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10 Don't mistreat widows or orphans or foreigners or anyone who is poor, and stop making plans to hurt each other.”

11-12 But everyone who heard those prophets, stubbornly refused to obey. Instead, they turned their backs on everything my Spirit[a] had commanded the earlier prophets to preach. So I, the Lord, became angry

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  1. 7.11,12 my Spirit: Or “I.”

10 Do not oppress the widow(A) or the fatherless, the foreigner(B) or the poor.(C) Do not plot evil against each other.’(D)

11 “But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly(E) they turned their backs(F) and covered their ears.(G) 12 They made their hearts as hard as flint(H) and would not listen to the law or to the words that the Lord Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets.(I) So the Lord Almighty was very angry.(J)

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