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They have let birds come down
    and eat the dead bodies of your people.
Your servants have become food for wild animals to eat.
The blood of your servants has poured out
    all over the streets of Jerusalem.
There is nobody left there
    to bury their bodies.
The nations that live near to us
    do not respect us.
They laugh at us and they insult us.

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They have left the dead bodies of your servants
    as food for the birds of the sky,(A)
    the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.(B)
They have poured out blood like water
    all around Jerusalem,
    and there is no one to bury(C) the dead.(D)
We are objects of contempt to our neighbors,
    of scorn(E) and derision to those around us.(F)

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