<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> continued,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;In every town in the land I will purge themp> <p class="poetry">like straw blown away by the wind.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will destroy my people.p> <p class="poetry">I will kill off their children.p> <p class="poetry">I will do so because they did not change their behavior.<n id="3" />p>

if my people, who belong to me,<n id="1" /> humble themselves, pray, seek to please me,<n id="2" /> and repudiate their sinful practices,<n id="3" /> then I will respond<n id="4" /> from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.<n id="5" />