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You, Lord, will be justified, if I will sue you. And yet I will speak with You about justice: why is the path of the wicked prosperous, and all the treacherous prosperous? |
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You planted them, and they are rooted, grown, and bear fruit. In your mouth you are near, but far from their heart. |
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And me, Lord, You know, see me and test my heart, what it is to You. Separate them like sheep for slaughter, and prepare them for the day of the slaughter. |
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How long will the earth mourn, and the grass in all fields - dry? Cattle and birds perish for the wickedness of its inhabitants, for they say: "He will not see what will be with us." |
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If you have fled with the footmen, and they have exhausted you, how can you compete with horses? And if in a country of peace you were safe, then what will you do in the flood of the Jordan? |
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For both your brothers and your father's house, and they treacherously act with you, and they cry after you with a loud voice. Do not believe them when they tell you good things.
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I have forsaken My house; I have forsaken My inheritance; Most gracious to my soul I gave into the hands of his enemies. |
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My inheritance has become to Me as a lion in the forest; He has lifted up his voice against me: therefore I have hated him. |
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My inheritance has become like a multicolored bird to which other birds of prey have attacked from all sides. Go, gather, all the beasts of the field: go and devour it. |
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Many shepherds have spoiled My vineyard, trampled My portion with their feet; My beloved site was made an empty steppe; |
| eleven
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They have made him desolate, and in desolation he weeps before Me; The whole earth is devastated, because no man applies it to his heart. |
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On all the mountains in the wilderness devastators came; For the sword of the Lord devoureth all from one end of the earth unto another: there is no peace for any flesh. |
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They sowed the wheat, and shook the thorns; They were exhausted, and did not receive any benefit; Be ashamed of your such profits because of the fiery wrath of the Lord.
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Thus saith the LORD concerning all my wicked neighbors that attack the inheritance that I gave to my people Israel, Israel: behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and I will pluck the house of Judah out of their midst. |
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But after I have cut them off, I will return them again and have pity on them, and I will bring every one to his inheritance and everyone to his land. |
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And if they learn the ways of my people, that they may swear by my name, As the Lord liveth, as they taught my people to swear by Baal, they shall be established among my people. |
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If they do not obey, I will root out and completely destroy such a people, says the Lord. |
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