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My chosen people have roared at me like a lion of the forest,
    so I have treated them with contempt.

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The Sovereign Lord has sworn by his own name, and this is what he, the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies, says:

“I despise the arrogance of Israel,[a]
    and I hate their fortresses.
I will give this city
    and everything in it to their enemies.”

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Footnotes

  1. 6:8 Hebrew Jacob. See note on 3:13.

15 The Lord says, “All their wickedness began at Gilgal;
    there I began to hate them.
I will drive them from my land
    because of their evil actions.
I will love them no more
    because all their leaders are rebels.

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I got rid of their three evil shepherds in a single month.

But I became impatient with these sheep, and they hated me, too.

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38 Her people will roar together like strong lions.
    They will growl like lion cubs.

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15 Strong lions have roared against him,
    and the land has been destroyed.
The towns are now in ruins,
    and no one lives in them anymore.

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