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But this is a peopleplundered and despoiled; All of them are trapped in caves, Or are hidden away in prisons; They have become a prey with none to deliver them, And a spoil, with none to say, "Give them back!"
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WhogaveJacob up for spoil, and Israel to plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned, And in whose ways they were not willing to walk, And whose law they did not obey?
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So He poured out on him the heat of His anger And the fierceness of battle; And it set him aflameall*around, Yet he did not recognize it; And it burned him, but he paidnoattention*.