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12 So the Lord, Israel's God, says this: “I will cause great trouble to happen in Jerusalem and in all the kingdom of Judah. Everyone who hears the news about it will be very surprised. 13 I will judge Jerusalem and I will punish the people, as I punished Samaria and the family of King Ahab.[a] I will remove the people from Jerusalem, like someone who washes the dirt from both sides of a plate.

14 I will no longer help those of my own people who still remain. I will put them under the power of their enemies. All their enemies will rob them. They will take all their valuable things for themselves.

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  1. 21:13 God judges his people, like a builder measures a wall to see if it is straight. See Amos 7:7-8 and Isaiah 28:17.