‘My people have been lost sheep;
    their shepherds have led them astray
    and caused them to roam on the mountains.
They wandered over mountain and hill
    and forgot their own resting place.
Whoever found them devoured them;
    their enemies said, “We are not guilty,
for they sinned against the Lord, their verdant pasture,
    the Lord, the hope of their ancestors.”

‘Flee out of Babylon;
    leave the land of the Babylonians,
    and be like the goats that lead the flock.

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