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18 Why do you go to Egypt
    to drink water from the Nile River?
Why do you go to Assyria
    to drink from the Euphrates River?
19 You will be punished because you have sinned.
    You will be corrected for turning away from me.
I am the Lord your God.
    If you desert me, bad things will happen to you.
If you do not respect me, you will suffer bitterly.
    I want you to understand that,”
    announces the Lord who rules over all.

20 “Long ago you broke off the yoke I put on you.
    You tore off the ropes I tied you up with.
    You said, ‘I won’t serve you!’
In fact, on every high hill
    you lay down like a prostitute.
    You worshiped other gods under every green tree.

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