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Rh :And sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.
 * For the statutes of Omri are kept,
 * And all the works of the house of Ahab,
 * And ye walk in their counsels;
 * That I should make thee a desolation,
 * And the inhabitants thereof an hissing:
 * Therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.


 * is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits,
 * As the grapegleanings of the vintage:
 * There is no cluster to eat:
 * My soul desired the firstripe fruit.
 * The good man is perished out of the earth:
 * And there is none upright among men:
 * They all lie in wait for blood;
 * They hunt every man his brother with a net.
 * That they may do evil with both hands earnestly,
 * The prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward;
 * And the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire:
 * So they wrap it up.
 * The best of them is as a brier:
 * The most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge:
 * The day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh;
 * Now shall be their perplexity.
 * Trust ye not in a friend,
 * Put ye not confidence in a guide: