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"I will send disasters upon you. I will make you a widow and send poverty, famine, war, and epidemics to destroy your homes and bring ruin and death.
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The power of which you boast will wither like a flower when the burning heat is sent upon you.
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You will be a wretched, weak woman so bruised, beaten, and wounded that you will no longer attract your wealthy lovers.
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I would not punish you so severely," says the Lord,
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"if you had not murdered my chosen people. But you took great delight in striking them, and when you were drunk, you boasted about killing them.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.