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Wherefore thus saith the LORDGod of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouthfire, and this peoplewood, and it shall devour them.
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Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel,saith the LORD: it is a mightynation, it is an ancientnation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
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Their quiver is as an opensepulchre, they are all mighty men.
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And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fencedcities, wherein thoutrustedst, with the sword.
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And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore*doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and servedstrangegods in your land, so shall ye servestrangers in a land that is not yours.
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Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetualdecree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
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Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that givethrain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointedweeks of the harvest.
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They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.