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'They put him in a cage with hooks And brought him to the king of Babylon; They brought him in huntingnetsSo that his voice would be heardnomore On the mountains of Israel.
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'And it hadstrongbranches fit for scepters of rulers, And its height was raisedabove* the clouds So that it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.
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'But it was plucked up in fury; It was castdown to the ground; And the eastwinddried up its fruit. Its strongbranch was tornoff So that it withered; The fireconsumed it.
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'And now it is planted in the wilderness, In a dry and thirstyland.
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'And fire has gone out from its branch; It has consumed its shoots and fruit, So that there is not in it a strongbranch, A scepter to rule.' " This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.