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13 Is this not from the Lord of hosts:
    peoples toil[a] for what the flames consume,
    and nations grow weary for nothing!
14 But the earth shall be filled
    with the knowledge of the Lord’s glory,
    just as the water covers the sea.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:13 Peoples toil: those oppressed by the Babylonians do not benefit from their work. Verses 13–14 break the pattern of reversal in the oracles that precede and may have been added by an editor.

13 Has not the Lord Almighty determined
    that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire,(A)
    that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?(B)
14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory(C) of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.(D)

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