Because they have done shame in Israel, and have taken their neighbours' wives, and in my name have said false words, which I did not give them orders to say; and I myself am the witness, says the Lord.

But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.

And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

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The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.

Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.

When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple.

But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth be quiet before him.

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O earth, earth, earth, give ear to the word of the Lord!