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Then the word of Jehovah came to me a second time, saying, What do you see? And I said, I see a boiling pot, and it is facing away from the north.


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And Jehovah said to me, Out of the north evil will be let loose upon all the inhabitants of the land.


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For I am now calling all the families from the kingdoms of the north, declares Jehovah, and they will come and set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem and against all its walls all around and against all the cities of Judah.


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And I will utter My judgment on them concerning all their wickedness by which they have forsaken Me and have offered sacrifices to other gods and have worshipped the works of their own hands.


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You therefore gird up your loins, and rise up and speak to them everything that I command you. Do not be dismayed before them, lest I dismay you in their presence.


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And I am now making you today into a fortified city and into an iron pillar and into bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.


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And they will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you, declares Jehovah, to deliver you.


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Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Jehovah:I remember concerning you the kindness of your youth, The love of your bridal days, When you followed after Me in the wilderness, In a land that was not sown.


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Israel was holiness to Jehovah, The firstfruits of His increase; All who ate of it were guilty; Evil came upon them, Declares Jehovah.


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Thus says Jehovah:What iniquity did your fathers find in Me That they went far away from Me And walked after vanity And became vain?


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And they did not say, Where is Jehovah, Who brought us up from the land of Egypt, Who brought us through the wilderness, Through a land of deserts and pits, Through a land of drought and the shadow of death, Through a land that no one passes through And w


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And I brought you into the land of the fruited field, To eat its fruit and its goodness. But you came and defiled My land And made My inheritance an abomination.


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The priests did not say, Where is Jehovah? And those who handle the law did not know Me, And the shepherds transgressed against Me, And the prophets prophesied by Baal And followed after things that did not benefit them.


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Therefore I will yet contend with you, declares Jehovah; And with your children's children I will contend.


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For pass over to the coastlands of Kittim and see, And send someone to Kedar and consider carefully, And see if there has ever been anything like this.


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Has a nation ever exchanged its gods, Even though they are no gods? But My people have exchanged their glory For that which does not benefit them.


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For My people have committed two evils:They have forsaken Me, The fountain of living waters, To hew out for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns, Which hold no water.


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The young lions roared over him; They sounded their voices. And they have made his land a waste; His cities are burned, without inhabitant.


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Have you not done this to yourself By your forsaking Jehovah your God When He was leading you in the way?


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And now what do you have on the road to Egypt, To drink the waters of the Shihor? And what do you have on the road to Assyria, To drink the waters of the River?


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Your own wickedness will correct you, And your apostasies will reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, That you have forsaken Jehovah your God And that My fear is not in you, Declares the Lord Jehovah of hosts.


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For long ago you broke your yoke; You tore off your bonds; And you said, I will not serve! Indeed upon every high hill And under every flourishing tree You have lain down, you have committed fornication.


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Yet I, I had planted you as a choice vine, Wholly a faithful seed. How then have you turned yourself before Me Into the degenerate shoots of a foreign vine?


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For though you wash yourself with lye And make use of much soap, Your iniquity remains as a stain before Me, Declares the Lord Jehovah.


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How can you say, I am not defiled; I have not gone after the Baals? Look at your way in the valley; Know what you have done. You are like a swift young camel entangling her ways,


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Like a wild donkey accustomed to the wilderness, Panting after the wind in her desire. In her passion who can turn her away? None that seek her will weary themselves:They will find her in her month.


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Keep your foot from being unshod And your throat from thirst; But you said, It is hopeless. No! For I have loved strangers, And I will go after them.


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As the thief is ashamed when he is found, So the house of Israel is ashamed - They, their kings, their princes, And their priests and their prophets,


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Who say to a tree, You are my father; And to a stone, You have brought me forth - For they have turned their back to Me, And not their faces. Yet in a time of their trouble they will say, Arise and save us.


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But where are your gods, whom you made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble; For according to the number of your cities Are your gods, O Judah.


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In vain I have stricken your children:They have taken no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion.


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O generation, attend to the word of Jehovah:Have I been a wilderness to Israel, Or a land of deep darkness? Why do My people say, We roam about; We will no longer come to You?


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Can the virgin forget her ornaments, Or the bride her attire? But My people have forgotten Me for days without number.


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Also on your skirts is found The lifeblood of the innocent poor. You did not find them breaking in, But killed them because of all these things.


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But you said, I am innocent; Surely His anger will turn from me. I am about to enter into judgment with you, Because you say, I have not sinned.


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Why do you go about so much To change your way? You will be put to shame by Egypt also, Even as you were put to shame by Assyria.


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Indeed, from it you will go forth With your hands upon your head; For Jehovah has rejected those in whom you trust, And you will not prosper by them.


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It is said, If a man divorces his wife And she goes from him And becomes another man's wife, Will he return to her again? Will not that land be Utterly polluted? But you have committed fornication with many lovers. et return to Me, declares Jehovah.


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Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see:Where have you not been ravished? By the roads you sat for them, Like an Arab in the desert; And you have polluted the land With your fornication and your wickedness.


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Therefore the showers have been withheld, And there has been no spring rain. But you have had a harlot's forehead; You refused to be ashamed.


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Will He preserve His anger forever? Will He keep it perpetually? This you have spoken; yet you have done what evil things That you could.


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Then Jehovah said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel the apostate has done? She went up on every high mountain and under every flourishing tree and committed fornication there.


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And I said, After she has done all these things, she will return to Me; but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.


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And I saw that because of all the adultery that Israel the apostate committed I divorced her and gave her a certificate of divorce, yet her sister Judah the treacherous did not fear but went and committed fornication also.


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And because she treated her fornication lightly, she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.


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And yet in spite of all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but instead falsely, declares Jehovah.


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And Jehovah said to me, Israel the apostate has shown herself to be more righteous than Judah the treacherous.


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Go and proclaim these words to the north, and say, Return, O Israel the apostate, declares Jehovah; And I will not let My countenance fall toward you; For I am merciful, declares Jehovah; I will not keep My anger forever.


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Only acknowledge your iniquity, That you have transgressed against Jehovah your God And have turned your ways here and there to strangers under every flourishing tree, And have not listened to My voice, declares Jehovah.


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Return, O apostate children, declares Jehovah, for I am a Husband to you; and I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and will bring you to Zion.


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And I will give you shepherds according to My own heart, who will feed you knowledge and understanding.


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And when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, declares Jehovah, they will no longer say, The Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah! And it will not come to mind, nor will they remember it or visit it; and it will not be made again.


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At that time they will call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah, and all the nations will be gathered to it because the name of Jehovah is at Jerusalem; and they will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.


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In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land which I have given to their fathers as an inheritance.


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But I said, How I will put you among the sons, And give you a pleasant land, An inheritance of the most ornate of the nations! And I said, You will call Me, My Father, And will not turn away from Me.


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Surely as a woman acts treacherously by departing from her husband, So you have dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel, declares Jehovah.


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A voice is heard on the bare heights, The weeping, the supplications, of the children of Israel; For they have perverted their way; They have forgotten Jehovah their God.


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Return, O apostate children; I will heal you of your apostasies. Now we come to You, For You are Jehovah our God.


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Surely in vain have we hoped for anything from the hills; The mountains are a tumult; Surely in Jehovah our God Is the salvation of Israel.


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But shame has devoured the labor of our fathers since our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.


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Let us lie own in our shame, and let our humiliation cover us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, since our youth even unto this day; and we have not listened to the voice of Jehovah our God.


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If you will return, O Israel, declares Jehovah, Return to Me; And if you put away your detestable things from My presence And do not wander,


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And swear, As Jehovah lives, In truth and in justice and in righteousness, Then the nations will bless themselves in Him, And in Him they will glory.


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For thus says Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, And do not sow among thorns.


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Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah, And remove the foreskins of your heart, Men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, Lest My wrath go forth like fire And burn, and there be no one to quench it Because of the evil of your deeds.


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Declare in Judah And proclaim in Jerusalem, and say:Blow the trumpet in the land; Cry aloud and say, Gather yourselves and let us go Into the fortified cities.


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Raise up a standard toward Zion. Seek refuge; do not stay; For I am bringing evil from the north, And great destruction.


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A lion has come up from his thicket, And a destroyer of nations has set out. He has gone forth from his place To make your land a waste; Your cities will be ruins, Without an inhabitant.


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For this, gird yourselves with sackcloth, Wail and howl; For the burning anger of Jehovah Has not turned away from us.


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And in that day, declares Jehovah, the heart of the king and the heart of the princes will fail; and the priests will be appalled, and the prophets will be astounded.


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And I said, Alas, Lord Jehovah, surely You have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You will have peace; whereas the sword reaches to the soul.


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At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of My people, not for winnowing nor for purging


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Here he is coming up like clouds, And his chariots like the whirlwind; His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us for we are devastated!


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Wash your heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, That you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts Lodge within you?


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Make mention to the nations; yes, Announce against Jerusalem. Besiegers are coming from a distant land And utter their voice against the cities of Judah.


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Like those who watch over a field, they are against her all around Because she has rebelled against Me, declares Jehovah.


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Your way and your deeds Have caused these things to happen to you. This is your wickedness. Indeed it is bitter! Indeed it reaches to your heart!


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My bowels, my bowels; I am writhing. O the walls of my heart! My heart is moaning within me; I cannot be silent; For you hear, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, The alarm of war.


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Destruction upon destruction is proclaimed, For the whole land is devastated. Suddenly my tents are devastated, And my curtains in a moment.


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For My people are foolish; They do not know Me. They are stupid children And have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, But they do not know to do good.


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I looked at the earth, and there it was, waste and emptiness; And at the heavens, and they had no light.


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I looked, and there was the fruitful land, a wilderness, And all its cities were torn down Before Jehovah, before His burning anger.


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For this the earth will mourn, And the heavens above will be dark; Because I have spoken, I have purposed; And I have not repented, nor will I turn from it.


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At the sound of horsemen and archers Every city flees; They go into the thickets And climb up on the rocks. Every city is forsaken, And not even one inhabits them.


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And you, O desolate one, what will you do? Although you dress in scarlet, Although you are adorned with ornaments of gold, Although you enlarge your eyes with paint, In vain do you beautify yourself; Your lovers despise you; They seek your life.


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For I heard a cry like that of a woman in travail, Anguish like that of a woman bringing forth her first child, The sound of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath; She stretches out her hands, saying, Woe is me, For my soul is fainting before murderers


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Go to and fro in the streets of Jerusalem, And look now and know, And seek in her open squares If you can find a man, If there is anyone who executes justice, Who seeks faithfulness; And I will pardon her.


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O Jehovah, are not Your eyes upon faithfulness? You have stricken them, But they did not writhe; You have consumed them, But they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; They have refused to turn.


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Then I said, But they are the poor; They are foolish; For they do not know the way of Jehovah, The ordinance of their God.


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I will go to the great And speak with them; Surely these know the way of Jehovah, The ordinance of their God. But together they both have broken the yoke; They have torn off the bonds.


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Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them; A wolf of the deserts will destroy them. A leopard is watching their cities; Everyone who goes out from them will be torn in pieces; Because they multiplied their transgressions, And their apostasies are


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Why should I pardon you? Your children have forsaken Me And sworn by those who are not gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery And trooped to the house of harlots.


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Shall I not punish because of these things? Declares Jehovah; And on a nation such as this Shall My soul not avenge itself?


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Go up through her vine rows and destroy, But do not make a full end; Strip away her branches, For they are not Jehovah's.


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For the house of Israel and the house of Judah Have dealt very treacherously with Me, declares Jehovah.


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They have denied Jehovah And have said, He is not; And evil will not come upon us, Nor will we see sword and famine;


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Therefore thus says Jehovah The God of hosts:Because they have spoken this word, I am now making My words A fire in your mouth, And this people wood; And it will consume them.


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I am now bringing upon you A nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares Jehovah. It is an enduring nation, It is an ancient nation; A nation whose language you do not know, Nor can you understand what they say.


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And they will eat up your harvest and your bread; They will eat up your sons and your daughters; They will eat up your flocks and your herds; They will eat up your vines and your fig trees; They will demolish with the sword your fortified cities, In which


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And when they say, Why has Jehovah our God done all these things to us? you shall say to them, As you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.


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Now hear this, O people, who are foolish and without understanding, Who have eyes but do not see, Who have ears but do not hear:


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Do you not fear Me, declares Jehovah; Do you not tremble at My presence; Who have set the sand as a boundary for the sea By an eternal statute, so it cannot pass over it? Although its waves toss, they cannot prevail; Although they roar, they cannot pass


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And they do not say in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God, who gives us rain, Both the early rain and the late rain, in its season, Who preserves the appointed weeks of the harvest for us.


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For wicked men are found among My people; They lie in wait like fowlers crouching; They set a trap, They catch men.


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Like a cage full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit; Therefore they have become great and rich.


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They are fat; they are sleek; Indeed they surpass in deeds of wickedness; They do not judge the cause, The cause of the orphan, but they prosper; And the right of the needy they do not judge.


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The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests rule by their own authority; And My people love it this way. But what will you do at the end of it?


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Seek refuge, O children of Benjamin, From the midst of Jerusalem; And blow the trumpet in Tekoa And raise up a signal on Beth-haccerem; For evil looks down from the north, And great destruction.


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Shepherds will come to her With their flocks; They will pitch tents against her all around; They will feed each one in his place.


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Prepare war against her; Rise up, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us, for the day has declined, For the shadows of evening are lengthening.


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For thus says Jehovah of hosts, Cut down her trees and build up A mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be punished; In her midst there is only oppression.


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As a cistern keeps its waters fresh, So she has kept her wickedness fresh. Violence and destruction are heard in her; Sickness and wounds are always before Me.


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Be admonished, O Jerusalem, Lest My desire for you depart, Lest I make you a desolation, An uninhabited land.


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, They will thoroughly glean like a vine The remnant of Israel; Pass your hand again over the branches Like a grape gatherer.


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To whom shall I speak and testify, That they may hear? Indeed, their ear is uncircumcised, And they are unable to listen. See, the word of Jehovah has become a reproach to them; They have no delight in it.


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Yet I am full of the wrath of Jehovah; I am weary of holding it in. Pour it out upon the children in the street And upon the assembly of the young men together; For even the husband with the wife will be taken; The old man, with the one who is full of da


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And their houses will be turned over to others, Fields and wives together; For I will stretch out My hand Over the inhabitants of the land, Declares Jehovah.


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For from the least of them to the greatest of them, Everyone is wresting unjust gain; And from the prophet to the priest, Everyone is dealing falsely.


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And they have healed The brokenness of My people slightly, Saying, Peace, peace; Although there is no peace.


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Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? They were not at all ashamed; They did not even know to blush. Therefore they will fall with those who fall; At the time I punish them, they will stumble, Says Jehovah.


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Thus says Jehovah, Stand by the ways and see, And ask for the ancient paths; Ask where the good way is, and walk in it; And you will find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it.


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So I set watchmen over you, saying, Listen to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not listen.


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Listen, O earth; I am now bringing evil On this people, The fruit of their thoughts; Because they have not listened to My words, And they have also rejected My law.


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For what purpose does frankincense come to Me from Sheba, And sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, And your sacrifices are not pleasing to Me.


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Therefore thus says Jehovah, I am now laying before this people stumbling blocks, And fathers and sons together Will stumble against them; A neighbor and his friend will perish.


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Thus says Jehovah, See, a people is coming from the land of the north, And a great nation is stirring from the uttermost parts of the earth.


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They grasp bow and spear; They are cruel and have no mercy; Their voice roars like the sea; And they ride upon horses, Set in array as a man for battle Against you, O daughter of Zion.


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We have heard its report; Our hands are feeble; Distress has seized us, Pain like a woman in childbirth.


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Do not go out into the field, And do not walk on the road; For the enemy has a sword; Terror is on every side.


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O daughter of my people, gird yourself in sackcloth And roll in ashes; Mourn as for an only son, A most bitter wailing; For suddenly the destroyer Will come upon us.


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All of them are most rebellious, Going about as slanderers; They are brass and iron; All of them act corruptly.


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The bellows are burned; The lead is consumed by the fire; The refining continues in vain, For the wicked are not removed.


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Stand in the gate of the house of Jehovah, and proclaim this word there and say, Hear the word of Jehovah, all Judah, who enter through these gates to worship Jehovah.


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.


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Do not trust in the words of falsehood that say, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, these buildings are the temple of Jehovah.


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But if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice between a man and his neighbor,


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If you do not oppress the sojourner, the orphan, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor go after other gods to your own ruin;


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Then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers from eternity to eternity.


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Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal and go after other gods which you have not known,


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Then come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My name, and say, We are delivered! - that you may do all these abominations?


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Has this house which is called by My name become a den of robbers in your eyes? Yet I, even I, have seen it, declares Jehovah.


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But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I caused My name to dwell at first, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.


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And now, because you have done all these works, declares Jehovah, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not listen, and I called you, but you did not answer;


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Therefore I will do to the house that is called by My name, in which you trust, and to the place that I gave you and your fathers as I have done to Shiloh.


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And as for you, do not pray for this people, nor lift up a ringing cry or a prayer for them; and do not intercede with Me, for I will not hear you.


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The children gather wood, and the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.


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Are they provoking Me to anger? declares Jehovah. Are they not provoking themselves, to the shaming of their own faces?


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched.


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat the flesh.


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For I did not speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.


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But this is what I commanded them, saying, Hear My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and walk in all the way which I command you, that it may go well with you.


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But they did not listen or incline their ear, but walked in the counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts and went backward and not forward.


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From the day that your fathers came out from the land of Egypt unto this day I have sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.


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But they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck; they did more evil than their fathers.


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So you shall speak to them all these words, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you.


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And you shall say to them, This is the nation which did not listen to the voice of Jehovah their God and did not take correction; the truth has perished and is cut off from their mouth.


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Cut off your hair and throw it away, And take up a lamentation on the bare heights; For Jehovah has rejected and forsaken The generation of His overflowing wrath.


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For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight, declares Jehovah; they have set their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.


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And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, something I did not command, nor did it come up in My heart.


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Therefore, days are coming, declares Jehovah, when it will no longer be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter; for they will bury in Topheth because there will be no other place.


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And the corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth; and no one will frighten them away.


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And I will cause the voice of gladness and the voice of joy to cease, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem; for the land will become a waste.


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At that time, declares Jehovah, they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah and the bones of its princes and the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem from their graves.


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And they will spread them out to the sun and to the moon and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served and which they have gone after and which they have sought and which they have worshipped; and they will not be gathere


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And death will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family, that remains in all the places where I have driven them, declares Jehovah of hosts.


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And you shall say to them, Thus says Jehovah, Do men fall and not rise again? If one turns away, does he not return?


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Why has this people Jerusalem Turned away in perpetual apostasy? They hold fast to deceit; They refuse to turn back.


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I have listened carefully and heard; They have not spoken rightly; There is no one who repents of his wickedness, Saying, What have I done? Everyone turns to his own course, Like a horse rushing headlong into battle.


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Even the stork in the sky Knows its appointed times, And the turtledove and the swallow and the crane Keep the time of their coming; But My people do not know The ordinance of Jehovah.


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How can you say, We are wise, And the law of Jehovah is with us? But look, the false pen of the scribes Has turned it into falsehood.


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The wise men are put to shame; They are dismayed and are taken; See, they have rejected the word of Jehovah; And what wisdom do they have?


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Therefore I will give their wives to others, Their fields to those who will possess them; For from the small unto the great, Everyone is wresting unjust gain; From the prophet even to the priest, Everyone is dealing falsely.


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And they have healed The brokenness of the daughter of My people slightly, Saying, Peace, peace, Although there is no peace.


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Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? They were not at all ashamed; They did not even know to blush. Therefore they will fall with those who fall; At the time of their punishment they will stumble, Says Jehovah.


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I will utterly take them away, Declares Jehovah; There are no grapes on the vine, And there are no figs on the fig tree; Even the leaves are withered; And what I gave them has passed away from them.


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Why do we sit? Gather yourselves, And let us go up to the fortified cities And be silent there, Because Jehovah our God has silenced us And made us drink poisonous water, Because we have sinned against Jehovah.


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The snorting of their horses Is heard from Dan; At the sound of the neighing of their stallions The whole land quakes. And they come and devour the land and its fullness, The city and those who dwell in it.


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For I will send among you serpents, Adders, for which there is no enchantment; And they will bite you, Declares Jehovah.


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It is the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people From a land very far away:Is Jehovah not in Zion? Is her King not in her? Why have they provoked Me to anger With their graven images and with strange idols?


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Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the recovery of the daughter of my people Not occurred?


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Oh, that my head were waters, And my eye a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For the slain of the daughter of my people!


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Oh, that I had a traveler's lodging place in the wilderness That I might leave my people and go away from them, For all of them are adulterers and an assembly of treacherous men.


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They bend their tongue like their bow; Falsehood, and not truth, Prevails in the land; For they proceed from evil to evil, And they do not know Me, declares Jehovah.


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Let each man be on guard against his neighbor And not confide in any brother; For every brother only supplants, And every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.


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And everyone deceives his neighbor And does not speak the truth; They teach their tongue to speak falsehood; They weary themselves committing iniquity.


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Therefore thus says Jehovah of hosts, Indeed, I will refine them and test them; For what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?


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Their tongue is a deadly arrow; It speaks deceit. Each speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, But in his heart he lays an ambush for him.


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Shall I not punish them for these things? Declares Jehovah; And on a nation such as this Shall My soul not avenge itself?


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For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, And for the pastures of the wilderness, a lamentation; Because they have been burned up so that no one passes through, And the sound of cattle is not heard; Both the birds of the sky and the beasts H


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And I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, A habitation of jackals; And I will make the cities of Judah A desolation without inhabitant.


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Who is the wise man who can understand this, and he to whom the mouth of Jehovah has spoken, that he might declare it? Why is the land destitute, burned like the wilderness, so that no one passes through?


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And Jehovah said, Because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them, and have not listened to My voice or walked in My law,


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But have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them;


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Therefore thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them poisonous water to drink.


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And I will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers knew, and send the sword after them until I have consumed them.


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, Consider, and call for the mourning women to come, And send for the skillful women to come;


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Let them hasten and take up a wailing for us, That our eyes may shed tears And our eyelids may pour forth water.


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For a voice of wailing Was heard from Zion:How we are ruined! We are utterly put to shame! For we have forsaken the land Because they have cast down our dwellings.


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Therefore listen, O women, to the word of Jehovah, And let your ear receive the word of His mouth; And teach your daughters wailing, And let each teach her neighbor a lamentation.


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For death has come up through our windows; It has entered our palaces To cut off the children from the streets, The young men from the open squares.


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Speak:Thus declares Jehovah, And the corpses of men will fall Like dung on the surface of the field And like a sheaf after the reaper, And there will be no one to gather them.


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Thus says Jehovah, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, And let not the mighty man glory in his might; Let not the rich man glory in his riches.


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But let him who glories glory in this, That he has insight and knows Me, That I am Jehovah who exercises lovingkindness, Justice, and righteousness on earth; For in these things I delight, declares Jehovah.


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Indeed, days are coming, declares Jehovah, when I will punish all those who are circumcised and yet uncircumcised:


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Egypt and Judah and Edom and the children of Ammon and Moab and all those who cut the corners of their beards, who inhabit the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.


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Thus says Jehovah, Do not learn the way of the nations, And do not be terrified by the signs of the heavens, Although the nations are terrified by them.


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For the customs of the peoples are vanity, Because their god is a tree cut from the forest, The work of the hands of a craftsman with an ax.


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He adorns it with silver and with gold; They fasten it with nails and hammers So that it cannot totter.


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They are like a post in a cucumber field, And they cannot speak; They must be carried Because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, For they cannot do evil, And neither is it in them to do good.


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Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? For it befits You, For among all the wise of the nations And in all their kingdoms There is none like You.


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Beaten silver Is brought from Tarshish, And gold from Uphaz, The work of a craftsman And of the hands of a goldsmith. Their clothing is blue and purple; All of them are the work of skillful men.


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But Jehovah is the true God; He is the living God and the eternal King. At His wrath the earth quakes, And the nations cannot endure His indignation.


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Thus you shall say to them, The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth, these will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.


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It is He who made the earth by His power, Who established the world by His wisdom, And by His understanding He stretched out the heavens.


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When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, And He causes the vapors to rise from the ends of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain And brings forth wind from His treasuries.


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Every man is stupid, without knowledge; Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idol; For his molten image is falsehood, And there is no breath in them.


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The Portion of Jacob is not like these; For He is the One who formed everything, And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance; Jehovah of hosts is His name.


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For thus says Jehovah, I will sling out The inhabitants of the land At this time, And I will bring distress on them, That they may find it.


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Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is grievous. But I said, Truly this is my 1affliction, And I must bear it.


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My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken; My children have gone from me and they are not; There is no one who will spread out my tent again And set up my curtains.


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For the shepherds are stupid And have not sought Jehovah; Therefore they have not prospered, And all their flock is scattered.


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The sound of a report! Here it comes, Even a great commotion from the land of the north, To make the cities of Judah A desolation, a habitation of jackals.


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I know, O Jehovah, That a man's way is not in himself; It is not in the man who walks To direct his step.


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Pour out Your wrath on the nations Who do not know You And upon the families Who do not call upon Your name; For they have consumed Jacob, yes, consumed him and brought him to an end, And they have desolated his habitation.


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Listen to the words of this covenant and speak them to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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And you shall say to them, Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, Cursed is the man who does not listen to the words of this covenant,


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Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Listen to My voice and do the things according to all which I command you; and you will be My people and I will be your God,


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That I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. And I answered and said, Amen, Jehovah.


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And Jehovah said to me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear the words of this covenant and do them.


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For I solemnly warned your fathers in the day that I brought them up from the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising up early and warning, saying, Listen to My voice.


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But they did not listen or incline their ear, but all walked in the stubbornness of their evil heart; therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, and they have not done them.


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And Jehovah said to me, A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to listen to My words, and they have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.


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Therefore thus says Jehovah, I am about to bring evil upon them, from which they cannot escape; and they will cry to Me, but I will not listen to them.


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Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.


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For according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah, and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to that shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal.


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And as for you, do not pray for this people, nor lift up a ringing cry or a prayer for them; for I will not hear when they call to Me because of their trouble.


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What has My beloved to do in My house, Since she has committed lewdness with many And the holy flesh has passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.


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Jehovah called your name, A flourishing olive tree, beautiful in fruit and form; With the sound of a great tumult He has set fire to it, And its branches are broken.


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And Jehovah of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done for themselves, to provoke Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.


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And I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter, and I did not know that they devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living that his name be remembered no longer.


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But, O Jehovah of hosts, who judges righteously, Who tests the inward parts and the heart, Let me see Your vengeance on them, For I have revealed my cause to You.


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Therefore thus says Jehovah concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, Do not prophesy in the name of Jehovah, that you may not die by our hand;


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Therefore thus says Jehovah of hosts, I am about to punish them:The young men will die by the sword; their sons and their daughters will die by famine;


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And they will have no remnant, because I will bring evil to the men of Anathoth in the year of their visitation.


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You are righteous, O Jehovah, When I plead my cause with You; Yet I will speak with You of Your judgments:Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those who deal treacherously at ease?


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You have planted them; they have also taken root; They go on and bring forth fruit. You are near, in their mouth, But far from their inward parts.


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And You, O Jehovah, know me; You see me And try my heart toward You. Pull them out like sheep for the slaying, And set them apart for the day of slaughter.


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How long will the land mourn And the grass of every field dry up? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it, Beasts and birds are swept away, Because they said, He will not see our end.


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If you have run with footmen and they have wearied you, How then will you compete with horses? If you are secure in a land of peace, How then will you do in the majesty of the Jordan?


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For even your brothers and the house of your father, Even they have dealt treacherously with you; Even they have cried aloud after you. Do not believe them, although they speak good things to you.


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I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance; I have given the beloved of My soul Into the hand of her enemies.


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My inheritance has become to Me Like a lion in the forest; She lifted up her voice against Me, Therefore I hated her.


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Is My inheritance a speckled bird of prey to Me? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; Bring them to devour.


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Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; They have trampled down My portion; They have made My pleasant portion A desolate wilderness.


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They have made it a desolation; Desolate, it mourns to Me; The whole land has been desolated Because no one lays it to heart.


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Upon all the bare heights in the wilderness Destroyers have come, For the sword of Jehovah devours From one end of the land to the other end of the land; No flesh has peace.


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They have sown wheat, and they reap thorns; They have worn themselves out, but they profit nothing; Therefore be ashamed of your produce Because of the burning anger of Jehovah.


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Thus says Jehovah concerning all My evil neighbors, who have touched the inheritance which I caused My people Israel to inherit, I am about to pluck them up out of their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah out from their midst.


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And after I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them and bring them again, each one to his inheritance and each one to his land.


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And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, saying, As Jehovah lives, even as they taught My people to swear by Baal, they will be built up in the midst of My people.


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But if they do not listen, I will pluck up that nation, plucking it up and destroying it, declares Jehovah.


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Thus said Jehovah to me, Go and buy yourself a linen girdle, and put it on your loins, but do not put it in water.


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Take the girdle which you bought, which is upon your loins, and rise up; go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.


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And at the end of many days Jehovah said to me, Rise up; go to the Euphrates, and take from there the girdle which I commanded you to hide there.


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And I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the girdle from the place where I had hidden it; and there the girdle was, spoiled and good for nothing.


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This evil people, who refuse to hear My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart and go after other gods to serve them and to worship them, will be even like this girdle, which is good for nothing.


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For as this girdle clings to the loins of a man, so I have caused all the house of Israel and all the house of Judah to cling to Me, declares Jehovah, that they might be to Me a people and a name and a praise and a glory; but they would not listen.


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And you shall speak to them this word, Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, Every wineskin will be filled with wine. And they will say to you, Do we not know very well that every wineskin will be filled with wine?


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Then you shall say to them, Thus says Jehovah, I am about to fill all the inhabitants of this land and the kings who sit in David's place on his throne and the priests and the prophets and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with drunkenness,


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And I will dash them one against the other, both the fathers and the sons together, declares Jehovah; I will not spare or pity or have compassion so as not to destroy them.


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Give glory to Jehovah your God, Before He brings darkness, And before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains; And you will look for light, But He will turn it into a shadow of death And make it deep darkness.


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And if you will not hear it, My soul will weep in secret places for your pride; And my eye will weep bitterly and shed tears, Because the flock of Jehovah has been taken captive.


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Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves and sit down, For your beautiful crown Has come down from your heads.


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The cities of the south have been shut up, And there is no one to open them; All Judah has been taken into exile, Wholly taken into exile.


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Lift up your eyes, And see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, Your beautiful sheep?


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What will you say when He appoints over you as head Those whom you yourself have trained to be your friends? Will not pains take hold of you, Like those of a woman in travail?


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And if you say in your heart, Why have these things happened to me? It is because of the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts are uncovered, That your heels suffer violence.


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Can the Cushite change his skin, Or the leopard his spots? Then you also may be able to do good, Who are accustomed to do evil.


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This is your lot, The portion measured out to you from Me, Declares Jehovah, Because you have forgotten Me And have trusted in falsehood.


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Your adulteries and your neighings, The lewdness of your fornication Upon the hills, in the field, Your detestable things - I have seen. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long a time will you still not be clean?


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Judah mourns, And her gates languish; In black they mourn on the ground, And the cry of Jerusalem goes up.


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And their nobles send their servants for water; They come to cisterns, And they find no water; They return with their vessels empty; They are ashamed and confounded And cover their heads.


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Because the ground is cracked, For there has been no rain on the earth, The farmers are ashamed; They cover their heads.


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And the wild asses stand on the bare heights; They pant after the wind like jackals; Their eyes fail, For there is no herbage.


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Although our iniquities testify against us, O Jehovah, act for Your name's sake, For our apostasies have become many; We have sinned against You.


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O Hope of Israel, Its Savior in a time of distress, Why should You be like a sojourner in the land, Like a traveler who turns aside to lodge for the night?


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Why should You be like an astonished man, Like a mighty man who is unable to save? Yet You are in our midst, O Jehovah, And we are called by Your name; Do not leave us.


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Thus says Jehovah to this people, Even so they have loved to wander; they have not restrained their feet. Therefore Jehovah has no delight in them; now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.


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When they fast, I will not listen to their cry; when they offer up a burnt offering and a meal offering, I will not accept them; but by sword and by famine and by pestilence I will consume them.


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And I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! Indeed, the prophets say to them, You will not see sword, nor will you have famine, for I will give you assured peace in this place.


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And Jehovah said to me, The prophets prophesy falsehood in My name; I did not send them or command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision and divination and a worthless thing and the deceit of their own heart.


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Therefore thus says Jehovah concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, although I did not send them, yet they say, A sword and famine will not be in this land:By sword and by famine those prophets will be consumed.


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And the people to whom they prophesy will be cast out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and there will be no one to bury them - them, their wives, and their sons and their daughters - and I will pour out their own wickedne


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And you shall speak this word to them, Let my eyes run down with tears Night and day, and let them not cease; For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with great brokenness, A very grievous wound.


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If I go forth into the field - Look, those slain by the sword; And if I come into the city - Look, those diseased with famine. For both the prophet and the priest Will go about in a land that they do not know.


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Have You utterly rejected Judah? Or does Your soul loathe Zion? Why have You stricken us So that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; And for a time of healing, but there was terror.


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We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, The iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against You.


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Do not hold us in contempt, for Your name's sake; Do not dishonor Your throne of glory; Remember and do not break Your covenant with us.


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Are there among the vanities of the nations any that can bring rain, Or in the heavens any that can give showers? Are You not He, O Jehovah our God? Therefore we wait for You, For You have made all these things.


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And Jehovah said to me, Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, My soul would not turn toward this people. Send them out of My sight and let them go.


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And when they say to you, Where shall we go? Then you shall say to them, Thus says Jehovah, Those who are for death to death, And those who are for the sword to the sword, And those who are for famine to famine, And those who are for captivity to captivit


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And I will visit them with four kinds of punishment, declares Jehovah:the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.


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And I will make them a horror among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.


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For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, And who will lament for you; And who will turn aside to ask After your welfare?


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You have forsaken Me, Declares Jehovah. You keep going backward, And I have stretched out My hand against you And have destroyed you; I have become weary of repenting.


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And I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork In the gates of the land; I have bereaved them of children And destroyed My people; They have not turned back from their ways.


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Their widows have increased before Me More than the sand of the seas; I have brought to them, Against the mother of the young men, A spoiler at noon; I have caused anguish and terror To fall on her suddenly.


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She who has borne seven languishes; She has breathed out her life. Her sun has gone down while it is still day; She is put to shame and confounded. And the rest of them I will give up to the sword Before their enemies, Declares Jehovah.


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Woe is me, my mother, because you bore me, A man of strife and a man of contention to the whole land. I have not lent with interest, Nor have they lent to me; Yet everyone curses me.


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Jehovah said, Surely I will set you free for your good; Indeed I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you In a time of trouble and in a time of distress.


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Your wealth and your treasures I will give as plunder without price, And that for all your sins, And within all your borders.


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I will cause your enemies to bring it Into a land you do not know; For a fire is kindled in My anger, Which will burn against you.


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O Jehovah, You know; Remember me and visit me, And avenge me of my persecutors. Do not let Your long-suffering for them prevail and have me taken away; Know that for Your sake I bear reproach.


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Your words were found and I ate them, And Your word became to me The gladness and joy of my heart, For I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.


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I did not sit in the assembly of mockers, nor did I exult. Because of Your hand I sat alone, For You have filled me with indignation.


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Why is my pain unceasing, And my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will You indeed be to me like a deceitful brook? Like waters that fail?


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Therefore thus says Jehovah, If you return, I will restore you; You will stand before Me; And if you bring out the precious from the worthless, You will be as My mouth; They will turn to you, But you will not turn to them.


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And I will make you to this people A fortified wall of bronze; And they will fight against you, But they will not prevail against you; For I am with you To save you and deliver you, Declares Jehovah.


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And I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked And redeem you from the hand of those who terrorize.


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For thus says Jehovah concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place and concerning their mothers who bear them and concerning their fathers who beget them in this land:


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They will die grievous deaths and will not be mourned or buried; they will be as dung on the surface of the ground and will be consumed by sword and by famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.


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For thus says Jehovah, Do not enter the house of mourning, and do not go to mourn, and do not lament for them, for I have taken away My peace from this people, declares Jehovah, My lovingkindness and compassions.


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Both the great and the small will die in this land; they will not be buried, nor will they be mourned; and no one will cut himself or make himself bald for them.


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Nor will they break bread for them in mourning to comfort anyone for the dead or give them a cup of consolation to drink for his father or for his mother.


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For thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, I will cause to cease from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of gladness and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.


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And when you tell this people all these words and they say to you, Why has Jehovah pronounced all this great evil against us? And what is our iniquity? And what is our sin which we have sinned against Jehovah our God?


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Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers forsook Me, declares Jehovah, and went after other gods to serve them and to worship them, but have forsaken Me and have not kept My law.


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And you have done more evil than your fathers; for indeed, you go about, each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, without listening to Me.


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And I will cast you far away from this land into a land which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers; and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will not show favor to you.


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Therefore indeed, days are coming, declares Jehovah, when it will no longer be said, As Jehovah lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt,


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But, As Jehovah lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of the north and out of all the lands where He had driven them; for I will bring them back to their own land, which I gave to their fathers.


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I am soon sending many fishermen, declares Jehovah, and they will catch them; and afterward I will send many hunters, and they will hunt for them from every mountain and from every hill and from the clefts of the rocks.


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For My eyes are upon all their ways; they are not concealed from My face, neither is their iniquity hidden from My eyes.


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But first I will recompense double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have profaned My land with the corpses of their detestable things, and their abominations have filled My inheritance.


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O Jehovah, my strength and my stronghold, My refuge in the day of distress; To You the nations come From the ends of the earth and say, Surely our fathers inherited falsehood And vanity, in which there is no profit.


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Therefore now, I am causing them to know; At this time I will cause them to know My hand and My might, And they will know that My name is Jehovah.


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The sin of Judah is written With an iron pen; With the point of a diamond it is engraved On the tablet of their heart And on the horns of your altars,


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While their children remember Their altars and their Asherahs Beside flourishing trees Upon high hills.


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O My mountain in the field, Your wealth and all your treasures I will give as plunder, Your high places, because of sin, Within all your borders.


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And you yourself will let go of your inheritance, Which I gave to you; And I will cause you to serve your enemies In a land which you do not know; For you have kindled a fire in My anger, Which will burn forever.


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Thus says Jehovah, Cursed is the man who trusts in man And makes flesh his arm And whose heart turns away from Jehovah.


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And he will be like a shrub in the desert And will not see when good comes; But he will dwell in the parched places in the wilderness, A land of salt and uninhabited.


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And he will be like a tree transplanted beside water, Which sends out its roots by a stream, And will not be afraid when heat comes; For its leaves remain flourishing, And it will not be anxious in the year of drought And will not cease to bear fruit.


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I, Jehovah, search the heart And test the inward parts, Even to give to each one according to his ways, According to the fruit of his deeds.


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As a partridge broods over what she has not laid, A man makes riches but not rightly; In the midst of his days they will leave him, And at his end he will be a fool.


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You are the hope of Israel, O Jehovah; All who forsake You will be put to shame. Those who turn away from Me will be written in the earth Because they forsook Jehovah, The fountain of living waters.


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But as for me, I have not hurried away from being a shepherd after You, And I have not desired a day of disaster. You know that what came out of my lips Was before Your face.


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Let those who persecute me be put to shame, but as for me, do not let me be put to shame; Let them be dismayed, but do not let me be dismayed. Bring upon them an evil day, And break them with a double destruction.


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Thus said Jehovah to me, Go and stand in the gate of the sons of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in and through which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem,


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And say to them, Hear the word of Jehovah, O kings of Judah and all Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem who enter through these gates:


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Thus says Jehovah, Take heed to your souls and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring anything through the gates of Jerusalem.


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And do not bring out any burden from your houses on the Sabbath day, nor do any work; but sanctify the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.


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But they did not listen or incline their ear; rather they stiffened their neck that they might not hear or receive correction.


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But if indeed you listen to Me, declares Jehovah, and bring no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but sanctify the Sabbath day and do not do any work on it,


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Then kings and princes who sit on the throne of David, riding on chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the en of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, will come through the gates of this city; and this city will be inhabited forever.


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And they will come from the cities of Judah and the places surrounding Jerusalem and from the land of Benjamin and from the lowland and from the hill country and from the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices and meal offerings and frankincense a


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But if you do not listen to Me to sanctify the Sabbath day and not to bear a burden when coming in through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem and will not be extinct.


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But the vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's hand; so he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good for the potter to make.


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Am I not able to do with you, O house of Israel, as this potter does? declares Jehovah. Indeed, as the clay is in the hand of the potter, so you are in My hand, O house of Israel.


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At the moment that I speak about a nation or about a kingdom, to pluck it up or to break it down or to destroy it,


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And if that nation concerning which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will repent of the evil that I intended to do to it.


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And if it does evil in My sight by not listening to My voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit it.


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And now speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Jehovah, Look, I am forming evil against you and devising a plan against you. Return now, each one of you from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.


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But they say, It is hopeless! For we will walk after our own devices and everyone will do according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.


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Therefore thus says Jehovah, Ask now among the nations, Who has heard such things? The virgin of Israel Has done a very horrible thing.


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Does the snow of Lebanon Leave the rock of the field? Or will the cold flowing waters Coming from afar be dried up?


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But My people have forgotten Me; They burn incense to vanity, And they have been stumbled in their ways From the ancient paths To walk on bypaths, On a way which is not cast up,


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To make their land an astonishment, A thing to be hissed at forever. Everyone who passes by will be astonished And shake his head.


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Like the east wind I will scatter them Before the enemy; I will show them My back and not My face In the day of their calamity.


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Then they said, Come, let us devise plots against Jeremiah; for the law will not perish from the priest or counsel from the wise man or a word from the prophet. Come, let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.


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Shall evil be recompensed with good? For they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before You To speak good for their sake, To turn away Your wrath from them.


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Therefore deliver up their children to famine, And give them over to the power of the sword; And let their wives become Bereaved of child and be widows; And let their men be slaughtered to death, Their young men struck by the sword in battle.


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Let a cry be heard from their houses When You suddenly bring upon them a troop; For they have dug a pit to capture me And have hidden snares for my feet.


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Yet You, O Jehovah, know All their counsel against me for my death. Do not be propitious to their iniquity, And do not blot out their sin from before You; But let them be overthrown before You; Deal with them in the time of Your anger.


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Thus says Jehovah, Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests;


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And go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is at the entrance of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words which I will speak to you,


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And say, Hear the word of Jehovah, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, I am about to bring evil upon this place, at which the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle;


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Because they have forsaken Me and have estranged this place from Me and have burned incense in it to other gods, which neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent,


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And they have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or speak, nor did it come up in My heart.


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Therefore indeed, days are coming, declares Jehovah, when this place will no longer be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter.


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And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life, and I will give their corpses to the birds of heaven and to the beasts of


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And I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss at all its wounds.


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And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and each one will eat his neighbor's flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life distress them.


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And you shall say to them, Thus says Jehovah of hosts, So I will break this people and this city in the same way as one breaks the potter's vessel so that it cannot be repaired any more, and they will bury in Topheth because there will be no other place t


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Thus I will deal with this place, declares Jehovah, and with its inhabitants, so as to make this city like Topheth.


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And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be like the place Topheth, defiled because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burnt incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.


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Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Jehovah had sent him to prophesy, and stood in the court of the house of Jehovah and said to all the people,


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, I am about to bring to this city and upon all its cities all the evil that I have spoken against it because they have stiffened their neck so as not to hear My words.


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Now Pashhur the son of Immer, the priest, who was chief officer in the house of Jehovah, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.


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And Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were at the upper gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of Jehovah.


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And on the next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, Jehovah no longer calls your name Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.


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For thus says Jehovah, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends, and they will fall by the sword of their enemies while your eyes look on; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will exile them to Babylo


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I will also give all the wealth of this city and all its gains and all its precious things; indeed all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies, who will plunder them and capture them and bring them to Babylon.


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And you, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house will go into captivity and you will go to Babylon and die there and be buried there, you and all your friends to whom you prophesied falsely.


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You have enticed me, O Jehovah, and I let myself be enticed; You have laid hold of me and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day long; Everyone mocks me.


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For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction; For the word of Jehovah has become to me A reproach and a derision all day long.


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But if I say, I will not mention Him Or speak any more in His name, Then it is in my heart like a burning fire, Shut up in my bones, And I am weary of holding it in, Nor can I.


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For I hear the slander of many, Terror on every side:Denounce; yes, let us denounce him. Every familiar friend Is watching for my stumbling:Perhaps he will be deceived so we can prevail against him And take our revenge on him.


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But Jehovah is with me like a mighty one who terrifies; Therefore my persecutors will stumble and not prevail; They will be greatly ashamed, for they have not prospered, With an eternal humiliation that will not be forgotten.


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But, O Jehovah of hosts, who tries the righteous, Who sees the inward parts and the heart, Let me see Your vengeance on them, For I have revealed my cause to You.


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Sing to Jehovah; Praise Jehovah; For He has delivered the soul of the poor From the hand of the evildoers.


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Cursed be the man who brought good news To my father, saying, A male child has been born to you, Causing him much joy.


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And let that man be like the cities Which Jehovah overthrew and did not repent, And let him hear the cry in the morning And the alarm in the noontime;


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Because he did not put me to death at the womb, That my mother might be my grave, And her womb always pregnant.


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Why is this? Did I come out from the womb To see trouble and sorrow, That my days may be spent in shame?


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The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,


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Inquire for us of Jehovah, for Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon is making war against us. Perhaps Jehovah will deal with us according to all His wonderful deeds, so that he goes up from us.


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Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, I am about to turn back the weapons of war which are in your hand and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans, who are besieging you outside the walls; and I will gather them t


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I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm and in anger and wrath and great indignation.


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And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they will die of a great pestilence.


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And afterward, declares Jehovah, I will deliver Zedekiah the king of Judah and his servants and the people who remain in this city after the pestilence and after the sword and after the famine into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon and into t


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And to this people you shall say, Thus says Jehovah, I am setting before you the way of life and the way of death.


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He who remains in this city will die by sword and by famine and by pestilence, but he who goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live and have his own life as spoil.


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For I have set My face against this city for evil and not for good, declares Jehovah; it will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.


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O house of David, thus says Jehovah:Execute judgment every morning, And deliver him who has been robbed from the hand of the oppressor, Lest My wrath go forth like fire And burn, and there be no one to extinguish it, Because of the evil of your deeds.


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Indeed, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, O rock of the plateau, declares Jehovah, Those who say, Who will come down against us, And who will enter into our habitations?


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But I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, Declares Jehovah, And I will kindle a fire in her forest, And it will devour all that is around her.


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And say, Hear the word of Jehovah, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you and your servants and your people, who enter through these gates:


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Thus says Jehovah, Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver him who has been robbed from the hand of the oppressor, and do no wrong, do no violence, to the sojourner, the orphan, or the widow; nor shed innocent blood in this place.


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For if you indeed do this thing, then kings sitting in David's place on his throne, riding in chariots and on horses - the king and his servants and his people will come through the gates of this house;


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But if you do not listen to these things, I swear by Myself, declares Jehovah, that this house will become a ruin.


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For thus says Jehovah concerning the house of the king of Judah, You are Gilead to Me, The summit of Lebanon; Yet I will surely make you a wilderness, Cities that are not inhabited.


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And I will set apart destroyers against you, Each with his weapons; And they will cut down your choice cedars And cast them into the fire.


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And many nations will pass by this city, and they will say each one to his neighbor, Why has Jehovah done this to this great city?


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And they will say, It is because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah their God and bowed down to other gods and served them.


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Do not weep for the one who died, nor lament for him; But weep bitterly for the one who goes away, For he will no longer return and see The land of his birth.


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For thus says Jehovah concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, who became king in the place of Josiah his father, who went away from this place:He will not return there any more;


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Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness And his upper rooms by injustice, Who uses his neighbor's service without wages And does not give him recompense for his work,


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Who says, I will build myself a large house With spacious upper chambers, And cuts out for it windows; and it is paneled with cedar And painted with vermilion.


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Are you a king because you Excel in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, And execute judgment and righteousness? Thus it was well with him.


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He judged the cause of the poor and needy; thus it was well. Is not this to know Me? Declares Jehovah.


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But you have eyes and a heart Only for your unjust gain And for shedding innocent blood And for oppression and doing violence.


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Therefore thus says Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, They will not wail for him, saying, Alas, my brother! or, Alas, sister! They will not wail for him, saying, Alas, lord! or, Alas, his majesty!


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Go up to Lebanon and cry out; And lift up your voice in Bashan, And cry out from Abarim, For all your lovers have been shattered.


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I spoke to you in your prosperity; But you said, I will not listen. This has been your way from your youth, That you have not listened to My voice.


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The wind will shepherd all your shepherds, And your lovers will go into captivity; Then you will be ashamed and confounded Because of all your wickedness.


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O inhabitant of Lebanon, Nested among the cedars, How you will be pitied when pains come to you, Anguish like that of a woman giving birth.


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As I live, declares Jehovah, Even though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, yet I would tear you off,


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And I would give you into the hand of those who seek your life and into the hand of those whom you fear, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.


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I will cast you and your mother who bore you far away into another land where you were not born, and there you will die.


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Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered container? Or is he a vessel no one delights in? Why are he and his seed thrown away And cast into a land which they do not know?


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Thus says Jehovah, Write down this man as childless, A man who will not prosper in his days; For none of his seed will prosper By sitting on the throne of David Or by ruling again in Judah.


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Therefore thus says Jehovah the God of Israel concerning the shepherds who shepherd My people, You have scattered My flock and driven them away and have not visited them; I will visit upon you the evil of your deeds, declares Jehovah.


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Then I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all the lands where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their pasture; and they will be fruitful and multiply.


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And I will raise up shepherds over them who will shepherd them, and they will no longer fear or be dismayed, nor will any be missing, declares Jehovah.


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Indeed, days are coming, Declares Jehovah, When I will raise up to David a righteous Shoot; And He will reign as King and act prudently And will execute justice and righteousness in the land.


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In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell securely; And this is His name by which He will be called, Jehovah our righteousness.


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Therefore indeed, days are coming, declares Jehovah, when they will no longer say, As Jehovah lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;


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But, As Jehovah lives, who brought up and led back the seed of the house of Israel out of the land of the north and out of all the lands where I had driven them, that they might dwell in their own land.


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Concerning the prophets:My heart is broken within me; All my bones fail. I have become like a man who is drunk, Even like a mighty man who is overcome by wine, Because of Jehovah And because of the words of His holiness.


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For the land is full of adulterers; For the land mourns because of the curse. The pastures of the wilderness are dried up, And the course they run is evil, And their might is not right.


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For both the prophet and the priest are profane; Even in My house I have found their wickedness, Declares Jehovah.


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Therefore their way will become like slippery paths for them; In the darkness they will be driven and will fall in it; For I will bring evil on them In the year of their visitation, declares Jehovah.


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And in the prophets of Samaria I have seen an offensive thing:They prophesied by Baal And led My people Israel astray.


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And yet in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing:The committing of adultery and walking in falsehood; And they strengthen the hands of evildoers, So that none turn From their wickedness. All of them have become to Me like Sodom And her i


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Therefore thus says Jehovah of hosts concerning the prophets:I will feed them with wormwood And give them poisonous water to drink, For profaneness has gone forth From the prophets of Jerusalem into all the land.


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you; They are leading you to vanity; They speak a vision of their own heart, Not out of the mouth of Jehovah.


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They say continually to those who despise Me, Jehovah has spoken, You will have peace; And to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, They say, Evil will not come upon you.


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For who has stood in the council of Jehovah, That he should perceive and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and listened?


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Look, the storm wind of Jehovah! Wrath has gone forth, Even a whirling tempest; It will whirl down on the head of the wicked.


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The anger of Jehovah will not turn back Until He has executed and until He has accomplished The purposes of His heart; In the last days You will understand it clearly.


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But if they had stood in My council And had caused My people to hear My words, They would have turned them from their evil way And from the evil of their deeds.


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Can a man hide himself in secret places, So that I will not see him? declares Jehovah. Do I not fill the heavens and the earth? Declares Jehovah.


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I have heard what the prophets say, who prophesy falsehood in My name, saying, I have dreamed; I have dreamed.


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How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy falsehood and who are prophets of the deceit of their own heart,


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Who think to cause My people to forget My name with their dreams which they tell, each one to his neighbor, even as their fathers forgot My name because of Baal?


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The prophet who has a dream, let him tell the dream; and he with whom is My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What is the straw to the grain? declares Jehovah.


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Is not My word thus - like fire, declares Jehovah, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?


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Therefore indeed, I am against the prophets, declares Jehovah, who steal My words, each one from his neighbor.


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Indeed, I am against the prophets, declares Jehovah, who use their tongues and declare, He has declared.


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Indeed, I am against those who prophesy false dreams, declares Jehovah, and who tell them and lead My people astray by their lies and by their recklessness, although I did not send them or command them; neither do they profit this people at all, declares


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And when this people or the prophet or priest asks you, saying, What is the burden of Jehovah? then you shall say to them, What burden? I will even cast you off, declares Jehovah.


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And as for the prophet and the priest and the people who say, The burden of Jehovah, I will punish that man and his household.


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Thus you shall say every one to his neighbor and every one to his brother, What has Jehovah answered? or, What has Jehovah spoken?


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And you shall mention no more the burden of Jehovah, for every man's word will be his own burden; for you have perverted the words of the living God, Jehovah of hosts, our God.


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But if you say, The burden of Jehovah, therefore thus says Jehovah, Because you have said this word, The burden of Jehovah, and I have sent to you, saying, You shall not say, The burden of Jehovah,


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Therefore, I will utterly forget you and cast away from My presence you and the city which I gave to you and to your fathers.


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Jehovah showed me, and there were two baskets of figs placed before the temple of Jehovah, after Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon had exiled Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and the princes of Judah and the craftsmen and the smiths from


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One basket had very good figs, like first ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten because of their rottenness.


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And Jehovah said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs. The good figs are very good; the bad figs are very bad, which cannot be eaten because of their rottenness.


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Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, Like these good figs, so I will regard those who are exiled of Judah, whom I have sent from this place to the land of the Chaldeans, for good.


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And I will set My eyes upon them for good and will bring them back to this land and build them up and not tear them down, and I will plant them and not uproot them.


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And I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am Jehovah; and they will be My people, and I will be their God; for they will return to Me with their whole heart.


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And like the bad figs that cannot be eaten because of their rottenness, thus says Jehovah, so I will make Zedekiah, the king of Judah, and his princes and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and those who dwell in the land of Egypt -


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I will even make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb and a byword and a curse in all the places where I will drive them.


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And I will send sword and famine and pestilence upon them until they are consumed from the land which I gave to them and to their fathers.


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The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah (that is, the first year of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon),


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Which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,


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From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, the king of Judah, even unto this day, these twenty-three years, the word of Jehovah came to me, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you have not listened.


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And Jehovah sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear,


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Saying, Turn now every one from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and dwell upon the land which Jehovah has given you and your fathers from eternity to eternity;


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And do not go after other gods to serve them and worship them; and do not provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, and I will do you no harm.


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Yet you have not listened to Me, declares Jehovah, that you might provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.


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I will send for and take all the families of the north, declares Jehovah, that is, for Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and I will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations and will u


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And I will cause the voice of gladness and the voice of joy to perish from them, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.


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And this whole land will become a desolation and a waste, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.


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Then after the seventy years have been fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation for their iniquity, declares Jehovah, as well as the land of the Chaldeans, and I will make it an eternal desolation.


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And I will bring upon that land all My words which I have spoken against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.


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For many nations and great kings will make them serve them, even them, and I will recompense them according to their doing and according to the work of their hands.


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For thus said Jehovah the God of Israel to me, Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and make all the nations to whom I am sending you drink it.


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Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and her kings, her princes, to make them a desolation, a waste, a hissing and a curse, as it is this day;


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And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines (even Ashkelon and Gaza and Ekron and the remnant of Ashdod);


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And all the kings of the north, near and far, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the earth which are upon the surface of the ground and the king of Sheshach will drink it after them.


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And you shall say to them, Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Drink and be drunk, and vomit and fall, and rise no longer, because of the sword which I am sending among you.


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And if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, Thus says Jehovah of hosts, You shall surely drink it.


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For I am now beginning to bring evil on the city which is called by My name, and will you indeed go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling for a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, declares Jehovah of hosts.


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Therefore you shall prophesy against them all these words and say to them, Jehovah will roar from on high, And He will utter His voice from His holy habitation; He will roar mightily against His habitation; He will respond with a shout like those who trea


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The tumult comes to the ends of the earth, For Jehovah has a dispute with the nations. He is entering into judgment with all flesh And will give up the wicked to the sword, Declares Jehovah.


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, Evil is now going forth From nation to nation, And a great storm wind is being stirred up From the uttermost parts of the earth.


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And those slain by Jehovah on that day from one end of the earth unto the other end of the earth will not be mourned for or gathered or buried; they will be as dung on the surface of the ground.


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Howl, O shepherds, and cry out And roll in ashes, O majestic ones of the flock; For your days of slaughter have been fulfilled, And I will disperse you, so that you fall like a precious vessel.


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The sound of the cry of the shepherds! And the howl of the majestic ones of the flock! For Jehovah is destroying their pasture;


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Like a young lion He has left His lair, For their land has become a waste, Because of the oppressing sword And because of His burning anger.


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In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, this word came from Jehovah, saying,


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Thus says Jehovah, Stand in the court of the house of Jehovah and speak to all the cities of Judah, who come to worship in the house of Jehovah, all the words which I command you to speak to them, and do not take away a word.


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Perhaps they will listen and turn, every one from his evil way, that I may repent of the evil which I intend to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.


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And you shall say to them, Thus says Jehovah, If you will not listen to Me to walk in My law, which I have set before you,


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To listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I send to you, rising up early and sending them - and you have not listened -


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Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse to all the nations of the earth.


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And the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Jehovah.


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And when Jeremiah had finished speaking everything that Jehovah had commanded him to speak unto all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, You will surely die!


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Why have you prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying, This house will be like Shiloh and this city will be a desolation, without inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah.


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And the princes of Judah heard these things, and they went up from the king's house to the house of Jehovah and took their seat at the entrance of the new gate of the house of Jehovah.


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And the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes and to all the people, saying, A sentence of death on this man! For he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.


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Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, Jehovah sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words which you have heard.


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Now therefore amend your ways and your deeds and listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, and Jehovah will repent of the evil which He has spoken against you.


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Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and upon her inhabitants; for truly Jehovah has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.


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Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, This man is not worthy of a sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of Jehovah our God.


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Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah the king of Judah and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says Jehovah of hosts, Zion will be plowed as a field, And Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, And the mountain of the house as


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Did Hezekiah the king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear Jehovah and entreat the favor of Jehovah, and did not Jehovah repent of the evil which He had spoken against them? But we are about to bring a great evil on ourselves.


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And there was another man who prophesied in the name of Jehovah, Uriah the son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim, and he prophesied against this city and against this land words like all those of Jeremiah.


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And when King Jehoiakim and all his mighty men and all the princes heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard, he was afraid and fled and went to Egypt.


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And King Jehoiakim sent certain men to Egypt, that is, Elnathan the son of Achbor and men with him to Egypt;


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And they brought Uriah out of Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, and he struck him with the sword and threw his corpse into the graves of the common people.


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Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that he was not given into the hands of the people to put him to death.


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In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,


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And send them to the king of Edom and to the king of Moab and to the king of the children of Ammon and to the king of Tyre and to the king of Sidon by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah the king of Judah.


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And command them to go to their masters, saying, Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel:Thus you shall say to your masters,


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It is I who made the earth, and the people and the animals who are on the face of the earth, by My great power and by My outstretched arm; and I give it to whomever it seems right in My own eyes.


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And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and I have also given him the beasts of the field to serve him.


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And all the nations will serve him and his son and his son's son until the time of his own land comes, when many nations and great kings will make him serve them.


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But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon and will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with sword and with famine and with pestilence, declares Jehovah, until I have c


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But as for you, do not listen to your prophets and to your diviners and to your dreams and to your soothsayers and to your sorcerers who speak to you, saying, You will not serve the king of Babylon.


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For they prophesy falsehood to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land; and I will drive you out, and you will perish.


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But any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave in its own land, declares Jehovah, to till it and dwell there.


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And I spoke to Zedekiah the king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.


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Why will you die, you and your people, by sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as Jehovah has spoken concerning the nation which will not serve the king of Babylon?


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And do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, You will not serve the king of Babylon; for they are prophesying falsehood to you.


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For I have not sent them, declares Jehovah; but they prophesy falsely in My name, with the result that I will drive you out and you will perish, you and the prophets who prophesy to you.


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And I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says Jehovah, Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, The vessels of the house of Jehovah will now shortly be brought back from Babylon; for they are prophesy


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Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a desolation?


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But if they are prophets and if the word of Jehovah is with them, let them intercede to Jehovah of hosts that the vessels which are left in the house of Jehovah and in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon.


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For thus says Jehovah of hosts concerning the pillars and concerning the sea and concerning the bases and concerning the rest of the vessels which are left in this city,


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Which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon did not take when he took into exile Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.


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For thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels which are left in the house of Jehovah and in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem,


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They will be carried to Babylon and remain there until the day I visit them, declares Jehovah; then I will bring them up and restore them to this place.


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And in that same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of Jehovah in the presence of the priests and


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.


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Within two full years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the house of Jehovah, which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon took from this place and carried to Babylon.


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And Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon, I will bring back to this place, declares Jehovah; for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.


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Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and in the presence of all the people who were standing in the house of Jehovah.


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And the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen! May Jehovah do so. May Jehovah establish your words which you have prophesied and bring back the vessels of the house of Jehovah and all the exiles from Babylon to this place.


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Nevertheless hear now this word which I am about to speak in your ears and in the ears of all the people.


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The prophets who were before me and before you since long ago prophesied against many lands and against great kingdoms, of war and of evil and of pestilence.


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The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of that prophet comes to pass, then the prophet will be known as one whom Jehovah has truly sent.


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And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus says Jehovah, Even so I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations within two full years. Then the prophet Jeremiah went his way.


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And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah after the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke bar from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,


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Go and speak to Hananiah, saying, Thus says Jehovah, You have broken the wooden yoke bars, but you have made in their place iron yoke bars.


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For thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, I have put an iron yoke upon the neck of all these nations that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon; and they will serve him. And I have also given the beasts of the field to him.


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And the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, Listen now, O Hananiah, Jehovah has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in falsehood.


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Therefore thus says Jehovah, I will send you from the face of the earth. This year you will die because you have spoken rebellion against Jehovah.


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And these are the words of the letter which the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the rest of the elders of the exile and to the priests and to the prophets and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon


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(After King Jeconiah and the queen mother and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah, and Jerusalem and the craftsmen and the smiths had gone out from Jerusalem),


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By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah the king of Judah sent to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon at Babylon, saying:


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon,


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Take wives and beget sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters, and multiply there and do not become few.


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And seek the peace of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to Jehovah for it; for in its peace you will have peace.


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For thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Do not let your prophets, who are in your midst, and your diviners deceive you; and do not listen to your dreams, which you cause to be dreamed.


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For thus says Jehovah, When seventy years are fulfilled for Babylon, I will visit you and establish My good word to you, to bring you back to this place.


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For I know the thoughts that I think about you, declares Jehovah, thoughts of peace and not for evil, to give you a latter end and a hope.


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And I will be found by you, declares Jehovah. And I will turn your captivity and gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, declares Jehovah, and bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.


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Indeed thus says Jehovah concerning the king who sits on the throne of David and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who did not go out with you into exile:


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, I am about to send upon them sword, famine, and pestilence, and I will make them like vile figs, which cannot be eaten because of rottenness.


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And I will pursue them with sword, with famine, and with pestilence, and I will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth to be a curse and an astonishment and a hissing and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them;


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Because they have not listened to My words, declares Jehovah, which I sent to them by My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending; but you did not listen, declares Jehovah.


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you falsehood in My name, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, and he


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And because of them a curse will be taken up by all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon, saying, May Jehovah make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;


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Because they have committed folly in Israel and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives and have spoken a word of falsehood in My name, which I did not command them to do; indeed I am the One who knows and am witness, declares Jehovah.


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Thus speaks Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are in Jerusalem and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,


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Jehovah has made you a priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, that there should be officers in the house of Jehovah over every madman who prophesies so that you might put him in the stocks and in the iron collar.


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For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, It will be a long time; build houses and dwell in them, and plant gardens and eat their produce.


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Send word to all the exiles, saying, Thus says Jehovah concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite, Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, when I did not send him, and has made you trust in falsehood,


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Therefore thus says Jehovah, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his seed:He will not have anyone living among this people and will not see the good that I am about to do to My people, declares Jehovah, because he has spoken rebellion against Jehov


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Thus speaks Jehovah the God of Israel, saying, Write in a book all the words which I have spoken to you.


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Yes indeed, days are coming, declares Jehovah, when I will turn the captivity of My people Israel and Judah, says Jehovah, and I will bring them back to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.


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Ask now and see Whether a man can give birth. Why do I see every man With his hands on his loins like a woman about to give birth And every face turned pale?


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Alas! For that day is great, And there is none like it; And it is a time of distress for Jacob, But he will be saved out of it.


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And on that day, declares Jehovah of hosts, I will break his yoke from your neck and tear off your bonds, and strangers will no longer make him serve them.


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Therefore do not fear, O Jacob My servant, declares Jehovah, And do not be dismayed, O Israel; For indeed, I will save you from afar, And your seed from the land of their captivity; And Jacob will return and be undisturbed and at ease, And no one will fri


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For I am with you, declares Jehovah, to save you; For I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have scattered you; But I will not make a full end of you, But will correct you in measure And will by no means leave you unpunished.


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All your lovers have forgotten you; They do not search for you; For I have struck you with the striking of an enemy, With the chastisement of one who is cruel, Because of the greatness of your iniquity; Your sins are numerous.


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Why do you cry out over your hurt? Your pain is incurable. Because of the greatness of your iniquity, Because your sins are numerous, I have done these things to you.


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Therefore all those who consume you will be consumed, And all those who distress you, every one of them, will go into captivity; And those who plunder you will become plunder, And all those who prey on you I will make a prey.


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For I will bring you recovery And will heal you of your wounds, declares Jehovah; Because they have called you an outcast, saying, She is Zion, whom no one searches after.


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Thus says Jehovah, I will turn the captivity of the tents of Jacob And have compassion on his dwelling places; And the city will be rebuilt on its mound, And the palace will be inhabited after its own manner.


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And out from them will come thanksgiving And the voice of those who make merry. And I will multiply them, so that they will not be few; And I will cause them to be honored, so that they will not be small.


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And their children will be as they were of old, And their assembly will be established before Me; And I will punish all those who oppress them.


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And their leader will be one of them, And their ruler will come out from their midst. And I will bring him near, and he will approach Me; For who else would be bold enough To approach Me? declares Jehovah.


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Look, the storm wind of Jehovah! Wrath has gone forth, A whirling tempest; It will whirl down on the head of the wicked.


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The burning anger of Jehovah will not turn back, Until He has executed and until He has accomplished The purposes of His heart; In the last days You will understand it.


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At that time, declares Jehovah, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.


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Thus says Jehovah, The people who survived the sword Found favor in the wilderness - Even Israel, when I went to give him rest.


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Jehovah appeared to me from afar, saying, Indeed I have loved you with an eternal love, Therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness.


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I will build you again, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. Again you will adorn yourself with your tambourines And will go forth in the dance of those who make merry.


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Again you will plant vineyards On the mountains of Samaria; The planters will plant And will partake of the fruit.


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For there will be a day when watchmen call out In the hill country of Ephraim, Saying, Arise and let us go up to Zion, To Jehovah our God.


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For thus says Jehovah, Give a ringing shout with joy for Jacob, And cry out at the head of the nations; Announce, praise, and say, O Jehovah, save Your people, The remnant of Israel.


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I will bring them From the land of the north, And I will gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, The blind and the lame among them, The pregnant woman and she who is travailing together, A great assembly; they will return here.


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They will come with weeping, And with supplications I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the waterbrooks In a straight way, in which they will not stumble; For I am a Father to Israel, And Ephraim is My firstborn.


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Hear the word of Jehovah, O nations, And declare in the coastlands from afar, And say, He who scattered Israel will gather him And keep him, as a shepherd his flock.


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And they will come and sing in the height of Zion, And they will flow forth to the goodness of Jehovah - To the grain and to the new wine and to the fresh oil And to the young of the flock and of the herd; And their soul will be like a watered garden, And


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Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, And the young men and the old men together, And I will turn their mourning to gladness And comfort them and cause them to rejoice after their sorrow.


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And I will fill the soul of the priests with abundance, And My people will be satisfied with My goodness, Declares Jehovah.


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Thus says Jehovah, A voice is heard in Ramah, A wailing, a very bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; She refuses to be comforted for her children, Because they are no more.


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Thus says Jehovah, Hold back your voice from weeping And your eyes from tears; For there is a reward for your work, declares Jehovah; And they will return from the land of the enemy.


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And there is hope for your latter end, declares Jehovah, That your children will return to their own border.


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Indeed I have heard Ephraim lamenting, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, Like an untrained calf; Bring me back that I may be restored, For You are Jehovah my God.


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For after I turned back, I repented; And after I was instructed, I struck myself on the thigh. I was ashamed and even confounded, For I bear the reproach of my youth.


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Is Ephraim a precious son to Me? Or a child of My good pleasure? For as often as I speak against him, I surely remember him more; Therefore My bowels moan for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares Jehovah.


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Set up road markers for yourself; Make signposts for yourself; Pay attention to the highway, The way you went; Return, O virgin of Israel; Return to these cities of yours.


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How long will you wander here and there, O apostate daughter? For Jehovah has created a new thing in the earth:A female will encompass a mighty man.


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Once more they will say this word in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I turn again their captivity, Jehovah bless you, O habitation of righteousness, O mountain of holiness.


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And Judah and all its cities will dwell together in it, the farmers and they who wander with the flocks.


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Indeed, days are coming, declares Jehovah, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.


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And as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, declares Jehovah.


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In those days they will no longer say, The fathers eat sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge.


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For everyone will die for his own iniquity; every man who eats sour grapes; his own teeth will be set on edge.


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Indeed, days are coming, declares Jehovah, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,


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Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by their hand to bring them out from the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was their Husband, declares Jehovah.


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But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares Jehovah:I will put My law within them and write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be My people.


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And they will no longer teach, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for all of them will know Me, from the little one among them even to the great one among them, declares Jehovah, for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.


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Thus says Jehovah, Who gives the sun for light by day And the order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar - Jehovah of hosts is His name -


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If this order departs From before Me, declares Jehovah, Then the seed of Israel will also cease From being a nation before Me forever.


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Thus says Jehovah, If the heavens above can be measured, And the foundations of the earth below can be examined carefully, Then I will also cast off all the seed of Israel For all they have done, declares Jehovah.


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Indeed, days are coming, declares Jehovah, when the city will be built unto Jehovah from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.


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And the measuring line will go out even further beyond it to the hill of Gareb and will turn toward Goah.


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And the whole valley of corpses and of fatty ashes and all the fields as far as the brook of Kidron unto the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east will be holy to Jehovah; it will not be uprooted or torn down any more forever.


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The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah in the tenth year of Zedekiah the king of Judah. That year was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.


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Now at that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah's house.


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For Zedekiah the king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy, saying, Thus says Jehovah, I am about to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it;


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And Zedekiah the king of Judah will not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon and will speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes will see his eyes;


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And he will bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and he will be there until I visit him, declares Jehovah, though you fight with the Chaldeans you will not prosper?


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Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you, saying, Buy for yourself my field which is in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.


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And Hanamel, my uncle's son, came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of Jehovah and said to me, Buy my field which is in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin, for you have the right of possession, and the right of redemption is yours; buy


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And I bought the field which was in Anathoth from Hanamel, my uncle's son, and I weighed out for him the money, seventeen shekels of silver.


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Then I took the deed of purchase, the sealed part, containing the terms and conditions, and the open part;


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And I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel, my uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, before all the Jews who were sitting in the court of the gu


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Take these deeds, this deed of purchase, both the one which is sealed and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel that they may remain many days.


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For thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Houses and fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land.


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And after I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to Jehovah, saying,


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Ah, Lord Jehovah! It is You who have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm. Nothing is too wonderful for You,


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Who shows lovingkindness to thousands but repays the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. O great and mighty God, whose name is Jehovah of hosts,


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Great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, giving to each according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds;


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Who have set signs and wonders unto this day in the land of Egypt and in Israel and among mankind and have made a name for Yourself, as in this day.


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And You brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders, and with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror.


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And You gave them this land, which You had sworn to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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And they entered and took possession of it, but they did not listen to Your voice or walk in Your law. They have not done anything of all that You commanded them to do; therefore You have caused all this evil to happen to them.


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See the siege mounds, which come up to the city to capture it. And the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans, who are fighting against it, by sword and famine and pestilence. And what You have spoken has come to pass, even as You see it.


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But You, O Lord Jehovah, said to me, Buy for yourself the field with money and call witnesses. Yet the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.


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Therefore thus says Jehovah, I am now giving this city into the hand of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, and he will take it.


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And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come and set this city on fire, and they will burn it and the houses upon whose roofs the people have offered incense to Baal and poured out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.


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For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil in My sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked Me to anger by the work of their hands, declares Jehovah.


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For this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger and of My wrath, from the day that they built it even unto this day, so that I should remove it from My sight;


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Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger - they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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And they have turned their back to Me and not their face, although I taught them, rising up early and teaching; but they would not listen so as to receive instruction.


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And they built the high places of Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom in order to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through fire to Molech, something I did not command them to do, nor did it come up in My heart that they should do this abom


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And now therefore thus says Jehovah the God of Israel concerning this city of which you say, It has been given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and by famine and by pestilence.


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Indeed, I will gather them out from all the lands where I have driven them in My anger and in My wrath and in great indignation; and I will bring them back to this place and make them dwell in safety.


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And I will give them one heart and one way, to fear Me all the days, for their own good and for the good of their children after them.


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And I will make an eternal covenant with them that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; and I will put My fear into their hearts, so that they will not turn away from Me.


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And I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness with all My heart and with all My soul.


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For thus says Jehovah, Just as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good that I promised them.


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And fields will be bought in this land of which you are saying, It is a desolation, without man or beast; it has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.


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They will buy fields with money and sign and seal deeds and call witnesses in the land of Benjamin and all around Jerusalem and in the cities of Judah and in the cities of the hill country and in the cities of the lowland and in the cities of the Negev, f


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And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah a second time while he was still shut up in the court of the guard, saying,


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For thus says Jehovah the God of Israel concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which were torn down as a defense against the siege mounds and against the sword,


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And who came to fight with the Chaldeans and to fill the houses with the corpses of men whom I have struck in My anger and My wrath, and this city from which I have hidden My face because of all their wickedness:


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I am about to bring it recovery and healing and will heal them; and I will reveal to them an abundance of peace and truth.


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And I will turn the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel and build them up as in the former time.


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And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they have sinned against Me, and forgive all their iniquities, by which they have sinned against Me and by which they have transgressed against Me.


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And it will be a name of gladness and a praise and a glory to Me before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good that I am about to do for them; and they will fear and tremble because of all the good and because of all the peace that I


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Thus says Jehovah, Again there will be heard in this place concerning which you say, It is a waste, without man and without beast, and in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without


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The voice of gladness and the voice of joy and the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride and the voice of those who say, Praise Jehovah of hosts, for Jehovah is good, for His lovingkindness is forever, as they bring a sacrifice of thanksgivin


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For thus says Jehovah of hosts, Again there will be in this place which is a waste, without man and without beast, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds making their flock lie down.


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Indeed, days are coming, declares Jehovah, when I will establish the good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.


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In those days and at that time I will cause a Shoot of righteousness to shoot forth unto David, and He will execute justice and righteousness in the land.


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In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely; and this is the name by which she will be called:Jehovah our righteousness.


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And the Levitical priests will never lack a man before Me to offer up a burnt offering and to offer up a meal offering and to make a sacrifice continually.


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Thus says Jehovah, If you can break My covenant with respect to the day and My covenant with respect to the night, so that day and night will not be at their appointed time,


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Then also My covenant can be broken with David My servant, so that he will not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levitical priests as My ministers.


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As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the seed of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.


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Have you not seen what this people has spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah has chosen, these He has rejected? And they despise My people, so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.


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Thus says Jehovah, If My covenant with respect to day and night does not stand, if I have not established the statutes of heaven and earth,


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Then I will also reject the seed of Jacob and David My servant and will not take rulers from his seed to be over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for I will turn their captivity and will have compassion on them.


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The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah when Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion and all the peoples were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying,


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Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, Go and speak to Zedekiah the king of Judah and say to him, Thus says Jehovah, I am about to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire;


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And you will not escape from his hand but will surely be captured and given into his hand; and your eyes will see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he will speak with you mouth to mouth, and you will go into Babylon.


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Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O Zedekiah king of Judah, Thus says Jehovah concerning you, You will not die by the sword.


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You will die in peace; and as there were burnings for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so men will burn spices for you and wail for you, saying, Alas, lord! Indeed, it is I who have spoken the word, declares Jehovah.


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When the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah, for these were the fortified cities that remained among the cities of Judah.


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The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty to them,


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That every one should set free his male servant and every one his female servant, who is a Hebrew male or a Hebrew female, so that no one should exact service of them, that is, of a Jew his brother.


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And all the princes and all the people who had entered into the covenant obeyed, so as to set free every one his male servant and every one his female servant, so that no one would exact service of them again; and they obeyed and set them free.


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But afterward they turned around and took back the male servants and the female servants, whom they had set free, and they brought them into subjection as male servants and as female servants.


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Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,


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At the end of every seven years each of you shall set free his brother who is a Hebrew, who was sold to you and has served you six years, and you shall set him free from you; but your fathers did not listen to Me or incline their ear.


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And you had turned in these days and done what is right in My eyes to proclaim liberty, each one to his neighbor, and you made a covenant before Me in the house which is called by My name.


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But you turned and profaned My name when you took back each one his male servant and each one his female servant, whom you had set free according to their desire, and brought them into subjection to be your male servants and your female servants.


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Therefore thus says Jehovah, You have not listened to Me to proclaim liberty each one to his brother and each one to his neighbor; I am now proclaiming liberty to you, declares Jehovah, to sword and to pestilence and to famine, and I will make you a terro


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And I will give the men who transgressed My covenant and did not establish the words of the covenant which they made before Me when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts,


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The princes of Judah and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs and the priests and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf -


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Indeed, I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life, and their corpses will be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.


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And Zedekiah the king of Judah and his princes I will give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life and into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, which has withdrawn from you.


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I hereby give the command, declares Jehovah, to bring them back to this city; and they will fight against it and capture it and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.


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The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, saying,


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Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak with them and bring them to the house of Jehovah, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.


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So I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons and the whole house of the Rechabites,


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And I brought them to the house of Jehovah, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was near the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.


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And I set before the members of the house of the Rechabites pitchers full of wine and cups; and I said to them, Drink wine.


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But they said, We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, You shall not drink wine, you and your sons, forever.


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And you shall not build a house, and you shall not sow seed, and you shall not plant a vineyard or have one; but you shall dwell in tents all your days, that you may live many days on the land where you are sojourning.


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And we have listened to the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, to all that he commanded us:to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, and our daughters,


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But we have dwelt in tents and have listened to and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.


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But when Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon came up against the land we said, Come and let us go to Jerusalem from before the army of the Chaldeans and from before the army of the Syrians. So we are dwelling in Jerusalem.


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Go and say to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction by listening to My words? declares Jehovah.


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The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, by which he commanded his sons to drink no wine, have been established, and they have drunk no wine unto this day, for they have obeyed the command of their father. But I have spoken to you, rising up early and spea


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I have also sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Turn now every one from his evil way, and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods to serve them; and you will dwell in the land which I gave to you an


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But the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have established the commandment of their father, which he commanded them, yet this people have not listened to Me.


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Therefore thus says Jehovah the God of hosts, the God of Israel:I am about to bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil which I have spoken against them; because I spoke to them, but they did not listen; and I called to them, bu


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But to the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said, Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Because you have listened to the commandment of Jonadab your father and have kept all his commandments and have done according to all that he commanded you;


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Therefore thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Jonadab the son of Rechab will never lack a man to stand before Me forever.


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And in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,


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Take a scroll book and write on it all the words which I have spoken to you concerning Israel and concerning Judah and concerning all the nations from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah even to this day.


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Perhaps the house of Judah will listen to all the evil which I intend to do to them so that they may turn, each one from his evil way, that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.


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Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Jehovah, which He had spoken to him, on a scroll book.


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Therefore you shall go and read in the scroll on which you have written from my mouth the words of Jehovah in the ears of the people in the house of Jehovah on the day of fasting; and you shall also read them in the ears of all Judah who come from their c


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Perhaps their supplication will come before Jehovah, and each one will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and the wrath which Jehovah has spoken against this people.


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And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, to read in the book the words of Jehovah in the house of Jehovah.


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And in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, in the ninth month, they proclaimed a fast before Jehovah for all the people in Jerusalem and for all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem.


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Then Baruch read the words of Jeremiah in the book in the house of Jehovah, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of the house of Jehovah, in the ears of all the people.


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He went down to the king's house into the chamber of the scribe. And there they were, all the princes sitting there:Elishama the scribe and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah and Elnathan the son of Achbor and Gemariah the son of Shaphan and Zedekiah the son of


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And Micaiah told them all the words which he had heard when Baruch read in the book in the ears of the people.


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Then all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the scroll in which you read in the ears of the people and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand an


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And when they heard all the words, they turned in fear one to another and said to Baruch, Indeed we must report all these words to the king.


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And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us please, how did you write all these words? Was it from his mouth?


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Then Baruch said to them, He read to me all these words from his mouth, and I wrote with ink in the book.


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So they went to the king in the court, but they had deposited the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe; and they reported all the words in the ears of the king.


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Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king and in the ears of all the princes who stood by the king.


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Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, and the fire of the brazier was burning before him.


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And as Jehudi would read three or four columns, the king would cut it with a scribe's knife and throw the pieces into the fire which was in the brazier, until the whole scroll was consumed in the fire which was in the brazier.


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And the king and all his servants who heard all these words were not afraid and did not rend their garments.


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Even when Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.


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And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son and Seraiah the son of Azriel and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but Jehovah hid them.


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And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah after the king had burned the scroll and the words which Baruch had written from the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,


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Take again another scroll, and write on it all the former words that were on the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah burned.


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And concerning Jehoiakim the king of Judah you shall say, Thus says Jehovah, You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written in it, saying, The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land and will cause man and beast to cease from


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Therefore thus says Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim the king of Judah, He will have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his corpse will be cast out to the heat by day and to the frost by night.


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And I will punish him and his offspring and his servants for their iniquity, and I will bring upon them and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem and on the men of Judah all the evil which I have spoken against them. But they would not listen.


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Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the son of Neriah, the scribe, and he wrote on it from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim the king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many more words like those were ad


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And Zedekiah the son of Josiah, whom Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah, reigned as king instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim.


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But he did not listen, neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land, to the words of Jehovah, which He spoke through Jeremiah the prophet.


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And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Pray to Jehovah our God for us.


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And the army of Pharaoh had come out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they withdrew from Jerusalem.


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Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, Thus you shall say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me:Pharaoh's army, which came out to you to help, is now returning to its own land of Egypt.


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The Chaldeans will again return and fight against this city, and they will capture it and burn it with fire.


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Thus says Jehovah, Do not deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans will surely go away from us; for they will not go away.


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For even if you had struck down the whole army of the Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and only wounded men remained among them, they would rise up each one in his tent and burn this city with fire.


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And when the army of the Chaldeans had withdrawn from Jerusalem at the presence of the army of Pharaoh,


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Jeremiah tried to go out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to receive a portion there among the people.


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When he was at the Gate of Benjamin, there was a captain of the guard there whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are deserting to the Chaldeans!


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And Jeremiah said, It is false! I am not deserting to the Chaldeans. But he did not listen to him. And Irijah seized Jeremiah and brought him to the princes.


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And the princes were angry with Jeremiah and struck him and put him in prison, in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made it into a prison.


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And Zedekiah the king sent and took him out; and the king questioned him in his house secretly and said, Is there any word from Jehovah? And Jeremiah said, There is. And he said, You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.


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And Jeremiah also said to Zedekiah the king, In what have I sinned against you or against your servants or against this people, that you have put me in prison?


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And where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land?


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And now hear, O my lord the king; let my supplication come before you, and do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.


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So Zedekiah the king commanded, and they placed Jeremiah in the court of the guard, and gave him a loaf of bread daily from the bakers' street, until all the bread was gone from the city. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.


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And Shephatiah the son of Mattan and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur and Jucal the son of Shelemiah and Pashhur the son of Malchijah heard the words that Jeremiah was speaking to all the people, saying,


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Thus says Jehovah, He who remains in this city will die by sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out to the Chaldeans will live and have his own life as spoil and live.


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Thus says Jehovah, This city will surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.


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Then the princes said to the king, Now let this man be put to death, because of the way he is weakening the hands of the men of war who are left in this city and the hands of all the people by speaking such words to them; for this man is not seeking the w


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So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the pit of Malchijah, the king's son, which was in the court of the guard; and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the pit there was no water but only mire, and Jeremiah sank into the mire.


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When Ebed-melech the Cushite, a eunuch, heard, while he was in the king's house, that they had put Jeremiah into the pit (now the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin),


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O my lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the pit; and he will die in the place where he is because of the famine, for there is no more bread in the city.


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Then the king commanded Ebed- melech the Cushite, saying, Take from here thirty men with you, and bring Jeremiah the prophet up out of the pit before he dies.


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So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the king's house under the treasury and took old rags and worn- out garments from there, and let them down with ropes into the pit to Jeremiah.


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And Ebed-melech the Cushite said to Jeremiah, Put the old rags and garments under your armpits below the ropes. And Jeremiah did so.


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So they drew Jeremiah up with the ropes and lifted him out of the pit, and Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard.


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Then King Zedekiah sent men and had Jeremiah the prophet brought to him at the third entrance which is in the house of Jehovah; and the king said to Jeremiah, I am going to ask you something; do not hide anything from me.


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And Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I tell you, indeed will you not put me to death? And if I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.


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Then King Zedekiah swore to Jeremiah secretly, saying, As Jehovah lives, who made these lives of ours, I will not put you to death or give you into the hand of those who seek your life.


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Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, Thus says Jehovah the God of hosts, the God of Israel, If you will indeed surrender to the princes of the king of Babylon, you will live, and this city will not be burned with fire, and you and your house will live.


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But if you do not surrender to the princes of the king of Babylon, this city will be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they will burn it with fire, and you will not escape out of their hand.


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Then Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews who have deserted to the Chaldeans, that they will give me into their hand and they will abuse me.


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And Jeremiah said, They will not give you up. Listen now to the voice of Jehovah in what I am speaking to you, and it will be well with you, and your soul will live.


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Then all the women who have been left in the house of the king of Judah will be brought out to the princes of the king of Babylon, and the women will say concerning the king, Your familiar friends Have deceived you and prevailed over you; While yo


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And they will lead out all your wives and your sons to the Chaldeans, and you yourself will not escape from their hand but will be seized by the hand of the king of Babylon, and you will cause this city to be burned with fire.


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But if the princes hear that I have spoken with you and they come to you and say to you, Tell us now what you said to the king; do not hide it from us, and we will not put you to death; now what did the king say to you?


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Then you shall say to them, I made my supplication before the king that he would not send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.


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Then all the princes came to Jeremiah and asked him. And he told them according to all these words which the king commanded. So they ceased to speak with him, for the matter had not been heard.


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And when Jerusalem was captured (in the ninth year of Zedekiah the king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon and his whole army came to Jerusalem and besieged it;


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In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city),


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All the princes of the king of Babylon came and sat down in the middle gate:Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebu, Sar-sechim the chief of the eunuchs, Nergal-sharezer the chief of the magi, and all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.


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And when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, they fled and went out from the city by night by way of the king's garden through the gate between the two walls; and he went out by the way toward the Arabah.


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And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and they overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he pronounced judgments on h


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Then the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes at Riblah; the king of Babylon also slaughtered all the nobles of Judah.


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And the Chaldeans burned the king's house and the houses of the people with fire and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.


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And the rest of the people who remained in the city, both the deserters who deserted to him and the rest of the people who remained, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard carried away into exile to Babylon.


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But some of the poorest people who had nothing, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard left in the land of Judah and gave them vineyards and fields at that time.


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And Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon commanded concerning Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, saying,


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So Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard sent men, and Nebushazban the chief of the eunuchs and Nergal-sharezer the chief of the magi and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon


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Also sent men and took Jeremiah from the court of the guard and gave him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him home. And he dwelt among the people.


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Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Cushite, saying, Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, I am about to bring My words against this city for evil and not for good; and they will come to pass before you on that day.


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But I will deliver you on that day, declares Jehovah, and you will not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.


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For I will surely save you, and you will not fall by the sword, but you will have your own life as spoil, because you have put your trust in Me, declares Jehovah.


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The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah after Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him while he was bound in chains among all the exiles of Jerusalem and Judah, who were being exiled to Babylon.


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Now the captain of the bodyguard had taken Jeremiah and said to him, Jehovah your God spoke this evil against this place.


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And Jehovah has caused it to come to pass and done as He had spoken, because you have sinned against Jehovah and have not listened to His voice; therefore this thing has come upon you.


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And now I release you today from the chains which are on your hands. If it is good in your sight to come to Babylon with me, come, and I will look after you; but if it is evil in your sight to come with me to Babylon, let it be so. See, all the land is be


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While he had still not turned away, he said, Return to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever it is right in your sight to go. An


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And Jeremiah came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam at Mizpah and dwelt with him among the people who were left in the land.


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And when all the captains of the forces that were in the field, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam over the land and had committed to him men and women and little children and those of the poor of t


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They came to Gedaliah at Mizpah, that is, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.


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And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore to them and to their men, saying, Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans; dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you.


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Now as for me, I will dwell in Mizpah to stand before the Chaldeans who come to us; but you, gather wine and summer fruit and oil and put them in your holds, and dwell in your cities which you have taken.


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And all the Jews who were in Moab and among the children of Ammon and in Edom and who were in all the lands also heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah and had appointed over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan.


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And all the Jews returned from all the places to which they had been driven and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruit in great abundance.


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And Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces who were in the field came to Gedaliah at Mizpah.


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And they said to him, Are you at all aware that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam would not believe them.


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Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah in Mizpah, saying, Let me go and strike Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no one will know. Why should he take your life and all the Jews who are gathered to you be scattered and the remnant of Jud


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But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, Do not do this thing, for you are speaking falsehood concerning Ishmael.


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And in the seventh month Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family and one of the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam at Mizpah. And there they ate bread together in Mizpah.


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Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him rose up and struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword and put him to death, whom the king of Babylon had appointed governor in the land.


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And Ishmael also struck down all the Jews who were with him, that is, with Gedaliah in Mizpah, as well as the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war.


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Men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men, with shaved beards and torn garments, having cut themselves and having meal offerings and incense in their hand to bring to the house of Jehovah.


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And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went; and as he met them he said to them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.


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And when they came into the midst of the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, he and the men who were with him, slaughtered them and cast them into the pit.


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But ten men were found among them who said to Ishmael, Do not kill us, for we have hidden stores of wheat and barley and oil and honey in the field. So he refrained and did not put them to death along with their brothers.


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And the pit into which Ishmael cast all the corpses of the men whom he had slain because of Gedaliah (it was the one which Asa the king had made on account of Baasha the king of Israel), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled with the slain.


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Then Ishmael took captive all the remnant of the people who were in Mizpah:the king's daughters and all the people who were left in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; so Ishmael the son of N


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But when Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces who were with him heard of all the evil which Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,


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They took all the men and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and they found him by the great pool which was in Gibeon.


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And when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces who were with him, they rejoiced.


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And so all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah turned around and came back and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.


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But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men and went to the children of Ammon.


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Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces with him took all the remnant of the people whom he brought back from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after he had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam:mighty men, men of war,


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And they went and stayed in Geruth Chimham, which is near Bethlehem, in order to go and enter into Egypt


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Because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them since Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.


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And all the captains of the forces and Johanan the son of Kareah and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah and all the people, from the small even unto the great, came near


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And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let our supplication come before you, and pray for us to Jehovah your God for all this remnant - for we are left only a few out of many, as your eyes see us -


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Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard. I will pray to Jehovah your God according to your words; and whatever Jehovah answers you, I will tell you; I will not withhold anything from you.


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And they said to Jeremiah, May Jehovah be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not do according to every word with which Jehovah your God sends you to us.


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Whether it is good or whether it is evil, we will listen to the voice of Jehovah our God, to whom we send you, that it may be well with us, when we listen to the voice of Jehovah our God.


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Then he called Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces who were with him and all the people, from the small even unto the great,


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And said to them, Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before Him:


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If you will still remain in this land, I will build you up and not tear you down, and I will plant you and not pluck you up; for I repent of the evil which I have done to you.


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Do not fear the king of Babylon, whom you fear. Do not fear him, declares Jehovah, for I am with you to save you and to deliver you from his hand.


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And I will show compassions to you, that he may have compassion on you and may bring you back to your own land.


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But if you say, We will not remain in this land, so that you do not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God,


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Saying, No, but we will go to the land of Egypt, where we will not see war or hear the sound of the trumpet or be hungry for bread, and we will dwell there;


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Then hear now the word of Jehovah, O remnant of Judah:Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, If indeed you set your faces to go to Egypt and go to sojourn there,


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Then the sword, which you fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, about which you are worried, will follow hard after you there in Egypt; and you will die there.


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And all the men who set their faces to go to Egypt, to sojourn there, will die by sword, by famine, and by pestilence; and they will have no survivors or any who have escaped from the evil which I will bring on them.


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For thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, As My anger and My wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. And you will become an execration and an astonishment and a curse


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Jehovah has spoken concerning you, O remnant of Judah, Do not go to Egypt! Know assuredly that today I have testified against you,


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That you deceived yourselves when you sent me to Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us to Jehovah our God, and whatever Jehovah our God says, tell this to us, and we will do it.


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And today I have told you, but you have not listened to the voice of Jehovah your God in anything for which He has sent me to you.


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And now therefore know assuredly that you will die by sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go and sojourn.


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And when Jeremiah finished speaking to all the people all the words of Jehovah their God, with which Jehovah their God had sent him to them, all these words,


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Azariah the son of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the proud men spoke to Jeremiah, saying, You are speaking falsehood; Jehovah our God has not sent you to say, You shall not go to Egypt to sojourn there.


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But Baruch the son of Neriah is inciting you against us so as to give us into the hand of the Chaldeans that they may put us to death or take us into exile to Babylon.


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So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces and all the people did not listen to the voice of Jehovah to remain in the land of Judah.


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But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces took all the remnant of Judah, who had returned from all the nations where they had been driven in order to sojourn in the land of Judah,


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The men and the women and the little children and the king's daughters and every person whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, as well as Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neria


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And they came to the land of Egypt (for they did not listen to the voice of Jehovah) and came as far as Tahpanhes.


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Take large stones in your hand, and hide them in the mortar in the brickwork which is at the entrance of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes in the sight of the Jews.


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And say to them, Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, I am going to send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and I will set his throne above these stones which I have hidden; and he will spread his canopy over them.


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And he will come and strike the land of Egypt:those who are for death to death, and those who are for captivity to captivity, and those who are for the sword to the sword.


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And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and carry them away captive; and he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd wraps himself with his garment; and he will go out from there in peace.


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And he will smash the pillars of Beth- shemesh, which is in the land of Egypt, and he will burn the houses of the gods of Egypt with fire.


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The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who dwelt in the land of Egypt, who dwelt at Migdol and at Tahpanhes and at Memphis and in the land of Pathros, saying,


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, You have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah; and see, today they are a desolation, and no one dwells in them,


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Because of their wickedness which they did to provoke Me to anger, in that they went to burn incense to serve other gods, which they did not know, neither they, you, nor your fathers.


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Yet I sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Do not do this abominable thing which I hate.


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But they did not listen or incline their ear to turn from their wickedness, so as not to burn incense to other gods.


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And My wrath and My anger poured forth and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became a waste and a desolation, as they are this day.


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And now thus says Jehovah the God of hosts, the God of Israel, Why do you do a great evil against your souls, so as to cut off from yourselves man and woman, little one and nursing child, from the midst of Judah, leaving yourselves no remnant,


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Provoking Me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have come to sojourn, so that you might be cut off and that you might become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?


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Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers and the wickedness of the kings of Judah and the wickedness of their wives and your own wickedness and the wickedness of your wives, which they did in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?


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They have not become contrite even to this day, nor have they feared or walked in My law or in My statutes, which I set before you and before your fathers.


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Therefore thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, I will set My face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah.


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And I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to go to the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they will all be consumed; in the land of Egypt they will fall; by sword and by famine they will be consumed. From the small even unto the great


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And I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem:with sword, with famine, and with pestilence.


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And there will not be one who has escaped nor a survivor of the remnant of Judah, who went to sojourn there in the land of Egypt, even to return to the land of Judah, where they desire to return to dwell; for they will not return, except for some who will


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Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods and all the women who stood by, a great assemblage, even all the people who dwelt in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah, saying,


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But we will surely do everything which has gone out of our mouth, burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, just as we ourselves and our fathers, our kings, and our princes did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Je


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But since we ceased burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by sword and by famine.


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And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out libations to her, did we make cakes to her, making images of her and pouring out libations to her, without our husbands?


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Then Jeremiah spoke to all the people concerning the men and concerning the women, even concerning all the peo- ple who had given him that answer, saying,


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As for the incense which you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not Jehovah remember them, and did it not come up in His heart?


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And Jehovah was no longer able to bear it because of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations which you committed; therefore your land has become a desolation and an astonishment and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.


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Because you burned incense and because you sinned against Jehovah and did not listen to the voice of Jehovah or walk in His law or in His statutes or in His testimonies, therefore this evil has happened to you, as it is this day.


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Then Jeremiah said to all the people and to all the women, Hear the word of Jehovah, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt:


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Thus speaks Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths and have fulfilled it with your hands, saying, We will surely perform our vows by which we have vowed to burn incense to the queen of heaven and


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Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt, I have sworn by My great name, says Jehovah:My name shall no longer be called upon by the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, As the Lord Jehovah lives.


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I will be watchful over them for evil and not for good, and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by sword and by famine until there is an end of them.


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And those who escape the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah few in number, and all the remnant of Judah who came to the land of Egypt to sojourn there will know whose word will be established, Mine or theirs.


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And this will be a sign to you, declares Jehovah, that I will punish you in this place, so that you will know that My words will surely be established against you for evil:


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Thus says Jehovah, I will give Pharaoh Hophra, the king of Egypt, into the hand of his enemies, into the hand of those who seek his life, just as I gave Zedekiah the king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, who was his enemy and


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The word which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, saying,


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You said, Woe is me! For Jehovah has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning and have not found rest.


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Thus you shall say to him, Thus says Jehovah, What I have built I am about to tear down; and what I have planted I am about to pluck up, even this whole land.


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And are you seeking great things for yourself? Do not seek them; for I am about to bring evil upon all flesh, declares Jehovah, but I will give your own life to you as spoil in all places where you may go.


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Concerning Egypt:Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, the king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon struck down in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah:


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Harness the horses, And mount the steeds; And take your stand with helmets on; Polish the spears; Put on the armor.


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Why have I seen it? They are dismayed; They are turning backward; And their mighty men are crushed and flee in hasty flight, And they do not look back; terror is on every side, Declares Jehovah.


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Let not the swift one flee away And the mighty man escape; In the north by the river Euphrates They have stumbled and fallen.


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Egypt rises up like the Nile, Even like rivers whose waters surge. And he says, I will rise up and will cover the land; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants in it.


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Go up, O horses, And drive furiously, O chariots; And let the mighty men go forth:Cush and Put, who handle the shield, And the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.


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For this day belongs to the Lord Jehovah of hosts, A day of vengeance to avenge Himself on His adversaries; And the sword will devour and be satisfied, And it will drink its fill of their blood; For there is a sacrifice to the Lord Jehovah of hosts In the


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Go up to Gilead and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt. In vain you have used many medicines - There is no healing for you.


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The nations have heard of your disgrace, And your cry has filled the earth; For mighty man has stumbled against mighty man; Both of them have fallen together.


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The word which Jehovah spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt:


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Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol; Proclaim also in Memphis and in Tahpanhes. Say, Take your stand, and prepare yourself; For the sword has devoured all around you.


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He made many stumble; A man even fell against his neighbor; And they said, Arise and let us return To our own people and to the land of our birth, Away from the sword of the oppressor.


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There they cried, Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, is but a noise; He has let the appointed time pass by.


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As I live, says the King, Whose name is Jehovah of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, And Carmel is by the sea, so he will come.


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Prepare for yourself baggage for captivity, O inhabitant, O daughter of Egypt; For Memphis will become a waste, And it will be burned, without inhabitant.


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Also her hired men in her midst Are like fattened calves. But they have also turned back; They have fled together; they did not stand. For the day of their calamity has come on them, The time of their visitation.


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Her sound is like that of a serpent going away; For they go forth in force, And with axes they come against her, Like those who fell trees.


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They will cut down her forest, declares Jehovah, Although it is impenetrable; For they are more numerous than locusts And are without number.


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Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, says, I will punish Amon of No and Pharaoh and Egypt and her gods and her kings, even Pharaoh and those who trust in him.


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And I will give them into the hand of those who seek their life, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon and into the hand of his servants; and afterward she will be inhabited as in the days of old, declares Jehovah.


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But as for you, O Jacob My servant, do not fear; And do not be dismayed, O Israel. For indeed I will save you from afar And your seed from the land of their captivity; And Jacob will return and be undisturbed And at ease, and no one will frighten him.


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As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not fear, declares Jehovah, For I am with you; For I will make a full end of all the nations To which I have driven you; Yet I will not make a full end of you, But will correct you in measure And will by no means leave y


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The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines before Pharaoh struck Gaza.


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Thus says Jehovah, See, waters are rising up from the north And will become an overflowing stream; And they will overflow the land and all that fills it, The city and those who dwell in it; And men will cry out, And every inhabitant of the land will howl.


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At the sound of the stamping of the hooves of his stallions, At the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, The fathers will not turn back for their children, Because of the feebleness of their hands,


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Because of the day which is coming, To destroy all the Philistines, To cut off from Tyre and Sidon Every helper who survives; For Jehovah will destroy the Philistines, The remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.


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Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon has been cut off. O remnant of their valley, How long will you cut yourself?


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Alas, O sword of Jehovah, How long until you are quiet? Put yourself into your sheath; Rest and be still.


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How can it be quiet, When Jehovah has commanded it? Against Ashkelon and against the seacoast - There He has appointed it.


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Concerning Moab:Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel:Woe to Nebo, for it is destroyed; Kiriathaim is put to shame; it is captured; The lofty retreat is put to shame and dismayed.


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The praise of Moab is no more; In Heshbon they have devised evil against her, saying:Come and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, O Madmen, will be brought to silence; A sword will go after you.


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For by the ascent of Luhith Continual weeping will go up; For by the descent of Horonaim They have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.


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For because of your trust in your works and in your treasures, You also will be captured; And Chemosh will go forth into exile; His priests and his princes together.


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And a destroyer will come to every city, And no city will escape; The valley will also perish, And the plateau will be destroyed, As Jehovah has said.


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Give wings to Moab, That she may fly and go away; And her cities will become a waste, Without inhabitant in them.


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Cursed is he who does the work of Jehovah negligently, And cursed is he who keeps his sword from blood.


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Moab has been at ease from his youth; And he is settled on his lees And has not been emptied from vessel to vessel; Nor has he gone into exile. Therefore his taste remains in him, And his scent is not changed.


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Therefore indeed, days are coming, declares Jehovah, when I will send pourers to him, and they will pour and empty his vessels and shatter his jars.


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And Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.


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Moab has been destroyed, And its cities have gone up in smoke, And its choice young men have gone down to slaughter, Declares the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.


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Lament for him, all who are around him And all who know his name; Say, How the strong rod is broken, The glorious staff.


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Come down from glory and sit in thirst, O daughter who dwells in Dibon, For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you; He has destroyed your strongholds.


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Stand by the way and watch, O inhabitant of Aroer; Ask him who flees and her who escapes, And say, What has happened?


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Moab is put to shame, for it is shattered. Howl and cry out; Declare in Arnon That Moab is devastated.


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Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against Jehovah; so Moab will wallow in his vomit and will also be in derision.


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For was not Israel a derision to you? Or was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.


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Leave the cities and dwell in the rock, O inhabitants of Moab, And be like a dove who nests On the sides of the mouth of the pit.


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We have heard of the pride of Moab - He is extremely proud - Of his loftiness and his pride and his arrogance And of the haughtiness of his heart.


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I know of his insolence, declares Jehovah; His boastings are all untrue; They have accomplished nothing.


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Therefore I will wail for Moab, I will even cry out for all Moab; There will be mourning for the men of Kir-heres.


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With more than the weeping of Jazer I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah. Your shoots have crossed over to the sea; They have reached as far as the sea, to Jazer; On your summer fruit and on your vintage The destroyer has fallen.


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Rejoicing and exultation are taken away From the fruited field and from the land of Moab. And I have caused the wine from the wine presses to cease; No one will tread them with the harvest shout; The harvest shout will be no harvest shout.


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From the cry of Heshbon as far as Elealeh, even as far as Jahaz, they have uttered their voice, from Zoar as far as Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will become a devastation.


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And I will bring to an end in Moab the one who offers up in high places and burns incense to his gods, declares Jehovah.


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Therefore My heart will moan for Moab like flutes; for the men of Kir-heres My heart will also moan like flutes. As a result, the abundance he has produced has perished.


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For every head is bald, and every beard is shaved off; there are cuts on all the hands, and sackcloth on the loins.


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On all the roofs of Moab and in her open squares there is wailing everywhere, for I have broken Moab like a vessel which no one desires, declares Jehovah.


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How it is shattered! they howl. How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.


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Kerioth is captured, And the strongholds are seized, And the heart of the mighty men of Moab in that day Will be like the heart of a woman in labor.


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He who flees from dread Will fall into the pit, And he who comes up out of the pit Will be taken in the snare; For I will bring upon her, upon Moab, The year of their punishment, declares Jehovah.


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In the shadow of Heshbon Those who flee stand without strength; For fire has gone forth from Heshbon And a flame from the midst of Sihon; And it has consumed the corner of Moab And the top of the head of the sons of tumult.


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Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished, For your sons have been taken captive, And your daughters have gone into captivity.


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But I will turn again the captivity of Moab In the last days, declares Jehovah. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.


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Concerning the children of Ammon:Thus says Jehovah, Does Israel have no sons? Or has he no heir? Why has Malcam possessed Gad, And why do his people dwell in his cities?


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Therefore indeed, days are coming, declares Jehovah, When I will cause the alarm of war to be heard Against Rabbah of the children of Ammon. And it will become a mound of desolation, And its villages will be burned with fire. And Israel will dispossess th


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Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah. Gird yourselves with sackcloth and wail, And run to and fro among the enclosures; For Malcam will go into exile, Together with his priests and his princes.


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Why do you boast in your valleys? Your valley is flowing away, O apostate daughter, Who trusts in her treasures, saying, Who will come against me?


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I will bring dread upon you, Declares the Lord Jehovah of hosts, From all around you; And each one will be driven out headlong, And no one will gather him who flees.


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Concerning Edom:Thus says Jehovah of hosts, Is there no more wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from those who understand? Is their wisdom spent?


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Flee, turn back, dwell in hidden places, O inhabitants of Dedan, For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him At the time I visit him.


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If the grape gatherers came to you, Would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, Would they not destroy only enough for themselves?


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But I have stripped Esau bare; I have exposed his secret places, And he is not able to conceal himself. His seed and his brothers are destroyed, And his neighbors and he are no more.


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For thus says Jehovah, Those whose judgment was not to drink the cup will certainly drink it. And will you by any means be left unpunished? You will not be left unpunished, for you will certainly drink it.


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For I have sworn by Myself, declares Jehovah, that Bozrah will become a waste, a reproach, a ruin and a curse; and all her cities will become eternal desolations.


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I have heard a report from Jehovah, And an envoy is sent among the nations, saying, Gather yourselves together, and come against her, And arise for war.


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Your terribleness, the pride of your heart, Has beguiled you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, Who grasp the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as an eagle's, I will bring you down from there, declares Jehovah.


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And Edom will become an astonishment; everyone who passes by her will be astonished and will hiss at all her wounds.


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As when Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown with its neighbors, says Jehovah, no one will dwell there, nor will a son of man sojourn in her.


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Indeed, one will come up like a lion from the majesty of the Jordan against a secure habitation, for I will suddenly make them run away from her; and whoever is chosen I will appoint over her. For who is like Me? And who can appoint Me a time? And who is


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Therefore hear the counsel of Jehovah, which He purposed against Edom, and His thoughts, which He has thought against the inhabitants of Teman:Surely they will drag them off, the little ones of the flock; surely He will make their habitation a desolation


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The earth quaked at the sound of their fall. There is a cry; the sound of it has been heard in the Red Sea.


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Indeed, He will mount up and swoop down like an eagle, and spread out His wings over Bozrah; and the heart of the mighty men of Edom in that day will be like the heart of a woman in labor.


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Concerning Damascus:Hamath and Arpad are put to shame Because they have heard an evil report. They melt; anxiety is on the sea; It cannot be quiet.


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Damascus has become feeble; She has turned to flee, And\caps0 panic has taken hold of her; Pain and anguish seize her, Like a woman giving birth.


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Therefore her young men will fall in her open squares, And all the men of war will be silenced in that day, declares Jehovah of hosts.


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Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon struck down:Thus says Jehovah:Arise, go up against Kedar, And destroy the children of the east.


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And they will take away their tents and their flocks; Their curtains and all their vessels And their camels they will carry away for themselves, And they will call out to one another, Terror is on every side!


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Flee, wander far away, dwell in hidden places, O inhabitants of Hazor, declares Jehovah; For Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon Has taken counsel against you And has devised a plan against you.


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Arise, go up against a nation without care, One that dwells securely, declares Jehovah. It has no gates and bars; They dwell alone.


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And their camels will become plunder, And the multitude of their livestock spoil; And I will scatter those who cut the corners of their beards into every wind, And I will bring their calamity from every side of them, Declares Jehovah.


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And Hazor will become a habitation of jackals, An eternal desolation; No one will dwell there; Neither will a son of man sojourn in it.


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The word of Jehovah which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the king of Judah, saying,


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And I will bring against Elam four winds From the four ends of the heavens, And I will scatter them into all these winds, And there will not be a nation To which those who are driven out from Elam will not go.


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And I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies And before those who seek their life; And I will bring evil upon them, Even My burning anger, declares Jehovah. And I will send the sword after them, Until I make an end of them.


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The word which Jehovah spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet:


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Declare among the nations and proclaim; Lift up a banner, proclaim it. Do not conceal it, but say, Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Merodach is shattered; Her images are put to shame; Her idols are dismayed.


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For a nation has come up against her from the north; It will make her land a waste, And there will be no inhabitant in it; Both man and beast have fled; they are gone away.


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In those days and at that time, declares Jehovah, The children of Israel will come, Both they and the children of Judah together; They will go along with weeping as they go, And they will seek Jehovah their God.


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They will ask for the way to Zion With their faces toward it, saying:Come and let us join ourselves to Jehovah In an eternal covenant that will not be forgotten.


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My people are lost sheep; Their shepherds have led them astray; They have made them turn aside on the mountains; They have gone from mountain to hill; They have forgotten their resting place.


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All who found them have devoured them, And their adversaries have said, We are not guilty, Because they have sinned against Jehovah, The habitation of righteousness, Even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.


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Flee from the midst of Babylon, And go out from the land of the Chaldeans, And be as male goats Before the flock.


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For I am about to stir up and bring up against Babylon An assembly of great nations from the land of the north; And they will set themselves in array against her, And she will be taken captive from there. Their arrows will be like those of an expert might


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Because you rejoiced, because you exulted, O you who plunder My inheritance, Because you spring about as a threshing heifer, And you neigh like stallions,


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Your mother has been greatly ashamed; She who bore you has become a reproach:Indeed, she has become the last of the nations, A wilderness, a dry land and a desert.


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Because of the wrath of Jehovah she will not be inhabited, But she will become a complete desolation; For every one who passes by Babylon will be astonished And will hiss at all her wounds.


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Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, All those who bend the bow; Shoot at her; spare no arrow; Because she has sinned against Jehovah;


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Raise a shout against her all around. She has surrendered; her buttresses have fallen, Her walls have been torn down; For this is the vengeance of Jehovah:Take vengeance on her; As she has done, so do to her.


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Cut off the sower from Babylon, And the one who handles a sickle in the time of harvest; Because of the sword of the oppressor Each one will turn to his people, And each one flee to his own land.


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Israel is a scattered sheep; Lions have driven him away. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and last this Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has gnawed his bones.


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Therefore thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel:I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I punished the king of Assyria.


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And I will bring Israel back to his habitation, And he will feed on Carmel and Bashan, And in the hill country of Ephraim and in Gilead He will satisfy his soul.


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In those days and at that time, declares Jehovah, The iniquity of Israel will be sought, but there will be none; And the sin of Judah, but it will not be found; For I will forgive those whom I will leave as a remnant.


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Go up against her, against the land of Merathaim And against the inhabitants of Pekod. Desolate and utterly destroy them, declares Jehovah, And do according to all that I commanded you.


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How the hammer of the whole earth Is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become an astonishment Among the nations!


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I have set a snare for you, and you also have been taken captive, O Babylon, and you did not know; You were found, and you also were seized, Because you engaged in war with Jehovah.


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Jehovah has opened His armory And has brought out the weapons of His wrath, For this is the work of the Lord Jehovah of hosts Against the land of the Chaldeans.


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Come against her from every side; Open her granaries. Pile her up like heaps; Destroy her utterly; Let nothing of her remain.


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Slay all her oxen; Let them go down to slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, The time of their punishment.


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There is a sound of those who flee and escape From the land of Babylon, To declare in Zion The vengeance of Jehovah our God, The vengeance for His temple.


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Summon archers against Babylon, All those who bend the bow. Encamp against her all around; Let there be no escape. Recompense her according to her work; According to all that she has done, so do to her. For she has acted proudly against Jehovah, Against t


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Therefore her young men will fall in her open squares, And all her men of war will be silenced in that day, Declares Jehovah.


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Indeed, I am against you, O Pride, Declares the Lord Jehovah of hosts; For your day has come, The time that I visit you.


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And Pride will stumble and fall, And there will be no one to raise him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities, And it will devour all that is around him.


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, The children of Israel And the children of Judah are oppressed together; And all who took them captive held them fast; They refused to let them go.


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Their Redeemer is strong; Jehovah of hosts is His name. He will surely plead their cause, That He may give rest to the land But trouble to the inhabitants of Babylon.


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The sword is against the Chaldeans, declares Jehovah, And against the inhabitants of Babylon And against her princes and against her wise men.


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The sword is against the liars, and they will become fools; The sword is against her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.


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The sword is against their horses and against their chariots And against all the mingled people who are in her midst, And they will become like women. The sword is against her treasuries, And they will be plundered.


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Drought is upon her waters, And they will dry up; For it is a land of graven images, And they are mad over terrifying idols.


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Therefore desert animals will dwell there with hyenas, And ostriches will dwell in her. It will not be inhabited forever; It will not be dwelt in from generation to generation.


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As when God overthrew Sodom And Gomorrah with its neighbors, Declares Jehovah, So no one will dwell there; Nor will a son of man sojourn in it.


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A people is now coming from the north, And a great nation and many kings Are stirring from the uttermost parts of the earth.


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They grasp bow and spear; They are cruel and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, And they ride upon horses, Set in array as a man for battle Against you, O daughter of Babylon.


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The king of Babylon has heard the report about them, And his hands are feeble; Distress has seized him, Pain like a woman in childbirth.


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Indeed, one will come up like a lion From the majesty of the Jordan against a secure habitation; For I will suddenly make them run away from her; And whoever is chosen I will appoint over her. For who is like Me? And who can appoint Me a time? And who is


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Therefore hear the counsel of Jehovah, Which He purposed against Babylon, And His thoughts, which He has thought Against the land of the Chaldeans:Surely they will drag them off, the little ones of the flock; Surely He will make their habitation a desol


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Thus says Jehovah, I will stir up against Babylon and against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai A destroying wind.


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And I will send strangers against Babylon, and they will winnow her, And they will empty her land When they come against her from every side In the evil day.


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Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow, And against him who stands up in his armor; And let them not spare her young men, But let them utterly destroy all her army.


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For neither Israel or Judah is forsaken By his God, by Jehovah of hosts; But their land is full of guilt Against the Holy One of Israel.


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Flee from the midst of Babylon, And let each man save his life; Do not be cut off in her iniquity; For this is a time of vengeance to Jehovah; He will give full recompense to her.


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Babylon has been a golden cup in Jehovah's hand That has made all the earth drunk. The nations have drunk of her wine; Therefore the nations have become mad.


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Suddenly Babylon has fallen and become broken; Howl over her; Take balm for her pain, If perhaps she may be healed.


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We tried to heal Babylon, but she is not healed; Forsake her, and let each one of us go to his own land; For her judgment has reached to heaven And has been lifted up to the clouds.


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Jehovah has brought forth our righteousnesses; Come and let us relate in Zion The work of Jehovah our God.


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Polish the arrows, Take up the shields. Jehovah has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His purpose is against Babylon, to destroy her; for this is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance for His temple.


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Lift up a standard against the walls of Babylon; Make the watch strong. Set the watchmen; Prepare the ambushers; For Jehovah has both purposed and done What He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.


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O you who dwell by many waters, Abundant in treasures, Your end has come, The measure of your unjust gain.


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Jehovah of hosts has sworn by Himself, I will surely fill you with men like locusts, And they will raise a shout of victory over you.


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He says, You are My hammer, My weapons of war; And with you I will shatter nations, And with you I will destroy kingdoms,


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And with you I will shatter the horse and his rider, And with you I will shatter the chariot and its rider,


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And with you I will shatter man and woman, And with you I will shatter old man and young, And with you I will shatter young man and virgin,


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And with you I will shatter the shepherd and his flock, And with you I will shatter the farmer and his yoke of oxen, And with you I will shatter governors and officials.


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And I will repay Babylon And all the inhabitants of Chaldea With all their evil which they have done In Zion before your eyes, declares Jehovah.


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Indeed, I am against you, O mountain of destruction, Declares Jehovah, Which destroys the whole earth; And I will stretch out My hand upon you And roll you down from the rocks And make you a burning mountain.


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And they will not take from you a stone for the corner Or a stone for the foundations; For you will be an eternal desolation, declares Jehovah.


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Lift up a standard in the land; Blow a trumpet among the nations; Prepare the nations against her; Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; Appoint an officer against her; Bring up the horses like terrifying locusts.


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Prepare the nations against her, The kings of the Medes, Their governors and all their officials, And all the land of their dominion.


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And the land trembles and writhes, For the purposes of Jehovah against Babylon stand, To make the land of Babylon a waste, Without inhabitant.


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The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting; They remain in strongholds; Their might has failed; they have become like women. Her dwellings are on fire; her bars are broken.


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Runner runs to meet runner, And messenger to meet messenger, To announce to the king of Babylon That his city has been captured from end to end.


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And the crossing places have been seized, And they burn the marshes with fire, And the men of war are terrified.


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For thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor At the time when it is trodden; Yet a little while and the time of harvest will come to her.


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Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; He has crushed me; He has made me an empty vessel; He has swallowed me up like a dragon; He has filled his stomach with my delicacies; He has washed me out.


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The violence done to me and my flesh be on Babylon! The inhabitant of Zion will say; And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea! Jerusalem will say.


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Therefore thus says Jehovah, I will indeed plead your cause And execute vengeance for you; And I will dry up her sea And make her fountain dry.


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And Babylon will become a heap of ruins, A habitation of jackals, An astonishment and a hissing, Without inhabitant.


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When they are inflamed, I will set out their drink; And I will make them drunk, that they may be merry And sleep an eternal sleep And not wake up, declares Jehovah.


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How Sheshach has been captured, And the praise of all the earth seized! How Babylon has become an astonishment Among the nations!


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Her cities have become a waste, A dry land and a desert, A land in which no one dwells, Through which no person passes.


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And I will punish Bel in Babylon And bring what he has swallowed out of his mouth; And the nations will not stream unto him any longer; Even the wall of Babylon will fall down.


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Come out from the midst of her, My people, And let each man save his life From the burning anger of Jehovah.


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And lest your heart faint And you become afraid at the report that will be heard in the land - For the report will come in one year; And after that a report in another year And violence in the earth, Ruler against ruler -


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Therefore indeed, days are coming, When I will punish the idols of Babylon; And her whole land will be put to shame, And all her slain will fall in her midst.


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And the heavens and the earth and all which is in them Will give a ringing shout over Babylon; For out of the north the destroyers will come against her, Declares Jehovah.


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Babylon is also to fall for the slain of Israel, As all the slain of the earth have fallen for Babylon .


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You who have escaped the sword, Go and do not stand still; Remember Jehovah from afar, And let Jerusalem come up in your heart.


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We have been put to shame, for we have heard reproach; Disgrace has covered our faces; For strangers have come Into the holy places of the house of Jehovah.


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Therefore indeed, days are coming, Declares Jehovah, When I will punish her idols, And throughout her land the wounded will groan.


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Though Babylon mount up to the heavens, And though she fortify the height of her strength, Destroyers will come from Me to her, Declares Jehovah.


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For Jehovah is destroying Babylon, And He will cause the loud voice to perish from her. And their waves roar like many waters; The noise of their voice is raised.


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For a destroyer has come upon her, upon Babylon, And her mighty men are taken captive; Their bows are broken into pieces; For Jehovah is a God of recompense; He will repay in full.


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And I will make her princes and her wise men drunk, Her governors and her officials and her mighty men; And they will sleep an eternal sleep And not wake up, declares the King, Whose name is Jehovah of hosts.


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly laid bare; Her high gates will be burned with fire. So the peoples will have labored in vain; And the nations, only for fire; and they will have wearied themselves.


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The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (Now Seraiah was quartermaster.)


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And Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that would come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.


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And say, O Jehovah, You have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, so that nothing should dwell in it, neither man nor animal, for it will be an eternal desolation.


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And as soon as you have finished reading this book, you shall bind a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates,


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And say, Thus Babylon will sink and will not rise up because of the evil which I will bring upon it, and they will weary themselves. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.


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Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jere-miah, from Libnah.


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For it was through the anger of Jehovah that this came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.


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And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon came, he and his whole army, against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around.


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In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine was so severe within the city that there was no food for the people of the land.


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Then the city was breached, and all the men of war fled; and they went out from the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden, while the Chaldeans were all around the city; and they went by the way toward the A


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And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and they overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.


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And they seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he pronounced judgments on him.


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Then the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the princes of Judah at Riblah.


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And he put out Zedekiah's eyes and bound him with bronze fetters. And the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.


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And in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month (this was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadrezzar, the king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, who stood before the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.


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And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the bodyguard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem .


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And the poor of the people and the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who deserted to the king of Babylon and the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard carried away into exile.


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But Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and field workers.


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And the Chaldeans broke in pieces the bronze pillars, which were in the house of Jehovah, and the bases and the bronze sea, which were in the house of Jehovah. And they carried all their bronze to Babylon.


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And they took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the basins and the spoons and all the bronze vessels with which they ministered.


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And the captain of the bodyguard took away the dishes and the firepans and the basins and the pots and the lampstands and the spoons and the bowls, that which was of gold:for its gold, and that which was of silver, for its silver.


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As for the two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze oxen, which were under the bases, which King Solomon made for the house of Jehovah, the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight.


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And as for the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, and it was twelve cubits in circumference, and it was four fingers in thickness; it was hollow.


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And a bronze capital was upon it; and the height of each capital was five cubits; and the network and pomegranates were upon the capital all around, all of bronze; and the second pillar and the pomegranates were like these.


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And there were ninety-six pomegranates on the four sides; all the pomegranates on the network were a hundred all around.


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And from the city he took one eunuch, who was overseer of the men of war, and seven men from the king's inner circle who were found in the city, and the \caps0 3scribe of the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men


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These are the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried into exile:in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty- three Jews;


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In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard carried from the Jews seven hundred and forty-five persons into exile. There were four thousand six hundred persons in all.


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And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin the king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, Evil-merodach the king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, released Jehoiachin the king of Judah and brought him


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And he spoke with him kindly and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.


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And Jehoiachin changed his prison garments and ate his food before him continually all the days of his life.


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And for his allowance, a continual allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon, a portion for each day, all the days of his life until the day of his death.


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How the city sits alone That was full of people! She who was once great among the nations Has become like a widow; She who was a princess among the provinces Has become tributary.


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Bitterly she weeps in the night, And her tears are on her cheeks. There is no one to comfort her Among all her lovers; All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; They have become her enemies.


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Judah has gone into exile, away from affliction And away from great servitude; She dwells among the nations But finds no rest; All her pursuers have overtaken her In the midst of distress.


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The ways of Zion mourn, For no one comes to the appointed feast; All her gates are desolate; Her priests groan; Her virgins are afflicted, And she is in bitterness.


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Her adversaries have become the head; Her enemies prosper; For Jehovah has afflicted her Because of the multitude of her transgressions; Her little ones have gone into captivity Before the adversary.


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And all her majesty has departed From the daughter of Zion; Her princes have become like deer That find no pasture, And they have fled without strength Before the pursuer.


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In the days of her affliction and her wanderings, Jerusalem remembers All her precious things Which were in the days of old, When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, And there was no one to help her. The adversaries saw her; They mocked at her


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Jerusalem has sinned grievously; Therefore she has become an impurity. All who honored her despise her, Because they have seen her nakedness; And she groans And turns backwards.


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Her uncleanness is in her skirts; She did not remember her latter end; Therefore she has come down astonishingly; There is no one to comfort her. O Jehovah, see my affliction, For the enemy has magnified himself.


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The adversary has spread out his hand Over all her precious things, For she has seen the nations Enter her sanctuary, Concerning whom You commanded that they should not enter Into Your assembly.


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All her people groan; They seek bread; They have given their precious things for food To restore their soul. See, O Jehovah, and look, For I have become despised.


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Is it nothing to you, all who pass by the way? Look and see If there is any pain like my pain Which is dealt to me, Whom Jehovah has afflicted In the day of His burning anger.


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He has sent fire from on high Into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread out a net for my feet; He has turned me back; He has made me a desolation And faint all the day.


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The yoke of my transgressions is bound by His hand; They are knit together; They have come up upon my neck; He has made my strength fail; The Lord has delivered me into hands From which I am not able to rise up.


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The Lord has made light of all my mighty men In my midst; He has called an assembly against me To crush my young men. The Lord has trodden, as in a winepress, The virgin daughter of Judah.


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For these things I weep; My eye, my eye runs down with water, For the comforter who should revive my soul Is far from me; My children have become desolate, Because the enemy has prevailed.


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Zion stretches out her hands, Yet there is no one to comfort her. Jehovah has commanded concerning Jacob That those around him should be his adversaries; Jerusalem has become an impurity Among them.


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Jehovah is righteous, For I have rebelled against His commandment. Hear now, all the peoples, And see my pain; My virgins and my young men Have gone into captivity.


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I have called to my lovers; They have deceived me; My priests and my elders Have perished in the city, While they sought food for themselves To restore their souls.


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See, O Jehovah, for I am in distress, My bowels are in ferment; My heart is overturned within me, For I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword bereaves; In the house it is like death.


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They have heard that I groan; There is no one to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my trouble; They are glad that You have done it. You will bring the day that You have proclaimed, And they will be like me.


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Let all their wickedness come before You, And deal with them As You have dealt with me For all my transgressions; For my sighs are many, And my heart is faint.


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How the Lord in His anger Has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud! He has cast from heaven to earth The glory of Israel, And has not remembered His footstool In the day of His anger.


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The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob; He has not spared; He has torn down in His overflowing wrath The strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground; He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.


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He has cut off in fierce anger All the horn of Israel. He has withdrawn His right hand From before the enemy. He has burned among Jacob like a flame of fire; It consumes all around.


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He has bent His bow like an enemy; He has set His right hand like an adversary And has slain all that was pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion He has poured out His wrath like fire.


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The Lord has become like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces; He has destroyed her strongholds And multiplied in the daughter of Judah Mourning and lamentation.


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And He has violently taken away His pavilion like a garden; He has destroyed the place of His assembly; Jehovah has caused the appointed feast and the Sabbath To be forgotten in Zion; He has despised, in the indignation of His anger, The king and the prie


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The Lord has cast off His altar; He has abhorred His sanctuary; He has delivered up into the hand of the enemy The walls of her palaces. They have made a noise in the house of Jehovah As though it were the day of an appointed feast.


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Jehovah has thought to destroy The walls of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the line And has not withdrawn His hand from destroying; And He has made the rampart and the wall to mourn; They languish together.


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Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars; Her king and her princes are among nations Where there is no law; Her prophets also do not find A vision from Jehovah.


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The elders of the daughter of Zion Sit on the ground; they are silent. They have cast dust upon their head; They have girded themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem Hang down their head to the ground.


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My eyes are consumed with tears; My bowels are in ferment; My liver is poured out n the earth, Because of the brokenness of the daughter of my people, Because the little ones and the nursing children Faint in the streets of the city.


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They say to their mothers, Where is the grain and the wine? When they faint like one wounded In the streets of the city, When they pour out their soul Into their mothers' bosom.


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What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken you to, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare you to, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is great like a sea. Who will heal you?


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Your prophets have seen for you Vanity and folly, And they have not uncovered your iniquity To turn again your captivity; But they have seen for you burdens Of vanity and of causes of banishment.


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All those who pass on the way Clap their hands at you; They hiss and wag their head At the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city which they called, The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?


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All your enemies Have opened their mouth against you; They hiss and gnash the teeth; They say, We have swallowed her up. This is certainly the day that we have looked for; We have found it; we have seen it.


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Jehovah has done what He purposed; He has fulfilled His word, Which He commanded from the days of old; He has torn down and has not spared, And He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.


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Their heart cried out to the Lord:O wall of the daughter of Zion, Let tears run down like a stream Day and night; Give yourself no respite; Let not the pupil of your eye cease.


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Arise, cry out in the night At the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water Before the face of the Lord; Lift up your hands toward Him For the life of your little ones, Who faint because of famine At the head of every street.


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See, O Jehovah, and look, With whom You have dealt thus? Shall the women eat their fruit, The little ones nursed by them? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain In the sanctuary of the Lord? 


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The youth and the old man Lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men Have fallen by the sword; You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered; You have not spared.


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You have called for, as though in the day of an appointed feast, My terrors on every side, And in the day of Jehovah's anger There was none who escaped or remained; Those whom I have nursed and brought up My enemy has consumed.


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But even if He causes grief, He will have compassion According to the multitude of His lovingkindness;


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How the gold has become dim! How the most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary lie poured out At the head of every street.


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The precious sons of Zion, Comparable to fine gold, How they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, The work of the hands of a potter.


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Even the jackals present the breast; They nurse their young ones; But the daughter of my people has become cruel, Like the ostriches in the wilderness.


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The tongue of the sucking child cleaves To the roof of his mouth for thirst; The little ones ask for bread, But no one breaks it for them.


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Those who fed on delicacies Are desolate in the streets; Those who were brought up in scarlet Embrace dung heaps.


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And the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater Than the sin of Sodom, Which was overthrown as in a moment; And no hands were laid on her.


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Her nobles were purer than snow; They were whiter than milk; They were redder in body than corals; Their figure was like sapphire.


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Their visage is darker than black coal; They are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled up on their bones; It has dried up; it has become like wood.


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Those who were slain by the sword are better Than those slain by famine; For these pine away stricken through, Because of the lack of the produce of the field.


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The hands of compassionate women Have boiled their own children; They have become their food In the destruction of the daughter of my people.


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Jehovah has accomplished His wrath; He has poured out His burning anger. And He has kindled a fire in Zion, And it has consumed its foundations.


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The kings of the earth did not believe, Neither did any of the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter Into the gates of Jerusalem.


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It is because of the sins of her prophets, And the iniquities of her priests, Who have shed the blood of the righteous In her midst.


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They have wandered about blind in the streets; They are polluted with blood; So that men cannot touch Their garments.


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They cried out to them, Depart! Unclean! Depart, depart; do not touch! When they fled away and wandered about, men said among the nations, They will no longer sojourn there.


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The anger of Jehovah has scattered them; He will no longer regard them. They did not honor the priests, Nor did they favor the elders.


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Our eyes do yet fail, Looking in vain for our help; In our watching we watched For a nation that could not save.


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They hunted our steps, So that we cannot walk in our streets; Our end drew near; our days were fulfilled; For our end had come.


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Our pursuers were swifter Than the eagles of heaven; They hotly pursued us on the mountains; They lay in wait for us in the wilderness.


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The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, Has been captured in their pits, Of whom we said, Under his shadow We will live among the nations.


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Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, Who dwells in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass through to you also; You will become drunk and make yourself naked.


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The punishment for your iniquity has been accomplished, O daughter of Zion; He will no longer take you into exile. But He will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; He will uncover your sins.


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Now in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth of the month, while I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.


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The word of Jehovah came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of Jehovah was upon him there.


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And I looked, and there came a storm wind from the north, a great cloud and a fire flashing incessantly; and there was a brightness around it, and from the midst of it there was something like the sight of electrum, from the midst of the fire.


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And from the midst of it there came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance:They had the likeness of a man.


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And their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like the sight of burnished bronze.


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And the hands of a man were under their wings on their four sides. And the four of them had their faces and their wings thus:


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As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and the four of them had the face of a lion on the right side, and the four of them had the face of an ox on the left side, and the four of them had the face of an eagle.


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And thus their faces were. And their wings were spread out upward; two wings of each were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.


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And each went straight forward; wherever the Spirit was to go, they went; they did not turn as they went.


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As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches; the fire went to and fro among the living creatures, and the fire was bright; and out of the fire went forth lightning.


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And as I watched the living creatures, I saw a wheel upon the earth beside the living creatures, for each of their four faces.


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The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship were like the sight of beryl. And the four of them had one likeness; that is, their appearance and their workmanship were as it were a wheel within a wheel.


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As for their rims, they were high and they were awesome; and the rims of the four of them were full of eyes all around.


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And whenever the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and whenever the living creatures were lifted up above the earth, the wheels were lifted up also.


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Wherever the Spirit was to go, they went - wherever the Spirit was to go. And the wheels were lifted up alongside them, for the Spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.


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Whenever those went, these went; and whenever those stood still, these stood still; and whenever those were lifted up above the earth, the wheels were lifted up alongside them; for the Spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.


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And over the heads of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like the sight of awesome crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.


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And under the expanse one pair of their wings went straight out, one toward the other; each had another pair covering their bodies on this side and on that side.


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And I heard the sound of their wings, like the sound of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, as they went; it was the sound of a tumult, like the sound of an army. Whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings.


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And there was a voice from above the expanse that was over their heads. When they stood still, they dropped their wings.


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And above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, like the appearance of a sapphire stone; and upon the likeness of the throne was One in appearance like a man, above it.


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Then I saw something like the sight of electrum, like the appearance of fire encased all around, from the appearance of His loins and upward; and from the appearance of His loins and downward, I saw something like the appearance of fire. And there was bri


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Like the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud on a day of rain, such was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Jehovah. And when I saw it, I fell on my face and I heard the voice of


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And the Spirit entered into me when He spoke to me and caused me to stand up on my feet. And I heard Him who spoke to me.


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And He said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to rebellious heathen who have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me unto this very day;


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And they are impudent and hard- hearted children. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah.


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And they, whether they hear or not - for they are a rebellious house - they will know that a prophet has been in their midst.


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And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them and do not be afraid of their words; though thistles and thorns are with you and you dwell among scorpions, do not be afraid of their words and do not be dismayed at their faces; for they are a rebellious hous


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But you, son of man, hear what I say to you; do not be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth and eat what I give you.


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And He spread it before me. And it was written on the front and back, and on it were written lamentations, mourning, and woe.


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Then He said to me, Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.


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And He said to me, Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your inward parts with this scroll that I am giving you. And I ate it, and it was like honey in my mouth in its sweetness.


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For you are being sent not to a people of strange speech and unintelligible language but to the house of Israel,


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Not to many peoples of strange speech and unintelligible language, whose words you cannot understand. If I were to send you to such, they would hear you;


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But the house of Israel is not willing to hear you, for they are not willing to hear Me, because all the house of Israel is obstinate and stiff-hearted.


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Like adamant, harder than flint, I am making your forehead; do not be afraid of them or dismayed at their faces, for they are a rebellious house.


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Moreover He said to me, Son of man, all My words that I will speak to you take into your heart and hear with your ears.


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And go to those of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them and tell them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah; whether they hear or not.


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Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the sound of a great quaking, saying:Blessed be the glory of Jehovah from His place!


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And I heard the sound of the wings of the living creatures touching one another and the sound of the wheels alongside them and the sound of a great quaking.


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And the Spirit lifted me up and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the rage of my spirit, and the hand of Jehovah was strong upon me.


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And I came to those of the captivity at Tel-abib who dwelt by the river Chebar; and where they dwelt, there I sat for seven days in their midst appalled.


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Son of man, I have appointed you as a watchman to the house of Israel, and you will hear the word from My mouth and will give them warnings from Me.


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When I say to a wicked one, You shall surely die, and you do not warn him nor speak to warn the wicked one from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked one will die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.


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Yet if you warn the wicked one and he does not turn from his wickedness nor from his wicked way, he will die for his iniquity and you have delivered your soul.


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And when a righteous one turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and his righteous actions, which he had done, will not be remembered; bu


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And if you warn a righteous one so that the righteous one does not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he was warned; and you have delivered your soul.


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And the hand of Jehovah was upon me there; and He said to me, Arise, go forth to the plain, and there I will speak with you.


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So I arose and went forth to the plain. And the glory of Jehovah stood there, like the glory that I had seen by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.


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Then the Spirit entered into me and caused me to stand up on my feet; and He spoke with me and said to me, Go, shut yourself up within your house.


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As for you, son of man, they will now put ropes on you and bind you with them so that you cannot go out among them.


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And I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be dumb and not one who reproves them, for they are a rebellious house.


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But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you will say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Let him who hears hear, and let him who refuses refuse; for they are a rebellious house.


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And lay a siege against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it, and set up camps against it, and set battering rams all around it.


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And take an iron plate and set it as an iron wall between you and the city, and set your face against it; and it will be under siege, and you shall lay siege against it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.


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Moreover lie down on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; you shall bear their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it.


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And I have appointed to you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; and you will bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.


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And when you have completed them, lie down again, on your right side; and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah for forty days; I have appointed to you a day for each year.


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Then toward the siege of Jerusalem you shall set your face with your arm bared, and you shall prophesy against it.


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And I will then put ropes on you so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, until you have completed the days of your siege.


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And take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make them into bread for yourself. For the number of days that you lie on your side, for three-hundred ninety days, you shall eat it.


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And your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; at fixed times you shall eat it.


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And the water that you drink shall be a sixth of a hin by measure; at fixed times you shall drink it.


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And Jehovah said, Thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations to which I will drive them.


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Then I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah. Indeed my soul has never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have not eaten anything that has died of itself or has been torn to pieces, nor has any abominable flesh entered into my mouth.


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And He said to me, See, I give you cow's dung instead of human excrement, and you will make your bread over it.


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Then He said to me, Son of man, I am now breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem; and they will eat bread by weight and in anxiety, and they will drink water by measure and in horror;


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Because they will lack bread and water, and they will be horrified at each other and will rot in their iniquity.


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And you, son of man, take a sharp sword; take it as a barber's razor and pass it over your head and over your beard; then take scales to weigh with, and divide the hair.


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One third you shall burn in the middle of the city when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third and strike it with the sword all around the city; and one third you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw a sword after them.


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And you shall take again from them and cast them into the midst of the fire; and you shall burn them in the fire; from them fire will go forth against all the house of Israel.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and around her are countries.


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But she has rebelled against My judgments in wickedness more than the nations and against My statutes more than the countries that surround her, for they have rejected My judgments and have not walked in My statutes.


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because you have been more turbulent than the nations that surround you and have not walked in My statutes and have not kept My judgments and have not even kept the judgments of the nations that surround you;


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Indeed I, even I, am against you, and I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.


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And I will do among you that which I have not done and the like of which I will never do again, because of all your abominations.


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Therefore fathers will eat the sons in your midst, and sons will eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments upon you, and I will scatter all your remnant toward all the winds.


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Therefore as I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, surely because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and all your abominations, therefore I will also withdraw My eye that it not pity you, nor will I spare.


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One third of you will die by pestilence, and they will be consumed by famine in the midst of you; and one third will fall by the sword surrounding you; and one third I will scatter toward all the winds, and I will draw a sword after them.


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Thus My anger will be spent, and I will cause My wrath to rest upon them, and I will be comforted; and they will know that I, Jehovah, have spoken in My zeal when I spend My wrath upon them.


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Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that surround you, in the sight of all who pass by.


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Thus she will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations that surround you, when I execute judgments upon you in anger and wrath and furious rebukes. I, Jehovah, have spoken.


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When I send against them the evil arrows of famine, which are for destruction and which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and will break your staff of bread.


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Thus I will send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they will make you childless; and pestilence and blood will pass through you, and I will bring a sword upon you. I, Jehovah, have spoken.


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And say, Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah. Thus says the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys, I am now bringing a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.


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And your altars will be desolated, and your sun images will be broken; and I will make your slain fall before your idols.


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And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.


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In all the places that you dwell the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be desolated, so that your altars may be laid waste and desolated, and your idols may be broken and brought to an end, and your sun images may be cut down, and your wo


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But I will leave a remnant, in that you will have those who have escaped the sword among the nations, when you are scattered among the countries.


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And those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations to which they are carried away, how I am broken with their heart of harlotry, which turned away from Me, and with their eyes that go as harlots after their idols; and they will loathe themsel


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Clap your hands and stamp your foot and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they will fall by sword, famine, and pestilence.


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He who is far off will die by the pestilence, and he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who is left remaining and is besieged will die by the famine; thus I will spend My wrath on them.


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Then you will know that I am Jehovah, when their slain are among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy terebinth, the places where they offered a sweet savor to all thei


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So I will stretch out My hand against them and will make the land desolate, indeed, more desolate than the wilderness of Diblath, in all the places that they dwell; and they will know that I am Jehovah.


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Now you, son of man, thus says the Lord Jehovah to the land of Israel, An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.


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Now the end is upon you. And I will send My anger against you and will judge you according to your ways, and I will bring upon you all your abominations.


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And My eye will not pity you, nor will I spare; but I will bring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be in your midst; and you will know that I am Jehovah.


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Doom has come to you, you who inhabit the land; the time has come; the day is near - tumult and not the joyful shout on the mountains.


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Now I will shortly pour out My wrath on you and spend My anger against you; and I will judge you according to your ways and bring all your abominations upon you.


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My eye will not pity, nor will I spare. I will render to you according to your ways, and your abominations will be in your midst; and you will know that it is I, Jehovah, who strikes.


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Violence has risen up as a rod of wickedness. Nothing of them remains:nothing of their multitude, nothing of their wealth, and no eminence among them.


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The time has come; the day has drawn near. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is against all their multitude.


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For the seller will not return to what he has sold, while they live among the living; for the vision, which regards all the land's multitude, will not be turned; not one of them will assure his life by his iniquity.


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They have blown the trumpet and have made everything ready, but no one goes to the battle; for My wrath is against all the land's multitude.


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The sword is outside, and pestilence and famine are inside:He who is in the field will die by the sword, and he who is in the city will be devoured by famine and pestilence.


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And those of them who escape will escape, and they will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, each for his iniquity.


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And they will gird themselves with sackcloth, and shuddering will cover them; and on all their faces there will be shame, and baldness on all their heads.


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Their silver will they cast into the streets, and their gold will be an impurity; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of Jehovah's overflowing wrath. They cannot satisfy their souls nor fill their inward parts, for thei


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And they turned the beauty of His ornaments into pride; and they made the images of their abominations, of their detestable things, with it; therefore I make it an impurity to them.


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And I will give it into the hands of strangers as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it.


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I will also turn My face from them, and they will profane My secret place; indeed the robbers will enter it and profane it.


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Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses; and I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places will be profaned.


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Disaster upon disaster will come, and there will be rumor upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.


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The king will mourn, and the prince will be clothed with horror, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. According to their ways I will deal with them, and by their judgments I will judge them; and they will know that I am Jehovah.


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And in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, as I sat in my house and the elders of Judah sat before me, the hand of the Lord Jehovah fell upon me there.


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Then I looked, and there was a likeness like the appearance of fire:from His loins and downward, the appearance of fire; and from His loins and upward something like the appearance of brightness, like the sight of electrum.


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And He stretched out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and heaven and brought me to Jerusalem in the visions of God, to the entrance of the gate of the inner court that faces north, where th


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Then He said to me, Son of man, Lift up your eyes now toward the north. Thus I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and there, toward the north at the altar gate, was this idol of jealousy at the entry.


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And He said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing here, that I should be far from My sanctuary? But you will yet see greater abominations.


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And He said to me, Son of man, dig now through the wall. So I dug through the wall, and there was now an entrance.


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Thus I entered and looked, and there were every form of creeping thing and detestable beast and all the idols of the house of Israel, engraved on the wall all around.


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And standing before them were seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them, each with his censer in his hand and the smell of the incense cloud went up.


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And He said to me, Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, each in the room of his engraved images? For they say, Jehovah does not see us; Jehovah has forsaken the land.


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Then He brought me to the entrance of the gate of the house of Jehovah that was toward the north; and women weeping for Tammuz were sitting there.


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Then He brought me into the inner court of the house of Jehovah; and there, at the entrance of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of Jehovah and their faces toward the eas


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And He said to me, Do you see this, son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations that they commit here, that they also fill the land with violence and again and again provoke Me to anger? And now they are putting t


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Therefore I will also deal with them in wrath. My eye will not pity, nor will I spare; and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, I will not listen to them.


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Then He cried out in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Draw near, you who oversee the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.


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And then six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his shattering weapon in his hand; and there was one man among them, clothed in linen, with a scribe's inkhorn by his side. And they went and stood beside the bronze


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And the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub on which it had been to the threshold of the house. And He called out to the man clothed in linen, who had the scribe's inkhorn by his side.


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And Jehovah said to him, Pass through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan because of all the abominations that are committed in its midst.


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And to the others He said in my hearing, Pass through the city behind him and strike; do not let your eye pity, and do not spare.


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Utterly slay the old man and the young man, and the maiden, the little child, and the women; but do not come near anyone on whom is the mark. And you shall begin at My sanctuary. Thus they began with the elders who were before the house.


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And He said to them, Defile the house and fill the courts with the slain; go forth. And they went forth and struck the people in the city.


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And as they were striking them and I was left alone, I fell on my face, and I cried out and said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! Are You destroying the whole remnant of Israel in Your pouring out of Your wrath upon Jerusalem?


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And He said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great; and the land is full of blood, and the city, full of perverted justice; for they say, Jehovah has forsaken the land, and Jehovah does not see.


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And the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, brought back a report, saying, I have done as You have commanded me.


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Then I looked, and there, in the expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim, appeared the likeness of a throne over them, like the appearance of a sapphire stone.


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And He spoke to the man clothed in linen and said, Go in between the whirling wheels, under the cherub, and fill the hollow of your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. And he went in, in my sight.


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And the cherubim were standing on the right side of the house when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court.


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And the glory of Jehovah rose up from the cherub to a place above the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of Jehovah.


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And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of the Almighty God when He speaks.


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And when He had commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, the man went and stood beside the wheel.


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And the cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim toward the fire that was between the cherubim, and he took some up and put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen; and the man took it and went forth.


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And I looked, and there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like the sight of beryl.


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As they went, they went in their four directions; they did not turn as they went, but to the place that the head faced they followed; they did not turn as they went.


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And their whole body, their backs, their hands, and their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes all around, their wheels belonging to the four of them.


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And every one had four faces. The first face was the face of a cherub; the second face was the face of a man; the third, the face of a lion; and the fourth, the face of an eagle.


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And whenever the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and whenever the cherubim lifted their wings to rise up from the earth, the wheels also did not turn from beside them.


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When those stood still, these stood still; and when those rose up, these rose up with them; for the spirit of the living creature was in them.


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And the glory of Jehovah went forth from over the threshold of the house and stood over the cherubim.


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And the cherubim lifted their wings and rose up from the earth in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels were next to them. And they stood at the entrance of the east gate of the house of Jehovah, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them ab


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This was the living creature that I had seen beneath the God of Israel by the river Chebar, and I knew that they were cherubim.


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Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings; and the likeness of a man's hands was under their wings.


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And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces that I had seen by the river Chebar, both their appearance and themselves. Each went straight ahead.


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And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the house of Jehovah that faces east; and there, at the entrance of the gate, were twenty-five men. And among them I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azzur and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, rulers of t


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And He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and give evil counsel in this city,


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Then the Spirit of Jehovah fell upon me and said to me, Say, Thus says Jehovah, You speak in this way, O house of Israel, for I know the things that come up in your spirit.


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Your slain whom you have put in the midst of the city, they will be the flesh, and the city, the pot; but you I will bring forth from the midst of it.


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I will bring you forth from the midst of it and will give you into the hands of strangers; and I will execute judgments upon you.


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You will fall by the sword; I will judge you in the borders of Israel, and you will know that I am Jehovah.


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The city will not be a pot to you so that you will be in its midst as flesh; I will judge you in the borders of Israel.


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And you will know that I am Jehovah; for you have not walked in My statutes, nor have you done My ordinances, but you have done according to the ordinances of the nations that surround you.


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And when I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died; and I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice, and I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! Are You making a full end to the remnant of Israel?


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Son of man, your brothers, your brothers, your kinsmen and the whole house of Israel, all of them, are the ones to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Stay far away from Jehovah; to us was this land given as an inheritance.


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Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Though I have sent them far away among the nations and though I have scattered them among the countries, I have been a sanctuary to them for a little while in the countries where they went.


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Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you from the countries among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.


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And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them; and I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,


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That they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them; and they will be My people, and I will be their God.


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But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their ways upon their heads, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were next to them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.


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And the glory of Jehovah went up from the midst of the city and stood upon the mountain which is east of the city.


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And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to Chaldea, to the captives, in a vision by the Spirit of God. And the vision that I had seen went up from me.


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Son of man, you are dwelling in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see but do not see and have ears to hear but do not hear; for they are a rebellious house.


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Therefore you, son of man, prepare for yourself baggage for captivity, and go into captivity by day in their sight; indeed you shall go into captivity from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will see that they are a rebellious house.


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And you shall bring your baggage forth by day in their sight like baggage for captivity, and you shall go forth in the evening in their sight as captives go forth.


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In their sight you shall take it up on your shoulder; in the dark you shall bring it forth. You shall cover your face so that you cannot see the ground, for I have given you as a sign to the house of Israel.


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And I did as I was commanded:I brought forth my baggage by day like baggage for captivity, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my hand; in the dark I brought forth the baggage; on my shoulder I took it up in their sight.


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Say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, This burden pertains to the prince in Jerusalem and to all the house of Israel, which is in it.


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Say, I am a sign of you. As I have done, so will it be done to them. They will go into exile, into captivity;


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And the prince who is in their midst will take up his baggage on his shoulder in the dark and will go forth; they will dig through the wall in order to bring his baggage forth through it; he will hide his face so that he does not see the land with his eye


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I will also spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare; and I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, yet he will not see it and will die there.


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And all who surround him to help him and all his armies, I will scatter into every wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.


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And they will know that I am Jehovah, when I scatter them among the nations and disperse them among the countries.


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But I will keep a small number of men from among them from sword, from famine, and from pestilence that they may recount all their abominations among the nations to which they go; and they will know that I am Jehovah.


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Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxious carefulness;


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And say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Jehovah to the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel, They will eat their bread with anxious carefulness and drink their water with horror so that their land may be emptied of its fullness b


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And the inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will be a desolation; and you will know that I am Jehovah.


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Son of man, what is this proverb that you all have concerning the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged and every vision fails?


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Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will bring this proverb to an end, so that they will no longer have the proverb in Israel. But say to them, The days have drawn near as well as the fulfillment of every vision.


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For it is I, Jehovah, who speaks; whatever word I speak will be performed; it will no longer be delayed; for in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak a word and I will perform it, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, the house of Israel now says, The vision that he sees pertains to things many days from now, and he prophesies concerning distant times.


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Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, No words of Mine will be delayed any longer, but the word that I have spoken will be performed, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their heart, Hear the word of Jehovah:


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!


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You have not gone up to the breaches nor built up the wall for the house of Israel that it might stand in the battle in the day of Jehovah.


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They have seen vanity and deceptive divination, they who say, Jehovah declares! when Jehovah has not sent them; but they expect that He will fulfill their word.


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Have you not seen a vain vision and spoken deceptive divination when you say, Jehovah declares! and I have not spoken?


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because you have spoken vanity and have seen deceptive visions, therefore I am now against you, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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And My hand will be upon the prophets who see vanity and perform deceptive divination; they shall not be in the council of My people, nor shall they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into the land of Israel; and


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Because, indeed because, they have led My people astray, saying, Peace, when there is no peace; but it is as if someone builds up a wall, and immediately they plaster it over with whitewash.


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Tell those who plaster over with whitewash that it will fall. There will be a flooding rain; and you, O hailstones, will fall; and a tempestuous wind will break it down.


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Indeed when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you, Where is the plaster with which you plastered it?


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will cause a tempestuous wind to break forth in My wrath, and there will be a flooding rain in My anger, and hailstones to consume it in wrath.


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And I will tear down the wall that you plastered over with whitewash and will tear it down to the ground, so that its foundation is uncovered; and it will fall, and you will be consumed in the midst of it; and you will know that I am Jehovah.


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And I will spend My wrath on the wall and on those who have plastered it over with whitewash; and I will say to you, The wall is not there, and those who plaster it over are not there,


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The prophets of Israel, who prophesy concerning Jerusalem and see visions of peace for her, when there is no peace, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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And you, son of man, set your face toward the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their heart, and prophesy against them


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And say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Woe to the women who sew bands on all the wrists and make caps for the heads of persons of every stature, so as to hunt down souls! Will you hunt down the souls of My people while you preserve alive the souls of other


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And you have profaned Me before My people for some handfuls of barley and for some pieces of bread by putting to death some people who should not die and preserving alive other people who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to your li


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am now against your bands with which you hunt down souls there as you would birds; and I will tear them off your arms and will release the souls, which souls you hunt down as you would birds.


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I will also tear off your caps and will deliver My people from your hand, and they will no longer be in your hand to be hunted down; and you will know that I am Jehovah.


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Because you discouraged the heart of the righteous man with lies, though I Myself did not pain him, and strengthened the hands of the wicked man so that he would not turn from his evil way and you would cause him to live,


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Therefore you will no longer see vanity and you will no longer practice divination, but I will deliver My people out of your hand, and you will know that I am Jehovah.


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Son of man, these men have set their hearts on their idols and have put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I be inquired of at all by them?


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Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Each and every man of the house of Israel who sets his heart on his idols and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face and goes to the prophet, I, Jehovah, will be found


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That I may lay hold of the house of Israel in their heart, who have become estranged from Me because of all their idols.


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Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Repent, and turn away from your idols; and turn your faces away from all your abominations;


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For each and every man of the house of Israel or of the sojourners who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from Me and sets his heart on his idols and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face and goes to the prophet to inquire of him


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And I will set My face against that man, and I will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of My people; and you will know that I am Jehovah.


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But if the prophet is enticed to speak a word, I, Jehovah, have enticed that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand against him and will destroy him from the midst of My people Israel.


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And they will bear their iniquity:As the iniquity of the prophet is, so the iniquity of him who inquires of him shall be,


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That the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me and may no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions, but that they may be My people and I may be their God, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, when a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand over it and break its staff of bread and send a famine against it and cut off man and beast from it;


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Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in the midst of it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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If I were to cause wild beasts to pass through the land so that they destroyed its inhabitants and it became so desolate that no one would pass through it because of the beasts,


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Though these three men were in the midst of it, as I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, they could not deliver even their sons and daughters; they alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.


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Or if I were to bring a sword upon that land and were to say, Let a sword pass through the land, and I were to cut off man and beast from it;


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Though these three men were in the midst of it, as I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, they could not deliver even their sons and daughters, but they alone would be delivered.


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Or if I were to send pestilence into that land and were to pour out My wrath upon it in blood so as to cut off man and beast from it,


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Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in the midst of it, as I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, they could not deliver even a son or daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.


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For thus says the Lord Jehovah, How much more then when I send My four severe judgments upon Jerusalem, sword and famine and wild beasts and pestilence, to cut off man and beast from it!


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Yet there will be a remnant left in it that will be brought forth, both sons and daughters. They will come forth to you, and you will see their ways and their doings; and you will be comforted for the ill that I have brought upon Jerusalem, for all that I


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And they will comfort you when you see their ways and their doings; and you will know that it was not without cause that I have done all that I have done to it, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, what becomes of the wood of the vine in comparison to every other kind of wood, of the pruned branch in comparison to that which was on the trees of the forest?


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Indeed it is put into the fire as fuel; the fire consumes its two ends, and its middle is scorched. Is it good for anything?


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Indeed when it was whole, it was not made into anything. How much less, when fire has consumed it and it has been scorched, can it still be made into anything!


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire as fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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And I will set My face against them:They have gone forth from the fire, yet the fire will consume them; and you will know that I am Jehovah when I set My face against them.


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And say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah to Jerusalem, Your origin and your birth are from the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite, and your mother was a Hittite.


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As for your birth, on the day that you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not rubbed with salt nor wrapped in swaddling clothes.


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No eye pitied you enough to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown into the open field because you were loathed on the day that you were born.


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And I passed by you and saw you kicking about in your blood, and I said to you while you were in your blood, Live! Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, Live!


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I caused you to increase like the sprouts of the field; and you increased and grew big, and you came to full beauty; your breasts became firm and your hair grew; but you were naked and bare.


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Then I passed by you and saw you; and then was your time a time of love. And I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness; indeed I swore unto you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord Jehovah, and you became Mine.


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I also clothed you with an embroidered garment and put sandals of porpoise skin on you, and I bound your head with fine linen and covered you with silk.


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Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was fine linen and silk and embroidery; you ate fine flour and honey and oil. And you became so very beautiful, and you prospered so as to become royalty.


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And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My splendor, which I had put upon you, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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But you trusted in your beauty and went about as a harlot because of your renown, and you poured out your fornications upon everyone who passed by; your beauty became his.


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And you took some of your garments and made high places of varied colors for yourself, and you committed fornication upon them, things that had never happened before, nor should have been.


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And you took your beautiful articles, made of My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made images of men for yourself and committed fornication with them.


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And you took your garments of embroidery and covered them, and you offered My oil and My incense before them.


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And My bread, which I had given you, the fine flour and oil and honey that I fed you with, you offered before them as a sweet savor; thus it was, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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Moreover you took your sons and daughters, whom you had borne unto Me, and you sacrificed them to those idols to be devoured. Were your fornications a small matter,


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And in all your abominations and fornications you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare and you were kicking about in your blood.


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At the head of every street you built your elevation and caused your beauty to be abhorred; and you spread your legs to everyone who passed by and multiplied your fornications.


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You also committed fornication with the sons of Egypt, your neighbors, great of flesh, and multiplied your fornications to provoke Me to anger.


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Indeed then I stretched out My hand over you and diminished the food apportioned to you; and I delivered you to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.


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You also committed fornication with the sons of Assyria because you were not satisfied; and you committed fornication with them and were still not satisfied.


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Furthermore you multiplied your fornications into the land of merchants, Chaldea, yet you were still not satisfied by this.


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How feeble is your heart, declares the Lord Jehovah, in that you do all these things, the actions of an unrestrained harlot!


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When you built your mound at the head of every street and you made your elevation in every open square, you were not like a harlot, by disdaining payment.


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Men give gifts to all harlots, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers and bribed them to come to you from all around for your fornications.


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Thus you are perverse compared to other women in your fornications, in that they do not go after you as a prostitute, but you give payment and no payment is given to you; therefore you are perverse.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness was uncovered through your fornications with your lovers and with all your abominable idols and because of the blood of your children, whom you gave to them,


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Therefore I am about to gather all your lovers whom you have pleased, indeed, all those whom you loved, with all those whom you hated; thus I will gather them against you from all around, and I will uncover your nakedness to them so that they may see all


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And I will judge you with the judgment that falls on adulterous women and on women who shed blood, and I will bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.


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And I will give you into their hand; and they will tear down your mounds and break down your elevations; they will also strip you of your garments and take your beautiful articles, and they will leave you naked and bare.


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And they will raise up a crowd against you and will stone you with stones and will cut you to pieces with their swords.


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And they will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. And I will stop you from being a harlot, and also you will no longer give payment.


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Thus I will cause My wrath against you to rest, and My jealousy will turn from you; and I will be quiet and angry no more.


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Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have raged against Me in all these things, therefore, I, for My part, will bring your ways upon your head, declares the Lord Jehovah; and you will not commit this lewdness in addition to all your


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Indeed everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb concerning you, saying, As the mother is, so is her daughter.


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You are the daughter of your mother, she who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, they who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father was an Amorite.


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And your older sister is Samaria with her daughters, who lives to your left; and your sister who is younger than you, who lives to your right, is Sodom with her daughters.


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But you have not walked merely according to their ways and have not acted merely according to their abominations; but, as if such were too small a thing, you acted more corruptly in all your ways than they did.


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As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, Sodom your sister, she with her daughters, has not done as you have done, you with your daughters.


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Indeed this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom:pride, abundance of bread, and careless ease were with her and her daughters, but she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy;


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And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me. Therefore I took them away when I saw it.


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And Samaria has not committed the half of your sins, but you have multiplied your abominations more than they and have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have committed.


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Bear then also your disgrace, which you have adjudged to your sisters; through your sins which you have committed more abominably than they, they are more righteous than you; indeed then be also put to shame and bear your disgrace, in that you have made y


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But I will turn their captivity, the captivity of Sodom with her daughters and the captivity of Samaria with her daughters, as well as the captivity of your captives with them;


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That you may bear your disgrace and be disgraced for all that you have done, in that you were a comfort to them.


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And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters, will return to their former state, and Samaria with her daughters will return to their former state; and you with your daughters will return to your former state.


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Before your wickedness was uncovered? So now you are the reproach of the daughters of Aram and all who are around her and of the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who despise you.


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For thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will also do with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.


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Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an eternal covenant for you.


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Then you will remember your ways and you will be disgraced when you receive your sisters, the one older than you and the one younger than you; and I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant.


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That you may remember and be ashamed and never open your mouth because of your disgrace, when I make propitiation for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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And say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, A great eagle with great wings, long pinions, and full plumage of many colors came to Lebanon and took away the top of the cedar.


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He cropped off its topmost young twig and brought it to a land of merchants; he set it in a city of traders.


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He also took some of the seed of the land and put it in a fertile field; he took it and set it by abundant waters like a willow,


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That it might sprout and become a low, running vine with its branches turned toward him and its roots under him. And it became a vine and produced offshoots and sent forth boughs.


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And there was another great eagle with great wings and much plumage; and then this vine bent its roots toward him, and from the beds where it was planted it sent out its branches toward him that he might water it.


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In a good field by abundant waters it had been transplanted so that it would produce branches and bear fruit, that it might be a magnificent vine.


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Say then, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit so that it withers? All its fresh sprouting leaves will wither, even without great strength or a mighty people pulling it up from its roots.


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And indeed, though it has been transplanted, will it thrive? Will it not wither completely once the east wind touches it? In the beds where it was planted it will wither.


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Say now to the rebellious house, Do you not know what these things mean? Say, Indeed the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and he took its king and its rulers and brought them to him at Babylon.


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And he took someone of the royal seed and made a covenant with him and put him under an oath. He also took the mighty men of the land,


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That the kingdom might be humble, that it might not lift itself up, but by keeping his covenant, it might stand.


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But he rebelled against him by sending his messengers to Egypt that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does these things escape? Can he break the covenant and slip away?


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As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, surely in the land of the king who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, with him in the midst of Babylon he will die.


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And Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not aid him in battle, when they cast up mounds and build siegeworks to cut off many lives.


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Indeed, he despised the oath by breaking the covenant; yes, he even gave his hand and yet did all these things; he will not slip away.


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, As I live, surely My oath, which he despised, and My covenant, which he broke, I will bring upon his head.


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And I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare; and I will bring him to Babylon and will enter into judgment with him there concerning his unfaithfulness by which he has been unfaithful to Me.


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And all his choice men with all his armies will fall by the sword, and those who are left will be scattered into every wind; and you will know that I, Jehovah, have spoken.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will also take a twig from the lofty top of the cedar and will set it out; from the topmost of its young twigs I will crop off a tender one, and I will transplant it upon a high and prominent mountain.


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On the high mountain of Israel I will transplant it; and it will bear branches and produce fruit and will become a magnificent cedar; and under it all birds of every kind will nest; in the shade of its branches they will nest.


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And all the trees of the field will know that I, Jehovah, have brought down the exalted tree and have exalted the lowly tree, that I have dried up the green tree and have made the dry tree bud. I, Jehovah, have spoken, and I will do it.


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What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers eat sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?


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Indeed all souls are Mine; indeed as is the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine. The soul who sins, he shall die.


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And does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and does not defile his neighbor's wife or come near a menstruous woman;


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And if a man does not oppress anyone but restores to the debtor his pledge, does not plunder but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment;


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If he does not lend with interest or collect with an increase; if he withdraws his hand from iniquity and exercises true justice between man and man;


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If he walks in My statutes and keeps My judgments to do truth - he is righteous; he shall surely live, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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(Though he has done none of these things himself); if he even eats upon the mountains or defiles his neighbor's wife,


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Oppresses the poor and needy, commits plunder, does not restore the pledge, or lifts his eyes to the idols and commits abomination,


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Lends with interest or collects with an increase; then will he live? He shall not live. He has committed all these abominations; he shall surely die. His blood shall be upon him.


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But if he begets a son, and the son sees all the sins of his father that he has done, and he sees and does not do the like;


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He does not eat upon the mountains and does not lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife,


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Does not oppress anyone, does not keep the pledge and does not plunder, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,


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Takes his hand off the poor and does not collect with interest or increase, does My judgments and walks in My statutes; he shall not die for his father's iniquity; he shall surely live.


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As for his father, because he practiced extortion, plundered his brother, and did that which was not good in the midst of his people, indeed he shall die for his iniquity.


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Yet you say, Why? Does not the son share the punishment for the father's iniquity? When the son has practiced justice and righteousness and has kept all My statutes and done them, he shall surely live.


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The soul who sins, he shall die; the son shall not share the punishment for the father's iniquity, nor shall the father share the punishment for the son's iniquity. The righteousness of the righteous man shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked


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But if the wicked man turns from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all My statutes and practices justice and righteousness, he shall surely live; he shall not die.


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None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of his righteousness that he has practiced he shall live.


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Do I take pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord Jehovah, and not in his turning away from his ways that he may live?


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But when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity and commits all the abominations that the wicked man commits, will he live? None of his righteousness that he has practiced shall be remembered. Because of his unfaithfulness in


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Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not fair. Hear now, O house of Israel! Is My way not fair? Is it not your ways that are not fair?


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When a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity and dies as a consequence, because of his iniquity that he has practiced he shall die.


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Again, when a wicked man turns from his wickedness that he has practiced and practices justice and righteousness, he shall save his life.


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Because he sees and turns from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.


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Yet the house of Israel says, The way of the Lord is not fair. Are My ways not fair, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not fair?


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Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his ways, declares the Lord Jehovah. Repent, and turn away from all your transgressions so that iniquity will not become a stumbling block to you.


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Cast away from you all your transgressions by which you have transgressed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit; for why will you die, O house of Israel?


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For I take no pleasure in the death of him who dies, declares the Lord Jehovah; therefore repent and live.


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And say, What was your mother? A lioness among lions. She lay in the midst of young lions; She brought up her whelps.


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When she raised up one of her whelps, He became a young lion; And he learned to take prey; He devoured men.


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Then the nations heard of him; He was captured in their pit, And they brought him with hooks To the land of Egypt.


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When she saw that she had waited, That her hope was lost, She took another one of her whelps; She made him a young lion.


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And he went about among the lions; He became a young lion. And he learned to take prey; He devoured men.


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And he destroyed their citadels And laid waste their cities; And the land and its fullness were horrified At the sound of his roaring.


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Then the nations set against him All around from the provinces And spread their net over him; He was captured in their pit.


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And they put him in a cage with hooks And brought him to the king of Babylon - They brought him into strongholds - That his voice would no longer be heard Upon the mountains of Israel.


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Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, Transplanted beside the waters; It was fruitful and full of branches Because of abundant waters.


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And it had strong branches For scepters of those who rule; And its height was exalted among the leafy boughs, And it was visible in its height because of the multitude of its branches.


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But it was plucked up in wrath; It was cast down to the ground; And the east wind dried up its fruit; Its strong branch was broken off and it withered; The fire consumed it.


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And fire has gone forth from its branch; It has consumed its offshoots and its fruit, So that there is no strong branch in it, A scepter to rule. This is a lamentation and it has become a lamentation.


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Now in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Jehovah, and they sat before me.


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Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Have you come to inquire of Me? As I live, I will not be inquired of by you, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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And say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, On the day when I chose Israel and lifted up My hand to the seed of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt; when I lifted up My hand to them, saying, I am Jehovah your God;


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On that day I lifted up My hand to them to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land that I had spied out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all the lands.


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And I said to them, Cast away, each of you, the detestable things of your eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.


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But they rebelled against Me and were not willing to listen to Me; they did not, each one, cast away the detestable things of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Thus I thought to pour out My wrath upon them and to spend My anger on them


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But I did something for My name's sake that it might not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in the midst of whom they were, in whose sight I had made Myself known to them in order to bring them out of the land of Egypt.


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And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My judgments, by which, if a man does them, he will live.


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And also I gave them My Sabbaths to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.


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But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes, and they rejected My judgments, by which, if a man does them, he will live; and they greatly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I thought to pour out My wrath upon th


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But I did something for My name's sake that it might not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had caused them to go forth.


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Yet I also lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all the lands;


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Because they rejected My judgments and did not walk in My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, for their heart went after idols.


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But My eye pitied them, so that I did not destroy them, and I did not bring them to their end in the wilderness.


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And I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their judgments, and do not defile yourselves with their idols.


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And sanctify My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between Me and you, that you might know that I am Jehovah your God.


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But the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes and they were not careful to do My judgments, by which, if a man does them, he will live; they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I thought to pour out My wrath upon them to spend My anger on


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Yet I withdrew My hand and did something for My name's sake that it might not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.


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I also lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and would disperse them among the countries,


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Because they did not do My judgments, but rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes were directed to the idols of their fathers.


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And I declared them unclean because of their gifts, in that they caused everything that opens the womb to pass through fire, that I might make them desolate so that they would know that I am Jehovah.


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Therefore speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Still yet in this your fathers blasphemed Me by acting unfaithfully against Me:


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When I had brought them into the land which I had lifted up My hand to give them, they saw every high hill and every leafy tree; and there they offered their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering, and there they made their


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Then I said to them, What is the high place to which you go? Therefore the name of it is called Bamah to this day.


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Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Do you defile yourselves in the way of your fathers? And do you go about as a harlot after their detestable things?


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And when you offer up your gifts, when you make your children pass through fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols until today. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of b


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And that which comes up in your spirit shall by no means occur, that which you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, serving wood and stone.


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As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, surely with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out I will rule over you.


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And I will bring you out from the peoples and will gather you from the countries among which you have been scattered, with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out.


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And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and I will enter into judgment with you there face to face.


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As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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And I will purge out from among you the rebels and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out from the land of their sojourning, but not one will enter into the land of Israel. Thus you will know that I am Jehovah.


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As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord Jehovah, Go, serve every one his idols; but afterward, you shall surely listen to Me, and My holy name you will no longer profane with your gifts and with your idols.


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For on My holy mountain, on the mountain of the height of Israel, declares the Lord Jehovah, there will the whole house of Israel, all of them, serve Me in the land; there will I accept them and there will I require your contributions and the firstfruits


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As a sweet savor I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the countries among which you have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.


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And you will know that I am Jehovah, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the land concerning which I lifted up My hand to give to your fathers.


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And there you will remember your ways and all your doings by which you defiled yourselves; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have done.


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And you will know that I am Jehovah, when I have dealt with you for My name's sake, not according to your evil ways or according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, set your face toward Teman, and utter something against the south and prophesy against the forest field of the Negev;


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And say to the forest of the Negev, Hear the word of Jehovah:Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am now kindling a fire in you, and it will consume in you every tender tree and every dry tree; the flaming flame will not be quenched, and every surface will be s


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Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and utter something against the holy places and prophesy against the land of Israel;


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And say to the land of Israel, Thus says Jehovah, I am now against you, and I will draw My sword out of its sheath, and I will cut off from you the righteous man and the wicked.


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Because I will cut off from you the righteous man and the wicked, therefore My sword will go forth out of its sheath against all flesh, from the south to the north.


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And all flesh will know that I, Jehovah, have drawn My sword out of its sheath; it will not return again.


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And when they say to you, Why do you groan, you shall say, Because of the report that comes; and every heart will melt and every hand will be feeble and every spirit will faint and every knee will flow into water. It is about to come and it will happen, d


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Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord, Say:A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished.


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It is sharpened to slaughter utterly, polished to flash like lightning. Or shall we rejoice, saying, The scepter of my son despises all other wood?


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And it is given to be polished, that it may be wielded in the hand. The sword - it is sharpened and it is polished, that it may be given into the hand of the slayer.


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Cry out and howl, son of man, for it will come against My people. It will come against all the princes of Israel; they are cast at the sword with My people; therefore strike your thigh.


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For a trial has been made. And what if even the scepter that despises is no more? declares the Lord Jehovah.


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You therefore, son of man, prophesy and clap your hands together; and let the sword be doubled a third time, the sword for the slain; it is the sword for a great slain one that encircles them.


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In order that hearts may fail and that occasions of falling may multiply at all their gates, I have given the slaughtering sword. Ah! It has been made to flash like lightning; it is drawn for slaying.


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Gather yourself up, go to the right; set yourself, go to the left, to wherever your edge is appointed.


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And I, even I, will clap My hands together and will cause My wrath to rest; I, Jehovah, have spoken.


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And you, son of man, appoint two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; out of one land both will come. And make a signpost; make it at the fork in the road to each city.


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You shall appoint a way for the sword to come, either to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, or to fortified Jerusalem in Judah.


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For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the road, at the fork in the two roads, using divination; he shakes his arrows, he inquires of the teraphim, he observes the liver.


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Into his right hand came the divination for Jerusalem, to set up the battering ram, to open his mouth in killing, to lift up his voice with a shout, to set the battering rams against the gates, to cast up a mound, to build a siege wall.


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Yet to those in Jerusalem it will be as a false divination in their sight, to those who have sworn solemn oaths; but He brings the iniquity to remembrance, that they may be taken.


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear, because you have come to remembrance, you will be taken with the hand.


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And you, profane, wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come at the time of the iniquity of the end,


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Remove the turban, and take off the crown; what is will not be. Exalt the lowly, and lay low the exalted.


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Ruins, ruins, ruins will I make it; and this also will be no more, until He comes whose right it is; and I will give it to Him.


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And you, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah concerning the children of Ammon and concerning their reproach; and say, A sword, a sword, drawn for the slaughter, polished to consume, that it may flash like lightning -


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While they see vanity for you, while they divine deception for you - to bring you down upon the necks of the wicked slain, whose day has come at the time of the iniquity of the end.


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Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.


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And I will pour out My indignation upon you; with the fire of My overflowing wrath I will blow against you, and I will give you into the hand of brutal men, skilled in destruction.


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You will be fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land; you will not be remembered; for I, Jehovah, have spoken.


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Now you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Therefore make her know all her abominations.


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And you shall say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols, against her own good, that she may defile herself!


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You are guilty for the blood which you have shed and have defiled yourself with the idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near and have come to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mocking to al


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Those who are near and those who are far off from you will mock you, who are ill-reputed and in great tumult.


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They have lightly esteemed father and mother within you; they have treated the stranger with oppression in the midst of you, and the orphan and the widow they have ill-treated within you.


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Slanderous men are within you in order to shed blood, and within you they have eaten upon the mountains; in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.


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In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their father; they have humbled women in their uncleanness within you.


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And one has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law, and another has humbled his sister, his father's daughter, within you.


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Within you they have taken bribes in order to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase and have wrested unjust gain from your neighbors by extortion and have forgotten Me, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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Therefore I have now struck My hand against your wrested unjust gain which you have made and at the bloodshed which is in the midst of you.


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Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days when I will deal with you? I, Jehovah, have spoken, and I will do it.


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And I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness from you.


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And you will be profaned through yourself in the sight of the nations, and you will know that I am Jehovah.


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Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because all of you have become dross, therefore I am now gathering you into the midst of Jerusalem.


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As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace to blow fire upon it and smelt it, so will I gather you in My anger and in My wrath; and I will lay you there and smelt you.


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Yes, I will gather you and blow upon you with the fire of My overflowing wrath, and you will be smelted in the midst of it.


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As silver is smelted in the midst of the furnace, so will you be smelted in the midst of it; and you will know that I, Jehovah, have poured out My wrath upon you.


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Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed or rained upon in the day of indignation.


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There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of her, like a roaring lion taking prey:They have devoured souls; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have increased the number of her widows in the midst of her.


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Her priests have done violence to My law and have profaned My holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the profane, nor have they made the difference known between the unclean and the clean; and from My Sabbaths they have hidden the


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Her rulers within her are like wolves taking prey, by shedding blood and destroying souls in order to wrest unjust gain.


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And her prophets have plastered over their deeds with whitewash for them, seeing vain visions and deceptive divination for them, saying, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, when Jehovah has not spoken.


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The people of the land have practiced extortion and have committed plunder and have oppressed the poor and needy and have mistreated the stranger without justice.


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And I sought a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the breach before Me for the sake of the land so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.


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Therefore I have poured out My indignation upon them; in the fire of My overflowing wrath I have consumed them; I have brought their own way upon their heads, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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And they committed fornication in Egypt; in their youth they committed fornication; there their breasts were pressed, and there their virgin bosoms were handled.


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And their names were Oholah, the older one, and Oholibah, her sister; and they became Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem is Oholibah.


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And Oholah committed fornication instead of remaining with Me, and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians, who were close to her,


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Who were clothed in purple, governors and officials, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding horses.


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And she bestowed her fornication upon them, all of them the choice men of Assyria; and with all whom she lusted after, with all their idols, she defiled herself.


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And she did not abandon her fornication from her time in Egypt; for in her youth they had lain with her, and they had handled her virgin bosom, and they had poured out their fornication upon her.


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Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians whom she lusted after.


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They uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and daughters, and they slew her with the sword. And she became a byword among women, and they executed judgments upon her.


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And her sister Oholibah saw this, but she was more corrupt in her lust than she and more corrupt in her fornication than the fornication of her sister.


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She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and officials, who were close to her, clothed splendidly, horsemen riding horses, all of them desirable young men.


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And she increased her fornication:When she saw men portrayed upon the wall, images of Chaldeans portrayed in vermillion,


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Girded with belts upon their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, like the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their birth;


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And the Babylonians came to her at the bed of love and defiled her with their fornication. And when she had been defiled by them, her desire for them departed.


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Thus she uncovered her fornication and she uncovered her nakedness, and My desire for her departed, as My desire for her sister had departed.


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Yet she multiplied her fornication by recalling the days of her youth, when she committed fornication in the land of Egypt.


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And she lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses.


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Thus you sought after the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom because of the breasts of your youth.


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Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am now rousing your lovers against you, from whom your desire departed, and am bringing them against you from all around:


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The Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and officials all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.


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And they will come against you with weapons, chariots and wheels, and with a company of peoples; they will set shield and buckler and helmet against you all around. And I will set judgment before them, and they will judge according to their judgments.


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And I will set My jealousy against you that they may deal with you in wrath; they will remove your nose and your ears, and your residue will fall by the sword; they will take your sons and your daughters, and they will consume your residue with fire.


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Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and to your fornication brought from the land of Egypt, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.


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For thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am now giving you into the hand of those whom you hate, into the hand of those from whom your desire has departed.


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And they will deal with you in hatred and will take all that you have gained; and they will abandon you, naked and bare, and the nakedness of your fornication will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your fornication.


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These things will be done to you because you have gone after the nations as a harlot, because you have defiled yourself with their idols.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, You will drink your sister's cup, Deep and wide; You will be a laughingstock and a mockery; It contains much.


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You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, The cup of horror and desolation, The cup of your sister Samaria.


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And you will drink it and drain it And gnaw at its shards; And you will tear out your breasts; For I have spoken, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because you have forgotten Me and have cast Me behind your back, bear now as well your lewdness and your fornication.


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And Jehovah said to me, Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare their abominations to them.


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For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands; indeed they have committed adultery with their idols and have also caused their children, whom they bore unto Me, to pass through fire to their idols, to be devoured.


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Moreover they have done this to Me:They have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and have profaned My Sabbaths.


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For when they slaughtered their children to their idols, they entered My sanctuary on the same day to profane it; and they have even done this in the midst of My house.


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Furthermore, they sent for men who come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and indeed they came; for them you bathed, painted your eyes, and decked yourself with ornaments;


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And you sat upon a splendid bed with a table prepared before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil.


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And the sound of a multitude without care was with her; and drunkards were brought from the wildernesswith people of the common sort, who put bracelets upon the hands of the women and beautiful crowns on their heads.


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Then I said concerning her who was worn out by adulteries, Will they now commit fornication with her when she is thus?


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But they went in to her as they would to a woman who is a harlot; thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.


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And righteous men, they will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.


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For thus says the Lord Jehovah, Bring up a company against them, and give them up to terror and plunder.


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And the company will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will slay their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire.


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Thus I will cause lewdness to cease from the land, that all women may be admonished not to conduct themselves in the way of your lewdness.


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And they will bring your lewdness upon you, and you will bear the sins of having your idols, and you will know that I am the Lord Jehovah.


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Then the word of Jehovah came to me, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, saying,


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Son of man, write down the name of the day, this very day. The king of Babylon laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.


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And utter a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Put on a pot - put it on; And also pour water into it;


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Gather into it its pieces, Every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; Fill it with choice bones.


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Take the choice of the flock, And also put a pile of wood under it; Bring it to a vigorous boil; Indeed let its bones be boiled in it.


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Woe to the bloody city, to the pot in which there is rust and whose rust has not gone out of it! Take its pieces out of it piece by piece; no lot has fallen upon it.


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For her blood was within her; she put it on a bare rock; she did not pour it upon the ground to cover it with dust.


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In order to stir up wrath, to take vengeance, I have set her blood upon a bare rock, so that it might not be covered.


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Heap on the wood, light the fire, boil the meat well, and mix in spices, and let the bones be burned.


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Then stand it empty upon its coals, so that it may get hot and its bronze may glow, so that its filthiness may be burned away in it and its rust may be consumed.


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She has wearied herself with toil, yet her great rust has not gone out of her. Let her rust be in the fire.


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Because of your lewd filthiness - because I tried to cleanse you, but you did not get clean, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness anymore, until I have caused My wrath toward you to rest.


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I, Jehovah, have spoken. The time is coming, and I will do it; I will not refrain, nor will I spare, nor will I repent. According to your ways and according to your doings I will judge you, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, I am about to take away the delight of your eyes from you with a blow. Yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, nor shall your tears come.


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Groan silently; make no mourning for the dead; bind your turban upon you, and put your sandals upon your feet, and do not cover your lips, and do not eat the bread of men.


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So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning I did as I was commanded.


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Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will profane My sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the delight of your eyes, and that which your soul longs after; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the


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And your turbans shall be upon your heads, and your sandals, upon your feet; you shall not mourn nor weep, but you shall rot away in your iniquities and groan one to another.


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Thus Ezekiel will be a sign to you. You shall do just as all he has done. And when it comes, you will know that I am the Lord Jehovah.


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As for you, son of man, surely on the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and what they have set their heart on, their sons and their daughters,


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On that day your mouth will be opened to the one who has escaped, and you shall speak and no longer be dumb. So you shall become a sign to them, and they will know that I am Jehovah.


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And you shall say to the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Jehovah:Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because you said, Aha! against My sanctuary when it was desecrated, and against the land of Israel when it was desolated, and against the house of J


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Therefore I am about to deliver you up to the children of the east to be dispossessed, and they will set up their encampments among you and put their dwellings among you. It is they who will eat your fruit and drink your milk.


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And I will make Rabbah pasture land for camels and the cities of the children of Ammon folds for flocks, and you will know that I am Jehovah.


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For thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced with all the malice within you against the land of Israel,


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Therefore now I have stretched out My hand against you, and I will deliver you as booty to the nations and cut you off from the peoples and destroy you from the lands; I will destroy you that you may know that I am Jehovah.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because Moab has said, Look, the house of Judah is just like all the other nations!


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Therefore I am about to open up the flank of Moab, taking cities from the cities on its frontier, the pride of the land, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, even to Kiriathaim.


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I will also deliver it along with the children of Ammon to the children of the east to be dispossessed, so that the children of Ammon might not be remembered among the nations.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because Edom has acted full of vengeance against the house of Judah and has incurred serious guilt by taking vengeance on them,


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will also stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from them man and beast and make it a desolation. From Teman even to Dedan they will fall by the sword.


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And I will inflict My vengeance upon Edom by the hand of My people Israel, and they shall act in Edom according to My anger and My wrath. Then they will know My vengeance, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because the Philistines have acted in vengeance and have been full of vengeance acting with malice within them to destroy with a perpetual enmity,


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am about to stretch out My hand against the Philistines and cut off the Cherithites and destroy the remnant of the seashore.


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And I will execute a great vengeance upon them with chastisements of wrath that they may know that I am Jehovah, when I have inflicted My vengeance on them.


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Son of man, because Tyre has spoken against Jerusalem, saying, Aha! She is broken, the gateway of the peoples! She has been turned over to me; I will be filled; now she has been desolated.


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am now against you, O Tyre, and I will stir up many nations against you, just as the sea stirs up its waves.


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And they will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her and make her bare rock.


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She will be a place in the midst of the sea where nets are spread, for I have spoken, declares the Lord Jehovah; and she will become spoil to the nations.


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And her daughters who are in the field will be slain by the sword that they might know that I am Jehovah.


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For thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am about to bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, the king of kings, with horses, chariots, horsemen, a company, and many people.


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He will slay your daughters in the field by the sword, and he will lay a siege wall against you and cast up a mound against you and raise up a shield against you.


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And he will set his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.


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Because of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots when he enters through your gates like those who enter a breached city.


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With the hooves of his horses he will trample down all your streets; he will slay your people by the sword, and the pillars of your strength will topple to the ground.


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And they will plunder your wealth and take your merchandise as spoil, and they will break down your walls and tear down your pleasant houses, and they will put your stones and your timber and your dust into the water.


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And I will cause the noise of your songs to cease, and the sound of your harps will no longer be heard.


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And I will make you bare rock. You will be a place where nets are spread; you shall no longer be built; for I, Jehovah, have spoken, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah to Tyre:How the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter occurs in your midst!


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Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground and tremble every moment and be astonished at you


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And they will take up a lamentation over you and say to you, How you have perished, O inhabited one, From the sea, O praised city, Which was strong by the sea, She and her inhabitants, Who imposed their terror on all her inhabitants!


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Now the coastlands will tremble On the day of your fall; The coastlands which are by the sea Will indeed be troubled because of your departure.


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For thus says the Lord Jehovah, When I make you a desolate city, like cities which are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the mighty waters cover you,


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I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so you will not be inhabited, nor shine out glory


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I will make you a terror, and you will not exist. Although you will be sought after, you will never again be found, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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And say to Tyre, O you who dwell at the entry to the sea, merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, You, O Tyre, have said, I am perfect in beauty.


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They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.


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They have made your oars of the oaks of Bashan; They have made your boards of cypresses inlaid with ivory from the coasts of Kittim.


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Your sail was of fine embroidered linen from Egypt, to be your ensign; Your awning was of blue and purple material from the coasts of Elishah.


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The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; Your skilled men, who were in you, O Tyre, were your helmsmen.


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The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were in you caulking your seams. All the ships of the sea and their sailors were within you to barter for your merchandise.


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The men of Persia and Lydia and Put were in your army as your men of war. They hung shields and helmets on you; they endowed you with your splendor.


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The men of Arvad and Helek were on your walls all around, and valiant men were in your towers; they hung their shields on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty.


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Tarshish conducted business with you because of the abundance of all your wealth. For your wares they gave silver, iron, tin, and lead.


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Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traders; for your merchandise they gave human beings and vessels of brass.


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The people of Dedan were your traders; many coastlands conducted business on your behalf; they brought back as your payment ivory tusks and ebony.


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Syria conducted business with you because of the abundance of your products; they gave for your wares emeralds, purple and embroidered cloth, fine linen, coral, and rubies.


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Judah and the land of Israel were your traders; they gave for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, resin, honey, oil, and balm.


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Damascus conducted business with you for the abundance of your products, because of the abundance of all wealth. They gave the wine of Helbon, and white wool.


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Vedan and Javan traded for your wares from Uzal. Among your merchandise were wrought iron, cassia, and calamus.


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Arabia and all the princes of Kedar conducted business on your behalf; in lambs, rams, and goats; for these they conducted business with you.


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The traders of Sheba and Raamah were your traders; they gave for your wares the best of all spices, all kinds of precious stones, and gold.


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These were your traders in the finest fabrics, in rolls of blue and embroidered cloth, and in chests of fine woven articles, tightly bound with cords, among your merchandise.


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The ships of Tarshish transported your merchandise for you; And you were replenished and made very glorious In the heart of the seas.


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Those who rowed you have brought you into great waters, But the east wind has shipwrecked you in the heart of the seas.


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Your wealth, your wares, your merchandise, Your sailors, your pilots, Those who caulked your seams, The dealers in your merchandise, And all your men of war, who are in you, With all your company who are in your midst, Will sink into the heart of the seas


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And all who handle the oar Will come down out of their ships; The sailors and all the pilots of the sea Will stand upon the land,


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And they will make their voice heard for you And cry out bitterly, And they will throw dust upon their heads; They will wallow in ashes.


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And they will make themselves bald for you And gird themselves with sackcloth, And they will weep for you in bitterness of soul With bitter mourning.


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And in their wailing they will take up a lamentation for you And lament over you, saying, Who is like Tyre, Like her silenced in the midst of the sea?


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When your wares went out over the seas, You satisfied many peoples. With the abundance of your wealth and your merchandise You enriched the kings of the earth.


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Now you are shipwrecked by the sea In deep water, Your merchandise and all your company Go down in your midst.


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All the inhabitants of the coasts Are astonished at you, And their kings shudder excessively; Their countenance is troubled.


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Those who conducted business with you among the peoples hiss at you; You have become a source of terror, And you will no longer exist.


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Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god - I sit in the seat of God in the midst of the seas; yet you are a man and not a god, although you set your heart as if it we


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By your wisdom and by your understanding you have made your wealth and accumulated gold and silver in your treasuries.


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By your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has become lifted up because of your wealth.


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because you have set your heart as if it were the heart of God,


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Therefore I am about to bring strangers upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they will defile your splendor.


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To the pit they will bring you down, and in the heart of the seas you will die the death of those who are slain.


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Will you indeed say in the presence of the one who slays you, I am God? But you are a man and not a god in the hand of the one who wounds you.


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You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers, for I have spoken, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, O you who sealed up perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty,


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You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was your covering, sardius, topaz, diamond, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, carbuncle, and emerald, with gold. The workmanship of your tambourines and your pipes was prepared with you on the d


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You were the anointed cherub who covered the Ark; indeed I set you, so that you were upon the holy mountain of God; you walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.


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You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.


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By the abundance of your trading they filled your midst with violence, and you sinned. So I cast you out as profane from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.


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Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness. I cast you to the ground; I presented you before kings that they may look at you.


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By the multitude of your iniquities in the unrighteousness of your trading you have profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I sent forth fire from your midst; it consumed you, and I reduced you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all those who look at yo


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All who know you among the peoples are astonished at you. You have become a source of terror, and you will be no more forever.


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And say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Indeed I am against you, O Sidon, and I will be glorified in your midst. And they will know that I am Jehovah when I have executed judgments in her, and I am sanctified in her.


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And I will send pestilence into her and blood into her streets, and the wounded will fall in her midst with the sword against her from all around, and they will know that I am Jehovah.


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And there will no longer be a pricking briar or a painful thorn for the house of Israel, inflicted by any of those around them who despised them. And they will know that I am the Lord Jehovah.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, When I have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered and have been sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, they will dwell in their own land which I gave to My servant Jacob.


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And they will dwell securely in it, and they will build houses and plant vineyards. They will dwell securely when I have executed judgments on all those surrounding them who despise them, and they will know that I am Jehovah their God.


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In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,


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Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.


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Speak and say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Indeed I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, The great monster that lies In the midst of his Nile streams, That said, My Nile belongs to me; I even made it for myself.


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But I will put hooks in your jaws, And I will cause the fish of your Nile streams to cling to your scales; And I will bring you up out of the midst of your Nile streams, With all the fish of your Nile streams clinging to your scales.


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And I will cast you out into the wilderness, You and all the fish of your Nile streams. You will fall on the open field; You will not be brought together or gathered. To the beasts of the earth And to the birds of the sky I have given you as food,


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That all the inhabitants of Egypt may know that I am Jehovah, Because they have been a reed staff to the house of Israel.


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When they grasped you by your hand, You broke and tore all their shoulders; And when they leaned upon you, You shattered and made all their loins unsteady.


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am about to bring a sword upon you, and I will cut off from you man and beast.


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And the land of Egypt will be a desolation and a waste, and they will know that I am Jehovah. Because he has said, The Nile is mine, and I made it;


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Therefore, indeed, I am against you and your Nile streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, even to the border with Ethiopia.


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No human foot will pass through it, not even an animal foot will pass through it; it will not be inhabited forty years.


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And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolate countries, and her cities will be the most desolate among ruined cities for forty years. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the countries.


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For thus says the Lord Jehovah, At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from among the peoples where they have been scattered,


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And I will turn the captivity of Egypt and bring them back to the land of Pathros, into the land of their origin. And there they will be a lowly kingdom.


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It will be the lowliest of the kingdoms. It will no longer lift itself up above the nations, and I will diminish them so that they will no longer rule the nations.


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And it will no longer be the confidence of the house of Israel, but rather a reminder of iniquity when they turned toward them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Jehovah.


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And in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,


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Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon forced his army into hard labor against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder rubbed raw. Yet neither he nor his army had wages from Tyre for the labor that he had expended against it.


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am about to give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, and he will carry off her multitude and take her spoil and seize her plunder, and it will be the wages for his army.


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I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he labored, because they worked for Me, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will give you an open mouth in their midst. Then they will know that I am Jehovah.


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For the day has drawn near, even the day of Jehovah has drawn near; It will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.


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And a sword will come upon Egypt, And anguish will be in Ethiopia, When the slain will fall in Egypt; And they will take away her multitude, And her foundations will be broken down.


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Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all Arabia, Libya, and the children of the land of the covenant will fall by the sword with them.


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Thus says Jehovah, Those who support Egypt will fall, And the pride of her strength will come down; They will fall by the sword within her, From Migdol to Syene, Declares the Lord Jehovah.


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And they will be desolate in the midst of desolate countries, and her cities will be the most desolate among ruined cities.


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And they will know that I am Jehovah, when I have set fire to Egypt and all her helpers are destroyed.


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In that day messengers will go forth from before Me in ships to make the confident Ethiopians afraid, and there will be anguish among them just as on the day of Egypt. For indeed it comes.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon.


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He and his people with him, the most ruthless of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land, and they will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.


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And I will make the Nile streams dry and sell the land into the hands of evil men, and I will make the land and all that is in it desolate by the hand of strangers. I, Jehovah, have spoken.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will also destroy the idols, and I will make an end of the images from Memphis; and a prince from the land of Egypt will never again arise; and I will put fear into the land of Egypt.


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And I will pour out My wrath upon Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude in Thebes.


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And I will set fire to Egypt; Sin will writhe in anguish, and Thebes will be breached, and Memphis will have adversaries daily.


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At Tahpanhes also the day will withdraw itself, when I will break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her strength will cease in her; she will be covered with a cloud, and her daughters will go into captivity.


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And in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,


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Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt; and indeed it has not been bound to apply healing medicines, nor firmly bandaged to bind it to be strong enough to grasp a sword.


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Indeed I am against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and I will break both his arms, the strong arm and the one that was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.


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And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put My sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him with the groanings of one who is being slain.


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And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh will fall; and they will know that I am Jehovah, when I put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will stretch it out over the land of Egypt.


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And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the countries. Then they will know that I am Jehovah.


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And in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,


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Son of man, say to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to his multitude:Whom are you like in your greatness?


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Indeed Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon With beautiful branches and forest shade And great height, And its top shoots were among the thick boughs.


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Waters nourished it, The deep springs made it grow; Its rivers flowed around The place it was planted; And it flowed out its channels To all the trees of the field.


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Therefore its height was exalted Above all the trees of the field, And its boughs were multiplied, And its branches lengthened, Because of abundant waters, as it spread.


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All the birds of the sky Made their nests in its boughs, And all the beasts of the field Bore their young under its branches, And in its shade All great nations dwelt.


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Thus it was beautiful in its greatness, In the length of its branches; For its roots were beside abundant waters.


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Cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; Cypresses could not compare to its boughs, And plane trees could not equal its branches; No tree in the garden of God could compare to it in its beauty.


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I made it beautiful By the multitude of its branches, So that all the trees of Eden, Which were in the garden of God, envied it.


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because you are exalted in height - it set its top shoots among the thick boughs, and its heart is lifted up in its height -


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Therefore I will deliver it into the hands of the mighty one of the nations; he will surely deal with it. I have driven it out according to its wickedness.


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And strangers, the most ruthless of the nations, have cut it down and left it on the mountains, and its branches have fallen into all the valleys, and its boughs lie broken by all the ravines of the land; and all the peoples of the earth have abandoned it


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Upon its fallen trunk All the birds of the sky will dwell, And upon its branches All the beasts of the field will be.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, On the day it descended to Sheol I caused a mourning; I covered the deep springs for it, and I restrained its rivers, and the great waters were shut up. I also made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted on


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I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all who drink water, were comforted in the lowest parts of the earth.


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They also descended with it into Sheol to those who were slain by the sword; indeed to those who were its arm, who dwelt under its shade among the nations.


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Which among the trees of Eden then are you like in glory and in greatness? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lowest parts of the earth; you will lie among the uncircumcised, with those who were slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh


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And in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,


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Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him, You likened yourself to a lion of the nations, Yet you are like a monster in the seas; And you gushed forth with your rivers And muddied the waters with your feet And foule


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will spread My net upon you With a company of many peoples, And they will bring you up in My dragnet.


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And I will abandon you upon the land; I will cast you out into the open field, And I will cause all the birds of the sky to settle upon you And satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with you.


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I will also drench the land with your outpoured blood As far as the mountains, And the ravines will be full of you.


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And when I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud, And the moon will not give its light.


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All the bright lights of heaven I will darken over you And send darkness upon your land, Declares the Lord Jehovah.


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I will also bring anguish to the hearts of many peoples, when I bring news of your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.


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Yes, I will astonish many peoples because of you, and their kings will shudder excessively over you, when I brandish My sword before them; they will also tremble continually, everyone for his own life, on the day of your fall.


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By the swords of the mighty, All of them the ruthless of the nations, I will cause your multitude to fall; And they will devastate the pride of Egypt, And all its multitude will be destroyed.


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I will also destroy all its beasts From beside abundant waters; No longer will human feet muddy them, Nor will the hoofs of beasts muddy them.


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When I make the land of Egypt desolate, A land destitute of what filled it, When I strike all its inhabitants, They will know that I am Jehovah.


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This is the lamentation with which they will lament. The daughters of the nations will lament with it; over Egypt and over all her multitude they will lament with it, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, her and the daughters of mighty nations, to the lowest parts of the earth, with those who descend to the pit.


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They will fall in the midst of those slain by the sword; she is delivered to the sword. Drag her away with all her multitudes.


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The strong among the mighty will speak to him and his allies from the midst of Sheol; they have gone down; they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.


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Assyria and all her company are there with their graves all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword,


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Whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is all around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who had struck terror in the land of the living.


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Elam and all her multitude are there, all around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have descended uncircumcised into the lowest parts of the earth, who had struck their terror in the land of the living and bore their disgrace with tho


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They have made her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; their graves are all around her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword. Although their terror was struck in the land of the living, they now bear their disgrace with those


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Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude are there; their graves are all around them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword. Although they had struck their terror in the land of the living,


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They will not lie with the mighty uncircumcised who fell, who descended to Sheol with their weapons of war and laid their swords under their heads and their iniquities upon their bones, even though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the liv


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Edom is there, her kings and all her princes, who in their might are placed with those slain by the sword; they will lie with the uncircumcised and with those who descend to the pit.


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The princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians are there, who descended with the slain; they are put to shame in spite of the terror they struck by their might. They also lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword and bear their shame w


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Pharaoh will see them and be comforted over all his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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For I have put his terror in the land of the living, and he will be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them, Whenever I bring the sword upon a land and the people of the land take a man from their midst and set him up as their watchman,


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Then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and ignores the warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.


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He heard the sound of the trumpet and ignored the warning; his own blood will be on him; whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul.


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But if the watchman sees the sword come and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned and the sword comes and takes someone away from them, he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman's hand.


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It is you, O son of man, whom I have appointed as a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore when you hear the word from My mouth, give them warning from Me.


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When I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you will surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.


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Yet if you warn the wicked man of his way to turn from it and he does not turn from his way, he will die in his iniquity, and you have delivered your soul.


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And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, This is what you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and because of them we are wasting away. How then can we live?


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Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turns away from his way and lives. Turn away, turn away from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?


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And you, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him on the day of his transgression, and the wickedness of the wicked will not stumble him on the day he turns away from his wickedness. The right


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When I say concerning the righteous man, He will surely live, but if he has confidence in his righteousness and practices iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered. As for his iniquity that he practiced, in it he will die.


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Again, when I say to the wicked man, You will surely die, but if he turns away from his sin and practices justice and righ- teousness -


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If the wicked man restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he took in robbery, walks in the statutes of life, practicing no iniquity - he will surely live; he will not die.


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None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him; he has practiced justice and righteousness; he will surely live.


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Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not fair; but as for them, their way is not fair.


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And when a wicked man turns from his wickedness and practices justice and righteousness, he will live by them.


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Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not fair. O house of Israel, I will judge every one of you according to his ways.


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And in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, one who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city has been struck down.


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Now the hand of Jehovah had come upon me in the evening, before the coming of the one who had escaped; and He had opened my mouth before he came to me in the morning. Therefore my mouth was opened, and I was no longer dumb.


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Son of man, the inhabitants of those ruined places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one person, and he was given the land as an inheritance; but we are many; surely the land has been given to us for an inheritance.


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Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, You eat meat with the blood and lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood. Will you indeed possess the land?


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You depend on your sword; you have committed abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor's wife. Will you indeed possess the land?


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Thus will you say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, As I live, surely those who are in the ruined places will fall by the sword, and he who is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and in the c


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And I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and the pride of her strength will cease, and the mountains of Israel will be desolate without anyone passing through.


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Then will they know that I am Jehovah, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste, because of all their abominations which they have committed.


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And as for you, son of man, the children of your people talk about you by the walls and in the entrances of the houses and speak to one another, each to his brother, saying, Come now, and hear what is the word that comes forth from Jehovah.


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And they come to you just as people come, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words but do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.


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And indeed you are to them like a very lovely song of one with a pleasant voice, who can play an instrument well; for they hear your words but do not do them.


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And when this comes about - indeed it comes - then they will know that a prophet has been among them.


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Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and say to them, to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the sheep?


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You eat the fat, and you clothe yourselves with the wool; you slaughter the fatlings, but you do not feed the sheep.


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The weak you have not strengthened, and the sick one you have not healed, and the broken one you have not bound up, and the one that was driven away you have not brought back, and the lost one you have not sought; but with strength and rigor you have rule


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And they were scattered without a shepherd, and they became food to all the beasts of the field and were scattered.


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My sheep wandered through all the mountains and upon every high hill. Indeed My sheep were scattered over all the surface of the earth; not even one searched for or sought after them.


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As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, surely inasmuch as My sheep became prey, and My sheep became food to all the beasts of the field because there was no shepherd, nor did My shepherds search for My sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not fe


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Indeed I am against the shepherds, and I will require My sheep at their hand and stop them from feeding the sheep, and the shepherds will no longer feed themselves; but I will deliver My sheep from their mouth so that they may


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As a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day when he is among his sheep which are scattered, so I will seek out My sheep; and I will deliver them from all the places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.


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And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them into their own land, and I will feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the streams and in all the inhabited places of the land.


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I will feed them with good pasture, and their dwelling place will be upon the mountains of the heights of Israel; there they will lie down in a good dwelling place, and on rich pasture they will feed upon the mountains of Israel.


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I will seek the lost one and bring back the one that was driven away and bind up the broken one and strengthen the sick one; but the fat one and the strong one I will destroy - I will feed them with judgment.


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And as for you, O My flock, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and the male goats.


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Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture and trample down the rest of your pasture with your feet and drink the clear water and foul the rest with your feet?


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Meanwhile My flock must feed on what is trampled by your feet and drink what is fouled by your feet.


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah to them, It is I who am about to judge between the fat sheep and the thin sheep.


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Because you pushed with flank and shoulder, and butted all the weak with your horns until you scattered them abroad,


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I will rescue My flock, and they will no longer be prey; and I will judge between one sheep and another.


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And I will set up over them one Shepherd, My Servant David, and He will feed them; He will feed them, and He will be their Shepherd.


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And I, Jehovah, will be their God, and My Servant David will be a Prince among them. I, Jehovah, have spoken.


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And I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish evil beasts from the land, so that they will dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.


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And I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing, and I will cause the showers to come down in their season; there will be showers of blessing.


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And the trees of the field will yield their fruit, and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure in their land; then they will know that I am Jehovah, when I break the bars of their yoke and deliver them from the hand of those who enslave


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And they will no longer be prey to the nations, nor will the beasts of the earth devour them; but they will dwell securely, and no one will make them afraid.


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And I will raise up for them a planting place of renown, and they will no longer be consumed with famine in the land and no longer bear the disgrace of the nations.


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Thus they will know that I, Jehovah their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are My people, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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And you are My flock, the flock of My pasture; you are men, and I am your God, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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And say to it, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Indeed I am against you, O Mount Seir, And I will stretch out My hand against you And make you a desolation and a waste.


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Because you have had a perpetual enmity and handed the children of Israel over to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, in the time of the punishment of the end;


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Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you; since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you.


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Thus I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation, and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.


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And I will fill its mountains with its slain. The slain will fall by the sword in your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines.


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I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited, and you will know that I am Jehovah.


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Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries will belong to me, and we will possess them - even though Jehovah was there -


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Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your jealousy, which you displayed in your hatred of them, and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.


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And you will know that I, Jehovah, have heard all your reviling which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are desolate; they have been given to us to devour.


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And you have magnified yourselves against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard.


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As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, O Mount Seir and all Edom, the whole land. Then they will know that I am Jehovah.


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And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of Jehovah.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! Even the ancient high places have become our possession!


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Therefore prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because, even because, they have desolated and crushed you from every side so that you might become the possession of the remnant of the nations, and you have been taken up in the talk of different t


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Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah. Thus says the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys, to the desolate ruins and to the forsaken cities, which have become plunder and a mocking to th


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the remnant of the nations and against Edom, all of whom have appointed My land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despising in


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Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Indeed I am speaking in My jealousy and in My wrath because you have borne the disgrace of the nati


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, I swear, saying, Surely the nations that surround you will bear their own disgrace.


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But you, O mountains of Israel, you will shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit for My people Israel, for their coming is near.


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And I will multiply people upon you, the entire house of Israel, all of it! The cities will also be inhabited, and the waste places will be rebuilt.


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I will also multiply upon you man and beast, and they will increase and be fruitful, and I will make you inhabited as you were formerly, and I will make it better for you than when you began. Then you will know that I am Jehovah.


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Yes, I will cause men to walk upon you, My people Israel; and they will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will no longer bereave them of children again.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because they are saying of you, You are a land that devours men and bereaves your nation of children;


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Therefore you will no longer devour men or any longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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And I will no longer let you hear the disgrace of the nations nor any longer bear the reproach of the peoples, and you will no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings; their way before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.


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Therefore I poured out My wrath upon them because of the blood which they had poured out upon the land and because they had defiled it with their idols.


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And I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. According to their way and according to their doings I judged them.


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And when they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, inasmuch as it was said of them, These are the people of Jehovah, and they have gone forth out of His land.


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But I had regard for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.


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Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am not doing this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.


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And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations will know that I am Jehovah, declares the Lord Jehovah, when I am sanctified in you in their sight.


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And I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.


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And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you will be clean; from all your filthiness and from all your idols I will cleanse you.


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I will also give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.


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And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and My ordinances you shall keep and do.


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And you shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be My people, and I will be your God.


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And I will save you from all your uncleanness, and I will summon the grain and multiply it, and bring no famine upon you.


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And I will multiply the fruit of the trees and the produce of the field, that you may no longer receive the reproach of famine among the nations.


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Then you will remember your evil ways and your doings that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.


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It is not for your sake that I am doing this, declares the Lord Jehovah; let it be known to you. Be ashamed and humiliated on account of your ways, O house of Israel.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places will be rebuilt.


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And the land that was desolate will be tilled instead of being desolate in the sight of all who passed by.


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And they will say, This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.


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Then the nations that are left all around you will know that I, Jehovah, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted that which was desolate. I, Jehovah, have spoken, and I will do it.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Moreover for this I will be inquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.


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Like the holy flock for sacrifices, like the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so will the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they will know that I am Jehovah.


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The hand of Jehovah came upon me, and He brought me out in the Spirit of Jehovah and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.


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And He caused me to pass all around among them, and there were very many on the surface of the valley, and they were also very dry.


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Then He said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of Jehovah.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah to these bones:I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.


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And I will put sinews on you and bring flesh back on you and cover you with skin and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you will know that I am Jehovah.


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So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a noise, and suddenly, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.


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And I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh came back, and skin covered them over; but there was no breath in them.


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Then He said to me, Prophesy to the wind; prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.


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So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them; and they lived and stood up upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.


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Then He said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Now they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.


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Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Now I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, O My people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.


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And you will know that I am Jehovah, when I open your graves and bring you up out of your graves, O My people.


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And I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live; and I will place you in your own land. Then you will know that I, Jehovah, have spoken and that I have performed it declares Jehovah.


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And you, son of man, take one piece of wood, and write upon it, For Judah and for the children of Israel associated with him; then take another piece of wood, and write upon it, For Joseph, the piece of wood of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel ass


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And bring them together, one side to the other, into one piece of wood, that they may become united in your hand.


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And when the children of your people speak to you, saying, Will you not tell us what you mean by these?


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Say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am about to take the piece of wood of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel associated with him; and I will put them upon it, that is, the piece of wood of Judah, and make them one pie


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And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am about to take the children of Israel from among the nations, where they have gone, and I will gather them from all around and bring them into their own land.


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And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel, and one king will be king to all of them; and they will no longer be two nations, nor will they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.


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They will not defile themselves any longer with their idols, or their detestable things, or any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and I will cleanse them. Therefore they will be My p


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And My Servant David will be King over them, and they all will have one Shepherd. They will also walk in My ordinances and observe My statutes and do them.


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And they will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, in which your fathers dwelt; and they will dwell in it, they, their children, and their children's children, forever. And David My Servant will be their Prince forever.


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I will also make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them there and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forever,


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Then the nations will know that I am Jehovah, who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary will be in their midst forever.


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Son of man, set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,


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And say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Indeed I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.


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And I will turn you around and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you and all your army forth, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with shield and buckler, all of them wielding swords;


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Gomer and all its hordes, Beth-togarmah from the remotest parts of the north and all its hordes, many peoples with you.


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Get ready; indeed get yourself ready, you and all your company who have gathered to you, and become their guard.


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After many days you will be visited; in the last years you will come into the land which was brought back from the sword, and whose people were gathered from many peoples on the mountains of Israel, which have been a perpetual waste. Now they have been br


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And you will go up, coming like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your hordes and many peoples with you.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, On that day things will come up in your heart, and you will devise an evil device.


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And you will say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will come upon those at rest, dwelling securely, all of them dwelling without walls, without bars or doors;


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To seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the once waste places, now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the middle of the earth.


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Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish, with all their young lions, will say to you, Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your company to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to seize great


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Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say to Gog, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Surely on that day when My people Israel are dwelling securely, you will recognize it;


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And you will come from your place from the remotest parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding upon horses, a great company and a mighty army;


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And you will come up against My people Israel, like a cloud to cover the land. In the last days I will bring you against My land so that the nations may know Me, when I am sanctified through you, O Gog, before their eyes.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Are you the one of whom I spoke in earlier times through My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them?


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And on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel, declares the Lord Jehovah, My wrath will come up in My nostrils.


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For in My jealousy and in My fiery wrath I have spoken, Surely on that day there will be a great earthquake in the land of Israel;


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The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the beasts of the field, all the creeping things that creep upon the earth, and every human being on the surface of the earth will quake at My presence, and mountains will be thrown down, and slopes will slide, a


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And I will call to all My mountains for a sword against him, declares the Lord Jehovah; every man's sword shall be against his brother.


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And I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain torrential rain and great hailstones, fire and brimstone, upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him.


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And I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself and make Myself known in the sight of many nations, and they will know that I am Jehovah.


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And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Indeed I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.


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And I will turn you around and drive you on and bring you up from the remotest parts of the north, and I will bring you upon the mountains of Israel;


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You will fall upon the mountains of Israel, you, all your hordes, and the peoples with you. I will give you up as food to every kind of scavenging bird and to the beasts of the field.


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And I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the isles, and they will know that I am Jehovah.


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And I will make known My holy name in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not allow My holy name to be profaned anymore. Then the nations will know that I am Jehovah, the Holy One in Israel.


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Indeed it is coming and will take place, declares the Lord Jehovah. This is the day of which I have spoken.


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And the inhabitants of the cities of Israel will go out and set fire to the weapons and burn them:bucklers and shields, bows and arrows, and javelins and spears; and they will fuel fires with them for seven years.


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They will not carry in wood from the field nor fell any from the forests, for they will fuel fires with the weapons. And they will spoil their spoilers and plunder their plunderers, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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And on that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, the valley of those who pass through, east of the sea; and it will stop those who pass through. And there they will bury Gog and all his multitude, and they will call it the valley of Hamon-gog.


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Indeed all the people of the land will bury them; and it will bring fame to them on the day that I am glorified, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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And they will set apart men for continual employment, who will pass through the land; and with those who pass through will come those who bury those who remain upon the surface of the land, to cleanse it. They will search up to the end of seven months.


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And those who pass through the land will pass through; and when anyone sees a human bone, he will erect a marker by it, until those responsible for burials have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog.


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And you, son of man, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Speak to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves and come; gather yourselves from all around to My sacrifice which I sacrifice for you, a great sacrifice upon the mountains o


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You shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, as of rams, lambs and male goats, bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.


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And you shall eat fat until you are satisfied and drink blood until you are drunk, from My sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.


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And you will be satisfied at My table with horses and chariots, with mighty men and with all the men of war, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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And I will establish My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see My judgment which I have executed and My hand which I have laid upon them.


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And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity because they trespassed against Me, and I hid My face from them. So I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and all of them fell by the sword.


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According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I dealt with them, and I hid My face from them.


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Now I will turn the captivity of Jacob and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name.


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And they shall bear their disgrace and all their trespasses with which they have trespassed against Me, when they shall dwell securely in their land, and no one will make them afraid.


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When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, I will be sanctified in them in the sight of many nations.


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And they will know that I am Jehovah their God because I brought them into captivity among the nations and have gathered them to their own land; and I will never again leave any of them there.


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And I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will have poured out My Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that same day the hand of Jehovah was upon me, and He brought me there.


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In the visions of God He brought me into the land of Israel and set me down upon a very high mountain, and on it to the south there was a structure like a city.


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And He brought me there, and there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze with a line of flax and a measuring reed in His hand, standing in the gate.


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And the man said to me, Son of man, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I show you, because for this purpose you have been brought here that it may be shown to you. Tell all that you see to the house of Israel.


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Now there was a wall, all around the outside of the house, and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long, each cubit a cubit and a handbreadth. So He measured the thickness of the structure, one reed; and the height, one reed.


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Then He came to the gate which faces toward the east and went up its steps, and He measured the threshold of the gate, one reed deep; and each thresh- old was one reed deep.


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And every guardroom was one reed long and one reed wide, and the space between the guardrooms was five cubits, and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.


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Then He measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.


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And there were three guardrooms on one side and three on the other side of the gate which was facing east, and the three of them had the same measurement, and the posts had the same measurement on both sides.


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And He measured the width of the entrance of the gate, ten cubits; and the total length of the gate, thirteen cubits.


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And there was a border before the guardrooms, one cubit on this side, and a border, one cubit on that side; and the guardrooms, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.


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And He measured the total gate width from the roof edge of one guardroom to the roof edge of the other, twenty-five cubits. The entrances of the guardrooms were opposite each other.


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He also made a measurement of the posts, sixty cubits in all; and the gate surrounded a court which reached to the posts.


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And the distance from the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the inner porch of the gate was fifty cubits.


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And the guardrooms and their posts had latticed windows within and all around the gate. The porches also had windows within and all around, and palm trees were on each post.


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Then He brought me into the outer court, and there were chambers and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers were upon the pavement.


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And the pavement flanked the gates, its width equal to the length of the gates; that is, the lower pavement.


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Then He measured the distance from the front of the lower gate to the front of the outside of the inner court gate, a hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north.


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Then He measured the gate of the outer court which faced toward the north, its length and its width.


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And it had three guardrooms on this side and three on that side. And its posts and its porch were of the same measurement as the first gate; its length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.


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And its windows and its porch and its palm trees were of the same measurement as the gate which faced toward the east, and seven steps led up to it, and its porch was in front of them.


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And there was a gate to the inner court opposite the outer gate, both on the north and on the east. And He measured the distance from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.


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And He led me toward the south, and there was a gate toward the south, and He measured its posts and its porch according to those same measurements.


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And the gate and its porch had windows all around just like those other windows; the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.


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And there were seven steps going up to it, and its porch was in front of them; and it had palm trees upon its posts, one on each side.


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And there was a gate to the inner court toward the south, and He measured the distance from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred cubits.


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Then He brought me into the inner court through the south gate, and He measured the south gate according to those same measurements,


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And its guardrooms and its posts and its porches according to those same measurements; and it had windows in and around it and its porches; the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.


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And its porches were toward the outer court, and palm trees were upon its posts, and its steps had eight steps.


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And He brought me into the inner court toward the east, and He measured the gate according to those same measurements,


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And its porches were toward the outer court, and palm trees were upon its posts on each side, and its steps had eight steps.


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Its guardrooms, its posts, and its porches; and it had windows in and around it; the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.


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And its porches were toward the outer court, and palm trees were upon its posts, on each side, and its steps had eight steps.


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And a chamber with its entrance was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt offering.


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And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side and two tables on that side on which to slay the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering.


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And on one side outside, as one goes up to the entrance of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables.


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Four tables were on this side and four tables on that side beside the gate; eight tables on which they slaughtered the sacrifices.


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And there were four tables for the burnt offering, made of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long and a cubit and a half wide and one cubit high, on which they laid the instruments with which they slaughtered the burnt offering and the sacrifice;


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And double hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened on the inside all around. And upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.


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And outside the inner gate in the inner court were two chambers, one at the side of the north gate facing toward the south; one at the side of the south gate facing toward the north.


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And He said to me, This chamber that faces toward the south is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house;


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And the chamber that faces toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who come near to Jehovah to minister to Him from among the sons of Levi.


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And He measured the court, a square, one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide; and the altar was in front of the house.


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Then He brought me to the porch of the house and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side; and the width of the gate was fourteen cubits, including the side indents in the gate, three cubits on this side and


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The length of the porch was twenty cubits and the width twelve cubits, and ten steps led up to it; and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side and another on that side.


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And He brought me to the temple and measured the posts, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other side was the width of the post.


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And the width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other side. And He measured its length, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.


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Then He went into the inner temple and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the width beside the entrance, seven cubits.


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And He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the outer temple; and He said to me, This is the Holy of Holies.


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Then He measured the wall of the house, six cubits thick; and the width of every side chamber, four cubits, all around the house on every side.


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And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, with thirty units in each story; and they extended to the wall, which the house had for the side chambers all around to be supports, so that there would not be supports inserted into the wall


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And the side chambers that went around the house became wider as they went up by stories. Because the surrounding of the house increased upward around the house, therefore the house had width upward; and so one went up from the lowest story to the highest


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I also saw that the house had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six long cubits.


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The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits; and space that was left alongside the side chambers belonged to the house.


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And between the chambers and the house was a width of twenty cubits all around the house on every side.


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And the entrances of the side chambers were toward the space that was left, one entrance toward the north and another entrance toward the south; and the width of the place that was left was five cubits all around.


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And the building that was in front of the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.


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So He measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place at the back and the building with its walls, a hundred cubits long;


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And the width of the front of the house and of the separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits.


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And He measured the length of the building before the separate place, which was behind it, and its galleries on one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits. And the outer temple, the inner temple, the porches of the court,


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The thresholds, the latticed windows, and the galleries of the surrounding side chambers with their three stories, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, even from the ground to the windows (now the windows were latticed),


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To the top of the entrance, both in the inner house and outside. And on all the walls all around inside and outside, by measurement,


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Were both carved cherubim and palm trees. And a palm tree was between two cherubim, and every cherub had two faces,


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So there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on one side and the face of a lion toward the palm tree on the other side. So it was carved in and around the whole house.


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From the ground to the top of the entrance cherubim and palm trees were carved, even on the wall of the temple.


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The temple doorposts were squared. And at the front of the sanctuary was something in appearance like the appearance of


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A wooden altar, three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and its corners, its length, and its walls were made of wood. And He said to me, This is the table that is before Jehovah.


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And carved on these, on the doors of the temple, were cherubim and palm trees, just like those carved on the walls. And there was a threshold of wood upon the front of the porch outside.


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And there were latticed windows and palm trees on either side, on the sides of the porch, the side chambers of the house, and the thresholds.


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Then He brought me out into the outer court the way toward the north, and He brought me into the chamber that was adjacent to the separate place and which was adjacent to the building toward the north.


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The length of the side of the northern entrance was a hundred cubits, and the width was fifty cubits.


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Adjacent to the twenty-cubit space of the inner court and adjacent to the pavement of the outer court was one gallery on top of another gallery in three stories.


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And before the chambers on the inside was a walkway of ten cubits' width, a way of one hundred cubits; and their entrances were toward the north.


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Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more space away from these than from the lower and the middle stories in the building.


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For they were arranged in three stories, and they did not have pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper story was set back from the ground more than the lower and middle stories .


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There was also an outside wall beside the chambers, toward the outer court in front of the chambers; its length was fifty cubits.


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For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits.


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And at the foot of these chambers was an entrance on the east side to enter them from the outer court,


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By the breadth of the wall of the court to the south, beside the separate place and beside the building, there were chambers,


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With a way before them. Their appear ance was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north; just as their length, so also was their width; and all their exits were according to both their arrangements and their entrances.


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So the entrances of the chambers that were toward the south were entered through an entrance toward the east at the head of the corresponding way, directly beside the wall.


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Then He said to me, The north chambers and the south chambers which are beside the separate place are holy chambers, where the priests who are near to Jehovah shall eat the most holy things. There they put down the most holy things, the meal offering, the


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When the priests enter, they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but they shall put down their garments in which they have ministered there, because they are holy. And they shall put on other garments and approach the area designated


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Now when He had finished measuring the inner house, He brought me out through the gate which faces toward the east and measured it all around.


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He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.


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He measured it on four sides. It had a wall all around, the length five hundred cubits and the width five hundred cubits, to make a separation between what was holy and what was common.


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And the glory of the God of Israel was there, coming from the way of the east, and His voice was like the sound of many waters, and the earth was illuminated with His glory.


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And it was like the appearance of the vision which I saw, that is, like the vision that I had seen when He came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I had seen by the river Chebar. And I fell on my face.


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And the Spirit took me up and brought me into the inner court, and just then the glory of Jehovah filled the house.


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And He said to me, Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. And the house of Israel will no longer defile My holy name, neither they nor their king


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When they placed their threshold by My threshold and their doorpost beside My doorpost, there was only the wall between Me and them, and they have defiled My holy name by their abominations which they have committed. Therefore I have consumed them in My a


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Now let them put away their fornication and the dead bodies of their kings far from Me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.


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You, O son of man, describe the house to the house of Israel, that they may feel humiliated because of their iniquities, and let them measure the pattern.


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And if they feel humiliated because of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the house, the arrangement, its exits, its entrances, its whole design, and all its statutes - indeed its whole design and all its laws; and write them down i


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This is the law of the house:Its entire area on the top of and all around the mountain shall be most holy. Indeed this is the law of the house.


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Now these are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth). The bottom shall be a cubit in height, a cubit in depth, and its surrounding border on its edge a span. Now this is the base of the altar.


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And from the top of the bottom upon the ground to the top of the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and one cubit in depth; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and a cubit in depth.


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And the altar hearth shall be four cubits in height; and from the altar hearth there shall also be four horns projecting upward.


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And the greater ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen cubits wide on its four sides, and its surrounding border shall be half a cubit, and its bottom shall be a cubit all around, and its steps shall face east.


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And He said to me, Son of man, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, These are the statutes of the altar to be observed on the day when they make it, for offering up burnt offerings on it and for sprinkling blood upon it.


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You shall give the Levitical priests who are of the seed of Zadok, who draw near to Me to minister to Me, declares the Lord Jehovah, a bull of the herd for a sin offering.


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And you shall take some of its blood and put it on its four horns, on the four corners of the ledge, and upon the surrounding border. Thus you shall purify it and make expiation for it.


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You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house, outside the sanctuary.


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And on the second day you shall present a male goat without blemish for a sin offering, and they shall purify the altar, just as they purified it with the bull.


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When you have finished purifying it, you shall present a bull of the herd without blemish and a ram of the flock without blemish.


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And you shall present them before Jehovah, and the priests shall throw salt upon them, and they shall offer them up as a burnt offering to Jehovah.


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Each day for seven days you shall offer a goat for a sin offering; they shall also offer a bull of the herd and a ram out of the flock without blemish.


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And when they have fulfilled the days, on the eighth day and onward, the priests shall offer your burnt offerings and your peace offerings upon the altar; and I will accept you, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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And Jehovah said to me, This gate will remain shut; it will not be opened, nor will any man enter through it, for Jehovah the God of Israel has entered through it; therefore it will remain shut.


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As for the prince, he will sit in it as a prince to eat food before Jehovah; he will enter through the porch of the gate and go out the same way.


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Then He brought me through the north gate to the front of the house; and I looked, and just then the glory of Jehovah filled the house of Jehovah, and I fell upon my face.


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And Jehovah said to me, Son of man, pay attention, and look with your eyes, and listen with your ears to all that I say to you concerning all the statutes of the house of Jehovah and all its laws; and pay attention to the entrance of the house, with every


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And you shall say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Enough, O house of Israel, of all your abominations,


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Inasmuch as you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary, to profane it, My house, when you presented My bread, the fat and the blood. And in addition to all your abominations, you broke My cove


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And you have not kept the charge of My holy things, but you have set your own keepers of My charge in My sanctuary.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, of any of the foreigners who are among the children of Israel, shall enter into My sanctuary.


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But the Levites who went far from Me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from Me after their idols, shall bear their iniquity.


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Yet they shall minister in My sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house and ministering in the house. They shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.


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Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn concerning them, declares the Lord Jehovah, that they shall bear their iniquity.


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And they shall not come near to Me to serve Me as a priest, nor come near to any of My holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their disgrace and their abominations which they have committed.


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Yet I will appoint them keepers of the charge of the house, for all its service and for all that will be done in it.


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But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of My sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from Me, they shall come near to Me to minister to Me; and they shall stand before Me to present to Me the fat and the blood, declare


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It is they who will enter My sanctuary, and it is they who will come near to My table to minister to Me, and they will keep My charge.


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And when they enter the gates of the inner court they shall be clothed with linen garments, and no wool will come upon them while they minister in the gates of the inner court and inside it.


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They shall have linen turbans on their heads and have linen trousers over their loins; they shall not gird themselves with anything that causes sweat.


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And when they go out into the outer court, into the outer court to the people, they shall take off their garments with which they minister and put them down in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments so that they do not sanctify the people


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They shall neither shave their heads, nor let their locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.


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And they shall not take as their wives a widow or a divorced woman, but rather they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel or a widow who is the widow of a priest.


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And they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the profane and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.


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And in a dispute they shall stand as a judge; according to My ordinances they shall give judgment concerning it. They shall also keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed feasts, and they shall sanctify My Sabbaths.


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And they shall not go to any dead person to defile themselves. Only for a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a brother, or a sister who has had no husband may they defile themselves.


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And on the day he enters the sanctuary, into the inner court to minister in the sanctuary, he shall present his sin offering, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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And they shall have an inheritance:I am their inheritance. And you shall not give them a possession in Israel - I am their possession.


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They shall eat the meal offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.


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And the first of all the firstfruits of everything, and every heave offering of everything, of all your heave offerings, shall be the priests'. You shall also give the priests the first of your dough to cause a blessing to rest on your house.


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The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself or is torn by beasts, either a bird or an animal.


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Moreover when you divide the land for inheritance by lot, you shall offer a heave offering of land to Jehovah, a holy portion of the land; its length shall be twenty-five thousand reeds long, and its width twenty thousand reeds; it shall be holy within a


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From this there will be reserved for the holy place a five hundred reed by five hundred reed square all around, and fifty cubits for its surrounding suburbs.


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You shall also measure from this measurement a length of twenty-five thousand reeds and a width of ten thousand reeds, and in it will be the sanctuary, the most holy place.


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It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Jehovah, and it shall be a place for their houses as well as a holy area for the sanctuary.


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And an area twenty-five thousand reeds in length and ten thousand reeds in width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, for their own possession, for cities to live in.


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And alongside the holy heave offering you shall grant a possession for the city, five thousand reeds in width and twenty- five thousand reeds in length; it shall be for the whole house of Israel.


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And you shall set aside for the prince on both sides of the holy heave offering and of the city's possession, adjacent to the holy heave offering and adjacent to the city's possession, on the west side toward the west and on the east side toward the east.


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In the land it shall be his possession in Israel. And My princes shall no longer oppress My people, but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Enough! O princes of Israel. Put away violence and destruction, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease from your evicting of My people, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, so that the bath may contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer. Its measure shall be according to the homer.


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And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall make up your mina.


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This is the heave offering which you shall offer:a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley;


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And a set portion of oil (that is, the bath of oil), a tenth of a bath from the cor, which is ten baths, that is, a homer (for ten baths are a homer);


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And one lamb out of two hundred from the flock from the well-watered pastures of Israel - for a meal offering, for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings to make expiation for them, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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All the people of the land shall join with the prince to contribute to this heave offering in Israel.


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But it will be the prince's portion to provide the burnt offerings, the meal offerings, and the drink offerings in the feasts, on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, th


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a bull of the herd without blemish, and you shall purify the sanctuary.


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And the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it upon the doorposts of the house, and upon the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and upon the doorposts of the gate of the inner court.


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And so you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who sins unintentionally and for the simple. So you shall make expiation for the house.


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In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.


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And on that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.


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And during the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to Jehovah, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish, daily for seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.


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And he shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil for an ephah.


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In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he shall make the same provision seven days for the sin offering, for the burnt offering, for the meal offering, and for the oil.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.


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And the prince shall enter through the porch of the gate from the outside and stand by the doorpost of the gate, and the priests will prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate; then he shall go o


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And the people of the land shall worship at the entrance of that gate before Jehovah on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.


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And the burnt offering that the prince shall present to Jehovah on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish;


