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Judah Threatened With Invasion

If you will return, O Israel,
    says the Lord,
    return to Me.
And if you will put away your abominations out of My sight,
    then you shall not be moved.
You shall swear, “As the Lord lives,”
    in truth, in justice, and in righteousness;
then the nations shall bless themselves in Him,
    and in Him they shall glory.

For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem:

Break up your fallow ground,
    and do not sow among thorns.

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“If you, Israel, will return,(A)
    then return to me,”
declares the Lord.
“If you put your detestable idols(B) out of my sight
    and no longer go astray,
and if in a truthful, just and righteous way
    you swear,(C) ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’(D)
then the nations will invoke blessings(E) by him
    and in him they will boast.(F)

This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem:

“Break up your unplowed ground(G)
    and do not sow among thorns.(H)

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