The Purpose of Israel's Chastisement
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Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them?
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In measure, when thou sendest them away, thou dost contend with them; he hath removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
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Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.
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For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
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When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
Bible text: American Standard Version (1901) · Public domain