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Dirge over Zion

10 Raise up cries of weeping and lamentation for the mountains
    and chant a dirge for the pasture lands,
because they have been so scorched
    that no one passes there,
    and the lowing of cattle is not heard.
Birds of the air and the animals:
    all have fled and are gone.
11 I will turn Jerusalem into a heap of ruins,
    a lair for jackals,
and I will lay waste the towns of Judah
    so that no one can live there.

12 Who is wise enough to understand this? Who has been commanded by the Lord to make it known? Why has the land been ravaged and laid waste like a desert through which no one is able to pass?

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