“In the days of (A)Shamgar, son of Anath,
    in the days of (B)Jael, (C)the highways were abandoned,
    and travelers kept to the byways.

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(A)The highways lie waste;
    the traveler ceases.
(B)Covenants are broken;
    cities[a] are despised;
    there is no regard for man.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 33:8 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll witnesses

Shamgar

31 After him was (A)Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines (B)with an oxgoad, and he also (C)saved Israel.

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The roads to Zion mourn,
    for none come to (A)the festival;
(B)all her gates are desolate;
    her priests (C)groan;
her virgins have been afflicted,[a]
    and she herself suffers bitterly.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:4 Septuagint, Old Latin dragged away

22 And (A)I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that (B)your roads shall be deserted.

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12 Therefore because of you
    (A)Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem (B)shall become a heap of ruins,
    and (C)the mountain of the house (D)a wooded height.

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18 (A)They dogged our steps
    so that we could not walk in our streets;
(B)our end drew near; our days were numbered,
    for our end had come.

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But those who (A)turn aside to their (B)crooked ways
    the Lord will lead away with (C)evildoers!
    (D)Peace be upon Israel!

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In those times there was no peace (A)to him who went out or to him who came in, for great disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands.

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17 But Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. 18 And Jael came out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Turn aside, my lord; turn aside to me; do not be afraid.” So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.

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