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I will make Mount Seir utterly desolate, killing off all who try to escape and any who return.

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I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste(A) and cut off from it all who come and go.(B)

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Give them this message from the Sovereign Lord:

“I am your enemy, O Mount Seir,
    and I will raise my fist against you
    to destroy you completely.

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and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand(A) against you and make you a desolate waste.(B)

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11 For forty years not a soul will pass that way, neither people nor animals. It will be completely uninhabited.

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11 The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years.(A)

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“In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,
    and in the days of Jael,
people avoided the main roads,
    and travelers stayed on winding pathways.
There were few people left in the villages of Israel[a]
    until Deborah arose as a mother for Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:7 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

“In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,(A)
    in the days of Jael,(B) the highways(C) were abandoned;
    travelers took to winding paths.(D)
Villagers in Israel would not fight;
    they held back until I, Deborah,(E) arose,
    until I arose, a mother in Israel.

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I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

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I will make you desolate forever;(A) your towns will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.(B)

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28 I will completely destroy the land and demolish her pride. Her arrogant power will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will be so desolate that no one will even travel through them.

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28 I will make the land a desolate waste, and her proud strength will come to an end, and the mountains(A) of Israel will become desolate so that no one will cross them.(B)

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“During those dark times, it was not safe to travel. Problems troubled the people of every land. Nation fought against nation, and city against city, for God was troubling them with every kind of problem.

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In those days it was not safe to travel about,(A) for all the inhabitants of the lands were in great turmoil. One nation was being crushed by another and one city by another,(B) because God was troubling them with every kind of distress.

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