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"Be broken, O peoples, and be shattered; And giveear, allremoteplaces of the earth. Gird yourselves, yet be shattered; Gird yourselves, yet be shattered.
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"You are not to say, 'It is a conspiracy!' In regard to all that thispeoplecall a conspiracy, And you are not to fearwhat they fear or be in dread of it.
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"Then He shall become a sanctuary; But to both the houses of Israel, a stone to strike and a rock to stumble over, And a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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When they say to you, "Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter," should not a peopleconsult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?
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They will pass through the land hard-pressed and famished, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will be enraged and curse their king and their God as they faceupward.