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I have heard of my father that thou, O Lord, didst take Israel from among all nations, and our fathers from all their predecessors, to possess them as an everlasting inheritance, and thou hast done to them as thou hast promised.
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We have sinned in thy sight, and therefore thou hast delivered us into the hands of our enemies:
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For we have worshipped their gods. Thou art just, O Lord.
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And now they are not content to oppress us with most hard bondage, but attributing the strength of their hands to the power of their idols,
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They design to change thy promises, and destroy thy inheritance, and shut the mouths of them that praise thee, and extinguish the glory of thy temple and altar,