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10 At that time the strong, walled city will be empty.
    It will be like a desert.
Calves will eat grass there.
    They will lie down there.
    They will eat leaves from the branches.
11 The limbs will become dry and break off.
    Women will use them for firewood.
The people refuse to understand.
    So God will not comfort them.
    Their Maker will not be kind to them.

12 At that time the Lord will begin gathering his people one by one. He will gather all his people from the Euphrates River to the brook of Egypt. He will separate them from others as grain is separated from chaff.

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10 The fortified city stands desolate,(A)
    an abandoned settlement, forsaken(B) like the wilderness;
there the calves graze,(C)
    there they lie down;(D)
    they strip its branches bare.
11 When its twigs are dry, they are broken off(E)
    and women come and make fires(F) with them.
For this is a people without understanding;(G)
    so their Maker has no compassion on them,
    and their Creator(H) shows them no favor.(I)

12 In that day the Lord will thresh(J) from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt,(K) and you, Israel, will be gathered(L) up one by one.

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