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10 The city that had been so strong and vibrant
    is isolated and alone, abandoned, a deserted wilderness.
Calves munch through it, lounging around
    and eating whatever twigs dare to shoot up.
11 When the branches are dead and dried and broken,
    women will gather and burn them up.
For these people are foolish and lack understanding,
    so their Creator will not be compassionate toward them.
Though He made them, He will not show them favor.

12 On that day, people of Israel—people of promise—the Eternal will thresh the lands from the Euphrates to the Nile, from Mesopotamia to Egypt, and gather you up one by one.

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