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     28 Heaven and earth are witnesses against you, and so is our God, the Lord of our ancestors, who is punishing us for their sins as well as ours. We can only hope and pray that he will not let these terrible things happen to us today.
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29 Everyone there began to weep loudly and to pray to the Lord their God. 30 Then Uzziah said to them,

Don't give up, my friends! Let's wait five more days to see if the Lord our God will be merciful to us. Surely he will not abandon us completely.

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  1. Judith 7:28 We can...today; some Greek manuscripts and ancient translations have We demand that you surrender, as we have asked you to do today.

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