Malachi 2:2
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2 (A)If you will not hear,
And if you will not take it to heart,
To give glory to My name,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“I will send a curse upon you,
And I will curse your blessings.
Yes, I have cursed them (B)already,
Because you do not take it to heart.
Revelation 14:7
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7 saying with a loud voice, (A)“Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; (B)and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.”
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Luke 17:18
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18 Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?”
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Psalm 81:11-12
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11 “But My people would not heed My voice,
And Israel would have (A)none of Me.
12 (B)So I gave them over to [a]their own stubborn heart,
To walk in their own counsels.
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- Psalm 81:12 the dictates of their heart
Psalm 69:22
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22 (A)Let their table become a snare before them,
And their well-being a trap.
1 Peter 4:11
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11 (A)If anyone speaks, let him speak as the [a]oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that (B)in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the [b]dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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- 1 Peter 4:11 utterances
- 1 Peter 4:11 sovereignty
Malachi 3:9
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9 You are cursed with a curse,
For you have robbed Me,
Even this whole nation.
Leviticus 26:14-46
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14 ‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments,
15 and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,
16 I also will do this to you:
I will even appoint terror over you, (A)wasting disease and fever which shall (B)consume the eyes and (C)cause sorrow of heart.
And (D)you shall sow your seed [a]in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17 I will [b]set (E)My face against you, and (F)you shall be defeated by your enemies.
(G)Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall (H)flee when no one pursues you.
18 ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you (I)seven times more for your sins.
19 I will (J)break the pride of your power;
I (K)will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
20 And your (L)strength shall be spent in vain;
for your (M)land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.
21 ‘Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins.
22 (N)I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number;
and (O)your highways shall be desolate.
23 ‘And if (P)by these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me,
24 (Q)then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
25 And (R)I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant;
when you are gathered together within your cities (S)I will send pestilence among you;
and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26 (T)When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, (U)and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27 ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,
28 then I also will walk contrary to you in fury;
and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
29 (V)You[c] shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.
30 (W)I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols;
and My soul shall abhor you.
31 I will lay your (X)cities waste and (Y)bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not (Z)smell the fragrance of your [d]sweet aromas.
32 (AA)I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.
33 (AB)I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you;
your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.
34 (AC)Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land;
then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
35 As long as it lies desolate it shall rest—
for the time it did not rest on your (AD)sabbaths when you dwelt in it.
36 ‘And as for those of you who are left, I will send (AE)faintness[e] into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;
the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee;
they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.
37 (AF)They shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues;
and (AG)you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
38 You shall (AH)perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
39 And those of you who are left (AI)shall [f]waste away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands;
also in their (AJ)fathers’ iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.
40 ‘But (AK)if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,
41 and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies;
if their (AL)uncircumcised hearts are (AM)humbled, and they (AN)accept their guilt—
42 then I will (AO)remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember;
I will (AP)remember the land.
43 (AQ)The land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them;
they will accept their guilt, because they (AR)despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.
44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, (AS)I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them;
for I am the Lord their God.
45 But (AT)for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, (AU)whom I brought out of the land of Egypt (AV)in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God:
I am the Lord.’ ”
46 (AW)These are the statutes and judgments and laws which the Lord made between Himself and the children of Israel (AX)on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
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- Leviticus 26:16 without profit
- Leviticus 26:17 oppose you
- Leviticus 26:29 In time of famine
- Leviticus 26:31 pleasing
- Leviticus 26:36 fear
- Leviticus 26:39 rot away
Luke 23:28-30
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28 But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 (A)For indeed the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, wombs that never bore, and breasts which never nursed!’ 30 Then they will begin (B)‘to say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!” ’
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Ezekiel 3:7
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7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you, (A)because they will not listen to Me; (B)for all the house of Israel are [a]impudent and hard-hearted.
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- Ezekiel 3:7 Lit. strong of forehead
Revelation 16:9
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9 And men were scorched with great heat, and they (A)blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; (B)and they did not repent (C)and give Him glory.
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Zechariah 7:11-14
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11 “But they refused to heed, (A)shrugged[a] their shoulders, and (B)stopped[b] their ears so that they could not hear. 12 Yes, they made their (C)hearts like flint, (D)refusing to hear the law and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. (E)Thus great wrath came from the Lord of hosts. 13 Therefore it happened, that just as He proclaimed and they would not hear, so (F)they called out and I would not listen,” says the Lord of hosts. 14 “But (G)I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no one passed through or returned; for they made the pleasant land desolate.”
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- Zechariah 7:11 Lit. gave a stubborn or rebellious shoulder
- Zechariah 7:11 Lit. made their ears heavy
Zechariah 1:3-6
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3 Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Return (A)to Me,” says the Lord of hosts, “and I will return to you,” says the Lord of hosts. 4 “Do not be like your fathers, (B)to whom the former prophets preached, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: (C)“Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.” ’ But they did not hear nor heed Me,” says the Lord.
5 “Your fathers, where are they?
And the prophets, do they live forever?
6 Yet surely (D)My words and My statutes,
Which I commanded My servants the prophets,
Did they not overtake your fathers?
“So they returned and said:
(E)‘Just as the Lord of hosts determined to do to us,
According to our ways and according to our deeds,
So He has dealt with us.’ ” ’ ”
Jeremiah 25:4-9
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4 And the Lord has sent to you all His servants the prophets, (A)rising early and sending them, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear. 5 They said, (B)‘Repent now everyone of his evil way and his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers forever and ever. 6 Do not go after other gods to serve them and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will not harm you.’ 7 Yet you have not listened to Me,” says the Lord, “that you might (C)provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
8 “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Because you have not heard My words, 9 behold, I will send and take (D)all the families of the north,’ says the Lord, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (E)My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and (F)make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
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Deuteronomy 28:15-68
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Curses on Disobedience(A)
15 “But it shall come to pass, (B)if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
16 “Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.
17 “Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
18 “Cursed shall be the [a]fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.
19 “Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
20 “The Lord will send on you (C)cursing, (D)confusion, and (E)rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me. 21 The Lord will make the [b]plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess. 22 (F)The Lord will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the sword, with (G)scorching,[c] and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish. 23 And (H)your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron. 24 The Lord will change the rain of your land to powder and dust; from the heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
25 (I)“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become [d]troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 (J)Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away. 27 The Lord will strike you with (K)the boils of Egypt, with (L)tumors, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed. 28 The Lord will strike you with madness and blindness and (M)confusion of heart. 29 And you shall (N)grope at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually, and no one shall save you.
30 (O)“You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; (P)you shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; (Q)you shall plant a vineyard, but shall not gather its grapes. 31 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away from before you, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no one to rescue them. 32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to (R)another people, and your eyes shall look and (S)fail with longing for them all day long; and there shall be [e]no strength in your (T)hand. 33 A nation whom you have not known shall eat (U)the fruit of your land and the produce of your labor, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually. 34 So you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see. 35 The Lord will strike you in the knees and on the legs with severe boils which cannot be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.
36 “The Lord will (V)bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and (W)there you shall serve other gods—wood and stone. 37 And you shall become (X)an[f] astonishment, a proverb, (Y)and a byword among all nations where the Lord will drive you.
38 (Z)“You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for (AA)the locust shall [g]consume it. 39 You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the (AB)wine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off. 41 You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for (AC)they shall go into captivity. 42 Locusts shall [h]consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
43 “The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
45 “Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you [i]did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. 46 And they shall be upon (AD)you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants forever.
47 (AE)“Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, (AF)for the abundance of everything, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in (AG)hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He (AH)will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you. 49 (AI)The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, (AJ)as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a nation of fierce countenance, (AK)which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young. 51 And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you.
52 “They shall (AL)besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you. 53 (AM)You shall eat the [j]fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you. 54 The [k]sensitive and very refined man among you (AN)will[l] be hostile toward his brother, toward (AO)the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind, 55 so that he will not give any of them the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates. 56 The [m]tender and [n]delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and sensitivity, [o]will refuse to the husband of her bosom, and to her son and her daughter, 57 her [p]placenta which comes out (AP)from between her feet and her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates.
58 “If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear (AQ)this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, 59 then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants (AR)extraordinary plagues—great and prolonged plagues—and serious and prolonged sicknesses. 60 Moreover He will bring back on you all (AS)the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. 61 Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the Lord bring upon you until you are destroyed. 62 You (AT)shall be left few in number, whereas you were (AU)as the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God. 63 And it shall be, that just as the Lord (AV)rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the Lord (AW)will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be (AX)plucked[q] from off the land which you go to possess.
64 “Then the Lord (AY)will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and (AZ)there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known—wood and stone. 65 And (BA)among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; (BB)but there the Lord will give you a [r]trembling heart, failing eyes, and (BC)anguish of soul. 66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life. 67 (BD)In the morning you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were morning!’ because of the fear which terrifies your heart, and (BE)because of the sight which your eyes see.
68 “And the Lord (BF)will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, (BG)‘You shall never see it again.’ And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
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- Deuteronomy 28:18 offspring
- Deuteronomy 28:21 pestilence
- Deuteronomy 28:22 blight
- Deuteronomy 28:25 a terror
- Deuteronomy 28:32 nothing you can do
- Deuteronomy 28:37 a thing of horror
- Deuteronomy 28:38 devour
- Deuteronomy 28:42 possess
- Deuteronomy 28:45 did not listen to
- Deuteronomy 28:53 offspring
- Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit. tender
- Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit. his eye shall be evil toward
- Deuteronomy 28:56 sensitive
- Deuteronomy 28:56 refined
- Deuteronomy 28:56 Lit. her eye shall be evil toward
- Deuteronomy 28:57 afterbirth
- Deuteronomy 28:63 torn
- Deuteronomy 28:65 anxious
Haggai 2:16-17
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16 since those days, (A)when one came to a heap of twenty ephahs, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty baths from the press, there were but twenty. 17 (B)I struck you with blight and mildew and hail (C)in all the labors of your hands; (D)yet you did not turn to Me,’ says the Lord.
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Haggai 1:9
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9 (A)“You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, (B)I blew it away. Why?” says the Lord of hosts. “Because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house.
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Haggai 1:6
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6 “You have (A)sown much, and bring in little;
You eat, but do not have enough;
You drink, but you are not filled with drink;
You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm;
And (B)he who earns wages,
Earns wages to put into a bag with holes.”
Hosea 9:11-14
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11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!
12 Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them to the last man.
Yes, (A)woe to them when I depart from them!
13 Just (B)as I saw Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place,
So Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.”
14 Give them, O Lord—
What will You give?
Give them (C)a miscarrying womb
And dry breasts!
Hosea 4:7-10
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7 “The more they increased,
The more they sinned against Me;
(A)I[a] will change [b]their glory into shame.
8 They eat up the sin of My people;
They set their [c]heart on their iniquity.
9 And it shall be: (B)like people, like priest.
So I will punish them for their ways,
And [d]reward them for their deeds.
10 For (C)they shall eat, but not have enough;
They shall commit harlotry, but not increase;
Because they have ceased obeying the Lord.
Jeremiah 34:17
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17 “Therefore thus says the Lord: ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and every one to his neighbor. (A)Behold, I proclaim liberty to you,’ says the Lord—(B)‘to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine! And I will deliver you to (C)trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Jeremiah 13:16-17
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16 (A)Give glory to the Lord your God
Before He causes (B)darkness,
And before your feet stumble
On the dark mountains,
And while you are (C)looking for light,
He turns it into (D)the shadow of death
And makes it dense darkness.
17 But if you will not hear it,
My soul will (E)weep in secret for your pride;
My eyes will weep bitterly
And run down with tears,
Because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.
Jeremiah 6:16-20
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16 Thus says the Lord:
“Stand in the ways and see,
And ask for the (A)old paths, where the good way is,
And walk in it;
Then you will find (B)rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
17 Also, I set (C)watchmen over you, saying,
(D)‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’
But they said, ‘We will not listen.’
18 Therefore hear, you nations,
And know, O congregation, what is among them.
19 (E)Hear, O earth!
Behold, I will certainly bring (F)calamity on this people—
(G)The fruit of their thoughts,
Because they have not heeded My words
Nor My law, but rejected it.
20 (H)For what purpose to Me
Comes frankincense (I)from Sheba,
And (J)sweet cane from a far country?
(K)Your burnt offerings are not acceptable,
Nor your sacrifices sweet to Me.”
Isaiah 57:11
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11 “And (A)of whom have you been afraid, or feared,
That you have lied
And not remembered Me,
Nor taken it to your heart?
Is it not because (B)I have [a]held My peace from of old
That you do not fear Me?
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- Isaiah 57:11 remained silent
Isaiah 47:7
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7 And you said, ‘I shall be (A)a lady forever,’
So that you did not (B)take these things to heart,
(C)Nor remember the latter end of them.
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