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'Behold, the siegeramps have reached the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fightagainst it, because* of the sword, the famine and the pestilence; and what You have spoken has come to pass; and behold, You see it.
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'You have said to me, O LordGOD, "Buy for yourself the field with money and call in witnesses "-although the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.' "
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Thereforethussays the LORD, "Behold, I am about to givethiscity into the hand of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzarking of Babylon, and he will take it.
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"The Chaldeans who are fightingagainstthiscity will enter and setthiscity on fire and burn it, with the houseswhere people have offeredincense to Baal on their roofs and poured out drinkofferings to othergods to provoke Me to anger.
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"Indeed the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been doingonlyevil in My sight from their youth; for the sons of Israel have been onlyprovoking Me to anger by the work of their hands," declares the LORD.
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"Indeedthiscity has been to Me a provocation of My anger and My wrath from the day that they built it, even to thisday, so that it should be removed from before My face,
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because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judahwhich they have done to provoke Me to anger -they, their kings, their leaders, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.