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How can it be said, house of Jacob,
    “Is the Lord short of patience;
    are these the Lord’s deeds?”
Do not my words promise good
    to the one who walks in justice?
But you rise up against my people as an enemy:
    you have stripped off the garment from the peaceful,
From those who go their way in confidence,
    as though it were spoils of war.
The women of my people you drive out
    from their pleasant houses;
From their children you take away
    forever the honor I gave them.

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