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and with the first-fruits of your gifts, in the offerings wherewith ye pollute yourselves in all your imaginations, until this day; and shall I answer you, O house of Israel? I live, saith the Lord, I will not answer you, neither shall this thing come upon your spirit.
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And it shall not be as ye say, We will be as the nations, and as the tribes of the earth, to worship stocks and stones.
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Therefore, I live, saith the Lord, I will reign over you with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath:
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I will bring you out from the nations, and will take you out of the lands wherein ye were dispersed, with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath.
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And I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and will plead with you there face to face.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.