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17 I never sat with the crowd
    as they laughed and had fun.
I sat by myself because you were there.
    You filled me with anger at the evil around me.
18 I don’t understand why my pain has no end.
    I don’t understand why my injury is not cured or healed!
Lord, will you be like a brook that goes dry?
    Will you be like a spring whose water stops flowing?

19 So this is what the Lord says:

“If you change your heart and come back to me, I will take you back.
    Then you may serve me.
You must speak things that have worth.
    You must not speak useless words.
    Then you may speak for me.
Let the people of Judah turn to you.
    But you must not change and be like them.

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