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Your shepherds are
asleeping, O
bking of Assyria;
Your cnobles are lying down. Your people are dscattered on the mountains And there is no one to regather them.
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Psalms 76:5, Psalms 76:6, Isaiah 56:10, Jeremiah 51:57
Psalms 76
5
The astouthearted were plundered, They sank into sleep; And none of the warriors could use his hands.
Psalms 76
6
At Your arebuke, O God of Jacob, Both brider and horse were cast into a dead sleep.
Isaiah 56
10
His awatchmen are bblind, All of them know nothing. All of them are mute dogs unable to bark, Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;
Jeremiah 51
57
"I will amake her princes and her wise men drunk, Her governors, her prefects and her mighty men, That they may sleep a bperpetual sleep and not wake up," cDeclares the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
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