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"Woe to you, Assyria, who conceal the unrighteous within you! O wicked nation, remember what I did to Sodom and Gomorrah,
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whose land lies in lumps of pitch and heaps of ashes. That is what I will do to those who have not listened to me, says the Lord Almighty."
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Thus says the Lord to Ezra: "Tell my people that I will give them the kingdom of Jerusalem, which I was going to give to Israel.
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Moreover, I will take back to myself their glory, and will give to these others the everlasting habitations, which I had prepared for Israel.
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The tree of life shall give them fragrant perfume, and they shall neither toil nor become weary.
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