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Neither say they in their heart: 'Let us now fear HaShem our G-d, that giveth the former rain, and the latter in due season; that keepeth for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.'
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Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you.
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For among My people are found wicked men; they pry, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
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As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit; therefore they are become great, and waxen rich;
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They are waxen fat, they are become sleek; yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they might make it to prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
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Shall I not punish for these things? saith HaShem; shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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An appalling and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:
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The prophets prophesy in the service of falsehood, and the priests bear rule at their beck; and My people love to have it so; what then will ye do in the end thereof?