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

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  1. 32.12 Gk: Heb on the lamenting breasts

It is decreed[a] that the city[b] be exiled,
    its slave women led away,
moaning like doves
    and beating their breasts.(A)

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  1. 2.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 2.7 Heb it

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

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

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Even the jackals offer the breast
    and nurse their young,
but my people has become cruel,
    like the ostriches in the wilderness.(A)

The tongue of the infant sticks
    to the roof of its mouth for thirst;
the children beg for food,
    but there is nothing for them.(B)

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11 My eyes are spent with weeping;
    my stomach churns;
my bile is poured out on the ground
    because of the destruction of my people,[a]
because infants and babes faint
    in the streets of the city.(A)

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  1. 2.11 Heb the daughter of my people

11 But the land that you are crossing over to occupy is a land of hills and valleys watered by rain from the sky,(A) 12 a land that the Lord your God looks after. The eyes of the Lord your God are always on 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 land with flowing streams, with springs and underground waters welling up in valleys and hills,(A) a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey,

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