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Your country lies in ruins; your cities are burned; while you watch, foreigners are destroying and plundering everything they see. You stand there helpless and abandoned like a watchman’s shanty in the field when the harvesttime is over—or when the crop is stripped and robbed.

If the Lord Almighty had not stepped in to save a few of us, we would have been wiped out as Sodom and Gomorrah were.

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Your country is desolate,(A)
    your cities burned with fire;(B)
your fields are being stripped by foreigners(C)
    right before you,
    laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.(D)
Daughter Zion(E) is left(F)
    like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a hut(G) in a cucumber field,
    like a city under siege.
Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us some survivors,(H)
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.(I)

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Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

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