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I brought you up with gladness; but with sorrow and heaviness have I lost you: for ye have sinned before the Lord your God, and done that thing that is evil before him.
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But what shall I now do unto you? I am a widow and forsaken: go your way, O my children, and ask mercy of the Lord.
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As for me, O father, I call upon thee for a witness over the mother of these children, which would not keep my covenant,
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That thou bring them to confusion, and their mother to a spoil, that there may be no offspring of them.
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Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen, let their names be put out of the earth: for they have despised my covenant.
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Woe be unto thee, Assur, thou that hidest the unrighteous in thee! O thou wicked people, remember what I did unto Sodom and Gomorrha;
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Whose land lieth in clods of pitch and heaps of ashes: even so also will I do unto them that hear me not, saith the Almighty Lord.
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Thus saith the Lord unto Esdras, Tell my people that I will give them the kingdom of Jerusalem, which I would have given unto Israel.
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Their glory also will I take unto me, and give these the everlasting tabernacles, which I had prepared for them.
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They shall have the tree of life for an ointment of sweet savour; they shall neither labour, nor be weary.
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Go, and ye shall receive: pray for few days unto you, that they may be shortened: the kingdom is already prepared for you: watch.