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24 Lord, teach us what is right,
    but do it carefully.
Please do not punish us in your anger.
    That would be the end of us.
25 Instead, be angry with the nations that do not respect you.
    Be angry with the people who do not worship you.
Those are the people who have destroyed Jacob's descendants.[a]
    They have killed our people.
    They have destroyed our land and our homes.’

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Footnotes

  1. 10:25 Jacob's descendants were the Israelites.

24 Discipline me, Lord, but only in due measure—
    not in your anger,(A)
    or you will reduce me to nothing.(B)
25 Pour out your wrath on the nations(C)
    that do not acknowledge you,
    on the peoples who do not call on your name.(D)
For they have devoured(E) Jacob;
    they have devoured him completely
    and destroyed his homeland.(F)

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