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11 May the creditor seize all that he has;
    may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil.(A)

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The hungry eat their harvest,
    and they take it even out of the thorns,[a]
    and the thirsty[b] pant after their wealth.(A)

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  1. 5.5 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 5.5 Aquila Symmachus Syr Vg: Heb snare

18 They will give back the fruit of their toil
    and will not swallow it down;
from the profit of their trading
    they will get no enjoyment.(A)

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A trap seizes them by the heel;
    a snare lays hold of them.(A)
10 A rope is hid for them in the ground,
    a trap for them in the path.(B)
11 Terrors frighten them on every side
    and chase them at their heels.(C)
12 Their strength is consumed by hunger,[a]
    and calamity is ready for their stumbling.(D)
13 By disease their skin is consumed;[b]
    the firstborn of Death consumes their limbs.
14 They are torn from the tent in which they trusted
    and are brought to the king of terrors.(E)
15 In their tents nothing remains;
    sulfur is scattered upon their habitations.(F)
16 Their roots dry up beneath,
    and their branches wither above.(G)
17 Their memory perishes from the earth,
    and they have no name in the street.(H)
18 They are thrust from light into darkness
    and driven out of the world.
19 They have no offspring or descendant among their people
    and no survivor where they used to live.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. 18.12 Or Disaster is hungry for them
  2. 18.13 Cn: Heb It consumes the limbs of his skin

50 a grim-faced nation showing no respect to the old or favor to the young. 51 It shall consume the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed, leaving you neither grain, wine, and oil nor the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock, until it has made you perish.(A)

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33 A people whom you do not know shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors; you shall be continually abused and crushed(A) 34 and driven mad by the sight that your eyes shall see.

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29 you shall grope about at noon as blind people grope in darkness, but you shall be unable to find your way, and you shall be continually abused and robbed, without anyone to help.(A)

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For whenever the Israelites put in seed, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east would come up against them.(A) They would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the land, as far as the neighborhood of Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel, nor any sheep or ox or donkey.(B) For they and their livestock would come up, and they would even bring their tents, as thick as locusts; neither they nor their camels could be counted, so they wasted the land as they came in.(C) Thus Israel was greatly impoverished because of Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help.(D)

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