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You shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and cut down their sacred poles
then hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.
Their children will seek the favor of the poor, and their hands will give back their wealth.
their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
They will come with dread when their sins are reckoned up, and their lawless deeds will convict them to their face.
they will serve their parents as their masters.
The assembly declares their wisdom, and the congregation proclaims their praise.
They shall never again defile themselves with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all the apostasies into which they have fallen, and will cleanse them. Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
For this people's heart has grown dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; so that they might not look with their eyes, and listen with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn-- and I would heal them.'
All people, even their torturers, marveled at their courage and endurance, and they became the cause of the downfall of tyranny over their nation. By their endurance they conquered the tyrant, and thus their native land was purified through them.
For this people's heart has grown dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; so that they might not look with their eyes, and listen with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn-- and I would heal them.'
Then he went down into the plain of Damascus during the wheat harvest, and burned all their fields and destroyed their flocks and herds and sacked their towns and ravaged their lands and put all their young men to the sword.
They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed.
You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.
He surrounded all the Midianites, and burned their tents and plundered their sheepfolds.
And all Israel cried out mightily, for their death was before their eyes.
Better are those who hide their folly than those who hide their wisdom.
Their bodies are buried in peace, but their name lives on generation after generation.
Then they petitioned the king, asking for dismissal to their homes.