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Then I said:
    These are only the poor.
    They are foolish.
    For they do not know the way of Adonai,
        the ordinance of their God.
I will go to the distinguished
        and speak to them.
    Surely they know the way of Adonai,
        the ordinance of their God.
    But they too had broken the yoke
        and torn off the bonds.

Therefore a lion from the forest will kill them.
    A desert wolf will ravage them.
    A leopard watches over their cities.
    Everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces,
    For their rebellion is great,
        their backslidings frequent.

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