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"Hear my words, O my people; prepare for battle, and in the midst of the calamities be like strangers on the earth.
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Let him that sells be like one who will flee; let him that buys be like one who will lose;
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let him that does business be like one who will not make a profit; and let him that builds a house be like one who will not live in it;
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let him that sows be like one who will not reap; so also him that prunes the vines, like one who will not gather the grapes;
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them that marry, like those who will have no children; and them that do not marry, like those who are widowed.
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.