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Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where Thou hast scattered us, as a reproach and a curse and to be subject to payments, according to all the iniquities of our fathers who departed from the Lord our God.'"
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Hear, Israel, the commandments of life; give ear to understand wisdom.
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How happeneth it Israel, that thou art in thine enemies' land, that thou art waxed old in a strange country, that thou art defiled with the dead,
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that thou art counted with them that go down into the grave?