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¹² This is what the Lord says: “Your injury is incurable— a terrible wound. ¹³ There is no one to help you or to bind up your injury. No medicine can heal you. ¹⁴ All your lovers—your allies—have left you and do not care about you anymore. I have wounded you cruelly, as though I were your enemy. For your sins are many, and your guilt is great. ¹⁵ Why do you protest your punishment— this wound that has no cure? I have had to punish you because your sins are many and your guilt is great.

¹⁶ “But all who devour you will be devoured, and all your enemies will be sent into exile. All who plunder you will be plundered, and all who attack you will be attacked. ¹⁷ I will give you back your health and heal your wounds,” says the Lord. “For you are called an outcast— ‘Jerusalem^[a] for whom no one cares.’”