“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

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

14 (A)“and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all (B)the nations that they had not known. (C)Thus the land they left was desolate, (D)so that no one went to and fro, (E)and the pleasant land was made desolate.”

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