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O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?
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For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims disaster from Mount Ephraim.
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Tell the nations, "Here they are!" Proclaim against Jerusalem, "Besiegers come from a distant land; they shout against the cities of Judah.
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They have closed in around her like watchers of a field, because she has rebelled against me, says the Lord.
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Your ways and your doings have brought this upon you. This is your doom; how bitter it is! It has reached your very heart."
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My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent; for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
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Disaster overtakes disaster, the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, my curtains in a moment.
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How long must I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
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"For my people are foolish, they do not know me; they are stupid children, they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but do not know how to do good."
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I looked on the earth, and lo, it was waste and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.
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I looked on the mountains, and lo, they were quaking, and all the hills moved to and fro.