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For thussays the LORDconcerning the sons and daughtersborn in thisplace, and concerning their mothers who bear them, and their fathers who beget them in thisland:
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"They will die of deadlydiseases, they will not be lamented or buried; they will be as dung on the surface of the ground and come to an end by sword and famine, and their carcasses will becomefood for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth."