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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 feastdays, your new moons, and your circumcisions, have I forsaken.
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I sent unto you my servants the prophets, whom ye have taken and slain, and torn their bodies in pieces, whose blood I will require of your hands, saith the Lord.
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Thus saith the Almighty Lord, Your house is desolate, I will cast you out as the wind doth stubble.
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And your children shall not be fruitful; for they have despised my commandment, and done the thing that is an evil before me.
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Your houses will I give to a people that shall come; which not having heard of me yet shall believe me; to whom I have shewed no signs, yet they shall do that I have commanded them.
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They have seen no prophets, yet they shall call their sins to remembrance, and acknowledge them.
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I take to witness the grace of the people to come, whose little ones rejoice in gladness: and though they have not seen me with bodily eyes, yet in spirit they believe the thing that I say.
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And now, brother, behold what glory; and see the people that come from the east:
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Unto whom I will give for leaders, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Oseas, Amos, and Micheas, Joel, Abdias, and Jonas,