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From all the nations of the world, you chose this one nation to be your own, and you gave its people your Law, which is honored by people everywhere.
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"And now, Lord, since all of this is true, why have you dishonored this one people more than all others by handing them over to many nations? Why have you scattered your own people,
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who believed in your covenants? Why have you let them be trampled by people who rejected your promises?
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If you are so angry with your own people, you yourself ought to punish them."
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When I had finished speaking, the angel who had come to me on a previous night was sent to me again.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.