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17 Therefore you will say this word to them:

Let my eyes run down with tears
    night and day, and let them not cease;
for the virgin daughter of my people
    has been broken with a great blow,
    with a very infected wound.
18 If I go out into the field,
    I see those slain with the sword!
And if I enter the city,
    I see those who are sick with famine!
Indeed, both the prophet and the priest
    go about into a land that they do not know.

The People Ask for Mercy

19 Have You utterly rejected Judah?
    Has Your soul loathed Zion?
Why have You stricken us
    so that there is no healing for us?
We looked for peace,
    but there was nothing good;
and for the time of healing,
    but there is trouble!

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