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When they call upon me, I won't hear them because they have stained their souls, and have hands stained with blood. Your feet aren't slow to commit murder.
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What will I do to you, Jacob? Judah, you wouldn't obey me. I will turn to another nation and give them my name. They will certainly keep my ordinances.
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When those who abandoned me beg for mercy, I won't have mercy on them.
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When they call upon me, I won't hear them because they have stained their souls, and have hands stained with blood. Your feet aren't slow to commit murder.
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You haven't abandoned me; rather, you have abandoned yourselves, says the Lord.
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The Lord says this: Didn't I plead with you like a father with his sons, like a mother with her daughters, and like a nurse who loves her little one,