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21 I spoke to you in your prosperity,
    but you said, ‘I will not listen.’
(A)This has been your way from (B)your youth,
    that you have not obeyed my voice.
22 (C)The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds,
    and (D)your lovers shall go into captivity;
(E)then you will be ashamed and confounded
    because of all your evil.
23 O inhabitant of (F)Lebanon,
    nested among the cedars,
how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you,
    (G)pain as of a woman in labour!”

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21 I warned you when you felt secure,(A)
    but you said, ‘I will not listen!’
This has been your way from your youth;(B)
    you have not obeyed(C) me.
22 The wind(D) will drive all your shepherds(E) away,
    and your allies(F) will go into exile.
Then you will be ashamed and disgraced(G)
    because of all your wickedness.
23 You who live in ‘Lebanon,[a](H)
    who are nestled in cedar buildings,
how you will groan when pangs come upon you,
    pain(I) like that of a woman in labor!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:23 That is, the palace in Jerusalem (see 1 Kings 7:2)