22 (A)I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number;

and (B)your highways shall be desolate.

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22 I will send wild animals(A) against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few(B) in number that your roads will be deserted.(C)

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62 You (A)shall be left few in number, whereas you were (B)as the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.

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62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky(A) will be left but few(B) in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

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(A)Unless the Lord of hosts
Had left to us a very small remnant,
We would have become like (B)Sodom,
We would have been made like Gomorrah.

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Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us some survivors,(A)
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.(B)

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Jerusalem in Affliction

How lonely sits the city
That was full of people!
(A)How like a widow is she,
Who was great among the nations!
The (B)princess among the provinces
Has become a [a]slave!

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:1 Lit. forced laborer

[a]How deserted(A) lies the city,
    once so full of people!(B)
How like a widow(C) is she,
    who once was great(D) among the nations!
She who was queen among the provinces
    has now become a slave.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.