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But I will send a fire upon Judah, And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem."
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Thus says the Lord: "For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they sell the righteous for silver, And the poor for a pair of sandals.
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They pant after the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor, And pervert the way of the humble. A man and his father go in to the same girl, To defile My holy name.
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They lie down by every altar on clothes taken in pledge, And drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
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"Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, Whose height was like the height of the cedars, And he was as strong as the oaks; Yet I destroyed his fruit above And his roots beneath.
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Also it was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, And led you forty years through the wilderness, To possess the land of the Amorite.
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I raised up some of your sons as prophets, And some of your young men as Nazirites. Is it not so, O you children of Israel?" Says the Lord.
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"But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, And commanded the prophets saying, 'Do not prophesy!'
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"Behold, I am weighed down by you, As a cart full of sheaves is weighed down.
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Therefore flight shall perish from the swift, The strong shall not strengthen his power, Nor shall the mighty deliver himself;
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He shall not stand who handles the bow, The swift of foot shall not escape, Nor shall he who rides a horse deliver himself.
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The most courageous men of might Shall flee naked in that day," Says the Lord.