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The Lord warns his people

48 Listen to this, family of Jacob. You are called ‘Israel’, and you are Judah's descendants.[a] You use the name of the Lord when you make promises. You pray to Israel's God. But you do not do those things honestly and fairly. Your people are proud to say that they live in the holy city. They trust in Israel's God, whose name is the Lord Almighty.

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Footnotes

  1. 48:1 Jacob was the ancestor of the Israelite people. God gave to him the new name ‘Israel’. Judah was one of Jacob's 12 sons.