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In this way will the guilt of Jacob be expiated
    and the full fruit of renouncing his sin will occur,
when he crushes all the altar stones to pieces
    like lumps of chalk,
    and no sacred poles and incense altars
    will remain standing.
10 For the fortified city will be abandoned,
    a deserted pasture, a forsaken wilderness;
the calves will graze and lie down there,
    destroying its branches.
11 When its boughs grow dry and snap off,
    women will come and use them for firewood.
For this is a people that lacks understanding;
    therefore their Maker will not have compassion for them;
    he who formed them will not show mercy toward them.

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