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25 Keep your feet from going unshod
    and your throat from thirst.
But you said, ‘It is hopeless,
    for I have loved strangers,
    and after them I will go.’

26 As a thief is shamed when caught,
    so the house of Israel shall be shamed—
they, their kings, their officials,
    their priests, and their prophets,
27 who say to a tree, ‘You are my father’,
    and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their backs to me,
    and not their faces.
But in the time of their trouble they say,
    ‘Come and save us!’

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