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29 For the days are coming when they will say, ‘Fortunate indeed are the women who are childless, the wombs that have not borne a child and the breasts that have never nursed.’ 30 People will beg the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and plead with the hills, ‘Bury us.’[a] 31 For if these things are done when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 23:30 Hos 10:8.
  2. 23:31 Or If these things are done to me, the living tree, what will happen to you, the dry tree?

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