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I will surely avenge them," says the Lord, "and will receive to myself all the innocent blood from among them.
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Behold, my people is led like a flock to the slaughter; I will not allow them to live any longer in the land of Egypt,
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but I will bring them out with a mighty hand and with an uplifted arm, and will smite Egypt with plagues, as before, and will destroy all its land."
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Let Egypt mourn, and its foundations, for the plague of chastisement and punishment that the Lord will bring upon it.
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Let the farmers that till the ground mourn, because their seed shall fail and their trees shall be ruined by blight and hail and by a terrible tempest.
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Alas for the world and for those who live in it!
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For the sword and misery draw near them, and nation shall rise up to fight against nation, with swords in their hands.
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For there shall be unrest among men; growing strong against one another, they shall in their might have no respect for their king or the chief of their leaders.
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For a man will desire to go into a city, and shall not be able.
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For because of their pride the cities shall be in confusion, the houses shall be destroyed, and people shall be afraid.
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A man shall have no pity upon his neighbors, but shall make an assault upon their houses with the sword, and plunder their goods, because of hunger for bread and because of great tribulation.