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10 Oy to me, my mother,
    that you gave birth to me—
    a man of strife and conflict to all the land!
    I did not lend or borrow,
    yet everyone curses me.

11 Adonai said:
    “Surely I will release you for good.
    Surely I will make the enemy appeal to you
        in a time of trouble, in a time of affliction.
12 Can anyone smash iron—
    iron and bronze from the north?

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