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12 Beat your breasts lamenting for pleasant fields,
or fruitful vine,
13 for the land of my people,
    where thorns and briars come up,
for all the joyful houses
    of the jubilant city.

14 For the palace will be abandoned;
the bustling city will be deserted;
the citadel and watchtower will become a wasteland forever,
    a delight of wild donkeys,
    a pasture for flocks,

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12 Beat your breasts(A) for the pleasant fields,
    for the fruitful vines(B)
13 and for the land of my people,
    a land overgrown with thorns and briers(C)
yes, mourn(D) for all houses of merriment
    and for this city of revelry.(E)
14 The fortress(F) will be abandoned,
    the noisy city deserted;(G)
citadel and watchtower(H) will become a wasteland forever,
    the delight of donkeys,(I) a pasture for flocks,(J)

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