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For they had afflicted him; yet he had been consecrated in the womb as prophet, to pluck up and afflict and destroy, and likewise to build and to plant.
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for they gave their power to others, and their glory to a foreign nation,
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who set fire to the chosen city of the sanctuary, and made her streets desolate, according to the word of Jeremiah.
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For they had afflicted him; yet he had been consecrated in the womb as prophet, to pluck up and afflict and destroy, and likewise to build and to plant.
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It was Ezekiel who saw the vision of glory which God showed him above the chariot of the cherubim.
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For God remembered his enemies with storm, and did good to those who directed their ways aright.
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