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17         who made the world a wasteland
        and tore down its cities,
        and wouldn’t let his prisoners go home?”
18 All the kings of the nations lie down honored,
        all of them, each in his own tomb.
19     But you are cast away from your own grave
        like a rejected branch,
        covered by the dead
        and those pierced by the sword—
        who go down to the stony pit—
        like a trampled corpse.

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17 the man who made the world a wilderness,(A)
    who overthrew(B) its cities
    and would not let his captives go home?”(C)

18 All the kings of the nations lie in state,
    each in his own tomb.(D)
19 But you are cast out(E) of your tomb
    like a rejected branch;
you are covered with the slain,(F)
    with those pierced by the sword,(G)
    those who descend to the stones of the pit.(H)
Like a corpse trampled underfoot,

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