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"`Thus saith the Lord: I brought this people out of bondage, and I gave them My commandments by My servants the prophets, whom they would not hear, but despised My counsels.
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The mother who bore them saith unto them, "Go your way, ye children, for I am a widow and forsaken.
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I brought you up with gladness, but with sorrow and heaviness have I lost you; for ye have sinned before the Lord your God and done that thing that is evil before Him.
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But what shall I now do unto you? I am a widow and forsaken. Go your way, O my children, and ask mercy of the Lord."
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As for Me, O father, I call upon thee for a witness over the mother of these children who would not keep My covenant,
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that thou bring them to confusion and their mother to be a spoil, that there may be no offspring of them.
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Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen, let their names be put out of the earth, for they have despised My covenant.
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"`Woe be unto thee, Assyria, thou that hidest the unrighteous in thee! O thou wicked people, remember what I did unto Sodom and Gomorrah,
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whose land lieth in clods of pitch and heaps of ashes. Even so also will I do unto them that hear Me not, saith the Almighty Lord.'"