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11 When broken branches
    fall to the ground,
women pick them up
    to feed the fire.
But these people are so stupid
that the God who created them
    will show them no mercy.

12 The time is coming when the Lord will shake the land between the Euphrates River and the border of Egypt, and one by one he will bring all of his people together. 13 A loud trumpet will be heard. Then the people of Israel who were dragged away to Assyria and Egypt will return to worship the Lord on his holy mountain in Jerusalem.

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11 When its twigs are dry, they are broken off(A)
    and women come and make fires(B) with them.
For this is a people without understanding;(C)
    so their Maker has no compassion on them,
    and their Creator(D) shows them no favor.(E)

12 In that day the Lord will thresh(F) from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt,(G) and you, Israel, will be gathered(H) up one by one. 13 And in that day(I) a great trumpet(J) will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled(K) in Egypt(L) will come and worship(M) the Lord on the holy mountain(N) in Jerusalem.

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