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At night they go out among the graves,
    worshiping the dead.
They eat the flesh of pigs
    and make stews with other forbidden foods.
Yet they say to each other,
    ‘Don’t come too close or you will defile me!
    I am holier than you!’
These people are a stench in my nostrils,
    an acrid smell that never goes away.

“Look, my decree is written out[a] in front of me:
    I will not stand silent;
I will repay them in full!
    Yes, I will repay them—

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Footnotes

  1. 65:6 Or their sins are written out; Hebrew reads it stands written.

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