10 “For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
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11 For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will echo it from the woodwork. 12 Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity! 13 Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire,…
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Proverbs 21:6–8
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