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Thussays the LORD, your Redeemer, the HolyOne of Israel, "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, Who leads you in the way you should go.
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"Ifonly you had paidattention to My commandments! Then your well-being would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
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"Your descendants would have been like the sand, And your offspring* like its grains; Their name would never be cutoff or destroyed from My presence."