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    Should I not punish them for what they do?
        Should I not repay a nation that acts this way?

10 Jeremiah: I will weep bitterly for the mountains of my homeland
        and grieve for the death of her wild meadows.
    For they have become a silent wasteland
        where no one dares to travel.
    Pastures once filled with the lowing of cattle, now are empty and lifeless.
        All the animals have fled; even the birds have left the sky.

11 Eternal One: I will leave Jerusalem in ruins;
        her rubble will be the haunt of jackals.
    I will wreak the same havoc on the cities of Judah;
        no person will be found there.

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Should I not punish them for this?”
    declares the Lord.
“Should I not avenge(A) myself
    on such a nation as this?”

10 I will weep and wail for the mountains
    and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands.(B)
They are desolate and untraveled,
    and the lowing of cattle is not heard.
The birds(C) have all fled
    and the animals are gone.

11 “I will make Jerusalem a heap(D) of ruins,
    a haunt of jackals;(E)
and I will lay waste the towns of Judah(F)
    so no one can live there.”(G)

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Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

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