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Jeremiah 44:8

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in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to live, that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

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Verse 8. Gods. Their blindness and malice was inconceivable. They attribute their past miseries to the neglect of worshipping the moon! verse 18. They may be compared to a mixture of iron and brass, which is put through the crucible in vain. Calmet. 6:29. Ezekiel 22:18.

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