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27 Wasn’t Israel the butt of your jokes?
    Didn’t you shake your head
        as if they were thieves
            caught in the act?
28 Leave your towns, head for the cliffs,
        you people of Moab.
Hide like a dove
    that nests in the mouth of a cave.

29 We have heard of Moab’s pride:
    arrogant, puffed up, exalted,
        high and mighty, boastful!

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27 Was not Israel the object of your ridicule?(A)
    Was she caught among thieves,(B)
that you shake your head(C) in scorn(D)
    whenever you speak of her?
28 Abandon your towns and dwell among the rocks,
    you who live in Moab.
Be like a dove(E) that makes its nest
    at the mouth of a cave.(F)

29 “We have heard of Moab’s pride(G)
    how great is her arrogance!—
of her insolence, her pride, her conceit
    and the haughtiness(H) of her heart.

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