15 Why have your (A)powerful ones been cut down?
They do not stand because the Lord has (B)thrust them away.
16 They have repeatedly (C)stumbled;
Indeed, they have fallen, one against another.
Then they said, ‘Get up, and (D)let’s go back
To our own people and our native land,
Away from the [a](E)sword of the oppressor!’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:16 Lit oppressing sword

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