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13 My people will plant seeds of wheat,
    but they will only have weeds at harvest time.
They will work very hard,
    but they will get nothing.
At harvest time,
    they will have no crops to be proud of.
Because I am very angry,
    they will not have any food.’

14 This is what the Lord says: ‘I will punish the wicked nations that came to attack the land of my people. It was the land that I gave to Israel's people to be their home. But those enemies destroyed it. So I will remove them from their own lands. I will rescue the people of Judah from among them. 15 But after I have removed those nations, I will return to help them. I will be kind to them. I will bring them back to the countries where they belong. Each nation will return to live in its own land.

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