22 (A)I will also let loose among you the animals of the field, which will deprive you of your children and eliminate your cattle, and reduce your number so that (B)your roads become deserted.

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22 I will send wild animals(A) against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few(B) in number that your roads will be deserted.(C)

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62 Then you will be left few in [a]number, (A)whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not [b]obey the Lord your God.

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  1. Deuteronomy 28:62 Lit people
  2. Deuteronomy 28:62 Lit listen to the voice of

62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky(A) will be left but few(B) in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

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(A)If the Lord of armies
Had not left us a few (B)survivors,
We would be like (C)Sodom,
We would be like Gomorrah.

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Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us some survivors,(A)
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.(B)

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The Sorrows of Zion

How (A)lonely sits the city
That once had (B)many people!
She has become like a (C)widow
Who was once (D)great among the nations!
She who was a princess among the [a]provinces
Has become a (E)forced laborer!

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  1. Lamentations 1:1 Or districts

[a]How deserted(A) lies the city,
    once so full of people!(B)
How like a widow(C) is she,
    who once was great(D) among the nations!
She who was queen among the provinces
    has now become a slave.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.