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An oracle concerning the animals of the Negeb.

Through a land of trouble and distress,
    of lioness and roaring[a] lion,
    of viper and flying serpent,
they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys
    and their treasures on the humps of camels
    to a people that cannot profit them.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 30.6 Cn: Heb from them

For they have gone up to Assyria,
    a wild ass wandering alone;
    Ephraim has bargained for lovers.(A)

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10 Though they bargain with the nations,
    I will now gather them up.
They shall soon writhe
    under the burden of kings and princes.(A)

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