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My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds led them astray and then turned them loose in the mountains. They lost their way and didn’t remember how to get back to the fold. All who found them devoured them and said, “We are permitted to attack them freely, for they have sinned against the Lord, the God of justice, the hope of their fathers.”

But now, flee from Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; lead my people home again.

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“My people have been lost sheep;(A)
    their shepherds(B) have led them astray(C)
    and caused them to roam on the mountains.
They wandered over mountain and hill(D)
    and forgot their own resting place.(E)
Whoever found them devoured(F) them;
    their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty,(G)
for they sinned against the Lord, their verdant pasture,
    the Lord, the hope(H) of their ancestors.’

“Flee(I) out of Babylon;(J)
    leave the land of the Babylonians,
    and be like the goats that lead the flock.

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