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"This is the one we made fun of. We thought he was a joke. What fools we were! We thought he was crazy to live the way he did, and when he died, we didn't honor him.
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They will be amazed to see him safe and will tremble with terrible fear.
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Then they will regret what they did, and groaning in anguish they will say to each other:
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"This is the one we made fun of. We thought he was a joke. What fools we were! We thought he was crazy to live the way he did, and when he died, we didn't honor him.
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And now here he is, one of God's own children, with a place of his own among God's people.
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We were the ones who wandered off the right road. We never lived in the light of righteousness; we never caught the first glimmer of its light.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.