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The land will be left empty; the fields will be overgrown with briers; the roads and paths will be covered with weeds and thorns because there will be no sheep to graze along them.
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Young women will be in mourning because there is no one to marry them; wives will be in mourning because they have lost their husbands; daughters will be in mourning because there is no one to help them.
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All the young men will be killed in the war, and all the married men will die in the famine.
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Now listen to my message, you people who serve the Lord.
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It is the Lord's message, so receive it and believe what he says.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.