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\c 57
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\q1
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\v 1 Righteous people die,
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\q2 and no one is concerned about it.
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\q1 Godly people die,
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\q2 and no one understands why.
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\q1 God takes them away in order that they will not endure more calamities,
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\q2
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\v 2 and now they have peace.
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\q1 They lived righteously,
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\q2 and now they rest peacefully in their graves.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 3 Yahweh says, "But you who practice sorcery, come here!
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\q2 You who worship idols,
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\q2 listen to me!
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\q1
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\v 4 Do you realize whom you are ridiculing,
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\q2 and whom you are insulting?
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\q2 Do you realize to whom you are sticking out your tongues?
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\q1 You are insulting me, Yahweh!
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\q2 You are always rebelling against me and always lying, just like your ancestors.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 5 You are eager to sleep together under every tall green tree where you worship your gods.
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\q1 You kill your children as sacrifices to your idols in the dry riverbeds,
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\q2 and offer them as sacrifices to your idols in the rocky caves.
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\q1
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\v 6 You take big smooth stones from the riverbeds
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\q2 and worship them as your gods.
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\q1 You pour out wine to be an offering to them,
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\q2 and you bring grain to burn for an offering to them.
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\q1 Do you think that I enjoy all those things?
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\q1
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\v 7 You sleep with idols' prostitutes on every hill and mountain,
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\q2 and you go there to offer sacrifices to your gods.
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\q1
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\v 8 You have put charms behind your doors and doorposts,
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\q2 and you have deserted me.
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\q1 You have taken off your clothes
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\q2 and climbed into your bed,
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\q1 and invited more of your lovers to come to bed with you.
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\q1 You have paid them to sleep with you,
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\q2 and you have looked at their private parts.
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\q1
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\v 9 You have given fragrant oil and lots of perfume to kings,
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\q2 and you sent representatives to distant countries to look for other gods to worship;
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\q1 you even tried to send messengers to the place of the dead to search for new gods.
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\q1
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\v 10 You became weary because of doing all those things,
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\q2 but you never said, 'It is useless for us to do that.'
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\q1 You found new strength for worshiping idols,
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\q2 so you continued to do so.
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\q1
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\v 11 Was it because you were afraid of those idols more than you were afraid of me that you lied about what you were doing,
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\q2 and you do not even think about me?
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\q1 Was it because I did not punish you for a long time that you are not afraid of me ?
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\q1
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\v 12 You think that the things that you have done are right,
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\q2 but I will tell you the truth:
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\q1 It will not help you to do any of those things.
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\q1
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\v 13 When you cry out for help to your collection of idols,
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\q2 they will not rescue you.
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\q1 The wind will blow them away; a single breath will carry them all away.
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\q2 But those who trust in me will live in the land of Israel,
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\q1 and they will worship me on Zion, my sacred hill."
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\p
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\v 14 Yahweh will say, "Prepare yourselves to receive me,
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\q2 like people build and prepare a road for a king to come on.
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\q1 Get rid of the things that are causing you to sin.
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\v 15 Because this is what I say—I, Yahweh, who am holy and honored more than anyone else, and who live forever:
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\q1 I live in the highest heaven, where everything is holy,
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\q2 but I also am with those who are humble and who are sorry for the sinful things that they have done.
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\q1 I will greatly encourage those who have repented.
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\q1
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\v 16 I will not accuse people forever;
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\q2 I will not always be angry with them,
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\q1 because if I did that, people would become weak;
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\q2 all the people whom I created and caused to live would die.
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\v 17 I was angry with my people because they sinned by taking with force what belonged to others.
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\q2 Because I was angry, I punished them and turned away from them,
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\q2 but they continued sinning.
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\q1
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\v 18 I have seen the evil things that they continually do,
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\q2 but I will restore them and lead them.
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\q1 I will encourage them.
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\q2 As for those who are mourning,
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\q2
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\v 19 I will enable them to sing songs to praise me.
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\q1 I will restore all my people, those who live near Jerusalem and those who live far away,
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\q2 and I will cause things to go well for them.
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\q1
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\v 20 Wicked people do not have peace in their inner beings;
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\q2 they are like a sea whose waves are always churning up mud,
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\q1
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\v 21 and I, Yahweh, say that things will never go well for those who are evil."
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