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on the mountains in the open country. Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your sin throughout all your territory.
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"The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars,
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while their children remember their altars and their Ashe'rim, beside every green tree, and on the high hills,
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on the mountains in the open country. Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your sin throughout all your territory.
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You shall loosen your hand from your heritage which I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land which you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled which shall burn for ever."
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Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, whose heart turns away from the LORD.
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.