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Because those who labor, labor in vain;
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for strangers shall gather their fruits, and plunder their goods, and overthrow their houses, and take their children captive; for in captivity and famine they will beget their children.
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Those who conduct business, do it only to be plundered; the more they adorn their cities, their houses and possessions, and their persons,
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the more angry I will be with them for their sins," says the Lord.
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Just as a respectable and virtuous woman abhors a harlot,