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13 Do not enter the city gate of my people [C to plunder their goods]
    in their ·time [L day] of ·trouble [disaster; C the Hebrew word for “trouble” sounds like Edom]
or ·laugh at their problems [gloat over them]
    in their ·time [L day] of ·trouble [disaster].
Do not ·take their treasures [loot their wealth]
    in their ·time [L day] of ·trouble [disaster].
14 Do not stand at the crossroads
    to ·destroy [L cut off] ·those who are trying to escape [their fugitives].
Do not capture ·those who escape alive [their survivors] and turn them over to their enemy
    in their ·time [L day] of ·trouble [adversity].

The Nations Will Be Judged

15 “The ·Lord’s day of judging [L day of the Lord] is ·coming soon [near]
    to all the nations.
·The same evil things you did to other people [L As you have done]
    ·will happen [L it will be done] to you;
    ·they [L recompense; reprisal] will come back upon your own head.

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13 You should not march through the gates of my people
    in the day of their disaster,
nor gloat over them in their calamity(A)
    in the day of their disaster,
nor seize their wealth
    in the day of their disaster.
14 You should not wait at the crossroads
    to cut down their fugitives,(B)
nor hand over their survivors
    in the day of their trouble.

15 “The day of the Lord is near(C)
    for all nations.
As you have done, it will be done to you;
    your deeds(D) will return upon your own head.

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