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And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all his princes with him, saith the Lord.
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Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Juda, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath cast away the law of the Lord, and hath not kept his commandments: for their idols have caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked.
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And I will send a fire into Juda, and it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem.
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Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath sold the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of shoes.
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They bruise the heads of the poor upon the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the humble: and the son and his father have gone to the same young woman, to profane my holy name.
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And they sat down upon garments laid to pledge by every altar: and drank the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.
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Yet I cast out the Amorrhite before their face: whose height was like the height of cedars, and who was strong as an oak: and I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots beneath.
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It is I that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and I led you forty years through the wilderness, that you might possess the land of the Amorrhite.
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And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not so, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord?
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And you will present wine to the Nazarites: and command the prophets, saying: Prophesy not.
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Behold, I will screak under you as a wain screaketh that is laden with hay.