12 (A)Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,
    for the fruitful vine,

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its mistress[a] is (A)stripped;[b] she is carried off,
    her slave girls (B)lamenting,
moaning like doves
    and beating their breasts.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:7 The meaning of the Hebrew word rendered its mistress is uncertain
  2. Nahum 2:7 Or exiled

15 Moreover, (A)I swore to them in the wilderness (B)that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, a land (C)flowing with milk and honey, (D)the most glorious of all lands,

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On that day I swore to them that (A)I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land (B)flowing with milk and honey, (C)the most glorious of all lands.

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Even jackals offer the breast;
    they nurse their young;
but the daughter of my people has become cruel,
    like the ostriches in the wilderness.

The tongue of the nursing infant (A)sticks
    to the roof of its mouth for thirst;
(B)the children beg for food,
    but no one gives to them.

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11 (A)My eyes are spent with weeping;
    (B)my stomach churns;
(C)my bile is poured out to the ground
    (D)because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
(E)because infants and babies (F)faint
    in the streets of the city.

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11 (A)But the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, 12 a land that the Lord your God cares for. (B)The eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

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For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, (A)a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, (B)of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,

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