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12     but leave its stump in the earth.
Bound with iron and bronze,
    let him be fed with the grass of the field
    and bathed with the dew of heaven;
    let his lot be with the beasts in the grass of the earth.

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32 [a](A)It is the smallest of all the seeds, yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants. It becomes a large bush, and the ‘birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 13:32 See Dn 4:7–9, 17–19 where the birds nesting in the tree represent the people of Nebuchadnezzar’s kingdom. See also Ez 17:23; 31:6.