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Be of good comfort, O people of God, the memorial of Israel:
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You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for your destruction: but because you provoked God to wrath, you are delivered to your adversaries.
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For you have provoked him who made you, the eternal God, offering sacrifice to devils, and not to God.
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For you have forgotten God, who brought you up, and you have grieved Jerusalem that nursed you.
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For she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, and she said: Give ear, all you that dwell near Sion, for God hath brought upon me great mourning: