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"How terrible will be your punishment, Assyria. You have let wicked people hide within your borders. Remember, sinful nation, what I did to Sodom and Gomorrah. 1
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Now bring confusion on them and ruin on their mother, so that they will have no descendants.
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They will be scattered among the nations, and no one on earth will remember them any longer, for they have despised my covenant.
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"How terrible will be your punishment, Assyria. You have let wicked people hide within your borders. Remember, sinful nation, what I did to Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Their land now lies covered with lumps of tar and heaps of ashes. That is what I do to people who do not obey me.
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"The Lord says to Ezra: Announce to my new people that I will give them the kingdom of Jerusalem, which I had planned to give to Israel.