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11 There's nothing to you. Pregnant with chaff, you produce straw babies; full of hot air, you self-destruct.
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You conceive chaff, you give birth to straw; your breath is a fire that consumes you.
12 You're good for nothing but fertilizer and fuel. Earth to earth - and the sooner the better.
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The peoples will be burned to ashes; like cut thornbushes they will be set ablaze.”
13 "If you're far away, get the reports on what I've done, And if you're in the neighborhood, pay attention to my record.
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You who are far away, hear what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge my power!
14 The sinners in Zion are rightly terrified; the godless are at their wit's end: 'Who among us can survive this firestorm? Who of us can get out of this purge with our lives?'"
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The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: “Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?”
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