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This is what the Lord
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When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,
"O Lord
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!"
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The
"It shall not be," said the
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This is what the Lord
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Then I said,
"O Lord
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!"
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The
"This also shall not be," said the Lord
7 This is what he showed me: the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
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And the
"See, I am setting a plumb line
in the midst of my people Israel;
I will never again pass them by;
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the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate,
and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste,
and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword."