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Thussays the LORD, "Where is the certificate of divorce By which I have sent your motheraway? Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, And for your transgressions your mother was sentaway.
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"Why was therenoman when I came? When I called, why was therenone to answer? Is My handsoshort that it cannotransom? Orhave I nopower to deliver? Behold, I dry up the sea with My rebuke, I make the rivers a wilderness; Their fishstink for lack of water And die of thirst.
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"I clothe the heavens with blackness And makesackcloth their covering."
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The LordGOD has given Me the tongue of disciples, That I may know how to sustain the wearyone with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.