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Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the waistband from the placewhere* I had hidden it; and lo, the waistband was ruined, it was totallyworthless.
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'Thiswickedpeople, whorefuse to listen to My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts and have goneafterothergods to serve them and to bowdown to them, let them be just like thiswaistbandwhich is totallyworthless.
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'For as the waistbandclings to the waist of a man, so I made the wholehousehold of Israel and the wholehousehold of Judahcling to Me,' declares the LORD, 'that they might be for Me a people, for renown, for praise and for glory; but they did not listen.'