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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.
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He said, "Listen carefully to me, and I will teach you more."
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"Please go on, sir," I said. So he continued, "Are you worried about the people of Israel? Do you think you love them more than God, who made them?"
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.