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The faithful

LAMENTATIONS.

no reft; let not the apple of thine eye ceafe. 19 Arife, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart fike water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

20 Behold, O LORD, and confider to whom thou hart done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a fpan long! thall the pricit and the prophet be flain in the fanctuary of the LORD?

21 The young and the old lie on the ground In the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the fword; thou hart flain them in the day of thine anger; thou hait killed, and not pitied.

22 Thou hast called as in a folemn day my terrors round about, fo that in the day of the LORD's anger none efcaped nor remained thofe that I have fwaddled and brought up hath mine enemy confumed.

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CHA P. IM.

The faithful bewail their calamities, &c. Am the man that hath feen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

4 My feh and my skin hath ne made old; he hath broken my bones.

5 He hath builded against me, and compaf. fed me with gall and travail.

6 He hath fet me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

7 He hath hedged me about, that i cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

8 Alfo when I cry and thout, he shutteth out my prayer.

9 He hata inclofed my ways with hewn ftone, he hath made my paths crooked.

10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in fecret places.

11 He hath turned afide my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me defolate. 12 He hath bent his bow, and fet me as a mark for the arrow.

13 He hath caufed the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

14 I was a deriñon to all my people; and their fong all the day.

15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

16 He hath alfo broken my teeth with gravel ftones, he hath covered me with athes 17 And thou haft removed my fouliar off from peace: I forgat profperity.

18 And I faid, My ftrength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

19 Remembering mine affliction and my mifery, the wormwood and the gall.

20 My foul hath them fill in remembrance,

and is humbled in me.

21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

22It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not confumed, because his compaffions fail

not.

23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

24 The LORD is my portion, faith my foul; therefore will I hope in him.

25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the foul that feeketh hial

bewail their calamities.

26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the falvation of the LORD. 27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

28 He fitteth alone and keepeth filence, becaufe he hath borne it upon him.

29 He putteth his mouth in the duft; if fo be there may be hope.

30 He giveth his cheek to him that fmiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

31 For the LORD will not cast off for ever: 32 But though he caufe grief, yet will he have compattion according to the multitude of his mercies.

33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

34 To crush under his feet all the prifoners of the earth,

35 To tura afide the right of a man before the face of the Moft High,

36 To fubvert a man in his caufe, the LORD arproveth not.

37 Who is he that faith, and it cometh to pais, when the LORD commandeth it not.

38 Out of the mouth of the moft High pro. ceedeth not evil and good?

39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his fins?

40 Let us fearch and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

41 Let us lift up our heart with our heads unto God in the heavens.

42 We have tranfgreffed, and have rebel. led: thou haft not pardoned.

43. Thou haft covered with anger, and perfe cuted us: thou haft flain, theu hail not pitied. 44 Thou hart covered thyfelf with a cloud, that our prayer thould not pafs through.

45 Thou haft made us as the of scouring and refufe in the midst of the people.

46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

47 Fear and a fhare is come upon us, defola tion and deftruction.

48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceafeth not, without any intermiffion.

50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.

51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

52 Mine enemies chafed me fore, like a bird, without caufe.

53 They have cut off my life in the dun geon, and caft a ftone upon me.

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54 Waters flowed over mine head; then faid, I am cut off.

55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

56 Thou haft heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

57 Thou dreweft near in the day that I cal led upon thee: thou faidat, Fear not.

58 O LORD, thou haft pleaded the causes of my foul; thou haft redeemed my life.

59 LORD, thou haft feen my wrong: judge thou my caufe.

60 Thou hatt feen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

61 Thow hatt heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;

62 The lips of thofe that rofe up against me, and their device against me all the day."

Zion's pitiful flate.

Chap. iv, v. 63 Behold their fitting down, and their rifing up; I am their mufick.

64 Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. 5 Give them forrow of heart, thy curfe

unto them.

66 Perfecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. CHAP. IV.

1 Zion's pitiful eftate bewailed: 13 he con feeth her fins. 21 Edom threatened. How is the gold changed: the flones of

OW is the gold become dim! bow is the

the fanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.

2 The precious fons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

3 Even the fea monsters draw out the breaft, they give fuck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the oftriches in the wilderness.

4 The tongue of the fucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirft: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

5 They that did feed delicately are defoLate in the streets; they that were brought

up in fcarlet embrace dunghills.

6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the fin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands ftayed on her.

7 Her Nazarites were purer than fnow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of fapphire:

8 Their vifage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the freets: their kin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

9 They that be flain with the sword are better than they that be flain with hunger: for thefe pine away, ftricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

10 The hands of the pitiful women have fodden their own children, they were their meat in the deftruction of the daughter of my people.

I The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adverfary and the enemy fhould have entered into the gates of Jerufalem.

13 For the fins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priefts, that have the the blood of the juft in the midft of her.

14 They have wandered as bling men in the treets, they have polluted themselves with blood, fo that men could not touch their garments.

15 They cried unto them, Dept ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they filed away and wandered, they faid among the heathen, They shall no more fo journ there.

16 The anger of the LORD hath divided

Her complaint to God. them; he will no more regard them: they refpected not the perfons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.

17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not fave us.

18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our frects: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

19 Our perfecutors are fwifter than the eagles of the heaven: they purfued us upon wilderness. the mountains, they laid wait for us in the

20 The breath of our noftrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we faid, Under his fhadow we shall live among the heathen.

21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwelleft in the land of Uz; the cup alfo fhall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and fhalt make thyself naked.

22 The punishment of thine iniquity is ac. complished, O daughter of Zion he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will vifit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will difcover thy fins.

CHAP. V.

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2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houfes to aliens.

3 We are orphans and fatherlefs, our mothers are as widows.

4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is fold unto us.

5 Our necks are under perfecution: we labour, and have no rett.

6 We have given the hand to the Egypti ans, and to the Affyrians, to be fatisfied with bread.

7 Our fathers have finned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. 10 Our ikin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

13 They took the young men to grind, and the children tell under the wood.

14 The elders have ceafed from the gate, the young men from their mufick.

15 The joy of our heart is ceafed; our dance is turned into mourning.

16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us that we have finned!

17 For this our heart is faint; for thefe things our eyes are dim.

18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is defolate, the foxes walk upon it.

19 Thou, O LORD, remaineft for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

20 Wherefore doft thou forget us for ever, and forfake us fo long time!

21 Turn thou us to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. 22 But thou haft utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth againt us.

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The Book of the Prophet EZEKIEL.

CHAP. I.

The time of Ezekiel's prophecy: 4 his vifion of four cherubims, 15 of the four wheels, 26 and of the glory of God.

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COW it came to pafs in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I faw vifions of God.

2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's cap. tivity,

3 The word of the LORD came exprefsly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.

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And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itfelf, and a brightnefs was about it, and out of the midft thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire. 5 Alfo out of the midft thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness

of a man.

6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

7 And their feet were straight feet; and the fole of their feet was like the fole of a calf's foot and they fparkled like the colour of burnished brass.

8 And they hat the hands of a man under their wings on their four fides; and they four had their faces and their wings.

Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went Every one ftraight forward.

10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right fide; and they four had the face of an ox on the left fide; they four alfo had the face of an eagle.

11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were ftretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

12 And they went every one ftraight forward: whither the spirit was to go they went; and they turned not when they went."

13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the liv.

19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the liv ing ereatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

20 Whitherfoever the fpirit was to go they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the fpirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

21 When thofe went, thefe went; and when those food, thefe ftood; and when thofe were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the fpirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.

23 And under the firmament were their wings traight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this fide, and every one had two, which covered on that fide, their bodies.

24 And when they went I heard the noife of their wings, like the noife of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of fpeech as the noife of an hoft: when they flood they let down their wings.

25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they food, and had let down their wings.

26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne as the appearance of a fapphire ftone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the like nefs as the appearance of a man above upon it.

27 And I faw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I faw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.

28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, fo was the appearance of the brightnefs round about, This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

CHA P. II.

1 Ezekiel's commission: 6 bis inftructions: 9 the roll of his heavy prophecy.

ing creatures; and the fire was bright, and AND he faid unto me, son of man, and

out of the fire went forth lightning.

14 And the living creatures ran and re. turned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, berold, one wheel upon the earth by the liv ing creatures, with his four faces.

16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likenel's: and their appearance and their work quas as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

17 When they went, they went upon their four fides: and they returned not when they

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2 And the fpirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and fet me upon my feet, that I heard him that (pake unto me.

3 And he faid unto me, Son of man, I fend thee to the children of Ifrael, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me, they and their fathers have tranfgreffed against me, even unto this very day.

4 For they are impudent children, and ftiff. hearted: do fend thee unto them; and thou fhalt fay unto them, Thus faith the Lord God.

And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious houfe) yet fhall know that there hath been a prophet among them.

The roll of prophecy.

Chap. ill. iv.

6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou doft dwell among fcorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

And thou shalt fpeak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.

8 But thou, fon of man, hear what I fay untothee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious houfe: open thy mouth, and cat that 1 give thee.

9And when I looked, behold, an hand was fent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;

To And he fpread it before me and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

CHA P. III.

1 Ezekiel eateth the roll: 15 God beweth bim the rule of prophesy, 22 and butteth and openeth the prophet's mouth.

Moreover he faid unto me, son of man, cat that thou findeft; eat this roll, and go fpeak unto the house of Ifrael.

2 So I opened my mouth, and he caufed me to eat that roll.

3 And he faid unto me, Son of man, caufe thy belly to eat and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

4 And he faid unto me, Son of man, go get thee unto the houfe of Ifrael, and fpeak with my words unto them.

5 For thou art not fent to a people of a Atrange fpeech and of an hard language, but to the house of Ifrael:

6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whofe words thou canst not understand. Surely had I fent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.

7 But the houfe of Ifrael will not hearken unto thee for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Ifrael are impudent

and hardhearted.

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11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and fpeak unto them, and tell them, Thus faith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they willforbear.

12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, faying, Bieffed be the glory of the LORD from his place.

13 I heard alfo the noife of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noife of the wheels over against them, and a noife of a great rufhing.

14 So the fpirit lifted me up, and took me Away, and I went in bitteraels, in the heat

Ezekiel eateth the roll. of my fpirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.

15 Then I came to them of the capti vity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I fat where they fat, and remained there aftonished among them feven days.

16 And it came to pass at the end of feven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, faying,

17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Ifrael: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

18 When I fay unto the wicked, Thou shalt furely die; and thou giveft him not warning, nor fpeakeft to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to fave his life; the fame wick ed man fhall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand..

19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickednefs, nor from his wick ed way, he thall die in his iniquity; but thou haft delivered thy foul.

20 Again, when a righteous man doth turn

from his righteousness, and commit iniquity and I lay a tumblingblock before him he shall die: because thou haft not given him warning, he fhall die in his fin, and his righteouf nefs which he hath done fhall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous fin not, and he doth not fin, he thall furcly live, because he is warned; alfo thou haff delivered thy foul,

22 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he faid unto me; Arife, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with

thee.

23 Then I arofe, and went forth into the plain; and, wehold, the glory of the LORD food there, as the glory which 1faw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.

24 Then the spirit entered into me, and fet me upon my feet, and fpake with me, and faid unto me, Go, fhut thyfelf within thine houfe.

25 But thou, O fon of man, behold, they fhall put bands upon thee, and thall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them.

26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.

27 But when I fpeak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt fay unto them, Thus faith the Lord Gon; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house. CHAP. IV.

By the type of a fiege is feerved the time from Fereboam's defection to the captivity. THOU alfo, fon of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerufalem:

2 And lay fiege against it, and build a fort against it, and caft a mount against it; fet the camp alfo against it, and fet battering rams against it round about.

3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and fet it for a wall of iron between thee and the city; and fet thy face against it, and it shall be befieged, and thou that

The type of a fiege,

EZEKIEL. lay fiege against it. This ball be a ngn to the houfe of Ifrael.

4 Lie thou alfo upon thy left fide, and lay the iniquity of the hoafe of Ifrael upon it: according to the number of the day's that thou malt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.

5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: fo fhalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Ifrael.

6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right fide, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the houfe of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a

year.

7 Therefore thou shalt fet thy face toward the siege of Jerufalem, and thine arm all be uncovered, and thou shalt prophefy against it. 8 And behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one fide tc another, till thou haft ended the days of thy flege.

9 Take thou alfo unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one veffel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy fide: three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

10 An hy meat which thou shalt eat fall be by weight, twenty thekels a day: from time to time fhalt thou eat it.

I Thou shalt drink alfo water by measure, the fixth part of an hin: from time to time thalt thou drink.

12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that com eth out of man, in their fight.

13 And the LORD faid, Even thus fhall the children of Ifrael eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.

14 Then faid I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my foul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up, even till now, have I not eaten of that which dieth of itfelf, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable fleth into my mouth.

15 Then he faid unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thon falt prepare thy bread therewith.

16 Moreover he faid unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the ftaff of bread in Jeru falem, and they fhall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with aftonishment:

17 That they may want bread and water, and be aftonied one with another, and confume away for their iniquity.

CHAP. V.

Under the type of hair, 5 is fhewed the judgment of ferufalem for their rebellion, 12 by famine, fword, and difperfion.

AND thou fon of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and caufe it to pafs upon thine head, and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh and divide the hair.

2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midft of the city, when the days of the fiege are fulfilled and thou fhalt take a third part and fmite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.

and the type of hair. 3 Thou fhalt alfo take thereof a few in num ber, and bind them in thy skirts.

4 Then take of them again, and caft them into the midft of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof thall a tire come forth in to all the house of Ifrael.

5¶This faith the Lord Gon; This is Je rufalem: I have fet it in the midft of the nations and countries that are round about her. 6 And the hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my ftatutes more than the countries that an round about her: for they have rufufed my judgments and my ftatutes, they have not walked in them.

7 Therefore thus faith the Lord God; Be caufe ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walk ed in my ftatutes, neither have kept my judg ments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;

8 Therefore thus faith the Lord Gop; Behold 1, even 1, am against thee, and will ex ecute judgments in the midft of thee, in the fight of the nations.

9 And 1 will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like; because of all thine abomina.

tions.

10 Therefore the fathers fhall eat the fons in the midft of thee, and the fons fhall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I fcatter into all the winds.

11 Wherefore, as I live, faith the Lord GoD; Surely, becaufe thou haft defiled my fanctuary with all thy deteftable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will alfo diminish thee; neither fhall mine eye fpare, neither will I have any pity.

12A third part of thee ihall die with the peftilence, and with famine fhall they be con fumed in the midst of thee: and a third part fhall fall by the fword round about thee; and I will fcatter a third part into all the winds; and I will draw out a fword after them.

13 Thus fhall mine anger be accomplished, and I will caufe my fury to reit upon them, and I will be comforted: and they fhall know that I the Lord have spoken if in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.

14 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the fight of all that pafs by.

15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an inftruction and an aftonishment unto the na tions that are round about thee, when I fhall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury, and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.

16 When I shall fend upon them the evil

arroirs of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will fend to deftroy. you: and I will increafe the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread.

17 So will I fend upon you famine, and evil beafts, and they thall bereave thee; and peftilence and blood fhall pass through thee; and I will bring the fword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it

CHAP. VI.

The judgment of Ifrael for beir idolatry

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