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I divided among you a fruitful land; I cast out the Canaanites, the Perizzites and the Philistines before you. What shall I yet do more for you? saith the Lord.
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"`Thus saith the Almighty Lord: When ye were in the wilderness, at the river of the Amorites, being athirst and blaspheming My name,
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I gave you not fire for your blasphemies, but cast a tree in the water and made the river sweet.
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"`What shall I do unto thee, O Jacob? Thou, Judah, wouldest not obey Me. I will turn Me to other nations, and unto those will I give My name, that they may keep My statutes.
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Seeing ye have forsaken Me, I will forsake you also; when ye desire Me to be gracious unto you, I shall have no mercy upon you.
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Whensoever ye shall call upon Me, I will not hear you; for ye have defiled your hands with blood, and your feet are swift to commit manslaughter.
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Ye have not, as it were, forsaken Me, but your own selves, saith the Lord.
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"`Thus saith the Almighty Lord: Have I not prayed you as a father his sons, as a mother her daughters and a nurse her young babes,
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that ye would be My people and I should be your God, that ye would be My children and I should be your Father?
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I gathered you together as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings. But now, what shall I do unto you? I will cast you out from My face.
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When ye offer unto Me, I will turn My face from you; for your solemn feast days, your new moons, and your circumcisions have I forsaken.