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Everyone breaks promises
    made in my name.”

I answered, “I know
    that you look for truth.
You punished your people
    for their lies,
but in spite of the pain,
    they became more stubborn
and refused to turn back
    to you.”
Then I thought to myself,
“These common people
    act like fools,
and they have never learned
what the Lord their God
    demands of them.

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Although they say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’(A)
    still they are swearing falsely.(B)

Lord, do not your eyes(C) look for truth?
    You struck(D) them, but they felt no pain;
    you crushed them, but they refused correction.(E)
They made their faces harder than stone(F)
    and refused to repent.(G)
I thought, “These are only the poor;
    they are foolish,(H)
for they do not know(I) the way of the Lord,
    the requirements of their God.

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