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23 lines
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## your fields–in your presence, strangers are destroying them ##
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"People who are not from your own country steal the crops in your fields while you watch"
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## abandoned devastation ##
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"empty and devastated." This could be translated as "the land is destroyed and no one lives there."
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## overthrown by strangers ##
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This can be translated with an active verb: "strangers have overthrown your country" or "a foreign army has completely conquered it." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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## the daughter of Zion ##
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The ”daughter” of a city means the people of the city. Alternate translations: "the people of Zion” or ”the people who live in Zion."
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## is left like a hut in a vineyard, like a shed in a garden of cucumbers ##
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"is like a hut in a vineyard or a shed in a garden of cucumbers." A "hut" and a "shed" are shelters that farmers built in the field during the harvest season. After the harvest, the farmers left them, and they quickly fell apart.
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## like a besieged city ##
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This could be translated as a new sentence: "Her enemies have surrounded the city." |