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17 They shall take up a lamentation over you and say to you:

How you are destroyed, O inhabited one of the seas,
    the renowned city,
which was strong in the sea,
    she and her inhabitants,
who caused her terror
    to be on all her inhabitants!
18 Now the coastlands shall tremble
    on the day of your fall; indeed,
the coastlands that are by the sea
    shall be troubled at your departure.

19 For thus says the Lord God: When I make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep upon you and great waters shall cover you,

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