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They attack me like hyenas,
    but vultures are ready to attack them.
Tell all the wild animals to come,
    so that they can eat their dead bodies!
10 Many foreign leaders will come.
    They will destroy the land where my people live.
It was a beautiful garden where I planted my people.
    But enemies will make it become like a desert.
11 They will make it a dry and empty place,
    where nobody lives and nothing grows.
The whole land will be like a desert.
    There will be nobody to take care of it.

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Has not my inheritance become to me
    like a speckled bird of prey
    that other birds of prey surround and attack?
Go and gather all the wild beasts;
    bring them to devour.(A)
10 Many shepherds(B) will ruin my vineyard
    and trample down my field;
they will turn my pleasant field
    into a desolate wasteland.(C)
11 It will be made a wasteland,(D)
    parched and desolate before me;(E)
the whole land will be laid waste
    because there is no one who cares.

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