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12 Listen to all these people!
    Their loud crying sounds like the noise from the sea.
    Listen, it is like the crashing of waves in the sea.
13 And like the waves,
    they will rush away when God speaks harshly to them.
They will be like chaff blown away by the wind.
    They will be like weeds chased by a storm.
14 That night, the people will be frightened.
    By morning, nothing will be left.
So our enemies will get nothing.
    They will come to our land, but nothing will be there.

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12 Woe to the many nations that rage(A)
    they rage like the raging sea!(B)
Woe to the peoples who roar(C)
    they roar like the roaring of great waters!(D)
13 Although the peoples roar(E) like the roar of surging waters,
    when he rebukes(F) them they flee(G) far away,
driven before the wind like chaff(H) on the hills,
    like tumbleweed before a gale.(I)
14 In the evening, sudden(J) terror!(K)
    Before the morning, they are gone!(L)
This is the portion of those who loot us,
    the lot of those who plunder us.

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