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19 Your own wickedness will correct you,
    and your backslidings will reprove you.
Know therefore and see
    that it is an evil thing and bitter for you
to have forsaken the Lord your God,
    and the fear of Me is not in you,
    says the Lord God of Hosts.

20 For long ago I have broken your yoke
    and burst your bonds;
    and you said, “I will not serve.”
For upon every high hill
    and under every green tree
    you wander, playing the harlot.
21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine,
    a wholly faithful seed.
How then have you turned
    into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to Me?

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19 Your wickedness will punish you;
    your backsliding(A) will rebuke(B) you.
Consider then and realize
    how evil and bitter(C) it is for you
when you forsake(D) the Lord your God
    and have no awe(E) of me,”
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

20 “Long ago you broke off your yoke(F)
    and tore off your bonds;(G)
    you said, ‘I will not serve you!’(H)
Indeed, on every high hill(I)
    and under every spreading tree(J)
    you lay down as a prostitute.(K)
21 I had planted(L) you like a choice vine(M)
    of sound and reliable stock.
How then did you turn against me
    into a corrupt,(N) wild vine?

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