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# Ask the nations, who has ever heard of such a thing as this?
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"Ask the nations if any of them have ever heard of such a thing as this." The ULB sets poetry (18:13-17, 19-23) farther to the right to show that it is poetry.
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# The virgin Israel has committed a horrible act
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"Israel, who is like a virgin, has done something horrible". Yahweh speaks of Israel being pure and faithful towards him as if she were a virgin and of Israel being unfaithful as if she had "committed a horrible act." |