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- And I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley,
- And I will discover the foundations thereof.
- And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces,
- And all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire,
- And all the idols thereof will I lay desolate:
- For she gathered it of the hire of an harlot,
- And they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
- Therefore I will wail and howl,
- I will go stripped and naked:
- I will make a wailing like the dragons,
- And mourning as the owls.
- For her wound is incurable;
- For it is come unto Judah;
- He is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
- Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all:
- In the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
- Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked:
- The inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel;
- He shall receive of you his standing.
- For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good:
- But evil came down from the Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem.
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