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15 Why are you crying about your injury?
    There is no cure for your pain.
I, the Lord, did these things to you because of your great guilt.
    I did these things because of your many sins.
16 But those nations that destroyed you will now be destroyed.
    Your enemies will become captives.
Those who stole from you will have their own things stolen.
    Those who took things from you in war will have their own things taken.
17 I will bring back your health.
    And I will heal your injuries,” says the Lord.
“This is because other people forced you out from among them.
    Those people said about you, ‘No one cares about Jerusalem!’”

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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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