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13 Look! Our enemies are approaching like the clouds.
    Their chariots are coming like a strong wind.
Their horses are faster than eagles.
    How terrible it will be for us!
    We’ll be destroyed!
14 People of Jerusalem, wash your sins from your hearts and be saved.
    How long will you hold on to your evil thoughts?
15 A voice is speaking all the way from the city of Dan.
    From the hills of Ephraim it announces
    that trouble is coming.
16 “Tell the nations.
    Make an announcement concerning Jerusalem.
Say, ‘An army will attack Judah.
    It is coming from a land far away.
It will shout a war cry
    against the cities of Judah.
17 It will surround them like people who guard a field.
    Judah has refused to obey me,’ ”
    announces the Lord.

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13 Look! He advances like the clouds,(A)
    his chariots(B) come like a whirlwind,(C)
his horses(D) are swifter than eagles.(E)
    Woe to us! We are ruined!(F)
14 Jerusalem, wash(G) the evil from your heart and be saved.(H)
    How long(I) will you harbor wicked thoughts?
15 A voice is announcing from Dan,(J)
    proclaiming disaster from the hills of Ephraim.(K)
16 “Tell this to the nations,
    proclaim concerning Jerusalem:
‘A besieging army is coming from a distant land,(L)
    raising a war cry(M) against the cities of Judah.(N)
17 They surround(O) her like men guarding a field,
    because she has rebelled(P) against me,’”
declares the Lord.

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