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23 I will send a plague against you,
    and blood will be spilled in your streets.
The attack will come from every direction,
    and your people will lie slaughtered within your walls.
Then everyone will know
    that I am the Lord.
24 No longer will Israel’s scornful neighbors
    prick and tear at her like briers and thorns.
For then they will know
    that I am the Sovereign Lord.

Restoration for Israel

25 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: The people of Israel will again live in their own land, the land I gave my servant Jacob. For I will gather them from the distant lands where I have scattered them. I will reveal to the nations of the world my holiness among my people.

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23 I will send a plague upon you
    and make blood flow in your streets.
The slain will fall within you,
    with the sword against you on every side.
Then you will know that I am the Lord.(A)

24 “‘No longer will the people of Israel have malicious neighbors who are painful briers and sharp thorns.(B) Then they will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.

25 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I gather(C) the people of Israel from the nations where they have been scattered,(D) I will be proved holy(E) through them in the sight of the nations. Then they will live in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.(F)

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