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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Jeremiah 13: 21 What wilt thou say, when He shall set the friends over thee as head, whom thou thyself hast trained against thee? Shall not pangs take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?
Jeremiah 13: 22 And if thou say in thy heart: 'Wherefore are these things befallen me?' --for the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, and thy heels suffer violence.
Jeremiah 13: 23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Jeremiah 13: 24 Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
Jeremiah 13: 25 This is thy lot, the portion measured unto thee from Me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten Me, and trusted in falsehood.
Jeremiah 13: 26 Therefore will I also uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and thy shame shall appear.
Jeremiah 13: 27 Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy harlotry, on the hills in the field have I seen thy detestable acts. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! thou wilt not be made clean! When shall it ever be?
Jeremiah 14: 1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts.
Jeremiah 14: 2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they bow down in black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
Jeremiah 14: 3 And their nobles send their lads for water: they come to the pits, and find no water; their vessels return empty; they are ashamed and confounded, and cover their heads.
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