27 Therefore those who speak in [a]proverbs say:

“Come to Heshbon, let it be built;
Let the city of Sihon be repaired.

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  1. Numbers 21:27 parables

“Will not all these (A)take up a proverb against him,
And a taunting riddle against him, and say,
‘Woe to him who increases
What is not his—how long?
And to him who loads himself with [a]many pledges’?

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  1. Habakkuk 2:6 Syr., Vg. thick clay

that you (A)will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say:

“How the oppressor has ceased,
The (B)golden[a] city ceased!

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  1. Isaiah 14:4 Or insolent

14 Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord:

[a]“Waheb in Suphah,
The brooks of the Arnon,

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  1. Numbers 21:14 Ancient unknown places; Vg. What He did in the Red Sea

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