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Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,
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Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests,saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventyyears, did ye at allfast unto me, even to me?
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Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath criedby the formerprophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?