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“Her people never seem to recognize that I am watching them. Their sinful deeds give them away on every side; I see them all. The king is glad about their wickedness; the princes laugh about their lies. They are all adulterers; as a baker’s oven is constantly aflame—except after he kneads the dough and waits for it to rise again—so are these people constantly aflame with lust.

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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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