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And I will come near unto you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against false swearers and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, said the LORD of the hosts.

For I am the LORD, I have not changed; therefore, ye sons of Jacob have not been consumed.

¶ Even from the days of your fathers, ye had departed from my ordinances and had never kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, said the LORD of the hosts. But ye said, In what shall we return?

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“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers,(A) adulterers(B) and perjurers,(C) against those who defraud laborers of their wages,(D) who oppress the widows(E) and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners(F) among you of justice, but do not fear(G) me,” says the Lord Almighty.

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“I the Lord do not change.(H) So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.(I) Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away(J) from my decrees and have not kept them. Return(K) to me, and I will return to you,”(L) says the Lord Almighty.

“But you ask,(M) ‘How are we to return?’

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