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For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a thing.
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Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
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Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be you very desolate, says Yahweh.
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For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
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Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born [slave]? why is he become a prey?
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The young lions have roared on him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
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The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.
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Haven`t you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
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Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
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Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.
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For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not serve; for on every high hill and under every green tree you did bow yourself, playing the prostitute.
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Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
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For though you wash you with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord Yahweh.
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How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: [you are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
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a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all those who seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
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Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you said, It is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
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As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;
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who tell a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
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But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah.