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The Lord's word came to Ezra, Chusi's son, in the days of King Nebuchadnezzar:
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Go and announce to my people their crimes. Tell their children about the sins they committed against me. Let their children also announce this to their own children,
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because the children have added to their parents' sins. They forgot me and offered sacrifices to foreign gods!
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Didn't I bring them out of the land of Egypt where they lived in slavery? Why then have they angered me and rejected my advice?
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Therefore, the Lord says: Tear out your hair and hurl every kind of disaster at them, because they haven't obeyed my Law. Undisciplined people!