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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,
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that you should be my people and I your God, and that you should be my children and I your Father?
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I gathered you as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings. But what will I do with you? I will throw you out of my presence.
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When you bring me offerings, I will turn my eyes away from you. I didn't command you to observe festival days, new moons, sabbaths, and circumcisions.
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I sent my servants the prophets to you. You took them, mangled them, and slaughtered those who had been sent. But I will make you pay for their deaths, says the Lord.