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Give not thine honour to another, nor the things that are profitable unto thee to a strange nation.
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O Israel, happy are we: for things that are pleasing to God are made known unto us.
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Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.
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Ye were sold to the nations, not for your destruction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies.
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For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto devils, and not to God.
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Ye have forgotten the everlasting God, that brought you up; and ye have grieved Jerusalem, that nursed you.
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For when she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, she said, Hearken, O ye that dwell about Sion: God hath brought upon me great mourning;
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For I saw the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting brought upon them.
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With joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning.
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Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many, who for the sins of my children am left desolate; because they departed from the law of God.
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They knew not his statutes, nor walked in the ways of his commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.