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Righteous are You, Yahuah, when I contend with You; yet I shall speak Judgments with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all who deal treacherously at ease?
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You planted them; they have also taken root. They advance; they also make fruit. You are near in their mouth but far from their kidneys.
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But You, Yahuah, know me. You see me and test my heart toward You. Pull them away like sheep for slaughter, and set them apart for the day of killing.
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How long shall the land mourn and the plants of every field wither because of the evil of those dwelling in it? Beast and bird are swept away, because they said, “He shall not see our end.”
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“If you ran with footmen and they wearied you, then how shall you compete with horses? If you trust only in a land of shalom, then how shall you do in the pride of the Yarden?
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For even your brothers and the House of your father, even they have dealt treacherously against you; even they have called a crowd after you. Do not trust them, though they speak good things to you.
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I have forsaken My House; I have abandoned My Inheritance. I have given the beloved of My being into the palm of her enemies.
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My Inheritance became to Me like a lion in the forest. She gave her voice against Me; therefore I hated her.
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Is My Inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey, with birds of prey all around against her? Go, gather every beast of the field; bring them to devour.
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Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard. They have trampled My portion; they have made My desirable portion a desolate wilderness.
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They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns before Me. All the land has been made desolate, because no ish sets it upon his heart.
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Upon all the bare heights in the wilderness destroyers have come, for the sword of Yahuah devours from one end of the land even to the other end. There is no shalom for any flesh.
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They have sown wheat and reaped thorns. They have worn themselves out without profit. Be ashamed of your produce because of the burning fury of Yahuah.”
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Thus says Yahuah concerning all My evil neighbors who touch the Inheritance that I caused My people Yisra’el to inherit: “See, I am uprooting them from their land, and the House of Yehudah I shall uproot from their midst.
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And it shall be after I uproot them, I shall return and have compassion upon them. I shall return each ish to his Inheritance and each ish to his land.
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And it shall be, if learning, they learn the Ways of My people, to swear by My Name, ‘Yahuah lives,’ as they taught My people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built in the midst of My people.
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But if they do not hear, then uprooting, I shall uproot that nation and destroy it,” declares Yahuah.