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12 The people of Maroth[a] anxiously wait for relief,
    but only bitterness awaits them
as the Lord’s judgment reaches
    even to the gates of Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:12 Maroth sounds like the Hebrew term for “bitter.”

A Prayer for Healing

19 Lord, have you completely rejected Judah?
    Do you really hate Jerusalem?[a]
Why have you wounded us past all hope of healing?
    We hoped for peace, but no peace came.
    We hoped for a time of healing, but found only terror.

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  1. 14:19 Hebrew Zion?

For my people’s wound
    is too deep to heal.
It has reached into Judah,
    even to the gates of Jerusalem.

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When the ram’s horn blows a warning,
    shouldn’t the people be alarmed?
Does disaster come to a city
    unless the Lord has planned it?

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15 We hoped for peace, but no peace came.
    We hoped for a time of healing, but found only terror.’

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So there is no justice among us,
    and we know nothing about right living.
We look for light but find only darkness.
    We look for bright skies but walk in gloom.
10 We grope like the blind along a wall,
    feeling our way like people without eyes.
Even at brightest noontime,
    we stumble as though it were dark.
Among the living,
    we are like the dead.
11 We growl like hungry bears;
    we moan like mournful doves.
We look for justice, but it never comes.
    We look for rescue, but it is far away from us.

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    I create the light and make the darkness.
I send good times and bad times.
    I, the Lord, am the one who does these things.

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26 So I looked for good, but evil came instead.
    I waited for the light, but darkness fell.

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13 Eli was waiting beside the road to hear the news of the battle, for his heart trembled for the safety of the Ark of God. When the messenger arrived and told what had happened, an outcry resounded throughout the town.

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20 “Don’t call me Naomi,” she responded. “Instead, call me Mara,[a] for the Almighty has made life very bitter for me.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:20 Naomi means “pleasant”; Mara means “bitter.”

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