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“Suddenly your debtors will rise up in anger and turn on you and take all you have, while you stand trembling and helpless. You have ruined many nations; now they will ruin you. You murderers! You have filled the countryside with lawlessness and all the cities too.

“Woe to you for getting rich by evil means, attempting to live beyond the reach of danger.

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Will not your creditors suddenly arise?
    Will they not wake up and make you tremble?
    Then you will become their prey.(A)
Because you have plundered many nations,
    the peoples who are left will plunder you.(B)
For you have shed human blood;(C)
    you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.(D)

“Woe to him who builds(E) his house by unjust gain,(F)
    setting his nest(G) on high
    to escape the clutches of ruin!

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