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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 who would not keep My covenant,
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that thou bring them to confusion and their mother to be 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, Assyria, thou that hidest the unrighteous in thee! O thou wicked people, remember what I did unto Sodom and Gomorrah,
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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 Ezra: "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 savor; they shall neither labor 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!
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Take heaven and earth to witness, for I have broken the evil in pieces and created the good; for I live, saith the Lord.