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III] :But the unjust knoweth no shame.
 * I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate;
 * I made their streets waste, that none passeth by:
 * Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
 * I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction;
 * So their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them:
 * But they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.


 * Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the Lord,
 * Until the day that I rise up to the prey:
 * For my determination is to gather the nations,
 * That I may assemble the kingdoms,
 * To pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger:
 * For all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
 * For then will I turn to the people a pure language,
 * That they may all call upon the name of the Lord,
 * To serve him with one consent.
 * From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia
 * My suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.
 * In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings,
 * Wherein thou hast transgressed against me: