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“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses. They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife. Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

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Why should I forgive you?
    Your sons have forsaken me,
and you have sworn by those
    who aren’t gods.
When I gave them enough food to satisfy them,
    they committed adultery
    and marched to the prostitute’s house.
They were well-fed, lusty stallions,
    each one neighing after his neighbor’s wife.

“Should I not punish them for these things?”
    asks the Lord,
“And on a nation like this,
    should I not seek retribution?”

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