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"The man who is right and good dies, and no one cares. Very good men are taken away, while no one understands. But the man who is right with God is taken away from what is sinful,

But come here, you sons of a witch, children of a man who does sex sins and a woman who sells the use of her body.

I will make known how right you are and what you have done, but it will not help you.

When you cry out, let the false gods that you have take you out of trouble. The wind will carry them away. A breath will take them away. But he who comes to Me to be safe will receive the land. My holy mountain will be his."

But the sinful are like the troubled sea, for it cannot rest. Its waters throw up mud and dirt.

But your wrong-doings have kept you away from your God. Your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.

So what is right and fair is far from us. What is right and good does not come to us. We hope for light, but see darkness. We hope for bright light, but we walk in the dark.

All of us make noise like bears, and cry inside ourselves like doves. We hope for what is right and fair, but it is not there. We hope to be saved, but it is far from us.

For see, darkness will cover the earth. Much darkness will cover the people. But the Lord will rise upon you, and His shining-greatness will be seen upon you.

"People from strange lands will build up your walls, and their kings will help you. For I destroyed you in My anger, but in My favor I have had loving-pity on you.

"You have been left and hated, with no one passing through. But I will make you a pride forever, a joy for all your children's children.

No more will the sun be your light during the day, and the moon during the night. But the Lord will be your light forever and your God will be your shining-greatness.

But you will be called the religious leaders of the Lord. Men will speak of you as servants of our God. You will eat the riches of the nations, and in their riches you will speak with pride.

You will no longer be called "Left Alone." Your land will no longer be called "Forgotten." But you will be called "My joy is in her," and your land "Married." For the Lord finds joy in you, and to Him your land will be married.

But those who have worked on it will eat it and praise the Lord. And those who gather it will drink it in the open spaces inside My holy house."

But they turned against Him and made His Holy Spirit have sorrow. So He turned Himself and hated them, and fought against them.

Your holy people kept Your holy house for a little while. But those who hate us have broken it under their feet.

But now, O Lord, You are our Father. We are the clay, and You are our pot maker. All of us are the work of Your hand.

See, it is written before Me: ‘I will not keep quiet, but I will pay them back. I will pay them back into their breast,

But you who turn away from the Lord, who forget My holy mountain, who set a table for the false god, Gad, and who fill cups of mixed wine for the false female goddess, Meni,