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5-6 So they are useless both before and after being put in the fire!

“This is what I mean,” the Lord God says: “The people of Jerusalem are like the vines of the forest—useless before being burned and certainly useless afterwards! And I will set myself against them to see to it that if they escape from one fire, they will fall into another; and then you shall know I am the Lord. And I will make the land desolate because they worship idols,” says the Lord God.

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“Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: As I have given the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest as fuel for the fire, so will I treat the people living in Jerusalem. I will set my face against(A) them. Although they have come out of the fire(B), the fire will yet consume them. And when I set my face against them, you will know that I am the Lord.(C) I will make the land desolate(D) because they have been unfaithful,(E) declares the Sovereign Lord.”

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