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11 Then I said, “Lord, (A)how long?” And He said,

“Until (B)cities are devastated and without inhabitant,
Houses are without people,
And the land is devastated to desolation,
12 And Yahweh has (C)removed men far away,
And the [a](D)forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

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  1. Isaiah 6:12 Or forsakenness will be great

10 For the fortified city is (A)isolated,
A [a]haunt [b]forlorn and forsaken like the desert;
(B)There the calf will graze,
And there it will lie down and [c]feed on its twigs.

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  1. Isaiah 27:10 Lit pasture
  2. Isaiah 27:10 Lit sent away
  3. Isaiah 27:10 Lit consume

13 (A)For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up,
Indeed, against all the joyful houses and the (B)exultant city.
14 Because (C)the palace has been abandoned, the [a]populated (D)city forsaken.
[b]Hill and watchtower have become (E)caves forever,
A joy for (F)wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,

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  1. Isaiah 32:14 Lit multitude of the
  2. Isaiah 32:14 Or Ophel

19 The (A)cities of the Negev have been closed up,
And there is no one to open them;
All (B)Judah has been taken away into exile,
Wholly taken away into exile.

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For thus says Yahweh, ‘Behold, I am going to make you a (A)terror to yourself and to all your friends; and while (B)your eyes look on, they will fall by the sword of their enemies. So I will (C)give over all Judah to the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take them away into (D)exile to Babylon and will strike them down with the sword.

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behold, I will (A)send and take all the families of the north,’ declares Yahweh, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, (B)My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will [a]devote them to destruction and (C)make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting waste place. 10 Moreover, I will [b](D)make the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the (E)sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp, to perish from them. 11 (F)This whole land will be a waste place and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon (G)seventy years.

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  1. Jeremiah 25:9 Or put them under the ban
  2. Jeremiah 25:10 Lit cause to perish

And as for the rest of the people who remained in the city, the [a](A)defectors who had gone over to him and (B)the rest of the people who remained, (C)Nebuzaradan the (D)captain of the bodyguard took them away into exile in Babylon.

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  1. Jeremiah 39:9 Lit fallers who had fallen

28 I will (A)make the land a desolation and a desecration, and the (B)lofty pride of her strength will cease; and the mountains of Israel will be desolate so that no one will pass through.

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10 (A)Writhe and labor to give birth,
Daughter of Zion,
Like a woman in childbirth;
For now you will (B)go out of the city,
Dwell in the field,
And go to Babylon.
(C)There you will be delivered;
(D)There Yahweh will redeem you
From the hand of your enemies.

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