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O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
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Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to beholdgrievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise upstrife and contention.
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Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong[a]judgmentproceedeth.
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Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wondermarvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
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For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hastynation, which shall march through the breadth[b] of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.