In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
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The nation had not been wrought upon by the judgements of God, but sought to justify themselves. The world is, to those who make it their home and their portion, a wilderness and a land of darkness; but those who dwell in God, have the lines fallen to them in pleasant places.