22 (A)I will let loose among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number so that (B)your roads lie deserted.

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62 Then you shall be left few in number, (A)whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not [a]obey the Lord your God.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:62 Lit listen to the voice of

(A)Unless the Lord of hosts
Had left us a few (B)survivors,
We would be like (C)Sodom,
We would be like Gomorrah.

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The Sorrows of Zion

How (A)lonely sits the city
That was (B)full of people!
She has become like a (C)widow
Who was once (D)great among the nations!
She who was a princess among the [a]provinces
Has become a (E)forced laborer!

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:1 Or districts