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In those days, and in that time,saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judahtogether,going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
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They shall ask the way to Zion with their facesthitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetualcovenant that shall not be forgotten.
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My people hath been lostsheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.[a]
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All that found them have devoured them: and their adversariessaid, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
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Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goatsbefore the flocks.
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For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of greatnations from the northcountry: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
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And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.
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Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat[b] as the heifer at grass*, and bellow as bulls;
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Your mother shall be soreconfounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
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Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
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Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow,shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD.