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"Behold," says the Lord, "I bring evils upon the world, the sword and famine and death and destruction.
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For iniquity has spread throughout every land, and their harmful deeds have reached their limit.
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Therefore," says the Lord,
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"I will be silent no longer concerning their ungodly deeds which they impiously commit, neither will I tolerate their wicked practices. Behold, innocent and righteous blood cries out to me, and the souls of the righteous cry out continually.
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I will surely avenge them," says the Lord, "and will receive to myself all the innocent blood from among them.
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Behold, my people is led like a flock to the slaughter; I will not allow them to live any longer in the land of Egypt,
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but I will bring them out with a mighty hand and with an uplifted arm, and will smite Egypt with plagues, as before, and will destroy all its land."
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Let Egypt mourn, and its foundations, for the plague of chastisement and punishment that the Lord will bring upon it.
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Let the farmers that till the ground mourn, because their seed shall fail and their trees shall be ruined by blight and hail and by a terrible tempest.
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Alas for the world and for those who live in it!
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For the sword and misery draw near them, and nation shall rise up to fight against nation, with swords in their hands.