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and your sons will have no children, because with you they have neglected my commandment and have done what is evil in my sight.
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I will give your houses to a people that will come, who without having heard me will believe. Those to whom I have shown no signs will do what I have commanded.
36
They have seen no prophets, yet will recall their former state.
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I call to witness the gratitude of the people that is to come, whose children rejoice with gladness; though they do not see me with bodily eyes, yet with the spirit they will believe the things I have said.
38
"And now, father, look with pride and see the people coming from the east;
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Other ancient authorities read [their iniquities]
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