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23 I shall make your failing from the cities of Judah, and from the gates of Jerusalem; and I shall take away from you the voice of gladness [or the voice of mirth], and the voice of joy, and the voice of (the) spouse, and the voice of (the) spousess; and all the land shall be without step of them that dwell therein [or from the dwellers in to it].

24 And they heard not thy voice, that they should work to (or for) the king of Babylon; and (so) thou hast set steadfastly thy words, which thou spakest in the hands of thy children, (the) prophets (or which thou spakest by thy servants the prophets); that the bones of our kings, and the bones of our fathers should be borne over [or translated] from their place.

25 And lo! they be cast forth in the heat of the sun, and in the frost of the night; and men be dead [or and they be dead] in the worst sorrows, in hunger, and in sword, and in sending out.

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