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24 They do not say in their hearts,
    ‘Let us fear the Lord our God,
(A)who gives the rain in its season,
    the autumn rain and the spring rain,
and keeps for us
    (B)the weeks appointed for the harvest.’
25 (C)Your iniquities have turned these away,
    and your sins have kept good from you.
26 For wicked men are found among my people;
    (D)they lurk like fowlers lying in wait.[a]
(E)They set a trap;
    they catch men.

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  1. Jeremiah 5:26 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain