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"Go, declare to my people their evil deeds, and to their children the iniquities that they have committed against me, so that they may tell their children's children
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that the sins of their parents have increased in them, for they have forgotten me and have offered sacrifices to strange gods.
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Was it not I who brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage? But they have angered me and despised my counsels.
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Now you, pull out the hair of your head and hurl all evils upon them, for they have not obeyed my law—they are a rebellious people.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.