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Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuelstoodbefore me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
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And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.
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And I will appoint over them fourkinds,saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
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And I will cause them to be removed* into all kingdoms of the earth,because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiahking of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
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Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gonebackward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
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And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.
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Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
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She that hath bornesevenlanguisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day*: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the swordbefore their enemies, saith the LORD.
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Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
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The LORDsaid, Verilyit shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
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O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering*: know that for thy sake I have sufferedrebuke.
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Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORDGod of hosts.
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Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt standbefore me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
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And I will make thee unto this people a fencedbrasenwall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.