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Where are the benefits that I bestowed on you? When you were hungry and thirsty in the wilderness, did you not cry out to me,
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saying, "Why have you led us into this wilderness to kill us? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in this wilderness.'
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I pitied your groanings and gave you manna for food; you ate the bread of angels.
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When you were thirsty, did I not split the rock so that waters flowed in abundance? Because of the heat I clothed you with the leaves of trees.
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I divided fertile lands among you; I drove out the Canaanites, the Perizzites, and the Philistines before you. What more can I do for you? says the Lord.
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Thus says the Lord Almighty: When you were in the wilderness, at the bitter stream, thirsty and blaspheming my name,
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I did not send fire on you for your blasphemies, but threw a tree into the water and made the stream sweet.
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"What shall I do to you, O Jacob? You, Judah, would not obey me. I will turn to other nations and will give them my name, so that they may keep my statutes.
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Because you have forsaken me, I also will forsake you. When you beg mercy of me, I will show you no mercy.
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When you call to me, I will not listen to you; for you have defiled your hands with blood, and your feet are swift to commit murder.
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It is not as though you had forsaken me; you have forsaken yourselves, says the Lord.