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They desire other people’s fields, so they seize them.
    They desire people’s houses, so they take them.
    They cheat a man and his family,
        a man and his inheritance.

So this is what Yahweh says:

I’m planning a disaster to punish your family.
    You won’t be able to rescue yourselves.
    You will no longer be able to walk proudly.
        This will be a time of disaster.
When that day comes, people will make fun of you.
    They will sing this sad song about you:
        “We are completely ruined.
            Yahweh gives our people’s possessions to others.
                He takes them from us.
                He divides our fields among our captors.”

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They covet fields(A) and seize them,(B)
    and houses, and take them.
They defraud(C) people of their homes,
    they rob them of their inheritance.(D)

Therefore, the Lord says:

“I am planning disaster(E) against this people,
    from which you cannot save yourselves.
You will no longer walk proudly,(F)
    for it will be a time of calamity.
In that day people will ridicule you;
    they will taunt you with this mournful song:
‘We are utterly ruined;(G)
    my people’s possession is divided up.(H)
He takes it from me!
    He assigns our fields to traitors.’”

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