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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'?
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The reward of thy whoredom shall be in thy bosom; therefore shalt thou receive recompense.
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As thou hast done unto My chosen," saith the Lord, "even so shall God do unto thee, and shall deliver thee into mischief.
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Thy children shall die of hunger, and thou shalt fall by the sword. Thy cities shall be broken down, and all thine shall perish with the sword in the field.
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They that are in the mountains shall die of hunger, and eat their own flesh and drink their own blood, for very hunger for bread and thirst for water.
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Thou, as unhappy, shalt come through the sea and receive plagues again.