17 who made the world like a desert
    and overthrew its cities,
    (A)who did not let his prisoners go home?’

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17 the man who made the world a wilderness,(A)
    who overthrew(B) its cities
    and would not let his captives go home?”(C)

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17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

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17 Who made the world as a wilderness
And destroyed its cities,
Who [a]did not open the house of his prisoners?’

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  1. Isaiah 14:17 Would not release

23 (A)and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,
    (B)who have said to you,
    ‘Bow down, that we may pass over’;
and (C)you have made your back like the ground
    and like the street for them to pass over.”

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23 I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,(A)
    who said to you,
    ‘Fall prostrate(B) that we may walk(C) on you.’
And you made your back like the ground,
    like a street to be walked on.”(D)

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23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

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23 (A)But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you,
Who have said to [a]you,
‘Lie down, that we may walk over you.’
And you have laid your body like the ground,
And as the street, for those who walk over.”

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  1. Isaiah 51:23 Lit. your soul