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Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division;
“Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
So I pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, hence the afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Favor and the other I called Union; so I pastured the flock.
I took my staff Favor and cut it in pieces, to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.
Then I cut in pieces my second staff Union, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes.
“I have come to cast fire upon the earth; and how I wish it were already kindled!