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11     I took some of your children and raised them up as prophets,
        and I called some of your youth to be Nazirites, set aside to My service.
    Isn’t this true, people of Israel?

God’s very own people are forcing those who have dedicated their service to Him to abandon their calling. Here He renders His judgment on them.

So says the Eternal.

12 Eternal One: But you made the Nazirites break their vows and drink wine.
        You told the prophets, “Don’t you dare prophesy!”

13     I will press you down beneath your enemies, just as a wagon full of fresh grain creaks
        and groans beneath its own weight.

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