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45 Jerusalem was uninhabited like a wilderness;
    not one of her children went in or out.
The sanctuary was trampled down,
    and strangers held the citadel;
    it was a lodging place for the nations.
Joy was taken from Jacob;
    the flute and the harp ceased to play.(A)

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39 Her sanctuary became desolate like a desert;
    her feasts were turned into mourning,
her Sabbaths into a reproach,
    her honor into contempt.(A)

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38 There they saw the sanctuary desolate, the altar profaned, and the gates burned. In the courts they saw bushes sprung up as in a thicket or as on one of the mountains. They saw also the chambers of the priests in ruins.(A)

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