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21 I did not send those prophets.
    But they have still run to speak to you.
I did not tell them what to say,
    but they have continued to prophesy.
22 If they had really met with me,
    they would have spoken my message to my people.
They would have caused my people to turn away from their wicked way of life.
    They would have stopped my people doing evil things.’
23 The Lord says, ‘Am I a God in only one place?
    No! I see everything everywhere!

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21 I did not send(A) these prophets,
    yet they have run with their message;
I did not speak to them,
    yet they have prophesied.
22 But if they had stood in my council,(B)
    they would have proclaimed(C) my words to my people
and would have turned(D) them from their evil ways
    and from their evil deeds.(E)

23 “Am I only a God nearby,(F)
declares the Lord,
    “and not a God far away?

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