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# The high places of wickedness will be destroyed
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This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "The Assyrians will destroy Israel's high places, where the people acted very wickedly" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
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# The people will say to the mountains, "Cover us!" and to the hills, "Fall on us!"
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People do not normally speak to things that cannot think or hear them. Translators may choose to have a different format for this passage if their languages do not allow such speech. Alternate translation: "The people will say, 'We wish the mountains would cover us!' and 'We wish the hills would fall on us!'" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-apostrophe]])
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