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““The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger. You have slaughtered, and not pitied.”
Lamentations 2:21
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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.
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