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Today we are far from home, where you have scattered us as an insult, a curse, and a penalty due to all the unjust actions of our ancestors, who deserted the Lord our God.
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Hear, Israel, the commandments of life. Listen carefully, and you'll come to know Wisdom.
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Why is it, Israel, that you are in the enemies' land, growing old in a foreign land,
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polluted by the dead, and counted as people already in the grave?
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You have abandoned the fountain from which wisdom flows.