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# did not listen to your commands
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If your language has a word for "listen" that also means "obey," use it here.
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# your decrees which give life to anyone who obeys them
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Yahweh himself is spoken of as if he were the decrees themselves. Alternate translation: "you even though you give life to everyone who obeys your decrees" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# They gave the stubborn shoulder-blade and stiffened their neck
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These are images of an ox refusing to allow its owner to put a yoke on its shoulders. Here they are a metaphor that represents the people being stubborn. Alternate translation: "They became stubborn" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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