatest,(B) they will die by sword or famine.(C) They will become a curse and an object of horror, a curse and an object of reproach.(D)

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They shall not remain in (A)the land of the Lord,
    but (B)Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
    and (C)they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

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They will not remain(A) in the Lord’s land;
    Ephraim will return to Egypt(B)
    and eat unclean food in Assyria.(C)

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And they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the Lord. And they arrived at (A)Tahpanhes.

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So they entered Egypt(A) in disobedience to the Lord and went as far as Tahpanhes.(B)

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13 As for my sacrificial offerings,
    (A)they sacrifice meat and eat it,
    but the Lord does not accept them.
(B)Now he will remember their iniquity
    and punish their sins;
    (C)they shall return to Egypt.

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13 Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to me,
    and though they eat(A) the meat,
    the Lord is not pleased with them.(B)
Now he will remember(C) their wickedness
    and punish their sins:(D)
    They will return to Egypt.(E)

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24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and (A)be led captive among all nations, and (B)Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, (C)until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

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24 They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled(A) on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

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and (A)have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.

“What are you to me, (B)O Tyre and Sidon, and all (C)the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, (D)I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily. For (E)you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.[a] You have sold (F)the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border. Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and (G)I will return your payment on your own head.

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  1. Joel 3:5 Or palaces

They cast lots(A) for my people
    and traded boys for prostitutes;
    they sold girls for wine(B) to drink.

“Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon(C) and all you regions of Philistia?(D) Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done.(E) For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.[a](F) You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks,(G) that you might send them far from their homeland.

“See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them,(H) and I will return(I) on your own heads what you have done.

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  1. Joel 3:5 Or palaces

16 Only he must not acquire many (A)horses for himself or cause the people (B)to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, (C)‘You shall never return that way again.’

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16 The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses(A) for himself(B) or make the people return to Egypt(C) to get more of them,(D) for the Lord has told you, “You are not to go back that way again.”(E)

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(A)For we have been sold, I and my people, (B)to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”

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For I and my people have been sold to be destroyed, killed and annihilated.(A) If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because no such distress would justify disturbing the king.[a]

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  1. Esther 7:4 Or quiet, but the compensation our adversary offers cannot be compared with the loss the king would suffer

and said to them, “We, as far as we are able, (A)have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!” They were silent and could not find a word to say.

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and said: “As far as possible, we have bought(A) back our fellow Jews who were sold to the Gentiles. Now you are selling your own people, only for them to be sold back to us!” They kept quiet, because they could find nothing to say.(B)

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(A)“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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“I am the Lord your God,(A) who brought you out(B) of Egypt,(C) out of the land of slavery.(D)

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