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22 My people are foolish. They don't even know me! They are thoughtless children without understanding; they are skilled at doing wrong, inept at doing right.
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"For my people are foolish, they do not know me; they are stupid children, they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but do not know how to do good."
23 I looked at the earth, and it was without shape or form; at the heavens and there was no light.
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I looked on the earth, and lo, it was waste and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I looked at the mountains and they were quaking; all the hills were rocking back and forth.
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I looked on the mountains, and lo, they were quaking, and all the hills moved to and fro.
25 I looked and there was no one left; every bird in the sky had taken flight.
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I looked, and lo, there was no one at all, and all the birds of the air had fled.
26 I looked and the fertile land was a desert; all its towns were in ruins before the LORD, before his fury.
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I looked, and lo, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the Lord, before his fierce anger.
27 The LORD proclaims: The whole earth will become a desolation, but I will not destroy it completely.
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For thus says the Lord: The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.
28 Therefore, the earth will grieve and the heavens grow dark because I have declared my plan and will neither change my mind nor cancel the plan.
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Because of this the earth shall mourn, and the heavens above grow black; for I have spoken, I have purposed; I have not relented nor will I turn back.