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Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to beholdgrievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise upstrife and contention.
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Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wondermarvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
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For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hastynation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.
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Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the eveningwolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
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And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heapdust, and take it.
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Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
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Thou art of purereyes than to beholdevil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wickeddevoureth the man that is more righteous than he?