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29 You need to be punished,
    and so I will take revenge.
30 Look at the terrible things
going on in this country.
    I am shocked!
31 Prophets give their messages
    in the name of a false god,[a]
my priests don't want
    to serve me,[b]
and you—my own people—
    like it this way!
But on the day of disaster,
    where will you turn for help?

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Footnotes

  1. 5.31 give … god: Or “tell lies.”
  2. 5.31 don't … me: Or “don't care what I want.”

29 Should I not punish them for this?”
    declares the Lord.
“Should I not avenge(A) myself
    on such a nation as this?

30 “A horrible(B) and shocking thing
    has happened in the land:
31 The prophets prophesy lies,(C)
    the priests(D) rule by their own authority,
and my people love it this way.
    But what will you do in the end?(E)

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