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15 You complain about your wounds.
    You say that your pain will never get better.
But I had to punish you,
    because you are very wicked,
    and you are guilty of many sins.
16 But I will destroy your enemies who destroyed you.
    All of them will go as prisoners to foreign lands.
They took your valuable things for themselves.
    Now I will take away their valuable things.
17 People say that nobody takes care of you,
    people of Zion.
They say that I have chased you out of your land.
    But I will give you back your health.
    I will make your wounds better.’

That is what the Lord says.

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15 Why do you cry out over your wound,
    your pain that has no cure?(A)
Because of your great guilt and many sins
    I have done these things to you.(B)

16 “‘But all who devour(C) you will be devoured;
    all your enemies will go into exile.(D)
Those who plunder(E) you will be plundered;
    all who make spoil of you I will despoil.
17 But I will restore you to health
    and heal(F) your wounds,’
declares the Lord,
‘because you are called an outcast,(G)
    Zion for whom no one cares.’(H)

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