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Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy lawbehind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wroughtgreatprovocations.
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Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifoldmercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.
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But after they had rest, they didevilagainbefore thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and manytimes didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;
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And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a mando, he shall live in them;) and withdrew* the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
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Yet manyyears didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spiritin thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.