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13 And you brag about your conquest of Lo-debar.[a]
    You boast, “Didn’t we take Karnaim[b] by our own strength?”

14 “O people of Israel, I am about to bring an enemy nation against you,”
    says the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies.
“They will oppress you throughout your land—
    from Lebo-hamath in the north
    to the Arabah Valley in the south.”

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Footnotes

  1. 6:13a Lo-debar means “nothing.”
  2. 6:13b Karnaim means “horns,” a term that symbolizes strength.

13 Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

14 But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.

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