“‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“‘With a great throng of people
    I will cast my net over you,
    and they will haul you up in my net.(A)

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13 I will spread my net(A) for him, and he will be caught in my snare;(B) I will bring him to Babylonia, the land of the Chaldeans,(C) but he will not see(D) it, and there he will die.(E)

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16 “But now I will send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will catch them.(A) After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt(B) them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks.(C)

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14 You have made people like the fish in the sea,
    like the sea creatures that have no ruler.
15 The wicked(A) foe pulls all of them up with hooks,(B)
    he catches them in his net,(C)
he gathers them up in his dragnet;
    and so he rejoices and is glad.
16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net
    and burns incense(D) to his dragnet,
for by his net he lives in luxury
    and enjoys the choicest food.
17 Is he to keep on emptying his net,
    destroying nations without mercy?(E)

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12 When they go, I will throw my net(A) over them;
    I will pull them down like the birds in the sky.
When I hear them flocking together,
    I will catch them.

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20 I will spread my net(A) for him, and he will be caught in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment(B) on him there because he was unfaithful(C) to me.

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13 “From on high he sent fire,
    sent it down into my bones.(A)
He spread a net(B) for my feet
    and turned me back.
He made me desolate,(C)
    faint(D) all the day long.

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12 Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come:

As fish are caught in a cruel net,
    or birds are taken in a snare,
so people are trapped by evil times(A)
    that fall unexpectedly upon them.(B)

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