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And I opened my mouth, and began to talk before the most High, and said,
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O Lord, thou that shewest thyself unto us, thou wast shewed unto our fathers in the wilderness, in a place where no man treadeth, in a barren place, when they came out of Egypt.
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And thou spakest saying, Hear me, O Israel; and mark my words, thou seed of Jacob.
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For, behold, I sow my law in you, and it shall bring fruit in you, and ye shall be honoured in it for ever.
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But our fathers, which received the law, kept it not, and observed not thy ordinances: and though the fruit of thy law did not perish, neither could it, for it was thine;
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Yet they that received it perished, because they kept not the thing that was sown in them.
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And, lo, it is a custom, when the ground hath received seed, or the sea a ship, or any vessel meat or drink, that, that being perished wherein it was sown or cast into,
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That thing also which was sown, or cast therein, or received, doth perish, and remaineth not with us: but with us it hath not happened so.
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For we that have received the law perish by sin, and our heart also which received it
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Notwithstanding the law perisheth not, but remaineth in his force.
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And when I spake these things in my heart, I looked back with mine eyes, and upon the right side I saw a woman, and, behold, she mourned and wept with a loud voice, and was much grieved in heart, and her clothes were rent, and she had ashes upon her head.