I speak but you will not hear.
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I call but
you will not answer.
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I instruct
but you will not gain wisdom.
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I have
given you teachers and prophets, and you have beaten them and sent them away wounded.
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The truth
has fallen in the streets, while the people play drunkenly in graveyards filled
with rotting corpses.
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You love to
stroke yourselves with soothing words while you recline on soft beds.
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You delight
yourselves on that which is nothing and then approach into my altar with
unclean hands.
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If I am a
father, where is my respect? If I am a master, where is my fear?
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Am I a man
that you should despise my ways, and reject my instruction?
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Would you
take fire into your lap and not be burned by it?
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Your houses
are filled with all that I hate yet you dedicate them to me.
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You say we
are wise and have the law of the Almighty with us but you trust in that which
your hands have made and in that which was conceived in your own empty
imaginations.
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Tell me
now, you that walk in your own council, you that trust in your own knowledge
and discard the knowledge of the Most High, when destruction comes who shall be
able to stand without me?
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I have
ordained peace but you have delighted in war.
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Therefore understand
this, all that choose to take pleasure in the casting down of my afflicted, surely
as you have thought in your own heart it shall be measured back to you.
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According
to all that you have conceived, you shall reap the fruit thereof.
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Fear me only
and begin to gain understanding.
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