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21 When you [C Judah] were ·successful [prosperous], I warned you,
    but you said, ‘I won’t listen.’
·You have acted like this [L This is your way/path] since you were young;
    you have not ·obeyed me [L listened to my voice].
22 ·Like a storm, my punishment will blow all your shepherds away [L The wind will shepherd all your shepherds away]
    and send your ·friends [or lovers] into ·captivity [exile; 2 Kin. 23:36—24:7].
Then you will really be ashamed and ·disgraced [humiliated]
    because of all the ·wicked things [evil] you did.
23 You [C King Jehoiakim] live in Lebanon [C the palace was made of cedar from Lebanon],
    ·cozy [nestled] in your rooms of cedar.
But when your ·punishment [L pangs] comes, how you will groan
    like a woman ·giving birth to a baby [in labor]!

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