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22 Let their table be a trap for them,
    a snare for their allies.(A)

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When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape!(A)

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as it is written,

“God gave them a sluggish spirit,
    eyes that would not see
    and ears that would not hear,
down to this very day.”(A)

And David says,

“Let their table become a snare and a trap,
    a stumbling block and a retribution for them;(B)
10 let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,
    and keep their backs forever bent.”

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and

“A stone that makes them stumble
    and a rock that makes them fall.”

They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.(A)

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If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings; indeed, I have already cursed them[a] because you do not lay it to heart.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.2 Heb it

32 For waywardness kills the simple,
    and the complacency of fools destroys them;(A)

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14 He will become a sanctuary, a stone one strikes against; for both houses of Israel he will become a rock one stumbles over, a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.(A) 15 And many among them shall stumble; they shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken.”(B)

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