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11 Then I asked, “How long, O Lord?” He replied:

Until the cities lie in ruins
    and become deserted,
until the houses are unoccupied
    and the land lies completely desolate,
12 until the Lord drives the people far away
    and the country will be totally abandoned.
13 Even if a tenth of the people remain there,
    that area too will be destroyed,
like a terebinth or an oak
    whose stump remains when it is felled;
    the holy seed is its stump.

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