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12 Woe to him who builds a city by bloodguilt,
    and who founds a city by wickedness!
13 Look! Is it not from Yahweh of hosts
    that people labor for mere fire,
    and nations exhaust themselves for mere vanity?
14 For the earth will be filled
    with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh,
    like the waters covering the sea.

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12 “Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed(A)
    and establishes a town by injustice!
13 Has not the Lord Almighty determined
    that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire,(B)
    that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?(C)
14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory(D) of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.(E)

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