12 People shall mourn upon their breasts
For the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

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[a]It is decreed:
She shall be led away captive,
She shall be brought up;
And her maidservants shall lead her as with the voice of doves,
Beating their breasts.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:7 Heb. Huzzab

15 So (A)I also raised My hand in an oath to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, (B)‘flowing with milk and honey,’ (C)the glory of all lands,

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On that day I raised My hand in an oath to them, (A)to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, (B)‘flowing with milk and honey,’ (C)the glory of all lands.

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Even the jackals present their breasts
To nurse their young;
But the daughter of my people is cruel,
(A)Like ostriches in the wilderness.

The tongue of the infant clings
To the roof of its mouth for thirst;
(B)The young children ask for bread,
But no one breaks it for them.

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11 (A)My eyes fail with tears,
My [a]heart is troubled;
(B)My [b]bile is poured on the ground
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
Because (C)the children and the infants
Faint in the streets of the city.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:11 Lit. inward parts
  2. Lamentations 2:11 Lit. liver

11 (A)but the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven, 12 a land for which the Lord your God cares; (B)the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very 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, that flow out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;

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