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"Now when you tellthispeopleallthesewords, they will say to you, 'For whatreason* has the LORDdeclaredallthisgreatcalamityagainst us? And what is our iniquity, or what is our sinwhich we have committed against the LORD our God?'
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"Then you are to say to them, 'It is because* your forefathers have forsaken Me,' declares the LORD, 'and have followed*othergods and served them and boweddown to them; but Me they have forsaken and have not kept My law.
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'You too have doneevil, even morethan your forefathers; for behold, you are eachonewalkingaccording to the stubbornness of his own evilheart, withoutlistening to Me.
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'So I will hurl you out of thisland into the landwhich you have not known, neither you nor your fathers; and there you will serveothergodsday and night, for I will grant you nofavor.'