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"Why do you complain against me? You have all rebelled against me, says the LORD.
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In vain have I smitten your children, they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
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And you, O generation, heed the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, 'We are free, we will come no more to thee'?
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Can a maiden forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
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"How well you direct your course to seek lovers! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways.
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Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of guiltless poor; you did not find them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things
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you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.' Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, 'I have not sinned.'
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How lightly you gad about, changing your way! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.
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From it too you will come away with your hands upon your head, for the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.