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

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and say to it: Thus says the Lord God:

I am against you, Mount Seir;
    I stretch out my hand against you
    to make you a desolation and a waste.

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11 No human foot shall pass through it, and no animal foot shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years.(A)

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In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,
    in the days of Jael, caravans ceased,
    and travelers kept to the byways.(A)
The peasantry prospered in Israel;
    they grew fat on plunder,
because[a] you arose, Deborah,
    arose as a mother in Israel.

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  1. 5.7 Or ceased in Israel, ceased until

I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall never be inhabited. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.(A)

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28 I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and its proud might shall come to an end, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that no one will pass through.(A)

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In those times it was not safe for anyone to go or come, for great disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands.(A) They were broken in pieces, nation against nation and city against city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.(B)

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