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Nineveh’s exile has been decreed,
    and all the servant girls mourn its capture.
They moan like doves
    and beat their breasts in sorrow.

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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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14 Delirious, I chattered like a swallow or a crane,
    and then I moaned like a mourning dove.
My eyes grew tired of looking to heaven for help.
    I am in trouble, Lord. Help me!”

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48 And when all the crowd that came to see the crucifixion saw what had happened, they went home in deep sorrow.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 23:48 Greek went home beating their breasts.

27 A large crowd trailed behind, including many grief-stricken women.

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12 Beat your breasts in sorrow for your bountiful farms
    and your fruitful grapevines.

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