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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.
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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, who, not having heard of Me, yet shall believe Me, to whom I have shown no signs, yet they shall do what 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, Hosea, Amos, and Micah, Joel, Obadiah, and Jonah,