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Thus infirmity was made permanent; and the law (alsoin the heart of the people with the malignity of the root; so that the good departed away, and the evil abode still.
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So the times passed away, and the years were brought to an end: then didst thou raise thee up a servant, called David:
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Whom thou commandedst to build a city unto thy name, and to offer incense and oblations unto thee therein.
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When this was done many years, then they that inhabited the city forsook thee,
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And in all things did even as Adam and all his generations had done: for they also had a wicked heart: