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15 What! -- thou criest concerning thy breach! Incurable [is] thy pain, Because of the abundance of thy iniquity, Mighty have been thy sins! I have done these to thee.

16 Therefore all consuming thee are consumed, And all thine adversaries -- all of them -- Into captivity do go, And thy spoilers have been for a spoil, And all thy plunderers I give up to plunder.

17 For I increase health to thee, And from thy strokes I do heal thee, An affirmation of Jehovah, For `Outcast' they have called to thee, `Zion it [is], there is none seeking for her.'

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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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