(A)How long will the land mourn
    and the grass of every field wither?
(B)For the evil of those who dwell in it
    (C)the beasts and the birds are swept away,
    because they said, “He will not see our latter end.”

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How long will the land lie parched(A)
    and the grass in every field be withered?(B)
Because those who live in it are wicked,
    the animals and birds have perished.(C)
Moreover, the people are saying,
    “He will not see what happens to us.”

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11 They have made it a desolation;
    desolate, (A)it mourns to me.
The whole land is made desolate,
    (B)but no man lays it to heart.

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11 It will be made a wasteland,(A)
    parched and desolate before me;(B)
the whole land will be laid waste
    because there is no one who cares.

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10 “I will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains,
    and a lamentation for (A)the pastures of the wilderness,
(B)because they are laid waste so that no one passes through,
    and the lowing of cattle is not heard;
(C)both the birds of the air and the beasts
    have fled and are gone.

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10 I will weep and wail for the mountains
    and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands.(A)
They are desolate and untraveled,
    and the lowing of cattle is not heard.
The birds(B) have all fled
    and the animals are gone.

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10 (A)For the land is full of adulterers;
    (B)because of the curse (C)the land mourns,
    and (D)the pastures of the wilderness are dried up.
(E)Their course is evil,
    and their might is not right.

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10 The land is full of adulterers;(A)
    because of the curse[a](B) the land lies parched
    and the pastures(C) in the wilderness are withered.(D)
The prophets follow an evil course
    and use their power unjustly.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 23:10 Or because of these things