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For wickedness hath exceedingly polluted the whole earth, and their hurtful works are fulfilled.
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Therefore" saith the Lord,
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"I will hold My tongue no more concerning their wickedness which they profanely commit, neither will I suffer them in those things in which they wickedly exercise themselves. Behold, the innocent and righteous blood crieth unto Me, and the souls of the just complain continually.
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And therefore," saith the Lord, "I will surely avenge them, and receive unto Me all the innocent blood from among them.
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Behold, My people is led as a flock to the slaughter. I will not suffer them now to dwell in the land of Egypt,
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but I will bring them with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm, and smite Egypt with plagues as before, and will destroy all the land thereof.
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"Egypt shall mourn, and the foundation of it shall be smitten with the plague and punishment that God shall bring upon it.
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They that till the ground shall mourn, for their seeds shall fail through the blight and hail and with a fearful constellation.
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Woe to the world and them that dwell therein!
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For the sword and their destruction draweth nigh, and one people shall stand up and fight against another, with swords in their hands.
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For there shall be sedition among men; and, invading one another, they shall not regard their kings nor princes, and the course of their actions shall stand in their power.