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Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.
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O that you had hearkened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
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your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me."
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version)
