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 \q2 but far away from their hearts.
 
 \s5
+\q
 \v 3 Yet you, Yahweh, know me.
 \q2 You see me and you test my heart toward you.
 \q Take them away like sheep to the slaughter,
 \q2 and set them apart for the day of slaughter!
 \q
-\v 4 How long will the land mourn and the grass in the field be withered?
-\q2 Because those who live in it are wicked, 
+\v 4 How long will the land mou
+\q2 and the grass in the field be withered?
+\q Because those who live in it are wicked, 
 \q2 the animals and the birds have been swept away,
-\q because the people said,
+\q2 because the people said,
 \q2 "He will not see what happens to us."
 
 \s5
@@ -1524,9 +1526,9 @@
 \q1
 \v 12 Destroyers have come against all
 \q2 the bare places in the wilderness,
-\q1 for Yahweh's sword is devouring
+\q for Yahweh's sword is devouring
 \q2 from one end of the land to the other.
-\q2 There is no safety in the land
+\q There is no safety in the land
 \q2 for any living creature.
 \q
 \v 13 They have sown wheat but harvest thornbushes.