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They make promises and they say,
    “I will do it, as surely as the Lord lives.”
But what they say is all lies.’

Lord, you want people to be honest and true.
You have punished your people,
    but they did not feel any pain.
You nearly destroyed them,
    but they still refuse to change.
Their minds have become as hard as rock.
    They refuse to turn back to you.
I thought, ‘These are poor, foolish people.
They do not understand what the Lord wants them to do.
    They do not know his commands.

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Although they say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’(A)
    still they are swearing falsely.(B)

Lord, do not your eyes(C) look for truth?
    You struck(D) them, but they felt no pain;
    you crushed them, but they refused correction.(E)
They made their faces harder than stone(F)
    and refused to repent.(G)
I thought, “These are only the poor;
    they are foolish,(H)
for they do not know(I) the way of the Lord,
    the requirements of their God.

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