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17 Is this the man who made the world like a desert and destroyed its cities, who did not let those whom he had put in prison go home?’

18 “All the kings of the nations lie in greatness, each in his own grave. 19 But you have been thrown out of your grave like a hated part of the family. You are clothed with the dead who were killed with a sword, who go down to the stones of the grave, like a dead body crushed under foot.

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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)

18 All the kings of the nations lie in state,
    each in his own tomb.(D)
19 But you are cast out(E) of your tomb
    like a rejected branch;
you are covered with the slain,(F)
    with those pierced by the sword,(G)
    those who descend to the stones of the pit.(H)
Like a corpse trampled underfoot,

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