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Mortal, prophesy, and say: Thus says the Lord God:

Wail, “Alas for the day!”(A)

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Wail, for the day of the Lord is near;
    it will come like destruction from the Almighty![a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 13.6 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

11 Be dismayed, you farmers;
    wail, you vinedressers,
over the wheat and the barley,
    for the crops of the field are ruined.(A)

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Wake up, you drunkards, and weep,
    and wail, all you wine drinkers,
over the sweet wine,
    for it is cut off from your mouth.

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12 Cry and wail, O mortal,
    for it is against my people;
it is against all Israel’s princes;
    they are thrown to the sword,
    together with my people.
    Ah! Strike the thigh!(A)

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Daughter Dibon[a] has gone up
    to the high places to weep;
over Nebo and over Medeba
    Moab wails.
Every head is shaved;
    every beard is shorn;(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 15.2 Cn: Heb the house and Dibon

10 they will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say,

“Alas, alas, the great city,
    Babylon, the mighty city!
For in one hour your judgment has come.”(A)

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Warning to Rich Oppressors

Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you.

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Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,
    for the glorious trees are ruined!
Wail, oaks of Bashan,
    for the thick forest has been felled!(A)

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11 The inhabitants of the Mortar wail,
    for all the traders have perished;
    all who weigh out silver are cut off.

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Thus says the Lord:
See, waters are rising out of the north
    and shall become an overflowing torrent;
they shall overflow the land and all that fills it,
    the city and those who live in it.
People shall cry out,
    and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.(A)

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Because of this put on sackcloth,
    lament and wail:
“The fierce anger of the Lord
    has not turned away from us.”(A)

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14 my servants shall sing with gladness of heart,
    but you shall cry out in pain of heart
    and shall wail in anguish of spirit.(A)

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Cross over to Tarshish—
    wail, O inhabitants of the coast!

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An Oracle concerning Tyre

23 The oracle concerning Tyre.

Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
    for your fortress is destroyed.[a]
When they came in from Cyprus
    they learned of it.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 23.1 Cn: Heb for it is destroyed, without houses

Therefore let Moab wail;
    let everyone wail for Moab.
Mourn, utterly stricken,
    for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.(A)

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31 Wail, O gate; cry, O city;
    melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you!
For smoke comes out of the north,
    and there is no straggler in its ranks.(A)

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