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Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites
    the day of Jerusalem’s fall,
how they said, “Tear it down! Tear it down!
    Down to its foundations!”(A)

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Remember, Lord, what the Edomites(A) did
    on the day Jerusalem fell.(B)
“Tear it down,” they cried,
    “tear it down to its foundations!”(C)

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and cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes and sold girls for wine and drunk it down.(A)

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They cast lots(A) for my people
    and traded boys for prostitutes;
    they sold girls for wine(B) to drink.

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Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Gaza,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because they carried into exile entire communities,
    to hand them over to Edom.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1.6 Heb cause it to return

This is what the Lord says:

“For three sins of Gaza,(A)
    even for four, I will not relent.(B)
Because she took captive whole communities
    and sold them to Edom,(C)

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