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¹⁴ Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

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²⁸ For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

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²⁹ When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

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¹⁸ Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?

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⁵ They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

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⁷ Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

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¹¹ And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

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¹⁵ If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

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¹⁹ That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

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¹⁰ Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

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²³ How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

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⁴ And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

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¹² Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.

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¹⁴ Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

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¹⁷ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

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⁶ If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: