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Let those curse it who curse the Sea,[a]
    those who are skilled to rouse up Leviathan.(A)

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  1. 3.8 Cn: Heb day

41 [a]“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook
    or press down its tongue with a cord?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 41.1 40.25 in Heb

10 No one is so fierce as to dare to stir it up.
    Who can stand before it?[a](A)

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  1. 41.10 Heb me

38 When they came to the synagogue leader’s house, he saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.

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17 ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;
    we wailed, and you did not mourn.’

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16 Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord:
In all the squares there shall be wailing,
    and in all the streets they shall say, “Alas! Alas!”
They shall call the farmers to mourning
    and those skilled in lamentation to wailing;(A)

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The People Mourn in Judgment

17 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
Consider and call for the mourning women to come;
    send for the skilled women to come;(A)
18 let them quickly raise a dirge over us,
    so that our eyes may run down with tears
    and our eyelids flow with water.(B)

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25 When it raises itself up the gods are afraid;
    at the crashing they are beside themselves.

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25 Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a custom in Israel; they are recorded in the Laments.(A)

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