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Bend your bow against anyone who bends a bow
and against anyone who stands in armor.[a]
Do not spare the young men.
Completely destroy her army.
They fall down, slain in the land of Chaldea,
mortally wounded in her streets.
Israel and Judah are not forsaken by God, the Lord of Armies,
though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:3 Or let no one bend a bow or stand up in armor. The Hebrew text and the meaning of these two lines are uncertain.