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for strangers shall gather their fruits, and plunder their goods, and overthrow their houses, and take their children captive; for in captivity and famine they will beget their children.
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Those who conduct business, do it only to be plundered; the more they adorn their cities, their houses and possessions, and their persons,
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the more angry I will be with them for their sins," says the Lord.
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Just as a respectable and virtuous woman abhors a harlot,
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so righteousness shall abhor iniquity, when she decks herself out, and shall accuse her to her face, when he comes who will defend him who searches out every sin on earth.
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Therefore do not be like her or her works.
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For behold, just a little while, and iniquity will be removed from the earth, and righteousness will reign over us.
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Let no sinner say that he has not sinned; for God will burn coals of fire on the head of him who says, "I have not sinned before God and his glory."
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Behold, the Lord knows all the works of men, their imaginations and their thoughts and their hearts.
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He said, "Let the earth be made," and it was made; "Let the heaven be made," and it was made.
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At his word the stars were fixed, and he knows the number of the stars.