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1 Behold, a day of the LORD is coming, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in the midst of you.
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1 A day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided among you.
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2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women ravished; half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
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2 I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.
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