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And he gave them into subjection to all the kingdoms around us, to be a reproach and a desolation among all the surrounding peoples, where the Lord has scattered them.
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Under the whole heaven there has not been done the like of what he has done in Jerusalem, in accordance with what is written in the law of Moses,
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that we should eat, one the flesh of his son and another the flesh of his daughter.
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And he gave them into subjection to all the kingdoms around us, to be a reproach and a desolation among all the surrounding peoples, where the Lord has scattered them.
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They were brought low and not raised up, because we sinned against the Lord our God, in not heeding his voice.
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"`Righteousness belongs to the Lord our God, but confusion of face to us and our fathers, as at this day.
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