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17     My sins would be sealed up as in a bag,
        and my crimes You would carefully cover up.

18     And yet while every crack in me is closely watched,
        the mountain will slide and erode as the avalanche steals its cliffs away.
19     The water grinds at the surface of stones,
        and the floodwater[a] steals the soil away.
    This is how You wreck the hope of humankind.

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Footnotes

  1. 14:19 Hebrew manuscripts read, “her aftergrowth.”

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