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because of their wickedness, which they have wrought to provoke me, going to burn incense to other gods, whom ye knew not.
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yet I sent to you my servants the prophets early in the morning, and I sent, saying, Do not ye this abominable thing which I hate.
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But they hearkened not to me, and inclined not their ear to turn from their wickedness, so as not to burn incense to strange gods.
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So mine anger and my wrath dropped , and was kindled in the gates of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they became a desolation and a waste, as at this day.
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And now thus has the Lord Almighty said, Wherefore do ye commit great evils against your souls? to cut off man and woman of you, infant and suckling from the midst of Juda, to the end that not one of you should be left;
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by provoking me with the works of your hands, to burn incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which ye entered to dwell there, that ye might be cut off, and that ye might become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
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Have ye forgotten the sins of your fathers, and the sins of the kings of Juda, and the sins of your princes, and the sins of your wives, which they wrought in the land of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
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And have not ceased even to this day, and they have not kept to my ordinances, which I set before their fathers.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold I do set my face against
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to destroy all the remnant that are in Egypt; and they shall fall by the sword, and by famine, and shall be consumed small and great: and they shall be for reproach, and for destruction, and for a curse.
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And I will visit them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have visited Jerusalem, with sword and with famine: