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And the slaughter being ended I was left: and I fell upon my face, and crying, I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, wilt thou then destroy all the remnant of Israel, by pouring out thy fury upon Jerusalem?

And he said to me: The iniquity of the house of Israel, and of Juda, is exceeding great, and the land is filled with blood, and the city is filled with perverseness: for they have said: The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.

10 Therefore neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have pity: I will requite their way upon their head.

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While they were killing and I was left alone, I fell facedown,(A) crying out, “Alas, Sovereign Lord!(B) Are you going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel in this outpouring of your wrath(C) on Jerusalem?(D)

He answered me, “The sin of the people of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of injustice.(E) They say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land; the Lord does not see.’(F) 10 So I will not look on them with pity(G) or spare them, but I will bring down on their own heads what they have done.(H)

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