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17 The Lord of hosts, (A)who planted you, has decreed disaster against you, because of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done, (B)provoking me to anger by making offerings to Baal.”

18 The Lord made it known to me and I knew;
    then you showed me their deeds.
19 But I was (C)like a gentle lamb
    led to the slaughter.
I did not know (D)it was against me
    they devised schemes, saying,
“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
    (E)let us cut him off from (F)the land of the living,
    that his name be remembered no more.”

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