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19 Your wickedness will punish you,
    and your apostasies will convict you.
Know and see that it is evil and bitter
    for you to forsake the Lord your God;
    the fear of me is not in you,
says the Lord God of hosts.

20 For long ago you broke your yoke
    and burst your bonds,
    and you said, ‘I will not serve!’
On every high hill
    and under every green tree
    you sprawled and played the whore.
21 Yet I planted you as a choice vine,
    from the purest stock.
How then did you turn degenerate
    and become a wild vine?

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19 Your wickedness will punish you;
    your backsliding(A) will rebuke(B) you.
Consider then and realize
    how evil and bitter(C) it is for you
when you forsake(D) the Lord your God
    and have no awe(E) of me,”
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

20 “Long ago you broke off your yoke(F)
    and tore off your bonds;(G)
    you said, ‘I will not serve you!’(H)
Indeed, on every high hill(I)
    and under every spreading tree(J)
    you lay down as a prostitute.(K)
21 I had planted(L) you like a choice vine(M)
    of sound and reliable stock.
How then did you turn against me
    into a corrupt,(N) wild vine?

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