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17 Zion spreads out her hands.
    There is no one to comfort her.
Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob,
    that those who are around him should be his adversaries.
    Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

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17 Zion stretches out her hands;
    there is no one to comfort her.
Yahweh has commanded against Jacob,
    that those surrounding him[a] should be his enemies;
Jerusalem has become
    a defilement among them.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:17 NRSV translates “his neighbors”