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She is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endures for ever. All who hold her fast will live, and those who forsake her will die.
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Turn, O Jacob, and take her; walk toward the shining of her light.
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Do not give your glory to another, or your advantages to an alien people.
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Happy are we, O Israel, for we know what is pleasing to God.
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Take courage, my people, O memorial of Israel!
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It was not for destruction that you were sold to the nations, but you were handed over to your enemies because you angered God.
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For you provoked him who made you, by sacrificing to demons and not to God.
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You forgot the everlasting God, who brought you up, and you grieved Jerusalem, who reared you.
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For she saw the wrath that came upon you from God, and she said: "Hearken, you neighbors of Zion, God has brought great sorrow upon me;
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for I have seen the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting brought upon them.
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With joy I nurtured them, but I sent them away with weeping and sorrow.