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Why ·should you continue to be [or do you insist on being] ·punished [battered; struck down]?
    Why do you continue to ·turn against him [rebel]?
Your whole head is ·hurt [bruised; wounded],
    and your whole heart is ·sick [faint; weak].
There is no ·healthy spot [soundness]
    from the ·bottom [sole] of your foot to the top of your head;
    you are covered with ·wounds [bruises], ·hurts [sores; welts], and ·open sores [raw/infected wounds]
that are not ·cleaned [L pressed out] and ·covered [bandaged],
    ·and no medicine takes away the pain [L not soothed/softened with oil].

Your land is ·ruined [desolate];
    your cities have been burned with fire.
·While you watch [Right in front of you],
    ·your enemies [L foreigners; strangers] ·are stealing everything from [destroy; devour] your ·land [fields; crops];
    it is ruined like a country ·destroyed [overthrown] by ·enemies [L foreigners; strangers].

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Why should you be beaten(A) anymore?
    Why do you persist(B) in rebellion?(C)
Your whole head is injured,
    your whole heart(D) afflicted.(E)
From the sole of your foot to the top of your head(F)
    there is no soundness(G)
only wounds and welts(H)
    and open sores,
not cleansed or bandaged(I)
    or soothed with olive oil.(J)

Your country is desolate,(K)
    your cities burned with fire;(L)
your fields are being stripped by foreigners(M)
    right before you,
    laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.(N)

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