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18 What then do you gain by going to Egypt,
    to drink the waters of the Nile?
Or what do you gain by going to Assyria,
    to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
19 Your wickedness will punish you,
    and your apostasies will convict you.
Know and see that it is evil and bitter
    for you to forsake the Lord your God;
    the fear of me is not in you,
says the Lord God of hosts.

20 For long ago you broke your yoke
    and burst your bonds,
    and you said, ‘I will not serve!’
On every high hill
    and under every green tree
    you sprawled and played the whore.

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