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16 Also the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, because of the famine and the sword. They will have no one to bury them, their wives, their sons or their daughters. For I will pour their disaster on them.”

17 You will say this word to them:
“Let my eyes overflow with tears.
Night and day, may they never stop.
For the virgin daughter of my people
        is crushed with a great blow,
        with a sorely infected wound.”

Intercessory Confession

18 If I go out into the field,
        see, those slain by the sword!
    And if I enter into the city,
        see, the sick with famine!
    For both prophet and kohen
    will travel to a land they do not know.

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16 And the people they are prophesying to will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and sword. There will be no one to bury(A) them, their wives, their sons and their daughters.(B) I will pour out on them the calamity they deserve.(C)

17 “Speak this word to them:

“‘Let my eyes overflow with tears(D)
    night and day without ceasing;
for the Virgin(E) Daughter, my people,
    has suffered a grievous wound,
    a crushing blow.(F)
18 If I go into the country,
    I see those slain by the sword;
if I go into the city,
    I see the ravages of famine.(G)
Both prophet and priest
    have gone to a land they know not.(H)’”

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