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They shall come to her and besiege her, the star and all wrath shall they pour out upon her; then shall the dust and smoke go up unto the heaven, and all they that are about her shall bewail her.
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And they that remain under her shall do service unto them that have put her in fear.
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And thou, Asia, who art partaker of the hope of Babylon, and art the glory of her person,
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woe be unto thee, thou wretch, because thou hast made thyself like unto her and hast decked thy daughters in whoredom, that they might please and glory in thy lovers, who have always desired to commit whoredom with thee.
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Thou hast followed her that is hated in all her works and devices. Therefore saith God,
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"I will send plagues upon thee: widowhood, poverty, famine, sword, and pestilence, to waste thy houses with destruction and death.
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And the glory of thy power shall be dried up as a flower, when the heat shall arise that is sent over thee.
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Thou shalt be weakened as a poor woman with stripes and as one chastised with wounds, so that the mighty and lovers shall not be able to receive thee.
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Would I with jealousy have so proceeded against thee," saith the Lord,
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if thou hadst not always slain My chosen, exalting the stroke of thine hands and saying over their dead when thou wast drunken,
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`Set forth the beauty of thy countenance'?