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Therefore great wrath came from the LORD of hosts. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/zechariah/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said the LORD of hosts; <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/zechariah/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>"but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate."<p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. 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