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saying: Turn back, each from his evil way and from your evil practices, and you shall dwell upon the land which I gave to you and to your fathers from of old and forever.
Do not go after other gods to serve them and to do obeisance to them, so that you do not provoke me to anger by the works of your hands, to your own hurt.
behold, I am sending and will take the family from the north, and I will bring them against this land and against those dwelling in it and against all the nations round about it; and I will utterly lay them waste, and I will make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting reproach.
And I will destroy from among them the sound of joy and the sound of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the fragrance of perfume and the light of the lamp.
And I will bring upon Ailam four winds from the four ends of heaven, and I will scatter them among all these winds, and there shall be no nation to which the outcasts of Ailam shall not come.
And I will terrify them before their enemies who seek their life, and I will bring evils upon them according to the anger of my fury; and I will send my sword after them until I have consumed them.