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16 You've multiplied shops and shopkeepers - more buyers and sellers than stars in the sky! A plague of locusts, cleaning out the neighborhood and then flying off.
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16 You have increased the number of your merchants till they are more than the stars of the sky, but like locusts they strip the land and then fly away.
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