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26 “Get the people of Moab drunk; they have spoken against Yahweh.
    They will wallow in their own vomit, and people will laugh at them.
27 People of Moab, didn’t you laugh at the people of Israel?
    Were they caught among thieves?
        Whenever you talk about them you shake your heads in contempt.
28 People of Moab, abandon your cities.
    Live among the cliffs.
        Be like doves that make their nests at the entrance of a cave.

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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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