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And it will be, from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, all flesh will come to worship before Me, says the LORD.


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And they will go out and see the dead bodies of the men who have sinned against Me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be put out; and they will be an object of disgust to all flesh.


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The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who [were] in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,


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[to] whom the Word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.


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It also came in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the exiling of Jerusalem in the fifth month.


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Before I formed you in the belly I knew you; and before you came forth out of the womb I consecrated you, [and] I ordained you a prophet to the nations.


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But the LORD said to me, Do not say, I [am] a boy; for you shall go to all that I shall send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak.


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And the LORD put forth His hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said to me, Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.


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Behold! I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.


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And the word of the LORD [came] to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.


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And the Word of the LORD [came] to me the second time, saying, What do you see? And I said, I see a boiling pot; and its face [is] from the face of the north.


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And the LORD said to me, Out of the north an evil will be set loose on all the inhabitants of the land.


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For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the LORD. And they shall come, and they shall each one set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its wall all around, and against all the cities of Judah.


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And I will pronounce My judgments against them regarding all their evil, [those] who have forsaken Me, and burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.


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And you must gird up your loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you. Do not be terrified at their faces, lest I prostrate you before them.


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For, behold, I have made you a fortified city this day, and an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its rulers, against its priests, and against the people of the land.


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And they shall fight against you; but they shall not overcome you. For I [am] with you, says the LORD, to deliver you.


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Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, So says the LORD, I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your betrothals, when you went after Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.


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Israel [was] holiness to the LORD, and the firstfruits of His increase. All that devour him shall offend; evil shall come on them, says the LORD.


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So says the LORD, What injustice have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?


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Nor did they say, Where [is] the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of dry places, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man lived?


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And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled My land and made My inheritance an abomination.


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The priests did not say, Where [is] the LORD? And they who handle the law did not know Me; the shepherds also rebelled against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things not profitable.


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Therefore I will contend with you, says the LORD, and with your son's sons I will enter into judgment.


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For pass over the coasts of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and carefully consider, and see if there is [such a] thing.


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Has a nation changed [their] gods who are yet no gods? But My people have changed their Glory for that which does not profit.


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For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, to hew out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.


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The young lions roared against him; they gave their voice. And they made his land a waste; his cities are burned without inhabitant.


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Have you not brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, when He led you by the way?


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And now what is for you toward the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? Or what for you toward Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?


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Your own evil shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you, therefore know 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, says the Lord Jehovah of hosts.


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For long ago you broke your yoke [and] tore up your bonds; and you said, I will not transgress, when on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down [like] a harlot.


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Yet I planted you a noble vine, wholly a true seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate [shoots of] an alien vine to Me?


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For though you wash yourself with potash, and multiply soap for yourself, [yet] your iniquity is marked before Me, says the Lord Jehovah.


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How can you say, I am not defiled; I have not gone after the Baals? See your way in the valley, know what you have done! [You are] a swift camel crossing its ways;


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a wild ass used to the wilderness; in the desire of her passion she snuffs at the wind; [in] her time who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not tire themselves; in her month they will find her.


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Withhold your foot from [being] bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, There is no hope; no; for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.


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As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their rulers, and their priests, and their prophets;


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saying to a tree, You [are] my father; and to a stone, You gave [me] birth. For they have turned [their] back to Me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise and save us!


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But where [are] your gods that you have 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 sons; they received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.


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O generation, see the Word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of darkness? Why do My people say, We roam [freely]; we will come no more to You?


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Can a virgin forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me days without number.


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Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents; you did not find them breaking in, but on all these.


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Yet you say, Because I am innocent, surely His anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead 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 also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.


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Yes, you shall go out from this [place], and your hands on your head. For the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.


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[They] say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him and will be for another man, will he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you play the harlot with many lovers; yet come back to Me, says the LORD.


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Lift up your eyes to the high places, and see. Where have you not been lain with? By the highways you have sat for them, like the Arabian in the wilderness; and you have defiled the land with your fornications and with your wickedness.


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


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Will He keep [His anger] forever? Will He keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done [all] the evil things you could do.


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The LORD also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has fornicated there.


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And I said after she had done all these [things], Turn to Me! But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.


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And I saw, when for all the causes [for] which backsliding Israel committed adultery, I sent her away and gave a bill of divorce to her, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she went and whored, she also.


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And it happened, from the folly of her whoredom, she defiled the land and fornicated with stones and stocks.


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And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, says the LORD.


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Go and cry these words toward the north, and say, Return, O backsliding Israel, says the LORD; [and] I will not cause My anger to fall on you; for I [am] merciful, says the LORD, [and] I will not keep anger forever.


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Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have sinned against the LORD your God and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice, says the LORD.


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Turn, O backsliding sons, says the LORD; for I am married to you; and I will take you one from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.


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And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who shall feed you [with] knowledge and understanding.


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And it will be when you have multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD! Nor shall it come to mind; nor shall they remember it; nor shall they visit [it]; nor shall it be made any more.


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At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem. Nor shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.


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In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance to your fathers.


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But I said, How shall I put you among the sons, and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful inheritance [among] the hosts of nations? And I said, You shall call Me, My Father, and shall not turn away from Me.


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Surely [as] a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.


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A voice was heard on the high places weeping, cryings of the sons of Israel; for they have perverted their way, [and] they have forgotten Jehovah their God.


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Return, O backsliding sons, [and] I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to You; for You are Jehovah our God.


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Truly, for delusion [comes] from the high hills, tumult [on] the mountains. Truly, in Jehovah our God [is] the salvation of Israel.


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For shame has eaten up the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.


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We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.


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If you will return, O Israel, says the LORD, return to Me. And if you will put away your abominations out of your sight, then you shall not be moved.


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And you shall swear, The LORD lives, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in Him, and in Him they shall glory.


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For so says the LORD 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 the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, men of Judah and people of Jerusalem; lest My fury come forth like fire, and burn so that none can put [it] out; because of the evil of your doings.


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Declare in Judah, and let it be heard in Jerusalem; and say, Blow the trumpet in the land; cry, gather together, and say, Gather yourselves and let us go into the fortified cities.


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Set up the banner toward Zion; flee for safety and do not wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great ruin.


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The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations has set out; he has left his place to make your land a waste. Your cities will fall into ruins without inhabitant.


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Put on sackcloth for this, wail and howl; for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.


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And it shall be at that day, says the LORD, the king's heart will perish, and the heart of the rulers; and the priests will be amazed, and the prophets will be astounded.


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Then I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! Surely You have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; but the sword reaches to the soul.


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At that time it shall be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind [from] the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of My people, not to sift nor to cleanse.


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Behold, he shall come up like clouds, and his chariots like a tempest. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are plundered!


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O Jerusalem, cleanse your heart from evil so that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?


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Tell [it] to the nations: Behold! proclaim against Jerusalem! Besiegers are going to come from a distant land; and they will set their voice against the cities of Judah.


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Like watchmen of a field, they are against her all around; because she rebelled against Me, says the LORD.


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Your way and your doings have brought these [things] on you; this is your evil, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.


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My bowels, my bowels! I convulse in pain. O walls of my heart! My heart is restless within me; I cannot be silent because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the ram's horn, the alarm of war.


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Ruin on ruin is cried; for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are laid waste, my curtains in a moment.


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For My people [are] foolish; they have not known Me; they are stupid sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.


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I looked on the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.


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I looked, and, lo, the fruitful place [was] a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down before the face of the LORD, before His fierce anger.


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The earth shall mourn for this, and the heavens above shall be black, because I have spoken, I have purposed, and will not repent, nor will I turn back from it.


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Every city shall flee from the sound of the horsemen and bowmen. They shall go into thickets and climb up among the rocks. All the city is abandoned, and not a man shall live in them.


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And you, O desolate one, what will you do? Though you dress with crimson, though you put on ornaments of gold, though you make your eyes large with paint, you shall make yourself beautiful in vain; your lovers will despise you; they will seek your life.


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For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, the anguish as one bearing her first child, the voice of Zion's daughter, gasping and spreading her hands, [saying], Woe to me now! For my soul faints because of murderers.


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Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in her open places, if you can find a man, if there is one who does justice, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon her.


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O LORD, [are] not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; You have destroyed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to return.


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So I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are foolish; for they do not know the way of the LORD, [nor] the judgment of their God.


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I will go up for myself to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the LORD [and] the judgment of their God. But these have broken the yoke together and have torn off the bonds!


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Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, [and] a wolf of the deserts shall rob them; a leopard shall watch over their cities. Everyone who goes out from them shall be torn in pieces, because their sins are many [and] their backslidings are multiplied.


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Why shall I pardon you for this? Your sons have forsaken Me, and have sworn by No-gods. When I adjured them, then they committed adultery, and gathered themselves by troops in a harlot's house.


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They were [like] lusty, well-fed stallions in the morning; every one neighing after his neighbor's wife.


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Shall I not judge for these [things]? says the LORD. And shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?


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Go up on her vine-rows and destroy; but do not make a full end; take away her branches, for they [are] not the LORD's.


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For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very deceitfully against Me, says the LORD.


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They have lied against the LORD and said, [It is] not He; neither shall evil come on us; nor shall we see sword nor famine.


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Therefore so says Jehovah, God of hosts, Because you spoke this word, behold, I will make My words in your mouth fire, and these people wood, and it shall devour them.


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Lo, I will bring a nation on you from afar, O house of Israel, says the LORD. It [is] an enduring nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor understand what they say.


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And they shall eat up Your harvest and your bread. They will devour your sons and your daughters. They shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig-trees. One shall beat down your fortified cities with the sword, those in which you trust.


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And it will be, when you shall say, Why does the LORD our God do all these things] to us? Then You shall answer them, Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is] not yours.


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Now hear this, O foolish people and without heart; who have eyes and see not; who have ears and hear not;


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Do you not fear Me? says the LORD. Will you not tremble at My presence, I who have placed the sand [for] the boundary of the sea [by] a never-ending decree, so that it cannot pass it? And though they toss themselves, yet they cannot prevail; though its waves roar, yet they cannot pass over it?


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And they do not say in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, who gives both the former and the latter rain in its season; He reserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.


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For among My people are found wicked ones; they lie in wait, as one who sets snares; 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 grown rich.


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They have become fat, they shine. Yes, they go past the deeds of the wicked; they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may get rich; and they do not judge the right of the needy.


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Shall I not visit for these [things]? says the LORD. Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?


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The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love [to have it] so, and what will you do at the end of it?


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O sons of Benjamin, take refuge out of the midst of Jerusalem. And blow the ram's horn in Tekoa, and set up a signal-fire over Beth-haccerem; for evil appears out of the north, and great ruin.


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The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch tents on her all around; they shall feed each one [in] his hand.


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Prepare war against her; arise and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day goes away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.


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For so has Jehovah of hosts said, Cut down trees and cast a mound against Jerusalem! She [is] the city to be visited; [there is] nothing but oppression in her midst.


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As a fountain keeps fresh her waters, so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and spoil is heard in her; always before Me [are] grief and wounds.


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O Jerusalem, you must be instructed, lest My soul depart from you; lest I make you desolate, a land without people.


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So says Jehovah of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine; turn back your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.


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To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears [are] not circumcised, and they cannot listen. Behold, the Word of Jehovah is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.


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Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in; I will pour it out on the children in the street, and on the circle of young men together. For even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with fullness of days.


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And their houses shall be turned to others, together [with their] fields and wives; for I will stretch out My hand on the people of the land, says the LORD.


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For everyone from the least of them even to the greatest of them cuts off a profit; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.


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They have also healed the hurt [of the daughter] of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace, when [there is] no peace.


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Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush; therefore they shall fall among those who fall. At the time [that] I visit them they shall be cast down, says the LORD.


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So says the LORD, Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths where the good way [is], and walk in it, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [in it].


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Also I set watchmen over you, [saying], Listen to the sound of the ram's horn. But they said, We will not listen.


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Hear, O earth; behold, I will bring evil on this people, the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to My words, nor to My law, but have rejected it.


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Why does frankincense come to Me from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings [are] not pleasing, nor your sacrifices sweet to Me.


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Therefore so says the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall on them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.


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So says the LORD, Behold, a people comes from the north country, and a great nation shall be stirred from the sides of the earth.


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They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they [are] cruel and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, set in order like a man for war against you, O daughter of Zion.


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We have heard the rumor of it; our hands become feeble; anguish has taken hold of us, and] pain, like a woman in labor.


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Do not go out into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy [and] fear [are] on every side.


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O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth, and wallow in ashes; make mourning for yourself, [as for] an only son, most bitter weeping; for the ravager shall suddenly come on us.


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They [are] all grievous revolters, walking [in] slanders; they [are] bronze and iron; they [are] all corrupters.


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The bellows are burned, the lead is melted by the fire; the refiner melts in vain; for the wicked are not plucked away.


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Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and declare there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.


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So says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Make your ways and your doings good, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.


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Do not trust in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD [are] these.


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For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you completely do judgment between a man and his neighbor;


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[if] you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your hurt;


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then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever.


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Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know;


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and then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say, We are delivered to 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? Behold, I also have seen, says the LORD.


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But go now to My place which [was] in Shiloh, where I set My name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of My people Israel.


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And now, because you have done all these works, says the LORD, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear; and I called you, but you did not answer;


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


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And I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, the whole seed of Ephraim.


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Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up cry nor prayer for them, nor make intercession to Me; for I will not hear you.


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The sons gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger.


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Therefore so says the Jehovah God; Behold, My anger and My fury shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be put out.


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So says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Put your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh.


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For I did not speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.


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But I commanded them this thing, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people; and walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, so that it may be well with you.


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But they did not listen, nor bow their ear, but walked in [their own] plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.


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


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Yet they did not listen to Me, nor bow down their ear, but hardened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.


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


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But you shall say to them, This [is] a nation which does not obey the voice of Jehovah their God, nor receives instruction; 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 weeping on the high places. For the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.


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For the sons of Judah have done evil in My sight, says the LORD. They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, in order to defile it.


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They have built the high places of Tophet, which [is] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I did not command [them], nor did it come into My heart.


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So, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they shall bury in Tophet, until there is no place.


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And the bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten [them] away.


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Then I will cause the voice of gladness to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. For the land shall be desolate.


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At that time, says the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its rulers, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem, out of their graves.


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And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of the heavens, whom they have loved and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshiped. They shall not be gathered nor buried; they shall be as dung on the face of the earth.


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And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the rest of those who remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them, says Jehovah of hosts.


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And you shall say to them, So says the LORD; shall they fall and not arise? Shall he turn away and not return?


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Why has this people of Jerusalem slidden back [by] a never-ending backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.


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I listened and heard, [but] they did not speak right; no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Everyone turned in their own courses, as the horse rushes into the battle.


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Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her seasons; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow watch the time of their coming; but my people do not know the judgment of the LORD.


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How do you say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is] with us? Lo, certainly the lying pen of the scribes has written falsely.


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The wise are ashamed, they are terrified, and are captured. Lo, they have turned away from the Word of the LORD; and what wisdom [is] in them?


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Therefore I will give their wives to others, [and] their fields to those who shall inherit [them], for everyone from the least even to the greatest cuts off a profit. From the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.


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For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace.


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Were they ashamed when they had done an abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush; therefore they shall fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says the LORD.


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I will utterly consume them, says the LORD; [there shall be] no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them, [those who] pass over them.


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Why do we sit still? Gather yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there. For Jehovah our God has put us to silence, and has given us poisonous water to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.


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The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan; the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his stallions. For they have come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those who live in it.


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For, behold, I will send serpents and adders among you, [which will] not [be] charmed; and they shall bite you, says the LORD.


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Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people, from a far country. [Is] not the LORD in Zion? [Is] not her King in her? Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, with foreign vanities?


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[Is there] no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the healing of the daughter of My people not come?


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Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes 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 in the wilderness a lodging place for traveling men, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they [are] all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.


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And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies. But they are not mighty for the truth on the earth; for they go from evil to evil, and they do not know Me, says the LORD.


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Everyone beware of his neighbor, and do not trust any brother! For every brother will supplant his neighbor, and will walk with slanders.


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And everyone will deceive his neighbor and will not speak the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] they weary themselves to commit iniquity.


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Therefore so says Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will melt them and try them; for what [else] can I do for the daughter of My people?


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Their tongue [is] a slaughtering arrow; it speaks deceit; [one] speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he lies in ambush.


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Shall I not visit them for these [things]? says the LORD; shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?


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I will take up a weeping and a wailing for the mountains, and a mourning for the pastures of the wilderness; because they are burned up, so that none can pass through [them]; nor can men hear the voice of the cattle. Both the birds of the heavens and the beast have fled; they are gone.


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And I will make Jerusalem ruins, a den of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without a living soul.


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Who [is] the wise man who may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why does the land perish [and] burn up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?


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And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice, and have not walked in it,


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but they have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.


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Therefore so says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and make them drink poisonous water.


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


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So says the LORD of hosts, Think carefully, and call for the wailers, that they may come. And send for the wise women, that they may come;


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and let them make haste and take up a weeping for us, so that our eyes may run down with tears, and waters flow [from] our eyelids.


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For a voice of weeping is heard out of Zion. How are we plundered! We are greatly ashamed, because we have forsaken the land, because they have thrown down our tents.


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Yet hear the Word of the LORD, O women, and let your ear receive the word of His mouth, and teach your daughters to weep, and each one teach her neighbor to mourn.


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For death has come up into our windows, [and] has entered into our houses, to cut off the children from outside [and] the young men from the streets.


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Speak, So says the LORD, Even the bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the fallen grain after the reaper; and none shall gather [them].


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So says the LORD, Do not let the wise glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty glory in his might; do not let the rich glory in his riches;


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but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I [am] the LORD, doing kindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth; for in these I delight, says the LORD.


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Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the sons of Ammon, and Moab, and all [who are] in the outermost corners, who dwell in the wilderness. For all [these] nations are not circumcised, and all the house of Israel, those not circumcised in heart.


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So says the LORD, Do not learn the way of the nations, and do not be terrified at the signs of the heavens; for the nations are terrified at them.


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For the customs of the people [are] vain; for one cuts a tree out of the forest with the axe, the work of the hands of the workman.


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They adorn it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and hammers, so that it will not wobble.


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They [are] like a rounded post, and they cannot speak. They must surely be lifted, because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them; for they cannot do evil nor good, for it is not in them.


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Who would not fear You, O King of nations? For fear belongs to You, because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, [there is] none like You.


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Silver beaten into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the goldsmith. Violet and purple [is] their clothing; they [are] all the work of skillful ones.


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But the LORD [is] the true God, He [is] the living God, and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to stand His fury.


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So you shall say to them, The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth, they shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.


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He has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by His judgment.


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When He utters His voice, [there is] a noise of many waters in the heavens. He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; He makes lightnings with rain, and brings forth the wind out of His treasures.


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Every man is stupid for [lack of] knowledge; every refiner is put to shame by the graven image; for his molten image is a lie, and no breath is in them.


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The Portion of Jacob [is] not like them; for He [is] the Maker of all things; and Israel [is] the rod of His inheritance. Jehovah of hosts [is] His name.


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For so says the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the people of the land at this time, and will distress them, so that they may find [Me].


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Woe [to] me for my breaking! My wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this [is] a malady, and I must bear it.


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My tabernacle is ravaged, and all my cords are broken; My sons went away from me, and they [are] not. [There is] none to stretch out My tabernacle any more, and to set up My curtains.


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For the pastors have become stupid, and have not sought the LORD, therefore they shall not be blessed, and all their flocks shall be scattered.


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Behold, the noise of the rumor has come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a den of jackals.


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O LORD, I know that the way of man does not [belong] to man; [it is] not in man who walks to direct his steps.


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Pour out Your fury on the nations who do not know You, and on the families who do not call on Your name; for they have eaten up Jacob and have devoured him, and have destroyed him, and have made his dwelling desolate.


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And say to them, So says Jehovah, God of Israel, Cursed [is] the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,


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which I commanded your fathers in the day [that] I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey My voice and do them according to all that I command you; so you shall be My people, and I will be your God;


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so that I may fulfil the oath which I have sworn to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as [it is] this day. Then I answered and said, Amen, O LORD.


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Then the LORD said to me, Declare 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 earnestly testified to your fathers in the day I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and testifying, saying, Obey My voice.


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Yet they did not obey nor bow down their ear, but walked each one in the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I will bring on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded [them] to do; but they did not do them.


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They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear My words. And they went 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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So the LORD says this: Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry to Me, I will not listen to them.


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Then shall the cities of Judah and the people of Jerusalem go and cry to the gods to whom they offer incense. But they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.


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For [according to] the number of your cities were 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 you, do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them. For I will not hear [them] in the time they cry to Me for their trouble.


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What [is to] My beloved in My house, [since] she has committed her many evils? And has the holy flesh caused your evil to pass from you? [How] then do you exult?


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The LORD called your name, a green olive tree, fair, [with] fine fruit. With the sound of a great storm He has set fire to it, and its branches are worthless.


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


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But I [was] like a docile lamb being brought to the slaughter. And I did not know that they had plotted evils against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name may be remembered no more.


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But, O Jehovah of hosts who judges rightly, who tries the heart and the mind, let me see Your vengeance on them. For to You I have revealed my cause.


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Therefore so says the LORD of the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, that you do not die by our hand.


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So says Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;


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and there shall be no remnant of them. For I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, the year of their judgment.


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Righteous [are] You, O LORD, that I might contend with You; yet let me speak with You about [Your] judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? [Why] are all [those] happy who deal treacherously?


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You have planted them; yea, they take root. They grow, yea, they make fruit. You [are] near in their mouth and far from their reins.


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But You, O LORD, know me. You have seen me and tried my heart toward You. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and devote them for the day of slaughter.


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How long shall the land mourn, and the grass of every field wither from the evil of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds have been destroyed, because they said, He shall not see our last end.


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If you have run with footmen, and they wore you out, then how can you compete with horses? And [if] you feel secure in the land of peace, then how will you do in the swelling of Jordan?


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For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you. Yea, they have called a multitude after you. Do not believe them, though they speak good things to you.


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I have forsaken My house; I have left My inheritance. I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.


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My inheritance is to Me as a lion in the forest; it cries out against Me; therefore I have hated it.


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My inheritance [is like] a speckled bird to Me; the birds all around [are] against her. 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 My portion under foot; they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.


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One has made it a desolation, it mourns to Me. The whole land is made desolate because no man lays [it] to heart.


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The ravagers have come on all high places through the wilderness; for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the [one] end of the land even to the [other] end of the land. No flesh shall have peace.


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They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns. They are worn out, [but] they do not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD.


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So says the LORD against all My evil neighbors who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.


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And it will be after I have plucked them out, I will return and have pity on them, and will bring them again, each man to his inheritance and each man to his land.


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And it will be if they will carefully learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, [As] the LORD lives; as they taught the people to swear by Baal; then they shall be built in the midst of My people.


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So says the LORD to me, Go and buy for yourself a linen girdle, and put it on your loins, and do not put [it] in water.


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Take the girdle that you bought, which [is] on your loins, and arise. Go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.


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And it happened at the end of many days the LORD said to me, Arise, go to Euphrates and take the girdle from there, which I commanded you to hide there.


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Then I went to Euphrates and dug, and took the girdle from the place where I had hidden it. And, behold, the girdle was rotted; it was not good for anything.


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


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For as the girdle holds fast to the loins of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me, says the LORD; so that they might be to Me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory; but they would not hear.


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So you will speak to them this word: So says Jehovah, God of Israel, Every skin shall be filled with wine. And they shall say to you, Do we not surely know that every skin shall be filled with wine?


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Then you shall say to them, So says the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the people of this land, even the kings that sit on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.


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And I will smash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says the LORD. I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, [to keep them] from their destruction.


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Give glory to the LORD your God, before He causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, He turns it into the shadow of death, setting up deep gloom.


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But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for [your] pride. And my eye shall weep sore and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock was captured.


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Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your greatness shall come down, even the crown of your glory.


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The cities of the south have been shut up, and none are opening; Judah has been exiled, all of it has been peacefully exiled.


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Lift up your eyes and behold those who come from the north. Where [is] the flock [that] was given to you, your beautiful flock?


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What will you say when he comes to punish you? For you have taught them [to be] rulers over you for a head. Do not pangs seize you, like a woman in travail?


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And if you say in your heart, Why do these things come on me? [It is] because of the greatness of your iniquity; your skirts are bared, [and] your heels suffer violence.


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Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard its spots? [Then] you also may do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.


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This [is] your lot, the share I have measured to you, says the LORD, because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.


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I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings, the wickedness of your fornication, [and] your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! Will you not be made clean? How long [will it] still [be] ?


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Judah mourns, and its gates droop. They are black to the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.


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And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters; they came to the cisterns, [and] found no water. They returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.


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Because the ground was cracked, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed; they covered their heads.


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And the wild asses stood in the high places; they snuffed up the wind like jackals; their eyes failed because [there was] no grass.


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O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, act for Your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.


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O the Hope of Israel, its Savior in time of trouble, why should You be as a stranger in the land, and as a traveler turning in to lodge?


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Why should You be as a man stunned, as one mighty, [yet] who cannot save? Yet You, O LORD, [are] in our midst, and we are called by Your name. Do not leave us!


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So says the LORD to this people; So they have loved to wander; they have not restrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not accept them. He will now remember their iniquity and visit their sins.


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When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and a grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague.


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Then I said, Ah, O Lord Jehovah! Behold, the prophets are saying to them, You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine; but I will give you true peace in this place.


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And the LORD said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in My name; I did not send them, nor have I commanded them, nor did I speak to them. They prophesy to you a false vision and a worthless divination, and a thing of no value, and the deceit of their heart.


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So the LORD says this concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, and I did not send them; yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; by sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.


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And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, [either] them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters. For I will pour their evil on them.


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And you shall speak this word to them: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and do not let them cease. For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great break, [with] a very grievous blow.


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If I go out into the field, then I see those killed with the sword! And if I enter into the city, then, behold, sicknesses of famine! Yes, both the prophet and the priest have gone up into a land that they do not know.


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Have You utterly rejected Judah? Or has Your soul hated Zion? Why have You stricken us, and [there is] no healing for us? [We] looked for peace, but no good [came]; and for the time of healing, and behold, trouble!


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We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You.


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Do not abhor [us] for Your name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of Your glory; remember, do not break Your covenant with us.


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Are there [any] among the vanities of the nations who make rain fall? Or can the heavens give showers? [Is] it not You, O LORD our God? Then we will wait on You; for You do all these things.


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Then the LORD said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My soul [could] not [be] toward this people. Send [them] out of My sight, and let them go out.


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And it will be, if they say to you, Where shall we go? Then you shall tell them, So says the LORD: Those who [are] for death, go to death; and those for the sword, to the sword; and those for the famine, to the famine; and those for the captivity, to the captivity.


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And I will set over them four kinds, says the LORD; the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the heaven and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.


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


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For who shall have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Or who shall weep over you? Or who shall turn aside to ask your welfare?


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You have forsaken Me, says the LORD; you have gone backward; therefore I will stretch out My hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary with repenting.


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And I will winnow them with a fork in the gates of the land; I will bereave [them] of sons; I will destroy My people, since they do not turn from their ways.


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Their widows are more numerous about Me than the sand of the seas; I have brought on them, against a mother of a young man, a ravager at noonday; I have caused anguish and terror to fall on her suddenly.


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She who bore seven languishes; she has breathed out her life; her sun has gone down while [it was] yet day. She has been ashamed and humiliated; and I will deliver the rest of them to the sword before their enemies, says the LORD.


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Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not loaned, nor have men loaned to me; [yet] every one curses me.


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The LORD said, Truly I will free you for good. Truly I will cause the enemy to entreat you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.


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Your wealth and your treasures I will give for prey, not for price, [but] for all your sins, even in all your borders.


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And I will make [you] pass with your enemies into a land [which] you do not know. For a fire has been kindled in My anger; it shall burn against you.


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O LORD, You know; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on those who seek to hurt me. Do not take me away in Your long-suffering; know that for Your sake I have suffered rebuke.


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Your words were found, and I ate them; and Your Word was to me the joy and gladness 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 circle of mockers, nor rejoice; I sat alone because of Your hand; for You have filled me with indignation.


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Why has my pain been without end, and why is my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You surely are to me like a deceitful brook, waters that cannot be trusted.


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Therefore so says the LORD, If you turn back, then I will bring you again; you shall stand before Me. And if you take the precious from the worthless, you shall be as My mouth. Let them turn back to you, but do not return to them.


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And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not overcome you; for I [am] with you to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD.


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And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the evil ones.


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For so says the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who fathered them in this land:


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They shall die from deaths of diseases; they shall not be mourned, nor shall they be buried. [But] they shall be as dung on the face of the earth. And they shall be destroyed by the sword and by famine; and their bodies shall be food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.


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For so says the LORD, Do not enter into the house of mourning; do not go to weep nor moan over them. For I have taken away My peace from this people, says the LORD, even loving-kindness and mercies.


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Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, nor shall [men] mourn for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.


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Nor shall [anyone] tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Nor shall [anyone] give them the cup of comfort to drink for their father or for their mother.


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For so says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause the voice of mirth to cease out of this place [before] your eyes, and in your days, and the voice of gladness, and the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.


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And it shall be, when you declare to this people all these words, and they shall say to you, Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? Or what [is] our iniquity, or what is our sin that we have committed against Jehovah our God?


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Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken Me, says the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken Me, and have not kept My law.


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And you have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, you walk each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, without listening to Me;


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even I will cast you out of this land into a land that you do not know, [neither] you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods day and night; where I will not grant you favor.


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So, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that it shall no more be said, [As] the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt;


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but, [As] the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands where He had driven them. And I will bring them again into their lands that I gave to their fathers.


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Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says the LORD, and they will fish them. And afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.


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For My eyes [are] on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity hidden from My eyes.


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And first I will twice repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land, they have filled My inheritance with the dead bodies of their abominable things.


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O LORD, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them.


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Therefore, behold, I will make them know; this time I will cause them to know My hand and My might; and they shall know that My name [is] Jehovah.


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The sin of Judah [is] engraved with an iron stylus; [it is] carved on the tablet of the heart and on the horns of Your altar with the point of a diamond;


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O My mountain in the field, I will give your wealth [and] all your treasures for prey, and your high places for sin, throughout all your borders.


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And you, even through yourself, have let go of the inheritance which I gave 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] shall burn forever.


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So says the LORD, Cursed [is] the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.


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For he shall be like a juniper in the desert, and shall not see when good comes. But he shall live in the parched places in the wilderness, [in] a salt land that is not inhabited.


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For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters; [it] sends out its roots by the river, and [it] shall not fear when the heat comes, but its foliage shall be green; and he is not worried in the year of drought, nor will it cease from yielding fruit.


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I the LORD search the heart, [I] try the reins, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.


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The quail sits [on eggs] and does not hatch [them]; in the same way he who gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and in his end he shall be a fool.


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O LORD, the Hope of Israel, all who forsake You shall be ashamed. Those who depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the Fountain of living waters.


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I have not hurried away from shepherding after You; nor have I desired the woeful day; You surely know the going forth of my lips before Your face.


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Let those who persecute me be ashamed, but do not let me be ashamed; let them be afraid, but do not let me be afraid. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them [with] double breaking.


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So the LORD said to me: Go and stand in the gates of the sons of the people, by which the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.


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And say to them, Hear the Word of the LORD, kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the people of Jerusalem who enter in by these gates!


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So says the LORD, Take heed to yourselves, and carry no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring [it] in by the gates of Jerusalem.


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Nor carry out a burden from your houses on the Sabbath day, nor do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.


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But they did not obey, nor bowed down their ear, but made their neck stiff, so that they might not hear nor receive instruction.


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And it shall be, if you carefully listen to Me, says the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy, to do no work in it;


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then kings and rulers sitting on the throne of David shall enter into the gates of this city, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their rulers, the men of Judah, and the people of Jerusalem. And this city shall remain forever.


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And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and grain offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise to the house of the LORD.


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But if you will not listen to me to keep the Sabbath day holy, and not to carry a burden, even entering in at 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 it will not be put out.


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And the vessel that he made in clay was ruined in the hand of the potter; so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make [it].


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O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? says the LORD. Behold, As the clay in the potter's hands, [so are] you in My hand, O house of Israel.


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The instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck it up and to pull it down, and to destroy [it];


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if that nation, against whom I have spoken, will turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.


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And the instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build it and to plant [it];


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if it does evil in My sight, not to obey My voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would do them good.


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Now then please, speak to the men of Judah, and to the people of Jerusalem, saying, So says the LORD: Behold, I am forming evil against you, and devising a plan against you. Return now, each one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.


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And they said, There is no hope; but we will walk after our own ways, and we will each one do [according to] the stubbornness of his evil heart.


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Therefore so says the LORD, Ask now among the nations; who has heard the like of this? The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.


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Does the snow of Lebanon forsake the rock of the field? [Or] shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?


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Because My people have forgotten Me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways [from] the old paths, to walk [in] by-paths, not [in] the highway,


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to make their land desolate [and] a hissing forever. Everyone who passes by will be amazed, and will wag his head.


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I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.


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Then they said, Come and let us plot schemes against Jeremiah. For the law shall not perish from the priest, nor wisdom from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.


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Should evil be repaid for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before You to do good for them, [and] to turn away Your wrath from them.


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Therefore deliver up their sons to the famine, and give them over to the hand of the sword. And let their wives be bereaved, and widows, and their men [be] slain of death; let their young men be struck by the sword in battle.


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Let a cry be heard from their houses, when You suddenly bring a raiding party on them. For they have dug a pit to take me, and have hidden snares for my feet.


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Yet, LORD, You know all their counsel against me to kill [me]. Do not forgive their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from Your sight, but let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.


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So says the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen jar, and [assemble] from the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests.


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And go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom by the entry of Potsherd Gate. And there declare the words that I shall tell you.


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And say, Hear the Word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and people of Jerusalem. So says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which shall cause the ears of him who hears it to tingle.


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Because they have forsaken Me, and have made this place [famous] and have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents.


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They have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire [for] burnt offerings to Baal, which I never commanded nor spoke, nor did [it] come into My mind.


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Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but, The Valley of Slaughter.


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And I will make the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem come to nothing in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of those who seek their lives. And I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the animals of the earth.


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And I will make this city a waste and a hissing. Everyone who passes by shall be amazed and shall hiss because of all its plagues.


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And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall each one eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall distress them.


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and shall say to them, So says the LORD of hosts, Even so I will break this people of this city, as [one] breaks a potter's vessel that cannot be made whole again. And they shall bury [them in Tophet until there is no place left] to bury.


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And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be as defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of the heavens, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.


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Then Jeremiah came from Tophet, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy. And he stood in the court of the LORD's house, and said to all the people,


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So says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have spoken against it, because they have hardened their necks so that they might not hear My words.


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When Pashur the son of Immer the priest (he was chief officer in the house of the LORD) heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,


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then Pashur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that [were] in the upper Benjamin Gate, which [was] by the house of the LORD.


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And it happened on the next day, Pashur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, The LORD has not called your name Pashur, but Terror from All Around.


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For so says the LORD, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. And they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall behold [it]. And I will give all Judah into the king of Babylon's hand, and he will exile them into Babylon, and kill them with the sword.


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And I will give all the wealth of this city, and its produce, and all its precious things, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah, [even] I will give into the hand of their enemies; who will strip them and take them, and bring them to Babylon.


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And you, Pashur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity. And you shall come to Babylon, and you shall die there, and shall be buried there; you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied lies.


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O LORD, You have deceived me, and I was deceived. You are stronger than I, and You have prevailed. I am in derision all the day; everyone laughs at me.


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For whenever I speak, I cry out, I cry violence and ruin; for the Word of the LORD has been a reproach and a cause of mocking to me all day.


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Then I said, I will not mention Him, nor speak in His name any more. But [His Word] was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with holding in, and I could not stop.


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For I heard the slanders of many, Terror is all around! Expose! Yea, let us expose him! Every man of my peace is watching for my fall, [saying], Perhaps he will be lured away, and we shall prevail over him, and we shall take our revenge on him.


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But the LORD [is] with me like a mighty, awesome one. Therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not overcome me. They shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not be blessed. Their] everlasting shame shall never be forgotten.


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But, O Jehovah of hosts, who tries the righteous [and] sees the reins and the heart, let me see Your vengeance on them. For I have committed my cause to You.


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Sing to the LORD, praise the LORD; for He has delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.


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Cursed [is] the man who brought news to my father, saying, A man child is born to you; making him very glad.


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And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;


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because he did not kill me from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb [to be] always great [with me].


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Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?


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The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,


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Please inquire of the LORD for us. For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is warring against us. Perhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all His wonderful works, that he may go up from us.


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So says the Jehovah, God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and [against] the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls. And I will gather them together in the middle of this city.


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And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.


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And afterward, says the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those who are left in this city from the plague, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. And he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, nor have pity, nor have mercy.


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And to this people you shall say, So says the LORD, Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.


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He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague. But he who goes out and falls to the Chaldeans who are all around you, he shall live, and his life shall be his prize.


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For I have set My face against this city for evil, and not for good, says the LORD. It shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.


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O house of David, so says the LORD: Do judgment in the morning, and deliver [him who is] robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My fury go out like fire, and burn so that none can put it] out, because of the evil of your doings.


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Behold, I [am] against you, O dweller of the valley, rock of the plain, says the LORD; those who say, Who shall come down against us? Or who shall enter into our homes?


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But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the LORD; and I will kindle a fire in the forest of it, and it shall devour all things around it.


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And say, Hear the Word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you and your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.


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So says the LORD, Do judgment and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the oppressors's hand. And do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.


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For if you do this thing indeed, then there shall enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.


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But if you will not hear these words, I swear by Myself, says the LORD, that this house shall become a ruin.


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For so says the LORD to the king of Judah's house, You [are] Gilead to Me, [and] the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities with no people.


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And I will prepare destroyers against you, each one with his weapons. And they shall cut down your choice cedars, and throw [them] into the fire.


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


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Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.


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Weep not for the dead, nor moan for him; [but] weep bitterly for him who goes away. For he shall return no more, nor see his native country.


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For so says the LORD concerning Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, who reigned in the place of Josiah his father, who went forth out of this place: he shall not return there any more.


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Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms without justice; his neighbor serves without pay, and he does not give him his work;


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who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and cuts out windows for himself, and puts in a cedar ceiling, and paints it with vermilion.


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Do you reign, because you lust to excel in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then [it was] well with him.


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He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [it was] well with him. Was this not to know Me? says the LORD.


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But your eyes and your heart [are] for nothing but your unjust gain, and to shed innocent blood, and for cruelty, and to do violence.


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Therefore so says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, They shall not mourn for him, [saying], Ah, my brother! or, Ah, sister! They shall not mourn for him, [saying], Ah, lord! or, Ah, his glory!


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Go up to Lebanon, and cry. And lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim, for all your lovers are destroyed.


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I spoke to you in your prosperity; [but] you said, I will not hear. This [has been] your way from your youth, for you have not obeyed My voice.


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The wind shall eat up all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; surely then you will be ashamed and humiliated for all your wickedness.


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O dweller in Lebanon, nested in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come to you, the pain as one giving birth?


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[As] I live, says the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on My right hand, yet I would pull you out of there!


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And I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand [of those] whose face you fear, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.


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And I will cast you and your mother who bore you into another country where you were not born. And there you shall die.


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[Is] this man Coniah a despised broken jar? [Is he] a vessel in which there [is] no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they do not know?


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So says the LORD, Write this man down as childless, a man who will not be blessed in his days. For no man of his seed shall be blessed, sitting on the throne of David and ruling any more in Judah.


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Therefore so says Jehovah, God of Israel, against the shepherds who feed My people, You have scattered My flock, and have driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will bring on you the evil of your doings, says the LORD.


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And I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their fold. And they shall be fruitful and multiply.


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And I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them. And they shall fear no more, nor be afraid; nor shall they lack [anything], says the LORD.


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Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and act wisely, and shall do judgment and justice in the earth.


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In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. And this [is] His name by which He shall be called, JEHOVAH, OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.


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Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD lives, who brought the sons of Israel up out of the land of Egypt;


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but, The LORD lives, who brought up and led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries where I have driven them. And they shall dwell in their own land.


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My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of His holiness.


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For the land is full of adulterers. Yes, because of cursing the land mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their power [is] not right.


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So their way shall be to them as slippery [ways] in the darkness; they shall be driven on, and fall in them; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their judgment, says the LORD.


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And I have seen frivolity in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal and caused My people Israel to go astray.


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I have also seen in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing; they commit adultery and walk in falsehood. They also strengthen to the hands of evildoers, so that none returns from his evil; they are all of them like Sodom to Me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.


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So Jehovah of hosts says this concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them wormwood, and make them drink poisonous water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone forth into all the land.


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So says Jehovah of hosts, Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you vain; they speak a vision from their own heart, not out of the mouth of the LORD.


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They still say to those who despise Me, The LORD has said, You shall have peace! And they say to everyone who walks after the stubbornness of his own heart, No evil shall come on you!


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For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hears His Word? Who has listened to His Word and heard [it] ?


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Behold, the tempest of the LORD has gone forth in fury, a whirling tempest. It shall whirl on the head of the wicked.


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The anger of the LORD shall not return, until He has done and until He has set up the purposes of His heart; in later days you shall understand it perfectly.


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But if they had stood in My wisdom and had caused My people to hear My words, then they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their doings.


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Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says the LORD. Do I not fill the heavens and earth? says the LORD.


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I have heard what the prophets said, who prophesy lies in My name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.


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How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? But they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart,


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who plot to cause My people to forget My name by their dreams which they tell, each one to his neighbor, as their fathers have forgotten My name for Baal.


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The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream. And he who has My Word, let him speak My Word faithfully. What [is] the chaff to the wheat? says the LORD.


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So the LORD says, Behold, I [am] against the prophets who steal My words each one from his neighbor.


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The LORD says, Behold, I [am] against those who prophesy false dreams and tell them, and cause My people to go astray by their lies and by their lightness. Yet I did not send them nor command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all, says the LORD.


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And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What [is] the burden of the LORD? You shall then say to them, What burden? I will even forsake you, says the LORD.


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And [as for] the prophet, and the priest, and the people, who shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.


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So you shall say each one to his neighbor, and each one to his brother, What has the LORD answered? And what has the LORD spoken?


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


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But since you say, The burden of the LORD; therefore so says the LORD, Because you say this word; the burden of the LORD; and I have sent to you saying, You shall not say, The burden of the LORD;


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therefore, behold, I, even I, will completely forget you, and I will forsake you and the city that I gave you and your fathers, [and cast you] out of My presence.


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And I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a never-ending shame, which shall not be forgotten.


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The LORD caused me to see, and behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD (after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had exiled Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the rulers of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon);


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one basket [had] very good figs, like the first ripe figs. And the other basket [had] very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.


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Then the LORD said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs are very good, and the bad are very bad, so that they cannot be eaten, they are so bad.


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So says the LORD, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will acknowledge the exiles of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place [into] the land of the Chaldeans for [their] good.


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For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. And I will build them and not pull [them] down; and I will plant them and not pluck them up.


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And I will give them a heart to know Me, that I [am] the LORD; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God. For they shall return to Me with their whole heart.


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And like the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad; surely so says the LORD, So I will give to Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his rulers, and the rest of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt;


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and I will even make them a horror for evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, for a reproach and a proverb, a gibe and a curse, there in all places where I shall drive them.


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And I will send the sword, the famine, and the plague among them until they are destroyed from the land that 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 king of Judah. It [was] the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon;


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the word which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the people of Jerusalem, saying,


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From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even to this day, that [is] the twenty-third year, the Word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking. But you have not listened.


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And the LORD has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but you have not listened nor bowed down your ear to hear.


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They said, Turn again now, each one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and to your fathers forever and ever.


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


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Yet you have not listened to Me, says the LORD, so that you might provoke Me with the works of your hands, for harm to you.


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behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and will bring them against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations all around. And I will completely destroy them, and make them a waste, and a hissing, and everlasting ruins.


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And I will take from them the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the candle.


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And this whole land shall be a ruin [and] a waste. And these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.


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And it shall be, when seventy years are fulfilled I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, and the land of the Chaldeans, says the LORD, for their iniquity, and I will make it an everlasting ruin.


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


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For many nations and great kings shall lay service on them also. And I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.


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For so says the LORD, the God of Israel, to me, Take the wine cup of this wrath at My hand, and cause all the nations to whom I shall send you to drink it.


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And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be maddened, because of the sword that I will send among them.


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Then I took the cup at the LORD's hand, and made all the nations drink, to whom the LORD had sent me.


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Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings of them, and their rulers, to make them a ruin and a, a hissing, and a curse, (as [it is] today),


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and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the rest of Ashdod;


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and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands beyond the sea,


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and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which [are] on the face of the earth; and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.


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So you shall say to them, So says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink and be drunk, and vomit, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.


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And it shall be if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, So says the LORD of hosts, You shall certainly drink.


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For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by My name; and should you be found entirely without guilt? You shall not be without guilt. For I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD of hosts.


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And prophesy against them all these words, and say to them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter His voice from His holy habitation. He shall mightily roar over His dwelling place. He shall give a shout, like those who tread out grapes], against all the people of the earth.


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A noise shall come to the ends of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy with the nations; He will enter into judgment with all flesh. He will give those [who are] wicked to the sword, says the LORD.


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So says the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest shall be stirred up from the corners of the earth.


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And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from [one] end of the earth even to the [other] end of the earth; they shall not be mourned, nor gathered, nor buried. They shall be [as] dung on the ground.


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Howl, shepherds, and cry; and roll, leaders of the flock! For the days of your slaughter and of your scatterings are fulfilled; and you shall fall like a desirable vessel.


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A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the choice ones of the flock [shall be heard]; for the LORD has spoiled their pasture.


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Like the lion, He has left His den; for their land is wasted because of the oppressor's pressing fury, and because of His fierce anger.


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


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So says the LORD: Stand in the court of the LORD's house and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD's house, all the words that I command you to speak to them; do not keep back a word.


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It may be that they will listen, and each man turn from his evil way, that I may repent of the evil which I plan to do to them because of the evil of their doings.


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And you shall say to them, So says the LORD: 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 am sending to you (both rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened);


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


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So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.


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And it happened when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded [him] to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, You shall surely die!


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


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When the rulers of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house to the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entrance of the New Gate of the LORD's [house].


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And the priests and the prophets spoke to the rulers and to all the people, saying, [Let] a death sentence be for this man, for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.


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Then Jeremiah spoke to all the rulers and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.


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So now make your ways and your doings good, and obey the voice of the LORD your God. And the LORD will repent of the evil that He has spoken against you.


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But know for certain that if you put me to death you shall surely bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on its people. For truly the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.


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Then the rulers and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, There [is] not a sentence of death for this man; for he has spoken to us in the name of Jehovah our God.


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Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, So says Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be plowed [like] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house like the high places of a forest.


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Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah indeed put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD, and pray to the LORD, and the LORD repented of the evil which He had spoken against them? So we are doing great evil against our souls.


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And there was also a man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.


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And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the rulers, heard his words, the king tried to put him to death. But when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled and went into Egypt.


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And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt; Elnathan the son of Achbor, and men with him into Egypt.


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And they brought Urijah out of Egypt and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword and threw his dead body into the graves of the common people.


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But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.


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In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, 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 Ammonites, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who came to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.


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


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I have made the earth, man, and the animals on the face of the earth, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed right to Me.


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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 beast of the field to serve him.


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And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land comes. And then many nations and great kings shall enslave him.


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And it shall be, the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish, says the LORD, with the sword and with the famine, and with the plague, until I have destroyed them by his hand.


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As for you, do not listen to your prophets, nor to your fortune tellers, nor to your dreamers, nor to your conjurers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon.


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For they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out and you should perish.


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But the nations who bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those I will leave it on their own land, says the LORD. And [they] shall work it and dwell in it.


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I also spoke to Zedekiah 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 the sword, by the famine, and by the plague, as the LORD has spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?


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Therefore do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon. For they prophesy a lie to you.


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For I have not sent them, says the LORD; yet they prophesy a lie in My name, so that I might drive you out, and that you might perish, you and the prophets who prophesy to you.


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Also I spoke to the priests and to all the people, saying, So says the LORD, Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon. For they prophesy a lie to you.


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But if they [are] prophets, and if the Word of the LORD is with them, let them now pray to Jehovah of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and [in] the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon.


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For so says Jehovah of hosts, concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels which remain in this city,


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which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he exiled Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;


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yes, so says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain [in] the house of the LORD and [in] the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem:


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They shall be carried to Babylon, and they shall be there until the day that I visit them, says the LORD. Then I will bring them up and give them back to this place.


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And it happened in that year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, of Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,


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Within two full years I will again bring into this place all the vessels of the LORD's house, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried them to Babylon.


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And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah who went into Babylon, says the LORD. For I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.


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Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence all the people who stood in the house of the LORD,


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even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen. May the LORD do [so]. May the LORD confirm your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD's house, and all that is exiled from Babylon into this place.


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The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of plague.


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As for the prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, [then] the prophet shall be known, that the LORD has truly sent him.


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And Hananiah spoke for the eyes of all the people, saying, So says the LORD, Even so I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the time of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.


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Then the Word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,


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Go and tell Hananiah, saying, So says the LORD: You have broken the yokes of wood, but you shall make for them yokes of iron.


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For so says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And they shall serve him. And I have given him the beasts of the field also.


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Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah. The LORD has not sent you, but you make this people to trust in a lie.


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Therefore so says the LORD, Behold, I will drive you from off the face of the earth. You shall die this year, because you have taught rebellion against the LORD.


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And these [are] the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet 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 exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon.


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(After Jeconiah the king, and the queen mother, and the eunuchs, the rulers of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem.)


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The letter came by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah the king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, saying,


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So says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I caused to be exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon:


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Take wives and father sons and daughters. And take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters, that you may be multiplied there and not become few.


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And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be exiled, and pray to the LORD for it. For in its peace you shall have peace.


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For so says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your fortune-tellers in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you dream.


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For so says the LORD, When according to My Word seventy years have been fulfilled for Babylon, I will visit you and confirm My good Word to you, to bring you back to this place.


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For I know the purposes which I am purposing for you, says the LORD; purposes of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.


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And I will be found by you, says the LORD; and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD. And I will bring you again into the place from where I caused you to be exiled.


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so says the LORD of the king who sits on the throne of David, and of all the people who dwell in this city, [and] of your brothers who have not gone out with you into captivity;


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so says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the plague, and will make them like worthless figs which cannot be eaten from badness.


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And I will pursue them with the sword, with the famine, and with the plague, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and a waste, 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, says the LORD, which I sent to them by My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending; but you would not hear, says the LORD.


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so says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, about Ahab the son of Kolaiah and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in My name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall kill them before your eyes.


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And a curse shall be taken up from them by all the exiles of Judah who [are] in Babylon, saying, May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,


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because they have committed evil in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken lying words in My name, which I have not commanded them; for I [am] He who knows and a witness, says the LORD.


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So says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because you have sent letters in your name to all the people who [are] at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,


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The LORD has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to be officers [in] the house of the LORD, over every madman who prophesies, that you should put him into the stocks and into the collar.


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For this cause he sent to us [in] Babylon, saying, This [exile is] long. Build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their fruit.


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Send to all the exiles, saying, So says the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I did not send him, and he caused you to trust in a lie,


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therefore so says the LORD, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his seed. He shall not have a man to dwell among this people; nor shall he behold the good which I shall do for My people, says the LORD, because he has taught rebellion against the LORD.


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For, lo, the days come, says the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of My people Israel and Judah, says the LORD. And I will cause them to return to the land that I gave their fathers, and they shall possess it.


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Ask now, and see whether a man is giving birth? Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, like a woman in labor, and all faces are turned into paleness?


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Alas! For that day [is] great, so that none [is] like it; it [is] even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.


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For it shall be in that day, says Jehovah of hosts, I will break his yoke from your neck and will burst your bonds. And strangers shall no longer enslave him,


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And you, O My servant Jacob, do not fear, says the LORD. Do not be terrified, O Israel. For lo, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity. And Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make [him] afraid.


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For I [am] with you, says the LORD, to save you. Though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you entirely unpunished.


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All your lovers have forgotten you; they do not seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity; [because] your sins are many.


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Why do you cry over your crushing? Your pain [is] incurable, for the greatness of your iniquity; because your sins are many, I have done these things to you.


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So all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your enemies, every one of them, shall go into captivity. And they who rob you shall be robbed, and all who strip you I will strip.


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For I will give health back to you, and will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an outcast, [saying], This is Zion; no one is seeking for her.


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So says the LORD: Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and will have mercy on his dwelling places. And the city shall be built on her own hill, and the palace shall remain in its own place.


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And out of them shall come thanksgiving, and the voice of those who rejoice. And I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.


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Also their sons shall be as they were before, and their congregation shall be established before Me, and I will punish all who ill-treat them.


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And their rulers shall be of themselves, and their governor shall come from among them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach Me. For who [is] this who pledged his heart to come near to Me? says the LORD.


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Behold, the tempest of Jehovah's wrath goes forth, a sweeping tempest; it shall whirl on the head of the wicked.


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The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return until He has done [it], and until He has fulfilled the purposes of His heart. In the latter days you shall understand it.


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At that time, says the LORD, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people.


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So says the LORD, The people [who were] left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I will go to give him rest.


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Jehovah has appeared to me from afar, [saying], Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness I have drawn you.


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Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel. You shall again put on your tambourines, and shall go forth in the dances of those who rejoice.


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You shall yet plant vines on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall eat [them] as common things.


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For there shall be a day [that] the watchmen on Mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise and let us go up to Zion to Jehovah our God!


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For so says the LORD, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations. Cry out, give praise and say, O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel.


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Behold, I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the corners of the earth, and with [them] the blind and the lame, the woman with child and she who is in labor with child, together; a great company shall return there.


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They shall come with weeping, and with prayers I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way; they shall not stumble in it, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim [is] My firstborn.


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Hear the Word of the LORD, O nations, and declare [it] in the coastlands afar off. And say, He who scattered Israel will gather him and keep him, as a shepherd [keeps] his flock.


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Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the sons of the flock and the herd. And their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not pine away any more at all.


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Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them and make them rejoice from their affliction.


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And I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness, and My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the LORD.


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So says the LORD: A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing [and] bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her sons; she refuses to be comforted for her sons, because they [are] not.


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So says the LORD: Hold back your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD. And they shall come again from the land of the enemy.


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And there is hope for your future, says the LORD, that [your] sons shall come again to their own border.


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I have surely heard Ephraim mourning to himself, [saying], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not broken in; turn me, and I shall be turned. For You [are] the LORD my God.


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Surely after I was turned, I repented; and after I was taught, I struck on [my] thigh. I was ashamed, yea, I even blushed, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.


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[Is] Ephraim My dear son? [Is he] a delightful child? For as often as I spoke against him, I earnestly remember him still. Therefore My bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says the LORD.


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Set up waymarks, make sign posts for yourself. Set your heart toward the highway, the way you went. Turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.


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How long will you turn to and fro, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land; a woman shall enclose a man.


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So says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Again they shall speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I shall again bring their captivity: The LORD bless you, O home of justice [and] mountain of holiness.


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And farmers, and those going forth with flocks, shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities of it together.


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Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of animal.


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And it shall be, as I have watched over them to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so I will watch over them to build, and to plant, says the LORD.


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In those days they shall not say any more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the sons are dull.


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But every man shall die in his iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be dull.


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Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will cut a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah,


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not according to the covenant that I cut with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which covenant of Mine they broke, although I was a husband to them, says the LORD;


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but this [shall be] the covenant that I will cut with the house of Israel: After those days, says the LORD, I will put My law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.


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And they shall no more teach each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, Know the LORD; for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sins no more.


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So says the LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day and the laws of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who divides the sea when its waves roar; the LORD of hosts [is] His name;


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if those ordinances depart from Me, says the LORD, the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me forever.


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So says the LORD, If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be searched out, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says the LORD.


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Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the Tower of Hananeel to the Corner Gate.


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And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields to the torrent of Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, [shall be] holy to the LORD. It shall not be plucked up nor thrown down any more forever.


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The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which [was] the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.


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For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem. And Jeremiah the prophet was shut in the court of the guard, which [was] in the king of Judah's house.


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For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy and say, So says the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it,


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and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes,


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and he shall lead Zedekiah into Babylon, and there he shall be until I visit him, says the LORD; though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not be blessed.


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Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum your uncle shall come to you, saying, Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth; for the right to redeem it [is] yours, to buy [it].


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So Hanameel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD and said to me, Please buy my field in Anathoth, which [is] in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance [is] yours, and the right to redeem [is] yours. Buy [it] for yourself. Then I knew that this [was] the word of the LORD.


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And I bought the field in Anathoth, of Hanameel my uncle's son, and weighed him the silver, seventeen shekels of silver.


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And I wrote it in the document, and sealed [it], and called witnesses, and weighed the silver in the scales.


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So I took the document of the purchase, that which was sealed [according] to the law and custom, and the open copy.


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And I gave the document of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, before the eyes of Hanameel my uncle's [son], and before the eyes of the witnesses who wrote in the purchase document, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.


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So says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these books, the purchase document, the one sealed and the open book, and put them in an earthen vessel so that they may stand many days.


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For so says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall be owned again in this land.


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Ah, Lord Jehovah! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and stretched out arm. Nothing is too great for You.


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You show loving-kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their sons after them. The great, the mighty God, Jehovah of hosts, [is] His name,


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great in wisdom and mighty in work; for Your eyes [are] open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings.


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For You have set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, until this day, and in Israel, and among men; and have made You a name, as at this day;


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and have brought forth Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror.


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And You have given them this land, which You swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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And they came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice, nor did they walk in Your law. They have done nothing of all that You commanded them to do; therefore You have caused all this evil to come on them.


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Behold, the siege mounds have come to the city to take it; and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the plague. And what You have spoken has happened; and, behold, You saw [it].


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And You have said to me, O Lord Jehovah, Buy the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.


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Therefore so says the LORD: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it.


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And the Chaldeans who fight against this city shall come up and set this city on fire, and burn it with the houses on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke Me to anger.


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For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have only done evil before Me from their youth. For the sons of Israel have only provoked Me to anger with the work of their hands, says the LORD.


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For this city has been to Me as a cause of My anger and of My fury from the day that they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from before My face


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because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and of the sons of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger, they, their kings, their rulers, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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And they have turned the back to Me, and not the face; though I taught them, rising up early and teaching [them], yet they have not listened to receive instruction.


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And they built the high places of Baal, in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech; which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.


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And now therefore, so says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague:


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Behold, I will gather them out of all the lands where I have driven them in My anger, and in My fury, and in great wrath. And I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely.


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And I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for their good and for the good of their sons after them.


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And I will cut an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them, to do them good. But I will put My fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from Me.


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


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For so says the LORD: As I have brought all this great evil on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them.


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And fields shall be bought in this land of which you say, [It is] a desert without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.


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Men shall buy fields for silver, and write it in a book, and seal [it], and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south. For I will cause their captivity to return, says the LORD.


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And the Word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the guard, saying,


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So says Jehovah the Maker of it, Jehovah who formed it in order to establish it; Jehovah [is] His name:


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For so says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down [to defend] against the siege-mounds and against the sword:


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They come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men whom I have slain in My anger and in My fury, and for all whose evil I have hidden My face from this city.


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Behold, I will bring it health and healing, and I will heal them and will show them the riches of peace and truth.


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And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.


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


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And it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise and an honor before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them. And they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the riches that I bring to it.


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So says the LORD: Again there shall be heard in this place, which you say [is] a waste without man and without beast, [even] in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast;


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the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts, for the LORD [is] good, for His mercy [endures] forever; and the voice of those who shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return, as at the first, says the LORD.


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So says the LORD of hosts: Again in this place which is a desert without man and without beast, and in all its cities, there [shall be] a home of shepherds causing [their] flocks to lie down.


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In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him who tallies, says the LORD.


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Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will establish the good thing which I have spoken to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.


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In those days, and at that time, I will cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up to David. And He shall do judgment and righteousness in the land.


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In those days Judah shall be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely. And this [is the name] with which she shall be called, JEHOVAH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.


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nor shall the priests the Levites lack a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle grain offerings, and to do sacrifice forever.


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So says the LORD: If you can break My covenant of the day and My covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season,


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[then] also may My covenant with David My servant be broken, that he should not have a son to reign on his throne, and [My covenant] with the Levites the priests, My ministers.


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As the host of the heavens cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the seed of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.


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Do you not consider what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD has chosen, He has even cast them off? So they have despised My people, that they should be no more a nation before them.


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So says the LORD: If My covenant [is] not with day and night, [and if] I have not given the ordinances of the heavens and the earth,


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then I will cast away the seed of Jacob, and David My servant, [so] that I will not take [any] of his seed [to be] rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will bring back their captivity, and have mercy on them.


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The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth (because his hand rules) and all the peoples, fought against Jerusalem and against all its cities; saying,


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So says the LORD, the God of Israel: Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him, So says the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.


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And you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely be captured and delivered into his hand. And your eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with you mouth to mouth, and you shall go to Babylon.


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Yet hear the Word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah: So says the LORD of you, You shall not die by the sword.


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You shall die in peace; and as the burnings of spices [for] your fathers, the former kings which were before you, so they shall burn [spices] for you. And they will mourn you, saying, Ah, lord! For I have spoken the word, says the LORD.


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when the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem and against all the remaining cities of Judah; against Lachish, and against Azekah; for these fortified cities remained of the cities of Judah.


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The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after king Zedekiah had cut a covenant with all the people at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them,


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that each man should let his male slave, and each man his female slave, [if] a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, to go free, that none should enslave a Jew, his brother among them.


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And all the rulers obeyed, and all the people who had entered into the covenant allowed them to go free, each man his male slave, and each man his female slave, so that not any should enslave among them any more; and they obeyed and let them] go.


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But afterward they turned and caused the slaves and slave women whom they had let go free, to return! And they subjected them for slaves and slave women.


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So says the LORD, the God of Israel: I cut a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying,


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At the end of seven years each man should let go his brother, a Hebrew, and who has been sold to him. And when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you. But your fathers did not listen to me, nor bow down their ears.


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And you had turned today, and had done right in My sight to call for liberty, each man to his neighbor. And you had cut a covenant before Me in the house which is called by My name.


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But you turned and defiled My name, and each man caused his slave, and each man caused his slave woman, whom you had set free to do as they pleased, to return. And you brought them into service to be slaves and slave women to you.


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So the LORD says this: You have not listened to Me to proclaim liberty each man to his brother, and each man to his neighbor! Behold, I call for freedom for you, says the LORD, to the sword, to the plague, and to the famine. And I will cause you to be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.


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And I will give the men who have sinned against My covenant, who have not done the words of the covenant which they cut before Me [when they] cut the calf in two and passed between its parts;


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the rulers of Judah, and the rulers 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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I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. And their dead bodies shall be for food to the birds of the heavens and to the beasts of the earth.


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And I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, and his rulers, into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, who have withdrawn from you.


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Behold, I will command, says the LORD, and cause them to return to this city. And they shall fight against it and capture it, and burn it with fire. And I will make the cities of Judah a desert without a soul to live in it.


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


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Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak to them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the rooms. And give them wine to drink.


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Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites.


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And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which [was] near the room of the rulers, above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door.


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And I set pots full of wine, and cups, before the sons of the house of the Rechabites. 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 drink no wine, [you] nor your sons forever.


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Nor shall you build houses, nor sow seed, nor plant a vineyard, nor have [anything]; but all your days you shall live in tents, so that you may live many days in the land where you are strangers.


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So we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he has commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;


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But we have lived in tents, and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.


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But it happened when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, we said, Come and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the Chaldean army, and for fear of the Syrian army. So we are living at Jerusalem.


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So says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Go and tell the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction to listen to My words? says the LORD.


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The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, which he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are done. For to this day they do not drink, but obey their father's commandment. But I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you did not listen to Me.


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I have also sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending, saying, Return now each man from his evil way, and make your doings good, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers. But you have not bowed down your ear, nor listened to Me.


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Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have done the commandment of their father, which He commanded them; but this people has not listened to Me;


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therefore so says Jehovah, God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem all the evil that I have spoken against them. Because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered.


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And Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, So says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father, and have kept all his precepts, and have done according to all that he has commanded you;


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therefore so says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not lack a man to stand before Me forever.


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


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Take for yourself a roll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.


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It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I plan to do to them, that they may each man turn from his evil way, so 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 the LORD, which He had spoken to him, on a roll of a book.


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Therefore you go, and read in the roll which you have written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD's house on the fasting day. And also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.


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It may be they will present their prayer before the LORD, and will return, each one from his evil way. For great [is] the anger and the fury that the LORD 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, reading in the book, the words of the LORD in the LORD's house.


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


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And Baruch read in the book, the words of Jeremiah [in] the house of the LORD, in the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entrance to the New Gate of the LORD's house, in the ears of all the people.


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When Michaiah, the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the LORD out of the book,


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then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's room. And, lo, all the rulers sat there, even 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 Hananiah, and all the rulers.


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Then Michaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.


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Therefore all the rulers sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take the roll in your hand in which you have read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand and came to them.


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And it happened when they had heard all the words, they turned to one another in fear and said to Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.


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Then Baruch answered them, He spoke all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote [them] with ink on the book.


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And the rulers said to Baruch, Go hide yourselves, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know where you are.


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And they went in to the king into the court. But they laid up the roll in the room of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.


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So the king sent Jehudi to bring the roll. And he took it out of the room of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the rulers who stood beside the king.


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And it happened when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the scribe's knife and threw [it] into the fire in the fire-pan, until all the scroll was burned up in the fire-pan.


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Yet the king and all his servants who heard these words were not afraid, [nor] did they tear their garments.


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But Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had pleaded with the king that he should not burn the scroll, but he would not hear them.


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And the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD hid them.


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Then the Word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after the king had burned the scroll and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,


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Take for yourself another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.


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And you shall say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, So says the LORD: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written in it, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause man and beast to cease from there?


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Therefore so says the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David. And his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.


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And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity. And I will bring on them, and on the people of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evils that I have spoken against them; but they did not listen.


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Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote in it from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many words like them were added to them.


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


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But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, listened to the words of the LORD which He spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.


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


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And Pharaoh's army had come out from Egypt. And when the Chaldeans who besieged Jerusalem heard news of them, they departed from Jerusalem.


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So says the LORD, the God of Israel: You shall say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: Behold, Pharaoh's army, which has come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.


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And the Chaldeans shall come again and fight against this city, and capture it, and burn it with fire.


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So says the LORD: Do not deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us. For they shall not depart.


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For though you had stricken the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained [only] wounded men among them, they would rise up, each man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.


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And it happened when the army of Chaldeans was made to go up from Jerusalem because of fear of Pharaoh's army,


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then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive a portion from there in the midst of the people.


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And it happened, he [being] in the gate of Benjamin, a commander of the guard named Irijah [was] there, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah. And he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are falling away to the Chaldeans.


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Then Jeremiah said, A lie! I am not falling away to the Chaldeans. But he did not listen to him; so Irijah took Jeremiah and brought him to the rulers.


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And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison, the house of Jonathan the scribe. For they had made that the prison.


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When Jeremiah had entered into the house of the pit, and into the cells, then Jeremiah remained there many days.


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And Zedekiah the king sent and took him out. And the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there [any] word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is. For, He said, you shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.


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And Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, What have I offended against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?


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Where now [are] your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you nor against this land?


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And please hear now, O my lord the king; I beg you, let my cry be pleasing to you, so that you cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.


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And Zedekiah the king commanded that they should put Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him a piece of bread out of the bakers' street daily, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.


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And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken to all the people, saying,


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So says the LORD, He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague. But he who goes out to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life as a prize, and shall live.


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So says the LORD: This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, and he shall capture it.


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And the rulers said to the king, Please let this man be put to death. For in this way he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them. For this man does not seek the good of this people, but the hurt.


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Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he [is] in your hand. For the king cannot do a thing against you.


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And they took Jeremiah and threw him into the pit of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, which [was] in the court of the prison. And they let Jeremiah down with ropes. And there was no water in the pit, only mud. So Jeremiah sank into the mud.


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And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, of the eunuchs in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the pit (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),


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My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have thrown into the pit. And he is likely to die of hunger in the place where he is, for [there is] no more bread in the city.


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Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take in your hand thirty men with you from here, and lift Jeremiah the prophet up out of the pit before he dies.


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So Ebed-melech took the men in his hand and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took worn out clothes and worn out rags from there, and let them down by ropes into the pit to Jeremiah.


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And Ebed-melech, the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Now put the worn out clothes and rags under your armpits, under the ropes. And Jeremiah did so.


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So they drew up Jeremiah with ropes and took him up out of the pit. And Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.


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And Zedekiah the king sent and took Jeremiah the prophet to him, into the third gate in the house of the LORD. And the king said to Jeremiah, I will ask you a thing. Do not hide anything from me.


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Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I declare [it] to you, will you not surely put me to death? And if I give you advice, you will not listen to me.


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Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, [As] the LORD lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, nor will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.


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Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, So says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If you will surely go forth to the king of Babylon's rulers, then your soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire. And you shall live, and your house.


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But if you will not go forth to the king of Babylon's rulers, then this city shall be given into the hands of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape out of their hand.


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And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews who have fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and lest they hurt me.


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But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver [you]. I beg you, obey the voice of the LORD which I speak to you; so it shall be well to you, and your soul shall live.


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And, behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's house [shall be] brought out to the king of Babylon's rulers, and they shall say, Your friends have urged you on, and have prevailed against you. Your feet have sunk in the mire, and they have turned away.


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So they shall bring out all your wives and your sons to the Chaldeans. And you shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. And you shall cause this city to be burned with fire.


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But if the rulers hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you and say to you, Declare to us now what you have said to the king; do not hide [it] from us, and we will not put you to death; also what the king said to you;


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then you shall say to them, I presented my cry before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.


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Then all the rulers came to Jeremiah and asked him. And he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they quit speaking with him; for the matter was not known.


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So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was captured. And he was [there] when Jerusalem was captured.


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In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, came against Jerusalem. And they besieged it.


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In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth of the month, the city was broken up.


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And all the rulers of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the middle gate: Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, chief of the eunuchs, Nergal-sharezer, chief soothsayer, and all the rest of the rulers of the king of Babylon.


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And it happened when Zedekiah, the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went out from the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate between the two walls. And he went out the way of the plain.


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But the Chaldean army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And they took him, and made him go up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment on him.


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Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes in Riblah. Also the king of Babylon killed all the rulers 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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Then Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners exiled [to] Babylon the rest of the people who remained in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to him with the rest of the people that remained.


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But Nebuzaradan, the chief of the executioners, left [some] of the poor people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields on that day.


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And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon gave command concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners, saying,


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Take him, and set your eyes on him, and do him no evil. But do with him even as he shall say to you.


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So Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners sent, and Nebu-shasban chief of the eunuchs, and Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, and all the king of Babylon's rulers,


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even they sent and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and entrusted him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, to take him to the house. So he lived among the people.


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Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, So says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring My words on this city for evil and not for good. And they shall be [done] in that day before you.


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But I will deliver you in that day, says the LORD. And you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you [are] afraid.


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For I will surely deliver you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but your life shall be as a prize to you, because you have put your trust in Me, says the LORD.


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This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him, being bound in chains, among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were being exiled to Babylon.


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And the chief of the executioners took Jeremiah and said to him, Jehovah your God has spoken this evil against this place.


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And the LORD has brought [it], and has done according as He has said, Because you have sinned against the LORD and have not obeyed His voice, therefore this thing has come on you.


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And now, behold, I set you free today from the chains on your hand. If [it seems] good to you to come with me into Babylon, come. And I will keep my eye on you. But if [it seems] evil to you to come with me into Babylon, stay. Behold, all the land [is] before you. Wherever it seems good and pleasing for you to go, go there.


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And while he had not yet gone back, [he said], Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and live with him among the people. Or go wherever it seems right to you to go. So the chief of the executioners gave him food and a reward, and let him go.


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Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam at Mizpah. And [he] lived with him among the people who were left in the land.


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And when all the commanders of the forces who [were] in the fields, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had entrusted to him men, and women, and children, and [many] of the poor of the land, of those who [were] not exiled to Babylon;


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then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai of Netopha, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, 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 fear to serve the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.


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[As for] me, behold, I will live at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, who have come to us. But you go gather wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put [them] in your vessels, and live in your cities that you have taken.


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Also when all the Jews in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;


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even all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits in abundance.


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And Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the forces that [were] in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah.


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And they said to him, You certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to kill you. But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam did not believe them.


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Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Please let me go. And I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know. Why should he kill you so that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?


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But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, You shall not do this thing. For you speak falsely of Ishmael.


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And it happened in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the son of Elishama, of the royal seed, and the rulers of the king, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah. And there they ate bread together in Mizpah.


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Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah arose, and the ten men who were with him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and killed him whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.


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Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with him, with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war.


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some men from Shechem came from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, with their beards shaved, and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring [them] to the house of the LORD.


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And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he walked. And it happened as he met them, he said to them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.


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And it happened when they came into the middle of the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, he and the men with him, and they [threw them] into the middle of the pit.


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But ten men were found among them who said to Ishmael, Do not kill us, for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he held back and did not kill them among their brothers.


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And the pit in which Ishmael had thrown all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had killed because of Gedaliah, [was] the one which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel. And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.


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Then Ishmael took captive all the rest of the people who [were] in Mizpah, even the king's daughters and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners had entrusted to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah took captive and left to go over to the Ammonites.


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But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the forces with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,


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then they took all the men and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah. And they found him by the great waters that [are] in Gibeon.


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And it happened when all the people with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the forces with him, then they were glad.


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So all the people that Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah turned around and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.


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Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces with him took all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. They took mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon.


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because of the Chaldeans. For they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.


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Then came near all the commanders of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, came near.


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And they said to Jeremiah the prophet, Please let our cry be pleasing to you, and pray for us to the LORD your God, even for all this remnant, (for we are left [but] a few of many, as your eyes behold us,)


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And Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard. Behold, I will pray to the LORD your God according to your words; and it shall be, all the word the LORD shall answer, I will declare [it] to you. I will keep nothing back from you.


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And they said to Jeremiah, Let the LORD be a true and faithful witness between us if we do not do even according to all things for which the LORD your God shall send you to us.


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Whether [it is] good, or whether it is evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send you; so that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.


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And he called Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the forces with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest.


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And he said to them, So says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your cry before Him:


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If you will still remain in this land, then I will build you and will not pull [you] down. And I will plant you and will not pluck [you] up. For I repent of the evil that I have done to you.


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Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Do not be afraid of him, says the LORD. For I [am] with you to save you and to deliver you from his hand.


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And I will show mercies to you, so that he may have mercy on you and cause you to return to your own land.


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saying, No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger for bread; and there we will dwell;


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then now hear the Word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah. So says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: If you surely set your faces to go into Egypt, and go to live there,


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then it will happen, the sword which you feared shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt. And the famine of which you were anxious about shall cling to you there [in] Egypt; and you shall die there.


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So [it] shall be to all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there. They shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague. And none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.


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For so says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: As My anger and My fury has been poured forth on the people of Jerusalem, so shall My fury be poured forth on you when you shall enter into Egypt. And you shall be a curse, and a wonder, and a shame, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.


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The LORD has said concerning you, O remnant of Judah, Do not go into Egypt. Know certainly that I have warned you this day.


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For you used deceit against your souls when you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us to the LORD our God; and according to all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do [it].


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And I have declared [it] to you today; but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor anything for which He has sent me to you.


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And therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague, in the place where you desire to go to live.


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And it happened when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking to all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which the LORD 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 then, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, Do not go to Egypt to live there.


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But Baruch the son of Neriah [is] inciting you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death and to exile us to Babylon.


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So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the forces, and all the people, did not obey the voice of the LORD to live in the land of Judah.


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But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah who had returned from all the nations (where they had been driven) to dwell in the land of Judah;


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men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.


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So they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the LORD. So they came to Tahpanhes.


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Take great stones to your hand, and hide them in the clay in the brick-kiln which [is] at the entrance to Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah.


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And say to them, So says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden. And he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.


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And when he comes, he shall strike the land of Egypt. And whoever [is] for death [shall go] to death; and whoever for captivity, into captivity; and whoever 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 shall burn them and exile them. And he shall adorn himself with the land of Egypt, like a shepherd puts on his robe; and he shall go out from there in peace.


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He shall also break the obelisks of The House of the Sun which [is] in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians he shall burn with fire.


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The Word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who live in the land of Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,


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So says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah. And, behold, today [they are] a ruin, and no one lives there


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because of their evil which they have committed to provoke Me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods whom they knew not, they, you, nor your fathers.


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But I sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing which I hate!


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But they did not listen, nor bow down their ear to turn from their evil, to burn no incense to other gods.


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Therefore My fury and My anger was poured out, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. And they are wasted, deserted as at this day.


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And now so says Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit [this] great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and babe, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;


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in that you provoke Me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to live, that you might cut yourselves off and that you might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?


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Have you forgotten the evilness of your fathers, and the evilness of the kings of Judah, and the evilness of their wives, and your own evilness, and the evilness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?


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They are not humbled to this day, nor have they feared, nor walked in My law, nor in My statutes which I have set before you and before your fathers.


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So Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, says this: Behold, I will set My face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.


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And I will take the remnant of Judah, who have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to live there; and they shall all be consumed, [and] fall in the land of Egypt. They shall be destroyed by the sword and by the famine. They shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be a curse, a wonder, and a shame, and a reproach.


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For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague,


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So that none of the remnant of Judah who has gone into the land of Egypt to live there shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah to which they have a desire to return to live there. For none shall return except those who escape.


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And all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great multitude, even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah. And they said,


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But we will certainly do whatever thing goes forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our rulers, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem. [For] then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.


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But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all [things], and have been devoured by the sword and by the famine.


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And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make our cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her without our men?


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And Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and to the women, and to all the people who had given him [that] answer:


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The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you, and your fathers, your kings, and your rulers, and the people of the land; did not the LORD remember them? Yea, it came into His mind.


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Yea, so that the LORD could no longer hold back because of the evil of your doings, because of the abominations which you have committed! So your land is a waste, and a wonder, and a curse, without anyone in it, as [it is] today.


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Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, [nor walked] in His law, nor in His statutes, nor did you walk in His testimonies, therefore this evil has happened to you, as at this day.


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And Jeremiah said to all the people, and to all the women, Hear the Word of the LORD, all Judah that [is] in the land of Egypt.


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So says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hands, saying, We will surely fulfil our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her. You will surely fulfil your vows and surely carry out your vows.


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Therefore hear the Word of the LORD, all Judah that lives in the land of Egypt. Behold, I have sworn by My great name, says the LORD, that My name will no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord Jehovah lives.


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Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good. And all the men of Judah in the land of Egypt shall be destroyed by the sword and by the famine, until there is an end of them.


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Yet the small number that escapes the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah; and all the remnant of Judah (who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there) shall know whose word shall stand, Mine or theirs.


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And this [shall be] a sign to you, says the LORD, that I will punish you in this place so that you may know that My words shall surely stand against you for evil.


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So says the LORD, Behold, I am giving Pharaoh-hophra, king of Egypt, into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life, as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, his enemy that sought his life.


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The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,


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You said, Woe is me now, for the LORD has added grief to my sorrow. I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.


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So you shall say to him, The LORD says this: Behold, what I have built I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even all the land itself to Me.


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And do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek [them]; for behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says the LORD. But I will give your life to you as a prize, in all places where you go.


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against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh-necho, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.


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Harness the horses, and horsemen get up. Yea, stand with helmets, polish the spears; put on body armor.


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Why have I seen? They are afraid, turned backward. And their mighty ones are beaten down and have fled [for] refuge, and they do not look back. Terror [is] all around, says the LORD.


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Do not let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape. They stumbled and fell toward the north, by the side of the river Euphrates.


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Egypt rises up like the Nile, and [his] waters surge about like the rivers. And he says, I will go up [and] will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and its people.


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Come up, horses; and rage chariots! And let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans who handle the shield, and the Lydians who handle [and] bend the bow.


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For this [is] the day of the Lord Jehovah of hosts, a day of vengeance, that He may avenge Himself of His foes. And the sword shall devour, and it shall be filled and made drunk with their blood, for the Lord Jehovah of hosts has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.


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Go up into Gilead and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt. In vain shall you use many medicines, [for] you shall not be cured.


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The nations have heard of your shame, and your cry has filled the land. For the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, [and] they have both fallen together.


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The word spoken by the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, of the coming of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, to strike the land of Egypt.


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Declare [it] in Egypt, and cry [it] in Migdol, and make [it] heard in Noph and in Tahpanhes. Say, Stand fast and get ready, the sword shall devour all around you.


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He made many fall; yea, one fell on another. And they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people and to the land of our birth, away from the oppressing sword.


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[As] I live, says the King whose name [is] the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor [is] among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so he shall come.


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O daughter dwelling in Egypt, get ready to go into captivity. For Noph shall be waste and a desert without inhabitant.


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Also her hired ones [are] in her midst like calves of the stall; for they also have turned back, fleeing together. They did not stand, because the day of their calamity had come on them, the time of their visitation.


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Its sound [is] like a serpent's going, for they shall go in force and come against her with axes like woodcutters.


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They shall cut down her forest, says the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts and cannot be counted.


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The daughter of Egypt shall be ashamed. She shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.


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Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods and their kings; even Pharaoh and all who trust in him;


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and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants. And afterward it will be inhabited, as in the days of old, says the LORD.


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But you do not fear, O My servant Jacob, and be not afraid, O Israel. For, behold, I will save you from afar off, and your seed from the land of their captivity. And Jacob shall return and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make [him afraid.


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Do not fear, O Jacob My servant, says the LORD, for I [am] with you. For I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you. But I will not make a full end of you, but correct you in measure; yet I will not leave you wholly unpunished.


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The Word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza.


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So says the LORD: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land and all its fullness; the city and those who dwell in it. And the men shall cry, and all the people of the land shall howl.


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At the noise of the stamping of the hooves of his strong [horses], at the rushing of his chariots, the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their sons because of feebleness of hands;


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because of the day that comes to plunder all the Philistines [and] to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every survivor who helps. For the LORD will plunder the Philistines, the rest of the country of Caphtor.


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Baldness has come on Gaza. Ashkelon is cut off [with] the rest of their valley. How long will you cut yourself?


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O sword of the LORD, how long [will it be] before you are quiet? Put yourself into your sheath; rest and be still.


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How can it be quiet, since the LORD has given it a command? He has set it there against Ashkelon, and against the seashore.


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So says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, against Moab: Woe to Nebo, for it is ravaged! Kiriathaim [is] shamed [and] captured. The Fortress is shamed and razed.


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[There shall be] no more praise of Moab. In Heshbon they have plotted evil against it, saying, Come and let us cut it off [from being] a nation. Also you shall be silenced, O madmen; the sword shall pursue you.


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For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of ruin.


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For because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you shall also be captured. And Chemosh shall go into exile [with] his priests and his rulers.


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And the robber shall come on every city, and no city shall escape. Also the valley shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD has spoken.


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Give wings to Moab so that it may flee and get away; for its cities shall be a desert, without an inhabitant in them.


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Cursed [is] he who does the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed [is] he who keeps back his sword from blood.


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Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into exile. Therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.


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Therefore behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will send pourers to him, who shall pour him off, and his vessels shall empty, and shatter their jars.


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Moab is plundered and has come up out of her cities. And his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter, says the King whose name [is] Jehovah of hosts.


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All you who are around him, mourn him. And all you who know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, [and] the beautiful rod!


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O dweller, daughter of Dibon, come down from [your] glory and sit in thirst. For the ravager of Moab shall come on you; he shall destroy your strongholds.


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O dweller of Aroer, stand by the way and watch. Ask him who flees and her who escapes; say, What is happening?


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Make him drunk, for he magnified [himself] against the LORD. Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be a mockery.


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For was not Israel a mockery to you? Was he found among thieves? For ever since you spoke of him, you skipped for joy.


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O you who dwell in Moab, leave the cities and live in the rock, and be like the dove making her nest in the sides of the mouth of the pit.


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We have heard the pride of Moab (he is exceedingly proud), his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and his elevated heart.


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O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for you with the weeping of Jazer. Your plants have gone over the sea; they reach to the sea of Jazer. A ravager has fallen on your summer fruits and on your grape crop.


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And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab. And I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses; none shall tread [the grapes] with shouting; [their] shouting [shall be] no shouting.


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From the cry of Heshbon to Elealeh, and to Jahaz, they have uttered their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim, [like] a heifer three years old. For the waters of Nimrim also shall be deserted.


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And, I will cause him who offers in the high places to cease in Moab, says the LORD, and him who burns incense to his gods.


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Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like flutes, and my heart shall sound like flutes for the men of Kirheres, because the riches [that] he has gotten have perished.


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For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard clipped. On all the hands [shall be] cuttings, and on the loins sackcloth.


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On all the housetops of Moab, and in its streets, there [is] weeping for all. For I have broken Moab like a vessel in which [is] no pleasure, says the LORD.


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They shall howl, [saying], How is it broken down! How has Moab turned the back [with] shame! So Moab shall be a cause of scorn, and he shall be a terror to all those around him.


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Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized; and the mighty men's hearts in Moab shall be at that day like the heart of a woman in [her] pangs.


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And Moab shall be destroyed from [being] a people, because he has magnified [himself] against the LORD.


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He who flees from the terror shall fall into the pit; and he who goes up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For I will bring on it, even on Moab, the year of their judgment, says the LORD.


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Those who fled stood powerless in the shadow of Heshbon, for a fire shall come out from Heshbon, and a flame out of the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab and the crown of the head of the sons of desolation.


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Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh perish; for your sons are taken away into exile, and your daughters into exile.


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But I will restore the prisoners of Moab in the latter days, says the LORD. So far [is] the judgment of Moab.


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So says the LORD to the sons of Ammon: Has Israel no sons? Or has he no heir? Why does their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?


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So, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will cause a shout of war to be heard in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. And it shall be a heap of ruins, and her daughter-villages shall be burned with fire. Then Israel shall inherit his inheritance, says the LORD.


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Wail, O Heshbon; Ai is spoiled! Cry, daughters of Rabbah; clothe yourselves with sackcloth, mourn, and run to and fro by the hedges! For their king shall go into exile; his priests and his rulers together.


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Why do you glory in your valley, your flowing valleys, O backsliding daughter? she trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come to me?


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Behold, I will bring a fear on you, says the Lord Jehovah of hosts, from all those who are around you. And you shall be driven out, each man straight forward; and there shall be none to gather up the runaways.


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So says the LORD of hosts to Edom: [Is] wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?


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Flee, turn back, dwell deep, O people of Dedan. For I will bring the calamity of Esau on him [in] the time [that] I will visit him.


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If the gatherers of grapes come to you, would they not leave [some] gleaning grapes? If thieves [come] by night, they will destroy until they have enough.


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But I have made Esau bare; I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself. His seed is ravaged, and his brothers, and his neighbors, and he [is] gone.


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For so says the LORD: Behold, those whose judgment [was] not to drink of the cup have surely drunk. And are you to be entirely acquitted? You shall not be acquitted, but you shall surely drink.


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For I have sworn by Myself, says the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a ruin, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be wastes forever.


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I have heard a message from the LORD, and a herald is sent to the nations, [saying], Gather together and come against her, and rise up to the battle.


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Your fearfulness has deceived you, [and] the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD.


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Also Edom shall be a ruin. Everyone who goes by it shall be amazed and shall hiss at all its plagues.


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As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor, says the LORD, no man shall remain there, nor shall a son of man live in it.


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Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the home of the strong. But I will suddenly make him run away from her. And who [is] a chosen one I may appoint over it? For who [is] like Me? And who will summon Me? And who [is] that shepherd who will stand before Me?


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So then hear the counsel of the LORD which He has taken against Edom, and His purposes which He has purposed against the people of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall drag them away. Surely He shall make their homes a ruin over them.


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The earth is shaken at the noise of their fall; when they cried, its noise was heard in the Red Sea.


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Behold, he shall come up and fly like the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah. And at that day the heart of the mighty men of Edom shall be like the heart of a woman in her pangs.


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Concerning Damascus: Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard bad news. They are melted; anxiety is in the sea; it cannot be quiet.


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Damascus has become feeble; she has turned to flee, and trembling has seized [her]. Anguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in labor.


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So her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be silenced in that day, says the LORD of hosts.


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So says the LORD concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon shall strike: Arise, go up to Kedar, and strip the men of the east.


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They shall take away their tents and their flocks. They shall take their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels to themselves. And they shall cry to them, Fear [is] on every side.


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Flee, go far away, go deep to dwell; O people of Hazor, says the LORD; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has plotted a plan against you.


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Arise, go up to the nation that is at ease, who dwells securely, says the LORD, which has neither gates nor bars, [which] dwells alone.


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And their camels shall be a prize, and the multitude of their cattle a prey. And I will scatter them to all winds, those who cut the corners. And I will bring their calamity from all sides of it, says the LORD.


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And Hazor shall be a dwelling for jackals [and] a ruin forever. No man shall live there, nor [any] son of man dwell in it.


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The Word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,


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And I will bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven on Elam, and will scatter them toward all these winds. And there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.


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For I will cause Elam to be afraid before their enemies and before those who seek their life. And I will bring evil on them, even My fierce anger, says the LORD. And I will send the sword after them until I have destroyed them;


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and I will set My throne in Elam, and will destroy the king and the rulers from there, says the LORD.


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The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon, against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.


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Declare among the nations, and cause them to hear, and lift up a banner. Cause them to hear, do not hide it; say, Babylon is captured, Bel is ashamed, Merodach is broken in pieces; her images are shamed, her idols are broken in pieces.


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For out of the north a nation comes up against her, which shall make her land a desert, and none shall dwell in it. They shall flee, they shall depart, both man and beast.


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In those days, and at that time, says the LORD, the sons of Israel shall come, they and the sons of Judah together, going and weeping. They shall go and seek Jehovah their God.


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They shall ask the way [to] Zion with their faces there, [saying], Come and let us join ourselves to the LORD [in] an everlasting covenant never [to be] forgotten.


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My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away [on] the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.


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All who have found them have devoured them. And their enemies said, We do not offend, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of righteousness, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.


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Flee from the midst of Babylon, and go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before the flocks.


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For, lo, I am stirring up and bringing up against Babylon a company of great nations from a northern land. And they shall array themselves against her. She shall be captured there. Their arrows [ shall be] as [those] of a skillful, mighty man; none shall return in vain.


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Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, O destroyers of My inheritance; because you are fat like the heifer in grass, and bellow like bulls;


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your mother shall be deeply ashamed; she who bore you shall turn pale. Behold, the last of the nations [shall be] a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.


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Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly a waste. Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be amazed and hiss at all her plagues.


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Put yourselves in order against Babylon all around; all you who bend the bow, shoot at her. Hold back no arrows, for she has sinned against the LORD.


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Shout against her all around. She has given her hand; her foundations have fallen, her walls have been thrown down; for it [is] the vengeance of the LORD. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, do to her.


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Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who handles the sickle in the time of harvest. For fear of the pressing sword they shall turn, each one to his people; and they shall flee, each one to his own land.


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Israel [is] a scattered sheep, driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon crunched [his bones].


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So Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, says this: Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.


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And I will again bring Israel to his home, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on Mount Ephraim and Gilead.


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In those days, and at that time, says the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and it [shall] not [be] found; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found; for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.


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Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it and against the people of Pekod. Waste and destroy after them, says the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded you.


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How the hammer of the whole earth is cut off and broken! How Babylon has become a ruin among the nations!


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I have laid a trap for you, and you are also captured, O Babylon, and you did not know. You were found and also caught, because you have fought against the LORD.


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The LORD has opened His armory, and has brought forth the weapons of His fury. For this [is] the work of the Lord Jehovah of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.


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Come against her from the border; open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her completely. Let nothing of her be left.


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Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their punishment.


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The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God, the vengeance of His temple.


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Make the archers hear against Babylon. All you who tread a bow, camp against it all around; let none of them escape. Repay her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her. For she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.


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So her young men shall fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be silenced in that day, says the LORD.


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Behold, I [am] against you, O proud ones, says the Lord Jehovah of hosts; for your day has come, the time that I will judge you.


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And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall burn up everything all around him.


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So says Jehovah of hosts: The sons of Israel and the sons of Judah [were] oppressed together. And all who captured them held them fast; they refused to let them go.


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Their Redeemer [is] strong; Jehovah of hosts, [is] His name. He shall thoroughly plead their cause, so that he may give rest to the land, and give trouble to the people of Babylon.


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A sword [is] on the Chaldeans, says the LORD, and on the people of Babylon, and on her rulers, and on her wise men.


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A sword [is] on the liars, and they shall become fools. A sword [is] on her mighty men, and they shall be afraid.


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A sword [is] on their horses and their chariots, and on all the mixed people in her midst; and they shall become as women. A sword [is] to her treasuries, and they shall be robbed.


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A drought [is] on her waters; and they shall be dried up. For it [is] the land of idols, and they act madly [with] idols.


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So the beasts of the desert shall dwell there with jackals. And the daughters of the ostrich shall dwell in her again. And it shall not again have anyone [in it] forever; it shall not be lived in until generation and generation.


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As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors, says the LORD, no man shall live there; nor shall any son of man live in it.


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Behold, a people shall come from the north, even a great nation; and many kings shall be stirred up from the farthest parts of the earth.


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They lay hold on a bow and spear; they [are] cruel and will not show mercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride on horses arrayed like a man for the battle against you, O daughter of Babylon.


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The king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands became feeble. Anguish took hold of him, [and] pangs like [those of] a woman in labor.


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Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan to the home of the strong. But I will make them suddenly run away from her. And who [is] a chosen [one whom] I will appoint over her? For who [is] like Me? And who will set Me the time? And who [is] that shepherd who will stand before Me?


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Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that He has taken against Babylon; and His purposes which He has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans. Surely the least of the flock shall drag them; surely He shall make [their] dwelling a desert with them.


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At the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall tremble, and a cry is heard among the nations.


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So says the LORD: Behold, I will raise up a destroying wind against Babylon, and against those dwelling in the heart of My foes.


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And I will send aliens to Babylon who will sift her and will empty her land. For in the day of trouble they shall be against her all around.


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Do not let the treader fully tread his bow; nor lift himself up in his armor. And do not spare her young men; utterly destroy all her army.


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For neither Israel nor Judah [has been] forsaken by his God, by Jehovah of hosts, though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.


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Flee out of the middle of Babylon, and each man deliver his soul. Be not cut off in her iniquity, for this [is] the time of the LORD's vengeance; He will give to her a just reward.


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Babylon [has been] a golden cup in the LORD's hand, which made all the earth drunk. The nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations rage.


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Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed. Wail for her; take balm for her pain, if perhaps she may be healed.


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We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her and let us go, each one into his own country; for her judgment reaches to the heavens and is lifted up to the skies.


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The LORD has brought forth our righteousness; come and let us declare in Zion the work of Jehovah our God.


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Sharpen the arrows; gather the shields; the LORD has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. For His plan [is] against Babylon, to destroy [it]; because it [is] the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of His temple.


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Set up the banner on the walls of Babylon; make the watch strong; set up the watchmen; prepare the ambushes. For the LORD has both planned and done that which He spoke against the people of Babylon.


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O you who live on many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, [and] the measure of your unjust gain.


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Jehovah of hosts has sworn by Himself, [saying], Surely I will fill you with men as with locusts; and they shall lift up a shout against you.


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He has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by His understanding.


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When He utters [His] voice, [there is] a multitude of waters in the heavens; and He causes the mists to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with rain and brings forth the wind out of His treasures.


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Every man is brutish in knowledge; every refiner is put to shame by idols. For his molded image [is] a lie, and no breath [is] in them.


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The Portion of Jacob [is] not like them; for He [is] the Former of all things, and [Israel is] the rod of His inheritance. Jehovah of hosts [is] His name.


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You [are] My war-club [and] weapons of war; for 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 his rider.


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Also with you I will shatter man and woman; and with you I will shatter old and young; and with you I will shatter the young man and the girl.


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I will also shatter the shepherd and his flock with you. And with you I will shatter the farmer and his team; and with you I will shatter heads and rulers.


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And I will give to Babylon, and to all the people of Chaldea, all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says the LORD.


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Behold, I [am] against you, O destroying mountain, says the LORD, who destroys all the earth. And I will stretch out My hand on you and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burned mountain.


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And they shall not take a stone from you for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be a waste forever, says the LORD.


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Set up a banner in the land; blow a trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations against her. Call the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz together against her; set a commander against her. Cause the horses to come up as the rough locusts.


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Consecrate nations against her, with the kings of the Medes, her governors and all her rulers, and all the land of his kingdom.


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And the land shall tremble and writhe. For every purpose of the LORD shall be done against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desert without inhabitant.


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The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting; they have remained in strongholds; their might has failed. They became like women; they have burned her houses; her bars are broken.


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A runner shall run to meet a runner, and a herald to a herald, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city is captured from end [to end];


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and that the fords are stopped. And they have burned the reeds with fire, and the men of war are frightened.


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For so says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon [is] like a threshing floor; [it is] time to thresh her. Yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.


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Nebuchadnezzar 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 jackal; he has filled his belly with good things; he has thrown me out;


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the violence done to me and to my flesh [shall be] on Babylon; the dweller in Zion shall say. And, My blood [shall be] on the people of Chaldea, Jerusalem shall say.


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So the LORD says this: Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.


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In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk so that they may rejoice and sleep a never-ending sleep, and never awaken, says the LORD.


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How Sheshach is captured! And how the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!


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Her cities are a desert, a dry land and a wilderness, a land in which no man dwells, nor does [any] son of man pass by it.


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And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. And the nations shall not flow together any more to him; yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.


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My people, go out of her midst; and let each man deliver his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.


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And let not your heart faint, nor fear the rumor that shall be heard in the land. The report [shall come] in a year. And after that a report [shall come] in [another] year; and violence shall be] in the land, ruler against ruler.


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So, behold, the days come that I will punish the idols of Babylon. And all her land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in her midst.


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And the heavens and the earth, and all that [is] in them, shall shout for Babylon; for the plunderers shall come to her from the north, says the LORD.


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You who have escaped the sword, go away; do not stand still. Remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.


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We have turned pale because we have heard reproach; shame has covered our faces, for foreigners have come into the holy places of the LORD's house.


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So, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will punish her idols, and through all her land the wounded shall groan.


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Though Babylon should mount up to the heavens, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, [yet] plunderers shall come to her from Me, says the LORD.


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because the LORD is stripping Babylon, and the great voice will perish out of her. And her waves will roar like great waters; the noise of their voice is given,


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because the ravager has come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty men are captured. Every one of their bows is broken, for Jehovah, God of vengeance, shall surely repay.


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And I will make her rulers drunk, also her wise ones, her governors, and her rulers, and her mighty men. And they shall sleep a never-ending sleep and not awaken, says the King whose name [is] Jehovah of hosts.


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So says Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be completely broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labor in vain, and the people shall be in the fire, and they shall be weary.


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The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah [into] Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And Seraiah [was] a quiet prince.


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So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon.


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And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, and shall see and shall read all these words,


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then you shall say, O LORD, You have spoken against this place to cut it off, so that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be a ruin forever.


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And it shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, you shall tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of Euphrates.


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And you shall say, In this way shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring on her. And they shall be weary. So 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 Jeremiah of Libnah.


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For it was because of the anger of the LORD in Jerusalem and Judah (until He had cast them out from His presence) that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.


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And it happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it and built forts against it all around.


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And in the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, the famine was very grievous in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.


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And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which [was] by the king's garden. (And the Chaldeans lay around the city all around.) And they went by the way of the plain.


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But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And all his army was scattered from him.


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And they took the king and carried him up to the king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgments against him.


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And the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the rulers of Judah in Riblah.


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And he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah. And the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.


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And in the fifth month, in the tenth of the month, which [was] the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, chief of the executioners, [who] served the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem.


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And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house. And he burned with fire all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great ones.


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And all the army of the Chaldeans with the chief of the executioners broke down all Jerusalem's walls all around.


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And Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners exiled [some] of the poor of the people, and the rest of the people who remained in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.


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But Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners left [some] of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for farmers.


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Also the Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that [were] in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the bronze sea in the house of the LORD, and carried all the bronze of them to Babylon.


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They also took away the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they served.


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And the chief of the executioners took away the basins, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the spoons, and the cups; what [was] gold, [in] gold; and what [was] silver, [in] silver.


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the two pillars, one sea, and twelve bronze bulls that [were] under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD; the bronze of all these vessels was without weight.


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And the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits. And a line of twelve cubits went around it, and the thickness of it [was] four fingers. [It was] hollow.


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And a capital of bronze [was] on it. And the height of one capital [was] five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capitals all around, all [of] bronze. The second pillar also, and the pomegranates, [were] like these.


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And there were ninety-six pomegranates on a side; all the pomegranates on the network [were] a hundred all around.


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He also took out of the city a eunuch who was in charge of the men of war; and seven men from those who were near the king's person, who were found in the city; and the chief scribe of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the middle of the city.


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And Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners took them and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.


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And the king of Babylon struck them and slaughtered them in Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was exiled out of his own land.


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This [is] the people whom Nebuchadnezzar exiled: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;


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in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he exiled from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons;


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in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners exiled seven hundred and forty-five persons of the Jews. All the persons [were] four thousand and six hundred.


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And it happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the [first] year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him out from prison,


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and spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who [were] with him in Babylon.


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And his allowance in continual allowance was given him from the king of Babylon, the matter of a day in its day, until the day of his death, all the days of his life.


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How alone sits the city [that was] full of people! She has become like a widow, [once] great among the nations, a noblewoman among the nations, [but now] has become a tribute-payer.


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She bitterly weeps in the night, and her tears [are] on her cheeks; among all her lovers, she has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt deceitfully with her; they became her enemies.


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Judah went into captivity because of affliction, and from great slavery. She dwells among the nations; she finds no rest; all her pursuers have overtaken her between the narrows.


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The roads of Zion mourn without [any] going to the appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests sigh; her virgins are afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness.


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Her enemies have become as chief; her haters are at ease; for the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her sins. Her children have gone, captive before the enemy.


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And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty has departed. Her rulers have become like bucks: they find no pasture, and they have gone without strength before the pursuer.


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[In the] days of her affliction and her wandering Jerusalem remembered all her desirable things from previous days; when her people fell into the hand of the foe; and there is no ally for her. The foes saw her; they laughed at her annihilation.


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Jerusalem has grievously sinned, therefore she has been removed. All knowing her despise her because they saw her nakedness; yea, she sighs and turns backward.


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Her uncleanness [is] in her skirts; she did not remember her end, and has gone down astoundingly. There is no comforter for her. O LORD, behold my affliction, for the enemy has magnified [himself].


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The enemy has spread out his hand upon all her desirable things; for she has seen the nations enter her holy place, whom You commanded that they should not enter into Your congregation.


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All her people sigh; they seek bread. They have given their desirable things for food to relieve the soul. See, O LORD, and look on [me], for I have become vile.


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[Is it] nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow which is done to me, with which the LORD has afflicted [me] in the day of His fierce anger.


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From above He has sent fire into my bones and it has laid them low. He has spread a net for my feet; He has turned me back; He has made me amazed [and] faint all the day.


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The yoke of my transgressions is bound by His hand; they intertwine; they rise on my neck. He has made my strength to falter; the LORD has delivered me into [their] hands. I am not able to rise up.


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The LORD has trampled all my mighty ones in my midst; He has called a gathering against me to crush my young men. The LORD has trod the virgin daughter of Judah, [as] in a winepress.


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For these I weep; my eye, my eye runs down [with] water, because the comforter who could refresh my soul is far from me. My sons are desolated because the enemy prevails.


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Zion spreads forth her hands; none [is] comforting to me; the LORD has commanded concerning Jacob that his enemies [should be] all around him; Jerusalem has become as an impure thing among them.


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The LORD [is] righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. I beseech you, all peoples, hear and behold my sorrow. My virgins and my young men went into exile.


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I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me; my priests and my elders expired in the city while they sought food for them to bring back their life.


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Behold, O LORD, for I [am] in trouble; my inward parts ferment; my heart is turned within me, for I have grievously rebelled. On the outside the sword bereaves; in the house [it is] as death.


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They hear that I sigh; [there is] none to comfort me. All my enemies have heard my evil; they are glad that You have done [it]. You will bring the day [that] You have called, and they shall be like me.


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Let all their wickedness come before You; and do to them as You have done to me for all my transgressions. For my sighs [are] many, and my heart [is] faint.


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How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in His anger! He cast down the beauty of Israel from the heavens to the earth and remembered not His footstool in the day of His anger.


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The Lord swallowed up all the dwelling-places of Jacob [and] has not pitied. In His wrath He has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought [them] down to the ground. He has defiled the kingdom and its rulers.


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He has cut off all the horn of Israel in [His] fierce anger; He has drawn back His right hand from before the enemy, and He burned against Jacob like flaming fire [which] devours all around.


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He has bent His bow like an enemy; [He stood with] His right hand like an adversary, and killed all [who were] desirable to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. He poured out His fury like fire.


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The LORD was like an enemy; He swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, [and] destroyed His strongholds. And [He] has increased mourning and weeping in the daughter of Judah.


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And He violated His booth like a garden, [and] destroyed His meeting places. The LORD caused the meeting places and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and He despised the king and the priest in the fury of His anger.


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The LORD has cast off His altar; He rejected His sanctuary; He has given up the walls of her palaces into the hater's hand. They gave a noise in the house of the LORD, as a day of meeting.


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The LORD purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out a line; He has not withdrawn His hand from swallowing, and He made rampart and wall lament; they languish together.


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Her gates have sunk in the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her kings and her rulers [are] among the nations. The law is no more; also her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.


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The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground and [are] silent; they send up dust on their heads; they gird on sackclothes. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.


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My eyes fail with tears; my inward parts ferment; my liver is poured on the ground for the ruin of the daughter of my people, in that the children and the babies faint in the streets of the city.


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They say to their mothers, Where [are] grain and wine? In their fainting [they are] like the wounded in the streets of the city, in their pouring out their lives to their mothers' bosom.


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What can I testify for you? What thing shall I compare to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I equal to you, so that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your break [is] great like the sea! Who can heal you?


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Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you, and they have not uncovered your iniquity, to turn away your captivity; but they have seen false oracles and seductions for you.


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All who pass by 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. Certainly this [is] the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen.


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The LORD has done [what] He has purposed; He has fulfilled His word which He commanded from the days of old. He has thrown down and not pitied. And He caused your hater to rejoice over you; He has set up the horn of your foes.


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Their heart cried to the LORD. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a torrent day and night; give yourself no rest. Let not the daughter 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 children who are faint for hunger in the head of every street.


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Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom You have done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, children of tender care? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the holy place of the Lord?


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Young and old lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed [them] in the day of Your anger; You have killed and not pitied.


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You have called as in a solemn day my terrors all around, and there was not an escaped one or a survivor in the day of the LORD's anger. Those whom I have nursed and multiplied, my enemy has consumed.


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How the gold has become dim; the fine gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.


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The precious sons of Zion are weighed against pure gold; how they are counted as earthen vessels, the work of a potter's hand!


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Even the jackals draw out the breast; they suckle their young ones. The daughter of my people [is] cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.


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The suckling's tongue cleaves to his palate in thirst; the young children ask bread; there is no breaking to them.


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And the iniquity of the daughter of my people is heaped more than the sin of Sodom, overthrown as [in] a moment, and no hands spun on her.


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Her Nazarites [were] purer than snow, whiter than milk; they [were] redder [of] bone than corals; their cuttings [as] lapis lazuli, [azure blue].


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Their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones; it is dried up; it has become like wood.


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Better [are] the ones slain by the sword than the ones slain by hunger; those who pine away, pierced because the fruits of my fields [failed].


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The hands of the pitying women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the ruin of the daughter of my people.


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The LORD has fulfilled His fury; He has poured out His fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured its foundations.


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The kings of the earth, and all the people of the world, would not have believed that the foe and the hater would go into Jerusalem's gates.


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For the sins of her prophets [and] the iniquities of her priests, shedding the blood of the just in her midst,


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they reeled blind in the streets; they are defiled with blood, so that not [any] can touch their clothes.


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They cried to them, Depart! Unclean! Depart, depart! Touch not! Indeed they fled and reeled; they said among the nations, They will not continue to live [there].


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The face of the LORD has shared them out; He will no longer look on them; they did not respect the persons of the priests; they did not favor the elders.


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While we are, our eyes fail, for our help is vain; in our watching we have watched for a nation; it does not save.


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They hunted our steps from going in our streets; our end was near, our days were fulfilled, for our end has come.


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Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens; they 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] the LORD, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, In his shadow we shall live among the nations.


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Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, who lives in the land of Uz. The cup also shall pass through unto you; you shall be drunken and stripped naked.


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The punishment of your iniquity [is] fulfilled, O daughter of Zion; He will exile you no more. He will visit your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.


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And it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.


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Coming the Word of Jehovah became known] to Ezekiel, the son of Buzi, the priest in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar. And the hand of the LORD was on him there.


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And I looked, and behold, a windstorm came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire flashing itself, and a brightness to it all around, and out of its midst, like the color of polished bronze out of the middle of the fire.


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Also out of its midst [came] the likeness of four living creatures. And this [was] how they looked; 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 color of burnished copper.


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And the [hands] of a man [extended] from under their wings on their four sides; and the four of them [had] their faces and their wings,


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joining each one to the other [by] their wings. They did not turn in their going; each one went toward the front of their face.


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And the likeness of their faces: the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right [side] to the four of them; and the face of an ox on the left side to the four of them; and the face of an eagle to the four of them.


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So their faces [were]. And their wings [were] stretched upward; to each, the two [wings] of each one were joined; and two [wings] covered their bodies.


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And each went toward the front of their faces. To where the spirit was to go, there they went; they did not turn in their going.


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And the likeness of the living creatures: they looked like burning coals of fire; like the appearance of torches. It was continually circling among the living creatures. And the fire [was] bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.


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And as I looked at the living creatures, behold, one wheel [was] on the earth by the living creatures, with its four faces.


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The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship [was] the color of beryl, and the four of them had one likeness. And their appearance and their workmanship [was] like a wheel in the middle of a wheel.


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And their rims: they [were] even high; they were even awesome. And their rims [were] full of eyes all around the four of them.


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And in the going of the living creatures, the wheels went beside them; and in the lifting up of the living creatures from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.


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Wherever the spirit was to go, there they went; there the spirit [was] to go, and the wheels were lifted up along with them. For the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.


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In their going, [these] went; and in their standing still, these stood still. And in their lifting up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up along with them. For the spirit of the living creature [was] in the wheels.


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And there [was] a likeness over the heads of the living creature; an expanse, like the color of awesome crystal stretched out over their heads from above.


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And under the expanse their wings [were] straight, the one toward the other. Each one had two [wings] covering on this [side], and to each two covering on that [side of] their bodies.


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And I heard the sound of their wings, like the sound of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, in their going [was] the sound of tumult, like the sound of an army. In their standing still, they let down their wings.


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And there was a voice from the expanse which [was] over their heads, in their standing still, and they let down their wings.


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And from above the expanse that [was] over their heads [was] a likeness like a sapphire stone, the likeness of a throne. And on the likeness of the throne [was] a likeness looking like a man on it from above.


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And I saw [Him] looking like the color of polished bronze, looking like fire all around within it. From the likeness of His loins even upward, and from the likeness of His loins even downward, I saw [Him], looking like fire, and it had brightness all around.


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As the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain looks, so the brightness all around looked. This was how the likeness of the glory of the LORD looked. And I saw. And I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking.


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And the Spirit entered into me when He spoke to me, and set me on my feet, so that 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 sons of Israel, to the nations, the rebelling ones who have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have sinned against Me, to this day.


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And the sons [are] stiff of face, and hard of heart. I am sending you to them; and you shall say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah.


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And they, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear; for they [are] a rebellious house. Yea, they shall know that there has been a prophet among them.


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And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them, and of their words, though briers and thorns [are] with you, and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words, nor frightened by their faces, though they [are] a rebellious house.


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And you shall speak My words to them, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear, for they [are] rebellious.


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But you, son of man, hear what I am saying to you. Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.


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And He spread it before me; and it [was] written on the face and the back. And written on it [were] weepings, and mourning, and woe.


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And He said to me, Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this roll, and go speak to the house of Israel.


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And He said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your belly with this roll that I give you. Then I ate [it]; and in my mouth it was like honey for sweetness.


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For you [are] not sent to a people of a deep lip and of a difficult language, [but] to the house of Israel;


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not to many people of a deep lip and of a difficult language, whose words you cannot hear. Surely, if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.


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But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to Me; for all the house of Israel [are] strong of forehead and hard of heart.


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Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces and your forehead strong against their foreheads.


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I have made your forehead as an adamant harder than flint. Do not be bowed down by their faces, though they [are] a rebellious house.


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And He said to me, Son of man, receive all My words which I shall speak to you in your heart, and hear with your ears.


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And go! Go to those of the captivity, to the sons of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, So says the Lord Jehovah; whether they will hear or whether they will forbear.


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And the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a sound of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed [be] the glory of the LORD from His place.


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[I] also [heard] the sound of the wings of the living creatures touching one another, and the sound of the wheels along with them, and a sound of a great rushing.


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So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong on me.


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Then I came to the exiles at Tel-at-abib, who lived by the river Chebar. And I sat [where] they sat; and I also dwelt seven days, being stricken dumb among them.


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And it happened at the end of seven days, even it happened [that] the Word of the LORD [came] to me, saying,


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Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word of My mouth, and give them warning from Me.


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When I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; and you do not give him warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked one shall die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.


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Yet if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.


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And when the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and when I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.


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But if you warn the righteous so that the righteous does not sin, and if he does not sin, he shall surely live because he is warned; also you have delivered your soul.


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And the hand of the LORD was on me there. And He said to me, Arise, go out into the plain, and I will talk with you there.


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Then I arose and went out into the plain; and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chebar. And I fell on my face.


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And the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet; and spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself inside your house!


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But you, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands on you and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them.


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And I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be dumb and shall not be one who warns them. For they [are] a rebellious house.


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But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: He who hears, let him hear; and he who stops his ears, let him stop; for they [are] a rebellious house.


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And you, son of man, take a tile to yourself, and lay it before you, and portray on it the city Jerusalem.


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And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mound against it. Also set the camp against it, and set [battering] rams against it all around.


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And take an iron griddle to yourself, and set it [for] a wall of iron between you and the city. And set your face against it, and it shall be under attack. And you shall set a battle against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.


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Also lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; [according] to the number of days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.


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For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.


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And when you have fulfilled them, lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days; a day for a year; a day for a year, I have set for you.


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And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm [shall be] uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it.


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And, behold, I will lay bands on you, and you shall not turn yourself from one side to [another] until you have ended the days of your siege.


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Take also to yourself wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself. [According] to the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat of it.


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And your food which you shall eat [shall be] by weight twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it.


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And you shall eat it [as] barley cakes, and you shall bake it with dung of the excrement of man, in their sight.


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And the LORD said, Even so shall the sons of Israel eat their defiled bread among the nations, where I will drive them.


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Then I said, Ah Lord Jehovah! Behold, my soul has not been defiled. For from my youth up, even till now, I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither did there come any unclean flesh into my mouth.


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Then He said to me, Lo, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread with it.


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And He said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. And they shall eat bread by weight, and with care. And they shall drink water by measure, and in silence,


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so that they may lack bread and water, and be stricken dumb with one another, and waste away in their iniquity.


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And you, son of man, take a sharp sword to yourself, take a barber's razor also, and cause [it] to pass on your head and on your beard. Then take scales to weigh, and divide the [hair].


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You shall burn a third part with fire in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part [and] beat around it with a sword; and you shall scatter a third part in the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.


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Then take of them again, and throw them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for a fire shall come forth from them into all the house of Israel.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: This [is] Jerusalem. I have set it in the middle of the nations, and all around her [are] the lands.


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And she has changed My judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and [defiled] My laws more than the countries that [are] all around her; for they have rejected My judgments and My laws; they have not walked in them.


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Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: Because you multiplied more than the nations that [are] all around you, [and] have not walked in My laws, neither have kept My judgments, nor have done according to the judgments of the nations all around you;


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therefore so says the Lord Jehovah; Behold, I, even I, [am] against you, and will carry out judgments in your midst before the nations.


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And I will do in 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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So the fathers shall eat the sons in your midst, and the sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments in you, and I will scatter the whole remnant of you into all the winds.


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Therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also withdraw; nor shall My eye spare you, nor will I have any pity.


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A third part of you shall die with the plague, and shall be consumed with the famine in your midst. And a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.


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So My anger shall be fulfilled, and I will cause My fury to rest on them, and I will be comforted. And they shall know that I the LORD have spoken [it] in My zeal, when I have fulfilled My fury in them.


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And I will make you a waste and a curse among the nations that [are] all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.


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So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an chastening and a horror to the nations which [are] all around you, when I shall execute judgments against you in anger and in fury and in rebukes [among them]. I the LORD have spoken it.


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When I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for [their] ruin, which I will send to destroy you; even I will increase the famine on you, and break your staff of bread;


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yea, I will send on you famine and evil beasts, and you will be bereaved. And pestilence and blood shall pass among you; and I shall bring a sword on you. I the LORD have spoken.


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And say, Mountains of Israel, hear the Word of the Lord. So says the Lord Jehovah to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.


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And your altars shall be wasted, and your pillars shall be broken. And I will make fall your slain before your idols.


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And I will put the dead bodies of the sons of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.


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In all the places where you live, cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be deserted; so that your altars may be laid waste and become guilty, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your pillars may be cut down, and your works wiped out.


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Yet I will leave a reminder that may be [left] to you [some] who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the lands.


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And those of you who escape shall remember Me among the nations where they shall be exiled, because I was broken [by] their whoring heart which has departed from Me, and with their whoring eyes which go after their idols. And they shall despise themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.


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And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, [and that] I have not said in vain to do this evil to them.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: Strike with your hand and stamp with your foot, and say, Alas, for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! For they shall fall by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague.


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He who is afar off shall die of the plague; and he who is near shall fall by the sword; and he who remains and is under siege shall die by the famine. So I will fulfill My fury on them.


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Then you shall know that I [am] the LORD, when their dead shall be among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, the place where they offered sweet aroma to all their idols.


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And I will stretch out My hand on them and make the land a waste, even more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all the places where they live; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And you, son of man, so says the Lord Jehovah to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land.


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Now the end [is] on you, and I will send My anger on you and will judge you according to your ways, and will lay on you all your abominations.


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And My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity. But I will repay your ways on you, and your abominations shall be in your midst; and you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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The encirclement has come to you, O dwellers of the land. The time has come, the day of tumult [is] near, and not a shout of the mountains.


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And I will soon pour out My fury on you, and fulfill My anger on you. And I will judge you according to your ways, and will repay you for all your abominations.


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And My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; I will repay you according to your ways and your abominations [that] are in your midst. And you shall know that I [am] the LORD who strikes.


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Behold the day! Behold, it has come; the encirclement has gone out; the rod has blossomed; pride has budded.


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Violence has risen up for a rod of wickedness. None of them [shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of any of their riches; nor [shall] there [be] wailing for them.


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The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath [is] on all her multitude.


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For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they are still alive; for the vision to all her multitude shall not return, and a man shall not hold his life strong in iniquity.


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They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goes to the battle, for My wrath [is] on all her multitude.


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The sword [is] outside, and the plague and the famine inside. He who [is] in the field shall die with the sword; and he in the city shall be devoured by famine and plague.


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But [if] their fugitives shall escape, then they shall be like doves of the valleys on the mountains, all of them mourning, each one for his iniquity.


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They shall also gird [on] sackcloth, and trembling shall cover them; and shame [shall be] on all faces, and baldness on all heads.


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They shall throw their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be an impure thing. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because their iniquity has become a stumbling-block for them.


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And the beauty of His ornament, He set it in majesty. But they made the images of their abominations [and] of their hateful things in it; therefore I have put it to them as an impure thing.


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And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prize, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall defile it.


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I will also turn My face from them, and they shall defile My secret [place]; and violent ones shall enter into it and defile it.


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And I will bring the most evil of the nations, and they shall possess their houses. I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.


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Disaster on disaster shall come, and rumor to rumor shall be. And they shall seek a vision from the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and wisdom from the elders.


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The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled. I will do to them according to their way, and according to their judgments I will judge them; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And it was in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], on the fifth of the month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me. And the hand of the Lord Jehovah fell on me there.


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And I looked, and behold! A likeness as the look of fire; from the appearance of His loins and downward, [like] fire. And from His loins and upward as the look of brightness, like the color of polished bronze.


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And He put 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 the heavens, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the opening of the inner gate facing north, where there [was] a seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.


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And, behold! The glory of the God of Israel [was] there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.


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And He said to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now to the way of the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and behold, northward at the gate of the altar the image of jealousy [was] at the entrance.


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And He said to me, Son of man, do you see what they do; even the great abominations which the house of Israel is doing here, that I should go far off from My sanctuary? But turn again, [and] you shall see greater abominations.


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And I went in and saw. And behold, every kind of creeping thing, and hateful beast, and all the idols of the house of Israel, were carved on the wall all around.


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And seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, standing among them, these were before them, and each man with his censor in his hand. And the odor of the cloud of incense was rising.


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And He said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, each man in his image room? For they are saying, The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the earth.


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And He brought me to the opening of the gate of the LORD's house, toward the north. And behold, women were sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.


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And He said to me, Have you seen, O son of man? Turn yet again, [and] you shall see greater evils than these.


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And He brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and behold, at the opening of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, [were] about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they bowed themselves eastward to the sun.


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And He said to me, Have you seen, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they do the hateful things which they do here? For they have filled the land with violence and have turned to provoke Me to anger. And lo, they put the branch to their nose.


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And I will also deal with fury; My eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in My ears [with] a loud voice, I will not hear them.


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And He cried in my ears [with] a loud voice, saying, Let the overseers of the city draw near, even each [with] his destroying weapon in his hand.


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And behold, six men came from the way of the Upper Gate which faces north, and each had his shattering weapon in his hand. And one man among them [was] clothed with linen, and a writer's inkhorn by his side. And they went in and stood beside the bronze altar.


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And the glory of the God of Israel had gone on from the cherub, where it was on it, to the threshold of the house. And He called to the man clothed in linen, [with] the writer's inkhorn by his side.


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And the LORD said to him, Go through in the midst of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men who are groaning and are mourning because of all the abominations that are done in her midst.


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And He said to those in my hearing, Go over in the city after him, and strike. Let not your eye spare, nor have pity.


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Fully destroy old [men], young men and virgins, and little children and women. But do not come near any man on whom [is] the mark. And begin at My sanctuary. And they began at the old men 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 out! And they went out and killed in the city.


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And it happened as they were slaying them, and I remained, then I fell on my face and cried, and said, Ah Lord Jehovah! Will You destroy all the remnant of Israel in Your pouring out of Your fury on Jerusalem?


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And He said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] great, and the land is full of blood, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, The LORD has forsaken the land; and, the LORD does not see.


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And behold, the man clothed with linen, [with] the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as You have commanded me.


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And I looked, and behold! In the expanse over the head of the cherubs appeared the look of the form of a throne, like a sapphire stone, above them.


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And He spoke to the man clothed [with] linen, and said, Go in among the wheels, under the cherub, and fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubs, and scatter [them] on the city. And he went in before me.


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And the cherubs 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 the LORD rose from the cherub, over the threshold of the house. And the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's glory.


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And the sound of the cherubs' wings was heard over the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when He speaks.


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And it happened when He had commanded the man clothed [with] linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubs; he went in then and stood beside the wheels.


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And a cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubs to the fire between the cherubs, and he lifted it and put [it] into the hands of the one clothed with linen. And he took [it] and went out.


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And I looked, and behold, the four wheels [were] beside the cherubs, one wheel was by one cherub, and another wheel by one cherub; and the wheels looked like the color of a stone of Tarshish.


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When they went, they went on their four sides. They did not turn as they went, for to the place where the head faces, after it they went. They did not turn as they went.


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And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels [were] full of eyes all around, [even] their wheels that the four of them had.


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And four faces were to each one. The first face [was] the face of a cherub, and the second face [was] the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.


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And when the cherubs went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubs lifted their wings to soar from the earth, the wheels did not turn from beside them, even they.


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When they stood still, [these] stood still, and when they rose up, [these] lifted up. For the spirit of the living creature [was] in them.


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And the cherubs lifted up their wings and rose up from the earth in my sight. When they went out, the wheels also [were] beside them. And he stood at the door of the eastern gate of the LORD's house. And the glory of the God of Israel [was] over them from above.


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This [is] the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar, and I knew that they [were] cherubs.


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Four, [even] four faces [are] to each; and four wings to each. And the form of a man's hands [was] under their wings.


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And the form of their faces, they [are] the faces that I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances even theirs. They each went straight forward.


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And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the eastern gate of the LORD's house, which faces eastward. And behold, twenty-five men were at the opening of the gate; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, rulers of the people.


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And He said to me, Son of man, these [are] the men who plot evil and give wicked advice in this city;


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And the Spirit of the LORD fell on me, and said to me, Speak: So says the LORD: So you have said, O house of Israel, for I Myself know the elevations of your spirit.


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Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: Your slain whom you have laid in her midst, they [are] the flesh, and this [city is] the pot. But I will bring you out of her midst.


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And I will bring you out of her midst, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments on you.


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You shall fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel, and you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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This [city] shall not be your pot, nor shall you be the flesh in her midst. But I will judge you in the border of Israel,


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and you shall know that I [am] the LORD. For you have not walked in My statutes, nor have you done My judgments, but have done after the customs of the nations all around you.


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And it happened when I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. And I fell on my face and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord Jehovah! Will You make a full end [of] the remnant of Israel?


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Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your redemption, and all the house of Israel, of all that have heard the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying to all of them, Go far away from Jehovah; this land is given to us for a possession.


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Therefore say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Though I have sent them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the lands, yet I will be to them as a little sanctuary in the lands where they had gone.


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Therefore say, So says the Lord Jehovah: I will even gather you from the people and assemble you out of the lands, in those where you were scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.


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And they shall come there, and they shall take away all its hateful things and all its abominations from it.


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And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will remove the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh,


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so that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances, and do them. And they shall be My people, and I will be their God.


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And [as] to [those whose] heart is going [after] their hateful things, and [also] their heart [is after] their disgusting idols, I will give their way on their own heads, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And the cherubs lifted up their wings, and the wheels beside them. And the glory of the God of Israel [was] over them above.


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And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood on the mountain which [is] on the east side of the city.


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And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the exiles. And the vision that I had seen went up from me.


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Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see and see not. They have ears to hear and hear not, for they [are] a rebellious house.


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Therefore, son of man, prepare for yourself vessels for exile, and go into exile by day before their eyes. And you shall be exiled from your place to another place before their eyes. It may be they will consider, though they [are] a rebellious house.


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And you shall bring out your vessels, as vessels for exile, by day before their eyes. And you shall go out at evening before their eyes, as those going into exile.


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Before their eyes you shall carry [it] on [your] shoulders, carry it out in the dark. You shall cover your face so that you do not see the ground, for I have set you as a sign to the house of Israel.


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And I did as I was commanded. By day I brought out my vessel as a vessel for exile. And in the evening I dug by hand through the wall. I brought [it] out in the dark, and I carried it on [my] shoulder before their eyes.


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Say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: This burden [concerns] the king in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel among them.


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Say, I [am] your sign: As I have done, so it shall be done to them. They shall go into exile, into captivity.


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And the king who [is] among them shall carry [burdens] on [his] shoulder in the dark, and shall go out. They shall dig through the wall to carry out by it. He shall hide his face so that he does not see the ground with his] eye.


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I will also spread My net on him, and He shall be taken in My snare. And I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans. Yet he shall not see it, though he shall die there.


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And I will scatter to every wind all who [are] around him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.


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And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations and scatter them in the countries.


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But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the plague, so that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come. And they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And say to the people of the land: So says the Lord Jehovah of the people of Jerusalem [and] of the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with horror, so that her land may be desolated of her fullness, because of the violence of all those who dwell in it.


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And the cities that have people shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate. And you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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Son of man, what [is] this proverb [that] you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days will go on and every vision shall fail?


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Therefore tell them, So says the Lord Jehovah: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel. But say to them, The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.


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For I, the LORD, will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be done. It shall no more be delayed; for in your days, O rebellious house, I will say the word and will do it, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, behold, the house of Israel says, The vision that he sees [is] for many days to come, and he prophesies of the times that are far off.


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Therefore say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: There shall none of my words be delayed any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, says 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 own hearts, Hear the Word of Jehovah:


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So 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 into the breaks, nor built the wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.


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They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD says. And the LORD has not sent them; but they hoped to confirm [their] word.


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Did you not see a vain vision, and speak a lying divination? Yet you say, The LORD says; although I have not spoken?


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Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: Because you have spoken vanity and seen a lie, therefore, behold, I [am] against you, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And My hand shall be against the prophets who see vanity and who divine a lie. They shall not be in the council of My people, nor shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I [am] the Lord Jehovah.


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Because, even because they made My people go astray, saying, Peace; and [there was] no peace; and he builds a wall, and lo, [others] daubed it with lime.


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Say to those who daub [with] lime, yes, it shall fall; [there] will be a flooding rain; and you, O hailstones, shall fall, and a stormy wind will break.


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And, behold, when the wall has fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where [is] the daubing with which you have daubed?


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Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: I will even break [it with] a stormy wind in My fury. And there shall be an flooding rain in My anger, and hailstones in fury to destroy it.


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And I will break down the wall that you have daubed [with] lime, and touch it to the ground; yea, I will bare its base. And it shall fall, and you shall be destroyed in her midst; and you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And I will fulfill My wrath on the wall and on those who daubed it [with] lime. And I will say to you, The wall [is] no more; and, Those who daubed [are] no more;


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the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and [there is] no peace, says the LORD.


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And you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart. And prophesy against them,


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and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Woe to those sewing bands to all joints of my hands, and make long veils for the head of every [man] of stature, to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of My people, and will you save alive the souls for yourselves?


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And will you profane Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls that should not die; and to save alive the souls that should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies.


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Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I [am] against your bands with which you are hunting the souls there, to make them fly. And I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, the souls which you are hunting, to make them fly.


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Also I will tear your long veils and deliver My people out of your hand, and they shall no more be in your hand to be hunted. And you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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Because with lies you have saddened the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and have made the hands of the wicked strong, so that he should not turn from his wicked way, by promising him life;


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therefore you shall not see vanity, and you shall not divine any divination. and I will deliver My people out of your hands; and you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and put the stumbling-block of their iniquity before their face. Should I at all be inquired of by them?


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Therefore speak to them, and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Every man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him in it by the host of his idols;


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so that I may capture the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are estranged from Me by their idols, all of them.


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Therefore say to the house of Israel, So says the Lord Jehovah: Repent and turn from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations.


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For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger who lives in Israel, who separates himself from Me and sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to a prophet to ask of him concerning Me; I the LORD will answer him Myself.


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And I will set My face against that man, and I will make him desolate for a sign and for proverbs. And I will cut him off from the midst of My people; and you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And the prophet, if he is deceived, and he speaks a word, I the LORD have deceived that prophet. And I will stretch out My hand on him and will destroy him in the midst of My people Israel.


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And they shall bear their iniquity. As the iniquity of the inquirer, so the iniquity of the prophet shall be.


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So that the house of Israel may never again go astray from Me, nor be defiled again with all their transgressions, but they are to Me My people, and I will be to them for God, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, when a land sins against Me by traitorous betraying, then I will stretch out My hand on it, and will break the staff of its bread, and will send famine on it, and will cut off man and beast from it.


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And [though] these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver [only] their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord Jehovah.


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If I cause destroying beasts to come through the land, and they spoil it so that it is deserted, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts,


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[though] these three men were in its midst, [as] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters. They only shall be delivered, but the land shall be deserted.


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Or [if] I bring a sword on that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it;


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though these three men [were] in it, [as] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they [only] shall be delivered themselves.


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Or [if] I send a plague into that land, and pour out My fury on it in blood, to cut off man and beast from it;


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though Noah, Daniel, and Job [were] in it, [as] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter. They shall [only] deliver their own souls by their righteousness.


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For so says the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send My four evil judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the destroying beast, and the plague, to cut off man and beast from it.


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Yet, behold, there shall be left a remnant in it that shall be brought out, sons and daughters. Behold, they shall come out to you, and you shall see their way and their doings. And you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I brought on Jerusalem, [for] all that I have brought on it.


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And they shall comfort you when you see their way and their doings. And you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, how is the vine tree more than any other tree, [or than] a branch which is among the trees of the forest?


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Shall wood be taken from it to do work? Or will [men] take from it [for] a peg to hang any vessel on it?


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Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel. The fire devours both its ends, and its middle is charred. Is it fit for [any] work?


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Behold, when it was whole, it was not made for work. How much less when the fire has devoured it, and it is charred? Shall it yet be made to work?


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Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah, As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give the people of Jerusalem.


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And I will set My face against them; they shall go out from the fire, and the fire shall devour them. And you shall know that I [am] the LORD when I set My face against them.


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And I will make the land [to be] desolate, because they have committed a treacherous act, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And say, So says the Lord Jehovah to Jerusalem, Your origin and your birth [is] of the land of Canaan. Your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.


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And [as for] your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse [you]. And you were not salted, nor swaddled at all.


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No eye pitied you, to do any of these to you, to have compassion on you. But you were thrown out into the open field, because your life was despised in the day that you were born.


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And when I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you in your blood, Live! Yes, I said to you in your blood, Live!


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I have caused you to multiply like the bud of the field, and you are grown, and you are great; and you come [in] the finest ornaments. [Your] breasts are formed, and hair is grown, yet you [were] naked and bare.


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And I passed by you and looked on you, and, behold, your time [was] the time of love. And I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness. And I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Jehovah. And you became Mine.


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I also clothed you [with] embroidered work, and I shod you [with] dugong [sandals]. And I wrapped you in fine linen, and I covered you [with] silk.


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And you were adorned with gold and silver; and your clothing [was of] fine linen and silk and embroidered work. You ate fine flour and honey and oil; and you were exceedingly beautiful. And you advanced to regal estate.


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And your name went out among the nations, because of your beauty; for it [was] perfect in My beauty, which I had put on you, says the Lord Jehovah.


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But you trusted in your beauty, and played the harlot because of your name, and poured out your fornications on all who passed by; it was his.


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And you took from your clothes and adorned your high places with different colors, and fornicated on them, [such as] had not come, nor shall be.


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And you have taken beautiful things of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made images of males, and fornicated with them.


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And [you] took your embroidered dresses and covered them, and you have given to their face My oil and My incense.


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Also My food which I gave you, fine flour and oil and honey [with which] I fed you, you have given it to their face for a soothing aroma. And it happened, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to Me, and you gave these to them for food. [Are] your fornications small?


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And in all your hateful deeds and your fornications you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, [and] squirming in your blood.


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[that] you have also built yourself a mound, and you have made yourself a high place in every street.


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You have built your high place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty to be despised, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and have multiplied your fornications.


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You have also whored with the Egyptians, your neighbors great of flesh, and have multiplied your fornications to provoke Me to anger.


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And, behold, therefore I have stretched out My hand over you, and drew back your portion. And I gave you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your wicked way.


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You have whored with the Assyrians, without your being satisfied; yea, you whored and yet you were not satisfied.


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And your whoredom is idolatry in the land of Canaan, [to the] Chaldean, and yet you were not satisfied with this.


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How weak is your heart, says the Lord Jehovah, since you do all these, the work of a woman, an overbearing harlot;


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in that you build your mound at the head of every way, and make your high place in every street. Yet you have not been as a harlot, scorning wages.


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They give a gift to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them to come to you from all around, for your fornication.


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And in you was the opposite from [those] women in your fornications, since no one whores after you, and in your giving wages, and hire is not given to you. [In] this you are opposite.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness was bared in your fornications with your lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your sons whom you gave to them;


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behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have been pleased, even all [whom] you loved, with all whom you have hated; I will even gather them against you from all around, and will uncover your nakedness to them, and they will see all your nakedness.


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And I will judge you with judgments of adulteresses, and with shedders of blood. And I will give you blood and fury and jealousy.


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And I will also give you into their hand, and they will tear down your mound, and will demolish your high places. They shall also strip you of your clothes, and shall take your beautiful things, and leave you naked and bare.


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They shall also raise a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and cut you with their swords.


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And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. And I will make you stop whoring; and also, you shall not give hire again.


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And I will make My fury to rest against you, and My jealousy shall depart from you, and I will be quiet and will be angry no more.


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Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have troubled Me in all these [things]; so, behold, I will also repay your way on [your] head, says the Lord Jehovah. And you shall not commit this wickedness above all your abominations.


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Behold, all who use proverbs shall use [this] proverb against you, saying, As the mother, [so is] her daughter.


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You [are] your mother's daughter, who despises her husband and her sons. And you [are] the sister of your sisters, who despise their husbands and their sons. Your mother [was] a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.


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And your older sister [is] Samaria, she and her daughters who dwell at your left hand. And your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, [is] Sodom and her daughters.


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Yet you have not walked according to their ways, nor done according to their hateful deeds; but, as [if it were] a very little [thing], you were corrupted more than they were in all your ways.


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[As] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, Sodom your sister, she nor her daughters, has not done as you have done, you and your daughters.


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Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom; pride. Fullness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters. Nor did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.


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Nor has Samaria sinned [as much] as half your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have done.


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You also, who have judged your sisters, bear your own shame for your sins which you have committed more abominable than they. They are more righteous than you! Yes, blush and bear your shame, since you have justified your sisters.


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When I shall return their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then [also] the captivity of your captivity in their midst;


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When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, then you and your daughters shall return to your former state.


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before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of [your] reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all her neighbors, the daughters of the Philistines who hated you from all around.


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For so says the Lord Jehovah: I will even deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.


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But I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.


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And you shall remember your ways and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your older and your younger. And I will give them to you for daughters, but not by [your] covenant.


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so that you may remember and be ashamed; and it will not be [possible] to open [your] mouth any more because of your shame; in that I am propitiated for all that you have done, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And say, So says the Lord Jehovah: A great eagle with great wings, long of pinion, full of feathers, who had different colors, came to Lebanon and took the highest branch of the cedar.


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He plucked off the top of its young twigs and carried it into a land of traders. He set it in a city of merchants.


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He also took of the seed of the land and planted it in a fruitful field. He placed [it] by great waters and set [it] as a willow tree.


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And it grew and became a spreading low vine, whose branches turned toward him. And its roots were under him. So it became a vine and brought out branches and shot out boughs.


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There was also another great eagle [with] great wings and many feathers. And behold, this vine bent its roots toward him and shot out its branches toward him, that he might water it, away from the beds of its planting.


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It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring out branches, and that it might bear fruit, to be a splendid vine.


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Say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Shall it prosper? Shall he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, and wither it? All the leaves of its sprouting shall wither, and not with great arm, nor by many people [shall any] raise it by its roots.


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And behold, [being] planted, shall it prosper? Shall it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It shall wither in the beds [where] it sprouted.


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Say now to the rebellious house: Do you not know what these [things mean]? Tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon has come to Jerusalem and has taken its king and its rulers, and brings them to himself to Babylon.


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And he has taken of the king's seed and has made a covenant with him, and has taken an oath from him. He has also taken the mighty of the land,


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so that the kingdom might be low, that it might not lift itself up, [but] that by keeping his covenant it might stand.


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But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, to give him horses and many people. Shall he be blessed? Shall he who does such [things] escape? Or shall he break the covenant and be delivered?


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[As] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, surely in the place of the king who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.


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Nor shall Pharaoh with [his] mighty army and great company work for him in the war, by pouring out siege mounds and building forts, to cut off many persons.


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And he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant. And, behold, he had given his hand, and has done all these, he shall not escape.


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Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: [As] I live, surely My oath that he has despised, and My covenant that he has broken, I will even repay it on his own head.


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And I will spread My net on him, and he shall be taken in My snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and I will judge him there with his sin which he has sinned against Me.


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And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered toward all winds. And you shall know that I the LORD have spoken.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: I, [even] I, will also take of the top of the highest cedar and will set [it]; I will crop off from the first of its young twigs a tender one, and will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.


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In a mountain, in a high place of Israel, I will plant it. And it shall bear boughs, and bear fruit, and be a majestic cedar. And under it shall dwell every bird of every wing; in the shadow of its branches they shall dwell.


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And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish. I the LORD have spoken and acted.


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What is it to you that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the teeth of the sons [are] dull?


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[As] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, to you there is no longer any [occasion] to use this proverb in Israel.


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Behold, all souls [are] Mine. As the soul of the father, also the soul of the son, they [are] Mine. The soul that sins, it shall die.


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and has not eaten on the mountains, nor has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor has defiled his neighbor's wife, nor has come near a menstruating woman,


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and has not ill-treated any man, [but] has given the debtor's pledge back to him, has robbed none by violence, has given his bread to the hungry and has covered the naked with a garment;


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he has not given out on usury, nor has taken any increase, he has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has done judgment between man and man,


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has walked in My statutes, and has kept My judgments to deal truly, he [is] righteous, he shall surely live, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And if he fathers a son [who is] violent, who sheds blood, and who does to a brother [any] of these;


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even if he does do not any of these himself, but his son] has, but has even eaten on the mountains, and has defiled his neighbor's wife;


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has ill-treated the poor and needy; thieving, he stole; has not given back the pledge; and has lifted up his eyes to the idols; has committed abomination;


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has loaned on usury; and has taken increase; shall he then live? He shall not live! He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him.


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And, lo, [if] he fathers a son who sees all his father's sins which he has done, and fears, and does not do like him;


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[who] has not eaten on the mountains; nor has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel; has not defiled his neighbor's wife;


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nor has ill-treated any man; has not withheld the pledge; nor has robbed by violence; [but] has given his bread to the hungry; and has covered the naked [with] clothes;


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has withdrawn his hand from the poor; has not received usury nor increase; has done My judgments; has walked in My statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father; he shall surely live.


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His father, because he extorted, robbed [his] brother by robbery, and did [what is] not good among his people; lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.


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Yet you say, Why? Does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done justice and right, has kept all My statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.


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The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.


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But if the wicked will turn from all his sins which he has committed, and keep all My statutes, and do justice and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.


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All his transgressions that he has done, they shall not be mentioned to him; in his righteousness that he has done he shall live.


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Do I actually delight in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Jehovah. Is it not that he should turn from his ways and live?


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But when the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, [and] does according to all the abominations that the wicked do, shall he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be remembered; in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.


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Yet you say, The way of the LORD is not fair. Hear now, O house of Israel: Is not My way fair? Are your ways not unfair?


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When a righteous one turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and dies in them; for his iniquity that he has done, he shall die.


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Again, when the wicked turns away from his wickedness that he has committed and does that which is lawful and righteous, he shall save his soul alive.


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Because he looks carefully, and turns away from all his sins that he has committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.


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Yet says the house of Israel: The way of the LORD is not fair. O house of Israel, are not My ways fair? Are not your ways unfair?


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So I will judge you, O house of Israel, each one of you according to his ways, says the Lord Jehovah. Turn and be made to turn from all your sins; and iniquity shall not be your stumbling-block.


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Cast away from you all your sins by which you have sinned; and make you a new heart and a new spirit; for why will you die, O house of Israel?


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and say: What [is] your mother? A lioness. She lay down among lions; she multiplied her cubs among young lions.


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And she brought up one of her cubs; it became a strong lion and learned to tear the prey. It ate men.


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The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.


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And when she saw that she had waited [and] that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a strong lion.


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And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion and learned to tear the prey, [and] ate men.


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And he knew his widows, and he laid their cities waste, and the land and its fullness was desolated, from the sound of his roaring.


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And the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him. He was taken in their pit.


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And they put him in a cage in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into hunting nets, so that his voice should never again be heard on the mountains of Israel.


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Your mother [is] like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters; she was fruitful and full of branches because of many waters.


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And she [had] strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches; and it was seen in her height, with the multitude of her branches.


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But she was plucked up in fury; she was thrown down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit. Her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire burned them up.


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And fire has gone out from a rod of her branches, [which] has licked up her fruit so that there is no strong rod in her to be a scepter to rule. This is a mourning and [shall be] for a mourning.


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And it happened in the seventh year, in the fifth [month], the tenth of the month, some of the elders of Israel came to ask of the LORD, and sat before me.


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Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Have you come to ask of Me? [As] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you.


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Will you judge [them], son of man, will you judge them? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers.


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And say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: In the day that 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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in the day [that] I lifted up My hand to them, to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing [with] milk and honey, which [is] the glory of all lands;


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then I said to them, Let each man throw away the abominations of his 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 would not listen to Me. They did not each man throw away the abominations of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. And I said, I will pour out My fury against them to fulfill My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.


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But I worked for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned before the nations among whom they [were, for] I made Myself known to them in their eyes, by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.


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And I gave them My statutes and showed them My judgments, which [if] a man do, he shall even live in them.


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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] the LORD who sets them apart.


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But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes, and they despised My judgments, which [if] a man does, he shall even live in them. And they greatly profaned My sabbaths. And I said, I] will pour out My fury on them in the wilderness to destroy them.


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But I worked for My name's sake, so that it should not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I brought them out.


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And also I lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, that [I] would not bring them into the land which I had given [them], flowing [with] milk and honey; it [is] the glory of all lands;


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because they despised My judgments and walked not in My sabbaths; and they profaned My sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.


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But I said to their sons in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.


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and keep My sabbaths holy; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I [am] Jehovah your God.


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But the sons rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes, nor kept My judgments to do them; the judgments which, [if] a man do, he shall even live in them; they profaned My sabbaths and I said [I] would pour out My fury on them, to fulfill My anger against them in the wilderness.


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But I withdrew My hand and worked for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations, from whom I brought them out in their eyes.


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I also lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations and scatter them through the lands,


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because they had not done My judgments, but had despised My sabbaths and had profaned My sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.


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And I defiled them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that open the womb to pass through [the fire], that I might waste them, to the end that they might know that I [am] the LORD.


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Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed Me, in that they have committed a sin against Me.


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When I had brought them into the land [for] which I lifted up My hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered their sacrifices there. And there they offered their provoking gifts. There also they made their sweet aroma, and poured out their drink offerings there.


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And I said to them, What [is] the high place to which you go? And the name of it is called High Place to this day.


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Therefore say to the house of Israel, So says the Lord Jehovah: Are you defiled in the same way as your fathers? And do you go whoring after their abominations?


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For when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols, even to [this] day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? [As] I Live, says the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you.


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And what comes up on your spirit shall not happen at all, that you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.


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[As] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, I will reign over you.


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And I will bring you out from the people, and I will gather you out of the lands in which you are scattered among them, with a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm and with fury poured out.


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And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.


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Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And I will purge out from among you the rebels and those who sin against Me. I will bring them out from the land where they reside, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And you, O house of Israel, so says the Lord Jehovah: [Every] man go and serve his idols, and do so from now on if you will not listen to Me. But never again defile My holy name with your gifts and with your idols.


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For in My holy mountain, in the mountain height [of] Israel, says the Lord Jehovah, there all the house of Israel, all of those in the land, shall serve Me. There will I receive them, and there will I ask for your offerings and the firstfruits of your offerings, with all your holy things.


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I will receive you with your sweet aroma when I bring you out from the people and gather you out of the lands into which you have been scattered among them. And I will be sanctified in you in the eyes of the nations.


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And you shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the land [for] which I lifted up My hand, to give it to your fathers.


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And there you shall remember your ways and all your doings in which you have been defiled. And you shall despise yourselves in your own sight for all your evils which you have committed.


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And you shall know that I [am] the LORD when I have worked with you for My name's sake, not according to your wicked ways nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, set your face toward the south, and drop a [word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field.


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And say to the forest of the south, Hear the Word of the LORD. So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall burn up every green tree in you, and every dry tree among you. The flaming flame shall not be put out, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned in it.


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Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop [a word] toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel.


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And say to the land of Israel, So says the LORD: Behold, I [am] against you, and will draw out My sword out of its sheath and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.


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Since then I will cut off the righteous and the wicked from you, therefore My sword shall be drawn from its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north,


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so that all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn out My sword from its sheath. It shall not return any more.


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And you, son of man, groan with the breaking of [your] loins; and groan with bitterness before their eyes.


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And it will be when they say to you, Why do you groan? You shall answer, Because of the news [that] it is coming; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as] water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, prophesy and say, So says the LORD. Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished.


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It is sharpened in order to slaughter; it is polished so that there may be a flash to it. Or shall we rejoice? You are despising the rod of My son, [as if it were] every tree.


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And He has given it to be polished, to be taken by the hand. The sword, it is sharpened, and it it polished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.


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Cry and howl, son of man; for it [shall be] on My people; it [shall be] on all the rulers of Israel. They are thrown to the sword with My people; Therefore slap [your] thigh.


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And you, son of man, prophesy and strike [your] hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain. It [is] the sword of the slain, the great one that surrounds them;


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so that [their] heart may melt, and many stumble at all [their] gates. I have given the threatening sword. Ah! It is made like lightning; it is wrapped for a slaughter.


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And also I, I will also strike My hands together, and I will cause My fury to rest. I the LORD have spoken.


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And you, son of man, set for yourself two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come. Both of them shall come out of one land. And create a hand at the head of the way to the city; create it.


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You shall set a way that the sword may enter [into] Rabbah of the Ammonites, and [into] Judah, into fortified Jerusalem.


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For the king of Babylon shall stand at the parting of the way, at the head of the two highways, to practice divination. He shall shake arrows; he shall ask household idols; he shall look at the liver.


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At his right shall be the divining [for] Jerusalem, to set [battering] rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering-rams against the gates, to pour out and to build a siege wall.


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And it shall be to them an empty divining before their eyes, those who have sworn oaths to them. But He will remember iniquity, that they may be taken.


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, in that your sins are revealed in all your deeds; because you have been remembered, you shall be taken with the hand.


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And you, O slain, wicked king of Israel, of whom has come his day in the time of iniquity of the end.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: Remove the diadem, and take off the crown. This [shall] not [be] as it was. Lift up the low one, and put down the high one.


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Ruin, ruin, ruin, I will appoint it. Also this shall not be until the coming of Him whose is the right. And I will give it to Him.


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And you, son of man, prophesy and say, So says the Lord Jehovah concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their shame. Even say: The sword, the sword [is] drawn, polished for slaughter to make an end, that [it may be] like lightning;


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while they see false visions for you, while they divine a lie to you, to put you on the necks of the slain of the wicked whose day has come in the day of iniquity; [it shall have] an 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 disgust on you; with the fire of My wrath I will blow against you, and give you into the hand of burning men, able to destroy.


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You shall be for food to the fire. Your blood shall be in the midst of the land. You shall be remembered no [more]; for I the LORD have spoken.


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And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? And you shall make her know all her abominations.


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And you shall say, So says the Lord Jehovah: The city sheds blood in her midst that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to defile [herself].


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You are guilty in your blood that you have shed; and you have defiled yourself in your idols you have made. And your days [are] brought near, and have come to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all lands.


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[Those who are] near and [those] far from you shall mock against you, O defiled of name, abounding in tumult.


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In you they have despised father and mother. In your midst they have dealt with the stranger by oppression. In you they oppressed the orphan and the widow.


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In you are men of slander to shed blood; and in you they eat on the mountains; in your midst they do unchaste acts.


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In you they have uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you they have humbled her defiled by impurity.


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And a man has done abomination with his neighbor's wife; and a man has defiled his daughter-in-law in unchaste acts; and a man has humbled within you his sister, his father's daughter.


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In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken usury and increase, and you gained by extortion of your neighbors, and you have forgotten Me, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And behold, I have struck My palm against your unjust gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in your midst.


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Can your heart stand, or can your hands be strong, in the day that I shall deal with you? I the LORD have spoken, and [I] will act.


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And I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you in the lands, and will destroy your uncleanness out of you.


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And you will be profaned in you before the eyes of the nations, and you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them [are] bronze, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the middle of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.


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Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: Because you have all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem.


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[As they] gather silver, and bronze, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it to melt [it], so I will gather [you] in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave [you there] and melt you.


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And I will gather you and blow on you in the fire of My wrath, and you shall be melted in the middle of it.


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As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so you shall be melted in the middle of it; and you shall know that I the LORD have poured out My fury on you.


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A plot [by] her prophets [is] in her midst, like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they multiplied her many widows in her midst.


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Her priests have broken My law and have defiled My holy things. They have put no difference between the holy and the common, and have not taught between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am defiled among them.


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Her rulers in her midst [are] like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, to get unjust gain.


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And her prophets have daubed themselves [with] lime, seeing vanity and divining lies to them, saying, So says the Lord Jehovah; when the LORD has not spoken.


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The people of the land have used oppression and practiced robbery, and they have troubled the poor and needy. Yea, [they] have oppressed the stranger without right.


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And I sought for a man among them who should wall up a wall for the land, and stand in the break before me, that I should not destroy it. But I did not find one.


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Therefore I have poured out My fury on them. I have burned them up with the fire of My wrath. I have given their way on their heads, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And they fornicated in Egypt; they whored in their youth, their breasts were handled, and there their virgin nipples were worked.


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And their names [were] Oholah, the oldest, and Oholibah, her sister. And they were Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And their names: Samaria [is] Oholah, and Jerusalem [is] Oholibah.


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So she bestowed her harlotries on them, the choice sons of Assyria; [with] all of them, and with all whom she lusted after; she defiled herself with all their idols.


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Nor did she leave her fornications from Egypt. For in her youth they lay with her, and they worked her virgin nipples, and poured their fornications on her.


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Therefore I have given her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians on whom she lusted.


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They uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters and killed her with the sword. And she became notorious among women, and they executed judgment on her.


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And her sister Oholibah saw, she was more corrupt in her lustfulness than she, and her fornications were greater than her sister's whoredom.


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She lusted to the sons of Assyria, governors and rulers nearby, clothed most perfectly; horsemen riding horses, all of them desirable young men.


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And she added to her fornications. And she saw men carved on the wall; images of the Chaldeans engraved with vermilion,


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girded with girdles on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the sons of Babylon [in] Chaldea, the land of their birth;


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And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with fornications. And she was defiled with them, and her mind was alienated from them.


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So she uncovered her fornications and uncovered her nakedness. And My soul was alienated from her just as My soul was alienated from her sister.


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Yet she multiplied her fornications to recall the days of her youth, in which she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.


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And she lusted on her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose issue [is like] the issue of horses.


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So you longed for the wickedness of your youth, when the Egyptians worked your nipples, for the sake of the breasts of your youth.


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So, O Oholibah, the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, I will raise up against you your lovers, from whom your soul is alienated; and I will bring them against you from all around;


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the Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, [and] all the Assyrians with them; all of them desirable young men, governors and rulers, all of them, third heads and called ones; all of them riding on horses.


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And they shall come against you [with] weapons, chariots, and wheels, and with an assembly of peoples; buckler and shield and helmet shall set against you all around. And I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge you by their judgments.


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And I will set My jealousy against you, and they shall deal with you in fury. They shall take away your nose and your ears, and the rest of you shall fall by the sword. They shall take away your sons and your daughters, and the rest of you shall be devoured by the fire.


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So I will make your wickedness to cease from you, and your fornication from the land of Egypt. And you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor shall you remember Egypt any more.


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For so says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will give you into the hand of [those] whom you hate, into the hand of whom your soul was alienated, from them.


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And they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your fornications shall be uncovered, both your wickedness and your fornications.


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These [things] will be done to you because you have whored after the nations, and because you are defiled with their idols.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: You shall drink of your sister's cup deep and large; you shall be laughed to scorn and mocked; for it holds much.


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[In] drunkenness and sorrow you are filled, the cup of horror and ruin, the cup of your sister Samaria.


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You shall even drink it and empty it. And you shall break its pieces, and tear off your own breasts. For I have spoken, says the Lord Jehovah.


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, therefore bear also your wickedness and your adulteries.


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And the LORD said to me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah, and declare to them their abominations,


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that they have committed adultery, and blood [is] on their hands? And they have committed adultery with their idols and have also caused their sons whom they bore to Me to pass through the fire to them, to devour them.


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And yet they have done this to Me: They have defiled My sanctuary in that day, and have profaned My sabbaths.


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And when they had slain their sons to their idols, then they came into My sanctuary in that day to profane it. And lo, this they have done in the midst of My house.


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And they have even sent for men to come from far, to whom a messenger [was] sent. And lo, they came. You washed yourself for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments,


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And the sound of a crowd [was] at ease with her; and drunkards from the wilderness were brought with the men of the host of mankind; and they put bracelets on their hands, and crowns of beauty on their heads.


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And they went in to her, as [they] go in to a woman of harlotry; so they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the wicked women.


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And [as] righteous men, they shall judge them [with] the judgment of adulteresses, and the judgment of women who shed blood; because they [are] adulteresses, and blood [is] in their hands.


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For so says the Lord Jehovah: I will bring up a company on them, and will give them to be removed and stripped.


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And the company shall stone them [with] stones, and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.


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So I will cause wickedness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught, even not to go after your wickedness.


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And they shall put your wickedness on you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols. And you shall know that I [am] the Lord Jehovah.


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Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth of the month, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,


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Son of man, write for yourself the name of the day, even of this same day. The king of Babylon has leaned toward Jerusalem this same day.


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And speak a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Set on a pot; set [it] on, and also pour water into it.


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Gather its pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder. Fill [it with] the choice bones.


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Take the choice of the flock, and also burn the bones under it; make it boil high, and let them boil its bones in it.


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum [is] in it, and whose scum has not gone out of it! Bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall on it.


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For her blood is in her midst; she set it on the top of a rock. She did not pour it on the ground, to cover it [with] dust,


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that it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance. I have set her blood on a shining rock, that it should not be covered.


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And heap on the wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and mix in the spice, and let the bones be burned.


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And set it empty on its coals, so that its bronze may be hot and may glow, and [that] its uncleanness may be melted in it, [that] the scum of it may be burned away.


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She has wearied [herself] with lies, and her great scum did not go out from her. Her scum [shall be] in the fire.


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In your defilement [is] wickedness. Because I have purged you and you were not purged, you shall not be purged from your defilement any more, until I have caused My fury to cease on you.


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I the LORD have spoken. It shall come, and I will do [it]. I will not let go, nor will I spare, nor will I repent. According to your ways, and according to your doings, they shall judge you, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke. Yet neither shall you mourn nor weep, nor shall your tears run down.


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Groan [but] be silent; make no mourning [for] the dead; tie your turban on you, and put your sandals on 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 I did in the morning as I was commanded.


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Speak to the house of Israel. So says the Lord Jehovah: behold, I will defile My sanctuary, the glory of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities. And your sons and your daughters whom you have left shall fall by the sword.


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And your turbans [shall be] on your heads, and your sandals on your feet. You shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away for your iniquities and mourn to one another.


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So Ezekiel is a sign to you. According to all that he has done, you shall do. And when this comes, you shall know that I [am] the Lord Jehovah.


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Also, son of man, [will it] not [be] in the day [when] I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that on which they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,


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In that day your mouth shall be open to him who has escaped, and you shall speak and be no more dumb. And you shall be a sign to them, and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And say to the Ammonites, Hear the Word of the Lord Jehovah. So says the Lord Jehovah: Because you said, Aha, against My sanctuary when it was defiled, and against the land of Israel when it was ruined, and against the house of Judah when they went into captivity;


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therefore, behold, I will give you to the sons of the east for a possession. And they shall set their camp sites among you, and put among you their dwellings. They shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.


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And I will make Rabbah a pasture [for] camels, and the Ammonites a crouching-place [for] flocks. And you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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For so says the Lord Jehovah: Because you have clapped [your] hands and stamped the foot, and rejoiced in heart with all your spite against the land of Israel;


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behold, therefore I will stretch out My hand on you, and will give you as a prize to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the lands. I will destroy you, and you shall know that I [am the LORD.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: Because Moab and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah [is] like all the nations;


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therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities, from his borders, the glory of the land, even Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim,


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to the men of the east with the Ammonites. And I will give them in possession so that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended and revenged himself on them;


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therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: I will also stretch out My hand on Edom, and will cut man and beast off from it; and I will make it a waste from Teman, even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.


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And I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel. And they shall do in Edom according to My anger and according to My fury. And they shall know My vengeance, says the Lord Jehovah.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: Because the Philistines have taken vengeance; yes, have taken vengeance with spite in [their] soul, to destroy [with] never-ending enmity,


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, I will stretch out My hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and will destroy the rest of the sea coast.


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And I will execute great vengeance on them with rebukes; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall lay My vengeance on them.


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And it happened in the eleventh year, in the first of the month, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,


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Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha! She is shattered, the doors of the peoples, she has turned to me; I shall be filled; she is laid waste.


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, I [am] against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, [as] the sea causes its waves to come up.


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And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her and make her like a shining rock.


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It shall be a spreading place of nets in the middle of the sea. For I have spoken, says the Lord Jehovah. And it shall become a spoil to the nations.


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And her daughters who [are] in the field shall be killed by the sword; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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For so says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon on Tyre, a king of kings from the north, with horses and with chariots and with a company of horsemen, and many people.


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He shall kill your daughters with the sword in the field. And he shall make siege walls against you, and pour out a siege mound against you, and lift up the shield against you.


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And he shall set engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.


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Because of his many horses, their dust shall cover you. Your walls shall shake at the sound of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your gates, as [men] enter a city that is breached.


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With the hoofs of his horses he shall trample all your streets. He shall kill your people by the sword, and the pillars of your strength shall go down to the ground.


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And they shall plunder your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise. And they shall break down your walls and destroy your desirable houses. And they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the water.


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And I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps shall be heard no more.


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And I will make you like a shining rock. You shall be [a place] to spread nets on; you shall be built no more; for I the LORD have spoken, says the Lord Jehovah.


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So says the Lord Jehovah to Tyre: Shall not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the slain groan, when the slaughter is made in your midst?


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And all the rulers of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their embroidered garments. They shall clothe themselves [with] trembling; they shall sit on the ground and tremble at [every moment, and be amazed at you.


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And they shall take up a mourning for you, and say to you, How you who lived by the sea are destroyed, the famous city which was strong in the sea, she and her people who caused their terror [to be] on all who lived in it!


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And the coastlands shall tremble in the day of your fall; yea, the coastlands by the sea shall be troubled at your going.


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For so says the Lord Jehovah: When I shall make you a ruined city, like the cities that have no inhabitants; when I shall bring up the deep on you, and great waters shall cover you;


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when I shall bring you down with those who go down into the Pit, with the people of old time, and shall set you in the low parts of the earth, in places ruined in days of old, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you have no inhabitants (but I gave glory in the land of the living)


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I will give you terrors, and you [will] not [be]. Though you are sought, yet you shall never be found forever says the Lord Jehovah.


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And say to Tyre, O you who are placed at the entrance of the sea, a merchant of the peoples for many coastlands, so says the Lord Jehovah: O Tyre, you have said, I [am] of perfect beauty.


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They have made all your [ship] boards of fir trees of Senir; they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for you.


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They have made the oaks [of] Bashan your oars; the daughter of Assyria has made your deck of ivory from the coasts of Kittim.


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Your sail was of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt, an ensign for you; violet and purple from the coasts of Elishah was your covering.


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The residents of Sidon and Arvad were your seamen. Your wise ones, O Tyre, were in you, they [were] your sailors.


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The elders of Gebal and her wise [men] were with you, reinforcing your seams. All the ships of the sea with their seamen were with you, to exchange your merchandise.


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Persia and Lud and Lydia were in your army, your men of war. They hung the shield and helmet in you; they set your splendor.


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The sons of Arvad and your army [were] on your walls all around, and warriors [were] in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around; they have made your beauty perfect.


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Tarshish [was] your merchant because of the multitude of [your] wealth; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they gave for your wares.


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Javan, Tubal, and Meshech [were] your merchants. They traded the souls of men and vessels of bronze for your goods.


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The sons of Dedan [were] your merchants; many coastlands [were] the traffic of your hand. They brought as your gift tusks of ivory and ebony.


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Syria [was] your merchant because of the multitude of your works; with emeralds, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies they gave for your wares.


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Judah and the land of Israel [were] your merchants with wheat [from] Minnith and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm, they gave for your goods.


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Damascus [was] your merchant in the multitude of your works, from the multitude of all riches, in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.


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Dan and Javan also, going about, gave for your wares; smooth iron, cassia, and cane were among your goods.


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Arabia, and all the rulers of Kedar [were] traders of your hand, in lambs, and rams, and goats; in them [was] your trade.


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The merchants of Sheba and Raamah [were] your merchants, with the chief of all the spices, and with every precious stone, and gold they gave for your wares.


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They [were] your merchants in perfect things, in violet cloth, and embroidered work, and in carpets of many colors, with tightly bound cords, and cedars among your merchandise.


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The ships of Tarshish [were] the travelers of your goods. And you were filled and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.


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Your rowers have made you come into great waters; the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.


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Your riches, and your wares, your goods, your seamen, and your sailors reinforcing your seams, and the traders of your goods, and all your men of war, who [are] in you, and all your company which [is] in your midst, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.


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And all who handle the oar, the mariners, all the sailors of the sea, shall come down from their ships. They shall stand on the land,


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and shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall throw dust on their heads. They shall wallow themselves in the ashes.


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And they will be bald for you, and gird with sackcloth. And they shall weep for you with bitterness of soul, a bitter wailing.


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And in their wailing they shall lift up a lamentation [and] lament over you, [saying], Who [is] like Tyre; as she who is quiet in the midst of the sea?


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When your goods went out from the seas, you filled many people. With the plenty of your riches and your goods you enriched the kings of the earth.


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At [this time] you are broken by the seas, in the depths of the waters, your goods and all your company in your midst have fallen.


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All the residents of the coastlands are appalled at you, and their kings are horribly terrified; [their] faces tremble.


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The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you have become terrors. And you [shall] not [be] forever.


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Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre. So 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 God, though you set your heart as the heart of gods;


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With your wisdom and with your understanding you have made riches for yourselves, and have worked gold and silver into your treasuries.


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By your great wisdom [and] by your trade you have multiplied your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches.


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behold, therefore I will bring awesome strangers [of] the nations. And they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.


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They shall bring you down to the Pit, and you shall die the deaths of those slain in the heart of the seas.


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Will you yet say before him who kills you, I [am of the] gods? But you [are] a man, and not God, in the hand of him who kills you.


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You shall die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers. For I have spoken, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, lift up a lament over the king of Tyre, and say to him, So says the Lord Jehovah: You seal the measure, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.


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You have been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone [was] your covering, the ruby, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the turquoise, and the emerald, and gold. The workmanship of your tambourines and of your flutes was prepared in you in the day that you were created.


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You [were] the anointed cherub that covers, and I had put you in the holy height of God [where] you were.; you have 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 iniquity was found in you.


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By the multitude of your goods they have filled your midst [with] violence, and you have sinned. So I cast you profaned from the height of God, and I destroy you, O covering cherub, from among the stones of fire.


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Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have spoiled your wisdom because of your brightness. I will cast you to the ground; I will put you before kings, that they may behold you.


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By the host of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your trade, you have profaned your holy places; so I brought a fire from your midst; it shall devour you, and I will give you for ashes on the earth, before the eyes of all who see you.


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All who know you among the peoples shall be astonished at you; you shall be terrors, and you [will] not [be] forever.


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And say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I [am] against you, O Sidon, and I will be glorified in your midst. And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have executed judgments in her and have revealed My holiness in her.


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For I will send a plague into her, and blood into her streets. And the wounded shall fall in her midst by the sword on her on every side. And they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And there will not be a pricking brier, or a painful thorn to the house of Israel any more, from all who surround them, [those] who hate them. And they shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.


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So 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, then they shall dwell in their land that I have given to My servant Jacob.


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And they shall dwell safely in it, and shall build houses and plant vineyards. Yea, they shall dwell safely when I have executed judgments on all those who despise them all around them; and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah their God.


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In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth of the month, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,


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Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.


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Speak and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I, even I, [am] against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon who lies in the midst of his rivers, who has said, My river [is] mine, and I have made it.


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But I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales, and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, and all the fish of your rivers shall stick to your scales.


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And I will leave you [to] the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You shall fall on the open fields; you shall not be removed nor gathered. I have given you for food to the beasts of the field and to the birds of the heavens.


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And all the people of Egypt shall know that I [am] the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.


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When they took you by your hand, you broke and tore off all their shoulder. And when they leaned on you, you shattered and made all their loins stand.


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and cut off man and beast from you.


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And the land of Egypt shall be a desert and waste; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, because he has said, The river [is] mine, and I have made it.


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Behold, and therefore I [am] against you and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt a complete waste, a ruin, from Migdol [to] Syene, even to the border of Ethiopia.


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No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, and you shall not live in it forty years.


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And I will make the land of Egypt a ruin in the midst of the ruined lands; and her cities shall be deserted forty years among the cities [that are] laid waste. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will scatter them through the lands.


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Yet so says the Lord Jehovah: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered.


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And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return [to] the land of Pathros, into their homeland. And they shall be a low kingdom there.


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It shall be the lowest of the kingdoms, and shall no more exalt itself above the nations. For I will make them so few, that they shall no more rule over the nations.


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And it shall never again be the hope of the house of Israel, recalling the iniquity of their turning after them. And they shall know that I [am] the Lord Jehovah.


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And it happened in the twenty-seventh year, in the first [month], in the first of the month, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,


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Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head [was] made bald, and every shoulder was peeled. Yet neither he nor his army had any pay for Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he shall take her host, and take her spoil, and seize her plunder. And it shall be the wages for his army.


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I have given him the land of Egypt [for] his labor with which he served against it, because they worked for Me, says the Lord Jehovah.


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In that day I will make a horn spring up to the house of Israel, and I will give you the opening of the mouth in their midst. And they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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For the day [is] near, even the day of the LORD [is] near, a cloudy day. It shall be the time of the nations.


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And the sword shall come on Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.


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Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mixed people; and Chub, and the men of the land [who are in] covenant with them shall fall by the sword.


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So says the LORD: Those who uphold Egypt shall also fall, and the pride of her power shall come down. From Migdol to Syene they shall fall in it by the sword, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And they shall be ruined in the midst of the wasted lands, and her cities shall be in the midst of the wasted cities.


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And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt and all her helpers shall be destroyed.


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In that day messengers shall go out from Me in ships to terrify the confident Ethiopians, and anguish shall be on them, as in the day of Egypt; for lo, it is coming.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.


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He and his people with them, the fearful of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land. And they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land [with] the slain.


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And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked. And I will waste the land, and her fullness, by the hand of strangers. I the LORD have spoken.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph. And there shall no more be a ruler of the land in Egypt; and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.


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And I will set fire in Egypt; Sin shall greatly anguish, and No shall be torn in pieces, and Noph [shall have] daily woes.


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The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these [cities] shall go into exile.


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And at Tahpanhes also the day shall be held back, when I shatter the yokes of Egypt there. And the pride of her strength shall cease in her; as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into exile.


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And it happened in the eleventh year, in the first [month], in the seventh of the month, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,


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Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And lo, it shall not lie bound up to give healing, to put a bandage to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, I [am] against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong one and the broken one. 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 Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of one who is stabbed.


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But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall. And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it on the land of Egypt.


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And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and scatter them among the lands. And they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And it happened in the eleventh year, in the third [month], in the first of the month, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,


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Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: To whom are you like in your greatness?


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Behold, Assyria [was like] a cedar in Lebanon, [with] fair branches and forest shade, and of great height. And his top was among the thick boughs.


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The waters made him great; the deep set him up on high with her rivers running all around his plants, and sent out her little channels to all the trees of the field.


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So his height was lifted up above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the many waters, when he sent out.


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All the birds of the heavens nested in his boughs, and under his branches all the beasts of the field bore their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.


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So he was beautiful in his greatness, in the length of his branches. For his root was by great waters.


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The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him; the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches. Nor was any tree in the garden of God like him in his beauty.


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I have made him beautiful by his many branches, so that all the trees of Eden in the garden of God envied him.


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: Because you have lifted yourself up in height, and he set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;


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so I have given him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with him; I have expelled him for his evil.


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And strangers have cut him off, the fearful of the nations, and have left him. On the mountains and in all the valleys his branches have fallen, and his boughs have been broken by all the rivers of the land. And all the people of the earth have gone from his shadow, and have left him.


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On his ruin shall all the birds of the heavens remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be on his branches,


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to the end that none of all the trees [by] the waters shall be exalted in their height, nor give their top among the thick boughs, nor should their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water. For all of them are given to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the sons of men, with those who go down into the Pit.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: In the day when he went down to the grave, I caused a mourning. I covered the deep for him, and I held back its floods, and the great waters were held back. And I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted because of him.


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I made the nations shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with those who go down in the Pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the lower parts of the earth.


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They also went down into hell with him to [those who are] slain with the sword, even his arm, who lived under his shadow in the midst of the nations.


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To whom are you like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with [those] slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all [his] multitude, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And it happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth [month], on the first of the month, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,


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Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, You were like a young lion of the nations, but you [were] like a sea-monster. And you came out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: I will therefore spread out My net over you with an assembly of many peoples; and they shall lift you up in My net.


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And I will leave you on the land; I will cast you on the face of the field, and cause all the birds of the heavens to remain on you, and I will fill the beasts of all the earth with you.


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I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of you.


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And when I put you out, I will cover the heaven and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.


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I will make all the bright lights of the heavens dark over you, and will set darkness on your land, says the Lord Jehovah.


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I will also vex the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your breaking among the nations, into the lands which you have not known.


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Yea, I will make many people amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish My sword before them; and they shall tremble at [every] moment, [each] man for his own life, in the day of your fall.


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By the swords of the mighty, I will cause your host to fall, the fearful of the nations, all of them. And they shall spoil the pride of Egypt, and all its host shall be destroyed.


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I will also destroy all its beasts from beside the great waters. Nor shall the foot of man stir them any more, nor shall the hoofs of beasts stir them.


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When I shall make the land of Egypt a ruin, and the land shall be stripped of its fullness; when I shall strike all those who dwell in it; then they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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This [is] the mourning with which they shall mourn her. The daughters of the nations shall mourn her; they shall mourn for her, for Egypt and for all her multitude, says the Lord Jehovah.


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It was also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth of the month, [that] the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,


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Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and bring it down, her and the daughters of the majestic nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down [into] the Pit.


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They shall fall in the midst of [those] slain by the sword; she is delivered to the sword; they draw her and all her multitudes.


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The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with those who help him. They have gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.


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Assyria [is] there and all her company. His graves [are] around him; all of them are slain, fallen by the sword;


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their graves are set in the sides of the Pit, and her company is all around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, those who caused terror in the land of the living.


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There [is] Elam and her multitude all around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living. Yet they have borne their shame with those who go down to the Pit.


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They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude. Her graves [are] all around him; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; though their terror was given in the land of the living, yet they have borne their shame with those who go down to the Pit. He is put among the slain.


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There [is] Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude. Her graves [are] all around him. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they gave their terror in the land of the living.


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And they shall not lie with the mighty [that are] fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to hell with their weapons of war. And they have put their swords under their heads, but their sins shall be on their bones, though they [were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.


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Yea, you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shall lie with [those] slain with the sword.


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There [is] Edom, her kings, and all her rulers, who with their might are laid by [those] slain by the sword. They shall be with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the Pit.


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There [are] the rulers of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain in their terror. They are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.


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Pharaoh shall see them and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army killed by the sword, says the Lord Jehovah.


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For I had put his terror in the land of the living. And he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with [those] slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, speak to the sons of your people, and say to them: When I bring the sword on it, on a land, and take one man from the people of the land, of their borders, and set him for their watchman;


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then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, if the sword does come and take him away, his blood shall be on his own head.


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He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning. His blood shall be on himself. But he who takes warning shall deliver his soul.


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But if the watchman sees the sword coming, and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned; if the sword comes and takes [any] person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity. But I will require his blood at the watchman's hand.


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And you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore you shall hear the Word from My mouth, and warn them from Me.


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When I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die; if you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked one shall die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.


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But, if you warn the wicked of his way, to turn from it; if he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.


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And you, son of man, speak to the house of Israel. So you have spoken, saying, When our transgressions and our sins [are] on us, and we are wasting away in them, How then shall we live?


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Say to them: [As] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, I have no delight in the death of the wicked, except in the turning of the wicked from his way, and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?


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Therefore, son of man, say to the sons of your people: The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression. As for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it in the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor shall the righteous be able to live for his [righteousness] in the day that he sins.


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When I shall say to the righteous [that] he shall surely live; if he trusts in his own righteousness and commits iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he has committed, he shall die for it.


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Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turns from his sin and does justice and right;


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[if] the wicked gives back the pledge, gives again what he had robbed, walks in the statutes of life without committing iniquity, then he shall surely live; he shall not die.


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None of his sins that he has committed shall be called to his memory. He has done justice and right; he shall surely live.


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Yet the sons 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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Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not fair. O house of Israel, I will judge you, each one according to his ways.


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And it was in the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth [month], on the fifth of the month, one who escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city is stricken.


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And the LORD's hand was on me in the evening, before he who had escaped came. And He had opened my mouth until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was dumb no more.


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Son of man, those who live in those wastes of the land of Israel are speaking, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land. But we [are] many; the land is given to us for inheritance.


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So say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood; and shall you possess the land?


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You stand on your sword, you work abomination, each defiling his neighbor's wife. And shall you possess the land?


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Speak to them in this way, So says the Lord Jehovah: [As] I live, surely those who [are] in the ruins shall fall by the sword, and I will give him who [is] in the open field to the beasts to be eaten up, and those in the forts and in the caves shall die of the plague.


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For I have made the land a ruin, and the pride of her strength has ceased. And the mountains of Israel shall be a waste, so that none shall pass through.


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And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have made the land a ruin because of all their abominations which they have committed.


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And you, son of man, the sons of your people are still talking about you by the walls, and in the doors of the houses, and speaking to one another, each man to his brother, saying, I pray you, come and hear what is the word which comes from the LORD.


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And they come to you as the people come, and they sit before you [as] My people, and they hear your words. But they will not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, [but] their heart goes after their unjust gain.


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And lo, you [are] to them as a singer of love songs [with] a beautiful voice, and able to play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them.


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Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah to the shepherds: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks?


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You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you kill the fat ones, [but] you do not feed the flock.


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You have not made the weak strong, nor have you healed the sick, nor have you bound up the broken. You have not brought again those driven away, nor have you sought that which was lost; but you have ruled them with force and with cruelty.


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And they were scattered for lack of a shepherd. And they became food to all the beasts of the field when they were scattered.


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My sheep wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill. Yea, My flock was scattered on all the face of the earth, and none searched nor sought for them.


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[As] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, surely because My flock became a prey, and My flock became food to every beast of the field, because [there was] no shepherd, nor did My shepherds search [for] My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock,


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So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I [am] against the shepherds, and I will require My flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock. Nor shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver My flock from their mouth, and they will not be food to devour.


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As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out My sheep and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.


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And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the lands, and will bring them to their own land and feed them on the mountain of Israel by the rivers, and in all the places of the land where people live.


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I will feed them in a good pasture, and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Israel. There they shall lie in a good fold, and [in] a fat pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel.


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I will seek the lost, and bring again those driven away, and will bind up the broken, and will strengthen the sick. But I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.


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And you, My flock, says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I judge between lamb and lamb, [between] rams and he-goats.


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Is it a small thing to you to have eaten up the good pasture, but you must trample the rest of your pastures with your feet? And to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the rest with your feet?


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So the Lord Jehovah says this to them: Behold I Myself will even judge between the fat lamb and the lean lamb.


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Because you have thrust with side and with shoulder, and have pushed all the weak with your horns until you have scattered them to the outside,


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therefore I will save My flock, and they shall no more be a prey. And I will judge between lamb and lamb.


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And I will set up one Shepherd over them, and He shall feed them, My servant David. He shall feed them, and He shall be their Shepherd.


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And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will send the evil beasts out of the land. And they shall dwell safely 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 bring down the shower in its season. There shall be showers of blessing.


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And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase. And they shall be safe in their land, and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hands of those who enslaved them.


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And no more shall they be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beast of the land eat them. But they shall dwell safely, and none shall terrify [them].


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And I will raise up for them a [noted] planting place, and they shall never again [be of] those gathered by famine in the land, nor shall they bear the shame of the nations any more.


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And they shall know that I, Jehovah their God, [am] with them, and they, the house of Israel, [are] My people, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And say to it, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, O Mount Seir, I [am] against you, and I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you a ruin and a waste.


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Because you have had a never-ending hatred, and have shed [the blood of] the sons of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time [that] iniquity [had] an end,


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therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, I will yield you up to blood, and blood shall pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, even blood shall pursue you.


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So I will make Mount Seir a ruin, and cut off from it the one passing through, and the one returning.


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And I will fill his mountains [with] his dead. [In] your hills, and your valleys, and all your rivers, those slain with the sword shall fall in them.


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I will make you ruins forever, and your cities shall not be inhabited. And you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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Because you have said, These two nations and these two lands shall be mine, and we shall possess it; yet the LORD was there;


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therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, I will act by your anger and by your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them. And I will make Myself known among them when I have judged you.


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And you shall know that I [am] the LORD. I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, Desolation! They are given to us for food.


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So with your mouth you have boasted against Me, and have multiplied your words against Me. I have heard [them].


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As you rejoiced at the inheritance of the house of Israel because of desolation, so I will do to you. You shall be a desolation, O Mount Seir and all Idumea, even all of it. And they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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Also, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, Mountains of Israel, hear the Word of the LORD.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! Even the old high places have become a possession to us.


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Therefore prophesy and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Because of the wasting and crushing of you from all around, that you might be a possession to the rest of the nations, and you were lifted up on the tip of the tongue, and the talking of the people;


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so, mountains of Israel, hear the Word of the Lord Jehovah. So says the Lord Jehovah to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the deserted wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and a mockery to the rest of the nations all around.


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Idumea, who have given My land to themselves for a possession with all joy of heart, with scorning of soul, to make it open land for a prey.


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So prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My fury, because you have borne the shame of the nations.


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Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: I have lifted up My hand; surely the nations around you shall bear their shame.


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But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall put out your branches and yield your fruit to My people Israel; for they have drawn near to come.


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And I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, all of it. And the cities shall have people, and the wastes shall be built.


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And I will multiply men and beast on you, and they shall increase and be fruitful. And I will make you dwell as before, and I will do better [to you] than at your beginnings. And you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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Yea, I will cause men to walk on you, even My people Israel. And they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and not any more will increase their bereavement.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: Because they say to you, You [are] a devourer of men, and you have bereaved your nations;


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so you shall devour men no more, nor shall you bereave your nations any more, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Nor will I allow you to hear the shame of the nations any more, nor shall you bear the shame of the peoples any more, nor shall you cause your nations to fall any more, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings, even as the defilement of woman's impurity, their way was before Me.


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So I poured My fury on them, because of the blood that they had shed on the land, and for their idols [by which] they defiled it.


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And I scattered them among the nations, and they were scattered through the lands. I judged them according to their way and according to their doings.


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And when they entered the nations where they went, they even profaned My holy name by saying to them, These [are] the people of the Jehovah, and they are gone out of His land.


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But I had pity 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, So says the Lord Jehovah: I do not do [this] for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.


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And I will sanctify My great name, which was profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst. And the nations shall know that I [am] the LORD, says the Lord Jehovah, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.


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For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all lands, and will gather you into your own land.


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And I will sprinkle clean waters on you, and you shall be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from your idols.


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And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take away the stony heart 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 you shall keep My judgments and do [them].


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And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. And you shall be My people, and I will be your God.


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I will also save you from all your defilements, and I will call for the grain, and will increase it, and will lay no famine on you.


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And I will multiply the fruits of the tree and the increase of the field, so that you shall never again receive the curse of famine among the nations.


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And you shall remember your own evil ways, and your doings that [were] not good, and shall despise yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.


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I do not do [this] for your sake, says the Lord Jehovah, be it known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will also cause [you] to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be built.


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And they shall say, This land that was wasted has become like the garden of Eden. And the wasted, deserted and ruined cities now [are] fortified and inhabited.


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And the nations that are left all around you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined [places and] plant that which was wasted. I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: yet this, I will be sought by the house of Israel to act for them. I will increase them with men like a flock.


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As a holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men. And they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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The hand of the LORD was on me, and brought me by the Spirit of the LORD, and made me rest in the midst of a valley, and it [was] full of bones.


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And He made me pass among them all around. And behold, very many [were] on the face of the valley. And lo, [they were] very dry.


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Again He said to me, Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the Word of the LORD.


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So says the Lord Jehovah to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.


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And I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live. And you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a noise. And behold, a shaking! And the bones came near, a bone to its bone.


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And I watched. And behold! The sinews and the flesh came up on them, and the skin covered them above. But [there was] no breath in them.


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And He said to me, Prophesy to the Spirit, prophesy, son of man, and say to the Spirit, So says the Lord Jehovah: Come from the four winds, O Spirit, and breathe on these dead ones so that they may live.


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So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the Spirit came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.


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And He said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones [are] dried and our hope is lost; we are cut off by ourselves.


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Therefore prophesy and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, and will bring you into the land of Israel.


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And you shall know that I [am] the LORD when I have opened your graves, O My people, and have brought you up out of your graves.


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And I shall put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. And you shall know that I the LORD have spoken and have done it, says the LORD.


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And you, son of man, take a stick and write on it, For Judah and for his companions, the sons of Israel. And take another stick and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and all the house of Israel, his companions.


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And when the sons of your people shall speak to you, saying, Will you not declare to us what these [mean] to you?


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Say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which [is] in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions, and I will put them with him, with the stick of Judah, and will make them one stick, and they shall be one in My hand.


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And say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and will gather them on every side, and will bring them into their own land.


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And I will make them one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel, and one King shall be king to them all. And they shall not still be two nations, nor shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.


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Nor shall they be defiled with their idols, even with their filthy idols, nor with all of their transgressions. But I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in them where they sinned, and will cleanse them. And they shall be to Me for a people, and I will be to them for God.


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And David My servant [shall be] King over them. And there shall be one Shepherd to all of them. And they shall walk in My judgments, and obey My laws, and do them.


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And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, the land in which your fathers have lived. And they shall dwell in it, even they and their sons, and the sons of their sons for ever. And My servant David [shall be their ruler forever.


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And I will cut a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them, and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in their midst forever.


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And the nations shall know that I the LORD sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary shall be in their midst forever.


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Son of man, set your face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him.


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And say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I [am] against you, O Gog, the chief ruler of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal.


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And I will turn you back, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed most perfectly, a great assembly [with] buckler and shield, all of them swordsmen;


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Gomer and all his bands; the house of Togarmah [from] the recesses of the north, and all his bands; [and] many peoples with you.


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Be prepared; yea, prepare for yourself, you and all your assembly that are assembled to you, and be a guard to them.


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After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you shall come into the land turned back from the sword, gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have always been waste. (But he has been brought out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them.)


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And you shall go up, coming like a storm. You shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you and all your bands, and many peoples with you.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: And it shall be in that day that things shall come into your heart, and you shall devise an evil plan.


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And you shall say, I will go up to the land of open spaces. I will go [to] those at ease, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and there are no bars nor gates to them,


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in order to take a spoil, and to steal a prize; to turn your hand on the inhabited waste places, and on the people gathered out of the nations, who have gotten cattle and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.


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Sheba and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all their young lions, shall say to you, Have you come to take a spoil? Have you gathered your company to steal a prize, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?


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So, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, So says the Lord Jehovah: In that day when My people of Israel dwells securely, shall you not know [it] ?


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And you shall come from your place out of the recesses of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army.


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And you shall come up on My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It shall be in the last days, and I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I shall be sanctified in you, O Gog, before their eyes.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: [Are] you he of whom I have spoken in former days, by the hand of My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days [and] years that I would bring you against them?


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And it shall be on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel, says the Lord Jehovah, My fury shall come up in My face.


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For in My jealousy [and] in the fire of My wrath I have spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great quaking in the land of Israel,


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so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all the men on the face of the earth, shall quake at My presence. And the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.


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And I will call for a sword against him on all My mountains, says the Lord Jehovah. [Each] man's sword shall be against his brother.


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And I will judge him with a plague and with blood. And I will rain on him, and on his bands, and on the many peoples with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire and brimstone.


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So I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself. And I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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Therefore, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I [am] against you, O Gog, the chief ruler of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal.


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And I will turn you back, and lead you on. And I will bring you up from the recesses of the north, and I will bring you on the mountains of Israel.


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And I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.


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You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your bands, and the people with you. I will give you for food to the birds of prey of every kind, and [to] the beasts of the field.


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And I will send a fire on Magog, and on the secure inhabitants of the coasts. And they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel. And I will not [let them] profane My holy name any more. And the nations shall know that I [am] the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.


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Behold, it is coming, and it will be done, says the Lord Jehovah. This [is] the day of which I have spoken.


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And the inhabitants of the cities of Israel shall go out and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the javelins, and the spears. And they shall burn them with fire seven years,


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so that they shall take no wood out of the field, nor cut down [any] out of the forests for they shall burn the weapons for fire. And they shall plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And it will be in that day I will give to Gog a place there, a grave in Israel, the valley of those who pass by, east of the sea. And it shall stop the [noses] of those who pass by. And there they shall bury Gog and all his multitude. And [they] shall call [it], The Valley of the Multitude of Gog.


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And all the people of the land shall bury. And it shall be a name to them, the day when I am glorified, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And men shall separate those who continually pass through the land, burying those who passed through, who remain on the face of the earth, to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they shall search.


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And [as] they pass, those who pass through the land, and [any] man sees a bone, then he shall build a post beside it, until the buriers have buried it in The Valley of the Multitude of Gog.


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And you, son of man, So says the Lord Jehovah. Speak to the bird of every wing, and to every beast of the field: Gather yourselves and come; gather yourselves from all around to My sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, so that you may eat flesh and drink blood.


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You shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the rulers of the earth, of rams, lambs, goats, [and] bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.


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And you shall eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, of My sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.


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And you shall be filled at My table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, all the men of war, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And I will set My glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see My judgments which I have done, and My hand that I have laid on them.


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And the nations shall know that the house of Israel was exiled for their iniquity. Because they sinned against Me, therefore I hid My face from them and gave them into the hand of their enemies. So they all fell by the sword.


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According to their uncleanness and according to their sins I have done to them, and have hidden My face from them.


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Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: And I will return the captivity of Jacob, and will have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for My holy name;


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[after] they have borne their shame and all their sins by which they have sinned against Me, when they dwell securely in their land and no one terrifies;


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when I have brought them again from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;


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then they shall know that I [am] the LORD their God who exiled them among the nations. But I have gathered them to their own land, and have not left any of them there.


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Nor will I hide My face from them any more, for I have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord Jehovah.


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In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was stricken, in the same day the hand of the LORD was on me, and brought me there.


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In the visions of God He brought me into the land of Israel, and made me rest on a very high mountain. And it went up, as the structure of the city on the south.


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And He brought me there, and behold, a man whose appearance [was] like the look of bronze, and a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed. And he stood in the gate.


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And the man said to me, Son of man, behold with your eyes and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you. For you are brought here so that I might show them to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.


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And behold, a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man's hand [was] a measuring reed, six cubits [long], with a cubit and a span. And he measured the building's breadth, one reed; and the height, one reed.


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And he came to the gate which faced eastward, and went up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide, even the one threshold, one reed wide.


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And a room [was] one reed long and one reed wide. And between the rooms [were] five cubits. And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate from the house, one reed.


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And he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its pillars, two cubits; also the porch of the gate from the house.


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And the gate rooms eastward [were] three from here, and three from there; one measure to the three of them; and one measure [was] to the pillars from here and from there.


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And he measured the breadth of the gate-opening, ten cubits. The length of the gate [was] thirteen cubits.


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And the border in front of the rooms [was] one cubit from here, and the space [was] one cubit from there. And the room [was] six cubits from here and six cubits from there.


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and latticed windows [were] to the rooms and to their pillars inside the gate all around. And so for the porches; and windows [were] all around inside; and to each pillar [were] palm trees.


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And he brought me into the outer court, and lo, chambers, and a pavement made for the court all around. Thirty rooms [were] on the pavement.


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And the pavement by the side of the gates to equal the length of the gates [was] the lower pavement.


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And he measured the breadth from the front of the lower gate to the front of the inner court on the outside, a hundred cubits eastward and northward.


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And the gate which faces the way of the north of the outer court, he measured its length and its breadth.


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And its rooms [were] three from here and three from there. And its pillars and its porches were according to the first measure. Its length [was] fifty cubits, and its breadth, twenty-five cubits.


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And their windows, and their porches, and their palm trees, [were] according to the measure of the gate facing the east. And they went up to it by seven steps; and its porches [were] before them.


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And the gate of the inner court [was] across from the gate toward the north and toward the east. And he measured from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.


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And he led me southward, and behold a gate southward. And he measured its pillars and its porches according to these measures.


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And [there were] windows in it and in its porches all around, like those windows. The length [was] fifty cubits, and the breadth, twenty-five cubits.


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And seven steps [were] going up to it, and its porches [were] before them. And [it had] palm trees, one from here and another from there, on its pillars.


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And [there was] a gate in the inner court southward. And he measured from gate to gate southward, a hundred cubits.


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And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. And he measured the south gate according to these measures,


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and its rooms and its pillars and its porches according to these measures. And [there were] windows in it and in its porches all around. It [was] fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.


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And its porches [were] toward the outer court; and palm trees on its pillars. And its stairway [had] eight steps.


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And he brought me into the inner court eastward. And he measured the gate according to these measures.


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And its rooms, and its pillars, and its porches, [were] measured according to these measures. And there [were] windows in it and in its porches all around. It [was] fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.


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And its porches [were] toward the outer court. And palm trees [were] on its pillars, from here, and from there. And its stairway [had] eight steps.


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its rooms, its pillars, and its porches, and its windows all around. The length [was] fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.


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And its pillars [were] toward the outer court. And palm trees [were] on its pillars, from here and from there. And its stairway [had] eight steps.


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And the chamber and its door [was] by the pillars of the gates; they washed the burnt offering there.


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And in the porch of the gate [were] two tables from here and two tables from there, for the slaughtering of the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.


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And to the side outside, as one goes up to the door of the gate northward [were] two tables; and on the other side at the porch of the gate, two tables.


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Four tables [were] from here, and four tables [were] from there, by the side of the gate: eight tables; they slaughter on them.


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And the four tables for burnt offering [were] of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high. They also rested on them the instruments with which they slaughtered the burnt offering and the sacrifice.


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And the double hooks of one span [were] fastened in the house all around, and on the tables the flesh of the offering.


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And from the outside to the inner court [were] the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which [was] at the side of the north gate. And their face [was] southward: one at the side of the east gate looked the way of the north.


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And he said to me, This chamber facing southward [is] for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.


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And the chamber facing northward [is] for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar. They are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, who come near the LORD to minister to Him.


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And he measured the court, a square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide; and the altar [was] before the house.


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And he brought me to the porch of the house and measured [each] pillar of the porch, five cubits from here and five cubits from there. And the gate [was] three cubits wide from here and three cubits from there.


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The porch [was] twenty cubits long, and eleven cubits wide. And [he brought me] by the steps by which they went up to it. And columns [were] by the pillars, one from here and another from there.


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And he brought me to the temple and measured the pillars, six cubits wide from here and six cubits wide from there, which [was] the breadth of the tabernacle.


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And the breadth of the door [was] ten cubits; and the sides of the door, five cubits from here, and five cubits from there. And he measured its length, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.


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And he went inside and measured the pillar of the door, two cubits; and the door [was] six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.


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And he measured its length, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple. And he said to me, This [is] the Holy of Holies.


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And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of each side room [was] four cubits, all around the house on [every] side.


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And the side chambers [were] a side chamber over a side chamber, three stories, and thirty times. And [they] entered the wall of the house for the side chambers all around, that they might be fastened, for they [were] not fastened to the wall of the house.


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And there [was] a widening, and a winding upwards [and] upwards to the side chambers. For the winding around of the house went upward [and] upward, all around the house. On account of this the width of the house went upward, and so from the lowest it went up to the highest by the middle [story].


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I also saw the height of the house all around. The foundations of the side rooms [were] a full reed, six large cubits by joining.


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The width of the wall, which [was] for the side chamber to the outside, [was] five cubits, and what [was] left between the side chambers that [were] of the house.


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And the door of the side chamber [was] toward the open space, one door northward and one door southward. And the width of the place of the open space [was] five cubits all around.


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And the building that [was] before the separate place at the end of the way of the west [was] seventy cubits wide. And the wall of the building [was] five cubits wide all around, and its length, ninety cubits.


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And he measured the house, a hundred cubits long. And the separate place, and the building, and its wall, [were] a hundred cubits long.


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And he measured the length of the building to the front of the separate place which [was] behind it; and its gallery from here and from there, a hundred cubits, with the inner temple and the porches of the court,


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the thresholds, and the latticed narrow windows, and the galleries all around, their three stories across from the threshold, with wood panelings all around, and [from] the ground up to the windows; and the windows [were] covered;


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to that above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall around inside and outside, by measure.


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And it [was] made with cherubs and palm trees, and a palm tree [was] between cherub and cherub. And each cherub had two faces,


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the face of a man [was] toward the palm tree from here, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree from there. It [was] made through all the house all around.


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From the ground to above the door [were] cherubs and palm trees made, and [on] the wall of the temple.


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The temple doorposts [were] squared, and the face of the sanctuary. The looks of the one was like the looks of the other.


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The altar of wood [was] three cubits high, and its length two cubits. And its corners, and its length, and its walls, [were] of wood. And he said to me, This is the table that is before the LORD.


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And two doors [leaves] [were] to [each] of the doors, two turning doors, two for the one door, and two for the other door.


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And on them, on the temple doors, [were] made cherubs and palm trees like those made on the walls, and thick wood on the face of the porch outside.


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And latticed windows, and palm trees, [were] from here and from there, on the sides of the porch, and on the side chambers of the house, and wooden [canopies].


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And he brought me out into the outer court, the way northward. And he brought me into the chamber that [was] across from the separate place and which [was] in front of the building to the north.


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Across from the twenty cubits which [were] for the inner court, and across from the pavement which [was] for the outer court, gallery [was] on gallery in three stories.


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And before the chambers [was] a walk of ten cubits width inward, a way of one cubit. And their doors [were] northward.


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And the upper chambers [were] shorter; for the galleries used up more space than the lower and middle ones in the building.


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For they [were] in three [stories], but there [were] no columns to them like the columns of the courts. So [the third] story was made narrower than the lower and the middle stories from the ground.


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And the wall that [was] outside near the chambers, toward the outer court on the 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. And lo, in front of the temple [was] a hundred cubits.


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And under these chambers [was] the entrance on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court,


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in the width of the wall of the court eastward, to the front of the separate area, and to the front of the building [were] chambers.


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And the way in front of them looked like the chambers which [were] northward, as their length, so their width. And all their exits [were] as their patterns, and as their doors.


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And as the doors of the chambers that [were] southward [was] a door in the head of the way, [even] the way directly in front of the wall eastward, as one enters them.


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And he said to me, The north chambers [and] the south chambers which [are] in front of the separate place, they [are] holy chambers, where the priests shall eat, [those] who approach to the LORD shall eat the most holy [things]. There they shall lay the most holy things, and the food offering, and the sin offering, and the guilt offering. For the place [is holy.


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When the priests enter, then they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but they shall lay their clothes there by which they minister in them, for they are holy. And they shall put on other clothes, and shall approach that which is for the people.


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And he finished measuring the inner house; he brought me out the way of the gate whose view is eastward, and measured all around.


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He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed, all around.


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He measured it by the four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred long, and five hundred wide, to make a separation between the holy place and the common place.


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And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. And His voice [was] like the sound of many waters. And the earth shone with His glory.


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And it looked the same as the vision which I saw, even according to the vision which I saw when I came to destroy the city. And the visions [were] like the vision that I saw 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 chamber. And behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.


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And He said to me, Son of man, the house of Israel shall no more defile the place of My throne, and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel forever; neither they, nor their kings, by their fornication, nor by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places.


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In their setting of their doorstep by My threshold, and their doorpost by My doorpost; and the wall between Me and them, they have even defiled My holy name by their abominations which they have done. And I have consumed them in My anger.


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Now [let] them put away their fornication, and the dead bodies of their kings from Me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.


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You, son of man, declare [to] the house of Israel, the [temple] house, so that they may be ashamed of their iniquities. And let them measure [its] size.


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And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, the form of the house, and its arrangement, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its statutes, and all its forms, and all its laws, make known to them. And write them before their eyes, so that they may observe all its form, and all its statutes, and do them.


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This [is] the law of the house. On the top of the mountain [is] all its border, all around, most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.


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And these are the measures of the altar by the cubit. The cubit [is] a cubit and a span; even the base [shall be] a cubit, and the width a cubit, and its border by its edge all around shall be] a span. And this [is the upper part of the altar.


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And from the base on the ground even to the lower ledge [shall be] two cubits, and the width one cubit. And from the smaller ledge even to the greater ledge [shall be] four cubits, and the width one cubit.


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And the altar hearth [shall be] four cubits, and from the altar hearth and upward [shall be] four horns.


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And the ledge [shall be] fourteen long and fourteen wide in its four sides. And the border around it [shall be] half a cubit, and its base a cubit around. And its steps shall face eastward.


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And He said to me, Son of man, so says the Lord Jehovah: These [are] the statutes of the altar in the day of its being made to offer on it burnt offerings, and to sprinkle blood on it.


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And you shall give a young bull for a sin offering to the priests the Levites, who [are] of the seed of Zadok, who approach Me to minister to Me, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And you shall take of its blood and put [it] on its four horns, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around. So you shall cleanse and purge it.


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You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and he shall burn [it] in the appointed place of the house, outside the sanctuary.


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And on the second day you shall offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering. And they shall cleanse the altar as they cleansed it with the bull.


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And when you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish and a ram out of the flock without blemish.


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And you shall offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to the LORD.


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Every day [for] seven days you shall prepare a goat [for] a sin offering. They also shall prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.


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And when these days are expired, it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings before the altar, and your peace offerings. And I will accept you, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And he brought me back by the way of the gate of the outer sanctuary which looks eastward. And it [was] shut.


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And the LORD said to me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it. Because Jehovah, the God of Israel, has entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.


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[It is] for the ruler; the ruler shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD. He shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the same way.


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And He brought me by the way of the north gate before the house. And I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD. And I fell on my face.


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And the LORD said to me, Son of man, note carefully: see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I say to you concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all its laws. And set your heart to the entrance of the house, with all the exits of the sanctuary.


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And you shall say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, This says the Lord Jehovah: O house of Israel, let it be more than enough for you, of all your hateful deeds,


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that you have brought strangers, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary, to profane it, [even] My house, when you offer My bread, the fat and the blood. And they have broken My covenant because of all your abominations.


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And you have not kept the charge of My holy things, but you have set keepers of My charge in My sanctuary for themselves.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: No son of an alien, uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh, shall enter into My sanctuary, or any son of an alien among the sons of Israel.


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But the Levites who have gone far away from Me, when Israel went astray; those who went astray from Me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.


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Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, overseers at the gates of the house and ministering to the house. They shall kill 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 caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity, therefore I have lifted up My hand against them, says the Lord Jehovah, and they shall bear their iniquity.


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And they shall not come near Me, to do the office of a priest to Me, nor to come near any of My holy things, in the most holy place; but they shall bear their shame and their abominations which they have committed.


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But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house for all its service, and for all that shall be done in it.


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But the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of My sanctuary when the sons of Israel went astray from Me, they shall come near Me to minister to Me, and they shall stand before Me to offer to Me the fat and the blood, says the Lord Jehovah.


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They shall enter My sanctuary, and they shall come near My table, to minister to Me, and they shall keep My charge.


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And it shall be, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with bleached [linen] clothing. And no wool shall come on them while they serve in the gates of the inner court, and inside.


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Turbans of bleached [linen] shall be on their heads, and shall have bleached [linen] undergarments on their loins. They shall not clothe themselves with anything that causes sweat.


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And when they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court of the people, they shall put off their clothes in which they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers. And they shall put on other clothes, so that they shall not sanctify the people with their own clothes.


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Nor shall they shave their heads nor allow their hair to grow long; they shall only trim their heads.


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Nor shall they take for their wives a widow nor her who is put away. But they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who had a priest before.


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And they shall teach My people to discern between the holy and common, and between the unclean and the clean.


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And in a dispute they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to My judgments. And they shall keep My laws and My statutes in all My assemblies, and they shall keep My sabbaths holy.


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And he shall not come near any dead person to defile [himself;] but he may defile themselves for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband.


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And in the day that he goes into the sanctuary, to the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And it shall be to them for an inheritance. I [am] their inheritance. And you shall give them no possession in Israel; I [am] their possession.


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They shall eat the food offering, and the sin offering, and the guilt offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.


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And the first of all the firstfruits of all, and every offering of all, of every [kind] of your sacrifices, shall be the priest's. You shall also give the priest the first of your dough, so that he may cause the blessing to rest in your house.


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The priests shall not eat of anything that died of itself, or is torn, whether it is bird or animal.


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And, when you make fall the land by lot for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to the LORD, a holy [portion] of the land. The length [shall be] twenty-five thousand [cubits long, and the width ten thousand. It shall be holy in all its borders all around.


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Of this there shall be five hundred by five hundred cubits for the sanctuary, square all around; and fifty cubits around shall be for its open space.


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And from this measure you shall measure the length of twenty-five thousand, and the width of ten thousand. And in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place.


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It is the holy [portion] of the land for the priests, it shall be for the ministers of the sanctuary who come near to minister to the LORD. And it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.


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And the twenty-five thousand cubits in length, and the ten thousand in width, shall also be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, for themselves for a possession, twenty rooms.


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And you shall give the possession of the city, five thousand [cubits] wide, and twenty-five thousand long, beside the offering of the holy [portion]. It shall be for the whole house of Israel.


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And a [portion shall be] for the ruler from here and from there, for [the] heave offering of the holy place, and of the possession of the city, in front of the heave offering of the holy place, and to the front of the city's possession, from the west side westward and from the east side eastward. And the length [shall be] alongside one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.


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It shall be for a land to him, for a possession in Israel; and My rulers shall never again oppress My people. And they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: Enough for you, O rulers of Israel. Remove violence and spoil, and do judgment and justice. Take away your demands on My people, says the Lord Jehovah.


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The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth [part] of a homer, and the ephah the tenth [part] 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, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.


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This [is] the heave offering that you shall offer: the sixth of an ephah of a homer of wheat, and the sixth of an ephah of a homer of barley.


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And as to the statute of oil, the bath of oil, you shall offer the tenth of a bath out of the cor, which is a homer of ten baths; for ten baths [are] a homer;


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and one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the watered [pasture] of Israel; for a food offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And it shall be the ruler's [part] to give burnt offerings and food offerings and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering and the food offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: In the first [month], in the first of the month, you shall take a bull without blemish, a son of the herd, and cleanse the sanctuary.


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And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering and put [it] on the doorposts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts of the inner court.


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And so you shall do on the seventh of the month for each man who goes astray, and for the simple. So you shall atone for the house.


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In the first [month], on the fourteenth 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 ruler shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull [for] a sin offering.


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And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bulls and seven rams, without blemish, daily [for] the seven days, and a kid of the goats daily [for] a sin offering.


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And he shall prepare a food offering of an ephah for a bull, and 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 prepare like these seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the food offering, and according to the oil.


