The Message Bible MSG
New International Version NIV
14 Shepherd, O God, your people with your staff, your dear and precious flock. Uniquely yours in a grove of trees, centered in lotus land. Let them graze in lush Bashan as in the old days in green Gilead.
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Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, which lives by itself in a forest, in fertile pasturelands.Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in days long ago.
15 Reproduce the miracle-wonders of our exodus from Egypt.
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“As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show them my wonders.”
16 And the godless nations: Put them in their place - humiliated in their arrogance, speechless and clueless.
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Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their power. They will put their hands over their mouths and their ears will become deaf.
17 Make them slink like snakes, crawl like cockroaches, come out of their holes from under their rocks And face our God. Fill them with holy fear and trembling.
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They will lick dust like a snake, like creatures that crawl on the ground. They will come trembling out of their dens; they will turn in fear to the LORD our God and will be afraid of you.
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