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18 Not one of your children is left alive
    to take your hand and guide you.
19 These two calamities have fallen on you:
    desolation and destruction, famine and war.
And who is left to sympathize with you?
    Who is left to comfort you?[a]
20 For your children have fainted and lie in the streets,
    helpless as antelopes caught in a net.
The Lord has poured out his fury;
    God has rebuked them.

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  1. 51:19 As in Dead Sea Scrolls and Greek, Latin, and Syriac versions; Masoretic Text reads How can I comfort you?

18 Among all the children(A) she bore
    there was none to guide her;(B)
among all the children she reared
    there was none to take her by the hand.(C)
19 These double calamities(D) have come upon you—
    who can comfort you?(E)
ruin and destruction,(F) famine(G) and sword(H)
    who can[a] console you?
20 Your children have fainted;
    they lie at every street corner,(I)
    like antelope caught in a net.(J)
They are filled with the wrath(K) of the Lord,
    with the rebuke(L) of your God.

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  1. Isaiah 51:19 Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Masoretic Text / how can I