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They don’t believe that I will remember their crimes.
    The bad things they did are all around.
    I can see their sins clearly.
Their evil makes their king happy.
    Their false gods please their leaders.
A baker presses dough to make bread.
    He puts the bread in the oven.
He does not make the fire hotter
    while the bread is rising.
But the people of Israel are not like that.
    They are always making their fire hotter.

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but they do not realize
    that I remember(A) all their evil deeds.(B)
Their sins engulf them;(C)
    they are always before me.

“They delight the king with their wickedness,
    the princes with their lies.(D)
They are all adulterers,(E)
    burning like an oven
whose fire the baker need not stir
    from the kneading of the dough till it rises.

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