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II] :For Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved,
 * And hath married the daughter of a strange god.
 * The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar,
 * Out of the tabernacles of Jacob,
 * And him that offereth an offering unto the Lord of hosts.
 * And this have ye done again,
 * Covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out,
 * Insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more,
 * Or receiveth it with good will at your hand.
 * Yet ye say, Wherefore?
 * Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth,
 * Against whom thou hast dealt treacherously:
 * Yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
 * And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit.
 * And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed.
 * Therefore take heed to your spirit,
 * And let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
 * For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away:
 * For one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: