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They make promises and they say,
    “I will do it, as surely as the Lord lives.”
But what they say is all lies.’

Lord, you want people to be honest and true.
You have punished your people,
    but they did not feel any pain.
You nearly destroyed them,
    but they still refuse to change.
Their minds have become as hard as rock.
    They refuse to turn back to you.
I thought, ‘These are poor, foolish people.
They do not understand what the Lord wants them to do.
    They do not know his commands.

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