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Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy and say unto those that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD:


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thus hath the Lord GOD said: Woe unto the foolish prophets that follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!


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Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.


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They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD has not sent them, and they have made [others] to wait for the word to be confirmed.


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Have ye not seen a vain vision and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD hath said [it]; albeit I have not spoken?


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Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies; therefore, behold, I [am] against you, said the Lord GOD.


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And my hand shall be against the prophets that see vanity and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the book of the house of Israel, neither shall they return to the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.


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Therefore and because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and [there was] no peace; and one built up the wall, and, behold, others plastered it with loose mud:


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say unto those who plaster [it] with loose mud, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing rain; and I shall send great hailstones that will cause it to fall; and a stormy wind shall rend [it].


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And behold, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where [is] the mud with which ye have plastered [it]?


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Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: I will cause a stormy wind to rend [it] in my fury; and there shall come an overflowing rain in my anger and great hailstones in [my] wrath to consume [it].


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So I will break down the wall that ye have plastered with loose mud and bring it down to the ground, and its foundation shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall and upon those that have plastered it with loose mud and will say unto you, The wall [is] no [more], neither those that plastered it;


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[to wit], the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem and who see visions of peace for her, and [there is] no peace, said the Lord GOD.


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Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, who prophesy out of their own heart; prophesy thou against them,


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And say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said; Woe to the [women] that sew pillows to all armholes and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Must ye hunt the souls of my people to maintain thus your own life?


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And will ye profane me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, slaying the souls that should not die and giving life to the souls that [should] not live, by your lying to my people that listen to the lie?


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Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said; Behold, I [am] against your pillows, with which ye hunt there the loose souls, and I will tear them from your arms and will let the souls go, [even] the loose souls that ye hunt.


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Your kerchiefs also I will tear and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall no longer be in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and ye strengthen the hands of the wicked that he should not leave his wicked way, encouraging him:


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therefore ye shall not see vanity, nor divine divinations any longer: for I will deliver my people out of your hand; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.:


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Son of man, these men have caused their uncleanness to come up over their heart and [have] established the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?


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Therefore speak unto them and say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Every man of the house of Israel that sets up his idols in his heart and has established the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face and comes to the prophet, I, the LORD, will answer him that comes like this in the multitude of his idols


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that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.


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Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Repent and cause them to repent from your idols and turn away your faces from all your abominations.


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For any man of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel who has separated himself from walking after me and has set up his idols in his heart and has established the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face and comes to the prophet to enquire of him concerning me, I, the LORD, will answer him by myself:


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and I will set my face against that man and will set him up for a sign and for sayings, and I will cut him off from among my people; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And the prophet when he is deceived and speaks a word, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him and will destroy him from among my people Israel.


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And they shall bear the [punishment of] their iniquity; the iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity of him that seeks [unto him]


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that the house of Israel may no longer go astray from me, neither be polluted any longer in all their rebellions but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, said the Lord GOD.


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Son of man, when the land sins against me by rebelling blatantly and I stretch out my hand upon her and break the staff of the bread thereof and send famine upon her and cut off man and beast out of her


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though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in the midst of her, they should deliver [but] their own souls by their righteousness, said the Lord GOD.


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If I cause an evil beast to pass through the land and destroy her so that it be desolate that there be no one to pass through because of the beast


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[though] these three men [were] in the midst of her, [as] I live, said the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither their sons nor their daughters; they only shall be delivered, and the land shall be destroyed.


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Or [if] I bring a sword upon the land and say: Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast out of her;


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though these three men [were] in the midst of her, [as] I live, said the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither their sons nor their daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.


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Or [if] I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my fury upon her in blood to cut off out of her man and beast


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though Noah, Daniel, and Job, [were] in the midst of her, [as] I live, said the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall [but] deliver their own souls by their righteousness.


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Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: How much more if I send my four sore judgments against Jerusalem: the sword, the famine, the evil beast, the pestilence, to cut off out of her man and beast?


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Yet, behold, there shall be left a remnant in her, of whom shall be taken captive your sons and daughters; they shall be taken away: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings; and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, [even] concerning all that I have brought upon her.


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And they shall comfort you when ye see their ways and their doings and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in her, said the Lord GOD.:


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Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree? What is the branch among the trees of the forest?


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Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devours both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for [any] work?


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Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work; how much less afterward shall it be meet for [any] work when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned?


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Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: As the vine tree among the trees of the forest which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I have given over the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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And I will set my face against them; they came out of [one] fire, and [another] fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD when I set my face against them.


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and say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said concerning Jerusalem: Thy habitation and thy race was of the land of Canaan; thy father [was] an Amorite and thy mother a Hittite.


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And [as for] thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple [thee]; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.


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No eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have mercy upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field with little value given to thy life, in the day that thou wast born.


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I passed by thee and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, and I said unto thee, In thy blood thou shalt live; [yea], I said unto thee, In thy blood thou shalt live.


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In ten thousands, as the grass of the field, have I placed thee, and thou wast increased and made great, and thou art come to be adorned with excellent ornaments; [thy] breasts were fashioned, and thy hair is grown; but thou [wast] naked and bare.


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And I passed by thee and looked upon thee; behold, thy time [was] the time of love; and I spread my mantle over thee and covered thy shame; and I gave thee an oath and entered into a covenant with thee, said the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine;


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and I washed thee with water and washed away thy blood from upon thee, and I anointed thee with oil.


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I clothed thee also with broidered work and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I clothed thee with silk.


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And I put nose rings upon thy nostrils and earrings in thine ears and a diadem of beauty upon thine head.


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Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment [was of] fine linen and silk and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour of wheat and honey and oil: and thou wast made exceeding beautiful, and thou hast prospered even until thou hast reigned.


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And thy renown went forth among the Gentiles for thy beauty; for it [was] perfect because of my beauty which [I]placed upon thee, said the Lord GOD.


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But thou didst trust in thine own beauty and didst play the harlot because of thy renown and didst pour out thy fornications on every one that passed by; thou wert his.


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And of thy garments thou didst take and make altars of divers colours and play the harlot thereupon; [the like] shall not come [again], neither shall it be [so].


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Thou hast taken likewise the vessels of thy beauty of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee and made to thyself images of men and didst commit whoredom with them


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And thou didst take thy garments of many colours and cover them; and thou hast set my oil and my incense before them.


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My bread also which I had given thee; the fine flour and the oil and the honey [with which] I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour; and [thus] it was, said the Lord GOD.


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Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these thou hast sacrificed unto them to be devoured. [Is this] of thy whoredoms a small matter,


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that thou hast sacrificed my children and given them over to them that they might cause them to pass through [the fire] unto them?


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And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms hast thou not remembered the days of thy youth when thou wast naked and bare? Thou wast polluted in thy blood.


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Thou hast built thy altar at every head of every way and hast made thy beauty abominable and hast opened thy thighs to every one that passed by and multiplied thy whoredoms.


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Thou hast also committed fornication with the sons of Egypt, thy neighbours, great of flesh, and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.


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Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee and have diminished thy liberty and delivered thee unto the will of those that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of thy lewd way.


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Thou hast played the whore also with the sons of Assyria because thou wast insatiable; thou hast played the harlot with them and yet could not be satisfied.


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Thou hast likewise multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan and of the Chaldeans, and yet thou wast not satisfied with this.


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How inconsistent is thy heart, said the Lord GOD, having done all these [things], the work of a powerful harlot:


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building thine altars at the head of every way and making thine altars in every street! And thou hast not been as a harlot in that thou scornest hire,


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They give gifts to all whores, but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers and givest them offerings that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.


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And in thee it is to the contrary from [other] women in thy whoredoms; and after thee, there shall never be [whoredom like unto thine] because in giving thy gifts when gifts are not given unto thee, it has been backwards.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because thy nakedness has been uncovered, and thy confusion has been manifested to thy lovers in thy whoredoms and to the idols of thy abominations and in the blood of thy children which thou didst give unto them;


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therefore, behold that I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure and all [those] that thou hast loved, with all [those] that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee and will uncover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.


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And [I]will judge thee by the laws regarding women who commit adultery and those that shed blood; and I will give thee [away] in blood of fury and of jealousy.


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And I will deliver thee into their hand, and they shall destroy thy high [place] and shall break down thy altars; they shall strip thee also of thy clothes and shall take the vessels of thy glory and shall leave thee naked and bare.


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They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones and thrust thee through with their swords.


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And they shall burn thine houses with fire and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women; and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.


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So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet and will no longer be angry.


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Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth but hast provoked me to anger in all this; therefore, behold I also have recompensed thy way upon [thine] head, said the Lord GOD; for thou hast not even thought regarding all thine abominations.


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Behold, every one that makes proverbs shall make [this] proverb regarding thee, saying: As [is] the mother [so is] her daughter.


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Thou [art] thy mother's daughter that discarded her husband and her children; and thou [art] the sister of thy sisters who discarded their husbands and their children: your mother [was] a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.


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And thine elder sister [is] Samaria with her daughters that dwell at thy left hand; and thy younger sister that dwells at thy right hand [is] Sodom with her daughters.


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Yet thou hast not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.


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[As] I live, said the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister has never done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.


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Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the afflicted and needy.


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And they filled themselves with arrogance and committed abomination before me, and when I saw it, I took them away.


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Neither has Samaria committed half of thy sins, but thou hast multiplied thy abominations more than they and hast justified thy sisters with all thy abominations which thou hast done.


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Thou also, who hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they; they are more righteous than thou; be thou confounded also and bear thy shame in that thou hast justified thy sisters.


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When I shall turn their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then [I will release] the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:


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that thou may bear thine own shame and may be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.


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When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their first state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their first state, thou and thy daughters shall return to your first state.


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before thy wickedness discovered itself, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria and of all the daughters of the Philistines round about, who despise thee in everything.


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For thus hath the Lord GOD said: Will I deal with thee even as thou hast done, despising the oath to invalidate the covenant?


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Nevertheless I will remember my covenant that I made with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will confirm unto thee an everlasting covenant.


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Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.


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that thou may remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, said the Lord GOD.:


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and say: Thus hath the Lord GOD said, A great eagle with great wings and long members, full of feathers of diverse colours, came unto Lebanon and took the highest branch of the cedar:


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he cropped off the principal shoot and carried it into a land of markets; he set it in the city of the 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 vine of many branches, low of stature, whose branches looked at him, and its roots were under him: so it became a vine and brought forth branches and shot forth sprigs.


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There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers; and, behold, this vine joined her roots toward him and extended her branches toward him that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.


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It was planted in a good soil by many waters that it might bring forth branches and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.


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Say thou: Thus hath the Lord GOD said, Shall it be prospered? Shall he not pull [it] up its roots and destroy its fruit and let it wither? All of the leaves of her spring shall wither, even without great power or many people plucking it up by its roots.


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[Yea], behold, [being] planted, shall it be prospered? Shall it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It shall wither in the furrows where it grew.


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Say now to the rebellious house: Do ye not know what these [things mean]? Tell [them], Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem and has taken its king and its princes and led them with him to Babylon;


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and has taken of the seed of the kingdom and made a covenant with him and has brought him to an oath: he has also taken the mighty of the land:


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that the kingdom might be cast down, that it might not lift itself up, [but] that it might keep his covenant and stay in her.


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But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors unto Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he be prospered, shall he that does such [things] escape? And shall he who broke the covenant be able to flee?


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As I live, said the Lord GOD, surely in the place [where] the king [dwells] that 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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And not with a mighty army, nor with a great company shall Pharaoh do anything for him in the battle when they cast up mounts, and build forts to cut off many lives:


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seeing he despised the oath to invalidate the covenant when, behold, he had given his hand and has done all these [things], he shall not escape.


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Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: As I live, surely my oath that he has despised and my covenant that he has broken, even it will I turn upon his own head.


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And I will spread my net upon him and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass with which he has rebelled against me.


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And all his fugitives with all his armies shall fall by the sword, and those that remain shall be scattered toward all winds; and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken [it].


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said: I will also take of the highest branch of that high cedar and will set [it up]; I will crop off from the principal branch a shoot and will plant it upon the high and sublime mountain:


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in the high mountain of Israel I will plant it, and it shall bring forth boughs and bear fruit and become a magnificent cedar; and under it shall dwell every fowl; everything that flies shall dwell in the shadow of its branches.


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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 have done [it].:


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What mean ye, that ye use this saying concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge?


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Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine; the soul that sins, it shall die.


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that he does not eat upon the mountains, neither lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither defile his neighbour's wife, neither come near to the menstruous woman,


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neither oppress any, [but] restores to the debtor his pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his bread to the hungry, and covers the naked with a garment,


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neither lends at interest, neither takes any increase, withdraws his hand from iniquity, executes true judgment between man and man,


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walks in my statutes, and keeps my rights, to do according to the truth: he [is] just; he shall surely live, said the Lord GOD.


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If he begets a son [that is] a robber, a shedder of blood, and [that] does the like of [any] one of these [things],


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and that does not do any of those [duties], but, on the other hand, he does eat upon the mountains, or defiles his neighbour's wife,


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oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, or lifts up his eyes to the idols, or makes an abomination,


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gives forth upon usury and takes increase, shall he then live? He shall not live; he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.


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But if he begets a son that sees all his father's sins which he has done and seeing them, does not do according to them,


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[that] he does not eat upon the mountains, neither lifts up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor defiles his neighbour's wife,


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neither oppresses any, nor withholds the pledge, neither commits robbery, [but] gives his bread to the hungry, and covers the naked with a garment,


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takes off his hand from [oppressing] the poor, does not receive usury nor increase, acts [according to] my rights, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father; he shall surely live.


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[As for] his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did [that] which [is] not good among his people, behold, even he shall die for his iniquity.


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Yet if ye say, Why does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? Because the son has lived according to judgment and righteousness [and] 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, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him [who is righteous], and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him [who is wicked].


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But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has committed and keep all my statutes and live according to judgment and righteousness, he shall surely live, he shall not die.


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All his rebellions that he has committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him; by his righteousness that he has done he shall live.


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Do I desire perchance the death of the wicked? said the Lord GOD, Shall he not live if he should leave his ways?


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But if the righteous should leave his righteousness and commit iniquity, [and] do according to all the abominations that the wicked [man] does, shall he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be mentioned; by his rebellion in which he has trespassed and by his sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die.


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And if ye say, The way of the Lord is not straight. Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not straight? Are not your ways crooked?


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When a righteous [man] leaves his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall die in it; for his iniquity that he has done he shall die.


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Again, when the wicked [man] leaves his wickedness that he has committed and lives according to judgment and righteousness, he shall cause his soul to live.


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Because he saw and left all his rebellions that he has committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.


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If even [now] the house of Israel should say, The way of the Lord is not straight. O house of Israel, are not my ways straight? Certainly your ways are not straight.


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Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each one according to his ways, said the Lord GOD. Repent and turn [yourselves] from all your iniquities, so iniquity shall not be your ruin.


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Cast away from you all your iniquities by which ye have rebelled, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?


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For I do not desire the death of him that dies, said the Lord GOD; therefore turn [yourselves], and ye shall live.:


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and thou shalt say, How hast thy mother, the lioness, lain down among the lions? She raised her whelps among the young lions.


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And she brought up one of her whelps; it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey and to devour men.


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The Gentiles also heard of him; he was taken in their trap, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.


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Now when [she saw] that she had waited a long time [and] her hope was being lost, then she took another of her whelps [and] made him a young lion.


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And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion and learned to catch the prey [and] devoured men.


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And he knew their widows, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fullness thereof, by the voice of his roaring.


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Then the Gentiles 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 prison in chains and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into fortresses that his voice should no longer be heard upon the mountains of Israel.


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Thy mother [was] like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters, bearing fruit and spreading forth branches by reason of the many waters.


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And she had strong rods for the sceptres of those that bore rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height and with the multitude of her branches.


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But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit; [her branches] were broken, and she withered; fire consumed the rod of her strength.


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And fire is gone out of the rod from her branches, [which] has devoured her fruit, so that no strong rod [to be] a sceptre to rule has remained in her. This [is] a lamentation and shall be for a lamentation.:


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And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth [month], the tenth [day] of the month, [that] certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD and sat before me.


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Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel and say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Are ye come to enquire of me? [As] I live, said the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.


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Dost thou desire to judge them? Dost thou desire to judge them, son of man? Notify them of the abominations of their fathers:


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And say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said; In the day when I chose Israel and lifted up my hand for the seed of the house of Jacob and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt when I lifted up my hand unto them, saying, I [am] the LORD your God;


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in the day [that] I lifted up my hand unto [them with an oath] that I would bring them forth from the land of Egypt into a land that I had prepared for them, flowing with milk and honey, which [is] the most beautiful of all lands,


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then said I unto them, Cast away each one of you [all] worship of god fabricated by carnal appearance and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.


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But they rebelled against me and did not desire to hearken unto me; each one did not cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt; then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.


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With all this, I intervened for my name's sake that it should not be polluted before the Gentiles, among whom they [were], in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.


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and I gave them my statutes and declared unto them my rights, [by] which the man that does them shall live by them.


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And I also gave them my sabbaths to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I [am] the LORD that sanctifies them.


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But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they did not walk in my statutes, and they despised my rights, [by] which the man that does them shall live by them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted; therefore I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness to consume them.


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But I intervened for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the Gentiles, in whose sight I brought them out.


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Yet I also lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, [with an oath] that I would not bring them into the land which I had given [them], flowing with milk and honey, which [is] the most beautiful of all lands,


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because they despised my rights and did not walk in my statutes but polluted my Sabbaths, for their heart went after their idols.


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With all this, my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.


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But I said unto their sons in the wilderness: Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither keep their laws, nor defile yourselves with their idols:


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and hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I [am] the LORD your God.


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Notwithstanding, the sons rebelled against me: they did not walk in my statutes, nor keep my rights to do them, [by] which the man that does them shall live by them; they polluted my Sabbaths; then I said: I would pour out my fury upon them to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.


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Nevertheless, I withdrew my hand and intervened for my name's sake that it should not be polluted in the sight of the Gentiles in whose sight I brought them forth.


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I lifted up my hand unto them also in the wilderness [with an oath] that I would scatter them among the Gentiles and disperse them through the countries


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because they had not executed my rights and had despised my statutes and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.


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For this reason I also gave them statutes [that were] not good and rights by which they could not live,


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and I polluted them in their offerings when they caused to pass through [the fire] all that opens the womb that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I [am] the LORD.


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Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel and say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Even in this your fathers have blasphemed me when they committed rebellion against me.


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[For] 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 there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offerings; there [also] they made their sweet savour and poured out there their drink offerings.


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Then I said unto them, What [is] the high place unto which ye go? And its name is called Bamah unto this day.


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Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Perchance are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and do ye commit whoredom after their abominations?


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For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day; and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? [As] I live, said the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.


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And that which ye think shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the Gentiles, as the families of the nations to serve wood and stone.


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[As] I live, said the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm and with fury poured out, I must rule over you:


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and I will bring you out from among the peoples and will gather you out of the countries in which ye are scattered 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 peoples, and there I will litigate with you face to face.


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Like as I litigated with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will litigate with you, said the Lord GOD.


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and I will purge out from among you the rebels and those that rebelled against me; I will take them out of the country where they have gone, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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As for you, O house of Israel, thus hath the Lord GOD said: Go, serve ye each one his idols, and hereafter [also], if ye will not hearken unto me, but do not pollute my holy name any longer with your gifts and with your idols.


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For in the mountain of my holiness, in the high mountain of Israel, said the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel serve me, all of them in the land; there will I be pleased with them, and there will I require your offerings and the firstfruits of your gifts with all your sacred things.


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I will accept you with your sweet savour when I have brought you out from among the peoples and gathered you out of the countries in which ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the eyes of the Gentiles.


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And ye 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 ye shall remember your ways and all your doings, in which ye have been defiled; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.


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And ye shall know that I [am] the LORD when I have intervened with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, said the Lord GOD.


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Son of man, set thy face toward the south and drop [thy word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;


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and thou shalt say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD. Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I kindle a fire in thee, which shall devour every green tree in thee and every dry tree; the flame of the fire shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.


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Son of man, set thy face against Jerusalem, and drop [my word] upon the sanctuaries, and prophesy over the land of Israel,


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and thou shalt say to the land of Israel, Thus hath the LORD said: Behold, I [am] against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.


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Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:


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that all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.


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Cry out therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of [thy] loins; and with bitterness cry out before their eyes.


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And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Why criest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings that come; 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 shall be brought to pass, said the Lord GOD.


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Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus hath the LORD said: Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:


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it is sharpened to slay victims; it is furbished that it may glitter; should we then make mirth? it despises the rod of my son, [as] every tree.


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And he has given it to be furbished, that it may be handled; this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.


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Cry and howl, son of man, for it shall be upon my people; it [shall be] upon all the princes of Israel; fear of the sword shall be upon my people; therefore smite the thigh


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Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy and smite [thine] hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain; this is the sword of great slaughter that shall pierce them.


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I have set the fear of the sword in all their gates, that [their] heart may faint and [their] ruins be multiplied; ah! [it is] made so that it might shine; [it is] prepared for the slaughter.


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Also, thou son of man, show two ways from where the sword of the king of Babylon comes: both shall come forth out of the same land and draw an army; at the head of the way to the city thou shalt do this.


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Show the way that the sword will come to Rabbath of the Ammonites and to Judah against Jerusalem, the defenced.


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For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way at the head of the two ways to use divination; he made [his] arrows bright; he consulted with images; he looked in the liver.


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The divination was to his right hand upon Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth for the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint [battering] rams against the gates, to cast a mount, [and] to build a fort.


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And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to those that have sworn oaths; but he will call to remembrance the iniquity that they may be taken.


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Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, manifesting your betrayals and uncovering your sins in all your doings; for which ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.


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And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come in the time when the iniquity shall be brought to an end,


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thus hath the Lord GOD said: Remove the diadem and take off the crown; it shall no longer be like this; I will exalt the one that is low and abase the one that is high.


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I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it, and it shall be no [more] until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it [unto him].


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And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword [is] drawn for the slaughter; [it is] furbished to consume with brightness:


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They prophesy vanity unto thee; they divine a lie unto thee, to give thee over among the necks of the wicked who are sentenced to death, whose day is come in the time when the iniquity shall be brought to an end.


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Shall I cause [it] to return into its sheath? I must judge thee in the place where thou wast raised, in the land of where thou hast lived.


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And I will pour out my indignation upon thee; I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath and deliver thee into the hand of fearful men [who are] skilful to destroy.


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Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt no [longer] be remembered: for I the LORD have spoken.:


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Now, thou son of man, wilt thou not judge, wilt thou not judge the city that spills innocent blood and cause her to know all her abominations?


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Then thou shalt say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said, City that sheds blood in the midst of thyself, that thy time may come, and that has made idols against thyself to defile thyself!


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In thy blood that thou hast shed thou hast sinned and hast defiled thyself with thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near and art come [even] unto thy years; therefore I have given thee in reproach unto the Gentiles, and in shame unto all the countries.


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[Those that are] near and [those that are] far from thee shall mock thee, [who art] infamous [and] much vexed.


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In thee they have despised father and mother; in the midst of thee they have dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee they have vexed the fatherless and the widow.


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In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood; and in thee they eat upon the mountains; in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.


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In thee they have discovered their fathers' nakedness; in thee they have forced the unclean menstruous [woman].


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And one has committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in thee has forced his sister, his father's daughter.


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In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion and hast forgotten me, said the Lord GOD.


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Behold, therefore I have smitten my hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made and at thy blood which has been in the midst of thee.


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Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken [it] and will do [it].


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And I will scatter thee among the Gentiles and disperse thee in the countries and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.


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And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the Gentiles, and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD.


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Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross; they [are] all brass and tin and iron and lead in the midst of the furnace; they are become the dross of silver.


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Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.


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[As] they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace to blow the fire upon it to melt [it], so will I gather [you] in my anger and in my fury, and I will cause [you] to rest, and melt you.


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I will gather you and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.


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As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you.


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Son of man, say unto her, Thou [art] not clean land, nor [art thou] sprinkled with rain in the day of indignation.


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[There is] a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken treasures and honour; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.


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Her priests have violated my law [by force] and have profaned my holy things; they have made no difference between [the] holy and [the] profane, neither have they showed [the difference] between the unclean and the clean and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.


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Her princes in the midst thereof [are] like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, to follow their own greed.


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And her prophets have plastered them [over] with loose mud, prophesying vanity and divining lies unto them, saying: Thus hath the Lord GOD said, when the LORD has not spoken.


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The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery and have done violence unto the poor and needy; they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.


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And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it, but I found no one.


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Therefore have I poured out my indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath; I have recompensed their own way upon their heads, said the Lord GOD.:


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And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.


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And the names of them [were] Aholah the elder and Aholibah her sister; they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters. Thus [were] their names: Samaria [is] Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.


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And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she fell in love with her lovers, the Assyrians [her] neighbours,


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[which were] clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.


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Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all those [that were] the chosen men of Assyria, and with all whom she fell in love; with all their idols she defiled herself.


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Neither did she leave her whoredoms of Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity and poured their whoredom upon her.


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Therefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, of whom she fell in love.


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These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women, for they had executed judgments upon her.


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And when her sister Aholibah saw [this], she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in [her] whoredoms.


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She fell in love with the Assyrians [her] neighbours, captains and rulers clothed to perfection, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.


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and [that] she increased her whoredoms, for when she saw men painted upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans painted in colour,


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girded with girdles upon their loins, and mitres painted upon their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the manner of the men of Babylon, born in the land of the Chaldeans,


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she fell in love with them as soon as she saw them with her eyes and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.


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And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom and she was polluted with them, and her soul was disjointed from them.


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So she uncovered her whoredoms, and uncovered her nakedness; then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.


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Yet she multiplied her whoredoms in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, in which she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.


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For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh [is as] the flesh of asses and whose issue [is like] the issue of horses.


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Thus thou didst call to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the breasts of thy youth.


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Therefore, O Aholibah, thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy desire is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side:


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the Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, rulers, and princes, and captains, [and] all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men; all of them captains and rulers, great lords and renowned; all of them riding upon horses.


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And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with a multitude of peoples, [which] shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about, and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their laws.


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And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal with thee in furor; they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and what is left shall fall by the sword; they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy remnant shall be devoured by the fire.


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Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee and thy whoredom of the land of Egypt, so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.


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For thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I deliver thee into the hand [of those] whom thou hatest, into the hand [of those] from whom thy soul is alienated:


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And they shall deal with thee hatefully and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.


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I will do these [things] unto thee because thou hast gone a whoring after the Gentiles [and] because thou art polluted with their idols.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large; the Gentiles shall laugh thee to scorn and hold thee in derision; it contains much.


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Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and with pain [because] of the cup of astonishment and desolation, [because] of the cup of thy sister Samaria.


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Thou shalt even drink it and finish it, and thou shalt break its shards and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken [it], said the Lord GOD.


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Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because thou hast forgotten me and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.


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And The LORD said unto me: Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah and declare unto them their abominations?


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For they have committed adultery, and blood [is] on their hands, and with their idols they have committed adultery and have even caused their sons, whom they bore unto me, to pass for them through [the fire], to devour [them].


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Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day and have profaned my sabbaths.


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For when they had slain their sons unto their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.


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And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger [was] sent; and, behold, they came for the love of whom thou didst wash thyself, paint thy eyes, and deck thyself with ornaments,


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and sit upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, upon which thou hast set my incense and my oil.


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And in her was heard a voice of a multitude at a feast; and with the men [of renown] were brought the Sabeans from the wilderness to multiply the men, and they put bracelets upon their hands and crowns of glory upon their heads.


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Then said I unto [her that was] old in adulteries, Now shalt thy whoredoms come to an end, and she [with them];


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for they have come to her, as those who come to a woman that plays the harlot, so they went in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.


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Therefore righteous men shall judge them by the law of adulteresses and after the law of women that shed blood because they [are] adulteresses, and blood [is] on their hands.


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For thus hath the Lord GOD said: I will bring up a company upon them and will give them to be removed and spoiled.


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And the company shall stone them with stones and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters and burn up their houses with fire.


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Thus will I cause the lust to cease out of the land that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.


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And they shall recompense your lust upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols; and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.:


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Again in the ninth year, in the tenth [month], in the tenth [day] of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,


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Son of man, write the name of the day, [even] of this same day: the king of Babylon laid siege against Jerusalem this same day.


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And speak unto the house of rebellion by parable and say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said; Set on a pot, set [it] on, and also pour water into it:


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gather her pieces [of meat] 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 burn also the bones under it [and] make it boil well and let them seethe the bones of it therein.


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For thus hath the Lord GOD said: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum [is] therein and whose scum is not gone out of it! For her pieces, because of her pieces let it be removed; let no lot fall upon it.


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For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she did not poured it upon the ground, to cover it with dust;


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that wrath might rise up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the high place of the rock that it should not be covered.


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multiplying the wood, kindling the fire, to consume the flesh and to make the broth, and the bones shall be burned;


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setting afterward the empty pot upon the coals thereof that it may become [red] hot and may burn and [that] the filthiness of it may be molten in it, [that] the scum of it may be consumed.


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In fraud she has become weary, and her great scum did not go forth out of her; her scum [shall be] in the fire.


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In thy perverse filthiness [thou shalt die] because I have cleansed thee, and thou didst not cleanse thyself from thy uncleanness; thou shalt never cleanse thyself again, until I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.


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I, the LORD, have spoken: I came and worked. I will not turn back, neither will I have mercy, neither will I repent; according to thy ways and according to thy doings, they shall judge thee, said the Lord GOD.


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Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes by death; yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.


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Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind thy turban upon thy head, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet and do not cover [thy] lips and do not eat the bread of comfort.


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So I spoke unto the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.


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And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these [things are] to us, that thou doest [so]?


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Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the glory of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and the gift of your soul; your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.


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And your turbans [shall be] upon your heads and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities and cry out one with another.


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Thus Ezekiel shall be unto you for a sign: according to all that he has done ye shall do: and when this comes, ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.


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Also, thou son of man, in the day when [I] take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and the care of their souls, their sons and their daughters,


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In that day thy mouth shall be opened [to speak] unto him who is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and no longer be dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.:


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and say unto the sons of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord GOD, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because thou didst say, Aha, [it is well]! upon my sanctuary, which was profaned; and upon the land of Israel, which it was made desolate; and upon the house of Judah, because they went into captivity;


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behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee and pitch their tents in thee; they shall eat thy plantings, and they shall drink thy milk.


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And I will make Rabbah a habitation for camels and the sons of Ammon a resting place for sheep: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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For thus hath the Lord GOD said; Because thou hast clapped [thine] hands and stamped with the feet and rejoiced in thy soul with all thy despite upon the land of Israel,


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behold, therefore I will stretch out my hand upon thee and will deliver thee unto the Gentiles as a spoil, and I will cut thee off from among the peoples, and I will destroy thee from among the countries; I will pluck thee out; and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because Moab and Seir said, Behold, the house of the LORD [is] like unto all the Gentiles [submitted to Babylon],


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therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities [which are] on his frontiers, the desirable lands of Bethjeshimoth and Baalmeon and Kiriathaim,


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unto the sons of the east against the sons of Ammon and will give them in possession that the sons of Ammon may not be remembered any more among the Gentiles.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD spoken; Because of what Edom did when he took vengeance against the house of Judah, (for they are condemned as guilty) and revenged themselves upon them;


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therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: I will also stretch out my hand upon Edom and will cut off man and beast from her; and I will make her desolate from Teman; and [those of] Dedan shall fall by the sword.


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And I will place my vengeance in 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, said the Lord GOD.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because the Palistinians have dealt by revenge and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart to destroying because of perpetual enmity,


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therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said; Behold, I stretch out my hand upon the Palestinians, and I will cut off the Cherethims and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.


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And I will execute great vengeance in them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD when I shall give my vengeance in them.:


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And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,


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Son of man, because Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, Aha, [it is well that] she is broken who is the gate of the peoples; she is turned unto me; I shall be filled; and she [shall be] deserted:


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therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said; Behold, I [am] against thee, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against thee as the sea causes its waves to come up.


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And they shall demolish the walls of Tyre and destroy her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her and make her like the top of a rock.


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It shall be [a place for] the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken, said the Lord GOD, and it shall be spoiled by the Gentiles.


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And her daughters who [are] in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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For thus hath the Lord GOD said; Behold, I bring upon Tyre Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, [a] king of kings, from the north, with horses and with chariots and with horsemen and companies and many people.


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He shall slay with the sword thy daughters who [are] in the field; and he shall make a fort against thee and cast a mount against thee and lift up the buckler against thee.


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And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his hammers he shall break down thy towers.


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By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee; thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen and of the wheels, and of the chariots when he shall enter into thy gates as men enter through breaches into a destroyed city.


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With the hoofs of his horses he shall tread down all thy streets; he shall slay thy people by the sword, and the statues of thy strength shall fall to the ground.


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And they shall steal thy riches and make a spoil of thy merchandise; and they shall ruin thy walls and destroy thy precious houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the waters.


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And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall no longer be heard.


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And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be [a place] to spread nets upon; thou shalt never be built again; for I the LORD have spoken, said the Lord GOD.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said to Tyre: Certainly the isles shall shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded shall cry, when the slaughter shall be made in the midst of thee.


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Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones and lay away their robes and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground and shall tremble at [every] moment and be astonished at thee.


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And they shall take up a lamentation for thee and say to thee, How didst thou perish, [that wast] inhabited in the seas? The renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror [to be] on all those that dwell therein.


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Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that [are] in the sea shall be terrorized at thy end.


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For thus hath the Lord GOD said: I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; I shall cause the abyss to come up over thee and the many waters shall cover thee.


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And I shall bring thee down with those that descend into the grave, with the people of the age, and shall set thee in the lowest part of the earth, as the deserts of old, with those that go down to the grave, that thou not be inhabited again; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;


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I will turn thee into nothing, and thou [shalt be] no [more]; though thou be sought for, yet thou shalt never be found again, said the Lord GOD.:


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And say unto Tyre, O thou that dwelleth at the ports of the sea, [who art] a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus hath the Lord GOD said; O Tyre, thou hast said, I [am] of perfect beauty.


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They have made all thy [ship] boards of fir trees of Senir; they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.


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[Of] the oaks of Bashan they have made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches [of] ivory, [brought] out of the isles of Chittim.


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Of fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was thy curtain, that it might serve to be thy sail; of blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was thy pavilion.


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The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy rowers; thy wise [men], O Tyre, were in thee; they were thy pilots.


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The elders of Gebal and the wise [men] thereof were in thee to repair thy breaches: all the galleys of the sea with their rowers were in thee to negotiate thy business dealings.


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Those of Persia and of Lud and of Africa were in thine army, thy men of war: they hung the shield and helmet in thee; they extolled thy beauty.


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The sons of Arvad with thine army [were] upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hung their shields upon thy walls round about; they completed thy beauty.


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Tarshish [was] thy market by reason of the multitude of all [thy] riches in silver, iron, tin, and lead; they traded in thy fairs.


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Greece, Tubal, and Meshech, thy merchants, with the soul of men and with vessels of brass; they traded in thy fairs.


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The sons of Dedan [were] thy merchants; many isles [took] merchandise from thy hand: they brought thee [for] a present horns of ivory and peacocks.


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Syria [was] thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they traded in thy fairs with rubies and purple and broidered work and fine linen and coral and pearls.


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Judah, and the land of Israel; they [were] thy merchants: they traded in thy market with wheat, Minnith and Pannag and honey and oil and balm.


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Damascus [was] thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the abundance of all riches, with wine of Helbon and white wool.


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Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, merchants of thy strength in lambs and rams and he goats: in these [they were] thy merchants.


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The merchants of Sheba and Raamah; they [were] thy merchants: they traded in thy fairs with the chief of all spices and with all precious stones and gold.


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These, thy merchants, negotiated with thee in all sorts [of things]: in blue robes and broidered work and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.


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The ships of Tarshish, thy squadrons, went forth on thy behalf: and thou wast full, and wast multiplied greatly in the midst of the seas.


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Thy riches, and thy markets, thy business, thy rowers, and thy pilots, those that repair thy breaches, and the agents of thy business, and all thy men of war, that [are] in thee, with all thy company which [is] in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.


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And all that handle the oar, the rowers, [and] all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand upon the land


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and shall cause their voice to be heard upon thee and shall cry bitterly and shall cast up dust upon their heads; they shall wallow themselves in the ashes.


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And they shall pull out their hair for thee and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of soul [and] bitter wailings.


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And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee and lament over thee, [saying], Who [is] like Tyre, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?


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When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou didst fill many peoples; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy contracts.


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In the time [when] thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy commerce and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.


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All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid; they shall be troubled in [their] countenance.


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The merchants among the peoples shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror and never [shalt be] any more.:


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Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because thy heart has lifted [thee] up and thou hast said, I [am] God, I sit [in] the seat of God, in the midst of the seas (yet thou [art] man, and not God); and thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God:


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with thy wisdom and with thine intelligence thou hast gotten thee riches and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:


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by the greatness of thy wisdom in thy trafficking thou hast multiplied thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:


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behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the strong ones of the Gentiles, and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.


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They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die of the death of [those that are] slain in the midst of the seas.


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Wilt thou yet say before him that slays thee, I [am] God? but thou [shalt be] a man, and not God, in the hand of him that slays thee.


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Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken, said the Lord GOD.


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Son of man, raise up lamentations upon the king of Tyre and say unto him, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Thou dost seal up the sum [of perfection], full of wisdom, and completed in beauty.


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Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone [was] thy covering: the sardius, topaz, diamond, turquoise, onyx, and beryl, the sapphire, ruby, and emerald, and gold; the works of thy tambourines and of thy pipes were prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.


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Thou, great cherubim, [wast] covered, and I placed thee; thou wast in the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked among stones of fire.


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Thou [wast] perfect in all thy ways from the day that thou wast created, until iniquity was found in thee.


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Because of the multitude of thy trafficking thou wast filled with violence, and thou hast sinned; and [I]cast thee out of the mountain of God, and I cast thee unto evil from among the stones of fire, O cherubim [that wast] covered.


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Thine heart lifted thee up because of thy beauty; thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness; I will cast thee to the earth; I will expose thee before the kings, that they may behold thee.


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Thou hast defiled thy sanctuary by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy trafficking; therefore I brought forth fire from the midst of thee, which has consumed thee, and I brought thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all those that behold thee.


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All those that knew thee from among the peoples shall marvel over thee; thou hast been [greatly] disturbed, and thou shalt not exist again forever.


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and say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I [am] against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her and shall be sanctified in her.


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For I will send into her pestilence and blood into her streets; and the dead shall fall in the midst of her, by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And there shall no longer be a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor [any] thorn that causes him pain, round about [them] of those that despise them; and they shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered and shall be sanctified in them in the eyes of the Gentiles, then they shall dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.


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And they shall dwell safely therein and shall build houses and plant vineyards; and they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments in all those that spoil them round about them; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD their God.:


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In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth [day] of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:


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Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt.


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Speak and say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I [am] against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his rivers, who has said, My river [is] my own, and I have made [it] for myself.


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But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall come out stuck onto thy scales.


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And I will leave thee [thrown] into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers; thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered; I have given thee for food to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.


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And all the inhabitants 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 hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou didst brake and make all their loins to come to nothing.


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Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I bring a sword upon thee and will cut off man and beast out of thee.


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And the land of Egypt shall be made desolate and waste; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD: because he hath said, The river [is] mine, and I have made [it].


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Behold, therefore I [am] against thee and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste [and] desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.


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No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.


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And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries [that are] desolate, and her cities among the cities [that are] laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and will disperse them through the countries.


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Yet thus hath the Lord GOD said: 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 turn to bring [again] the captives of Egypt and will cause them to return [into] the land of Pathros into the land of their habitation, and there they shall be a minor kingdom.


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In comparison with the other kingdoms it shall be humble; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them that they shall no longer rule among the Gentiles.


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And it shall no longer be the confidence of the house of Israel, which brings [their] iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them, but they shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.


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And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,


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Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre; every head [was] made bald, and every shoulder [was] peeled: and yet neither he nor his army had wages of Tyre, for the service that he had served against her.


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Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said; Behold, I give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude and gather her spoil and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.


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I have given him the land of Egypt [for] his labour with which he served against her because they wrought for me, said the Lord GOD.


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In that time I will cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; 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 Gentiles.


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And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and [great] fear shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be destroyed.


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Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.


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Thus hath the LORD said: Those also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down; from the tower of Syene they shall fall in it by the sword, said the Lord GOD.


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And they shall be made desolate among the countries [that are] destroyed, and her cities shall be among the cities [that are] wasted.


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And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt and [when] all her helpers shall be broken.


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In that time messengers shall go forth from me in ships to make the confident Ethiopians afraid, and great fear shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, behold, it comes.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said: I will make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.


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He and his people with him, the strongest of the Gentiles, 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 deliver the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will destroy the land and all that is therein by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said: I will also destroy the images, and I will cause the idols of Menfis to cease; and there shall no longer be a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put fear in the land of Egypt.


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And I will pour my fury upon Pelusio, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.


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And I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusio shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Menfis [shall have] distresses daily.


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The young men of Heliopolis and of Pubasti shall fall by the sword; and these [cities] shall go into captivity.


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At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt; and the pride of her strength shall cease in her; [as for her], a cloud shall cover her, and the inhabitants of her villages shall go into captivity.


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And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first [month], in the seventh [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,


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Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not been bound up with medicine, to bind it that it might be made whole, to make it strong to hold the sword.


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Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I [am] against Pharaoh king of Egypt and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.


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And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand, but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a [man] wounded unto death.


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But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I place my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.


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And I will scatter the Egyptians among the Gentiles and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.:


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And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third [month], in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,


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Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his people. Whom art thou like in thy greatness?


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Behold, the Assyrian [was a] cedar in Lebanon with fair branches and with a shadowing shroud and of a high stature; and his top was [highest] among the thick boughs.


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The waters made him grow; the deep set him up on high; her rivers ran round his feet and sent her flow to all the trees of the field.


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Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of his many waters, which he sent forth.


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All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt many Gentiles.


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He made himself beautiful in his greatness, with the extension of his branches: for his root was by many waters.


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The cedars in the garden of God did not cover him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.


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I have made him beautiful with the multitude of his branches: and all the trees of Eden, that [were] in the garden of God, envied him.


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Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he has shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;


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I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the strong one of the Gentiles; he shall surely deal with him; I have cut him down for his wickedness.


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And strangers, the strong ones of the Gentiles, shall cut him down and shall leave him; his branches shall fall upon the mountains and by all the valleys, and his boughs shall be broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the peoples of the earth shall go forth from his shadow and shall leave him.


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Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:


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to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their tops among the thick boughs, neither in their branches shall all that drink waters stand up in their height: for they shall all be delivered unto death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the sons of men, with those that go down to the grave.


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Thus said the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the many waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted.


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I made the Gentiles to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those that descend into the pit: and all the choice trees of Eden, and the best of Lebanon, all that drink waters, shall be comforted in the lower parts of the earth.


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They also went down into Sheol with him, with those [that were] slain with the sword; and [those that were] his arm, [that] dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the Gentiles.


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To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet thou shalt be cut down with the trees of Eden unto the lower parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with [those that are] slain by the sword. This [is] Pharaoh and all his people, said the Lord GOD.:


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And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,


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Son of man, raise up lamentations upon Pharaoh king of Egypt and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou [art] as the whale in the seas, that dost dry up thy rivers, and trouble the waters with thy feet, and foul their streams.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said: I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many peoples, and they shall bring thee up in my net.


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Then I will leave thee upon the land; I will cast thee forth upon the open field and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.


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I will also water with thy blood the land in which thou dost swim, [even] to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.


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And when thou art dead, I will cover the heavens and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.


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All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark because of thee and set darkness upon thy land, said the Lord GOD.


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I will also make the hearts of many peoples sad when I shall bring thy destruction upon the Gentiles, into the countries which thou hast not known.


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And I will make many peoples amazed at thee and their kings shall be horribly afraid because of thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at [every] moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.


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By the swords of the mighty I will cause thy people to fall; they [shall] all be the strong of the Gentiles and they shall destroy the pride of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be undone.


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I will also destroy all the beasts thereof from upon the many waters; neither shall the foot of man, nor the hoofs of beasts foul them any more.


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When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and the fullness of the land shall be taken away when I shall smite all those that dwell therein, then they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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This [is] the lamentation, and they shall sing it; the daughters of the Gentiles shall sing it: they shall lament over Egypt and over all her multitude, said the Lord GOD.


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It also came to pass in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,


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Son of man, lament over the multitude of Egypt and cast him down and the habitations of the strong Gentiles into the lower parts of the earth with those that go down into the grave.


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They shall fall in the midst of [those that are] slain by the sword; he is delivered to the sword; bring him and all his peoples.


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The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with those that help him: they are gone down; they lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.


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Asshur [is] there and all his company; his graves [are] about him; all of them slain, fallen by the sword:


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whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and his company is round about his grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.


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There [is] Elam and all his multitude round about his grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the lowest [parts] of the earth because they spread their terror in the land of the living; yet they have borne their shame with those that go down to the grave.


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They have set him a bed in the midst of the slain with all his multitude: his graves [are] round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword because they spread their terror in the land of the living, yet they have borne their shame with those that go down to the pit; [he] was put in the midst of the dead.


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There [is] Meshech, Tubal, and all his multitude; his graves [are] round about him, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword because they had caused 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 are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their sins shall be upon their bones because [they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.


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[Yea], thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised and shalt lie with [those that are] slain with the sword.


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There [is] Edom, his kings, and all his princes, which with their might are laid with [those that were] slain by the sword; they shall lie with the uncircumcised and with those that go down to the pit.


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There [are] the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, who are gone down with the slain with their terror, ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with [those that are] slain by the sword and bear their shame with those that 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 slain by the sword, said the Lord GOD.


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Because I have spread my terror in the land of the living, he shall also lay in the midst of the uncircumcised with [those that are] slain with the sword, [even] Pharaoh and all his multitude, said the Lord GOD.:


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Son of man, speak to the sons of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring [a] sword upon the land and the people of the land take a man from [within] their borders and set him up as a watchman;


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and he should see the sword coming upon the land, [if] he should blow the shofar, and warn the people,


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then whoever hears the sound of the shofar and does not take warning; and the coming of the sword should take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.


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He heard the sound of the shofar and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But he that takes warning shall deliver his soul.


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But if the watchman should see the sword coming and not blow the shofar and the people not be warned, if the sword comes and takes [any] person from among them, he is taken away because of his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman's hand.


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So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth and warn them from me.


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When I say unto the wicked, O wicked [man], thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked [man] shall die for his sin; but I will require his blood at thine hand.


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Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, if he does not turn from his way, he shall die for his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.


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Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel: Ye speak thus, saying, Our transgressions and our sins [are] upon us, and we are consumed because of them. How should we then live?


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Say unto them, [As] I live, said the Lord GOD, I do not desire the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and that he live; turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?


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And thou, son of man, say unto the sons of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him the day that he rebels; and the wickedness of the wicked shall not impede him in the day that he turns from his wickedness; and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness [in] the day that he sins.


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When I am saying to the righteous, Thou shalt shall surely live and he trusting in his own righteousness 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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And, when I am saying unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turns from his sin, and does judgment and righteousness


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[if] the wicked restores the pledge, returns that which he had robbed, walks in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity he shall surely live; he shall not die.


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None of his sins that he has committed shall be mentioned unto him. Has he lived according to judgment and righteousness? He shall surely live.


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Then the sons of thy people shall say, The way of the Lord is not straight: [but] their way is the one that is not straight.


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And when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does judgment and righteousness, he shall live thereby.


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Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not straight. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you each one after his ways.


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And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth [month], in the fifth [day of] the month, [that] one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.


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Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening before he that was escaped came, and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and he opened my mouth, and I was never dumb again.


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Son of man, those that inhabit these wastes in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he possessed the land; but we [are] many; the land is given us for a possession.


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Therefore say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said; Ye eat with the blood and lift up your eyes toward your idols and shed blood, and shall ye possess this land?


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Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile each one his neighbour's wife, and shall ye possess the land?


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Thou shalt speak unto them like this, Thus hath the Lord GOD said; [As] I live, surely those that [are] in those wastes shall fall by the sword, and he that [is] in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those that [are] in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.


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For I will make the land into desert and solitude, and the pride of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that no one shall pass through.


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Then they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have made the land into solitude and desert because of all their abominations which they have committed.


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And thou, son of man, the sons of thy people are still talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses and speak one to another, each one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that comes forth from the LORD.


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And they shall come unto thee as the people come, and they shall be before thee, my people, and they shall hear thy words, but they shall not do them; for with their mouth they flatter, [but] their heart goes after their covetousness.


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And, behold, thou [art] unto them as a singer of love [songs], one that has a good voice and can sing well: and they shall hear thy words, but they will not do them.


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But when this comes to pass (behold, it comes), then they shall know that a prophet has been among them.:


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Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and say unto the pastors, Thus hath the Lord GOD said; Woe unto the shepherds of Israel that feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?


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Ye eat the milk, and ye clothe yourselves with the wool, ye kill those that are fat; [but] ye do not feed the flock.


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Ye have not strengthened the weak, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up [that which was] broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty ye have ruled them;


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and they are dispersed because [there is] no shepherd; and they became food to all the beasts of the field, and they were scattered.


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My sheep [were] lost [and] wandered through all the mountains and upon every high hill; my flock was dispersed upon all the face of the earth, and there was no one to search for them or to require [anything] of them.


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[as] I live, said the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became food to every beast of the field, without a pastor, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed my flock;


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I [am] against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any longer; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, and they shall no longer be food for them.


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As the shepherd recognizes his flock in the day that he is among his sheep [that are] scattered, so will I recognize 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 countries and will bring them to their own land and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers and in all the habitations of the country.


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I will feed them in good pastures and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be; there they shall sleep in a good fold, and in fat pastures they shall be fed upon the mountains of Israel.


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I will seek that which was lost and bring again that which was driven away and will bind up [that which was] broken and will strengthen that which was sick but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them in judgment.


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And [as for] you, O my flock, thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between the rams and the he goats.


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[Does it seem] a small thing unto you that ye eat [of] the good pastures, but ye [also] tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and that [in] drinking of the deep waters, ye must also foul the residue with your feet?


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And my sheep eat that which ye have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.


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Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said unto them; Behold, I, [even] I, will judge between the fat sheep and between the lean sheep,


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because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder and pushed all the weak with your horns until ye have scattered them outside.


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And I will raise up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, [even] my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.


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And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken [it].


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And I will establish with them a covenant of peace and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.


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And I will give unto them and to the places round about my hill blessing, and I will cause the rain to come down in its season; they shall be rains of blessing.


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And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her fruit, and they shall be safe in their land and shall know that I [am] the LORD when I have broken the bands of their yoke and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.


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And they shall no longer be a prey to the Gentiles, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and no one shall make [them] afraid.


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And I will raise up for them a Plant by name, and they shall no longer be consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the Gentiles any longer.


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Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God [am] with them and [that] they, [even] the house of Israel, [are] my people, said the Lord GOD.


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and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, O mount Seir, I [am] against thee, and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will make thee waste and solitary.


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Because thou hast had perpetual enmities and hast scattered the sons of Israel to the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the extremely evil time:


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therefore, [as] I live, said the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: and if thou dost not hate blood, blood shall pursue thee.


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And I will make mount Seir waste and solitary and cut off from him, he that passes out and him that returns.


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And I will fill his mountains with his dead; and in thy hills and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, they shall fall that are slain with the sword.


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I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall never be restored; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them, whereas the LORD was there.


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Therefore, [as] I live, said the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy enmity against them; and I shall be known in them when I judge thee.


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And thou shalt know that I, the LORD, have heard all thy injuries which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate; they are given us to devour.


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Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me and have multiplied your words against me; I have heard [them].


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As thou didst rejoice upon the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee; thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, [even] all of it: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.:


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Also, thou son of man, prophesy upon the mountains of Israel and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because the enemy hath said regarding you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession;


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therefore prophesy and say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because they have made [you] desolate and swallowed you up on every side that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the Gentiles, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers and [are] an infamy of the people;


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Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus hath the Lord GOD said to the mountains and to the hills to the rivers and to the valleys, to the ruins and the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken which became a prey and derision to the residue of the Gentiles that [are] round about,


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therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the other Gentiles and against all Idumea, who have disputed my land into their possession with the joy of all [their] heart, with despiteful desires, to cast it out for a prey.


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Prophesy therefore upon the land of Israel and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury because ye have borne the shame of the Gentiles,


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therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: I have lifted up my hand, Surely the Gentiles that [are] about you: they shall bear their shame.


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But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people of Israel, for they are at hand to come.


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and I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, [even] all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the ruins shall be built.


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And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall multiply and grow; and I will cause thee to dwell as was thy desire of old and will do better [unto you] than at your beginnings; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And I will cause men to walk upon you, [even] my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and from now on thou shalt no longer bereave them [of sons].


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because they say of you, Thou [land that] devours up men and hast bereaved thy nations of sons,


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therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations of sons any more, saith the Lord GOD.


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Neither will I cause [men] to hear in thee the shame of the Gentiles any longer, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither shalt thou cause the sons of thy inhabitants to die any longer, saith the Lord GOD.


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Son of man, the house of Israel which dwells in their land has defiled it with their own ways and with their works; their way was before me as the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.


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And I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols [with which] they had polluted it:


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And I scattered them among the Gentiles, and they were dispersed through the countries; according to their ways and according to their doings I judged them.


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And when they entered unto the Gentiles, where they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These [are] the people of the LORD and are gone forth out of his land.


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And it has pained me to see my holy name profaned by the house of Israel among the Gentiles where they went.


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Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: I do not [do this] for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the Gentiles, where ye went.


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And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the Gentiles, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the Gentiles shall know that I [am] the LORD, said the Lord GOD when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.


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And I will take you from among the Gentiles and gather you out of all countries and will bring you into your own land.


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And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.


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And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit will I put 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 commandments, and ye shall keep my rights, and do [them].


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And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.


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I will also keep you from all your uncleanness: and I will call to the wheat and will multiply it and lay no famine upon you.


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I will multiply likewise the fruit of the trees, and the fruit of the fields, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the Gentiles.


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Then ye shall remember your own evil ways and your doings that [were] not good and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.


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Not for your sakes do I [do this], said the Lord GOD, be it known unto you; be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.


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Thus said the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed 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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who said, This desolate land used to be like the garden of Eden; and these waste and desolate and ruined cities used to be fortified.


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And the Gentiles that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD built the ruined [places and] planted that which was desolate; I the LORD have spoken [it], and I will do it.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said; I will yet be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do [it] for them; I will multiply men like flocks.


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As the holy sheep, as the sheep of Jerusalem in her solemn 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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And the hand of the LORD was upon me and took me out in the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the midst of a field which [was] full of bones,


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and caused me to pass by them round about; and, behold, [there were] very many upon the face of the field; and [they were] very dry.


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Then he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones hear the word of the LORD.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said unto these bones: Behold, I will cause spirit to enter into you, and ye shall live:


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And I will lay nerves upon you and will bring up flesh upon you and cover you with skin and put spirit in you, and ye shall live; and ye 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 thunder, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.


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And I beheld, and behold nerves upon them and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but [there was] no spirit in them.


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Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the spirit, prophesy, son of man, and say to the spirit, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Come from the four winds, O spirit, and breathe upon these slain, and they shall live.


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And I prophesied as he commanded me, and the spirit entered into them, and they lived and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.


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Then he said unto me, Son of man, all these bones are the house of Israel; behold, they say, Our bones have dried, and our hope is lost, and in ourselves we are totally cut off.


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Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, O my people, I open your graves and will cause you to come up out of your graves and bring you into the land of Israel.


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And ye shall know that I [am] the LORD when I have opened your graves, O my people and brought you up out of your graves


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and shall put my Spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall cause you to rest upon your [own] land; then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken [it] and performed [it], said the LORD.


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Thou, son of man, take one stick and write upon it: To Judah, and to the sons of Israel his companions; then take another stick and write upon it: To Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and to all the house of Israel his companions:


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And when the sons of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not show us what thou [meanest] by these?


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Say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I take the stick of Joseph, which [is] in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows and will put them with him, [even] with the stick of Judah and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.


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And thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said; Behold, I take the sons of Israel from among the Gentiles, where they be gone and will gather them on every side and bring them into their [own] land;


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and I will make them one nation in the land in the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall no longer be two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:


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neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their abominations, nor with all their rebellions, but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, in which they have sinned and will cleanse them, so they shall be my people, and I will be their God.


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And David my servant [shall be] king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd; they shall also walk within my rights and keep my statutes and do them.


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And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, in which your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, [even] they and their sons and their son's sons for ever; and my servant David [shall be] their prince for ever.


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Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will plant them and multiply them and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.


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And the Gentiles shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.:


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Son of man, set thy face against Gog in [the] land of Magog, prince of the capital of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy over him,


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and say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I [come] unto thee, O Gog, prince of the capital of Meshech and Tubal;


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and I will break thee and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts [of armour], [even] a great company [with] bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:


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Gomer and all his companies; the house of Togarmah that dwells to the sides of the north and all his companies [and] many peoples with thee.


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Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.


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After many days thou shalt be visited; at the end of years thou shalt come to the land broken by the sword, gathered out of many peoples, to the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste; but she is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.


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Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm; thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy companies and many peoples with thee.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said: It shall also come to pass in that day, that words shall rise up in thy heart, and thou shalt conceive an evil thought:


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and thou shalt say, I will go up against the land of unwalled villages; I will go [against] those that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,


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to take a spoil and to take a prey, to turn thine hand upon the desolate places [that are now] inhabited and upon the people [that are] gathered out of the Gentiles, who have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the navel of the land.


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Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?


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Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog: Thus hath the Lord GOD said: In that time when my people of Israel shall dwell securely, shalt thou not know [it]?


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And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many peoples with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:


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and thou shalt come up against my people of Israel as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be at the end of the days, and [I]will bring thee upon my land, that the Gentiles may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said: [Art] thou not he of whom I have spoken in days past by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those times that I would have to bring thee upon them?


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And it shall come to pass in that time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, said the Lord GOD, [that] my fury shall rise up in my anger.


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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 shaking upon the land of Israel,


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so that the fishes of the sea and the fowls of the heaven and the beasts of the field and every serpent that walks by dragging [itself] upon the earth, and all the men that [are] upon the face of the earth, shall shake before my presence, and the mountains shall be ruined, and the stairs shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.


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And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, said the Lord GOD: each man's sword shall be against his brother.


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And I will litigate against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him and upon his companies and upon the many peoples that [are] with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.


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And I will be magnified and sanctified, and I will be known in the eyes of many Gentiles, and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.:


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Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I [am] against thee, O Gog, prince of the capital of Meshech and Tubal;


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and I will break thee, and leave but the sixth part of thee and will cause thee to come up from the north parts and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:


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and I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.


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Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy companies and the peoples that [go] with thee; I have given thee unto every bird and unto everything that flies and [to] the beasts of the field as food.


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And I will send a fire on Magog, and among those that dwell securely in the isles: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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So I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not [let them] pollute my holy name any more; and the Gentiles shall know that I [am] the LORD, Holy in Israel.


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And those that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth and shall set on fire and burn weapons, and shields and bucklers, bows and arrows, and handstaves, and spears, and they shall burn them in [the] fire for seven years:


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so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down [any] out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons in the fire; and they shall spoil those that spoiled them and rob those that robbed them, said the Lord GOD.


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And it shall come to pass in that day [that] I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the [noses] of the passengers; and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call [it] The valley of Hamongog.


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All the people of the land shall bury [them]; and it shall be to them a renown, the day that I shall be glorified, said the Lord GOD.


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And they shall take men out of continual employment, who shall go through the land with the passengers to bury those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it; after the end of seven months they shall search.


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And the passengers [that] pass through the land, when [any] sees a man's bone, then he shall set up a sign by it, until the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.


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And, thou son of man, thus hath the Lord GOD said: Speak unto every bird, unto everything that flies, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, [even] a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.


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Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of he goats, of oxen, and of bulls, all of them fattened in Bashan.


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And ye shall eat fat until ye are full, and drink blood until ye are drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.


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Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and strong chariots, and with all [the] men of war, said the Lord GOD.


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And I will set my glory among the Gentiles, and all the Gentiles shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.


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And the Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity because they rebelled against me, and 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 rebellions have I done unto them and hid my face from them.


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Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: Now I will turn the captivity of Jacob and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel and will be jealous for my holy name.


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After they shall feel their shame and all their rebellion by which they have rebelled against me when they dwelt safely in their land, and no one made [them] afraid.


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When I bring them again from the peoples and gather them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many Gentiles.


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And they shall know that I [am] the LORD their God when after causing them to be led into captivity among the Gentiles; I shall gather them unto their own land, without leaving any of them there any longer.


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Neither will I hide my face any longer from them, for I will pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, said the Lord GOD.:


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In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was smitten, in that same day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me there.


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In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel and set me upon a very high mountain, upon which [was] as the frame of a city to the south.


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And he brought me there, and, behold, [there was] a man, whose appearance [was] like the appearance of brass, with 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 unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes and hear with thine ears and set thine heart upon all that I show thee for to the intent that I might show [them] unto thee [art] thou brought here: declare all that thou dost see to the house of Israel.


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And behold a wall on the outside of the house, and the measuring reed which that man had in his hand, was six cubits [long], of a cubit and a hand breadth; so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.


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Then he came unto the gate which looks toward the east and went up the stairs thereof and measured the post of the gate, [which was] one reed broad; and the other post [of the gate], [which was] one reed broad.


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And [each] chamber [was] one reed long and one reed broad; and between the chambers [were] five cubits; and [each] post of the gate by the porch of the gate within [was] one reed.


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Then he measured the entrance of the portal, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the entrance of the portal within.


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And the gate eastward [had] three chambers on each side, they three [were] of one measure; and the portals were also of one measure on each side.


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And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; [and] the length of the portal, thirteen cubits.


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The space also before the chambers [was] one cubit [on this side], and the space [was] one cubit on that side; and the chambers [were] six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.


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He measured then the gate from the roof of [one] chamber to the roof of another; the breadth [was] twenty-five cubits, door against door.


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And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate [were] fifty cubits.


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And [there were] narrow windows in the chambers, and in their portals within the gate round about, and likewise in the arches; and the windows [were] round about inward; and upon [each] post [were] palm trees.


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Then he brought me into the outer court, and, behold, [there were] chambers and a pavement made for the court round about; thirty chambers [were] in that court.


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And the lower pavement [was] paved to the side of the gates, in proportion to the length of the portals.


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Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, one hundred cubits eastward and northward.


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And the gate of the outer court that looked toward the north, he measured the length thereof and the breadth thereof.


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And its chambers [were] three on this side and three on that side; and its posts and its arches were after the measure of the first gate; its length [was] fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.


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And their windows and their arches and their palm trees [were] after the measure of the gate that looks toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and its arches [were] before them.


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And the gate of the inner court [was] over against the gate toward the north and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate one hundred cubits.


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After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south; and he measured its portals and its arches according to these measures.


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And [there were] windows in it and in its arches round about, like those windows; the length [was] fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.


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And [there were] seven steps to go up to it, and its arches [were] before them; and it had palm trees, one on this side and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.


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And [thus was the] gate in the inner court toward the south; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south one 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 chambers, and its posts and its arches according to these measures; and [there were] windows in it and in its arches round about; [it was] fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits broad.


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And its arches [went] into the court outside, with palm trees upon [each of] its posts; and the going up to it [had] eight steps.


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And he brought me into the inner court toward the east; and he measured the gate according to these measures.


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And its chambers and its posts and its arches [were] according to these measures; and [there were] windows therein and in its arches round about; [it was] fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits broad.


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And its arches [went] into the court outside, with palm trees upon [each of] its posts, on this side and on that side; and the going up to it [had] eight steps.


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its chambers, its posts and its arches and the windows to it round about: the length [was] fifty cubits and the breadth twenty-five cubits.


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And its posts [were] toward the outer court; with palm trees upon [each of] its posts, on this side and on that side: and the going up to it [had] eight steps.


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And [there was] a chamber and its gate with posts of portals, there they shall wash the burnt offering.


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And in the porch of the gate [were] two tables on this side and two tables on that side, to slay the burnt offering upon and the sin and the guilt.


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And to the outside of the steps at the entry of the north gate [were] two tables; and on the other side, which [was] at the porch of the gate, [were] two tables.


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Four tables [were] on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of this gate; eight tables, upon which they slew [their sacrifices].


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And the four tables [were] of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high; upon which they also laid the instruments with which they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.


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And within [were] hooks, a hand broad, fastened round about; and upon the tables [was] the flesh of the offering.


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And outside the inner gate [were] the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which [was] at the side of the north gate; and they faced toward the south, one at the side of the east gate facing toward the north.


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And he said unto me, This chamber facing toward the south [shall be] for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.


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And the chamber facing toward the north [shall be] for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar; these [are] the sons of Zadok who are called from the sons of Levi to minister to the LORD.


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So he measured the court, one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar [that was] before the house.


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And he brought me to the porch of the house and measured [each] post of the porch five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side; and the breadth of the gate [was] three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side.


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The length of the porch [was] twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits, into which they went in by steps; and [there were] pillars by the posts, one on this side and another on that side.:


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Afterward he brought me to the temple and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, [which was] the breadth of the arch.


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And the breadth of [each] door [was] ten cubits, and the sides of the door [were] five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side; and he measured its length, forty cubits; and its breadth, twenty cubits.


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Then he went inward and measured [each] post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.


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So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple; and he said unto me, This [is] the most holy [place].


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After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of the chambers, four cubits, round about the house on every side.


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And the chambers [were] one over another, and thirty-three by order; and they entered [supports] into the wall of the house round about, upon which the chambers might have hold, but they did not have hold upon the wall of the house.


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And [there was] an enlarging and a winding about in the chambers to the highest [part]; for the winding about of the house [went] very high round about [inside] the house; therefore the house [had greater] breadth upward, and from the lowest chamber it rose to the highest by the one in the middle.


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I saw also the height of the house round about; the foundations of the chambers [were] a full reed of six great cubits.


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The thickness of the outside wall of the chambers [was] five cubits; and the space that was left of the chambers that [were] within.


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And the door of each chamber [was] toward the space that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south; and the breadth of the space that was left [was] five cubits round about.


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Now the building that [was] before the separate place to the side toward the west [was] seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building [was] five cubits thick round about, and its length ninety cubits.


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So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long;


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also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the south, one hundred cubits.


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And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which [was] behind it, and its chambers on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the portals of the court.


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The thresholds, and the narrow windows, and the chambers, three around about to the front, all covered with wood round about from the ground up to the windows, and the windows [were also] covered.


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Above over the door, and unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, he took measurements.


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And [the wall] was decorated with cherubim and palm trees, so that a palm tree [was] between a cherub and a cherub; and [each] cherub had two faces;


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so that the face of a man [was] toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a lion toward the palm tree on the other side, through all the house round about.


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From the ground unto above the door cherubim and palm trees [were] made, and [upon] the entire wall of the temple.


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The altar of wood [was] three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and its corners, and the surface thereof, and its walls, [were] of wood; and he said unto me, This is the table that [is] before the LORD.


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And the doors had two leaves [apiece], two turning leaves; two [leaves] for the one door, and two leaves for the other [door].


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And [there were] made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like as [were] made upon the walls; and [there were] thick planks upon the face of the porch without.


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And [there were] narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and of the house, and upon the beams.:


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Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north; and he brought me into the chamber that [was] over against the space which [was] in front of the building toward the north.


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Over against the twenty [cubits] which [were] in the inner court, and over against the pavement which [was] in the outer court, [were] the chambers in three [stories].


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And in front of the chambers [was] a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.


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Now the upper chambers [were] shorter; for the galleries took away from the others, from the lower ones and from the middle ones.


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For they [were] in three [stories], but did not have pillars as the pillars of the courts; therefore they were narrower than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.


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And the wall that [was] without over against the chambers, toward the outer court in front of the chambers, [was] fifty cubits long.


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For the length of the chambers that [were] in the outer court [was] fifty cubits; and before the front of the temple [were] one hundred cubits.


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And under these chambers [was] the entry [to the temple] on the east side, to enter in to it from the outer court.


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All along the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and in front of the building [were] chambers.


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And the way before them [was] like the appearance of the chambers which [were] toward the north, as long as they, [and] as broad as they; and all their goings out [were] both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.


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And according to the doors of the chambers that [were] toward the south [was] a door in the head of the way, [even] the way directly in front of the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.


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Then he said unto me, The north chambers [and] the south chambers, which [are] before the separate place, they [are] holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the holy offerings; there they shall lay the holy offerings, and the present, and [that which was offered as] sin, and as guilt; for the place [is] holy.


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When the priests enter therein, then they shall not go out of the holy [place] into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister; for they [are] holy; and shall put on other garments, and in this manner shall approach unto that which [is] of the people.


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Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate facing toward the east and measured it round about.


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He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.


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He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred [reeds] long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.:


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And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel that was coming from the east; and his noise [was] like the noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.


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And [it was] according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, [even] according to the vision that 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 upon my face.


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So the Spirit took me up and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.


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And he said unto me, Son of man, [this is] the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, in which I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel for ever, and my holy name, the house of Israel shall no longer defile, [neither] they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcasses of their kings in their altars.


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In their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their post by my post, and [a] wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed; therefore I have consumed them in my anger.


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Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcasses of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.


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Thou son of man, show this house to the house of Israel that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them understand the pattern.


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And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, show them the form of the house, and its pattern, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all its figures, and all its descriptions, and all its paintings, and all its laws; and write [it] in their sight that they may keep the whole form thereof and all the ordinances thereof and do them.


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This [is] the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain [it shall be built]; the whole limit thereof round about [shall be] most holy. Behold, this [is] the law of the house.


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And these [are] the measures of the altar in cubits: The cubit [is] a cubit and a hand breadth; the middle [rim], one cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about of a span. This shall be the high bottom of the altar.


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And from the middle [rim] of the ground [even] to the lower settle, two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle to the greater settle, four cubits, and the breadth a cubit.


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And the patio [was] fourteen [cubits] long and fourteen broad on all four sides; and the border about it [was] half a cubit; and the middle which had a [rim] of a cubit on all sides; and its stairs were toward the east.


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And he said unto me, Son of man, thus hath the Lord GOD said: These [are] the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.


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And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, said the Lord GOD, a young bullock as sin.


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And thou shalt take of its blood and put [it] on the four horns of [the altar] and on the four corners of the patio and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou remove the sin and reconcile it.


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Then thou shalt take the bullock of the sin and burn it according to the law of the house, outside the sanctuary.


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And on the second day thou shalt offer a he goat without blemish as sin; and they shall remove the sin from the altar, as they removed [it] with the bullock.


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When thou hast finished removing the sin, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish and a ram out of the flock without blemish.


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And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up [for] a burnt offering unto the LORD.


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Seven days shalt thou prepare each day a he goat as sin; and a young bullock and a ram out of the flock, without blemish, shall they sacrifice.


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Seven days shall they atone the altar, and they shall cleanse it; and they shall extend their hands.


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And when these days are expired, it shall be, [that] upon the eighth day, and [so] forward, the priests shall sacrifice your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, said the Lord GOD.:


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Then he brought me back toward the outer gate of the sanctuary which looks toward the east; and it [was] shut.


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Then the LORD said unto me: This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.


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[It is] for the prince; the prince, he 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 way of the same.


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Then he brought me toward the north gate in front of the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD; and I fell upon my face.


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And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, pay attention, and behold with thine eyes and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD and all its laws; and pay attention to the entering in of the house and to every going forth from the sanctuary.


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And thou shalt say to the rebellious, [even] to the house of Israel, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: O ye house of Israel, let all your abominations cease.


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In that ye have brought [into my sanctuary] strangers, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh to be in my sanctuary to pollute it, [even] my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.


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And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things; but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said; No son of a stranger, uncircumcised in heart nor uncircumcised in flesh shall enter into my sanctuary, of any sons of strangers that [are] among the sons of Israel.


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And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall bear their iniquity.


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Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, gatekeepers at the gates of the house, and servants in the house; they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to serve them.


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Because they served them before their idols and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore I have lifted up my hand regarding them, said the Lord GOD, that they shall bear their iniquity.


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And they shall not come near unto me, to serve me as priests, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to my most holy things: 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 the service thereof and for all that shall be done therein.


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But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the sons of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, said the Lord GOD.


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They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.


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And it shall come to pass, [that] when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court and within.


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They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads and shall have linen underwear upon their loins; they shall not gird [themselves] with any thing that causes sweat.


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And when they go forth into the outer court, [even] into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they ministered and lay them in the chambers of the sanctuary, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.


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Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only cut their hair.


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Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.


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And they shall teach my people [the difference] between the holy and profane and teach them to discern between the clean and the unclean.


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And in controversy they shall stand to judge; [and] they shall judge it according to my rights; and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my [solemn] assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.


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And they shall come near no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that has had no husband, they may defile themselves.


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And in the day that he goes into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin, said the Lord GOD.


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And [this] shall be unto them for an inheritance: I shall be their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I [am] their possession.


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They shall eat the present, and that [which was offered] as sin, and that [which was offered] as guilt they shall eat; and every dedicated thing [unto God] in Israel shall be theirs.


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And the first of all the firstfruits of all [things], and every offering of all, of every [sort] of your offerings, shall be the priest's; ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.


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The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.:


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Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall separate a lot for the LORD of the land which ye shall consecrate: the length [shall be] the length of twenty-five thousand [reeds], and the breadth [shall be] ten thousand. This [shall be] holy in all its borders round about.


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Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred [in length], with five hundred [in breadth], square round about; and fifty cubits round about for its suburbs.


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And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of twenty-five thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand; and in it shall be the sanctuary [and] the most holy [place].


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The holy [portion] of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which are chosen to minister unto the LORD; and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.


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And [another] twenty-five thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession, with twenty chambers.


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And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and twenty-five thousand long, in front of that which was separated for the sanctuary; it shall be for the whole house of Israel.


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And [the portion] of the prince shall be on the one side and on the other side of that which was separated for the sanctuary, and next to the possession of the city, in front of that which was separated for the sanctuary, and in front of the possession of the city, from the west corner westward, unto the east corner eastward: and the length [shall be] from one side to the other, from the west corner unto the east corner.


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He shall have this land for possession in Israel: and my princes shall no longer oppress my people; but they shall give the land unto the house of Israel according to their tribes.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel, remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and righteousness, take away your exactions from my people, said the Lord GOD.


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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: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.


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And the shekel [shall be] twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, with twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.


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This [is] the offering that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of a homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of a homer of barley.


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The ordinance concerning the oil [shall be that ye shall offer] a bath of oil, which is the tenth part of the cor, [which is] a homer of ten baths; for ten baths [are] a homer:


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and one [female] lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a sacrifice, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for you, said the Lord GOD.


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And it shall be the prince's part [to give] the burnt offering and the sacrifice and the drink offering in the solemnities and in the new moons and in the sabbaths in all the feasts of the house of Israel: he shall offer the sin, and the present and the burnt offering and the peace offerings to reconcile the house of Israel.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said: In the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock, without blemish, and remove the sin from the sanctuary.


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And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin and put [it] upon the posts of the house and upon the four corners of the patio of the altar and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.


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And so thou shalt do [until] the seventh [day] of the month for each one that errs, and for [him that is] deceived; so shall ye reconcile the house.


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In the first [month], in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.


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And upon that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a calf as sin.


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And in [all] seven days of the solemnity he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven calves and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a he goat daily as sin.


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And he shall prepare a present of an [ephah of fine flour] for a calf, and an ephah with every ram, and for every ephah a hin of oil.


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In the seventh [month], in the fifteenth day of the month, he shall offer [again] in the feast of the seven days, the sin, the burnt offering, the present, and the oil.:


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said: The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; and the day of the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the same manner it shall be opened the day of the new moon.


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And the prince shall enter from outside by the way of the porch of [that] gate and shall stand by the threshold of the gate (while the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings), and he shall worship at the entrance of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.


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Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.


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And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the day of the sabbath [shall be] six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.


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And the present [shall be] an ephah [of fine flour] for each ram and the present for each lamb as he shall be able to give, and a hin of oil for each ephah.


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But in the day of the new moon [it shall be] a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without blemish.


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And he shall prepare a present of an ephah [of fine flour] with the calf, and [another] ephah with each ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and a hin of oil with each ephah.


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And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of [that] gate, and he shall go forth by the [same] way thereof.


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But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that enters in by the way of the north gate [to worship] shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that enters by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate; he shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go forth opposite it.


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And the prince, when they go in, he shall go in, in the midst of them; and when they go forth, he shall go forth.


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And in the feasts and in the solemnities the present shall be an ephah [of fine flour] with each calf, and another ephah with [each] ram, and with the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil with [each] ephah.


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Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, they shall open him the gate that looks toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the day of the Sabbath; then he shall go forth; and after his going forth they shall shut the gate.


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Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD [of] a lamb of the first year without blemish; thou shalt prepare it each morning.


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And thou shalt prepare a present with it each morning, the sixth part of an ephah [of fine flour], and the third part of a hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; [this shall be] a present for the LORD continually by [a] perpetual ordinance.


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Thus shall they prepare the lamb and the present and the oil each morning [for] a continual burnt offering.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said: If the prince gives a gift of his inheritance unto any of his sons, it [shall be] theirs; the possession thereof [shall be] by inheritance.


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But if he gives a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his until the year of liberty; when it shall return to the prince; but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them.


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And the prince shall take nothing from the people's inheritance, that he not defraud them of their possession; [but] he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession that my people not be scattered each one from his possession.


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After he brought me through the entry, which [was] at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north; and, behold, there [was] a place on the two sides westward.


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Then he said unto me, This [is] the place where the priests shall boil that [which was offered as] guilt and that [which was offered as] sin, where they shall bake the present; that they not bear [them] out into the outer court, to sanctify the people.


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Then he brought me forth into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in each corner of the court [there was] a patio.


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In the four corners of the court [there were] patios joined of forty [cubits] long and thirty broad; these four corners [were] of one measure.


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And [there was] a wall round about in them, round about those four, and [it was] made with fire places all around the palaces.


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Then said he unto me, These [are] the quarters of the cooks, where the servers of the house shall cook the sacrifice of the people.:


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Afterward he made me return to the entrance of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house [stood toward] the east, and the waters came down from under towards the right side of the house, to the south [side] of the altar.


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Then he brought me out by the way of the north gate and led me by the way outside the gate, outside to the way that looks eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.


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And when the man went forth eastward, [he had] a line in his hand, and he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters [were] to the ankles.


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Again he measured a thousand and brought me through the waters; the waters [were] to the knees. Again he measured a thousand and brought me through; the waters [were] to the loins.


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Afterward he measured a thousand; [and it was] a river that I could not pass over; for the waters were risen; a river that could not be passed over without swimming.


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And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen [this]? Then he brought me and caused me to return to the brink of the river.


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And as I turned, behold, at the bank of the river [were] very many trees on the one side and on the other.


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Then he said unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country and shall go down into the desert and go into the sea: [which being] brought forth into the sea, the waters [of the sea] shall be healed.


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And it shall come to pass, [that] every living soul, which swims wherever these two rivers shall come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because of these waters going there: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live that shall enter into this river.


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And it shall come to pass, [that] the fishermen shall stand next to it; and from Engedi even unto Eneglaim there shall be a [place] to spread forth nets; according to their kinds, their fish shall be as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.


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But the miry places thereof and the marshes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.


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And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow every [fruitful] tree for food, whose leaf shall not fall, neither shall its fruit be lacking; it shall bring forth mature fruit in its months, because their waters come forth out of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for medicine.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD said: This is the border, by which ye shall divide the land in inheritance among to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph [shall have two] portions.


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And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another, [concerning] that which I lifted up my hand that I must give it unto your fathers: therefore, this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.


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And this [shall be] the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;


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Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which [is] between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which [is] by the coast of Hauran.


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And the border of the north shall be from the sea of Hazarenan to the border of Damascus to the north, and to the border of Hamath to the side of the north.


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And to the east side through Hauran, and Damascus, and Gilead, and through the land of Israel to the Jordan, ye shall measure this from the border unto the east sea.


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And to the south side southward from Tamar [even] to the waters of strife; from Kadesh and the river to the great sea. And [this shall be] the south side southward.


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And to the west side the great sea shall be the border straight unto Hamath. This [shall be] the west side.


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And it shall come to pass, [that] ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, who have begotten sons among you; and they shall be unto you as native born among the sons of Israel; they shall have cast lots with you to inherit among the tribes of Israel.


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And it shall come to pass, [that] in the tribe in which the stranger sojourns, there shall ye give [him] his inheritance, said the Lord GOD.:


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Now these [are] the names of the tribes. From the side of the north by the way of Hethlon, as one goes to Hamath, Hazarenan, to the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; Dan shall have a [portion], his sides being to the east and to the west.


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And next to the border of Dan, from the east side unto the side of the sea, Asher shall have a [portion].


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And next to the border of Asher, from the east side unto the side of the sea, a [portion for] Naphtali.


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And next to the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the side of the sea, a [portion for] Manasseh.


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And next to the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the side of the sea, a [portion for] Ephraim.


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And next to the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the side of the sea, a [portion for] Reuben.


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And next to the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the side of the sea, a [portion for] Judah.


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And next to the border of Judah, from the east side unto the side of the sea, shall be the lot which ye shall set apart of twenty-five thousand [reeds in] breadth, and [in] length as one of the [other] portions; [that is], from the east side unto the side of the sea: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.


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The lot that ye shall separate unto the LORD [shall be] of twenty-five thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.


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And from there shall be the holy lot of the priests; toward the north twenty-five thousand [reeds in length], and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof.


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The priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, which have kept my charge, which did not go astray when the sons of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.


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They shall receive [by lot], separated in the dividing of the land, the most holy part, next to the border of the Levites.


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And the [portion] of the Levites, [shall be] in front the border of the priests, of twenty-five thousand [reeds] in length, and of ten thousand in breadth; all the length [shall be] twenty-five thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.


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They shall not sell of it, neither exchange nor transpose the firstfruits of the land; for [it is] consecrated unto the LORD.


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And the five thousand [reeds], that are left in the breadth over against the twenty-five thousand, shall be profane, for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.


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And these [shall be] the measures thereof: the north side four thousand five hundred [reeds], and the south side four thousand five hundred, and on the east side four thousand five hundred, and the west side four thousand five hundred.


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And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty [reeds], and toward the west two hundred and fifty.


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And the residue in length over against the lot of the holy [portion shall be] ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: which shall be [what is left] of the lot of the holy [portion]; it shall be for food unto those that serve the city.


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All the lot of twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand square: ye shall separate by lot for the sanctuary and for the possession of the city.


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And the residue [shall be] for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy lot, and of the possession of the city, over against the twenty-five thousand [reeds] of the [holy] lot unto the east border, and westward over against the twenty-five thousand unto the west border, over against the [said] portions shall be of the prince; and it shall be a holy lot; and the sanctuary of the house [shall be] in the midst thereof.


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Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, in the midst [shall be] that which belongs to the prince, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be [the lot] of the prince.


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As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the side of the sea, Benjamin [shall have] a [portion].


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And next to the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the side of the sea, Simeon [shall have] a [portion].


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And next to the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the side of the sea, Issachar a [portion].


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And next to the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the side of the sea, Zebulun a [portion].


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And next to the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be from Tamar unto the waters of strife, and [from] Kadesh, [and] the river unto the great sea.


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This [is] the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these [are] their portions, said the Lord GOD.


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And these [are] the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand five hundred [reeds] by measure.


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And the gates of the city [shall be] according to the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, another; the gate of Levi, another.


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And at the east side four thousand five hundred [reeds]: and three gates; the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, another; the gate of Dan, another.


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And at the south side four thousand five hundred [reeds] by measure: and three gates; the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, another; the gate of Zebulun, another.


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At the west side four thousand five hundred [reeds], and their three gates; the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, another; the gate of Naphtali, another.


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[It was] round about eighteen thousand [reeds]: and the name of the city from that day shall be, THE LORD IS HERE.:


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In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto Jerusalem and besieged it.


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And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand with part of the vessels of the house of God which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.


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And the king spoke unto Ashpenaz the prince of his eunuchs, that he should bring [certain] of the sons of Israel of the royal lineage of the princes,


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young men in whom [there was] no blemish whatsoever but [who were] good looking and taught in all wisdom and wise in knowledge and of good understanding, and that [had] strength in them to stand in the king's palace, that they might be taught the letters and speech of the Chaldeans.


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And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's food and of the wine which he drank, so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.


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unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel [the name] of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abednego.


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And Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's food, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.


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And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink; for when he shall see your faces more downcast than the [other] young men who [are] like unto you, then ye shall condemn my head before the king.


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Then Daniel said to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,


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Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenances of the young men that eat of the portion of the king's food; and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.


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And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than the young men who ate the portion of the king's food.


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Thus Melzar took the portion of their food and the wine that they should drink and gave them vegetables.


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And unto these four young men, God gave them knowledge and intelligence in all letters and science; furthermore Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.


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Now at the end of the days after which the king had said he should bring them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.


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And the king communed with them, and none among them all was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; and [therefore] they stood before the king.


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And in all matters of wisdom [and] intelligence, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians [and] astrologers that [were] in all his realm.


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And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, with which his spirit was troubled, and his sleep fled from him.


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Then the king commanded to call magicians, astrologers, enchanters, and Chaldeans, that they might show the king his dreams. So they came and presented themselves before the king.


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And the king said unto them, I have dreamed [a] dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.


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Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever; tell thy servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.


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The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from my [memory]; if ye will not make known unto me the dream with its interpretation, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.


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But if ye show the dream and its interpretation, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore show me the dream, and its interpretation.


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They answered the second time and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation of it.


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The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain time because ye see the thing is gone from my memory.


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But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, [there is but] one decree for you for ye certainly prepare lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the time is changed; therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can show me its interpretation.


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The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can show the king's matter; furthermore [there is] no king, prince, nor lord [that] asked such a thing of any magician or astrologer or Chaldean.


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Finally, the thing that the king requires is singular, and there is no one that can show it before the king except the angels [of God], whose dwelling is not with flesh.


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For this cause the king was angry and very furious and commanded to destroy all the wise [men] of Babylon.


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And the decree went forth, and the wise [men] were taken to be slain, and they sought Daniel and his fellows to kill them.


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Then Daniel spoke with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, who was gone forth to slay the wise [men] of Babylon.


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He spoke and said to Arioch the king's captain, What is the reason for which this decree has gone forth from the king with such haste? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.


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And Daniel went in, and asked the king that he give him time and that he would show the king the interpretation.


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Then Daniel went to his house and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions,


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to petition mercies of the God of heaven concerning this mystery and that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise [men]of Babylon.


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Then the mystery was revealed unto Daniel in a night vision for which Daniel blessed the God of heaven.


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and it is he that changes the times and the opportunities; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom unto the wise and knowledge unto those that know understanding:


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He reveals that which is deep and hidden; he knows what [is] in darkness, and the light dwells with him.


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Unto thee, O God of my fathers, do I confess and give thee praise that thou hast given me wisdom and might and now hast shown me what we asked of thee, for thou hast shown us the king's matter.


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After this Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise [men] of Babylon; he went and said thus unto him, Do not destroy the wise [men] of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will show unto the king the interpretation.


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Then Arioch brought Daniel in before the king in haste and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah that will make known unto the king the interpretation.


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The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name [was] Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make me understand the dream which I have seen and its interpretation?


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Daniel answered in the presence of the king and said, The mystery which the king demands cannot be shown unto the king by wise [men], astrologers, magicians, nor fortune-tellers.


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But there is [a] God in the heavens who reveals the mysteries, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall happen at the end of days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, is this:


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Thou, O king, in thy bed, thy thoughts rose up to know what should come to pass in the future; and he that reveals the mysteries showed thee what shall come to pass.


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And unto me this mystery has been revealed, not for [any] wisdom that is in me more than in all those living but that I notify the interpretation to the king and that thou might understand the thoughts of thy heart.


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Thou, O king, didst see and behold a great image. This image, which was very large and whose glory was very sublime, stood before thee, and its form [was] terrible.


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The head of this image [was] of fine gold, its breasts and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,


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Thou didst see until a stone was cut out, not with hands, which smote the image upon its feet [that were] of iron and baked clay and broke them to pieces.


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Then was the iron, the baked clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces together and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away that no place was found for them again; and the stone that smote the image was made into a great mountain that filled the whole earth.


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Thou, O king, [art] king of kings, for the God of heaven has given thee the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the majesty.


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And everything that is inhabited by children of men, beasts of the field, and fowls of the heaven, [he] has given into thine hand, and has made thee ruler over them all. Thou [art] this head of gold.


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And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the land.


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And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron; and as iron breaks in pieces and subdues all [things], and as iron that breaks all these things, it shall break in pieces and bruise.


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And whereas thou didst see the feet and toes, part of baked potters' clay and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divisive; but there shall be in it [some] of the strength of the iron, such as thou didst see the iron mixed with baked clay.


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And [as] the toes of the feet [were] part of iron and part of baked clay, [so] the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly fragile.


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Concerning that which thou didst see, the iron mixed with baked clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men, but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron does not mix with clay.


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And in the days of those kings the God of heaven shall raise up a kingdom which eternally shall never become corrupted, and this kingdom shall not be left to another people, [but] it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.


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In the manner which thou didst see that out of the mountain was cut one stone, not with hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has shown the king what shall come to pass hereafter; and the dream is true, and its interpretation sure.


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Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face and humbled himself before Daniel and commanded that they should sacrifice presents and sweet odours unto him.


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The king answered unto Daniel and said, Certainly the God [that is] your God [is] God of gods and the Lord of the kings and the revealer of the mysteries, seeing thou could reveal this mystery.


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Then the king magnified Daniel and gave him many and great gifts and made him governor over the whole province of Babylon and prince of the governors over all the wise [men] of Babylon.


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And Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel [was] at the gate of the king.:


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Nebuchadnezzar the king made a statue of gold, whose height [was] sixty cubits [and] its breadth six cubits; he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the great [ones], the assistants and captains, the judges, the treasurers, those of the council, presidents, and all the governors of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the statue which Nebuchadnezzar the king had raised up.


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Then the great [ones], the assistants and captains, the judges, the treasurers, those of the council, presidents, and all the governors of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar the king had raised up; and they stood before the statue that Nebuchadnezzar the king had raised up.


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[that] when ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and of every musical instrument, ye [are to] fall down and worship the statue of gold that Nebuchadnezzar the king has raised up:


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and whoever does not fall down and worship shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.


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Therefore, when all the peoples heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and every musical instrument, all the peoples, nations, and languages, fell down [and] worshipped the statue of gold that Nebuchadnezzar the king had raised up.


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Thou, O king, hast made a law that every man upon hearing the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and every musical instrument, shall fall down and worship the statue of gold;


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and whoever does not fall down and worship [that] he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.


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There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee; they do not worship thy gods, nor [do they] worship the statue of gold which thou hast raised up.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar in [his] rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king.


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Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said unto them, [Is it] true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that ye do not honour my gods, nor worship the statue of gold which I have set up?


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Now, are ye ready when ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and of every musical instrument to fall down and worship the statue which I made? For if ye do not worship, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who [is] that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?


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Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to king Nebuchadnezzar, We [are] not careful to answer thee in this matter.


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Behold, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver [us] out of thine hand, O king.


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But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not worship thy god, nor honour the statue which thou hast raised up.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; [therefore] he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was customary to be heated.


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And he commanded the most mighty men that [were] in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego [and] to cast [them] into the burning fiery furnace.


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Then these men were bound in their coats, their undergarments, and their hats, and their [other] garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.


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Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.


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And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste [and] spoke and said unto his counsellors, Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.


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He answered and said, Behold, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace [and] spoke and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth and come [here]. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire.


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And the great ones, the governors and the captains and the king's counsellors gathered together to see these men upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was a hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.


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[Then] Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed [be] the God of these, of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants that trusted in him and have changed the king's word and yielded their bodies that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God


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Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, or language which speak blasphemy against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill because there is no other god that can deliver after this sort.


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King Nebuchadnezzar, to all the peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.


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How great [are] his signs! and how mighty [are] his wonders! His kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion [is] from generation to generation.


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I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the imaginations and visions of my head troubled me in my bed.


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Therefore I made a decree to bring in all the wise [men] of Babylon before me that they might show me the interpretation of the dream.


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Then the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the fortune-tellers came in and I told the dream before them; but they never showed me its interpretation.


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But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name is Belteshazzar, who when I name him it seems to me that I name my god, and in whom [is] the spirit of the holy God; and before him I told the dream, [saying],


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Belteshazzar, prince of the wise [men], [now that] I have understood that the spirit of the holy God is in thee, and that no mystery is hidden from thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen and its interpretation.


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Thus [were] the visions of my head in my bed: It seemed that I saw a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.


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The tree grew and made itself strong, and its height reached unto heaven, and its sight to the end of all the earth:


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His leaves [were] fair, and his fruit abundant, and in him [was] food for all; underneath him the beasts of the field lay down in his shadow, and in his branches dwelt the fowls of the heaven, and all flesh was fed of him.


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I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, one who was a watchman and holy descended from heaven;


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he cried aloud and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit; let the beasts get away from under him and the fowls from his branches:


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nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and of brass shall he be bound in the green grass of the field; and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and [let] his portion [be] with the beasts in the grass of the earth:


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let his heart be changed from a man's heart, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.


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By sentence of the watchmen is the matter [resolved], and the case by the word of the holy ones to the intent that the living may know that the most High takes rule over the kingdom of men and gives it to whoever he will and sets up over it the man who is the lowest.


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I, king Nebuchadnezzar, saw this dream. Now thou, O Belteshazzar, shall declare its interpretation, forasmuch as all the wise [men] of my kingdom could never show me its interpretation; but thou [art] able, for the spirit of the holy God in thee.


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Then Daniel, whose name [was] Belteshazzar, was silent for almost one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. [Then] the king spoke and said, Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its interpretation trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, [let] the dream [be] to thine enemies, and its interpretation to those that wish thee evil.


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The tree that thou didst see, which grew and made himself strong, whose height reached unto the heaven and the sight thereof to all the earth;


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whose leaves [were] fair and his fruit abundant and in him [was] food for all, under whom the beasts of the field dwelt, and in whose branches the fowls of the heaven dwelt:


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it [is] thou, O king, that grew and made thyself strong; for thy greatness has grown and has reached unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.


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And regarding that which the king saw, one who was a watchman and holy who came down from heaven and said, Hew the tree down and destroy it; yet leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and of brass [let it remain bound] in the green grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and [let] his portion [be] with the beasts of the field until seven times pass over him:


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this [is] the interpretation, O king, and this [is] the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:


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that they shall drive thee from among men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall feed thee with grass of the field as the oxen, and with the dew of heaven shalt thou be bathed, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou shalt understand that the most High takes rule over the kingdom of men and that he shall give it to whoever he will.


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And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots in the earth; thy kingdom shall remain sure unto thee, that thou shalt understand that the rule [is] in the heavens.


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Therefore, O king, approve my counsel and redeem thy sins with righteousness and thine iniquities with mercies unto the poor: behold the medicine for thy sin.


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the king spoke and said, Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for [the] house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the glory of my greatness?


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The word was yet in the king's mouth when there fell a voice from heaven, [saying], O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee;


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and they drive thee from among men, and thy dwelling [shall be] with the beasts of the field; and they shall feed thee as the oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee until thou know that the most High takes rule in the kingdom of men and gives it to whoever he will.


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The same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from among men and ate grass as the oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like eagles' [feathers] and his nails like birds' [claws].


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But at the end of the time I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up my eyes unto heaven, and my understanding was returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and glorified him that lives for ever, whose dominion [is] an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom [is] through all ages:


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and all the inhabitants of the earth [are] counted as nothing; and in the army of heaven and in the inhabitants of the earth, he does according to his will; nor is there anyone who can interfere with his hand and say unto him, What doest thou?


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In the same time my reason was returned unto me, and I [turned] to the majesty of my kingdom; my dignity and greatness returned unto me; and my governors and my great [ones] sought me; and I was restored in my kingdom, and more [excellent] greatness was added unto me.


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Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and build up and glorify the King of heaven because all his works [are] truth, and his ways judgment: and he is able to humble those that walk with arrogance.:


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Belshazzar the king made a great banquet to a thousand of his lords, and against the thousand he drank wine.


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Belshazzar, under the influence of the wine, commanded that they bring the vessels of gold and of silver which Nebuchadnezzar his father had brought from the Temple of Jerusalem; that the king and his princes, his wives and his concubines, might drink with them.


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Then they brought the vessels of gold that they had brought from the Temple of the House of God which [was] in Jerusalem; and the king and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank with them.


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They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.


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In that same hour some fingers of [a] man's hand came forth and wrote in front of the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote.


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Then the king became pale, and his thoughts troubled him, and the girdings of his loins were unloosed, and his knees smote one against another.


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The king cried in [a] loud voice that they bring in the magicians, the Chaldeans, and the fortune-tellers. The king spoke and said to the wise [men] of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing and show me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple and [have] a chain of gold about his neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.


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Then all the king's wise [men] came in, but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king its interpretation.


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[Now] the queen, by reason of the words of the king and of his princes, came into the banquet room. The queen spoke and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy [countenance] be pale.


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There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom [lives] the spirit of the holy God; and in the days of thy father light and intelligence and wisdom, like the knowledge of God, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar, thy father, made prince over all the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, [and] fortune-tellers; [thus did] thy father, the king,


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because Daniel, whom the king named Beltechazzar, was found to have a more excellent spirit and greater knowledge and understanding interpreting dreams, unraveling questions, and dissolving doubts. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show [thee] the interpretation.


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Then Daniel was brought in before the king. [And] the king spoke and said unto Daniel, [Art] thou that Daniel, who [art] of the sons of the captivity of Judah, whom my father brought out of Judea?


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I have heard of thee, that the spirit of the holy God is in thee and [that] light and understanding and greater wisdom was found in thee.


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And now the wise [men], the astrologers, have been brought in before me that they should read this writing and make known unto me its interpretation, but they could not show the interpretation of the thing:


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And I have heard of thee, that thou canst declare that which is in doubt and unravel difficulties: now if thou canst read this writing and show me its interpretation, thou shalt be clothed with purple and [have] a chain of gold about thy neck and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.


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Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be for thyself and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king and show him the interpretation.


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O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom and the greatness and the glory and the magnificence:


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and by the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him; whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he humbled.


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But when his heart made itself arrogant, and his spirit hardened itself in pride, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him:


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and he was driven from among the sons of men; and his heart was put with the beasts, and his dwelling [was] with the wild asses: they made him eat grass like an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven until he understood that the most high God takes rule of the kingdom of men and [that] he appoints over it whoever he will.


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but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy princes, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; furthermore, thou hast praised gods of silver and of gold, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand [is] thy soul and whose [are] all thy ways, thou hast never honoured.


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Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple and [put] a chain of gold about his neck and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.


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It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty governors who should be in all the kingdom;


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and over these three presidents, of whom Daniel [was] first, that the governors might give accounts unto them, and the king should not be bothered.


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Then this Daniel was preferred above these governors and presidents because an over abundance of [the] Spirit [was] in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole kingdom.


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Then the presidents and governors looked for occasions against Daniel on behalf of the kingdom, but they could find no occasion or fault because he was faithful, and no vice nor fault was found in him.


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Then these men said, We shall never find any occasion against this Daniel except we find [it] against him in the law of his God.


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Then these governors and presidents assembled together before the king and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.


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All the presidents of the kingdom, magistrates, governors, great [ones], and captains have agreed in common accord to promote a royal decree and to confirm it that whoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, except of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.


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Now, O king, confirm the decree and sign the writing that it not be moved, according to the law of Media and of Persia, which does not change.


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Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he entered into his house; and with the windows open toward Jerusalem in his dining chamber, he knelt three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God as he was used to doing before.


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Then they went and spoke before the king concerning the royal decree; Hast thou not confirmed a decree that whoever shall ask [a petition] of any God or man within thirty days save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing [is] true, according to the law of the Media and Persia, which does not change.


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Then they answered and said before the king, That Daniel, which [is] of the sons of the captivity of the Jews, has not regarded thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast confirmed, but makes his petition three times a day.


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When the king, heard the matter, it weighed very heavy upon him, and [he] set [his] heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured until the going down of the sun to deliver him.


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Then those men assembled near the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that this is the law of Media and of Persia: No decree nor statute which the king has confirmed may be moved.


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Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast [him] into the den of lions. [Now] the king, speaking unto Daniel, said, Thy God whom thou servest continually, [may] he deliver thee.


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And a stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet [ring] and with the signet [ring] of his princes that the agreement concerning Daniel might not be changed.


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Then the king went to his palace and lay down without eating; neither were instruments of music brought before him, and his sleep fled from him.


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Therefore, the king arose very early in the morning at dawn and went in haste unto the den of lions.


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And when he came to the den, he cried loudly with a sad voice unto Daniel; [and] the king, in speaking to Daniel said, Daniel, servant of the living God, has thy God, whom thou servest continually, been able to deliver thee from the lions?


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My God has sent his angel, who shut the lions' mouths, that they do me no evil because before him righteousness was found in me; and even before thee, O king, I have done no corruption.


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Then the king was exceeding glad because of him and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no injury was found upon him because he believed in his God.


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And the king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast [them] into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and even before they reached the bottom of the den, the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces.


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Then king Darius wrote unto all the peoples, nations, and tongues, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied unto you.


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On my behalf a statute is put into effect, That in all the dominion of my kingdom everyone tremble at the presence of the God of Daniel for he [is] the Living God and endures for all ages, and his kingdom [is such] that it shall never come apart, and his dominion [shall be even] unto the end:


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that saves and frees, and makes signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.


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So this Daniel was prospered during the reign of Darius and during the reign of Cyrus, [the] Persian.:


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In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream [and] penned the sum of the matters.


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Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven fought the great sea.


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The first [was] like a lion, and had eagle's wings; I beheld until the its wings were plucked off, and it was removed from the earth, and it stood up on its feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.


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And behold the second beast, like unto a bear, which went off to one side, and [it had] three ribs between its teeth; and thus was said unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.


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After this I beheld, and behold another, like a tiger, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; this beast also had four heads; and power was given to it.


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After this I saw in the night visions, and behold the fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and exceedingly strong; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces and trod down that which was left with its feet; and it was very different from all the beasts that had been before her; and it had ten horns.


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As I was considering the horns, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom three of the first horns were plucked up [by the roots]; and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking grand things.


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I beheld until thrones were placed, and an Elder of great age did sit, whose garment [was] white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool: his throne [a] flame of fire, his wheels burning fire.


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A river of fire issued and came forth from before him; thousands of thousands served him, and ten thousands of ten thousands stood before him; the Judge sat down, and the books were opened.


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I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke; I beheld [even] until the beast was slain and its body was undone and given over to be burned in the fire.


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They had also taken from the other beasts their rule because their lives had been prolonged until a certain time.


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I saw in the vision of the night, and, behold, in the clouds of heaven like a Son of man that came and drew near unto the Elder of great age, and they brought him near before him.


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And he gave him dominion and glory and kingdom; and all the peoples, nations, and tongues served him: his dominion [is] an eternal dominion, which shall not pass away, and his Kingdom such that it shall never be corrupted.


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My spirit was troubled, I Daniel, in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head astonished me.


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I came near unto one of those that stood by and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me and made me know the interpretation of the things.


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And they shall take the kingdom of the Holy [One who is] most High and possess the kingdom until the age and until the age of the ages.


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Then I had the desire to know the truth regarding the fourth beast, which was so different from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of brass; [which] devoured and broke in pieces and trod down that which was left with its feet;


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also regarding the ten horns that [were] in its head, and [of] the other which came up, and before whom three fell; and that same horn had eyes and [a] mouth that spoke very grand things, whose appearance was greater than his fellows.


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until such time as the Elder of great age came, and the judgment was given unto the saints of the most High; and the time came, and the saints possessed the Kingdom.


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Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be a fourth king in earth, which shall be greater than all the other kingdoms and shall devour the whole earth and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.


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And the ten horns [signify] that of this kingdom ten kings shall arise; and another shall rise after them; and he shall be greater than the first [kings], and he shall bring down three kings.


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And he shall speak [great] words against the most High and shall break down the saints of the most High and think to move the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until [a] time and times and the half [or dividing] of a time.


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And the Judge shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion to destroy and to cast out unto the end;


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and that the kingdom and the dominion, and the majesty of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, be given to the holy people of the most High, His Kingdom [shall be] an eternal Kingdom, and all the dominions shall serve him and hear [him].


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Up unto here was the end of the word. I, Daniel, was very troubled in my thoughts, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the word in my heart.:


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In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, Daniel, after that [vision] which had appeared unto me before.


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And I saw in [the] vision; (and it came to pass, when I saw it, that I [was] at Shushan, which is [the] head of the kingdom in the province of Persia); so that I saw in that vision, being by the river of Ulai,


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and I lifted up my eyes and saw, and, behold, a ram was standing before the river, which had two horns; and even though they were high, the one [was] higher than the other, and the higher one came up last.


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I saw that the ram smote with the horns to the west, to the north, and to the south and that no beast could stand before him, nor could anyone escape from his hand; but he did according to his will and made himself great.


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And as I was considering, behold, a he goat came from the west upon the face of the whole earth and did not touch the earth: and the goat [had] a notable horn between his eyes.


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And he came to the ram that had the two horns, which [I]had seen standing before the river and ran against him in the fury of his power.


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And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he rose up against him and smote him, and broke his two horns: because the ram did not have the strength to stand before him; therefore he cast him down to the ground and trod him under; and there was no one to deliver the ram out of his hand.


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And the he goat made himself very great, and when he was at his greatest strength, that great horn was broken; and in its place came up another four marvellous ones toward the four winds of heaven.


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And out of the first of them came forth a little horn, which grew much toward the south and toward the east and toward the desirable [land].


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And it magnified itself unto the host of heaven, and it cast down [part] of the host and of the stars to the ground and trod them under.


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Even [against] the prince of the host did he magnify himself, and by him the daily [sacrifice] was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast to [the] earth.


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And the host was given over by reason of the prevarication upon the daily [sacrifice]; and he cast the truth to the ground; and he did [whatever he would] and prospered.


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Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto the one which spoke, How long [shall] the vision of the daily [sacrifice last] and the prevarication of desolation that places [both] the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?


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And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred [days of] evening and morning; then shall the sanctuary be justified.


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And it came to pass, as I, Daniel, was considering the vision and seeking to understand it, behold, there stood before me the likeness of a man.


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And I heard a man's voice between [the banks of the] Ulai, which called and said, Gabriel, teach this [man] the vision.


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So he came near where I stood, and with his coming, I was afraid and fell upon my face; and he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time appointed [by God] the vision shall be fulfilled.


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Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a [deep] sleep on the ground upon my face; and he touched me and changed my state.


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And he said, Behold, I will show thee that [which] is to come in the last end of the wrath; for at the time appointed [this] shall be fulfilled.


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And the he goat [is] the king of Grecia, and the great horn that he [had] between his eyes [is] the first king.


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Now that being broken, whereas four stood up in its place, [means that] four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his strength.


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And at the end of their empire, when the prevaricators are come to the full, a king of arrogant countenance and expert in enigmas shall raise [himself] up.


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And his power shall be strengthened, but not by his own power; and he shall destroy marvellously and shall prosper and do [according to his will] and shall destroy the mighty and the people of the saints.


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And with his understanding he shall cause the deceit in his hand to prosper, and he shall magnify [himself] in his heart, and by peace he shall destroy many; he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes, and without hand he shall be broken.


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And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told [is] true; therefore shut thou up the vision; for it [shall be] for many days.


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And I Daniel was broken and was sick [certain] days; and after I rose up, I did the king's business; but I was astonished at the vision, and there was no one who could understand it.:


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In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;


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in the first year of his reign, I Daniel saw diligently in the books the number of the years, of which the LORD spoke unto Jeremiah the prophet, which would conclude the desolation of Jerusalem in seventy years.


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And I turned my face unto the Lord God, seeking him in prayer and supplication, in fasting and sackcloth, and ashes:


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and I prayed unto the LORD my God and made my confession and said, Now O Lord, [thou] great God who is worthy to be feared, who keeps the covenant and the mercy with those that love thee and keep thy commandments;


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we have sinned, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly, and we have been rebels, and we have departed from thy commandments and from thy judgments.


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We have not hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, who spoke in thy name to our kings and to our princes, to our fathers, and to all the people of the land.


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O Lord, the righteousness [belongs] unto thee, but unto us the confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, [that are] near and [that are] far off through all the lands where thou hast driven them because of their rebellion with which they have rebelled against thee.


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O Lord, to us [belongs] confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.


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Of the Lord our God is [the ability] to have mercy and to forgive, even though [we] have rebelled against him


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and have not listened to the voice of the LORD our God to walk by his laws, which he set before us by the hand of his servants the prophets.


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And all Israel transposed thy law, departing by not hearing thy voice; by which the curse has fallen upon us and the oath that [is] written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.


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And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke over us and over our judges that governed us, by bringing upon us such a great evil: that [such] has never been done under the whole heaven as has been done upon Jerusalem.


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As [it is] written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us, and we never sought the face of the LORD our God, that we might be converted from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.


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And the LORD hastened upon the chastisement and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God [is] just in all his works which he has done, for we did not listen to his voice.


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And now, O Lord our God, who hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and hast won for thyself a very clear name as appears unto this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.


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O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and all thy people is given in reproach to all [that are] about us.


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Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant and his supplications and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is made desolate, by the Lord.


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O my God, incline thine ear and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee [confiding] in our righteousnesses, but in thy many mercies.


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O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.


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And whiles I [was] speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;


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I [was] even yet speaking in prayer, and that man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, flying swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening sacrifice.


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And he caused me to understand and spoke with me and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to cause thee to understand the interpretation.


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At the beginning of thy supplications, the word went forth, and I have come to teach it unto thee; for thou [art a man] greatly beloved: therefore understand the word, and understand the vision.


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Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city to finish the prevarication and to conclude the sin and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness and seal the vision and the prophecy, and to anoint the Holy of Holies.


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Know therefore and understand [that] from the going forth of the word to cause [the people] to return and to build Jerusalem unto the Anointed Prince, [there shall be] seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks, [while] the street shall be built again and the wall, [even] in troublous times.


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And after the sixty-two weeks the Anointed [One] shall be killed and shall have nothing: (and the ruling people that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; whose end [shall be as] a flood, until at the end of the war it shall be cut off [with] desolation.)


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In one week (they are now seventy) he shall confirm the covenant by many: and at the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and because of the many abominations, desolation shall come, even until complete destruction shall be poured out upon the abominable [people].:


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In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia the Word was revealed unto Daniel, whose name [was called] Belteshazzar; and the Word [was] true, but the time appointed [was] long: and he understood the word, and had intelligence in the vision.


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I ate no pleasant bread, neither did flesh nor wine come into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all until the three weeks of days were fulfilled.


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And in the twenty-fourth day of the first month as I was by the side of the great river, which [is] Hiddekel;


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and lifting up my eyes, I saw, and behold a man clothed in linens, whose loins [were] girded with very pure gold:


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his body [was] like the [stone of] Tarsis [turquoise], and his face as a [bolt of] lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to brilliant brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of [an] army.


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And only I, Daniel, saw that vision: for the men that were with me did not see the vision; but a great fear fell upon them, and they fled and hid themselves.


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Therefore I was left alone and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me, for my strength was turned into dismay, and I retained no strength.


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Yet I heard the voice of his words, and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I placed into a deep sleep on my face, and my face [was] toward the ground.


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And, behold, a hand touched me and caused me to move upon my knees and [upon] the palms of my hands.


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And he said unto me, Daniel, O man greatly beloved, pay attention to the words that I shall speak unto thee, and stand up upon thy feet: for I am sent now unto thee. And as he was speaking this with me, I was trembling.


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And he said unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst give thy heart to understand and to afflict thy soul before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come because of thy words.


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But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days: and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.


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Now I am come to make thee know what shall befall thy people in the latter days, for there shall still [be] vision for [several] days.


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And, behold, [one] like the similitude of [the] son of man touched my lips; then I opened my mouth and spoke and said unto him that stood before me, O my Lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.


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For how can the servant of my Lord talk with my Lord? for as for me, for in that instant I had no more strength in me, neither was there any breath left in me.


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and said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace [be] unto thee, be of good cheer, and be well. And as he spoke unto me, I was strengthened and said, Let my Lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.


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Then said he, Knowest thou why I have come unto thee? Because now I must return to fight with the prince of the Persians; and when I am gone forth, next the prince of Grecia shall come.


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But I will interpret unto thee that which is written in the scripture of truth: and [there is] no one that holds with me in these [things], but Michael your prince.:


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And now will I show thee the truth. Behold, there shall yet be three kings in Persia, and the fourth shall obtain far greater riches than [they] all; and by his strengthening himself with his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.


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And a valiant king shall stand up, that shall rule over [a] great dominion and do according to his will.


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But when he is reigning, his kingdom shall be broken and shall be divided by the four winds of heaven, and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion by which he ruled; for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.


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And the king of the south, and of his principalities, shall make himself strong; and he shall exceed him and make himself powerful; his dominion [shall be] a great dominion.


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But at the end of [some] years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement, but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm; for she shall be given up and those that brought her and he that begat her, and those that were for her in [this] time.


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But of the new shoot from her roots shall [one] stand up upon his throne and shall come unto the army and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north and do in them [according to his will] and shall prevail:


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and even their gods, with their princes, with their precious vessels of silver and of gold, shall be taken captive in Egypt; and for [some] years he shall maintain himself against the king of the north.


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But the sons of that one shall be stirred up and shall assemble a multitude of great armies and shall come in great haste, and overflow and pass through and turn and come with wrath unto his fortress.


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Therefore the king of the south shall become furious and shall come forth and fight with him [even] with the king of the north; and he shall put a great multitude into [the] field, but all that multitude shall be given into his hand.


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Therefore the multitude shall be filled with pride, his heart shall be lifted up, and he shall cast down many thousands, but he shall not prevail.


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And the king of the north shall put another multitude greater than the former in [the] field and at the end of a time of some years shall come in great haste with a great army and with much riches.


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But in those times many shall stand up against the king of the south, and sons of robbers of thy people shall raise themselves up to establish the vision, but they shall fall.


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So the king of the north shall come and cast up a mount and shall take the strong cities, and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be [any] fortress that can withstand.


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And he that comes against him shall do according to his own will, and there shall be no one that can stand before him, and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed.


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He shall then set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom and shall do upright things with him, and he shall give him a daughter of [his] women to persuade her, but she shall not stand, neither be for him.


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After this he shall turn his face unto the isles and shall take many, but a prince shall cause him to cease his affront and shall even turn his reproach upon him.


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Then he shall turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land, but he shall stumble and fall and not appear again.


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Then shall succeed in his throne a taker of taxes [who shall be the] Glory of the Kingdom, but within few days he shall be broken, neither in anger, nor in battle.


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And a vile [person] shall succeed in his place, to whom they shall not give the honour of the Kingdom: nevertheless he shall come in with peace and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.


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And with the arms they shall be overflown of a flood before him and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.


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And after the union [made] with him he shall work deceit and shall rise and shall overcome with few people.


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With the province in peace and in abundance, he shall enter and do [that] which his fathers have never done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall distribute prey and spoil and riches to his soldiers; and against the fortresses he shall forecast his devices, even for [a] time.


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And he shall stir up his forces and his heart against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall move to the war with a great and mighty army, but he shall not prevail, for they shall betray him.


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Even those that ate his bread shall break him, and his army shall be destroyed; and many shall fall down slain.


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And the heart of both these kings [shall be] to do evil, and at the same table they shall speak lies; but it shall not prosper, for the time appointed is not yet come.


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Then he shall return into his land with great riches; and his heart [shall be] against the holy covenant; and he shall do [exploits] and return to his own land.


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At the time appointed he shall turn toward the south, but the latter [coming] shall not be as the former.


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For the ships of Chittim shall come against him; therefore he shall be grieved and return and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return and have [an] understanding with those that have forsaken the holy covenant.


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And arms shall be placed on his behalf, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength and shall take away the daily [sacrifice], and they shall place the abomination that makes desolate.


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And with flatteries he shall cause to sin those that violate the covenant, but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do [exploits].


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And the wise among the people shall give wisdom to many, yet they shall fall by the sword, and by fire, by captivity, and by spoil, for [some] days.


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And in their fall, they shall be helped with a little help, but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.


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And [some] of the wise shall fall to be purged and cleaned and made white, [even] to the time of the end because even for this [there is] time appointed.


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And the king shall do according to his will, and he shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god and shall speak marvels against the God of gods and shall prosper until the indignation is accomplished, for the determination has been made.


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Neither shall he care for the God of his fathers, nor the love of women, nor care for any god, for he shall magnify himself above all.


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But in his place shall he honour the god of fortresses, [a] god whom his fathers did not know; he shall honour it with gold and silver and precious stones and with things of great price.


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And with the [people of] the strange god that he shall know, he shall make strong fortresses, increase their glory; and cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.


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But at the end of the time the king of the south shall lock horns with him, and the king of the north shall raise up a storm against him with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships, and he shall enter into the lands and shall overflow and pass over.


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He shall come to the glorious land, and many [provinces] shall fall, but these shall escape out of his hand, [even] Edom and Moab and the first of the sons of Ammon.


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And he shall take over the treasures of gold and of silver and of all the precious things of Egypt, of Libya, and Ethiopia where he passes.


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But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him; therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy and to kill many.


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And he shall plant the tents of his palace between the seas, in the desirable mountain of the Sanctuary; and he shall come to his end, and shall have no one to help him.:


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And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who is for the sons of thy people, and it shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there were people until now, but in that time thy people shall escape, all those that are found written in the book.


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And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth shall be awakened, some for eternal life, and some for shame [and] everlasting confusion.


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And those that understand shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and those that teach righteousness [to] the multitude as the stars in perpetual eternity.


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But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end: many shall pass by, and knowledge shall be multiplied.


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Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, another two who stood, one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.


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And [one] said to the Man clothed in linens, who [was] upon the waters of the river, When [shall be] the end of these wonders?


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And I heard the Man clothed in linens, who [was] upon the waters of the river, who raised his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and swore by the Living one in the ages that [it shall be] for [a] time, times, and a half; and when the scattering of the power of the holy people shall be finished, all these [things] shall be fulfilled.


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And I heard, but I did not understand; then I said, O my Lord, what [is] the fulfillment of these things?


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And he said, Go thy way, Daniel, for these words [are] closed up and sealed until the time of the fulfillment.


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Many shall be purified and made white and purged, but [the] wicked shall get worse; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.


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And from the time [that] the daily [sacrifice] is taken away until the abomination of desolation, [there shall be] a thousand two hundred and ninety days.


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And thou shall go to the end and shalt rest, and thou shalt raise up in thy lot at the end of the days.


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The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.


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The beginning of the word of the LORD with Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land shall give itself over to whoredom [by] departing from the LORD.


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And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little [while], and I will visit the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.


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And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And [God] said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will never again have mercy upon the house of Israel, but I will utterly forget them.


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But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah and will save them in the LORD their God and will not save them by bow, by sword, by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.


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With all [this], the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are] not my people, [there] it shall be said unto them, [Ye are] the sons of the living God.


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And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel shall be congregated together, and they shall raise up for themselves one head, and they shall rise up from the land: for the day of Jezreel [is] great.:


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Contend with your mother, contend: for she [is] not my wife, neither [am] I her husband: let her therefore remove her whoredoms from her face and her adulteries from between her breasts;


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lest I strip her naked and set her as in the day that she was born and make her as a wilderness and set her like a dry land and slay her with thirst.


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For their mother has played the harlot; she that conceived them has been shamed; for she said, I will go after my lovers that give [me] my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.


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Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns and make a wall that she shall not find her paths.


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And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find [them]; then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then [it was] better with me than now.


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For she did not recognize that I gave her the wheat and the wine and the oil and multiplied unto them the silver and the gold, [with which] they made Baal.


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Therefore I will return and take away my wheat in the time thereof and my wine in the season thereof and will recover my wool and my flax that [I]had given to cover her nakedness.


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And now [I] will uncover her folly in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall deliver her out of my hand.


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I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast, her new moon, and her sabbath, and all her festivities.


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And I will cause her vine and her fig tree to be cut down, of which she has said, These [are] my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will reduce them to a thicket, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.


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And I will visit upon her the times of the Baals, unto whom she burned incense, and she adorned herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, oblivious of me, saith the LORD.


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And I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall sing there as in the days of her youth and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.


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And it shall be in that time, saith the LORD, [that] thou shalt call me My Husband, and shalt no longer call me Baali.


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For I will take away the names of Baals out of her mouth, and they shall no longer be remembered by their name.


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And in that time I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of the heaven and [with] the serpents of the earth; and I will break [the] bow and [the] sword and [the] battle of the earth and will cause them to sleep safely.


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And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness and in judgment and in mercy.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, I will respond, saith the LORD, I will respond to the heavens, and they shall respond to the earth;


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and the earth shall respond to the wheat and the wine and the oil; and they shall respond to Jezreel.


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And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon Loruhamah, and I will say to Loammi, Thou [art] my people; and he shall say, [Thou art] my God.:


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Then the LORD said unto me again, Go, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the sons of Israel, who look to other gods and love flagons of wine.


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and I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for [another] man: so [will] I also [be] for thee.


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For the sons of Israel shall abide many days without king and without Lord and without sacrifice and without image, and without ephod and [without] teraphim;


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afterward the sons of Israel shall return, and they shall seek the LORD their God and David their king; and they shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the end of the days.:


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Hear [the] word of the LORD, [ye] sons of Israel; for the LORD contends with the inhabitants of the land because [there is] no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the earth.


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By swearing and lying and murdering and stealing and committing adultery, they prevailed, and blood touches blood.


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Therefore the earth shall mourn, and every one that dwells therein shall be cut off, with the beasts of the field and the fowls of heaven; and even the fishes of the sea shall be caught.


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Certainly man [does] not contend [with] nor reprehend man; for thy people [are] as those that resist the priest.


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Therefore thou shalt fall in the day, and the prophet shall also fall with thee by night, and I will cut off thy mother.


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My people were cut off because they lacked wisdom; because thou hast rejected wisdom, I will cast thee out of the priesthood; [seeing] thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy sons.


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According to their greatness, so did they sin against me; [therefore] I will change their honour into shame.


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The people shall become like the priest; and I will visit his ways upon him, and they shall reward him according to his doings.


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For they shall eat and not be satisfied; they shall commit whoredom and shall not increase because they have quit showing hospitality unto the LORD.


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My people ask counsel of their wooden [idol], and their stick declares unto them; for the spirit of whoredoms has caused [them] to err, and they have gone a whoring under their gods.


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They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, that had good shade; therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery.


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I will not visit upon your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor upon your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery: for they offer with whores, and they sacrifice with [cult] prostitutes; therefore the people without understanding shall fall.


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Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, [yet] let not Judah be guilty; and do not come unto Gilgal, neither go up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD lives


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Their drink has become corrupted; they have committed whoredom continually; her princes love gifts, shamefully.


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Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king because the judgment [is] for you, for ye have been a snare in Mizpah and a net spread over Tabor.


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And in killing sacrifices ye have descended into the depths; therefore, I [shall be] the correction of them all.


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I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, thou dost commit whoredom, [and] Israel is defiled.


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They will not think about returning unto their God; for the spirit of whoredoms [is] in the midst of them, and they do not know the LORD.


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And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity; Judah shall also fall with them.


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They shall go with their flocks and with their herds seeking the LORD; but they shall not find [him]; he has withdrawn himself from them.


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They have rebelled against the LORD; for they have begotten strange sons; now a month shall devour them with their portions.


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Blow ye the shofar in Gibeah [and] the trumpet in Ramah; sound the drum in Bethaven; after thee, O Benjamin.


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Ephraim shall be made desolate [in] the day of chastisement; in the tribes of Israel I made known [my] truth.


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The princes of Judah were like those that move the boundaries; [therefore] I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.


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And Ephraim shall see his sickness and Judah his wound; [then] Ephraim shall go to the Assyrian and shall send to king Jareb; yet he shall not be able to heal you, nor cure you of your wound.


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For I [will be] unto Ephraim as a lion and as a young lion to the house of Judah; I, [even] I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and there shall be no one [left] to escape.


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I will go [and] return to my place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face; in their affliction they will seek me early.:


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Come, and let us return unto the LORD; for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up.


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After two days he shall give us life: in the third day he will resurrect us, and we shall live in his sight.


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And we shall know and follow on in knowing the LORD; his going forth is prepared as the dawn; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain unto the earth.


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O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? Your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goes away.


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Therefore I have hewed [them]by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: that thy righteousness [be] as the light [that] goes forth.


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And as troops of robbers wait for a man, [so] the council of priests murder in the way by common accord; for they put the abomination into effect.


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When I was healing Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they worked deceit; and the thief comes in, [and] the troop of robbers spoils without.


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And they do not consider in their hearts [that] I remember all their wickedness; now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.


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They [are] all adulterers as an oven heated by the baker [who] shall cease from waking after he has kneaded the dough until it is leavened.


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In the day of our king the princes have made [him] sick with [a] wineskin; he stretched out his hand with the scorners.


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For they have made ready their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; their baker sleeps all night; in the morning it burns as a flaming fire.


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They are all hot as an oven and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen; [there is] no one among them that calls unto me.


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Strangers have devoured his strength, and he does not know [it]; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he does not understand.


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And the pride of Israel shall testify to his face, and they have not returned to the LORD their God, nor have they sought him with all this.


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Ephraim also was like a deceived dove, without understanding; they shall call to Egypt, they shall go to Assyria.


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When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them according to what has been heard in their congregations.


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Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction upon them! because they have rebelled against me; [though] I have ransomed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.


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And they have not cried unto me with their heart when they howled upon their beds; they congregated themselves for the wheat and the wine, [and] they rebelled against me.


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They returned, [but] not to the most High; they were like a deceitful bow; their princes fell by the sword for the arrogance of their tongue; this [shall be] their derision in the land of Egypt.:


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[Set] the shofar to thy mouth. [He shall come] as an eagle against the house of the LORD because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law.


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They have reigned, but not by me; they have made dominion, and I knew [it] not; of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols that they may be cut off.


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Thy calf, O Samaria, has cast [thee] off; my anger has been kindled against them until they could no longer be absolved.


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For it is of Israel; and [a] workman made it who is not God: because the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.


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For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind; they shall have no harvest; the fruit shall yield no meal: if so be it yields, the strangers shall swallow it up.


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Israel shall be swallowed up; soon they shall be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which [there is] no pleasure.


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Even though they hire the Gentiles, now I will gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king and of the princes.


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In the sacrifices of my gifts they sacrificed flesh and ate; [but] the LORD does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity and visit their sins; they shall return to Egypt.


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For Israel has forgotten his Maker and has built temples; and Judah has multiplied fenced cities; but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.:


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Do not rejoice, O Israel, for joy, as the peoples; for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved the [salary of a harlot] upon every threshing floor.


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They shall not remain in the land of the LORD; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt and to Assyria where they shall eat unclean food.


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They shall not pour out wine unto the LORD, neither shall he take pleasure in their sacrifices; as the bread of mourners [shall they be] unto them; all that eat thereof shall be polluted; for their bread shall not enter into the house of the LORD because of their soul.


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For, behold, they have left because of the destruction; Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall possess in inheritance that which is desirable of their silver; thorns [shall grow up] in their dwellings.


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The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know [it]; the prophet [is] a fool, the spiritual man [is] a fool, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and [the] great hatred.


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The watchman of Ephraim regarding my God, the prophet, [is a] snare of [a] fowler in all his ways, hatred in the house of his God.


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They have arrived at the depths, they have corrupted [themselves] as in the days of Gibeah; [therefore] he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sin.


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I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the early fruit of the fig tree in her beginning; [but] they went in unto Baalpeor and separated themselves unto shame and made themselves as abominable as that which they loved.


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[As for] Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth even from the womb and from the conception.


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Though they bring up their sons, yet I will bereave them, [that there shall] not [be] a man [left]; yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!


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Ephraim, as I saw Tyre, [is] planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim shall bring forth his sons to the murderer.


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All their wickedness [was] in Gilgal, for there I took a dislike to them; for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will never love them again: all their princes [are] disloyal.


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Ephraim was smitten, their root is dried up; they shall bear no more fruit; even though they bring forth, yet I will slay [even] the desirable [fruit] of their womb.


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My God will cast them away because they did not hearken unto him; and they shall be wanderers among the Gentiles.:


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Israel [is] an empty vine. Shall he bring forth fruit unto himself? According to the multiplication of his fruit he has multiplied altars; according to the goodness of his land they have bettered their statues.


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Their heart has wandered; now they shall be found guilty: he shall break down their altars, he shall destroy their statues.


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For now they shall say, We have no king, because we did not fear the LORD; what then should a king do to us?


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They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment shall spring up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.


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The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn because of the calf, and the religious [persons] thereof [that] rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, which shall be made to vanish away.


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It shall be also carried unto Assyria [for] a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall be ashamed, and Israel shall be confused at his own counsel.


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And the altars of Aven shall be destroyed, the sin of Israel: the thorn and the thistle shall grow upon their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.


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O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah; there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the sons of iniquity did not overtake them.


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And I shall chastise them as I desire; and [the] peoples shall gather themselves over them, when they shall be bound in their two furrows.


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Ephraim [is] a heifer [that is] taught [and] loves to tread out [the wheat]; but I shall pass over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to draw; Judah shall plow, [and] Jacob shall break his clods.


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Sow yourselves unto righteousness, reap yourselves unto mercy; break up your fallow ground: for [it is] the time to seek the LORD until he comes and teaches you righteousness.


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Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye shall eat the fruit of lies because thou didst trust in thy way [and] in the multitude of thy mighty men.


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Therefore, in thy peoples a tumult shall arise, and all thy fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon [her] sons.


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So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness; in the morning the king of Israel shall utterly be cut off.:


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[As] they called them, so they went from them; they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.


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Even with all this I guided the feet of [this] same Ephraim, taking them by their arms; but they did not know that I cared for them.


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I drew them with human cords, with bands of love, and I was to them as those that raise the yoke from upon their cheeks, and I fed them.


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He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king because they refused to be converted.


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And the sword shall fall upon his cities and shall consume his villages and devour [them] because of their own counsels.


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Meanwhile, my people adhere to the rebellion against me though they call unto me upon High; absolutely none at all wish to exalt me.


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How must I leave thee, Ephraim? [how] shall I give thee up, Israel? how could I make thee as Admah? nor set thee as Zeboim? my heart churns within me; all my compassion is inflamed.


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I will not execute the fierceness of my anger; I will not return to destroy Ephraim; for I [am] God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee; and I will not enter into the city.


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They shall walk after the LORD; he shall roar like a lion; when he shall roar, then the sons shall come trembling from the west.


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As a bird they shall move speedily out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD.


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Ephraim compasses me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah yet rules with God and is faithful with the saints.:


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Ephraim feeds on wind and follows after the east wind; he daily increases lies and desolation because they made a covenant with the Assyrians, and [the] oil is carried into Egypt.


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The LORD also has a controversy with Judah to visit Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.


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[yea], he dominated the angel and prevailed; he wept and made supplication unto him; he found him [in] Bethel, and there he spoke with us;


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And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich, I have found riches for myself; no one shall find iniquity in me, nor sin in all my labours.


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But I [am] the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt; I will yet make thee to dwell in tents as in the days of the solemn feast.


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I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the hand of the prophets.


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Is Gilead iniquity? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields.


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But Jacob fled into the land of Aram, and Israel served for [his] wife, and for [his] wife he was a pastor.


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Ephraim provoked [God] to anger with bitterness: therefore his blood shall be spilled upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord repay unto him.:


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When Ephraim spoke [everyone] feared, he was exalted in Israel; but he was found guilty in Baal and died.


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And now they sin more and more, and of their silver they have made molten images according to their own intelligence, idols, all of it the work of the craftsmen; they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.


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Therefore they shall be as the morning mist and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff [that] is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor and as the smoke out of the chimney.


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Yet I [am] the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt; therefore thou shalt know no God other than me, nor any other saviour but me.


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In their pastures, they filled themselves; they were satisfied, and their heart was exalted; for this reason they have forgotten me.


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I will meet them as a bear [that is] bereaved [of her whelps] and will rend the veil of their heart, and there I will devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them apart.


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Where is thy king, that may save thee with all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou didst say, Give me a king and princes?


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The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him; he [is] an unwise son; for a long time now he should not have stopped short at the very breaking forth of birth.


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I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from death; O death, I will be thy end; O Sheol, I will be thy destruction. Repentance shall be hid from my eyes.


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Though he be fruitful among [his] brethren, the east wind shall come; the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up; he shall spoil the treasure of all the vessels of desire.


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Samaria shall be condemned; for she has rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped open.:


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Take with you words, and be converted unto the LORD; say unto him, Take away all iniquity and receive [us] graciously, so will we render the calves of our lips.


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Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Ye are] our gods, for in thee the fatherless finds mercy.


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I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall flourish as the lily and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.


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Those that shall sit under his shadow shall return; they shall be given life [as the] wheat, and they shall flourish as the vine; the scent thereof [shall be] as the wine of Lebanon.


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Ephraim [shall then say], What have I to do any more with idols? I will hear [him] and gaze upon him; I [will be unto him] like a green fir tree; of me shall thy fruit be found.


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Who [is] wise that he might understand this? and prudent that he might know this? for the ways of the LORD [are] right, and the just shall walk in them; but the rebellious shall fall therein.:


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Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the earth. Has this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?


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That which the palmerworm has left the locust has eaten; and that which the locust has left the cankerworm has eaten; and that which the cankerworm has left the caterpillar has eaten.


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Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.


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For a people has come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, and he has the molars of a [great] lion.


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He has laid my vine waste and barked my fig tree: he has made it clean bare and cast [it] away; its branches are made white.


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The grain offering and the drink offering of the house of the LORD has perished; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.


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The field was destroyed, the land mourns; for the wheat was destroyed; the new wine was dried up, the oil perished.


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Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is lost.


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The vine has dried up, and the fig tree has perished; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, [even] all the trees of the field, have withered: therefore joy has withered away from the sons of men.


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Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the present and the drink offering is taken away from the house of your God.


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Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders [and] all the inhabitants of the earth [into] the house of the LORD your God and cry unto the LORD.


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Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD [is] at hand, and it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.


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The seed has rotted under their clods, the storehouses were laid desolate, the barns were destroyed for the wheat is withered.


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How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture; the flocks of sheep are condemned.


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O LORD, to thee will I cry for [the] fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and [the] flame has burned all the trees of the field.


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The beasts of the field also cry unto thee for the rivers of waters are dried up, and [the] fire has devoured the meadows of the wilderness.:


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Blow the shofar in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the earth tremble for the day of the LORD comes, for [it is] near at hand;


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a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of shadow that spreads itself upon the mountains as the dawn: a people great and strong; there has not ever been the like, neither shall [there] be any more after him, [even] to the years of many generations.


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A fire devours before him and behind him a flame burns: the earth [is] as the garden of Eden before him, and behind him a desolate wilderness; neither shall anyone escape him.


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Like the thunder of chariots they shall leap over the tops of mountains, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.


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They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war, and they shall march each one in his ways, and they shall not break his ranks.


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No one shall crowd his companion; they shall walk each one in his path: and [even] falling upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.


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They shall go through the city; they shall run upon the wall; they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.


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The earth shall quake before him; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall go dark; and the stars shall withdraw their shining:


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and the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for many are his camps and strong, that execute his word; for the day of the LORD [is] great, and very terrible; and who can abide it?


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Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn unto me with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping, and with mourning:


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and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God for he [is] gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and great in mercy, and he does repent of chastisement.


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Who knows [if] he will return and repent and leave a blessing behind him [even] a present and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?


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gather the people, sanctify the meeting, assemble the elders, gather the children and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber and the bride out of her closet.


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Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Forgive thy people, O LORD, and do not give thine heritage to reproach that the Gentiles should rule over her: why should they say among the peoples, Where [is] their God?


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Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you bread and new wine and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no longer make you a reproach among the Gentiles:


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But I will remove far off from you he of the north [wind] and will drive him into a land barren and desolate; his face shall be toward the east sea, and his end unto the western sea, and he shall exhale his foul odour, and he shall decompose, because he has lifted himself up.


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Be not afraid, ye animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness shall become green again, for the trees shall bear their fruit, the fig tree and the vine shall give their fruits.


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Ye also, sons of Zion, be glad and rejoice in the LORD your God for he has given you the former rain according to righteousness, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain [as] in the beginning.


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And I will restore to you the years that the caterpillar has eaten, the locust, and the cankerworm, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.


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And ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God that has dealt wondrously with you; and my people shall never again be ashamed.


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And ye shall know that I [am] in the midst of Israel and [that] I [am] the LORD your God, and [there is] none other; and my people shall never be ashamed.


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And it shall come to pass after this [that] I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:


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The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the great and the terrible day of the LORD comes.


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And it shall come to pass [that] whoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall escape: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be salvation, as the LORD has said, and in those who are left, to whom the LORD shall have called.:


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For, behold, in those days and in that time when I shall cause the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem to end,


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I will gather together all the Gentiles, and will cause them to descend into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and there I will enter into judgment with them because of my people and of my heritage Israel, whom they scattered among the nations, and parted my land.


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And they have cast lots for my people and have given a boy for a harlot and sold a girl for wine that they might drink.


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Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly [and] speedily I will return your recompense upon your own head;


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because ye have taken my silver and my gold and have carried into your temples my precious and beautiful things


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and ye have sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem unto the Grecians that ye might remove them far from their border.


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Behold, I will raise them out of the place where ye have sold them and will return your recompense upon your own head:


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and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD has spoken [it].


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Proclaim this among the Gentiles: Prepare war; wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:


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beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears; let the weak say, I [am] strong.


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Assemble yourselves and come, all ye Gentiles, and gather yourselves together round about; there cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.


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Let the Gentiles be wakened and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat for there I will sit to judge all the Gentiles round about.


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Put in the sickle for the harvest is ripe; come, go down for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness [is] great.


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Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.


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The LORD also shall roar out of Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake; but the LORD [will be] the hope of his people and the strength of the sons of Israel.


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So shall ye know that I [am]the LORD your God, that I inhabit Zion, the mountain of my holiness: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and no strangers shall pass through her any more.


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And it shall come to pass in that day [that] the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD and shall water the valley of Shittim.


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Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the sons of Judah because they have shed innocent blood in their land.


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The words of Amos, who was among the pastors of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.


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And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the pastors shall be destroyed, and the top of Carmel shall wither.


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Thus hath the LORD said: For three transgressions of Damascus and for the fourth, I will not convert her because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.


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I will also break the bar of Damascus and cut off the inhabitants of the plain of Aven and him that holds the sceptre from the house of Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir.


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Thus hath the LORD said: For three transgressions of Gaza and for the fourth, I will not convert her because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver [them] up to Edom:


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And I will cut off the inhabitants of Ashdod and him that holds the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn my hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Palestinians shall perish, said the Lord GOD.


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Thus hath the LORD said: For three transgressions of Tyre and for the fourth, I will not convert her because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom and did not remember the brotherly covenant;


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Thus hath the LORD said: For three transgressions of Edom and for the fourth, I will not convert her because she pursued her brother with the sword and cast off all mercy, and with her anger she stole from him perpetually, and she kept her wrath for ever:


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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon and for the fourth, I will not convert her because they have ripped off the mountains of Gilead that they might enlarge their border:


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but I will kindle fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof [as] with shouting in the day of battle, [as] with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;


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Thus hath the LORD said: For three transgressions of Moab and for the fourth, I will not convert her because she burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;


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but I will send fire in Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab shall die in tumult, with shouting [and] with the sound of the shofar:


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and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof and will slay all the princes thereof with him, said the LORD.


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Thus hath the LORD said: For three transgressions of Judah and for the fourth, I will not convert her because they have despised the law of the LORD and have not kept his statutes, and their lies caused them to err after which their fathers have walked:


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Thus hath the LORD said: For three transgressions of Israel and for the fourth, I will not convert her because they sold the righteous for silver and the poor for a pair of shoes,


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desiring that there be dust of the earth upon the head of the poor, and to twist the way of the humble: and the man and his father have gone in unto the [same] maid, profaning my holy name:


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and they lay [themselves] down upon clothes laid to pledge by any altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned [in] the house of their god.


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Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height [was] like the height of the cedars, and he [was] strong as an oak; yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.


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Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years through the wilderness that you might possess the land of the Amorite.


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And I raised up of your sons for prophets and of your young men for Nazarites. [Is it] not even thus, O ye sons of Israel? said the LORD.


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Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver his soul:


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neither shall he that handles the bow stand; and [he that is] swift of foot shall not escape: neither shall he that rides the horse save his life.


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Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O sons of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,


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You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore, I will visit all your iniquities against you.


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Will a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Will a young lion cry out of his den if he has taken nothing?


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Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth without a fowler? Shall the snare rise up from the earth and have taken nothing at all?


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Shall the shofar be blown in the city and the people not be afraid? Shall there be any evil in the city which the LORD has not done?


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Publish upon the palaces of Ashdod and upon the palaces of the land of Egypt and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria and behold the great oppression in the midst thereof and the [great] violence in the midst thereof.


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Therefore thus said the Lord GOD: An adversary [there shall be] even round about the land, and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.


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Thus hath the LORD said: As the pastor takes out of the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so shall the sons of Israel escape that dwell in Samaria in the corner of the bed and at the border of the couch.


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that in the day that I shall visit the rebellions of Israel upon him, I will also visit upon the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground.


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And I will smite the winter house with the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and many houses shall be cut off, said the LORD.:


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Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan, that [are] in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.


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The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness that, behold, the days shall come upon you that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity in fishing boats.


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And ye shall go forth by the breaches one after another, and ye shall be cast out of the palace, saith the LORD.


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Go to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal increase the rebellion; and bring your sacrifices early [in the morning] [and] your tithes every three years:


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and offer a sacrifice of praise with leaven, and proclaim [and] publish the free [will] offerings for this is the way you like it, O ye sons of Israel, said the Lord GOD.


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I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and want of bread in all your places: yet ye have not returned unto me, said the LORD.


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And also I have withheld the rain from you when [there were] yet three months to the harvest, and I caused it to rain upon one city and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece upon which it did not rain withered.


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So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water, but they were not satisfied, yet ye have not returned unto me, said the LORD.


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I have smitten you with [the] east wind and with [the] caterpillar; your many gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees were devoured by the locust; yet ye have never returned unto me, said the LORD.


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I have sent among you the pestilence in the way to Egypt; your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils; and ye never returned unto me, said the LORD.


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I have overthrown [some] of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the fire; and ye never returned unto me, said the LORD.


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Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; [and] because I must do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.


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For, behold, he that forms the mountains and creates the wind and declares unto man what [is] his thought, that makes the darkness into morning and treads above the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of the hosts, [is] his name.:


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The virgin of Israel has fallen; she shall not be able to rise again: she was forsaken upon her land; [there is] no one to raise her up.


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For thus hath the Lord GOD said: The city that sent out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which sent forth a hundred shall have ten, in the house of Israel.


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but do not seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and do not pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.


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Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph and devour [it], and [there be] no one to quench [it] in Bethel.


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look unto him that makes the seven stars and Orion and turns the shadow of death into the morning and makes the day dark with night, that calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD [is] his name;


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that strengthens the spoiler against the strong, so that the spoiler shall come against the fortress.


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Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat, ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.


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For I have known of your many rebellions and your great sins that afflict the just and take a ransom and turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right].


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Seek that which is good, and not that which is evil that ye may live; and so the LORD, the God of the hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.


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Hate the evil and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate; it may be that the LORD God of the hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.


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Therefore the LORD, [the] God of the hosts, the Lord, said this: Wailing [shall be] in all streets, and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.


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Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD [shall be] darkness, and not light.


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As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall and a serpent bit him.


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[Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?


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Though ye offer me [your] burnt offerings and your presents, I will not accept [them]; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.


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Did you perchance offer me any sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness in forty years, O house of Israel?


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But ye have offered unto Sicut your king, and unto Chiun your idols, the star of your gods which ye made.


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Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, said the LORD, whose name [is] The God of the hosts.:


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Woe unto those [that are] at ease in Zion and to those that trust in the mountain of Samaria, [who are] named principals among the same nations which shall come upon them, O house of Israel!


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Pass unto Calneh and see, and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Palestinians. [Are they] better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?


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that lie upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves upon their couches and eat the lambs out of the flock and the calves out of the midst of the stall;


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that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.


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Therefore now they shall go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of those that stretched themselves [upon their couches] shall be removed.


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The Lord GOD has sworn by himself, the LORD God of the hosts said, I abhor the grandeur of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore I will give the city with all that is therein over to the enemy.


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And their uncle shall take each one and burn them to bring out the bones out of the house and shall say unto him that [is] by the sides of the house, [Is there yet any] with thee? and he shall say, No. Then he shall say, Hold thy tongue, for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.


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For, behold, the LORD shall command, and he will smite the great house with breaches and the little house with clefts.


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Shall horses run upon the rocks? will [one] plow [there] with oxen? why have ye turned judgment into hemlock, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood?


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But, behold, I will raise up against you Gentiles, O house of Israel, said the LORD God of the hosts, and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.:


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Thus hath the Lord GOD showed unto me, and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter hay; and, behold that the latter [hay grew] after the king's reapings.


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And it came to pass [that] when they had come to an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee; who shall lift up Jacob? for he [is] small.


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[Afterward] the Lord GOD showed me this: And, behold, the Lord GOD called to judge by fire, and it devoured the great deep and ate up the inheritance.


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Thus he showed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall [made] by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.


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And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass over them any more:


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And the altars of Isaac shall be destroyed, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise upon the house of Jeroboam with the sword.


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Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos has conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.


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For thus hath Amos said, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.


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And Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and eat thy bread there, and prophesy there:


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but do not prophesy any more in Bethel: for it [is] the king's sanctuary, and the head of the kingdom.


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Then Amos answered Amos said to Amaziah, I am not a prophet, neither am I a prophet's son, but I am a herdsman and a gatherer of sycamore fruit:


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and the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.


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Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Do not prophesy against Israel and do not drop [thy word] against the house of Isaac.


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Therefore thus hath the LORD said; Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by lots; and thou shalt die in a polluted land; and Israel shall surely go into captivity from his land.:


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And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass over them any more.


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And the cantors of the temple shall howl in that day, said the Lord GOD; [there shall be] many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast [them] forth with silence.


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saying, When the month is over, we will sell the wheat; and after the sabbath day we will open [the storehouse] of bread, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit;


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that we may buy the poor for money and the needy for a pair of shoes and sell the refuse of the wheat.


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Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwells therein? and it shall all rise up as a flood, and it shall be cast out and sunk, as the river of Egypt.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, said the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will cover the earth with darkness in the clear day;


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and I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; and I will cause sackcloth to be brought up upon all loins and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only [son] and the end thereof as a bitter day.


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Behold, [the] days come, said the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine to the earth, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing [the] words of the LORD:


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and they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek [the] word of the LORD, and shall not find [it].


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Those that swear by the guiltiness of Samaria and say, As thy God of Dan lives; and, As the way of Beersheba lives, even they shall fall, and never rise up again.:


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I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said, Smite the threshold and shake the doors and cut the head of them all into pieces; and I will slay the last of them with the sword; there shall be none of them [left] to flee away or to escape.


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Though they dig unto Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down;


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and though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out of there; and though they hide from my sight in the bottom of the sea, from there will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:


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and though they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.


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The Lord GOD of the hosts [is] he that touches the earth, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall all rise up like [a] river and shall be sunk, as the river of Egypt.


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He that built his degrees in the heaven and has founded his gathering upon the earth; he that calls the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD [is] his name.


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O sons of Israel, [Are] ye not as sons of the Ethiopians unto me, said the LORD? Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Palestinians from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?


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Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD [are] against the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, said the LORD.


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For, behold, I will command, and I will cause the house of Israel to be sifted among all the Gentiles like as [the grain] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall to the earth.


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All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, For our sake the evil shall not come near nor overtake us.


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In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen and close up its breaches; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:


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that those who are called by my name may possess the remnant of Edom and all the Gentiles, said the LORD that does this.


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Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall catch up with the reaper, and the treader of grapes with him that sows seed; and the mountains shall drop new wine, and all the hills shall melt.


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And I will turn the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities and inhabit [them]; and they shall plant vineyards and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens and eat the fruit of them.


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For I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, said the LORD thy God.:


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The vision of Obadiah. Thus hath the Lord GOD said concerning Edom: We have heard the message from the LORD, and [a] messenger is sent to the Gentiles, Arise, and let us rise up against her in battle.


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The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation [is] high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?


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Though thou exalt [thyself] as the eagle and though thou set thy nest among the stars, from there I will bring thee down, said the LORD.


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Did thieves come to thee, or robbers by night? (how art thou destroyed!) would they not have stolen until they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave [some] grapes?


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All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee [even] to the border; the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee [and] prevailed against thee; [those that eat] thy bread have laid a wound under thee; [there is] no intelligence in this.


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Shall I not in that day, said the LORD, even destroy the wise [men] out of Edom and intelligence out of the mount of Esau?


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And thy mighty [men], O Teman, shall be dismayed because every man shall be cut off from mount of Esau by the slaughter.


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For [thy] violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.


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In the day that thou didst stand on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces and foreigners entered into his gates and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou [wast] as one of them.


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But thou should not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither should thou have rejoiced over the sons of Judah in the day they were lost; neither should thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.


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Thou should not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; thou should not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid [hands] on their substance in the day of their calamity;


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neither should thou have stood in the crossway, to kill those of his that did escape; neither should thou have delivered up those of his that remained in the day of distress.


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For the day of the LORD [is] near upon all [the] Gentiles: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; thy reward shall return upon thine own head.


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For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, [so] shall all the Gentiles drink continually; they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.


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But in mount Zion shall be deliverance, and it shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.


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And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them and devour them; and there shall not be [any] remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken [it].


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And [those of] the south shall possess the mount of Esau and the plains of the Palestinians, and they shall also possess the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria; and Benjamin [shall possess] Gilead.


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And the captives of this host of the sons of Israel [shall possess] that of the Canaanites, [even] unto Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who [shall be] in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.


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And saviours shall come up unto mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.:


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Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.


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But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD and went down to Joppa, and he found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare thereof and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish [fleeing] from the presence of the LORD.


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But the LORD caused a great wind to rise up in the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship thought she would be broken.


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And the mariners were afraid, and everyone called unto his god, and they cast forth the vessels that [were] in the ship into the sea, to lighten [it] of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; he lay and was fast asleep.


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So the shipmaster came to him and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that he will have compassion upon us that we not perish.


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And each one said to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots that we may know for whose cause this evil [is] upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.


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Then they said unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, why this evil [is come] upon us; What [is] thine occupation? and from where dost thou come? what [is] thy country? and of what people [art] thou?


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And he said unto them, I [am] a Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, God of the heavens, who has made the sea and the dry [land].


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Then the men were exceedingly afraid and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD because he had told them.


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Then they said unto him, What shall we do unto thee that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea rose [higher] and was wroth.


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And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you; for I know that for my sake this great tempest [is] upon you.


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Nevertheless the men rowed hard to turn the ship to land, but they could not; for the sea rose [higher] and was wroth against them.


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And they cried unto the LORD and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for the soul of this man, and do not lay upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.


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Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.:


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and said, I cried by reason of my tribulation unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, [and] thou didst hear my voice.


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For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about; all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.


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The waters compassed me about, [even] to the soul, the depth closed me round about; the weeds were wrapped about my head.


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I descended to the roots of the mountains; the earth [put] her bars about me for ever; yet thou hast brought up my life out of the grave, O LORD my God.


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When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer entered in unto thee in thy holy temple.


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But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay [that] which I have vowed; that saving comes of the LORD.


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So Jonah arose and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.


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And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be destroyed.


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So the people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.


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For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he threw his robe from him and covered [himself] with sackcloth and sat in ashes.


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And he caused [it] to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing; let them not feed, nor drink water:


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but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth and cry mightily unto God; and let each one turn from his evil way and from the violence that [is] in his hands.


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And God saw their works, because they turned from their evil way, and he repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them, and he did not do [it].:


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And he prayed unto the LORD and said, I pray thee, O LORD, [was] this not what I said when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hastened to flee unto Tarshish, for I knew that thou [art] a gracious God and full of compassion, slow to anger, and of great mercy, and dost repent when thou art come to take punishment.


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And Jonah went out of the city and sat towards the east side of the city, and there made him a booth and sat under it in the shade until he might see what would become of the city.


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And the LORD God prepared a gourd and made [it] to come up over Jonah that it might be a shadow over his head to deliver him from his evil. So Jonah was exceeding glad for the gourd.


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But God [also] prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd [so] that it withered.


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And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah that he fainted and wished in his soul to die and said, [It] is better for me to die than to live.


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And God said to Jonah, Art thou so angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, [even] unto death.


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Then the LORD said, Thou hast had pity on the gourd for which thou hast not laboured, neither didst [thou] make it grow; which came up in a night and perished in a night:


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And shall I not spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons, that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and many animals?:


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The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.


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Hear, all ye peoples; hearken, O earth, and all that is therein: and the Lord GOD, the Lord from his holy temple shall be [a] witness against you.


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For, behold, the LORD comes forth out of his place and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.


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And the mountains shall melt under him, and the valleys shall be split, as wax before the fire, [and] as the waters [that] run down a steep place.


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All this for the rebellion of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. What [is] the rebellion of Jacob? [is it] not Samaria? and what [are] the high places of Judah? [are they] not Jerusalem?


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Therefore I will make Samaria into heaps in the field, into a land of vineyards: and I will scatter her stones throughout the valley, and I will uncover her foundations.


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And all her graven images shall be broken to pieces, and all her gifts shall be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols, for she gathered [it] of the gifts of harlots, and they shall return unto gifts of harlots.


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Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons and mourning as the owls.


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For her wound [is] painful, for it is come unto Judah; it is come unto the gate of my people, [even] to Jerusalem.


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Pass away naked with shame, thou inhabitant of Saphir: the inhabitant of Zaanan did not come forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you for his lateness.


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For the inhabitant of Maroth was pained because of good; therefore evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.


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O thou inhabitant of Lachish, hitch the chariot to dromedaries: for thou [wert] the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion, for in thee the rebellions of Israel were invented.


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Therefore shalt thou give gifts to Moreshethgath; the houses of Achzib [shall be] a lie to the kings of Israel.


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Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come unto Adullam.


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Make thee bald, and shave thee for the sons of thy delight; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle, for they are gone into captivity from thee.:


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Woe unto those that devise iniquity and fabricate evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they put it into effect because they have power in their hands.


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And they coveted fields and stole them, and houses and took [them] away; so they oppressed the man and his house, even the man and his heritage.


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Therefore thus hath the LORD said; Behold, I devise an evil against this family, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye walk haughtily; for the time shall be evil.


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In that time shall [one] take up a saying against you and lament with a doleful lamentation [and] say, We have been utterly destroyed; he has changed the portion of my people; how has he taken our fields! He has given and [divided our fields unto others].


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Do not prophesy, [they say to] those that prophesy: Do not prophesy unto them [that] they are to understand shame.


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O [thou that] calls thyself the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD shortened? [are] these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walks uprightly?


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He who yesterday [was] my people is risen up as an enemy; ye pull off the robe with the garment from those that pass by as those who return from war.


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Ye have cast the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their children ye have taken away my continual praise.


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Arise and depart, for this [is] not [your] rest because it is polluted; it has become corrupted and with a great corruption.


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If there is one walking in the spirit of falsehood, he shall lie, [saying], I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.


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I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah as [the] flock in the midst of their fold; they shall make great noise by reason of [the multitude of] men.


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[The] breaker shall go up before them; they shall break through and pass through the gate and go out by it; and their king shall pass before them, the LORD at the head of them.:


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And I said, Hear, I pray you, O princes of Jacob, and ye heads of the house of Israel. [Did] it not [pertain] to you to know that which is right?


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Who hate the good, and love the evil, who steal their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;


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and eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones and chop them in pieces as for the pot and as flesh within the caldron.


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Then they shall cry unto the LORD, but he will not respond to them: he will even hide his face from them at that time because of their evil doings.


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Thus hath the LORD said concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that does not give them [something] to eat, they even prepare war against him.


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Therefore the vision shall be made night unto you, and darkness unto those that divine, and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.


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Then the prophets shall be ashamed, and the diviners confounded; and they shall all cover their lips because [they shall have] no answer from God.


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But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his rebellion, and to Israel his sin.


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Now hear this, ye heads of the house of Jacob and captains of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment and pervert all equity;


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the heads thereof judge for bribes, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet they come near unto the LORD, and say, [Is] not the LORD among us? No evil can come upon us.


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Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.:


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But it shall come to pass in the last of the times [that] the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the top of the mountains and higher than all the hills, and peoples shall flow unto it.


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And many Gentiles shall come and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.


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And he shall judge among many peoples and correct strong nations even afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruninghooks; nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they train for war any more.


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But each one shall sit under their vine and under their fig tree, and no one shall make [them] afraid, for the mouth of the LORD of the hosts has spoken [it].


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Even if all the peoples should walk each one in the name of their gods; with all this we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and eternally.


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In that day, saith the LORD, I will assemble her that is lame, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted,


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and I will make her that is lame to be heirs, and her that was cast off a strong nation, and the LORD shall reign over them in the mount of Zion from now, and for evermore.


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And thou, O tower of the flock, the stronghold of the daughter of Zion shall come unto thee; and the dominion shall come first, the kingdom, to the daughter of Jerusalem.


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Now why dost thou cry out aloud? [is there] no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.


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Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now thou shalt go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go [even] to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.


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But now many nations are gathered against thee that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eyes see our desire [carried out] upon Zion.


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But they did not know the thoughts of the LORD, neither did they understand his counsel by which he gathered them as sheaves onto the [threshing] floor.


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Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs bronze; and thou shalt break in pieces many peoples; and thou shalt consecrate their spoil unto the LORD and their riches unto the Lord of the whole earth.:


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Now thou shalt be besieged by armies, O daughter of [the] army: he shall lay siege against us; they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.


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But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, [though] thou be little among the thousands of Judah, [yet] out of thee shall he come forth unto me [that is] to be Lord in Israel; and his goings forth [are] from the beginning, from the days of the ages.


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Therefore he will give them up until the time [that] she who travails has brought forth; then the remnant of his brethren shall return with the sons of Israel.


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And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide; for now he shall be great unto the ends of the earth.


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And he shall be [our] peace when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then we shall raise against him seven shepherds and eight principal men.


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And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the blade, and the land of Nimrod with their swords; and he shall deliver [us] from the Assyrian when he comes against our land and when he treads [within] our borders.


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And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples as the dew of the LORD, as the rains upon the grass, which did not expect [a] man, nor did they expect the sons of men.


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And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many peoples as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep, who, if he goes through and treads down and tears in pieces, there are none that can escape.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, said the LORD, that I will cause thy horses to be killed out of the midst of thee, and I will cause thy chariots to be destroyed:


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and I will cause all the cities of thy land to be destroyed, and I will cause all thy fortresses to be destroyed:


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and I will cause the witchcrafts to be destroyed by thy hand; and no [more] soothsayers shall be found in thee:


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and I will cause thy graven images and thy images to be destroyed out of the midst of thee; and never again shalt thou worship the work of thine hands.


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Hear ye now what the LORD saith: Arise, contend thou with the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.


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Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy with his people, and he will reprove Israel.


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For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt and ransomed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.


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O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal: that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.


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With what shall I present myself before the LORD, [and how] shall I worship the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?


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Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn [for] my rebellion, the fruit of my bowels [for] the sin of my soul?


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He has declared unto thee, O man, what [is] good and what the LORD requires of thee: only to do [right] judgment, and to love mercy, and to humble thyself to walk with thy God.


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The LORD'S voice cries [out] unto the city, and [the man of] wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and [he] who has established it.


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Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the scant measure [that is] abominable?


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With which their rich men are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.


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Therefore I have also made [thee] weak in smiting thee, in making [thee] desolate because of thy sins.


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Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down [shall be] in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take, but shalt not be saved; and [that] which thou dost save, I will give it up to the sword.


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Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with the oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink the wine.


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For the statutes of Omri have been kept and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye have walked in their counsels that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.:


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Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer [fruits], as the grapegleanings of the vintage: [there is] no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.


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The merciful [man] of the earth is missing: and [there is] no one upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt each man his brother with a net.


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To complete the evil with their hands, the prince demands, and the judge [judges] for a reward; and the great [man] speaks the desires of his heart: and they confirm it.


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The best of them [is] as a brier; the most upright [as] a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, thy visitation, comes; now shall be their confusion.


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Do not believe in a friend, do not trust in a prince; from her that lies at thy side, take care, open not thy mouth.


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For the son dishonours the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; and a man's enemies [are] those of his own house.


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Therefore I will wait for the LORD; I will wait for the God of my saving health; my God will hear me.


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Do not rejoice against me, O my enemy; for if I have fallen, I shall arise; if I sit in darkness, the LORD [is] my light.


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I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he has judged my cause and executed my judgment; he will bring me forth to the light, [and] I shall behold his righteousness.


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Then [she that is] my enemy shall see [it], and shame shall cover her who said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? my eyes shall behold her: now she shall be trodden down as the mire of the streets.


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In the day that thy walls shall be built unto thee, [in] that day shall the decree [of thy slavery] be far removed.


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[In] that day [also] he shall come even to thee from Assyria and [from] the fortified cities and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and [from] mountain to mountain.


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Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell only [in] the mountain, in the midst of Carmel; let them feed [in] Bashan and Gilead, as in the time of old.


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The Gentiles shall see and be ashamed at all thy mighty acts: they shall lay [their] hand upon [their] mouth, their ears shall become deaf.


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They shall lick the dust like a serpent; as the serpents of the earth, they shall tremble in their holes; they shall be filled with fear of the LORD our God and shall [also] fear thee.


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Who [is] a God like unto thee that pardons iniquity, and passes over the rebellion with the remnant of his heritage? He did not retain his anger for ever because he delights [in] mercy.


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He will turn again, he will have mercy on us; he will subdue our iniquities; and will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.


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Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob [and] the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the times of old.:


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God [is] jealous, and the LORD avenges; the LORD avenges and [is] furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserves [wrath] for his enemies.


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The LORD [is] slow to anger and great in power and will not at all treat the guilty as though they were innocent; the LORD whose way [is] in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds [are] the dust of his feet.


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He reprehends the sea and makes it dry and dries up all the rivers; Bashan was destroyed, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon was destroyed.


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The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, and the world and all that dwell therein.


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Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.


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But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of his place, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.


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What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end; he will not hold back the tribulation the second time.


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For while [they are] entwined together [as] thorns, and while the drunkards shall be drinking, they shall be devoured as stubble full of dryness.


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Thus hath the LORD said: For much rest that they have, and though they are many, yet thus shall they be cut down, and [he] shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.


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And the LORD shall give a commandment concerning thee [that] no one else of thy name ever be sown; out of the house of thy god I will cut off the graven image and the molten image; I will make it thy grave because thou wert vile.


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Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that brings good tidings, of him that publishes peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows; for Belial shall no longer pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.:


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The destroyer is risen up against thee: keep the fortress, watch the way, make [thy] loins strong, fortify [thy] power mightily.


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For the LORD shall restore the glory of Jacob as the glory of Israel; for the emptiers have emptied them out and marred their vine branches.


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The shield of his valiant ones shall be red, the men of [his] army [are] in scarlet, the chariot [as] fire of torches [in] the day which shall be made ready; the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.


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The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall flow through the streets, their faces like torches; they shall run like the lightnings.


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He shall remember his valiant ones; they shall stumble in their walk when they make haste to their wall, and the covering shall be prepared.


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And the queen shall be taken captive; they shall order her to go up, and her maids shall take [her], mourning as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.


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And Nineveh was of old like a pool of water; but [now] they flee away. Stand, stand, [shall they cry]; but no one looks [back].


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Take the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold, for [there is] no end of the riches; honour, more than all the desirable furniture.


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She is empty and worn out and is in pieces, and the heart melted, the knees smite together, and much pain [is] in the kidneys, and the faces of them all gather blackness.


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What of the dwelling of the lions and of the feeding place of the young lions where the lion and the lioness walked [and] the lion's whelps, and no one made [them] afraid?


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The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps and strangled for his lionesses and filled his holes with prey and his dens with robbery.


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Behold, I [speak] unto thee, saith the LORD of the hosts, and I will burn and [reduce] thy chariots into smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions; and I will cut off thy robbery from the earth, and the voice of thy ambassadors shall never be heard again.:


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Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and] robbery; stealing does not depart [from her]!


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The noise of [the] whip and the noise of the rattling of the wheels and of the prancing horses and of the jumping chariots [shall be heard in thee].


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The horseman lifts up both the bright sword and the glittering spear, and [there is] a multitude of slain and a great number of carcasses; and [there] shall be no end of [their] corpses; they stumble upon their corpses,


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because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the harlot of beautiful grace, the mistress of witchcrafts that sells the Gentiles [into slavery] through her whoredoms and peoples through her witchcrafts.


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Here I [am] against thee, saith the LORD of the hosts, and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will show the Gentiles thy nakedness and the kingdoms thy shame.


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And it shall come to pass, [that] all those that look upon thee shall flee from thee and say, Nineveh is laid waste; who will bemoan her? from where shall I seek comforters for thee?


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Art thou better than populous No that was situated among the rivers, [that had] the waters round about it, whose rampart [was] the sea, [and] her wall [was] from the sea?


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Yet she [was] carried away, she went into captivity; her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her nobles were bound in chains.


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Thou also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be encompassed; thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.


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All thy strongholds [are like] fig trees with the firstripe figs; if they are shaken, they even fall into the mouth of the eater.


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Behold, thy people in the midst of thee [shall be like] women; the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies; the fire shall devour thy bars.


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Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brickkiln.


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There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.


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Thy princes [shall be] as the locusts and thy captains as the great grasshoppers which camp in the hedges in the cold day, [but] when the sun arises, they flee away, and it is not known where they were.


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Thy shepherds have slumbered, O king of Assyria; thy valiant ones are at rest; thy people scattered themselves upon the mountains, and there is no one to unite [them].


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[There is] no cure for thy destruction; thy wound is grievous; all that hear thy story shall clap their hands over thee; for upon whom has not thy wickedness passed continually?:


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O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear; and raise my voice unto thee because of the violence, and thou wilt not save?


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Why dost thou cause me to see iniquity and cause [me] to behold grievance and destruction and violence before me, in addition to those that raise up strife and contention?


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Therefore the law is weakened, and the judgment does not go forth true: for the wicked compasses about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceeds.


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Behold among the Gentiles and regard and wonder marvelously, for a work shall be done in your days [which] ye will not believe, though it be told [you].


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For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, [that] bitter and hasty nation, which march through the breadth of the earth to possess the dwellingplaces [that are] not theirs.


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Their horses shall be swifter than tigers and are sharper than the evening wolves, and their horsemen shall multiply themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as eagles [that] hasten to eat.


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All of her shall come for the prey, before their faces an east wind, and they shall gather the captives as the sand.


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And he shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto him, he shall deride every fortress and shall heap dust and take it.


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Then he shall become arrogant [against God], and he shall pass ahead and shall be [found] guilty, [imputing] this his power unto his god.


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[Art] thou not from the beginning, O LORD my God, my Holy One? we shall not die, O LORD, thou hast ordained him for judgment, and thou hast established him strong for chastisement.


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[Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on iniquity: why dost thou look upon those that deal treacherously [and] hold thy tongue when the wicked devour [the man that is] more righteous than he?


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He shall take up all of them with [his] hook; he shall catch them in his net and gather them in his drag: therefore, he shall rejoice and be glad.


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Therefore, he shall sacrifice unto his net and burn incense unto his drag because by them his portion [is] fat, and his food plenteous.


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I will stand upon my watch and affirm my foot upon the fortress and will watch to see what he will say in me and what I shall answer to my question.


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And the LORD answered me and said, Write the vision and make [it] plain upon tables that he may run that reads it.


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For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie; though it tarry, wait for it because it will surely come; wait for it.


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Behold, he whose soul is not upright in him [will] become filled with pride, but the just in his faith shall live.


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Even more than he who is given over to wine, [the] transposer, the proud man, shall not remain, who enlarges his desire as Sheol and [is] as death and cannot be satisfied, but gathered unto him all the Gentiles and heaps unto him all the peoples;


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Shall not all these take up a parable against him and a taunting enigma against him and say, Woe to him that multiplied [that which was] not his! And [for] how long would he pile thick clay upon himself?


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Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee and awake those that shall take thy place, and thou shalt be for a prey unto them?


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Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the other peoples shall spoil thee because of human blood and [for] the robberies of the land, of the cities, and of all that dwell therein.


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Woe to him that covets illgotten gain by violence for his house that he may set his nest on high, that he may escape from the power of evil!


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Thou hast taken shameful counsel for thy house by cutting off many peoples and hast committed a sin against thy life.


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[Is] this not of the LORD of the hosts? Therefore the peoples shall labour for the fire, and the Gentiles shall weary themselves in vain.


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For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.


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Woe unto him that gives his neighbours drink, that puts thy bottle to [them], and makes [them] drunken also, that thou may look on their nakedness!


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Thou hast filled thyself with dishonour instead of honour; drink thou also, and thy foreskin shall be uncovered; the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful vomit [shall fall] upon thy glory.


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For the violence of Lebanon shall fall upon thee and the destruction of the [wild] beasts shall break thee, because of the human blood, and of the robbery of the land, of the cities, and of all that dwell therein.


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Of what profit [is] the graven image that its maker has sculpted; the molten image, that teaches lies, so that in making dumb images the maker trusts in his work?


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Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise! Can it ever teach? Behold, it [is] laid over with gold and silver, and [there is] no breath at all within it.


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O LORD, I have heard thy word [and] was afraid; O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the times; in the midst of the times make it known; in wrath remember mercy.


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God shall come from Teman, and the Holy [One] from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was filled with his praise.


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And [his] brightness was as the light; he had horns [coming] out of his hand; and there [was] hidden his strength.


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He stood and measured the earth; he beheld and drove out the Gentiles; and the ancient mountains crumbled, the ancient hills; the ways of the world bowed unto him.


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Oh LORD, wast thou displeased against the rivers? [was] thine anger against the rivers? [was] thy wrath even against the sea when thou didst ride upon thine horses [and] thy chariots of saving health?


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Thy bow was entirely uncovered, and the oaths unto the tribes, eternal word, when thou didst divide the earth with rivers.


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The mountains saw thee, [and] they trembled: the overflowing of the waters passed by; the abyss uttered its voice; the deep lifted up its hands.


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The sun [and] the moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went [and] at the shining of thy glittering spear.


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Thou didst go forth to save thy people, to save with thine anointed; thou didst shatter the head of the house of the wicked by uncovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.


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Thou didst strike through with his staffs the heads of his villages, who as a whirlwind attempted to scatter me; their pride [was] as to devour the poor secretly.


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When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice; rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in my seat, that I might rest in the day of trouble when he comes up unto the people to destroy them.


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Because the fig tree shall not blossom, neither [shall] fruit [be] on the vines; the labour of the olive shall lie, and the cultivated fields shall yield no food; the sheep shall be cut off from the fold, and [there shall be] no herd in the stalls:


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The LORD God [is] my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' [feet], and upon my high places he will cause me to walk victorious in my instruments of music.:


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The word of the LORD which went unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.


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I will destroy the men and the beasts; I will destroy the fowls of the heaven and the fishes of the sea, and the wicked shall stumble; and I will cut off men from upon the face of the earth, saith the LORD.


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And I will extend my hand over Judah and over all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place [and] the name of their religious [persons] with [their] priests


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and those that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops and those that worship swearing by the LORD and by their king


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and those that have turned back from following the LORD and [those] that did not seek the LORD, nor enquired about him.


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Be silent before the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD [is] at hand: for the LORD has prepared a sacrifice, he has bid his guests.


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And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S sacrifice that I will make a visitation upon the princes and upon the king's sons and upon all such as are clothed with strange apparel.


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In the same day I will also make a visitation upon all those that leap over the door, who fill their masters' houses with robbery and deceit.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD [that there shall be] the noise of a cry from the fish gate and a howling from the school and a great destruction from the hills.


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Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all those that brought [ye] silver are cut off.


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And it shall come to pass at that time, [that] I will search Jerusalem with candles and make a visitation upon the men that are settled on their lees, that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.


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Therefore their goods shall become a spoil, and their houses a desolation: they shall build houses, but not inhabit [them]; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.


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The great day of the LORD [is] near, [it is] near, and hastens greatly, the bitter voice of the day of the LORD; the mighty man shall cry there.


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That day [is] a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,


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And I will bring distress upon men that they shall walk like blind men because they have sinned against the LORD, and their blood shall be poured out as dust and their flesh as the dung.


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Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath, but the whole earth shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all those that dwell in the earth.:


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before the decree is executed, [before] the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger comes upon you.


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Seek ye the LORD, all ye humble of the earth, who have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek humility: it may be ye shall be kept in the day of the LORD'S anger.


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For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall spoil Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.


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Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the people of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD [is] against you; O Canaan, the land of the Palistinians, I will cause thee to be destroyed until there shall be no inhabitant [left].


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And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon they shall sleep for the night; for the LORD their God shall visit them and return their captives.


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I have heard the reproaches of Moab, and the revilings of the sons of Ammon, by which they have dishonoured my people and magnified [themselves] over their border.


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Therefore [as] I live, said the LORD of the hosts, [the] God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, [even] a field of nettles and saltpits and a perpetual desolation; the remnant of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my Gentiles shall inherit them.


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This shall come upon them for their pride because they have reproached and magnified [themselves] against the people of the LORD of the hosts.


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The LORD [shall be] terrible against them for he will weaken all the gods of the earth; and each one from his place shall worship him, [even] all the isles of the Gentiles.


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And he will stretch out his hand over the north [wind] and destroy Assyria and will make Nineveh a desolation [and] dry like a wilderness.


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And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the Gentiles; both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in her thresholds; [their] voice shall sing in the windows; desolation [shall be] in the gates: for her cedar [work] shall be uncovered.


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This [is] the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I [am], and [there is] none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! anyone that passes by her shall hiss [and] wag his hand.:


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She did not obey the voice; she did not receive correction; she did not trust in the LORD; she did not draw near to her God.


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Her princes within her [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening wolves; they do not leave a bone for tomorrow.


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Her prophets [are] light [and] treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary; they have falsified the law.


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The just LORD [is] in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: each morning he shall bring his judgment to light; he never fails; but the unjust know no shame.


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I have caused [the] Gentiles to be cut off: their castles are desolate; I made their streets waste until no one passes by; their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man [left], there is no inhabitant.


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Saying, Surely [now] thou wilt fear me; thou wilt receive chastisement; so thy dwelling shall not be thrown down, all of which I visited upon her; but they rose early, [and] corrupted all their doings.


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Therefore wait for me, said the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey; for my judgment [is] to gather [the] Gentiles, that I may assemble the kingdoms to pour upon them my indignation, [even] all my fierce anger; for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.


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For then I will restore to the peoples the pure language that they may all call upon the name of the LORD to serve him with one consent.


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From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, [even] the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring me an offering.


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In that day thou shalt not be ashamed for any of thy doings, in which thou hast rebelled against me, for then I will take away out of the midst of thee those that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no longer be haughty because of the mountain of my holiness.


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I will also leave in the midst of thee a poor and humble people, and they shall wait in the name of the LORD.


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The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they shall be fed and lie down, and no one shall make [them] afraid.


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Sing, O daughter of Zion; [shout with] joy O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all thy heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.


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The LORD has taken away thy judgments; he has cast out thine enemy; the LORD is king of Israel in the midst of thee; thou shalt not see evil any more.


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In that time it shall be said to Jerusalem, Do not fear; [and to] Zion, Do not let thine hands be slack.


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The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save; he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love; he will joy over thee with singing.


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I will gather [those that are] weary because of the [long] time, [who] are thine, [unto whom] her confusion [was] a burden.


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Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee; and I will save her that is lame and gather her that was driven out; and I will make them a praise and of [good] reputation in every land where they have been put to shame.


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At that time will I bring you [again], even in the time that I gather you; for I will give you as fame and as praise among all peoples of the earth, when I shall return your captives before your eyes, saith the LORD.:


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In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by [the] hand of Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,


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Thus speaketh the LORD of the hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not yet come, the time to build the house of the LORD.


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Ye have sown much and bring in little; ye eat, but ye are not filled; ye drink, but ye are not satisfied; ye clothe yourselves, but you are not warm; and he that is a hireling receives his wages in a bag with holes.


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Go up to the mountain and bring wood and build the house; and I will place my will in her, and I will be glorified, said the LORD.


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Ye look for much and find little; and [when] ye lock it up at home, I shall blow upon it. Why? said the LORD of the hosts. Because my house is deserted, and ye run each one of you unto his [own] house.


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And I called for a drought upon this land and upon the mountains and upon the wheat and upon the wine and upon the oil and upon [that] which the earth brings forth and upon the men, and upon the beasts and upon every labour of hands.


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Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, heard the voice of the LORD their God and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people feared before the LORD.


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Then spoke Haggai the ambassador of the LORD in the embassy of the LORD unto the people, saying, I [am] with you, said the LORD.


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And the LORD woke up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked in the house of the LORD of the hosts, their God,


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In the seventh [month], in the twenty-first [day] of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of the prophet Haggai, saying,


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Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,


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Who [is] left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see her now? [Is] she not as nothing before your eyes?


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Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, said the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of this land, said the LORD, and work; for I [am] with you, said the LORD of the hosts:


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The word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt and my Spirit is in the midst of you: do not fear.


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For thus hath the LORD of the hosts said: Yet even once, and I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry [land];


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and I will shake all the Gentiles; and the desire of all the Gentiles shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, said the LORD of the hosts.


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The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, said the LORD of the hosts, and in this place I will give peace, said the LORD of the hosts.


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In the twenty-fourth [day] of the ninth [month], in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying,


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If one bears holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt touches bread or pottage or wine, or oil or any food, shall it be [made] holy? And the priests answered and said, No.


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Then Haggai said, If [one that is] unclean by a dead body touches any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.


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Then Haggai answered, and said, So [is] this people, and so [is] this nation before me, said the LORD; and so [is] every work of their hands, and all that they offer here [is] unclean.


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And now, I pray you, consider in your heart from this day forth, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:


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since these [things] were: when [one] came to a heap of twenty [measures], there were [but] ten; when [one] came to the pressfat to draw out fifty [vessels] out of the press, there were [but] twenty.


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I smote you with [the] east wind and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands, yet ye did not [turn] to me, said the LORD.


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Consider now in your heart from this day forth, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth [month], [even] from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, put your heart into [it].


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Is not the seed yet in the barn? Not even the vine, nor the fig tree, nor the pomegranate, nor the olive tree, has blossomed yet, but from this day will I bless [you].


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And the word of the LORD came the second time unto Haggai in the twenty-fourth [day] of the month, saying,


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and I will overthrow the throne of the kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdom of the Gentiles, and I will overthrow the chariot and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, each one by the sword of his brother.


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In that day, said the LORD of the hosts, I will take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, said the LORD, and will make thee as a signet ring; for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of the hosts.:


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In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,


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Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; Turn unto me, said the LORD of the hosts, and I will turn unto you, said the LORD of the hosts.


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Do not be as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; Turn now from your evil ways and [from] your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, said the LORD.


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But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? Therefore they returned [from captivity] and said, Like as the LORD of the hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways and according to our doings, so has he dealt with us.


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Upon the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which [is] the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,


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I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that [were] in the bottom; and behind him [there were] red horses, speckled, and white.


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Then said I, O my lord, what [are] these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will show thee who these [are].


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And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These [are those] whom the LORD has sent to walk to and fro through the earth.


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And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees and said, We have walked to and fro through the land, and, behold, all the earth sits still and is at rest.


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Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of the hosts, when wilt thou have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these seventy years?


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So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of the hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.


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And I am very sore displeased with the Gentiles [that are] at ease; for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.


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Therefore thus hath the LORD said, I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies; my house shall be built in her, saith the LORD of the hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.


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Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of the hosts, My cities through abundance of good shall yet be widened; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion and shall yet choose Jerusalem.


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And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What [are] these? And he answered me, These [are] the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.


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Then I said, What [do] these come to do? And he spoke, saying, These [are] the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no one lifted up his head, but these are come to cause them to tremble, to cut down the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up [their] horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.:


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Then I said, Where goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what [is] its breadth and what [is] its length.


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and said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited without walls for the multitude of men and beasts in the midst of her:


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For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about and will be the glory in the midst of her.


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Ho, ho, [come forth], and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD, for I have spread you abroad by the four winds of the heavens, saith the LORD.


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For thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; After the glory he shall send me unto the Gentiles which spoiled you, for he that touches you touches the apple of his eye.


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For, behold, I raise my hand regarding them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants; and ye shall know that the LORD of the hosts has sent me.


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Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for, behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, said the LORD.


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And many Gentiles shall join themselves unto the LORD in that day and shall be my people, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and then thou shalt know that the LORD of the hosts has sent me unto thee.


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And he showed me Joshua the high priest, standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.


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And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD reprehend thee, O Satan; even the LORD that has chosen Jerusalem reprehend thee; [is] not this a brand plucked out of the fire?


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And [the angel] answered and spoke unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I have caused thee to be clothed with new raiment.


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And I said, Let them set a clean mitre upon his head. So they set a clean mitre upon his head and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.


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Thus saith the LORD of the hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also govern my house and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee [a] place among these that are here.


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Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee, for they [are] men of wonder. Behold, I bring forth my servant the BRANCH.


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For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone [there are] seven eyes; behold, I will engrave his labour, saith the LORD of the hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of the land in one day.


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In that day, saith the LORD of the hosts, each one of you shall call his neighbour under his vine and under [his] fig tree.:


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And the angel that talked with me came again and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,


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and said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked and behold a candlestick all [of] gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps upon the candlestick, and seven pipes for the lamps, which [are] upon the top thereof:


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and two olive trees over it, one upon the right hand [side] of the bowl and the other upon the left hand [side] thereof.


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Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Dost thou not know what this is? And I said, No, my lord.


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Then he answered and spoke unto me, saying, This [is the] word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, said the LORD of the hosts.


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Who [art] thou, O great mountain before Zerubbabel? [Thou shalt be reduced to] a plain; and he shall bring forth the headstone [thereof with] shoutings, [crying], Grace, grace unto it.


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The hands of Zerubbabel shall lay the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of the hosts has sent me unto you.


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For who has despised the day of small [beginnings]? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel. Those seven [are] the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.


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Then I spoke and said unto him, What [are] these two olive trees upon the right hand [side] of the candlestick and upon the left hand [side] thereof?


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And I spoke the second time and said unto him, What [are these] two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden [oil] out of themselves?


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And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof [is] twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.


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Then said he unto me, This [is] the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth; for every one that steals (as it [is written] on one side of the [roll]) shall be destroyed; and every one that swears (as it [is written] on the other side of the [roll]) shall be destroyed.


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I brought it forth, said the LORD of the hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief and into the house of him that swears falsely by my name; and it shall remain in the midst of his house and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.


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Then the angel that talked with me went forth and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes and see what [is] this that goes forth.


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And I said, What [is] it? And he said, This is an ephah [to measure wheat] that goes forth. He said moreover, This [is] their resemblance in all the earth.


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And he said, This [is] wickedness. And he cast her into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.


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Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind [was] in their wings for they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.


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And he said unto me, To build it a house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.:


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And I turned and lifted up my eyes and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains, and those mountains [were] of brass.


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And the angel answered and said unto me, These [are] the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.


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The one with the black horses went forth towards the north country, and the white went forth after them, and the grisled went forth toward the south country.


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And the bay went forth and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth, and he said, Go from here; walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.


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Then he called me and spoke unto me, saying, Behold, those that went toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.


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Take of [those of that returned from] the captivity, [of the lineage] of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, and come thou the same day and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, whom are come from Babylon.


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Thou shalt take silver and gold and make crowns and set [them] upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest,


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and speak unto him, saying, Thus spoke the LORD of the hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name [is] The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD.


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He shall build the temple of the LORD, and he shall bear the glory and shall sit and rule upon his throne, and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.


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And Helem and Tobijah and Jedaiah and Hen the son of Zephaniah shall have crowns for [a] memorial in the temple of the LORD.


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And those [that are] far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of the hosts has sent me unto you. And [this] shall come to pass if ye will obediently hear the voice of the LORD our God.:


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And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius [that] the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth [day] of the ninth month, [even] in Chisleu;


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when they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech and their men, to pray before the LORD


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[and] to speak unto the priests which [were] in the house of the LORD of the hosts and to the prophets, saying, Should we weep in the fifth month? Should we do abstinence as we have done these so many years?


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Speak unto all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh [month], even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, [even] to me?


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Are these not the words which the LORD has published by the former prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited and quiet and the cities thereof round about her and [when] the south and the plain were inhabited?


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts spoken, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion each one to his brother;


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and do not oppress the widow nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.


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But they refused to hearken and pulled away the shoulder and stopped their ears that they should not hear.


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Yea, they made their hearts [as] an adamant stone lest they should hear the law and the words which the LORD of the hosts has sent by his Spirit by the hand of the former prophets; therefore came great wrath from the LORD of the hosts.


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Therefore it is come to pass [that] as he cried and they would not hear, so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of the hosts:


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but I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the Gentiles whom they did not know. Thus the land was desolate after them that no man passed through nor returned; for they laid the desirable land desolate.:


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.


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Thus hath the LORD said, I will restore Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem shall be called City of truth and the mountain of the LORD of the hosts, the mountain of holiness.


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; Old men and old women shall yet dwell there in the streets of Jerusalem, and each one [with] his staff in his hand for the multitude of the days.


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Thus saith the LORD of the hosts, If this should appear difficult in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be difficult in my eyes? saith the LORD of the hosts.


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; Behold, I will save my people of the land of the east and of the land where the sun sets;


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and I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, from the day [that] the foundation of the house of the LORD of the hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.


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For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither [was there any] peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men each one against his neighbour.


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But now I [will] not [do] unto the residue of this people as in the former days, said the LORD of the hosts.


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For the seed of peace [shall remain]; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her fruit, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all this.


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And it shall come to pass [that] as ye were a curse among the Gentiles, O house of Judah and house of Israel; so will I save you that ye might be a blessing; fear not, [but] let your hands be strong.


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For thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, As I thought to punish you when your fathers provoked me to wrath, said the LORD of the hosts, and I did not repent:


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so again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah; do not fear.


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These [are] the things that ye shall do: Speak each one the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates;


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and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these [are things] that I hate, said the LORD.


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, The fast of the fourth [month] and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, [It shall yet come to pass] that there shall come people and the inhabitants of many cities


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and the inhabitants of one [city] shall go to another, saying, Let us go to pray before the LORD and to seek the LORD of the hosts. [And the other will respond:] I will go also.


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And many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of the hosts in Jerusalem and to pray before the LORD.


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Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, In those days [it shall come to pass] that ten men of all the languages of the Gentiles shall take hold of the robe of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for we have heard [that] God [is] with you.:


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The burden of the word of the LORD against the land of Hadrach and of Damascus, his rest, because the eyes of the men and of all the tribes of Israel [are turned] toward the LORD.


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And Tyre built herself a stronghold and heaped up silver as the dust and fine gold as the mire of the streets.


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Behold, the Lord will impoverish her, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.


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Ashkelon shall see [it] and fear; Gaza also [shall see it] and be very sorrowful, and Ekron for her hope shall be confounded; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.


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And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth, but some of them shall remain for our God, and they shall be as captains in Judah, and Ekron as the Jebusite.


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And I will be the defence and firm support to my house from him that comes and goes; and no oppressor shall pass through them any more, for now I have seen with my eyes.


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Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; [shout with] joy, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, thy King shall come unto thee: just, and a saviour; humble, and riding upon an ass, even upon a colt the foal of an ass.


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And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be broken and he shall speak peace unto the Gentiles; and his dominion [shall be] from sea [even] to sea, and from the river [even] to the ends of the earth.


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As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have taken thy prisoners out of the pit in which [there is] no water.


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Return to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope; even today I declare [that] I will render double unto thee;


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for I have bent Judah for me [as a] bow, and I made Ephraim his arrow, and I will raise up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and make thee as the sword of a mighty man.


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And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the shofar and shall go forth as [the] whirlwinds of the south.


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The LORD of the hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink [and] make a noise as though [drunk] with wine; and they shall be filled like bowls [and] as the corners of the altar.


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And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as a flock of his people, for they [shall be as] the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.


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For how great [is] his goodness, and how great [is] his beauty! The wheat shall make the young men cheerful, and the wine the maids.:


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Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain, [so] the LORD shall make lightnings and shall give you abundant rain and grass in the field to each one.


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For the idols have spoken vanity and the diviners have seen a lie and have told vain dreams; they comfort in vain; therefore they went their way like sheep; they were humbled because [there was] no shepherd.


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My anger is kindled against the pastors, and I will visit the he goats, for the LORD of the hosts shall visit his flock, the house of Judah, and shall make them as his horse of honour in the battle.


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Out of him shall come the corner, out of him the stake, out of him the battle bow, out of him also every oppressor.


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And they shall be as mighty [men], who tread down [their enemies] in the mire of the streets in the battle; and they shall fight because the LORD [shall be] with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.


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For I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will keep the house of Joseph, and I will cause them to return; for I shall have compassion upon them, and they shall be as though I had not cast them off, for I [am] the LORD their God and will hear them.


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And [those of] Ephraim shall be like a mighty [man], and their heart shall rejoice as through wine, their sons shall also see [it] and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.


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I will hiss for them and gather them; for I have ransomed them; and they shall be multiplied as they were multiplied.


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[It was] good that I planted them among the peoples; even in far countries there shall be mention made of me; and they shall live with their sons and turn again.


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I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and [place] shall not be found for them.


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And the tribulation shall pass through the sea and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up; and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall be lost.


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And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD.:


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Howl, fir tree, for the cedar is fallen because the magnificent are cut down; howl, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the strong mountain is brought down.


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[There is] a voice of the howling of the pastors; for their magnificence is destroyed; a voice of the roaring of young lions, for the pride of the Jordan is destroyed.


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whose buyers slayed them and held themselves not guilty; and he that sold them said, Blessed [be] the LORD; for I am rich: and not even their own shepherds had compassion on them.


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Therefore I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD; but, behold, I will deliver the men each one into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and I will not deliver [them] out of their hands.


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And I will feed the flock of slaughter, [even] you, O poor of the flock. For I took unto me two staves: the one I named Beauty, and the other Bands; and I fed the flock.


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I also cut off three shepherds in one month; and my soul was in anguish for them, and their soul also abhorred me.


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Then I said, I will not feed you [any longer]; the one that dies, let it die; and the one that is to be lost, let it be lost; and let the rest eat each one the flesh of another.


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And I took my staff, [even] Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.


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And it was broken in that day; and so the poor of the flock that look unto me knew that it [was] the word of the LORD.


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And I said unto them, If ye think good, give [me]my wages; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my wages thirty [pieces] of silver.


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And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the treasury: a goodly price that I was appraised at by them. And I took the thirty [pieces] of silver and cast them in the house of the LORD unto the treasury.


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Then I cut asunder my other staff, [even] Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.


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For, behold, I raise up a shepherd in the land, [which] shall not visit those that are lost, neither shall seek the young one nor heal the one that is broken nor carry the one that is tired, but he shall eat the flesh of the fat and tear their hoofs in pieces.


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Woe to the useless pastor that leaves the flock! the sword [shall be] upon his arm and upon his right eye; his arm shall be completely dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.:


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The burden of the word of the LORD upon Israel, said the LORD, who stretches forth the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him.


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Behold, I place Jerusalem as [a] cup of poison unto all the peoples round about and also unto Judah [who] shall be in the siege against Jerusalem.


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And it shall be that in that day I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone unto all peoples; all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, and all the Gentiles of the earth shall gather themselves together against her.


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In that day, said the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment and his rider with madness; but I will open my eyes upon the house of Judah and will smite every horse of the peoples with blindness.


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And the captains of Judah shall say in their heart, My strength [is] the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the LORD of the hosts, their God.


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In that day I will make the captains of Judah like a hearth of fire among the wood and like a torch of fire among [the] sheaves; and they shall devour all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, [even] in Jerusalem.


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And the LORD shall keep the tents of Judah [as] in the beginning, so that the glory of the house of David and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall not [cause those of] Judah to magnify [themselves].


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In that day the LORD shall defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is weak among them in that time shall be as David; and the house of David [shall be] as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.


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And it shall come to pass in that day [that] I will seek to destroy all the Gentiles that come against Jerusalem.


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And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem [the] Spirit of grace and of prayer, and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn over him as one mourns for [his] only [son], afflicting themselves over him as one afflicts himself over [his] firstborn.


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In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.


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And the land shall mourn, each family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;


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the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;


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In that time there shall be an open fountain for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem against sin and against uncleanness.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of the hosts, [that] I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no longer be remembered; and I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness to be cut off out of the land.


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And it shall come to pass, [that] when anyone else shall prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD; and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesies.


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And it shall come to pass in that time, [that] the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision when he has prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:


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but he shall say, I [am] no prophet, I [am] a husbandman of the land; for I learned this from man from my youth.


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And [they] shall ask him, What [are] these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, [Those] with which I was wounded [in] the house of my friends.


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Awake, O sword, upon the pastor and upon the man [that is] my fellow, said the LORD of the hosts; smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.


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And it shall come to pass [that] in all the land, said the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off in her [and] shall be lost; but the third shall be left therein.


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And I will put the third part into the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried; He shall call on my name, and I will hear him; I will say, My people, and he shall say, The LORD [is] my God.:


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For I will gather all the Gentiles against Jerusalem in battle, and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, but the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.


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Then the LORD shall go forth and fight against those Gentiles as when he fought in the day of battle.


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And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which [is] before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, [making] a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north and half of it toward the south.


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And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal; and ye shall flee like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah; and the LORD my God shall come, [and] all his saints with him.


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but it shall be one day which is known to the LORD, not day, nor night; but it shall come to pass, [that] at evening time there shall be light.


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And it shall be in that day [that] living waters shall go out from Jerusalem: half of them toward the eastern sea and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter it shall be.


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All the land shall become a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she shall be lifted up and inhabited in her place from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate unto the gate of the corners, and [from] the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.


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And [men] shall dwell in it, and it shall never be anathema again; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.


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And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will smite all the peoples that fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.


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And it shall come to pass in that day [that] a great destruction from the LORD shall be in them, for they shall lay hold each one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.


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And Judah also shall fight against Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the Gentiles round about shall be gathered together: gold and silver and apparel in great abundance.


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And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that were in the armies.


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And every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of the hosts, and to celebrate the feast of the tabernacles.


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And it shall be [that] whoever will not come up of [all] the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of the hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.


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And if the family of Egypt does not go up and does not come, there shall be no [rain] upon them; [instead] there shall be the plague, with which the LORD will smite the Gentiles that do not come up to celebrate the feast of the tabernacles.


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This shall be [the punishment] of the sin of Egypt and of the sin of all the Gentiles that do not come up to celebrate the feast of the tabernacles.


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In that day there shall be [written] upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar.


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And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of the hosts; and all those that sacrifice shall come and take of them and cook therein; and in that time there shall be no more merchandizing in the house of the LORD of the hosts.:


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I have loved you, said the LORD. Yet ye say, In what hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? said the LORD; yet I loved Jacob,


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and I rejected Esau and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.


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When Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The province of wickedness and The people against whom the LORD has indignation for ever.


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The son honours [his] father and the servant his master; if then I [am] a father, where [is] my honour? and if I [am] a master, where [is] my fear? said the LORD of the hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, In what have we despised thy name?


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Ye offer polluted bread upon my altar; and ye say, In what have we polluted thee? In that ye say, We die of hunger in the service of the LORD.


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And when ye offer the blind [animal] for sacrifice, [is it] not evil? Likewise when ye offer the lame and sick, [is it] not evil? offer it now unto thy prince; will he be pleased with thee or accept thy person? said the LORD of the hosts.


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And now, therefore, beseech the face of God, and he will have compassion on us; this has come by your hand: will he regard your persons? said the LORD of the hosts.


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Who [is there] even among you that would shut the doors or tend [the fire] on my altar for free? I have no pleasure in you, said the LORD of the hosts, neither will the offering from your hand be agreeable unto me.


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For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense is offered unto my name, and a clean offering; for my name [is] great among the Gentiles, said the LORD of the hosts.


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And ye have profaned it when ye say, We die of hunger at the service of the LORD and when ye speak that his food is contemptible.


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And ye say, Behold, what a weariness [it is]! and ye have rejected it, said the LORD of the hosts; and ye brought [that which was] stolen or lame or sick and presented an offering: should this be acceptable unto me by your hand? said the LORD.


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But cursed [be] the deceiver, who has in his flock a male and vows and sacrifices unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I [am] a great King, saith the LORD of the hosts, and my name [is] formidable among the Gentiles.:


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If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay [it] to heart, to give glory unto my name, said the LORD of the hosts, I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already because ye do not lay [it] to heart.


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Behold, I reprehend [your] seed and spread the dung upon your faces, [even] the dung of your solemnities; and ye shall be removed with it.


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And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, said the LORD of the hosts.


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My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him [for] the fear with which he feared me and was broken before my name.


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The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and righteousness and turned many away from iniquity.


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For the priest's lips keep wisdom, and they seek the law at his mouth; for he [is an] angel of the LORD of the hosts.


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But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, said the LORD of the hosts.


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Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.


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Have we not all one father? has not one God created us? why do we despise each man his brother by breaking the covenant of our fathers?


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Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD by loving and marrying the daughter of a strange god.


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The LORD will cut off the man that does this, the master and the scholar out of the tabernacles of Jacob and him that offers an offering unto the LORD of the hosts.


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And once again ye shall cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, for I shall not even look at the offering any more to receive [a] free will offering from your hand.


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Yet ye say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously; yet she [is] thy companion and the wife of thy covenant.


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And did he not make one, having in himself abundance of [the] Spirit? And why one? That he might seek offspring of God. Therefore take heed to your spirit and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.


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He that rejects her, sending her away, said the LORD God of Israel, covers the violence with his garment, said the LORD of the hosts; therefore take heed in your spirit, and do not be treacherous.


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Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, In what have we wearied [him]? When ye say, Every one that does evil pleases the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where [is] the God of judgment?:


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Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, and the angel of the covenant, whom ye desire: behold, he comes, said the LORD of the hosts.


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But who may abide the time of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he [shall be] like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap:


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And he shall sit to refine and to purify the silver: for he shall purify the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.


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Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem shall be pleasant unto the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years.


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And I will come near unto you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against false swearers and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and do not fear me, said the LORD of the hosts.


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Even from the days of your fathers, ye had departed from my ordinances and had never kept [them]. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, said the LORD of the hosts. But ye said, In what shall we return?


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Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, In what have we robbed thee? In the tithes and the offerings.


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Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, and there shall be food in my house, and prove me now in this, said the LORD of the hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that [there shall] not [be room] enough [to receive it].


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And I will reprehend the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of the ground; neither shall the vine in the field abort, said the LORD of the hosts.


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And all the Gentiles shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, said the LORD of the hosts.


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Ye have said, It [is] vain to serve God, and what profit [is it] that we have kept his law and that we walk mournfully before the LORD of the hosts?


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We say, therefore, now, that blessed are the proud and even that those that work wickedness are prospered; [those that] tempted God have escaped.


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Then those that feared the LORD spoke one to another, and the LORD hearkened and heard [it], and a book of remembrance was written before him for those that feared the LORD and for those that think in his name.


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And they shall be mine, said the LORD of the hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him.


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Therefore become ye converted, and ye shall make a difference between the just and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that did not serve him.:


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For, behold, the day comes that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up, said the LORD of the hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.


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But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness be born, and in his wings [he shall bring] saving health; and ye shall go forth and jump like calves of the herd.


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And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make, said the LORD of the hosts.


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Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb statutes and my rights over all Israel.


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and he shall convert the heart of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with destruction.


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So all the generations from Abraham to David [are] fourteen generations; from David until the carrying away into Babylon [are] fourteen generations; from the carrying away into Babylon unto the Christ [are] fourteen generations.


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Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: That being, his mother Mary espoused to Joseph (before they came together) she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.


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Then Joseph her husband, being just and not willing to expose her publicly, desired to leave her secretly.


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But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in dreams, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife; for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.


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And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.


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Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,


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Behold, a virgin shall conceive and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is God With Us.


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Then Joseph, being aroused from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him and took unto him his wife


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Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,


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saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? We have seen his star in the east and are come to worship him.


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And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he asked them where the Christ should be born.


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And thou Bethlehem, [in] the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda, for out of thee shall come a Leader that shall shepherd my people Israel.


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Then Herod, calling the wise men unto him secretly, understood of them [with diligence] the time of the appearing of the star;


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and sending them to Bethlehem, he said, Go there and search [diligently] for the young child; and when ye have found [him], bring me word again that I may come and worship him [also].


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When they had heard the king, they departed; and, behold, the star, which they had seen in the east, went before them until it arrived and stood over where the young child was.


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And entering into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother; and falling down, they worshipped him; and opening their treasures, they offered him gifts: gold and frankincense and myrrh.


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And being warned by divine revelation in dreams that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.


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And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in dreams, saying, Arise and take the young child and his mother and flee into Egypt and remain there until I bring thee word, for Herod will seek the young child to kill him.


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and was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.


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Then Herod, seeing that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth and sent forth and killed all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had understood of the wise men.


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In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping and great mourning, Rachel [was] weeping [for] her children and would not be comforted because they perished.


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saying, Arise and take the young child and his mother and go into the land of Israel, for they are dead who sought the death of the young child.


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But when he heard that Archelaus reigned in Judaea in the place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there; notwithstanding, being warned by divine revelation in dreams, he withdrew into the parts of Galilee,


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and he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophets, that he shall be called a Nazarene.:


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For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, who said, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.


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And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair and a leathern girdle about his loins, and his food was locusts and wild honey.


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But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who taught you to flee from the wrath to come?


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and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as [our] father, for I say unto you that God is able to raise up children unto Abraham of these stones.


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And now the axe is also laid unto the root of the trees; therefore, every tree which does not bring forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.


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I indeed baptize you in water unto repentance, but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear; he shall baptize you in [the] Holy Spirit and fire,


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whose fan [is] in his hand; and he will thoroughly purge his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn up the chaff with fire that shall never be quenched.


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And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer [it to be so] now, for thus it is expedient for us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.


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And Jesus, after he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water; and, behold, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon him;


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And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones be made [into] bread.


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But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.


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and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in [their] hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.


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Again, the devil took him up into an exceeding high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them


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Then Jesus said unto him, Get thee hence, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.


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and leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zepulun and Naphtali,


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The land of Zepulun, and the land of Naphtali, [by] the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;


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the people who sat in darkness saw great light, and to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up.


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And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon, called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers.


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And going on from there, he saw another two brothers, James [the son] of Zebedee and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them.


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And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every of sickness and every [bodily] weakness among the people.


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And his fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with diverse diseases and torments and those who were possessed with devils and those who were lunatic and those that were paralyzed; and he healed them.


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And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, [from] Decapolis, [from] Jerusalem, [from] Judaea and [from] beyond Jordan.:


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And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain; and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him;


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Blessed [are] those who suffer persecution for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.


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Blessed are ye when [men] shall revile you and persecute [you] and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.


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Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in the heavens; for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.


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Ye are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its savour, with what shall it be salted? From then on it is good for nothing, but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot of men.


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Neither do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on the lampstand, and it gives light unto all that are in the house.


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Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.


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For verily I say unto you, Until heaven and earth pass [away], not one jot or one tittle shall pass from the law until all is fulfilled.


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Whosoever therefore shall undo one of these least commandments and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of the heavens; but whosoever shall do and teach [them], the same shall be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.


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For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed [the righteousness] of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of the heavens.


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Ye have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not commit murder, and whosoever shall commit murder shall be guilty of the judgment;


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but I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother out of control shall be in danger of the judgment, and whosoever shall insult his brother shall be in danger of the council, but whosoever shall say, Thou art impious, shall be in danger of hell.


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Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remember that thy brother has something against thee;


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leave thy gift there before the altar, and go; first restore friendship with thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.


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Conciliate with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.


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Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out of there, until thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.


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but I say unto you, That whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.


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Therefore if thy right eye should bring thee occasion to stumble, pluck it out and cast [it] from thee; for it is better for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not [that] thy whole body should be cast into hell.


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And if thy right hand should bring thee occasion to stumble, cut it off, and cast [it] from thee: for it is better for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not [that] thy whole body should be cast into hell.


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but I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, except for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery; and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced commits adultery.


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Again, ye have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not perjure thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths;


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nor by the earth, for it is his footstool, neither by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.


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but I say unto you, That ye resist not with evil, but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.


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And if anyone desires to sue thee at the law, and take away thy clothing, let him have [thy] cloak also.


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But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless those that curse you, do good to those that hate you, and pray for those who speak evil about you, and persecute you;


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that ye may be sons of your Father who is in the heavens, for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.


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Take heed not to do your alms before men, to be seen of them; otherwise, ye have no reward of your Father who is in the heavens.


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Therefore, when thou doest [thine] alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They [already] have their reward.


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And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites [are], for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They already have their reward.


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But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy chamber, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father who sees in secret shall reward thee openly.


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But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions as the worldly [do], for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.


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Be not ye therefore like unto them, for your Father knows what things ye have need of before ye ask him.


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And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.


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but if ye do not set men free [from] their trespasses, neither will your Father set you free [from] your trespasses.


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Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance, for they disfigure their faces that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They [already] have their reward.


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that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father, who sees in secret, shall reward thee openly.


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Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal;


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but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal;


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The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye is sincere, thy whole body shall be full of light.


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But if thine eye is evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness, how great [is] that darkness!


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No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and riches.


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Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?


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Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are ye not much better than they?


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And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin;


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Therefore, if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is and tomorrow is cast into the oven, [shall he] not much more [clothe] you, O ye of little faith?


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Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, With what shall we be clothed?


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(For the Gentiles seek after all these things.) For your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these things.


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But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.


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Take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day [is] the affliction thereof.:


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For with the judgment with which ye judge, ye shall be judged, and with the measure with which ye measure, ye shall be measured again.


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And why dost thou behold the mote that is in thy brother's eye but dost not consider the beam that is in thine own eye?


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Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam [is] in thine own eye?


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Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou be able to see to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.


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Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and rend you.


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for every one that asks receives, and he that seeks finds, and to him that knocks it shall be opened.


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If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to those that ask him?


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Therefore, all things whatsoever ye desire that men should do unto you, so also shall ye do unto them, for this is the law and the prophets.


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Enter ye in at the narrow gate, for the way that leads to destruction is wide and spacious, and those who follow it are many;


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because narrow [is] the gate, and confined [is] the way which leads unto life, and there are few that find it.


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Keep yourselves also from the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.


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Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in the heavens.


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Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?


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Therefore, whosoever hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him unto a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock;


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and the rain descended, and the rivers came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and it did not fall, for it was founded upon a rock.


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And every one that hears these words of mine and does not do them shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand;


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and the rain descended, and the rivers came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it.


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And, behold, a leper came and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou art willing, thou art able to cleanse me.


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And Jesus put forth [his] hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.


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Then Jesus said unto him, See thou tell no one; but go, show thyself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.


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The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou should come under my roof; but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.


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For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me; and I say to this [man], Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does [it].


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When Jesus heard [it], he marvelled and said to those that followed, Verily I say unto you that not even in Israel have I found such faith.


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But I say unto you, That many shall come from [the] east and west and shall sit down [at the table] with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens.


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But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.


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Then Jesus said unto the centurion, Go, and as thou hast believed, [so] be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in that same hour.


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When evening was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils, and he cast out the spirits with the word and healed all that were sick


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that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, He took our infirmities and bore [our] sicknesses.


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And Jesus said unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven [have] nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay [his] head.


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And, behold, there arose a great moving in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves; but he was asleep.


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And he said unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then, awake, he rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.


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And when he was come to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with demons, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.


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And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? Art thou come here to torment us before the time?


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So the demons besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.


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And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine; and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea and perished in the waters.


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And those that fed them fled and went into the city and told everything and what was befallen to the [ones] possessed of the demons.


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And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they besought [him] that he would depart out of their borders.:


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And, behold, they brought him a paralyzed man, lying on a bed; and Jesus, seeing their faith, said unto the paralyzed man, Trust, son; thy sins are forgiven thee.


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But that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins (then said he to the paralysed man), Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.


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And as Jesus passed forth from there, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom; and he said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.


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And it came to pass, as he sat at food in [his] house, behold, many publicans and sinners that had come sat down at the table with Jesus and his disciples.


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And when the Pharisees saw [it], they said unto his disciples, Why does your Master eat with publicans and sinners?


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But when Jesus heard [that], he said unto them, Those that are whole need not a physician, but those that are sick.


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Therefore go ye and learn what this is, I will have mercy and not sacrifice, for I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.


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Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but thy disciples do not fast?


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And Jesus said unto them, Can the sons of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then they shall fast.


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No one mends an old garment with a piece of new cloth, for that patch takes from the garment, and the rent is made worse.


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Neither do they put new wine into old wineskins, otherwise the wineskins break, and the wine runs out, and the wineskins perish; but they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved together.


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While he spoke these things unto them, behold, a certain ruler came and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead; but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.


