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The just one perishes, and no man sets it to heart; and the men of mercy are gathered in, and none understands; for on account of the evil the just is gathered in.
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He comes into peace; they rest on their beds, each walking in his righteousness.
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But as for you, come near hither, ye sons of the witch, the seed of the adulterer and of her who has committed harlotry.
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Against whom do you delight yourselves? Against whom do you make the mouth wide and make the tongue long? Are you not the children of transgression, the seed of falsity?
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Becoming warm with the gods under every green tree; slaughtering the children in the brooks under the crags of the rocks?
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In the smooth things of the brook is thy part; these, these are thy lot; even to these hast thou spilled out a poured offering, thou hast offered up a gift offering. Can I be comforted in these?
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On a mountain tall and lifted up hast thou set thy bed; even thither hast thou gone up to sacrifice a sacrifice.
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And behind the door and the doorpost hast thou set thy memorial; for departing from Me, thou hast revealed thyself to another; and thou hast gone up, and enlarged thy bed; thou hast cut a covenant with them; thou lovest their bed; thou hast beheld a space for it.
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And thou hast offered a gift to the king in oil, and hast multiplied thine ointments; and thou hast sent thine ambassadors far off, and hast brought thyself low, even to hell.
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Thou hast toiled in the multitude of thy way; thou hast not said, I despair; thou hast found the life of thy hand; therefore thou hast not become sick.
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And of whom hast thou been anxious and fearful, that thou shouldst lie, and hast not remembered Me, nor set it to thy heart? Is it not that I have been hushed even from an age, and thou dost not fear Me?
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I will tell thy justice and thy works, which do not profit thee.
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When thou criest out, let thy bringing together of idols rescue thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them off; but he who confides in Me shall possess the land, and shall inherit the mountain of My holiness;
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and he shall say, build up, build up, sweep the way; lift high the stumblingblock from the way of My people.
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For thus says He who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, and His name is Holy: I inhabit the high and holy place; and I am with those of a contrite and lowly spirit, to make the spirit of the lowly live, and to make the heart of the contrite live.
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For I will not strive to eternity, and I will not be enraged perpetually; for a spirit would be overwhelmed from before Me, and those that have breath that I have made.
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For the iniquity of his gain was I enraged, and I smote him; hiding Myself, and I was enraged; but he went on turning back in the way of his heart.
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I have seen his ways, and I will heal him; and I will lead him, and will repay comforting to him, and to his mourners.
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I create the bounty of the lips; Peace, Peace to him who is afar off, and to him that is near, says Jehovah; and I will heal him.
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But the wicked are as the sea being driven up, when it is not able to be quiet, and its waters drive up dirt and mud.
