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26 People of Moab, you claim
    to be stronger than I am.
Now I will tell other nations
    to make you drunk
and to laugh while you collapse
    in your own vomit.
27 You made fun of my people
and treated them like criminals
    caught in the act.
28 Now you must leave your towns
    and live like doves
in the shelter of cliffs
    and canyons.

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26 “Make her drunk,(A)
    for she has defied(B) the Lord.
Let Moab wallow in her vomit;(C)
    let her be an object of ridicule.(D)
27 Was not Israel the object of your ridicule?(E)
    Was she caught among thieves,(F)
that you shake your head(G) in scorn(H)
    whenever you speak of her?
28 Abandon your towns and dwell among the rocks,
    you who live in Moab.
Be like a dove(I) that makes its nest
    at the mouth of a cave.(J)

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