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19 If it is a matter of strength, look, he is the powerful one!(A)
If it is a matter of justice, who can summon(B) him?[a]

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  1. 9:19 LXX; MT reads me

The Lord’s Response

If you have raced with runners
and they have worn you out,
how can you compete with horses?
If you stumble[a] in a peaceful land,
what will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?(A)

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  1. 12:5 Or you are secure

44 ‘Look, it will be like a lion coming from the thickets[a](A) of the Jordan to the watered grazing land. I will chase Babylon[b] away from her land in a flash. I will appoint whoever is chosen for her. For who is like me? Who will issue me a summons? Who is the shepherd who can stand against me? ’

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  1. 50:44 Lit pride
  2. 50:44 Lit them

Listen to the wail(A) of the shepherds,(B)
for their glory is destroyed.
Listen to the roar of young lions,(C)
for the thickets of the Jordan(D) are[a] destroyed.

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  1. 11:3 Lit for the majesty of the Jordan is