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Then I thought to myself,
“These common people
    act like fools,
and they have never learned
what the Lord their God
    demands of them.
So I'll go and talk to the leaders.
They know what God demands.”
    But even they had decided
    not to obey the Lord.

The people have rebelled
and rejected the Lord
    too many times.
So enemies will attack
like lions from the forest
    or wolves from the desert.
Those enemies will watch
    the towns of Judah,
and like leopards
they will tear to pieces
    whoever goes outside.

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