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Isaiah 31:1

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to them: Isaiah 30:1-7, Isaiah 36:6, Isaiah 57:9; Ezekiel 17:15; Hosea 11:5

stay on horses: Isaiah 30:16, Isaiah 36:9; Deuteronomy 17:16; Psalms 20:7, Psalms 33:16-17, the look, Isaiah 5:12, Isaiah 17:7-8, Isaiah 22:11; 2 Chronicles 16:7; Jeremiah 2:13, Jeremiah 17:5; Hosea 14:3

neither: Isaiah 9:13, Isaiah 64:7; Daniel 9:13; Hosea 7:7, Hosea 7:13-16; Amos 5:4-8

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