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They sacrificed to demons, not to God, To gods they did not know, To new gods, new arrivals That your fathers did not fear.
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Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful, And have forgotten the God who fathered you.
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"And when the Lord saw it, He spurned them, Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.
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And He said: 'I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be, For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faith.
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They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God; They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols. But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.
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For a fire is kindled by my anger, And shall burn to the lowest hell; It shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
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'I will heap disasters on them; I will spend My arrows on them.
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They shall be wasted with hunger, Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction; I will also send against them the teeth of beasts, With the poison of serpents of the dust.
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The sword shall destroy outside; There shall be terror within For the young man and virgin, The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
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I would have said, "I will dash them in pieces, I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,"
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Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand, Lest they should say, "Our hand is high; And it is not the Lord who has done all this." '