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14 The Lord God rules over all. He says to me,

“The people have spoken these words.
    So my words will be like fire in your mouth.
I will make the people like wood.
    And the fire will burn them up.”

15 “People of Israel, listen to me,”
    announces the Lord.
“I am bringing against you
    a nation from far away.
It is an old nation. And it will last for a long time.
    Its people speak a language you do not know.
    You can’t understand what they are saying.
16 The bags they carry their arrows in are like an open grave.
    All their soldiers are mighty.

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14 Therefore this is what the Lord God Almighty says:

“Because the people have spoken these words,
    I will make my words in your mouth(A) a fire(B)
    and these people the wood it consumes.(C)
15 People of Israel,” declares the Lord,
    “I am bringing a distant nation(D) against you—
an ancient and enduring nation,
    a people whose language(E) you do not know,
    whose speech you do not understand.
16 Their quivers(F) are like an open grave;
    all of them are mighty warriors.

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