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2 Go and call in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Jehovah, I remembered for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thy completion, thy going after me in the desert in a land not, sown. 3 Israel is holy to Jehovah, the beginning of the produce: all consuming him shall transgress; evil shall come upon them, says Jehovah. 4 Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, and the families of the house of Israel: 5 Thus said Jehovah, What iniquity found your fathers in me that they removed far off from me, and went after vanity, and they became vain? 6 And they said not, Where is Jehovah bringing us up out of the land of Egypt, causing us to go through the desert into a sterile land and a pit, through a land of drought and the shadow of death, through a land not a man passed through it, and not a man dwelt there? 7 And I will bring you to the land of Carmel, to eat its fruit and its goodness; and ye will come and defile my land, and ye set mine inheritance for an abomination. Jeremiah 2:2-7, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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