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* PayEvilUntoEvil: God implies this in Jeremiah 49:12 (New Living Translation):

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* PayEvilUntoEvil: God implies this in Jeremiah 49:12 (New Living Translation):Translation) when speaking to Edom:
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* OutDamnedSpot: Versed as God's condemnation of Israel's behavior, in Jeremiah 2:22:
-->"For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, Yet your iniquity is marked before Me."
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** Lamentations 3:61-66 has Jeremiah (speaking for his people Jerusalem) praying this against his enemies.

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** Lamentations 1:22 and 3:61-66 has Jeremiah (speaking for his people Jerusalem) praying this against his enemies.
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Lamentations DOES NOT outrightly say that the people of Israel caught an STI, it only hints at the possibility of one


* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: Lamentations mentions a sexually-transmitted disease, resulting from carousing with prostitutes and other types of illicit sex. (That could have been avoided, or at least not been an epidemic, if they played by the rules.) It's not mentioned what STI it is, but the symptoms ''do'' read an awful lot like syphilis. (Which [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_syphilis#Pre-Columbian_theory new evidence]] suggests ''did'' exist in Afro-Eurasia before Columbus returned from the Americas.)

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* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: Lamentations mentions hints at a sexually-transmitted disease, resulting from carousing with prostitutes and other types of illicit sex.sex, saying that the people of Israel are "polluted with blood" and that the nations that they are carried into say they cannot stay there. (That could have been avoided, or at least not been an epidemic, if they played by the rules.) It's not mentioned what STI it is, but the symptoms ''do'' read an awful lot like syphilis. (Which [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_syphilis#Pre-Columbian_theory new evidence]] suggests ''did'' exist in Afro-Eurasia before Columbus returned from the Americas.)

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