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The people suffered humiliation beneath rulers who mocked them.
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Some were tempted to abandon their ancestral ways for advancement.
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Others hardened themselves in bitterness.
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Yirmeyahu’s teaching was remembered: “Do not become like the nations merely because you live among them.”
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The exile became a furnace separating memory from convenience.
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Yahuah did not permit the people to disappear.