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17 The darkest night is their morning.
    They are friends with the terrors of darkness.

18 You say, ‘Evil people are taken away like things carried away in a flood.
    The land they own is cursed, so no one goes to work in their vineyards.
19 As hot, dry weather melts away the winter snows,
    so the grave takes away those who have sinned.

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17 For all of them, midnight is their morning;
    they make friends with the terrors(A) of darkness.(B)

18 “Yet they are foam(C) on the surface of the water;(D)
    their portion of the land is cursed,(E)
    so that no one goes to the vineyards.(F)
19 As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow,(G)
    so the grave(H) snatches away those who have sinned.

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