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14 In the evening – sudden terror!
Before morning – it is gone!
This is the fate of those who plunder us
and the lot of those who ravage us.

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13 this iniquity(A) of yours will be
like a crumbling gap,
a bulge in a high wall
whose collapse will come in an instant – suddenly!

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11 But disaster will happen to you;
you will not know how to avert it.
And it will fall on you,
but you will be unable to ward it off.[a]
Devastation will happen to you suddenly
and unexpectedly.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 47:11 Or to atone for it

When they say, ‘Peace and security’, then sudden destruction(A) will come upon them, like labour pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

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