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19 Every time it passes through it will take you,
    for morning by morning it will pass,
    by day and by night.
    It will be nothing but terror to understand the message.
20 The bed is too short to stretch out,
    and the shroud is too narrow to cover oneself.

21 Just as on Mount Perazim, the Lord will rise up;
    as in the Gibeon Valley he will rage to do his deed—strange is his deed!—
    And to work his work—foreign is his work!

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19 As often as it comes it will carry you away;(A)
    morning after morning,(B) by day and by night,
    it will sweep through.”

The understanding of this message
    will bring sheer terror.(C)
20 The bed is too short to stretch out on,
    the blanket too narrow to wrap around you.(D)
21 The Lord will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim,(E)
    he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon(F)
to do his work,(G) his strange work,
    and perform his task, his alien task.

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