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and [if he] has not eaten on the mountains, and has not set his eyes on the devices of the house of Israel, and has not defiled his neighbor's wife,


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and has not oppressed a man, and has not retained the pledge, nor committed robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has clothed the naked,


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and has turned back his hand from unrighteousness, has not received interest or usurious increase, has worked righteousness, and walked in My ordinances; he shall not die for the iniquities of his father, he shall surely live.


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But if his father should grievously afflict or plunder, he has wrought enmity in the midst of My people, and shall die in his iniquity.


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But you will say, Why has not the son borne the iniquity of the father? Because the son has wrought judgment and mercy, has kept all My statues, and done them, he shall surely live.


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But the soul that sins shall die; and the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the iniquity of the transgressor shall be upon him.


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And if the transgressor shall turn away from all his iniquities which he has committed, and keep all My commandments, and do justice and mercy, he shall surely live, and shall no means die.


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None of his trespasses which he has committed shall be remembered; in his righteousness which he has done he shall live.


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Shall I in any way desire the death of the sinner, says he Lord, as I [desire] that he should turn from [his] evil way, and live?


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But when the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, according to all the transgressions which the transgressor has done, none of his righteousness which he has wrought shall be at all remembered; in his trespass in which he has trespassed, and in his sins in which he has sinned, in them shall he die.


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Yet you have said, The way of the Lord is not straight. Hear now, all the house of Israel: will not My way be straight? Is your way straight?


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When the righteous turns away from his righteousness and commits a trespass, and dies in the trespass he has committed, he shall [even] die in it.


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And when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and shall do judgment and justice, he has kept his soul,


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and has turned away from all his ungodliness which he has committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die.


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Yet the house of Israel says, The way of the Lord is not right. Is not My way right, O house of Israel? Is not your way wrong?


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I will judge you, O house of Israel, says the Lord, each one according to his way: be converted, and turn from all your ungodliness, and it shall not become to you the punishment of iniquity.


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Cast away from yourselves all your ungodliness in which you have sinned against Me; and make to yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why should you die, O house of Israel?


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and say, Why has your mother become a whelp in the midst of lions? In the midst of lions she has multiplied her whelps.


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And the nations heard a report of him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him into the land of Egypt in chains.


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And she saw that he was driven away from her, [and] her hope for him perished, and she took another of her whelps; she made him a lion.


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And he went up and down in the midst of lions, he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.


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And he prowled in his boldness and laid waste their cities, and made the land desolate, and the fullness of it, by the voice of his roaring.


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Then the nations set upon him from the countries round about, and they spread their nets upon him; he was taken in their pit.


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And they put him in chains and in a cage, [and] he came to the king of Babylon; and he cast him into prison, that his voice should not be heard on the mountains of Israel.


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Your mother was as a vine and as a blossom on a pomegranate tree, planted by water; her fruit and her shoot abounded by reason of much water.


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And she became a rod for a tribe of princes, and was elevated in her bulk in the midst of [other] trees, and she saw her bulk in the multitude of her branches.


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But she was broken down in wrath, she was cast upon the ground, and the east wind dried up her choice [branches;] vengeance came upon them, and the rod of her strength was withered; fire consumed it.


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And fire has gone out of a rod of her choice [boughs,] and has devoured her; and there was no rod of strength in her. Her race has become a parable of lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.


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And it came to pass in the seventh year, on the fifteenth day of the month, there came men of the elders of the house of Israel to inquire of the Lord, and they sat before me.


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Son of man, speak to the elders of the house of Israel, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: Have you come to inquire of Me? [As] I live, I will not be inquired of by you, says the Lord.


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Shall I utterly take vengeance on them, son of man? Testify to them of the iniquities of their fathers,


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and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: From the day that I chose the house of Israel, and became known to the seed of the house of Jacob, and was known to them in the land of Egypt, and helped them with My hand, saying, I am the Lord your God;


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in that day I helped them with My hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into the land which I prepared for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is abundant beyond every land.


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And I said to them, Let everyone cast away the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the devices of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.


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But they revolted against Me, and would not hearken to Me: they cast not away the abominations of their eyes, and forsook not the devices of Egypt. Then I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them, to accomplish My wrath upon them in the midst of Egypt.


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But I acted [so] that My name should not be at all profaned in the sight of the Gentiles, in the midst of whom they are, among whom I was made known to them in their sight, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.


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And I gave them My commandments, and made known to them My ordinances, all which [if] a man shall do, he shall even live in them.


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And I gave them My Sabbaths, that they should be for a sign between Me and them, that they should know that I am the Lord that sanctifies them.


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And I said to the house of Israel in the wilderness, Walk in My commandments: but they walked not [in them], and they rejected My ordinances, which [if] a man shall do, he shall even live in them; and they grievously profaned My Sabbaths. And I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.


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But I acted [so] that My name should not be at all profaned before the Gentiles, before whose eyes I brought them out.


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But I lifted up My hand against them in the wilderness once for all, that I would not bring them into the land which I gave them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is sweeter than all lands;


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because they rejected My ordinances, and walked not in My commandments, but profaned My Sabbaths, and went after the imaginations of their hearts.


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Yet My eyes spared them, so as [not] to destroy them utterly, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.


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And I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk not in the customs of your fathers, and keep not their ordinances, and have no fellowship with their practices, nor defile yourselves [with them].


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and hallow My Sabbaths, and let them be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.


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But they provoked Me, and their children walked not in My commandments, and they took no heed to My ordinances to do them, which [if] a man shall do, he shall even live in them, and they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them in the wilderness, to accomplish My anger upon them.


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But I acted so that My name might not be at all profaned before the Gentiles; and I brought them out in their sight.


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I lifted up My hand against them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles, [and] disperse them in the countries;


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because they kept not My ordinances, and rejected My commandments, and profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes went after the imaginations of their fathers.


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And I will defile them by their [own] decrees, when I pass through upon everyone that opens the womb, that I may destroy them.


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Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: In this too have your fathers provoked Me in their trespasses in which they transgressed against Me.


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Whereas I brought them into the land concerning which I lifted up My hand to give it to them; and they looked upon every high hill, and every shady tree, and they sacrificed there to their gods, and offered there sweet-smelling savors, and there they poured out their drink offerings.


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And I said to them, What is Bamah, that you go in there? And they called its name Bamah, until this day.


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Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord: Do you pollute yourselves with the iniquities of your fathers, and do you go a-whoring after their abominations,


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and [do you pollute yourselves] with the firstfruits of your gifts, in the offerings wherewith you pollute yourselves in all your imaginations, until this day; and shall I answer you, O house of Israel? [As] I live, says the Lord, I will not answer you, neither shall this thing come upon your spirit.


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And it shall not be as you say, We will be as the nations, and as the tribes of the earth, to worship stocks and stones.


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Therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord, I will reign over you with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath.


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I will bring you out from the nations, and will take you out of the lands in which you were dispersed, with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath.


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And I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and will plead with you there face to face.


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As I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I judge you, says the Lord.


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And I will separate from among you the ungodly and the revolters; for I will lead them forth out of their place of sojourning, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know that I am the Lord, [even] the Lord.


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And [as for] you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord, [even] the Lord: Put away each one his [evil] practices, and hereafter if you hearken to Me, then shall you no more profane My holy name by your gifts and by devices.


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For upon My holy mountain, on the high mountain, says the Lord, [even] the Lord, there shall all the house of Israel serve Me forever. And there will I accept [you], and there will I have respect to your firstfruits, and the firstfruits of your offerings, in all your holy things.


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I will accept you with a sweet-smelling savor, when I bring you out from the nations, and take you out of the countries in which you have been dispersed; and I will be sanctified among you in the sight of the nations.


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And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have brought you into the land of Israel, into the land concerning which I lifted up My hand to give it to your fathers.


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And you shall there remember your ways, and your devices in which you defiled yourselves; and you shall bewail yourselves for all your wickedness.


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And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have done thus to you, that My name may not be profaned in your evil ways, and in your corrupt devices, says the Lord.


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Son of man, set your face against Thaman, and look toward Darom, and prophesy against the chief forest of Negev,


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and you shall say to the forest of Negev, Hear the word of the Lord; thus says the Lord, [even] the Lord: Behold, I [will] kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour in you every green tree, and every dry tree. The flame that is kindled shall not be quenched, and every face shall be scorched with it from the south to the north.


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Therefore prophesy, son of man, set your face steadfastly toward Jerusalem, and look toward their holy places, and you shall prophesy against the land of Israel,


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and you shall say to the land of Israel, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you, and I will draw forth My sword out of its sheath, and I will destroy out of you the transgressor and the unrighteous.


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Because I will destroy out of you the unrighteous and the transgressor, [therefore] so shall My sword come forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north;


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and all flesh shall know that I the Lord have drawn forth My sword out of its sheath: it shall not return anymore.


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And you, son of man, groan with the breaking of your loins; you shall even groan heavily in their sight.


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And it shall come to pass, if they shall say to you, Why do you groan? That you shall say, For the report; because it comes: and every heart shall break, and all hands shall become feeble, and all flesh and every spirit shall faint, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture: behold, it comes, says the Lord.


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Son of man, prophesy, and you shall say, Thus says the Lord: Say, Sword, sword, be sharpened and rage,


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that you may slay victims; be sharpened, that you may be bright, ready for slaughter, slay, set at nought, despise every tree.


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And He made it ready for His hand to hold. The sword is sharpened, it is ready to put into the hand of the slayer.


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Cry out and howl, son of man: for this [sword] has come upon My people, this [sword has come] upon all the princes of Israel: they shall be as strangers: [judgment] with the sword has come upon My people; therefore clap your hands, for sentence has been passed;


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And you, son of man, prophesy, and clap your hands, and take a second sword: the third sword is [the sword] of the slain, the great sword of the slain; and you shall strike them with amazement, lest the heart should faint,


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and the weak ones be multiplied at every gate- they are given up to the slaughter of the sword; it is well fitted for slaughter, it is well fitted for glittering.


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And you, son of man, appoint for yourself two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may enter in: the two shall go forth from one country; and [there shall be] a force at the top of the way of the city, you shall set [it] at the top of the road,


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that the sword may enter in upon Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and upon Judea, and upon Jerusalem in the midst thereof.


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For the king of Babylon shall stand on the old road, at the head of the two roads, to use divination, to make bright the arrow, and to inquire of the graven images, and to examine [the victims.] [


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On his right was the divination against Jerusalem, to cast a mound, to open the mouth in shouting, to lift up the voice with crying, to cast a mound against her gates, to cast up a heap, and to build forts.


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And he was to them as one using divination before them, and he himself recounting his iniquities, that they might be borne in mind.


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Therefore thus says the Lord: Because you have caused your iniquities to be remembered, in the discovery of your wickedness, so that your sins should be seen, in all your wickedness and in your [evil] practices; because you have caused remembrance [of them], in these shall you be taken.


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And you, O profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day, [even] and end, has come in a sea of iniquity, thus says the Lord:


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You have taken off the turban and put on the crown, it shall not have such [another] after it: you have abased that which was high, and exalted that which was low.


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Injustice, injustice, injustice, will I make it; woe to it. Such shall it be until he comes to whom it belongs; and I will deliver [it] to him.


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And you, son of man, prophesy, and you shall say, Thus says the Lord, concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach: and you shall say, O sword, sword, drawn for slaughter, and drawn for destruction, awake, that you may gleam.


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While you are seeing vain [visions], and while you are prophesying falsehoods, to bring yourself upon the necks of ungodly transgressors, the day has come, [even] an end, in a season of iniquity.


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And I will pour out My wrath upon you, I will blow upon you with the fire of My wrath, and I will deliver you into the hands of barbarians skilled in working destruction.


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You shall be fuel for fire; your blood shall be in the midst of your land; there shall be no remembrance at all of you: for I the Lord have spoken [it].


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And you shall say, Thus says the Lord God: O city that sheds blood in the midst of her, so that her time should come, and that forms devices against herself, to defile herself;


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in their blood which you have shed, you have transgressed; and in your devices which you have formed, you have polluted yourself; and you have brought near your days, and have brought on the time of your years; therefore have I made you a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all the countries,


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to those near you, and to those far away; and they shall mock you, [you that are] notoriously unclean, and abundant in iniquities.


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Behold, the princes of the house of Israel have conspired in you each one with his kindred, that they might shed blood.


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In you they have reviled father and mother; and in you they have behaved unjustly toward the stranger; they have oppressed the orphan and widow.


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[There are] robbers in you, to shed blood in you; and in you they have eaten upon the mountains; they have wrought ungodliness in the midst of you.


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In you they have uncovered the father's shame; and in you they have humbled her that was set apart for uncleanness.


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They have dealt unlawfully each one with his neighbor's wife; and each one in ungodliness has defiled his daughter-in-law: and in you they have humbled each one his sister, the daughter of his father.


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In you they have received gifts to shed blood; they have received in you interest and usurious increase; and by oppression you have brought your wickedness to the full, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord.


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And if I shall smite My hand at [your iniquities] which you have accomplished, which you have wrought, and at your blood that has been shed in the midst of you,


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shall your heart endure? Shall your hands be strong in the days which I bring upon you? I the Lord have spoken, and will do [it].


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And I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you in the countries, and your uncleanness shall be removed out of you.


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And I will give heritages in you in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the Lord.


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Son of man, behold, the house of Israel has become to Me [as it were] mixed with brass, and iron, and tin, and lead; they are mixed up in the midst of the silver.


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Therefore say, Thus says the Lord God: Because you have become one mixture, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.


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As silver, brass, iron, tin, and lead are gathered into the midst of the furnace, to blow fire into it, that they may be melted: so will I take [you] in My wrath, and I will gather and melt you.


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As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so shall you be melted in the midst thereof; and you shall know that I the Lord have poured out My wrath upon you.


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Son of man, say to her: You are the land that is not rained upon, neither has rain come upon you in the day of wrath;


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whose princes in the midst of her are as roaring lions seizing prey, devouring souls by oppression, and taking bribes; and your widows are multiplied in the midst of you.


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Her priests also have set at nought My law, and profaned My holy things: they have not distinguished between the holy and profane, nor have they distinguished between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.


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Her princes in the midst of her are as wolves ravening to shed blood, that they may get dishonest gain.


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And her prophets that daub them shall fall, that see vanities, that prophesy falsehoods, saying, Thus says the Lord, when the Lord has not spoken.


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That sorely oppress the people of the land with injustice, and commit robbery; oppressing the poor and needy, and not dealing justly with the stranger.


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And I sought from among them a man behaving uprightly, and standing before Me perfectly in the time of wrath, so that I should not utterly destroy her: but I found [him] not.


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So I have poured out My wrath upon her in the fury of My anger, to accomplish [it]. I have recompensed their ways on their own heads, says the Lord God.


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and they went a-whoring in Egypt in their youth. There their breasts fell, there they lost their virginity.


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And their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they were Mine, and bore sons and daughters: and [as for] their names, Samaria was Oholah, and Jerusalem was Oholibah.


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And Oholah went a-whoring from Me, and doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians that were her neighbors,


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clothed with purple, princes and captains; [they were] young men and choice, all horsemen riding on horses.


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And she bestowed her fornication upon them; all were choice sons of the Assyrians: and on whomsoever she doted herself, with them she defiled herself in all [their] devices.


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And she forsook not her fornication with the Egyptians: for in her youth they committed fornication with her, and they deflowered her, and poured out their fornication upon her.


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Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the children of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.


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They uncovered her shame; they took her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword; and she became a byword among women; and they wrought vengeance in her for the sake of the daughters.


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And her sister Oholibah saw [it], and she indulged in her fondness more corruptly than she, and in her fornication more than the fornication of her sister.


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She doted upon the sons of the Assyrian, princes and captains, her neighbors, clothed with fine linen, horsemen riding on horses; [they were] all choice young men.


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And she increased her fornication, and she saw men painted on the wall, likenesses of the Chaldeans painted with a pencil,


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having variegated belts on their loins, having also richly dyed [turbans] upon their heads; all had a princely appearance, the likeness of the children of the Chaldeans, of their native land.


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And she doted upon them as soon as she saw them, and sent forth messengers to them into the land of the Chaldeans.


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And the sons of Babylon came to her, into the bed of rest, and they defiled her in her fornication, and she was defiled by them, and her soul was alienated from them.


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And she exposed her fornication, and exposed her shame. And My soul was alienated from her, even as My soul was alienated from her sister.


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And you multiplied your fornication, so as to call to remembrance the days of your youth, in which you committed harlotry in Egypt,


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and you doted upon the Chaldeans, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and their members [as] the members of horses.


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And you looked upon the iniquity of your youth, [the things] which you did in Egypt in your lodgings, where were the breasts of your youth.


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Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord: Behold, I [will] stir up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them upon you round about,


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the children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the sons of the Assyrians with them; choice young men, governors and captains, all princes and renowned, riding on horses.


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And they all shall come upon you from the north, chariots and wheels, with a multitude of nations, shields and targets; and [the enemy] shall set a watch against you round about;and I will set judgment before them, and they shall take vengeance on you with their judgements.


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And I will bring upon you My jealousy, and they shall deal with you in great wrath. They shall take away your nose and your ears, and shall cast down your remnant with the sword. They shall take your sons and your daughters, and fire shall devour your remnant.


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So I will turn back your ungodliness from you, and your fornication from the land of Egypt; and you shall not lift up your eyes upon them, and shall no more remember Egypt.


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Wherefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I [will] deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, from whom your soul is alienated.


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And they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take all [the fruits] of your labors and your toils, and you shall be naked and bare; and the shame of your fornication shall be exposed. And your ungodliness and your fornication


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has brought this upon you, in that you went a-whoring after the nations, and defiled yourself with their devices.


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Thus says the Lord: Drink your sister's cup, deep and large and full, to cause complete drunkenness.


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Therefore thus says the Lord: Because you have forgotten Me, and have cast Me behind your back, therefore receive [the reward] of your ungodliness and your fornication.


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And the Lord said to me, Son of man, will you not judge Oholah and Oholibah, and declare to them their iniquities?


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For they have committed adultery, and blood was in their hands, they committed adultery with their devices, and they passed through the fire to them their children which they bore to Me.


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And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, they also went into My sanctuary to profane it; and whereas they did thus in the midst of My house,


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and whereas they did thus to the men that came from afar, to whom they sent messengers, and as soon as they came, immediately you washed yourself, and painted your eyes and adorned yourself with ornaments,


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and sat on a prepared bed, and before it [there was] a table set out, and [as for] My incense and My oil, they rejoiced in them,


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and they raised a sound of music, and [that] with men coming from the wilderness out of a multitude of men, and they put bracelets on their hands, and a crown of glory on their heads.


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Therefore I said, Do they not commit adultery with these? And has she also gone a-whoring [after] the manner of a harlot?


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And they went in to her, as [men] go in to a harlot; so they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, to work iniquity.


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And they are just men, and shall take vengeance on them with the judgment of an adulteress and the judgment of blood, for they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.


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Thus says the Lord God: Bring up a multitude upon them, and send trouble and plunder into the midst of them.


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And stone them with the stones of a multitude, and pierce them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and shall burn up their houses.


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And I will remove ungodliness out of the land, and all the women shall be instructed, and shall not do according to their ungodliness.


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And your ungodliness shall be recompensed upon you, and you shall bear the guilt of your devices, and you shall know that I am the Lord.


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And the word of the Lord came to me, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth [day] of the month, saying,


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Son of man, write down the name of the day, this very day, on which the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem, [even] from this day.


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And speak a parable to the provoking house, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: Set on the caldron, and pour water into it,


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[which are] taken from choice cattle, and burn the bones under them; her bones are boiled and cooked in the midst of her.


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Therefore thus says the Lord: O bloody city, the caldron in which there is scum, and the scum has not gone out of, she has brought it forth piece by piece, no lot has fallen upon it.


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For her blood is in the midst of her; I have set it upon a smooth rock; I have not poured it out upon the earth, so that the earth should cover it;


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that My wrath should come up for complete vengeance to be taken; I set her blood upon a smooth rock, so as not to cover it.


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and I will multiply the wood, and kindle the fire, that the flesh may be consumed, and the liquor boiled away;


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and that [it] may stand upon the coals, that her brass may be thoroughly heated, and be melted in the midst of her filthiness, and her scum may be consumed,


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Her scum shall become shameful, because you defiled yourself; and what if you shall be purged no more until I have accomplished My wrath?


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I the Lord have spoken; and it shall come, and I will do [it]; I will not delay, neither will I have any mercy: I will judge you, says the Lord, according to your ways, and according to your devices. Therefore will I judge you according to your bloodshed, and according to your devices will I judge you, you unclean, notorious, and abundantly provoking one.


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Son of man, behold I take from you the desire of your eyes by violence. You shall not lament, neither shall you weep.


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You shall groan for blood, and have mourning upon your loins; your hair shall not be braided upon you, and your sandals [shall be] on your feet; you shall by no means be comforted by their lips, and you shall not eat the bread of men.


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And I spoke to the people in the morning, as He commanded me in the evening, and I did in the morning as it was commanded me.


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Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I [will] profane My sanctuary, the boast of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and for which your souls are concerned; and your sons and your daughters, whom you have left, shall fall by the sword.


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And you shall do as I have done: you shall not be comforted at their mouth, and you shall not eat the bread of men.


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And your hair [shall be] upon your head, and your shoes on your feet; neither shall you at all lament or weep, but you shall pine away in your iniquities, and shall comfort everyone his brother.


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And Ezekiel shall be for a sign to you: according to all that I have done shall you do, when these things shall come; and you shall know that I am the Lord.


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And you, son of man, [shall it] not [be] in the day when I take their strength from them, the pride of their boasting, the desires of their eyes, and the pride of their soul, their sons and their daughters,


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In that day your mouth shall be opened to him that escapes; you shall speak, and shall be no longer dumb; and you shall be for a sign to them, and they shall know that I am the Lord.


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and you shall say to the children of Ammon: Hear the word of the Lord; thus says the Lord: Forasmuch as you have rejoiced against My sanctuary, because it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, because it was laid waste, and against the house of Judah, because they went into captivity;


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therefore, behold, I [will] deliver you to the children of Kedem for an inheritance, and they shall lodge in you with their stuff, and they shall pitch their tents in you; they shall eat your fruits, and they shall drink your milk.


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And I will give up the city of Ammon for camels' pastures, and the children of Ammon for a pasture of sheep; and you shall know that I am the Lord.


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For thus says the Lord: Because you have clapped your hands, and stamped with your foot, and heartily rejoiced against the land of Israel;


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therefore I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you a spoil to the nations; and I will utterly destroy you from among the peoples, and I will completely cut you off from out of the countries; and you shall know that I am the Lord.


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Thus says the Lord; Because Moab has said, Behold, are not the houses of Israel and Judah like all the [other] nations?


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Therefore, behold, I will weaken the shoulder of Moab from his frontier cities, [even] the choice land, the house of Beth Jeshimoth above the fountain of the city, by the seaside.


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I have given him the children of Kedem in addition to the children of Ammon for an inheritance, that there may be no remembrance of the children of Ammon.


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Thus says the Lord: Because of what the Edomites have done in taking vengeance on the house of Judah, and [because they] have remembered injuries, and have exacted full recompense;


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therefore thus says the Lord: I will also stretch out My hand upon Edom, and will utterly destroy out of it [both] man and beast, and I will make it desolate; and they that are pursued out of Teman shall fall by the sword.


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And I will execute My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel; and they shall deal in Edom according to My anger and according to My wrath, and they shall know My vengeance, says the Lord.


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Therefore thus says the Lord: Because the Philistines have wrought revengefully, and raised up vengeance rejoicing from their heart to destroy [the Israelites] to a man;


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therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I [will] stretch out My hand upon the Philistines, and will utterly destroy the Cretans, and will cut off the remnant that dwell by the seacoast.


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And I will execute great vengeance upon them, and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have brought My vengeance upon them.


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


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Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is crushed- the nations are destroyed; she has turned to me; she that was full is made desolate.


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Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea comes up with its waves.


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And they shall cast down the walls of Tyre, and shall cast down your towers: and I will scrape her dust from off her, and make her a bare rock.


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She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for repairing nets, for I have spoken [it], says the Lord; and it shall be a spoil for the nations.


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And her daughters [which are] in the field shall be slain with the sword, and they shall know that I am the Lord.


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For thus says the Lord: Behold, I [will] bring up against you, O Tyre, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the north: he is a king of kings, with horses, and chariots, and horsemen, and a concourse of very many nations.


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He shall slay your daughters that are in the field with the sword, and shall set a watch against you, and build forts around you, and carry a rampart round against you, and set up warlike works, and array his spears against you.


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By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you, and by reason of the sound of his horsemen and the wheels of his chariots your walls shall be shaken, when he enters into your gates, as one entering into a city from the plain.


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With the hoofs of his horses they shall trample all your streets. He shall slay your people with the sword, and shall bring down to the ground the support of your strength.


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And he shall prey upon your power, and plunder your substance, and shall cast down your walls, and break down your pleasant houses; and he shall cast your stones and your timber and your dust into the midst of your sea.


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And he shall destroy the multitude of your musicians, and the sound of your psalteries shall be heard no more.


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And I will make you a bare rock. You shall be a place to spread nets upon; you shall be built no more; for I the Lord have spoken [it], says the Lord.


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For thus says the Lord God to Tyre: Shall not the isles shake at the sound of your fall, while the wounded are groaning, while they have drawn a sword in the midst of you?


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And all the princes of the nations of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and shall take off their crowns from their heads, and shall take off their embroidered garments; they shall be utterly amazed; they shall sit upon the ground, and fear their [own] destruction, and shall groan over you.


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And they shall take up a lamentation for you, and shall say to you, How are you destroyed from out of the sea, O renowned city, that brought her terror upon all her inhabitants!


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For thus says the Lord God: When I shall make the city desolate, as the cities that shall not be inhabited, when I have brought the deep up upon you,


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and great waters shall cover you, and I shall bring you down to them that go down to the pit, to the people of old time, and shall cause you to dwell in the depths of the earth, as in everlasting desolation, with them that go down to the pit, that you may not be inhabited, nor stand upon the land of life;


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and you shall say to Tyre that dwells at the entrance of the sea, to the merchant of the nations coming from many islands, Thus says the Lord to Tyre: You have said, I have clothed myself with my beauty.


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Cedar in Senir was employed for you in building; boards of cypress timber were taken out of Lebanon, and wood to make your masts of fir.


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They made your oars [of wood] out of the land of Bashan; your sacred utensils they made of ivory, your shady houses of wood from the isles of Kittim.


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Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt supplied the couch, to put honor upon you, and to clothe you with blue and purple from the isles of Elishah; and they became your coverings.


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And your princes were the dwellers in Sidon, and the Aradians were your rowers: your wise men, O Tyre, who were in you, these were your pilots.


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The elders of the Biblians, and their wise men, who were in you, these helped your counsel; and all the ships of the sea and their rowers traded for you to the utmost west.


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Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in your army. Your warriors hung in you shields and helmets; these gave [you] your glory.


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The sons of the Aradians and your army were upon the walls; there were guards in your towers. They hung their quivers on your battlements round about; these completed your beauty.


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The Carthaginians were your merchants because of the abundance of all your strength; they furnished your market with silver, gold, iron, tin and lead.


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Greece, both the whole [world], and the adjacent coasts, these traded with you in the persons of men, and they gave [as] your merchandise vessels of brass.


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The sons of the Dedan were your merchants; from the islands they multiplied your merchandise, [even] the elephants' tusks: and to them that came to you payed you back,


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[even] men [as] your merchandise, from the multitude of your trading [population], myrrh and embroidered works from Tarshish. Ramoth also and Chorchor furnished your market.


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Judah and the children of Israel, these were your merchants; in the sale of grain and ointments and cassia; and they gave the best honey and oil and resin, to your trading [population].


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[The people of] Damascus were your merchants by reason of the abundance of all your power; wine out of Helbon, and wool from Miletus; and they brought wine into your market.


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Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, these were your traders with you, [bringing] camels, lambs, and rams, in which they trade with you.


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The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, these were your merchants, with choice spices, and precious stones; and they brought gold to your market.


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Ships were your merchants, in abundance, with your trading [population]; and you were filled and very heavily loaded in the heart of the sea.


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The rowers have brought you into great waters. The south wind has broken you in the heart of the sea.


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Your forces and your gain, and that of your traders and your rowers, and your pilots and your counselors, and they that traffic with you, and all your warriors that are in you; and all your company in the midst of you shall perish in the heart of the sea, in the day of your fall.


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and all the rowers and the mariners shall come down from the ships, and the pilots of the sea shall stand on the land.


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And they shall wail over you with their voice, and cry bitterly, and put earth on their heads, and spread ashes under them.


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How large a reward have you gained from the sea? You have filled nations out of your abundance; and out of your mixed merchandise you have enriched all the kings of the earth.


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Now are you broken in the sea, your traders are in the deep water, and all your company in the midst of you; all your rowers have fallen.


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All the dwellers in the islands have mourned over you, and their kings have been utterly amazed, and their countenance has wept.


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Merchants from the nations have hissed at you; you are utterly destroyed, and shall not be any more forever.


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And you, son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord: Because your heart has been exalted, and you have said, I am God, I have inhabited the dwelling of God in the heart of the sea; yet you are a man and not God, though you have set your heart as the heart of God.


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Have you gained power for yourself by your [own] knowledge or your [own] prudence, and [gathered] gold and silver in your treasures?


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By your abundant knowledge and your traffic you have multiplied your power; your heart has been lifted up by your power.


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because of this, behold, I [will] bring on you strange plagues from the nations; and they shall draw their swords against you, and against the beauty of your knowledge,


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and they shall bring down your beauty to destruction. And they shall bring you down; and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the sea.


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You shall perish by the hands of strangers among the multitude of the uncircumcised, for I have spoken it, says the Lord.


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Son of man, take up a lamentation for the prince of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord God: You were a seal of resemblance, and a crown of beauty.


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You were in the delight of the paradise of God; you were adorned with every precious stone- the sardius, topaz, emerald, carbuncle, sapphire, jasper, silver, gold, ligure, agate, amethyst, chrysolite, beryl and onyx; and you have filled your treasures and your stores in you with gold.


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From the day that you were created you [were] with the cherub; I set you on the holy mount of God; you were in the midst of the stones of fire.


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You were faultless in your days, from the day that you were created, until iniquity was found in you.


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Of the abundance of your merchandise you have filled your storehouses with iniquity, and have sinned. Therefore you have been cast down wounded from the mount of God, and the cherub has brought you out of the midst of the stones of fire.


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Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; your knowledge has been corrupted by your beauty: because of the multitude of your sins I have cast you to the ground, I have caused you to be put to open shame before kings.


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Because of the multitude of your sins and the iniquities of your merchandise, I have profaned your sacred things; and I will bring fire out of the midst of you, this shall devour you; and I will make you [to be] ashes upon your land before all that see you.


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And all that know you among the nations shall groan over you. You have gone to destruction, and you shall not exist any longer.


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and say, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you, O Sidon; and I will be glorified in you; and you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have wrought judgments in you, and I will be sanctified in you.


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Blood and death [shall be] in your streets; and [men] wounded with swords shall fall in you and on every side of you; and they shall know that I am the Lord.


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And there shall no more be in the house of Israel a thorn of bitterness and a pricking briar proceeding from them that are round about them, who dishonored them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.


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Thus says the Lord God: I will also gather Israel from the nations, among whom they have been scattered, and I will be sanctified among them, and before the peoples and nations; and they shall dwell upon their land, which I gave to My servant Jacob.


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Yea, they shall dwell upon it safely, and they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and dwell securely, when I shall execute judgment on all that have dishonored them, [even] on those [that are] round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God, and the God of their fathers.


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In the twelfth year, in the tenth month, on the first [day] of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


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


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and say, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you O Pharaoh, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his rivers, that says, The rivers are mine, and I made them.


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And I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your river to stick to your sides, and I will bring you up out of the midst of your river;


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and I will quickly cast you down, and all the fish of your river. You shall fall on the face of the plain, and shall by no means be gathered, and shall not be brought together; I have given you for food to the wild beasts of the earth and to the fowls of the sky.


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And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because you have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.


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When they took hold of you with their hand, you broke [them;] and when every hand was clapped against them, and when they leaned on you, you utterly broke them, and crushed the loins of them all.


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Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I [will] bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you man and beast;


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and the land of Egypt shall be ruined and desolate; and they shall know that I am the Lord; because you say, The rivers are mine, and I made them.


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Therefore, behold, I am against you, and against all your rivers, and I will give up the land of Egypt to desolation, and the sword, and destruction, from Migdol and Syene even to the borders of the Ethiopians.


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No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it, and it shall not be inhabited for forty years.


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And I will cause her land to be utterly destroyed in the midst of a land that is desolate, and her cities shall be [desolate] forty years in the midst of cities that are desolate; and I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and will utterly scatter them into the countries.


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Thus says the Lord: After forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations among whom they have been scattered;


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and I will turn the captivity of the Egyptians, and will cause them to dwell in the land of Pathros, in the land from where they were taken;


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and it shall be a lowly kingdom beyond all [other] kingdoms; it shall not anymore be exalted over the nations; and I will make them few in number, that they may not be great among the nations.


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And they shall no more be to the house of Israel a confidence bringing iniquity to remembrance, when they follow after them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.


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


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Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre; every head was bald, and every shoulder peeled; yet there was no reward to him or to his army [serving] against Tyre, nor for the service which they served against it.


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Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I [will] give to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon the land of Egypt, and he shall take the plunder thereof, and seize the spoils thereof; and [it] shall be a reward for his army.


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In return for his service in which he served against Tyre, I have given him the land of Egypt; thus says the Lord God:


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In that day shall a horn spring forth for all the house of Israel, and I will give you an open mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.


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And the sword shall come upon the Egyptians, and there shall be tumult in Ethiopia, and in Egypt [men] shall fall down slain together, and her foundations shall fall.


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Persians, Cretans, Lydians, Libyans and all the mixed multitude, and they of the children of My covenant, shall fall by the sword therein.


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And the supports of Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her strength shall come down from Migdol to Syene; they shall fall by the sword in it, says the Lord.


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And it shall be made desolate in the midst of desolate countries, and their cities shall be [desolate] in the midst of desolate cities;


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and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall send fire upon Egypt, and [when] all that help her shall be broken.


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In that day shall messengers go forth hasting to destroy Ethiopia utterly, and there shall be tumult among them in the day of Egypt; for behold, it comes.


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Thus says the Lord God: I will also destroy the multitude of the Egyptians by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,


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his [hand] and his people's; [they are] plagues sent forth from the nations to destroy the land; and they all shall unsheathe their swords against Egypt, and the land shall be filled with slain.


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And I will make their rivers desolate, and will destroy the land and its fulness by the hands of strangers: I the Lord have spoken.


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For thus says the Lord God: I will also destroy the nobles from Memphis, and the princes of Memphis out of the land of Egypt; and they shall be no more.


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And I will destroy the land of Pathros, and will send fire upon Tanis, and will execute vengeance on Noph.


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And I will pour out My wrath upon Sin, the strength of Egypt, and I will destroy the multitude of Memphis.


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And I will send fire upon Egypt; and Syene shall be greatly troubled; and there shall be a breaking in Noph, and waters shall be poured out.


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The youths of Heliopolis and Pi Beseth shall fall by the sword, and the women shall go into captivity.


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And the day shall be darkened in Tahpanhes, when I have broken there the scepters of Egypt; and the pride of her strength shall perish there, and a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall be taken prisoners.


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


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Son of man, I have broken the arms of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and behold, it has not been bound up to be healed, to have a plaster put upon it, [or] to be strengthened to lay hold of the sword.


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Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his strong and outstretched arms, and I will strike down his sword from out of his hand.


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And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations, and will utterly scatter them among the countries.


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And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put My sword into his hand, and he shall bring it upon Egypt, and shall take her plunder and seize her spoils.


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Yea, I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fail; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have put My sword into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out over the land of Egypt.


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And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations, and utterly scatter them among the countries; and they all shall know that I am the Lord.


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


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Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: To whom have you compared yourself in your haughtiness?


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Behold, the Assyrian was a cypress in Lebanon, and was fair in shoots, and high in stature; his top reached to the midst of the clouds.


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The water nourished him, the depth made him grow tall; she led her rivers round about his plants, and she sent forth her streams to all the trees of the field.


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Therefore was his stature exalted above all the trees of the field, and his branches spread far by the help of much water.


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All the birds of the sky made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches all the wild beasts of the field bred; the whole multitude of nations dwelt under his shadow.


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And he was fair in his height by reason of the multitude of his branches, for his roots were amidst much water.


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And such cypresses [as these] were in the paradise of God; and there were no pines like his shoots, and there were no firs like his branches; no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty,


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Therefore thus says the Lord: Because you have grown great, and have set your top in the midst of the clouds, and I saw when he was exalted;


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therefore I delivered him into the hands of the prince of the nations, and he wrought his destruction.


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And ravaging strangers from the nations have destroyed him, and have cast him down upon the mountains. His branches fell in all the valleys, and his boughs were broken in every field of the land; and all the people of the nations have gone down from their shelter, and have laid him low.


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All the birds of the sky have settled on his fallen trunk, and all the wild beasts of the field came upon his boughs,


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in order that none of the trees by the water should exalt themselves by reason of their size; whereas they set their top in the midst of the clouds, yet they continued not in their high state in their place, all that drank water, all were consigned to death, to the depth of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.


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Thus says the Lord God: In the day in which he went down to Hades, the deep mourned for him; and I kept back her floods, and restrained her abundance of water; and Lebanon mourned for him, [and] all the trees of the field fainted for him.


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At the sound of his fall the nations quaked, when I brought him down to Hades with them that go down to the pit. And all the trees of Delight comforted him in the heart, and the choice [plants] of Lebanon, all that drink water.


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For they went down to hell with him among the slain with the sword; and his seed, [even] those that dwelt under his shadow, perished in the midst of their life.


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To whom are you compared? Descend, and be debased with the trees of paradise to the depth of the earth. You shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those that are slain by the sword. Thus shall Pharaoh be, and the multitude of his army, says the Lord God.


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


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Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: You have become like a lion among the nations, and as a serpent that is in the sea; and you made assaults with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and trampled your rivers.


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Thus says the Lord: I will also cast over you the nets of many nations, and will bring you up with My hook;


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and I will stretch you upon the earth. The fields shall be covered [with you], and I will cause all the birds of the sky to settle upon you, and I will fill [with you] all the wild beasts of the earth.


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And the land shall be drenched with your dung, because of your multitude upon the mountains; I will fill the valleys with you.


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And I will veil the heavens when you are extinguished, and will darken the stars thereof; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.


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All the [bodies] that give light in the sky shall be darkened over you, and I will bring darkness upon the earth, says the Lord God.


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And I will provoke to anger the heart of many people, when I shall lead you captive among the nations, to a land which you have not known.


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And many nations shall mourn over you, and their kings shall be utterly amazed, when My sword flies in their faces, as they wait for their [own] fall from the day of your fall.


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with the swords of mighty men; and I will cast down your strength; [they are] all destroying ones from the nations, and they shall destroy the pride of Egypt, and all her strength shall be crushed.


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And I will destroy all her cattle from [beside] the great water; and the foot of man shall not trouble it anymore, and the step of cattle shall no more trample it.


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when I shall give up Egypt to destruction, and the land shall be made desolate with the fullness thereof; when I shall scatter all that dwell in it, and they shall know that I am the Lord.


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There is a lamentation, and you shall utter it; and the daughters of the nations shall utter it, [even] for Egypt, and they shall mourn for it over all the strength thereof, says the Lord God.


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And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the first month, on the fifteenth [day] of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


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Son of man, lament over the strength of Egypt, for the nations shall bring down her daughters dead to the depth of the earth, to them that go down to the pit.


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They shall fall with him in the midst of them [that are] slain with the sword, and all his strength shall perish. The giants also shall say to you,


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Go down to the depths of the pit; to whom are you superior? Yea, go down, and lie with the uncircumcised, in the midst of them [that are] slain with the sword.


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and their graves are in the depth of the pit, and his company is set around about his tomb. All the slain that fell by the sword, who had caused the fear of them [to be] upon the land of the living.


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There is Elam and all his multitude round about his tomb; all the slain that fell by the sword, and the uncircumcised that go down to the deep of the earth, who caused their fear to be upon the land of the living, and they have received their punishment with them that go down to the pit,


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There were laid Meshech and Tubal, and all his strength round about his tomb. All his slain men, all the uncircumcised, slain with the sword, who caused their fear to be in the land of the living.


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And they are laid with the giants that fell of old, who went down to Hades with [their] weapons of war: and they laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities were upon their bones, because they terrified all men during their life.


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There are laid the princes of Assyria, who yielded their strength to a wound of the sword; these are laid with the slain, with them that go down to the pit.


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There are the princes of the north, [even] all the captains of Assyria, who go down slain [to the pit]; they lie uncircumcised among the slain with the sword together with their terror and their strength, and they have received their punishment with them that go down to the pit.


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For I have caused his fear to be upon the land of the living, yet he shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, [even] Pharaoh, and all his multitude with him, says the Lord God.


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Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and you shall say to them, On whatsoever land I shall bring a sword, and the people of the land take a man from their territory, and set him for their watchman,


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and he shall see the sword coming upon the land, and blow the trumpet, and sound an alarm to the people;


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and he that hears the sound of the trumpet shall hear, and [yet] not take heed, and the sword shall come upon him, and overtake him, his blood shall be upon his [own] head.


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Because he heard the sound of the trumpet, and took no heed, his blood shall be upon him. But the other, because he took heed, has delivered his soul.


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But if the watchman sees the sword coming, and does not sound the trumpet, and the people do not watch; and the sword comes, and takes a soul from among them, that [soul] is taken because of its iniquity; but the blood [thereof] will I require at the watchman' hand.


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And you, son of man, I have set you [as] a watchman for the house of Israel, and you shall hear a word from My mouth.


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When I say to the sinner, You shall surely die; [if] you speak not to warn the wicked from his way, the wicked himself shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.


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But if you forewarn the wicked of his way, to turn from it, and he turn not from his way, he shall die in his ungodliness; but you have delivered your own soul.


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And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel: Thus have you spoken, saying, Our errors, and our iniquities weigh upon us, and we pine away in them, and how then shall we live?


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Say to them, Thus says the Lord: [As] I live, I desire not the death of the ungodly, as that the ungodly should turn from his way and live: turn heartily from your way; for why will you die, O house of Israel?


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Say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him, in the day in which he errs; and the iniquity of the ungodly shall not harm him, in the day in which he turns from his iniquity, but the righteous [that errs] shall not be able to deliver himself.


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When I say to the righteous, [You shall live; and] he trusts in his righteousness, and shall commit iniquity, none of his righteousness shall be remembered; in his unrighteousness which he has wrought, in it shall he die.


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And when I say to the ungodly, You shall surely die; and he shall turn from his sin, and do judgment and justice,


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and return the pledge, and repay that which he has robbed, [and] walk in the ordinances of life, so as to do no wrong; he shall surely live, and shall not die.


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None of his sins which he has committed shall be remembered, because he has wrought judgment and righteousness; by them shall he live.


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Yet the children of your people will say, The way of the Lord is not straight; whereas this their way is not straight.


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When the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and shall commit iniquities, then shall he die in them.


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And when the sinner turns from his iniquity, and shall do judgment and righteousness, he shall live by them.


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And this is that which you said, The way of the Lord is [not] straight. I will judge you, O house of Israel, everyone for his ways.


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And it came to pass in the tenth year of our captivity, in the twelfth month, on the fifth [day] of the month, [that] one that had escaped from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city has been taken.


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Now the hand of the Lord had come upon me in the evening, before he came; and He opened my mouth, when he came to me in the morning. And my mouth was open, it was no longer kept closed.


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Son of man, those that inhabit the desolate [places] on the land of Israel say, Abraham was [only] one, and he possessed the land; and we are more numerous; to us the land is given for a possession.


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Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: [As] I live, surely those that are in the desolate places shall fall by the sword, and those that are in the open plain shall be given for food to the wild beasts of the field, and those that are in the fortified [cities] and those that are in the caves I will slay with pestilence.


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And I will make the land desolate, and the pride of her strength shall perish; and the mountains of Israel shall be made desolate by reason of no man passing through.


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And they shall know that I am the Lord; and I will make their land desolate, and it shall be made desolate because of all their abominations which they have done.


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And [as for] you, son of man, the children of your people are they that speak concerning you by the walls, and in the porches of the houses, and they talk one to another, saying, Let us come together, and let us hear the [words] that proceed from the Lord.


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They approach you as a people that come together, and sit before you, and hear your words, but they will not do them; for [there is] falsehood in their mouth, and their heart [goes] after their pollutions.


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And you are to them as a sound of a sweet, well-tuned psaltery, and they will hear your words, but they will not do them.


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But whenever it shall come [to pass], they will say, Behold, it is come; and they shall know that there was a prophet in the midst of them.


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Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: O shepherds of Israel, do shepherds feed themselves? Do not the shepherds feed the sheep?


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Behold, you feed on the milk, and clothe yourselves with the wool, and slay the fat, but you feed not My sheep.


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The weak one you have not strengthened, and the sick you have not cherished, and the bruised you have not bound up, and the stray one you have not turned back, and the lost you have not sought; and the strong you have wearied with labor.


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And My sheep were scattered, because there were no shepherds: and they became meat to all the wild beasts of the field.


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And My sheep were scattered on every mountain, and on every high hill; yea, they were scattered on the face of the earth, and there was none to seek them out, nor to bring them back.


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[As] I live, says the Lord God, surely because My sheep became a prey, and My sheep became meat to all the wild beasts of the field, because there were no shepherds, and the shepherds sought not out My sheep, and the shepherds fed themselves, but fed not My sheep,


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thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require My sheep at their hands, and will turn them back that they shall not feed My sheep, and the shepherds shall no longer feed them; and I will deliver My sheep out of their mouth, and they shall no longer be meat for them.


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As the shepherd seeks his flock, in the day when there is darkness and clouds, in the midst of the sheep that are separated, so will I seek out My sheep, and I will bring them back from every place where they were scattered in the day of clouds and darkness.


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And I will bring them out from the Gentiles, and will gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land, and will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, and in the valleys, and in every inhabited place of the land.


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I will feed them in a good pasture, on a high mountain of Israel; and their folds shall be there, and they shall lie down, and there shall they rest in perfect prosperity, and they shall feed in a fat pasture on the mountains of Israel.


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I will feed My sheep, and I will cause them to rest; and they shall know that I am the Lord; thus says the Lord God.


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I will seek that which is lost, and I will recover the stray one, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen the fainting, and will guard the strong, and will feed them with judgment.


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And [as for] you, you sheep, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will distinguish between sheep and sheep, [and between] rams and goats.


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And [is it] not enough for you that you fed on the good pasture, that you trampled with your feet the remnant of your pasture? And [that] you drank the standing water, [and that] you disturbed the residue with your feet?


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So My sheep fed on that which you had trampled on with your feet; and they drank the water that had been disturbed by your feet.


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Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will separate between the strong sheep and the weak sheep.


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You thrusted with your sides and shoulders, and pushed with your horns, and you cruelly treated all the sick.


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Therefore I will save My sheep, and they shall no longer be for a prey; and I will judge between ram and ram.


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


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and I the Lord will be to them a God, and David a prince in the midst of them; I the Lord have spoken it.


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And I will make with David a covenant of peace, and I will utterly destroy evil beasts from off the land; and they shall dwell in the wilderness, and sleep in the forests.


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And the trees that are in the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield her strength, and they shall dwell in the confidence of peace on their land, and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken their yoke; and I will deliver them out of the hand of those that enslaved them.


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And they shall no more be a spoil to the nations, and the wild beasts of the land shall no more at all devour them; and they shall dwell safely, and there shall be none to make them afraid.


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And I will raise up for them a plant of peace, and they shall no more perish with hunger upon the land, and they shall no more bear the reproach off the nations.


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And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, and they My people. O house of Israel, says the Lord God,


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and say to it, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir, and I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you a waste, and you shall be made desolate.


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And I will cause desolation in your cities, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the Lord.


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Because you have been a perpetual enemy, and have lied in wait craftily for the house of Israel, with the hand of enemies with a sword, in the time of injustice, at the last:


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Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, verily you have sinned even to blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.


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And I will make Mount Seir a waste, and desolate, and I will destroy from off of it [both] men and cattle;


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and I will fill your hills and your valleys with the slain, and in all your plains there shall fall in you men slain with the sword.


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I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited anymore; and you shall know that I am the Lord.


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Because you said, The two nations and the two countries shall be mine, and I shall inherit them; whereas the Lord is there.


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Therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord, I will even deal with you according to your enmity, and I will be made known to you when I shall judge you;


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and you shall know that I am the Lord. I have heard the voice of your blasphemies, whereas you have said, The desert mountains of Israel are given to us for food;


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You shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, and all of Edom; and it shall be utterly consumed; and you shall know that I am the Lord their God.


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And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say to the mountains of Israel, Hear the word of the Lord:


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Thus says the Lord God: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha, the old waste places have become a possession for us;


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therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God: Because you have been dishonored, and hated by those round about you, that you might be a possession to the remainder of the nations, and you became a byword, and a reproach to the nations.


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Therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord: Thus says the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the streams, and to the valleys, and to [the places] that have been made desolate and destroyed, and to the cities that have been deserted, and have become a spoil and a trampling to the nations that were left round about;


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therefore, thus says the Lord: Verily in the fire of My wrath have I spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, because they have appropriated My land to themselves for a possession with joy, disregarding the lives [of its inhabitants], to destroy [it] by plunder.


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Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the valleys, and to the forests, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My wrath, because you have borne the reproaches of the heathen;


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therefore I will lift up My hand against the nations that are round about you; they shall bear their reproach.


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But your grapes and your fruits, O mountains of Israel, shall My people eat; for they are hoping to come.


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and I will multiply men upon you, [even] all the house of Israel to the last; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the desolate land shall be built upon.


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And I will multiply men and cattle upon you, and I will cause you to dwell as at the beginning, and I will treat you well, as in your former [times]; and you shall know that I am the Lord.


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And I will increase men upon you, [even] My people Israel; and they shall inherit you, and you shall be to them for a possession; and you shall no more be bereaved of them.


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Thus says the Lord God: Because they said to you, You devour men, and have been bereaved of your nation;


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therefore you shall no more devour men, and you shall no more bereave your nation, says the Lord God.


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And there shall no more be heard against you the reproach of the nations, and you shall no more bear the revilings of the peoples, says the Lord God.


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Son of man, the house of Israel dwelt upon their land, and defiled it by their way, and with their idols, and with their uncleannesses; and their way was before Me like the uncleanness of a removed woman.


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and I dispersed them among the nations, and utterly scattered them through the countries. I judged them according to their way and according to their sin.


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And they went in among the nations, among which they went, and they profaned My holy name, while it was said of them, These are the people of the Lord, and they came forth out of His land.


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but I spared them for the sake of My holy name, which the house of Israel profaned among the nations, among whom they went.


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Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord: I do not do this, O house of Israel, for your sakes, but because of My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, among whom you went.


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And I will sanctify My great name, which was profaned among the nations, which you profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, when I am sanctified among you before their eyes.


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And I will take you out from the nations, and will gather you out of all the lands, and will bring you into your own land;


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and I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be purged from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, and I will cleanse you.


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And I will give you a new heart, and will put a new spirit in you: and I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh.


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And I will put My Spirit in you, and will cause you to walk in My ordinances, and to keep My judgments, and do [them].


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And you shall dwell upon the land which I gave to your fathers; and you shall be to Me a people, and I will be to you a God.


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And I will save you from all your uncleannesses; and I will call for the grain, and multiply it, and will not bring famine upon you.


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And I will multiply the fruit of the trees, and the produce of the field, that you may not bear the reproach of famine among the nations.


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And you shall remember your evil ways and your practices that were not good, and you shall be hateful in your own sight for your transgressions and for your abominations.


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Not for your sakes do I do [this], says the Lord God, [as] it is known to you; be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.


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Thus says the Lord God: In the day in which I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will also cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste [places] shall be built upon;


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and the desolate land shall be cultivated, whereas it was desolate in the eyes of everyone that passed by.


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And they shall say, That desolate land has become like a garden of delight; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are inhabited.


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And the nations, as many as shall have been left round about you, shall know that I the Lord have built the ruined [cities] and planted what was desolate. I the Lord have spoken, and will do [it].


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Thus says the Lord God: Yet [for] this will I be sought by the house of Israel, to establish them; I will multiply them, [even] men as sheep;


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as holy sheep, as the sheep of Jerusalem in her feasts; thus shall the desert cities be full of flocks of men. And they shall know that I [am] the Lord.


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And the hand of the Lord came upon me, and the Lord brought me forth by the Spirit, and set me in the midst of the plain, and it was full of human bones.


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And He led me round about them every way. And behold, [there were] very many on the face of the plain, and very dry.


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And He said to me, Prophesy upon these bones, and you shall say to them, You dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.


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and I will lay sinews upon you, and I will bring up flesh upon you, and spread skin upon you, and I will put My Spirit into you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord.


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So I prophesied as [the Lord] commanded me. And it came to pass while I was prophesying, that behold, [there was] a rattling, and the bones approached each one to his joint.


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And I looked, and behold, sinews and flesh grew upon them, and skin came upon them above. But there was not breath in them.


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And He said to me, Prophesy to the wind; prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus says the Lord: Come from the four winds, [O breath,] and breathe upon these dead, that they may live.


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So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath entered into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, a very great congregation.


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And the Lord spoke to me, saying, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: and they say, Our bones have become dry, our hope has perished, we are quite spent.


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Therefore prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I [will] open your tombs, and will bring you up out of your tombs, and I will bring you into the land of Israel.


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And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, that I may bring up My people from [their] graves.


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And I will put My Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you upon your own land; and you shall know that I [am] the Lord; I have spoken, and will do [it], says the Lord.


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Son of man, take for yourself a rod, and write upon it, Judah, and the children of Israel his adherents; and you shall take for yourself another rod, and you shall inscribe it for Joseph, the rod of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel that belong to him.


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And you shall join them together for yourself, so as that they should bind themselves into one stick; and they shall be in your hand.


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And it shall come to pass, when the children of your people shall say to you, Will you not tell us what you mean by these things?


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Then shall you say to them, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will take the tribe of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel that belong to him, and I will add them to the tribe of Judah, and they shall become one rod in the hand of Judah.


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And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I [will] take the whole house of Israel out of the midst of the nations, among whom they have gone, and I will gather them from all that are round about them, and I will bring them into the land of Israel.


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And I will make them a nation in My land, even on the mountains of Israel; and they shall have one prince; and they shall be two nations no longer, neither shall they be divided anymore into two kingdoms;


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that they may no more defile themselves with their idols; and I will deliver them from all their transgressions whereby they have sinned, and I will cleanse them; and they shall be to Me a people, and I the Lord will be to them a God.


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And My servant David [shall be] a prince in the midst of them. There shall be one shepherd of [them] all; for they shall walk in My ordinances, and keep My judgments, and do them.


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And they shall dwell in their land, which I have given to My servant Jacob, where their fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell upon it; and David My servant [shall be their] prince forever.


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And I will make with them a covenant of peace; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will establish My sanctuary in the midst of them forever.


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And the nations shall know that I am the Lord that sanctifies them, when My sanctuary is in the midst of them forever.


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Son of man, set your face against Gog, and the land of Magog, Rosh, prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,


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and say to him, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you O Gog, Rosh prince of Meshach and Tubal:


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and I will gather you, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all wearing breastplates, with a great multitude, shields and helmets and swords;


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Gomer, and all belonging to him; the house of Togarmah, from the end of the north, and all belonging to him; and many nations with you.


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Be prepared, prepare yourself, you, and all your multitude that is assembled with you, and you shall be to Me for a guard.


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He shall be prepared after many days, and he shall come at the end of years, and shall come to a land that is brought back from the sword, when [the people] have been gathered from many nations against the land of Israel, which was entirely desolate; and he has come forth out of the nations, and they shall all dwell securely.


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And you shall go up as rain, and shall arrive as a cloud to cover the land, and there shall be you, and all that are about you, and many nations with you.


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Thus says the Lord God: It shall also come to pass in that day, that thoughts shall rise up into your heart, and you shall devise an evil plan.


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And you shall say, I will go up to the rejected land; I will come upon them that are at ease in tranquility, and dwelling in peace, all inhabiting a land in which there is no wall, nor bars, nor have they doors;


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to seize plunder, and to take their spoil; to turn my hands against the desolate land that is [now] inhabited, and against a nation that is gathered from many nations, that have acquired property, dwelling in the midst of the land.


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Sheba, Dedan, and Carthaginian merchants, and all their villages shall say to you, You have come for plunder to take a prey, and to get spoils; you have gathered your multitude to take silver and gold, to carry off property, to take spoils.


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Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, Thus says the Lord: Will you not arise in that day, when my people Israel are dwelling securely,


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and come out of your place from the farthest north, and many nations with you? All of them mounted on horses, a great gathering, and a large force?


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And you shall come up upon My people Israel as a cloud to cover the land; it shall come to pass in the last days, that I will bring you up upon My land, that all the nations may know Me, when I am sanctified in you before them.


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Thus says the Lord God, to Gog: You are [the one] concerning whom I spoke in former times, by the hand of My servants the prophets of Israel, in those days and years, that I would bring you up against them.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, in the day when Gog shall come against the Land of Israel, says the Lord God,


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[that] My wrath and My jealousy shall arise, I have spoken in the fire of My anger, verily in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;


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and the fish of the sea shall quake at the presence of the Lord, and the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the field, and all the reptiles that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are on the face of the earth; and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the valleys shall fall, and every wall on the land shall fall.


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And I will summon against it even every fear, says the Lord; the sword of [every] man shall be against his brother.


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And I will judge him with pestilence, and blood, and sweeping rain, and hailstones; and I will rain upon him fire and brimstone, and upon all that are with him, and upon many nations with him.


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And I will be magnified, and sanctified, and glorified; and I will be known in the presence of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.


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And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, Rosh prince of Meshech and Tubal;


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and I will assemble you, and guide you, and raise you up on the extremity of the north, and I will bring you up upon the mountains of Israel.


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And I will destroy the bow out of your left hand, and your arrows out of your right hand, and I will cast you down on the mountains of Israel;


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and you and all that belong to you shall fall, and the nations that are with you shall be given to multitudes of birds, [even] to every fowl, and I have given you to all the wild beasts of the field to be devoured.


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And I will send a fire upon Gog, and the islands shall be securely inhabited; and they shall know that I am the Lord.


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And My holy name shall be known in the midst of My people Israel; and My holy name shall no more be profaned: and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy [One] in Israel.


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Behold it is come, and you shall know that it shall be, says the Lord God; this is the day concerning which I have spoken.


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And they that inhabit the cities of Israel shall come forth, and make a fire with the arms, the shields and the spears, and bows and arrows, and javelins, and lances, and they shall keep the fire burning with them for seven years.


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And they shall not take any wood out of the field, neither shall they cut any out of the forests, but they shall burn the weapons with fire, and they shall plunder those that plundered them, and spoil those that spoiled them, says the Lord.


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And it shall come to pass [that] in that day I will give to Gog a place of renown, a tomb in Israel, the burial place of them that approach the sea. And they shall build round about the outlet of the valley, and there they shall bury Gog and all his multitude. And [the place] shall then be called the Valley of Haman Gog.


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And the house of Israel shall bury them, that the land may be cleansed in the space of seven months.


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Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a [place] of renown in the day in which it was glorified, says the Lord.


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And they shall appoint men continually to go over the land, to bury them that have been left on the face of the earth, to cleanse it after the space of seven months, and they shall seek [them] out.


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And everyone that goes through the land, and sees a man's bone, shall set up a marker by it, until the buriers shall have buried it in the valley, the burial place of Gog.


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And you, son of man, say, Thus says the Lord: Say to every winged bird, and to all the wild beasts of the field, Gather yourselves, and come; gather yourselves from all [places] round about to My sacrifice, which I have made for you, [even] a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh, and drink blood.


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You shall eat the flesh of mighty men, and you shall drink the blood of princes of the earth, rams, and calves and goats, and they are all fatted calves.


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And you shall eat fat till you are full, and shall drink wine till you are drunk, of My sacrifice which I have prepared for you.


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And you shall be filled at My table, [eating] horse and rider, and mighty man, and every warrior, says the Lord.


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And I will set My glory among you, and all the nations shall see My judgment which I have wrought, and My hand which I have brought upon them.


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And all the nations shall know that the house of Israel was led captive because of their sins, because they rebelled against Me, and I turned away My face from them, and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.


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According to their uncleannesses and according to their transgressions did I deal with them, and I turned away My face from them.


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Therefore thus says the Lord God: Now will I turn back captivity in Jacob, and will have mercy on the house of Israel, and will be jealous for the sake of My holy name.


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And they shall bear their reproach, and the iniquity which they committed when they dwelt upon their land in peace. Yet there shall be none to terrify [them]


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when I have brought them back from the nations, and gathered them out of the countries of the nations; and I will be sanctified among them in the presence of the nations.


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And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, when I have been manifested to them among the nations.


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And I will no more turn away My face from them, because I have poured out My wrath upon the house of Israel, says the Lord God.


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And it came to pass in the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the first month, on the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after the taking of the city, in that day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me


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in a vision of God into the land of Israel, and set me on a very high mountain, and upon it [there was] as it were the frame of a city before [me].


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And He brought me in there, and behold, [there was] a man, and the appearance of him was as the appearance of shining brass, and in his hand was a builder's line, and a measuring reed; and he stood at the gate.


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And the man said to me, Look with your eyes at him whom you have seen, son of man, and hear with your ears, and lay up in your heart all things that I show you; for you have come in here that I might show you, and you shall show all things that you see to the house of Israel.


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And behold, a wall round about the house outside, and in the man's hand was a reed, the measure [of it was] six cubits by the cubit, and a span. And he measured across the front wall; the breadth was equal to the reed, and the length of it equal to the reed.


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And he entered by seven steps into the gate that looks eastward, and he measured across the porch of the gate equal to the reed.


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And the chamber was equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed; and the porch between the chambers [was] six cubits; and the second chamber equal in breadth to the reed, and equal in length to the reed, and the porch [was] five cubits.


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And the porch of the gateway [near the porch of the gate] [was] eight cubits; and the posts there of two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.


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And the chambers of the gate of the chamber in front [were] three on one side and three on the other, and [there was] one measure to the three: [there was] one measure to the porches on this side and on that.


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And he measured the breadth of the door of the gateway, ten cubits; and the breadth of the gateway [was] thirteen cubits.


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And the space before the chambers was narrowed to a cubit in front of the chambers on this side and on that side; and the chamber was six cubits this way, and six cubits that way.


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And he measured the gate from the wall of one chamber to the wall of the other chamber. The breadth was twenty-five cubits, the one gate over against the other gate.


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And the open space of the porch of the gate outside was twenty cubits to the chambers round about the gate.


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And the open space of the gate outside to the open space of the porch of the gate within was fifty cubits.


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And [there were] secret windows to the chambers, and to the porches within the gate of the court round about, and in the same manner windows to the porches round about within. And on the porch [there were] palm trees on this side and on that side.


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And he brought me into the inner court, and behold, [there were] chambers, and peristyles round about the court; thirty chambers within the ranges of columns.


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And the porches were behind the gates; according to the length of the gates, was the lower peristyle.


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And he measured the breadth of the court, from the open space of the outer gate inwards to the open space of the gate looking outwards: a hundred cubits [was the distance to the place] of the gate looking eastward. And he brought me to the north.


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And behold, a gate looking northwards [belonging to] the outer court, and he measured it, both the length of it and the breadth;


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and the chambers, three on this side and three on that; and the posts, and the porches, and the palm trees thereof: and they were according to the measures of the gate that looks eastward: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof was twenty-five cubits.


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And its windows, and its porches, and its palm-trees, were according to [the dimensions of] the gate looking eastward; and they went up to it by seven steps; and the porches were within.


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And [there was] a gate to the inner court looking toward the north gate, after the manner of the gate looking toward the east; and he measured the court from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.


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And he brought me to the south side, and behold, a gate looking southwards: and he measured it, and its chambers, and its posts, and its porches, according to these dimensions.


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And its windows and its porches round about were according to the windows of the porch: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof was twenty-five cubits.


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And it had seven steps, and porches within. And it [had] palm trees on the posts, one on one side, and one on the other side.


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And [there was] a gate opposite the gate of the inner court southward. And he measured the court from gate to gate, a hundred cubits in breadth southward.


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And he brought me into the inner court of the south gate; and he measured the gate according to these measures;


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and the chambers, and the posts, and the porches, according to these measures; and [there were] windows to it and to the porches round about: its length was fifty cubits, and [its] breadth [was] twenty-five cubits,


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from the porch to the outer court: and [there were] palm trees to the post [thereof], and eight steps.


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And he brought me in at the gate that looks eastward, and he measured it according to these measures:


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and the chambers, and the posts, and the porches according to these measures: and [there were] windows to it, and porches round about: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth of it [was] twenty-five cubits.


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And [there were] porches [opening] into the inner court, and palm trees on the posts on this side and on that side; and it [had] eight steps.


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and the chambers, and the posts, and the porches; and it [had] windows round about, and [it had] its porches: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth [was] twenty-five cubits.


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And its porches were toward the inner court; and [there were] palm trees to the posts on this side and on that side; and it [had] eight steps.


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And behind the drain for the whole burnt offerings at the north [gate], two tables eastward behind the second gate; and [behind] the porch of the gate [were] two tables eastward.


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Four on one side and four on the other side behind the gate; [and] upon them they kill the victims, in front of the eight tables of sacrifices.


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And [there were] four tables of hewn stone for whole burnt offerings, the breadth [of them was] a cubit and a half, and the length [of them] two cubits [and] a half, and [their] height was a cubit: on them they shall place the instruments with which they slay there the whole burnt offerings and the victims.


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And they shall have within a border of hewn stone round about of a span broad, and over the tables above [were] screens for covering [them] from the wet and from the heat.


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And he brought me into the inner court, and behold, [there were] two chambers in the inner court, one behind the gate looking to the north, turning southward, and one behind the southern gate, but which looks to the north.


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And he said to me, This chamber that looks to the south, is for the priests that keep the charge of the house.


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And the chamber that looks to the north is for the priests that keep the charge of the altar; they are the sons of Zadok, those of the tribe of Levi who draw near to the Lord, to serve Him.


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And he measured the court, its length [was] a hundred cubits, and the breadth a hundred cubits, on its four sides; and the altar in front of the house.


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And he brought me into the porch of the house, and he measured the post of the porch, the breadth was five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other side; and the breadth of the door [was] fourteen cubits, and the sidepieces of the door of the porch [were] three cubits on one side, and three cubits on the other side.


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And the length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth twelve cubits; and they went up to it by ten steps; and [there were] pillars to the porch, one on this side and one on that side.


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And he brought me into the temple, the porch of which he measured, six cubits the breadth on one side, and six cubits the breadth of the porch on the other side.


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And the breadth of the gateway was ten cubits, and the sidepieces of the gateway were five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side. And he measured the length of it, forty cubits, and the breadth [was] twenty cubits.


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And he went into the inner court, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the sidepieces of the door, seven cubits on one side, and seven cubits on the other side.


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And he measured the length of the doors, forty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, in front of the temple. And he said, This is the Holy of Holies.


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And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits: and the breadth of [each] side [was] four cubits round about.


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And the sides were twice ninety, side against side; and [there was] a space in the wall of the house at the sides round about, that they should be for those that take hold of them to see, that they should not at all touch the walls of the house.


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And the breadth of the upper side [was made] according to the projection out of the wall, against the upper one round about the house, that it might be enlarged above, and that [men] might go up to the upper chambers from those below, and from the ground sills to the third story.


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And as for the height of the house round about, [each] space between the sides was equal to a reed of six cubits;


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and the breadth of the wall of each side without was five cubits; and the spaces that were left between the sides of the house,


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And the doors of the chambers were toward the space left by the one door that looked northward, and [there was] one door southward; and the breadth of the remaining open space [was] five cubits in extent round about.


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And the partition [wall] in front of the remaining space, toward the west, was seventy cubits in breadth; the breadth of the partition wall was five cubits round about, and the length of it [was] ninety cubits.


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And he measured in front of the house a length of a hundred cubits, and the remaining spaces and the partitions; and the walls thereof were in length a hundred cubits.


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And the breadth in front of the house, and the remaining [spaces] before [it were] a hundred cubits.


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And he measured the length of the partition in front of the space left by the back parts of that house; and the [spaces] left on this side and on that side were in length a hundred cubits: and the temple and the corners and the outer porch were ceiled.


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And the windows were latticed, [giving] light round about to the three [stories,] so as to look through. And the house and the parts adjoining were planked round about, and [so was] the floor, and from the floor up to the windows, and the window [shutters] folded back in three parts for one to look through.


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And almost all the way to the inner, and close to the outer [side], and upon all the wall round about within and without,


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The face of a man was toward one palm tree on this side and on that side, and the face of a lion toward another palm tree on this side and on that side; the house was carved all round.


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And the holy place and the temple opened on four sides; in front of the holy places the appearance was as the look of


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a wooden altar, the height of it three cubits, and the length two cubits, and the breadth two cubits; and it had horns, and the base of it and the sides of it were of wood. And he said to me, This is the table, which is before the face of the Lord.


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And [there was] carved work upon them, and cherubim on the doors of the temple, and palm trees according to the carving of the sanctuary; and [there were] stout planks in front of the porch outside.


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And [there were] secret windows; and he measured from side to side, to the roofing of the porch; and the sides of the house were closely planked.


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And he brought me into the inner court eastward, opposite the northern gate. And he brought me in, and behold, five chambers near the vacant space, and near the northern partition,


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ornamented accordingly as the gates of the inner court, and arranged accordingly as the peristyles of the outer court, [with three] porches fronting one another.


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And in front of the chambers was a walk ten cubits in breadth, the length [reaching] to a hundred cubits; and their doors were northward.


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And the upper walks were in like manner: for the peristyle projected from it, [even] from the range of columns below, and [there was] a space between; so [were there] a peristyle and a space between, and so [were there] two porches.


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For they were triple, and they had not pillars like the pillars of the outer ones; therefore they projected from the lower ones and the middle ones from the ground.


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And [there was] light outside, corresponding to the chambers of the outer court looking toward the front of the northern chambers; the length [of them was] fifty cubits.


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For the length of the chambers looking toward the inner court was fifty cubits, and these are the ones that front the others; the whole was a hundred cubits.


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And [there were] doors of these chambers for an outlet toward the east, so that one should go through them out of the outer court,


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by the opening of the walk at the corner; and the south parts were toward the south, toward the remaining space, and toward the partition, and [so were] the chambers.


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And the walk was in front of them, according to the measures of the chambers toward the north, both according to the length of them, and according to the breadth of them, and according to all their openings, and according to all their turnings, and according to their lights, and according to their doors.


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[So were the measures] of the chambers toward the south, and according to the doors at the entrance of the walk, as it were the distance of a reed for light, and eastward as one went in by them.


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And he said to me, The chambers toward the north, and the chambers toward the south, in front of the empty spaces, these are the chambers of the sanctuary, in which the priests, the sons of Zadok, who draw near to the Lord, shall eat the most holy things: and there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offerings, and the trespass offerings; because the place is holy.


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None shall go in there except the priests, [and] they shall not go forth into the holy place into the outer court, that they that draw near [to Me] may be continually holy, and may not touch their garments in which they minister, [with defilement], for they are holy; and they shall put on other garments whenever they come in contact with the people.


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So the measurement of the house within was accomplished. And he brought me forth by the way of the gate that looks eastward, and measured the plan of the house round about in order.


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And he stood behind the gate looking eastward, and measured five hundred [cubits] with the measuring reed.


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An he turned to the north and measured in front of the north [side] five hundred cubits with the measuring reed.


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And he turned to the west, and measured in front of the west side, five hundred [cubits] with the measuring reed.


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And he turned to the south, and measured in front of the south side, five hundred [cubits] by the measuring reed.


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The [four sides he measured] by the same reed, and he marked out the house and the circumference of the parts round about, [a space] of five hundred [cubits] eastward, and a breadth of five hundred cubits, to make a division between the sanctuary and the outer wall, that [belonged to] the design of the house.


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And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came by the eastern way; and [there was] a voice of an army, as the sound of many redoubling [their shouts], and the earth shone like light from the glory round about.


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And the vision which I saw was like the vision which I saw when I went in to anoint the city. And the vision of the chariot which I saw was like the vision which I saw at the River Chebar; and I fell upon my face.


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And the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court. And behold, the house of the Lord was full of glory.


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And I stood, and behold, [there was] a voice out of the house of one speaking to me, and a man stood near me,


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and he said to me, Son of man, you have seen the place of My throne, and the place of the soles of My feet, in which My name shall dwell in the midst of the house of Israel forever; and the house of Israel shall no more profane My holy name, they and their princes, by their fornication, or by the murders of [their] princes in the midst of them;


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when they set My doorway by their doorway, and My thresholds near to their thresholds; and they made My wall as it were joining Myself and them, and they profaned My holy name with their iniquities which they wrought; and I destroyed them in My wrath and with slaughter.


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And now let them put away from Me their fornication, and the murders of their princes, and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.


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And you, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may cease from their sins; and [show] its aspect and the arrangement of it.


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And they shall bear their punishment for all the things that they have done. And you shall describe the house, and its entrances, and the plan thereof, and all its ordinances, and you shall make known to them all the regulations of it, and describe [them] before them. And they shall keep all My commandments, and all My ordinances, and do them.


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And you shall show the plan of the house on the top of the mountain: all its limits round about [shall be] most holy.


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And these are the measures of the altar by the cubit of a cubit and a span, the cavity [shall be] a cubit deep, and a cubit shall be the breadth, and the border on the rim of it round about shall be a span: and this [shall be] the height of the altar


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from the bottom at the commencement of the hollow part to this great mercy seat, from beneath was two cubits, and the breadth was a cubit; and from the little mercy seat to the great mercy seat [there were] four cubits, and the breadth was a cubit.


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And the altar [shall be] of the length of twelve cubits, by twelve cubits [in breadth], square upon its four sides.


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And the mercy seat [shall be] fourteen cubits in length, by fourteen cubits in breadth on its four sides; and [there shall be] a border to it carried round about it of half a cubit; and the rim of it [shall be] a cubit round about; and the steps thereof looking eastward.


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And He said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord God of Israel: These are the ordinances of the altar in the day of its being made, to offer upon it whole burnt offerings, and to pour blood upon it.


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And you shall appoint to the priests the Levites of the seed of Zadok, that draw near to Me, says the Lord God, to minister to Me, a calf of the heard for a sin offering.


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And they shall take of its blood, and shall put [it] on the four horns of the altar, and upon the four corners of the propitiatory, and upon the base round about, and they shall make atonement for it.


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And they shall take the calf of the sin offering, and it shall be consumed by fire in the separate place of the house, outside the sanctuary.


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And on the second day they shall take two kids of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall make atonement for the altar, as they made atonement with the calf.


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And after they have finished the atonement, they shall bring an unblemished calf of the herd, and an unblemished ram of the flock.


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And you shall offer [them] before the Lord, and the priests shall sprinkle salt upon them, and shall offer them up [as] whole burnt offerings to the Lord.


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Seven day shall you offer a kid daily for a sin offering, and a calf of the herd, and a ram out of the flock; they shall sacrifice them unblemished for seven days.


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And they shall make atonement for the altar, and shall purge it; and they shall consecrate themselves.


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And it shall come to pass from the eighth day and onward, [that] the priests shall offer your whole burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, says the Lord.


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Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary that looks eastward; and it was shut.


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And the Lord said to me, This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no one shall pass through it; for the Lord God of Israel shall enter by it, and it shall be shut.


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For the prince, he shall sit in it, to eat bread before the Lord; he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go forth by the way of the same.


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And He brought me in by the way of the gate that looks northward, in front of the house: and I looked, and behold, the house was full of the glory of the Lord. And I fell upon my face.


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And the Lord said to me, Son of man, attend with your heart, and see with [your] eyes, and hear with your ears all that I say to you, according to all the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and all the regulations thereof; and you shall attend well to the entrance of the house, according to all its outlets, in all the holy things.


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And you shall say to the provoking house, to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: Let it suffice you [to have committed] all your iniquities, O house of Israel!


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That you have brought in aliens, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary, and to profane it, when you offered bread, flesh, and blood; and you transgressed My covenant by all your iniquities;


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Therefore thus says the Lord God: No alien, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into My sanctuary, of all the children of strangers that are in the midst of the house of Israel.


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But as for the Levites who departed far from Me when Israel went astray from Me after their imaginations, they shall even bear their iniquity.


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Yet they shall minister in My sanctuary, [being] porters at the gates of the house, and serving the house; they shall slay the victims and the whole burnt offerings for the people, and they shall stand before the people to minister to them.


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Because they ministered to them before their idols, and it became to the house of Israel a punishment of iniquity; therefore have I lifted up My hand against them, says the Lord God.


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And they shall not draw near to Me, to minister to Me in the priests' office, nor to approach the holy things of the children of Israel, nor [to approach] My Holy of Holies; but they shall bear their reproach for the error in which they erred.


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They shall bring them to keep the charges of the house, for all the service of it, and for all that they shall do.


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The priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charges of My sanctuary when the house of Israel when astray from Me, these shall draw near to Me to minister to Me, and shall stand before My face, to offer sacrifice to Me, the fat and the blood, says the Lord God.


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These shall enter into My sanctuary, and these shall approach My table, to minister to Me, and they shall keep My commandments.


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And it shall come to pass when they enter the gates of the inner court, [that] they shall put on linen robes; and they shall not put on woolen garments when they minister at the gate of the inner court.


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And they shall have linen turbans upon their heads, and shall have linen drawers upon their loins; and they shall not tightly gird themselves.


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And when they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall take off their robes, in which they minister; and they shall lay them up in the chambers of the sanctuary, and shall put on other robes, and they shall not sanctify the people with their robes.


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And they shall not shave their heads, nor shall they pluck off their hair; they shall carefully cover their heads.


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Neither shall they take to themselves a widow for a wife, or one that is put away, but a virgin of the seed of Israel. But if there should happen to be a priest's widow, they shall take [her].


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And they shall teach My people [to distinguish] between holy and profane, and they shall make known to them [the difference] between unclean and clean.


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And these shall attend at a judgment of blood to decide it. They shall rightly observe My ordinances, and judge My judgments, and keep My statutes and My commandments in all My feasts; and they shall hallow My Sabbaths.


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And they shall not go in to the dead body of a man to defile themselves. Only [a priest] may defile himself for a father, or for a mother, or for a son, or for a daughter, or for a brother, or for his sister, who has not been married.


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And on whatsoever day they shall enter into the inner court to minister in the holy place, they shall bring a propitiation, says the Lord God.


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And it shall be to them for an inheritance. I am their inheritance: and no possession shall be given them among the children of Israel; for I am their possession.


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And these shall eat the meat offerings, and the sin offerings, and the trespass offerings; and every special offering in Israel shall be theirs.


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[And] the firstfruits of all things, and the firstborn of all [animals] and all offerings, of all your firstfruits there shall be [a share] for the priests; and you shall give your earliest produce to the priest, to bring your blessings upon your houses.


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And when you measure you land for inheritance, you shall set apart the firstfruits to the Lord, a holy space of the land, in length twenty-five thousand [reeds], and in breadth twenty thousand; it shall be holy in all its borders round about.


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And there shall be a sanctuary out of this, five hundred [reeds in length,] by five hundred in breadth, a square round about; and [there shall be] a vacant space [beyond] this of fifty cubits round about.


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And out of this measurement shall you measure the length, twenty-five thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand; and in it shall be the Holy of Holies.


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Of the land shall be [a portion] for the priests that minister in the holy place, and it shall be for them that draw near to minister to the Lord: and it shall be to them a place for houses set apart for their sacred office;


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the length [shall be] twenty-five thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand. And the Levites that attend the house, they shall have cities to dwell in for a possession.


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And you shall appoint [for] the possession of the city five thousand in breadth, and in length twenty-five thousand; after the manner of the firstfruits of the holy portion, they shall be for all the house of Israel.


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And the prince [shall have a portion] out of this, and out of this [there shall be a portion] for the firstfruits of the sanctuary, [and] for the possession of the city, in front of the firstfruits of the sanctuary, and in front of the possession of the city westward, and from the western parts eastward. And the length [shall be] equal to one of the parts of the western borders, and the length [shall be] to the eastern borders of the land.


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And he shall have it for a possession in Israel. And the princes of Israel shall no more oppress My people; but the house of Israel shall inherit the land according to their tribes.


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Thus says the Lord God: Let it suffice you, you princes of Israel; remove injustice and misery, execute judgment and justice; take away oppression from My people, says the Lord God.


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And in like manner there shall be one bath as a measure of capacity; the tenth of the homer [shall be] the bath, and the tenth of the homer shall be in fair proportion to the homer.


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And the weights [shall be] twenty gerahs, your pound shall be five shekels, fifteen shekels and fifty shekels.


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And these are the firstfruits which you shall offer; a sixth part of a homer of wheat, and the sixth part of it [shall consist] of an ephah of a homer of barley.


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And [you shall give as] the appointed measure of oil one bath of oil out of ten baths; for ten baths are a homer.


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And one sheep from the flock out of ten, as an oblation from all the tribes of Israel, for sacrifices, and for whole burnt offerings, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for you, says the Lord God.


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And through the prince shall be [offered] the whole burnt offerings and the meat offerings, and the drink offerings in the feasts, and at the new moons, and on the Sabbaths; and in all the feasts of the house of Israel; he shall offer the sin offerings, and the meat offerings, and the whole burnt offerings, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.


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Thus says the Lord God: In the first month, on the first [day] of the month, you shall take a calf without blemish out of the herd, to make atonement for the holy place.


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And the priest shall take of the blood of the atonement, and put it on the thresholds of the house, and upon the four corners of the temple, and upon the altar, and upon the thresholds of the gate of the inner court.


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And thus shall you do in the seventh month: on the first [day] of the month you shall take a rate from each one; and you shall make atonement for the house.


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And in the first [month], on the fourteenth [day] of the month, you shall have the Feast of Passover; seven days shall you eat unleavened bread.


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And the prince shall offer it that day a calf for a sin offering for himself, and the house, and for all the people of the land.


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And for the seven days of the feast he shall offer as whole burnt offerings to the Lord seven calves and seven rams without blemish daily for the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering, and a meat offering.


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And in the seventh month, on the fifteenth [day] of the month, you shall sacrifice in the feast in the same way seven days, as [they sacrificed] the sin offerings, and the whole burnt offerings, and the freewill offering, and the oil.


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Thus says the Lord God: The gate that is in the inner court, that looks eastward, shall be shut the six working days; [but] let it be opened on the Sabbath day, and it shall be opened on the day of the new moon.


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And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the inner gate, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his whole burnt offerings and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the entrance of the gate. Then shall he come forth; but the gate shall not be shut till evening.


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And the people of the land shall worship at the entrance of that gate, both on the Sabbaths and at the new moons, before the Lord.


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And the prince shall offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord on the Sabbath day, six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish;


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and a freewill offering, a meat offering for the ram, and a meat offering for the lambs, the gift of his hand, and a hin of oil for the meat offering.


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And on the day of the new moon a calf without blemish, and six lambs, and there shall be a ram without blemish;


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and a meat offering for the ram, and there shall be a meat offering for the calf as a freewill offering, and for the lambs, according as his hand can furnish, and [there shall be] a hin of oil for the cake.


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And when the prince goes in, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go forth by the way of the gate.


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And whenever the people of the land shall go in before the Lord at the feasts, he that goes in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate; and he that goes in by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the gate by which he entered, but he shall go forth opposite it.


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


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And in the feasts and in the general assemblies the freewill oblation shall be a meat offering for the calf, and a meat offering for the ram, and for the lambs, as his hand can furnish, and a hin of oil for the meat offering.


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And if the prince should prepare [as] a thanksgiving a whole burnt peace offering to the Lord, and should open for himself the gate looking eastward, and offer his whole burnt offering, and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day; then shall he go out, and shall shut the doors after he has gone out.


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And he shall prepare daily as a whole burnt offering to the Lord a lamb of a year old without blemish; in the morning shall he prepare it.


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And he shall prepare a freewill offering for it in the morning, the sixth part of a measure [of flour], and a third part of a hin of oil to mix [with] the fine flour, [as] a freewill offering to the Lord, a perpetual ordinance.


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You shall prepare the lamb, and the freewill offering, and the oil in the morning, [for] a perpetual whole burnt sacrifice.


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Thus says the Lord God: If the prince shall give a gift to one of his sons out of his inheritance, this shall be to his sons a possession [as] an inheritance.


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But if he give a gift to one of his servants, then it shall belong to him until the year of release; and [then] he shall restore [it] to the prince; but of the inheritance of his sons [the possession] shall continue to them.


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And the prince shall by no means take of the inheritance of the people, to oppress them: he shall give an inheritance to his sons out of his [own] possession; that My people be not scattered, everyone from his possession.


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And he brought me into the entrance of the [place] behind the gate, into the chamber of the sanctuary belonging to the priests, that looks toward the north. And behold, there was a place set apart.


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And he said to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offerings and the sin offerings, and there shall they bake the meat offering always; so as not to carry [them] out into the outer court, to sanctify the people.


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And he brought me into the outer court, and led me round upon the four sides of the court; and behold, there was a court on [each of] the sides of the court,


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on [every] side a court, [even] a court for all the four [sides], and [each] little court belonging to the court was in length forty cubits, and [in] breadth thirty cubits, [there was] one measure to the four.


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And [there were] chambers in them round about, round about the four, and cooking-places formed under the chambers round about.


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And he said to me, These are the cooks' houses, where they that serve the house shall boil the sacrifices of the people.


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And he brought me to the entrance of the house. and behold, water issued from under the porch eastward, for the front of the house looked eastward; and the water came down from the right side, from the south to the altar.


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And he brought me out by the way of the northern gate, and he led me round by the way outside to the gate of the court that looks eastward. And behold, water came down from the right side,


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in [the direction] in which a man went forth opposite; and [there was] a measuring line in his hand, and he measured a thousand [cubits] with the measure;


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and he passed through the water; [it was] water of a fountain. And [again] he measured a thousand, and passed through the water; and the water was up to his thighs. And [again] he measured a thousand; and he passed through water up to the loins.


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And [again] he measured a thousand; and he could not pass through, for [the water] rose as of a torrent which [men] cannot pass over.


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And he said to me, Have you seen [this], son of man? Then he brought me, and led me back to the brink of the river


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as I returned. And behold, on the brink of the river [there were] very many trees on this side and on that side.


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And he said to me, This is the water that goes forth to Galilee that lies eastward, and it is gone down to Arabia, and has reached as far as to the sea to the outlet of the water; and it shall heal the waters.


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And it shall come to pass, [that] every animal of living [and] moving creatures, all on which the river shall come, shall live; and there shall be there very many fish; for this water shall go there, and it shall heal [them,] and they shall live: everything on which the river shall come shall live.


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And fishermen shall stand there from En Gedi to En Eglaim; it shall be a place to spread out nets upon; it shall be distinct; and its fish [shall be] as the fish of the great sea, a very great multitude.


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But at the outlet of the water, and the turn of it, and where it overflows [its banks], they shall not heal at all; they are given to salt.


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And every fruit tree shall grow by the river, [even] on the bank of it on this side and on that side. They shall not decay upon it, neither shall their fruit fail. They shall bring forth the firstfruit of their early crop, for these their waters come forth of the sanctuary; and their fruit shall be for meat, and their foliage for health.


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Thus says the Lord God: You shall inherit these borders of the land; [they are] given by lot to the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.


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And you shall inherit it, each according to his brother's portion, [even the land] concerning which I lifted up My hand to give [it] to your fathers; and this land shall fall to you by lot.


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And these are the borders of the land that lies northward, from the Great Sea that comes down, and divides the entrance of Emaseldam;


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Hamath, Berothah, between the coasts of Damascus and the coasts of Emathi, the habitation of Saunan, which [places] are above the coasts of Auranitis.


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These are the borders from the sea, from the habitations of Enan, the coasts of Damascus, and the northern [coasts].


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And the eastern coasts between Loranitis and Damascus, and the land of Gilead, and the land of Israel, the Jordan divides to the sea that is east of the city of palm trees. These are the eastern [coasts].


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And the southern and southwestern [coasts are] from Tamar and the city of palm trees, to the water of Meribah Kadesh, reaching forth to the Great Sea. This part is the south and southwest.


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This part of the great sea forms a border, till [one comes] opposite the entrance of Hamath, [even] as far as the entrance thereof. These are the parts west of Hamath.


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You shall cast the lot upon it, for yourselves and the strangers that sojourn in the midst of you, who have begotten children in the midst of you; and they shall be to you as natives among the children of Israel; they shall eat with you in [their] inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel.


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And they shall be in the tribe of proselytes among the proselytes that are with them. There shall you give them an inheritance, says the Lord God.


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And these are the names of the tribes from the northern corner, on the side of the decent that draws a line to the entrance of Hamath the palace of Elam, the border of Damascus northward on the side of Hamath the palace; and they shall have the eastern parts as far as the sea, for Dan, one [portion.]


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And from the borders of Manasseh, from the eastern parts as far as the west coasts, for Ephraim, one.


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And from the borders of Judah, from the eastern parts shall be the offering of firstfruits, in the breadth twenty-five thousand [reeds], and in length as one of the portions [measured] from the east even to the western parts; and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of them.


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[As for] the firstfruits which they shall offer to the Lord, [it shall be] in length twenty-five thousand, and in breadth twenty-five thousand.


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Out of this shall be the firstfruits of the holy things to the priests, northward twenty-five thousand, and toward the west, ten thousand, and southward twenty-five thousand. And the mountain of the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it,


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for the priests, for the consecrated sons of Zadok, who keep the charges of the house, who erred not in the error of the children of Israel, as the Levites erred.


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And the firstfruits shall be given to them out of the firstfruits of the land, [even] a most holy portion from the borders of the Levites.


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And the Levites [shall have] the [part] next to the borders of the priests, in length twenty-five thousand, and in breadth ten thousand: the whole length [shall be] twenty-five thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand.


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No [part] of it shall be sold, nor measured [as for sale], neither shall the firstfruits of the land be taken away; for they are holy to the Lord.


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But [concerning] the five thousand that remain in the breadth in the twenty-five thousand, they shall be a suburb to the city for dwelling, and for a space before it; and the city shall be in the midst thereof.


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And these [shall be] its dimensions: from the northern side four thousand and five hundred, and from the southern side four thousand and five hundred, and from the eastern side four thousand and five hundred, and from the western side [they shall measure] four thousand five hundred.


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And there shall be a space to the city northward two hundred and fifty, and southward two hundred and fifty, and eastward two hundred and fifty, and westward two hundred and fifty.


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And the remainder of the length that is next to the firstfruits of the holy [portion shall be] ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and they shall be the firstfruits of the sanctuary; and the fruits thereof shall be for bread to them that labor for the city.


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The whole offering [shall be] a square of twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you shall separate [again part] of it, the firstfruits of the sanctuary, from the possession of the city.


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And the prince [shall have] the remainder on this side and on that side from the firstfruits of the sanctuary, and [there shall be] a possession of the city, for twenty-five thousand cubits in length, to the eastern and western borders, for twenty-five thousand to the western borders, next to the portions of the prince; and the firstfruits of the holy things and the sanctuary of the house [shall be] in the midst of it.


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And there shall be [a portion taken] from the Levites, from the possession of the city in the midst of the princes between the borders of Judah and the borders of Benjamin, and it shall be [the portion] of the princes.


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And [as for] the rest of the tribes, from the eastern parts as far as the western, Benjamin [shall have] one [portion].


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And from the borders of Gad, from the eastern parts to the southwestern parts; his coasts shall even be from Tamar, and the water of Meribah Kadesh, for an inheritance, unto the Great Sea.


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This is the land, which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, says the Lord God.


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And the gates of the city [shall be] after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; the gate of Reuben, one, and the gate of Judah, one, and the gate of Levi, one.


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And eastward four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; the gate of Joseph, one, and the gate of Benjamin, one, and the gate of Dan, one.


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And southward, four thousand and five hundred by measure; and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one, and the gate of Issachar, one, and the gate of Zebulun, one.


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And westward, four thousand and five hundred by measure; [and] three gates: the gate of Gad, one, and the gate of Asher, one, and the gate of Naphtali, one.


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The circumference, eighteen thousand [measures]. And the name of the city, from the day that it shall be finished, shall be THE LORD IS THERE.


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In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and besieged it.


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And the Lord gave into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, and part of the vessels of the house of God: and he brought them 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 told Ashpenaz his chief eunuch, to bring in [some] of the captive children of Israel, and of the seed of the kingdom, and of the princes;


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young men in whom was no blemish, and beautiful in appearance, and skilled in all wisdom, and possessing knowledge, and acquainted with prudence, and who had ability to stand in the house before the king, and [the king gave commandment] to teach them the knowledge and language of the Chaldeans.


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And the king appointed them a daily portion from the king's table, and from the wine which he drank; and [gave orders] to nourish them three years, and [that] afterwards they should stand before the king.


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And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: to Daniel, Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, Shadrach; and to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abed-Nego.


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And Daniel purposed in his heart, that he would not defile himself with the king's table, nor with the wine of his drink: and he intreated the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.


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And the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your meat and your drink, lest he see your countenances gloomy, in comparison with the young men your equals; also shall you endanger my head to the king.


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And Daniel said to Melzar, whom the chief of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, [and] Azariah,


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And let our countenances be seen by you, and the countenances of the children that eat [at] the king's table; and deal with your servants according as you shall see.


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And at the end of the ten days their countenances appeared fairer and stouter in flesh, than the children that ate at the king's table.


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And [as for] these four children, God gave them understanding and prudence in all learning and wisdom. And Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.


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And at the end of the days, [after] which the king had given orders to bring them in, then the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.


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And the king spoke with them; and there were not found out of them all any like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: and they stood before the king.


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And in every matter of wisdom and knowledge wherein the king questioned them, he found them ten times wiser than all the enchanters and sorcerers that were in all his kingdom.


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In the second year of [his] reign Nebuchadnezzar dreamed a dream, and his spirit was amazed, and his sleep departed from him.


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And the king gave orders to call the enchanters, and the magicians, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to declare to the king his dreams. And they came and stood before the king.


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And the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, [saying], O king, live forever: tell the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation.


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The king answered the Chaldeans, The thing has departed from me: if you do not make known to me the dream and the interpretation, you shall be destroyed, and your houses shall be spoiled.


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But if you make known to me the dream, and the interpretation thereof, you shall receive from me gifts and presents and much honor: only tell me the dream, and its interpretation.


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They answered the second time, and said, Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will declare the interpretation.


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And the king answered and said, I verily know that you are trying to gain time, because you see that the thing has gone from me.


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If then you do not tell me the dream, I know that you have conspired to utter before me a false and corrupt tale, until the time has past: now tell me my dream, and I shall know that you will also declare to me its interpretation.


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The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is no man upon the earth, who shall be able to make known the king's matter: forasmuch as no great king or ruler asks such a question of an enchanter, magician, or Chaldean.


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For the question which the king asks is difficult, and there is no one else who shall answer it before the king, but the gods, whose dwelling is not with any flesh.


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So the decree went forth, and they began to destroy the wise men; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to destroy [them].


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Then Daniel answered [with] counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the royal guard, who was gone forth to kill the wise men of Babylon, [saying],


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Chief magistrate of the king, why has this shameless command proceeded from the king? So Arioch made known the matter to Daniel.


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And Daniel intreated the king to give him time, and that he might [thus] declare to the king its interpretation.


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So Daniel went into his house, and made known the matter to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his friends.


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And they sought mercies from the God of heaven concerning this mystery; that Daniel and his friends might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.


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Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a night vision; and Daniel blessed the God of heaven, and said,


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May the name of God be blessed from everlasting to everlasting; for wisdom and understanding are His.


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And He changes times and seasons; He appoints kings, and removes [them], giving wisdom to the wise, and prudence to them that have understanding.


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I give thanks to You, and praise [You], O God of my fathers, for You have given me wisdom and power, and have made known to me the things which we asked of You; and You have made known to me the king's vision.


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And Daniel came to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon, and said to him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon, but bring me in before the king, and I will declare the interpretation to the king.


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Then Arioch in haste brought Daniel in before the king, and said to him, I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judea, who will declare the interpretation to the king.


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And the king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Can you declare to me the dream which I saw, and its interpretation?


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And Daniel answered before the king, and said, The mystery of which the king asks is not [in the power] of the wise men, magicians, enchanters, [or] soothsayers to declare to the king.


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But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what things must come to pass in the last days. Your dream, and the visions of your head upon your bed are as follows:


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O king: your thoughts upon your bed arose [as to] what must come to pass hereafter: and He that reveals mysteries has made known to you what must come to pass.


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Moreover, this mystery has not been revealed to me by reason of wisdom which is in me beyond all [others] living, but for the sake of making known the interpretation to the king, that you might know the thoughts of your heart.


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You, O king, were watching; and behold, an image: that image was great, and the appearance of it [was] excellent, standing before your face; and its form was awesome.


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[It was] an image, the head of which was of fine gold, its hands and breast and arms of silver, [its] belly and thighs of brass,


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You saw until a stone was cut out of a mountain without hands, and it struck the image upon its feet of iron and clay, and utterly reduced them to powder.


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Then once for all the clay, the iron, the brass, the silver, and the gold were ground into powder, and became as chaff from the summer threshing floor. And the violence of the wind carried them away, and no place was found for them. And the stone which had struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.


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You, O king, are a king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given a powerful and strong and honorable kingdom,


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in every place where the children of men dwell: and He has given into your hand the wild beasts of the field, and the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea, and He has made you ruler over them all.


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You are the head of gold. And after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours, and a third kingdom which is the brass, which shall have dominion over all the earth;


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and a fourth kingdom, which shall be strong as iron: as iron beats to powder and subdues all things, so shall it beat to powder and subdue.


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And whereas you saw the feet and the toes, partly of clay, and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet there shall be in it of the strength of iron, as you saw the iron mixed with the clay.


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And [whereas] the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, part of the kingdom shall be strong, and [part] of it shall be broken.


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Whereas you saw the iron mixed with the clay, they shall be mingled with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave together, as the iron does not mix itself with the clay.


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And in the days of those kings the God of heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and His kingdom shall not be left to another people, [but] it shall beat to pieces and grind to powder all [other] kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.


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Whereas you saw that a stone was cut out of a mountain without hands, and it beat to pieces the clay, the iron, the brass, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what must happen hereafter: and the dream is true, and its interpretation is sure.


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Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and gave orders to offer to him gifts and incense.


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And the king answered and said to Daniel, Truly your God is a God of gods, and Lord of kings, who reveals mysteries; for you have been able to reveal this mystery.


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And the king promoted Daniel, and gave him great and abundant gifts, and set him over the whole province of Babylon, and [made him] chief satrap over all the wise men of Babylon.


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And Daniel asked of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel was in the king's palace.


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In the eighteenth year Nebuchadnezzar the king made a golden image, its height was sixty cubits, [and] its breadth [was] six cubits. And he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.


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And he sent forth to gather the governors, and the captains, and the heads of provinces, chiefs, and princes, and those who were in authority, and all the rulers of districts, to come to the dedication of the image.


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So the heads of provinces, the governors, the captains, the chiefs, the great princes, those who were in authority, and all the rulers of districts, were gathered to the dedication of the image which King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. And they stood before the image.


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at what hour you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, pipe, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and every kind of music, you shall fall down and worship the golden image which King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.


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And whosoever shall not fall down and worship, in the same hour he shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace.


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And it came to pass when the nations heard the sound of the trumpet, pipe, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the nations, tribes, and languages fell down and worshipped the golden image which King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.


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You, O king, have made a decree that every man who shall hear the sound of the trumpet, pipe, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music,


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There are [certain] Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon--Shadrach, Meshach, [and] Abed-Nego, who have not obeyed your decree, O king: they serve not your gods, and worship not the golden image which you have set up.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar, in wrath and anger, commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. And they were brought before the king.


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And Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, [and] Abed-Nego, that you serve not my gods, and worship not the golden image which I have set up?


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Now then, if you are ready, whenever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, pipe, harp, sackbut, psaltery, harmony, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the golden image which I have made, [fine;] but if you will not worship, in the same hour you shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace; and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand?


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Then Shadrach, Meshach [and] Abed-Nego answered and said to King Nebuchadnezzar, We have no need to answer you concerning this matter.


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For our God whom we serve is in the heavens, able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He shall rescue us from your hands, O king.


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But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we [will] not serve your gods, neither [will we] worship the image which you have set up.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with wrath, and the form of his countenance was changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. And he gave orders to heat the furnace seven times [more than usual], until it should burn to the uttermost.


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And he commanded mighty men to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, and to cast [them] into the burning fiery furnace.


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Then those men were bound with their coats, caps, and trousers, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace,


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Then these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, fell bound into the midst of the burning furnace, and walked in the midst of the flame, singing praises to God, and blessing the Lord.


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And Nebuchadnezzar heard them singing praises. And he wondered, and rose up in haste, and said to his nobles, Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? And they said to the king, Yes, O king.


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And the king said, But I see four men loose, and walking in the midst of the fire, and there has no harm happened to them; and the appearance of the fourth is like the Son of God.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar drew near to the door of the burning fiery furnace, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, [and] Abed-Nego, you servants of the Most High God, proceed forth, and come here. So Shadrach, Meshach, [and] Abed-Nego, came forth out of the midst of the fire.


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Then were assembled the satraps, and captains, and heads of provinces, and the royal princes; and they saw the men, [and perceived] that the fire had not had power against their bodies, and the hair of their head was not burned, and their coats were not scorched, nor was the smell of fire upon them.


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And King Nebuchadnezzar answered and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, [and] Abed-Nego, who has sent His angel, and delivered His servants, because they trusted in Him; and they have changed the king's word, and delivered their bodies to be burned, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.


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Therefore I publish a decree: Every people, tribe, [or] language that shall speak reproachfully against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, [and] Abed-Nego shall be destroyed, and their houses shall be plundered, because there is no other God who shall be able to deliver thus.


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Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, [and] Abed-Nego, in the province of Babylon, and advanced them, and gave them authority to rule over all the Jews who were in his kingdom.


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King Nebuchadnezzar, to all nations, tribes, and tongues that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.


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It seemed good to me to declare to you the signs and wonders which the Most High God has worked for me,


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how great and mighty [they are]; His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and His power to all generations.


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I saw a vision and it terrified me, and I was troubled on my bed, and the visions of my head troubled me.


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And I made a decree to bring in before me all the wise men of Babylon, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.


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So the enchanters, magicians, soothsayers, [and] Chaldeans came in, and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known to me its interpretation;


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until Daniel came, whose name is Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, who has within him the Holy Spirit of God, to whom I said,


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O Belteshazzar, chief of the enchanters, of whom I know that the Holy Spirit of God is in you, and no mystery is too hard for you, hear the vision of my dream which I had, and tell me the interpretation of it.


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The tree grew large and strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its extent to the extremity of the whole earth;


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its leaves were fair, and its fruit abundant, and in it was food for all; and under it the wild beasts of the field took shelter, and the birds of the sky lodged in the branches of it, and all flesh was fed by it.


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I beheld in the night vision upon my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from heaven and cried aloud, and thus he said,


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Cut down the tree, and pluck off its branches, and shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit- let the wild beasts be removed from under it, and the birds from its branches.


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Only leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and [bind it] with an iron and brass band; and it shall lie in the outer grass, and in the dew of heaven, and its portion [shall be] with the wild beasts in the grass of the field.


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His heart shall be changed from that of a man, and the heart of a wild beast shall be given to him; and seven times shall pass over him.


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The matter is by the decree of the watcher, and the demand is a word of the holy ones; that the living may known that the Lord is Most High [over] the kingdom of men, and He will give it to whomever He will, and sets it over the lowest of men.


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This is the vision which I, King Nebuchadnezzar saw. Now you, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, for none of the wise men of my kingdom are able to show me its interpretation- but you, Daniel, are able, for the Holy Spirit of God is in you.


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Then Daniel, whose name is Belteshazzar, was amazed about one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. And Belteshazzar answered and said, [My] lord, let the dream concern those that hate you, and the interpretation of it to your enemies.


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The tree which you saw, which grew large and strong, whose height reached to the heavens, and its extent to all [parts of] the earth,


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and whose leaves were flourishing, and its fruit abundant, (and it was food for all; under it the wild beasts lodged, and the birds of the sky took shelter in its branches)


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is you, O king; for you have grown great and powerful, and your greatness has increased and reached to the heavens, and your dominion to the ends of the earth.


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And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven, and he said, Strip the tree, and destroy it; only leave the stump of its roots in the ground, and [bind it] with a band of iron and brass; and it shall lie in the outer grass, and in the dew of heaven, and its portion shall be with wild beasts, until seven times have passed over it.


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This is the interpretation of it, O king, and it is a decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king:


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and they shall drive you forth from men, and your dwelling shall be with the wild beasts, and they shall feed you with grass like an ox, and you shall have your lodging under the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High is Lord of the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He chooses.


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And whereas they said, Leave the stumps of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be [assured] to you, from the time that you realize the power of the heavens.


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Therefore, O king, let my counsel please you, and atone for your sins by alms, and [your] iniquities by compassion on the poor; [perhaps] God will be longsuffering toward your trespasses.


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the king answered and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my power, for the honor of my glory?


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While the word was yet in the king's mouth, there came a voice from heaven, [saying], King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken, The kingdom has departed from you.


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And they [shall] drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the wild beasts of the field, and they shall feed you with grass like an ox. And seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High is Lord of the kingdom of men, and He shall give it to whomever He chooses.


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In the same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar. And he was driven forth from men, and he ate grass like an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until his hair had grown like the [hair] of a lion, and his nails as birds' [claws].


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And at the end of the time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised Him that lives forever, and gave [Him] glory; for His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom [lasts] to all generations.


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All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and He does according to His will in the host of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none who shall withstand His power, and say to Him, What have You done?


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At the same time my reason returned to me, and I came to the honor of my kingdom; and my [natural] form returned to me, and my princes and my nobles sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and more abundant majesty was added to me.


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Now therefore, I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and greatly exalt and glorify the King of heaven; for all His works are true, and His paths are judgment: and all that walk in pride He is able to abase.


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Belshazzar the king made a great supper for his thousand nobles, and [there was] wine before the thousand.


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And Belshazzar, drinking, gave orders as he tasted the wine that they should bring the gold and silver vessels, which Nebuchadnezzar his father had brought forth from the temple in Jerusalem; that the king, and his nobles, and his mistresses, and his concubines, should drink out of them.


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So the gold and silver vessels were brought which [Nebuchadnezzar] had taken out of the temple of God in Jerusalem; and the king, and his nobles, and his mistresses, and his concubines drank out of them.


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They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of iron, and of wood, and of stone.


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In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote in front of the lamp on the plaster of the wall of the king's house: and the king saw the knuckles of the hand that wrote.


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Then the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, and the joints of his hips were loosed, and his knees knocked one another.


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And the king cried aloud to bring in the magicians, Chaldeans, [and] soothsayers. And he said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and make known to me the interpretation, shall be clothed with scarlet, and [there shall be] a golden chain upon his neck, and he shall be the third ruler in my kingdom.


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Then all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the writing, nor make known its interpretation to the king.


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And King Belshazzar was troubled, and his countenance changed upon him, and his nobles were troubled with him.


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Then the queen came into the banquet house, and said, O king, live forever. Let not your thoughts trouble you, and let not your countenance be changed.


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There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the Spirit of God; and in the days of your father watchfulness and understanding were found in him; and King Nebuchadnezzar your father made him chief of the enchanters, magicians, Chaldeans, [and] soothsayers.


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For [there is] an excellent spirit in him, and sense and understanding [is] in him, interpreting dreams [as he does], and answering hard [questions,] and solving riddles. [It is] Daniel, and the king gave him the name of Belteshazzar. Now then let him be called, and he shall tell you the interpretation of the writing.


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Then Daniel was brought in before the king, and the king said to Daniel, Are you Daniel, of the children of the captivity of Judah, which my father the king brought [from Judah]?


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I have heard about you, that the Spirit of God is in you, and [that] watchfulness and understanding and excellent wisdom have been found in you.


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And now, the wise men, magicians, [and] soothsayers have come in before me, to read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation, but they could not tell it to me.


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And I have heard about you, that you are able to make interpretations. Now then, if you are able to read the writing, and to make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and there shall be a golden chain upon your neck, and you shall be third ruler in my kingdom.


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And Daniel said before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and give the presents of your house to another; but I will read the writing, and will make known to you its interpretation.


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O king, the Most High God gave to your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, and majesty, and honor, and glory.


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And by reason of the majesty which He gave to him, all nations, tribes, [and] languages trembled and feared before him. Whomever he wished, he executed; whomever he wished, he exalted; and whomever he wished, he abased.


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But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was emboldened to act proudly, he was deposed from his royal throne, and [his] honor was taken from him.


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And he was driven forth from men. And a heart was given to him after the nature of wild beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. And they fed him with grass like an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until he knew that the Most High God is Lord of the kingdom of men, and will give it to whomever He chooses.


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And you accordingly, his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart before God: do you not know all this?


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And you have exalted yourself against the Lord God of heaven; and they have brought before you the vessels of His house, and you, your nobles, your mistresses, and your concubines have drunk wine out of them; and you have praised the gods of gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, and which hear not, and know not: and the God who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified.


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Therefore from His presence has been sent forth the finger of a hand, and He has ordered the writing.


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Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put the golden chain about his neck, and proclaimed concerning him that he was the third ruler in the kingdom.


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And it pleased Darius, and he set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, to be in all his kingdom;


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and over them three governors (of whom one was Daniel) for the satraps to give account to them, that the king should not be troubled.


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And Daniel was over them, for [there was] an excellent spirit in him; and the king set him over all his kingdom.


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Then the governors and satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel; but they found against him no occasion, nor trespass, nor error, because he was faithful.


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And the governors said, We shall not find occasion against Daniel, except in the ordinances of his God.


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All who preside over your kingdom, captains and satraps, chiefs and local governors, have taken counsel together, to establish by a royal statute, and to confirm a decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except for you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.


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Now then, O king, establish the decree, and publish a writ, that the decree of the Persians and Medes may not be changed.


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And when Daniel knew that the decree was ordered, he went into his house. And his windows were opened in his chambers toward Jerusalem, and three times in the day he knelt upon his knees, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he used to do before.


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And they came and said to the king, O king, have you not made a decree, that if any man shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except for you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? And the king said, The word is true, and the decree of the Medes and Persians shall not pass.


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Then they answered and said before the king, Daniel of the sons of the captivity of Judah, has not submitted to your decree; and three times in the day he makes his requests of his God.


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Then the king, when he heard the saying, was greatly grieved for Daniel, and he set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he exerted himself till evening to deliver him.


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Then those men said to the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is that we must not change any decree or statute which the king shall make.


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Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. But the king said to Daniel, Your God, whom you serve continually, He shall deliver you.


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And they brought a stone, and put it on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed [it] with his ring, and with the ring of his nobles; that the case might not be altered with regard to Daniel.


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And the king departed to his house, and lay down fasting, and they brought him no food; and his sleep departed from him. But God shut the mouths of the lions, and they did not molest Daniel.


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And when he drew near to the den, he cried out with a loud voice, Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lion's mouth?


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My God has sent His angel, and stopped the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me: for uprightness was found in me before Him; and moreover before you, O king, I have committed no trespass.


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Then the king was very glad for him, and he commanded to bring Daniel out of the den. So Daniel was brought out of the den, and there was found no hurt upon him, because he believed in his God.


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And the king commanded, and they brought the men that had accused Daniel, and they were cast into the den of lions, they, their children, and their wives. And they did not reach the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them, and utterly broke to pieces all their bones.


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Then King Darius wrote to all nations, tribes, [and] languages, who dwell in all the earth, [saying,] Peace be multiplied to you.


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This decree has been set forth by me in every dominion of my kingdom, that [men must] tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; for He is the living and eternal God, and His kingdom shall not be destroyed, and His dominion is forever.


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He helps and delivers, and works signs and wonders in the heaven and on the earth, who has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.


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In the first year of Belteshazzar, king of the Chaldeans Daniel had a dream, and visions of his head upon his bed: and he wrote his dream.


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The first [was] as a lioness, and her wings as an eagle's; I beheld until her wings were plucked, and she was lifted off from the earth, and she stood on human feet, and a man's heart was given to her.


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And behold, the second beast was like a bear, and it supported itself on one side, and there were three ribs in its mouth, between its teeth. And thus they said to it, Arise, devour much flesh.


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After this one I looked, and behold, another wild beast as a leopard, and it had four wings of a bird upon it. And the wild beast had four heads, and power was given to it.


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After this one I looked, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and exceedingly strong, and its teeth were of iron; devouring and crushing to atoms, and it trampled the remainder with its feet. And it was altogether different from the beasts that were before it; and it [had] ten horns.


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I noticed his horns, and behold, another one came up in the midst of them, a little horn, and before it three of the former horns were rooted out. And behold, [there were] eyes as the eyes of a man in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things.


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I beheld until the thrones were set, and the Ancient of Days sat; and His garment was white as snow, and the hair of His head as pure wool; His throne was a flame of fire, [and] His wheels burning fire.


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A stream of fire rushed forth before Him. Thousands [upon] thousands ministered to Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand attended to Him. The court was seated, and the books were opened.


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I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which that horn spoke, until the wild beast was slain and destroyed, and his body given to be burned with fire.


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And the dominion of the rest of the wild beasts was taken away; but a prolonging of life was given to them for an appointed time.


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I beheld in the night vision, and behold, [One] like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven, and He came to the Ancient of Days, and was brought near to Him.


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And to Him was given the dominion, and the honor, and the kingdom; and all nations, tribes, and languages, shall serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom shall not be destroyed.


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And I drew near to one of them that stood by, and I sought to learn from him the truth of all these things. And he told me the truth, and made known to me the interpretation of the things.


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which shall be taken away; and the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess it forever and ever.


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Then I inquired carefully concerning the fourth beast; for it was different from the other beasts, exceeding dreadful. Its teeth were of iron, and its claws of brass, devouring, and utterly breaking to pieces, and it trampled the remainder with its feet.


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And concerning its ten horns that were on its head, and the other that came up, and rooted up [some] of the former [ones], which had eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and his appearance was greater than the others.


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until the Ancient of Days came, and He gave judgment to the saints of the Most High; and the time was fulfilled, and the saints possessed the kingdom.


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And he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom on the earth, which shall excel [beyond] all [other] kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and trample and destroy it.


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And his ten horns are ten kings [that] shall arise: and after them shall arise another, who shall exceed all the former ones in wickedness and he shall subdue three kings.


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And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change times and law. And [power] shall be given into his hand for a time, times and half a time.


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But the court shall be seated, and they shall remove [his] dominion to abolish it, and to destroy it utterly.


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And the kingdom and the power and the greatness of the kings that are under the whole heaven were given to the saints of the Most High; and His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all powers shall serve and obey Him.


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This is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts greatly troubled me, and my countenance was changed: but I kept the matter in my heart.


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In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, [even] to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.


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And I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, a ram standing in front of the Ulai; and he had two horns; and one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last.


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And I saw the ram butting westward, northward, and southward; and no beast could stand before him, and there was none that could deliver out of his hand; and he did according to his will, and became great.


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And as I was considering [the ram], behold, a male goat came from the southwest on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the earth: and the goat [had] a horn between his eyes.


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And he came to the ram that had the [two] horns, which I had seen standing in front of the Ulai, and he ran at him with the violence of his strength.


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And I saw him coming up close to the ram, and he was exceedingly enraged against him, and he attacked the ram, and broke both his horns: and there was no strength in the ram to withstand him, but he cast him on the ground, and trampled on him; and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.


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And the male goat grew exceedingly great. And when he was strong, his great horn was broken; and four other [horns] rose up in its place toward the four winds of heaven.


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And out of one of them came forth one strong horn, and it grew very great toward the south, and toward the host.


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And it magnified itself to the host of heaven; and there fell to the earth [some] of the host of heaven and of the stars, and they trampled on them.


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And [this shall be] until the Chief Captain has delivered the captivity: and by reason of [the horn] the sacrifice was disturbed, and he prospered; and the holy place shall be made desolate.


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And a sin offering was given for the sacrifice, and righteousness was cast down to the ground; and he did all this, and prospered.


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And I heard one saint speaking, and a saint said to a certain one speaking, How long shall the vision continue, [even] the removal of the sacrifice, and the bringing in of the sin of desolation; and [how long] shall the sanctuary and host be trampled?


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And he said to him, Evening and morning [there shall be] two thousand three hundred days; and [then] the sanctuary shall be cleansed.


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And it came to pass, as I, Daniel, saw the vision, and sought to understand it, that behold, there stood before me [one] having the appearance of a man.


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And I heard the voice of a man between [the banks of] the Ulai; and he called, and said, Gabriel, cause this man to understand the vision.


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And he came and stood near where I stood. And when he came, I was struck with awe, and fell upon my face. But he said to me, Understand, son of man, for the vision is yet for an appointed time.


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And while he spoke with me, I fell upon my face to the earth. And he touched me, and set me on my feet.


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And he said, Behold, I will make known to you the things that shall come to pass at the end of the wrath: for the vision [is] yet for an appointed time.


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The male goat is the king of the Greeks: and the great horn which was between his eyes, he is the first king.


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And [as for] the one that was broken, in whose place there stood up four horns, four kings shall arise out of his nation, but not in their [own] strength.


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And at the latter time of their kingdom, when their sins are coming to the full, there shall arise a king of fierce countenance, who understands riddles;


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and his power [shall be] great, and he shall destroy fearfully, and shall prosper and thrive, and shall destroy [the] mighty men, and the holy people.


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And the yoke of his chain shall prosper: [there is] underhanded treachery in his hand, and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by deceit he shall destroy many, and shall stand up for the destruction of many, and shall crush them like eggs in his hand.


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And the vision of the evening and morning that was mentioned is true: seal up the vision; for [it is] for many days.


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And I, Daniel, fell asleep, and was sick. Then I arose, and did the king's business; and I was astonished by the vision, and there was none that understood [it].


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I, Daniel understood by the books the number of years which was the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, [the] seventy years for the accomplishment of the desolation of Jerusalem.


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And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek [Him] diligently by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth.


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And I prayed to the Lord my God, and confessed, and said, O Lord, the great and wonderful God, keeping Your covenant and Your mercy to them that love You, and to them that keep Your commandments; we have sinned;


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we have committed iniquity, we have transgressed, and we have departed and turned aside from Your commandments and from Your judgments;


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we have not heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, and our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.


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To you, O Lord, [belongs] righteousness, and to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off in all the earth, wherever You have scattered them, for the sin which they have committed.


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In you, O Lord, is our righteousness, and to us [belongs] confusion of face, and to our kings, and to our princes, and to our fathers, forasmuch as we have sinned.


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Neither have we heeded the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by the hands of His servants the prophets.


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Moreover, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and have refused to heed Your voice; so the curse has come 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 against us, and against our judges who judged us, [by] bringing upon us great evils, such as have not happened under the whole heaven, according to what has happened in Jerusalem.


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As it is written in the Law of Moses, all these evils have come upon us: yet we have not sought after the Lord our God, that we might turn away from our iniquities, and have understanding in all Your truth.


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The Lord also has watched, and brought these evils upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all His work which He has executed, but we have not heeded His voice.


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And now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made to Yourself a name, as [it is] this day; we have sinned, we have transgressed.


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O Lord, Your mercy is over all: let Your wrath turn away, I pray, and Your anger from Your city Jerusalem, [even] Your holy mountain; for we have sinned, and because of our iniquities, and those of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach among all that are round about us.


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And now, O lord our God, hearken to the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and cause Your face to shine on Your desolate sanctuary, for Your [name's] sake, O Lord.


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Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and behold our desolation, and that of the city which is called by Your name; for we do not bring our pitiful case before You on [the grounds of] our righteousness, but [because of] Your manifold compassions, O Lord.


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Hearken, O Lord; be propitious, O Lord; attend, O Lord; delay not, O my God, for Your own sake; for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.


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And while I was yet speaking, and praying, and confessing my sins and the sins of my people Israel, and bringing my pitiful case before the Lord my God concerning the holy mountain;


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yes, while I was yet speaking in prayer, behold the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, [came] flying, and he touched me about the hour of the evening sacrifice.


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And he instructed me, and spoke with me, and said, O Daniel, I have now come forth to impart to you understanding.


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At the beginning of your supplication the word came forth, and I have come to tell you; for you are a man much beloved: therefore consider the matter, [and] understand the vision:


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Seventy weeks have been determined upon your people, and upon the holy city, for sin to be ended, to seal up transgressions, to blot out iniquities, to make atonement for iniquities, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.


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And you shall know and understand, that from the going forth of the command for the answer and for the building of Jerusalem, until Christ the Prince, [there shall be] seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks; and then [the time] shall return, and the street shall be built, and the wall, and the times shall be exhausted.


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And after the sixty-two weeks, the Anointed One shall be killed, and there is no judgment in Him. And He shall destroy the city and the sanctuary with the prince that is to come: they shall be cut off with a flood, and to the end of the war which is rapidly completed He shall appoint [the city] to desolations.


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And one week shall establish the covenant with many. And in the midst of the week my sacrifice and drink offering shall be taken away: and on the temple [shall be] the abomination of desolations; and at the end of the time an end shall be put to the desolation.


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In the third year of Cyrus king of the Persians a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, and great power and understanding in the vision was given to him.


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I ate no pleasant bread, and no flesh or wine entered into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself with oil, until three whole weeks were accomplished.


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And I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, and his loins were girt with gold of Ophaz.


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And his body was like beryl, and his face was as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his legs as the appearance of shining brass, and the voice of his words as the voice of a multitude.


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And I, Daniel alone saw the vision: and the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great amazement fell upon them, and they fled in fear.


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So I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there was no strength left in me, and my glory was turned into corruption, and I retained no strength.


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Yet I heard the voice of his words; and when I heard him I was cut [to the heart], and [I fell with] my face to the earth.


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And he said to me, O Daniel, man greatly beloved, understand the words which I speak to you, and stand upright, for I am now sent to you. And when he had spoken to me this word, I stood trembling.


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And he said to me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to afflict yourself before the Lord your God, your words were heard, and I have come because of your words.


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But the prince of the kingdom of the Persians withstood me twenty-one days; and behold, Michael, one of the princes, came to help me; and I left him there with the prince of the kingdom of the Persians.


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And I have come to inform you of all that shall befall your people in the last days, for the vision [refers] to [many] days yet [to come].


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And when he had spoken with me according to these words, I turned my face to the ground, and was cut [to the heart].


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And behold, as it were the likeness of a son of man touched my lips; and I opened my mouth, and spoke, and said to him that stood before me, O [my] lord, at the sight of you my insides were turned within me, and I had no strength.


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And how shall your servant be able, O [my] lord, to speak with this my lord? And as for me, from now on strength will not remain in me, and there is no breath left in me.


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and said to me, Fear not, man greatly beloved: peace be to you, gird yourself like a man, and be strong. And when he had spoken with me, I received strength, and said, Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me.


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And he said, Do you know why I have come to you? And now I will return to fight with the prince of the Persians: and I was going in, and the prince of the Greeks came.


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But I will tell you that which is ordained in the scripture of truth; and there is no one that holds with me in these matters but Michael your prince.


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And now I will tell you the truth. Behold, there shall yet rise up three kings in Persia: and the fourth shall be far more richer than all. And after that he is master of his wealth, he shall rise up against all the kingdoms of the Greeks.


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And there shall rise up a mighty king, and he shall be lord of a great empire, and shall do according to his will.


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And when his kingdom shall stand up, it shall be broken, and shall be divided to the four winds of heaven; but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled over; for his kingdom shall be plucked up, and [given] to others beside these.


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And the king of the south shall be strong; and one of their princes shall prevail against him, and shall obtain a great dominion.


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And after his years they shall associate; and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north, to make agreements with him, but she shall not retain power of arm; neither shall his seed stand: and she shall be delivered up, and they that brought her, and the maiden, and he that strengthened her in these times.


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[But] out of the flower of her root there shall arise [one in] his place, and shall come against the host, and shall enter into the strongholds of the king of the north, and shall fight against them, and prevail.


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Yea, he shall carry with a body of captives into Egypt their gods with their molten [images, and] all their precious vessels of silver and gold; and he shall last longer than the king of the north.


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And his sons shall gather a multitude among many. And one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through, and he shall rest, and collect his strength.


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And the king of the south shall be greatly enraged, and shall come forth, and shall war with the king of the north, and he shall raise a great multitude; but the multitude shall be delivered into his hand.


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And he shall take the multitude, and his heart shall be exalted; and he shall cast down many thousands; but he shall not prevail.


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For the king of the north shall return, and bring a multitude greater than the former, and at the end of the times of years an invading army shall come with a great force, and with much substance.


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And in those times many shall rise up against the king of the south; and the children of the spoilers of your people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; and they shall fail.


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And the king of the north shall come in, and cast up a mound, and take strong cities; and the arms of the king of the south shall withstand, and his chosen ones shall rise up, but there shall be no strength to stand.


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And he that comes in against him shall do according to his will, and there is no one to stand before him; and he shall stand in the land of beauty, and it shall be consumed by his hand.


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And he shall set his face to come in with the force of his whole kingdom, and shall cause everything to prosper with him, and he shall give him the daughter of women to corrupt her, but she shall not continue, neither be on his side.


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And he shall turn his face to the islands, and shall take many, and cause princes to cease from their reproach: nevertheless his own reproach shall return to him.


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Then he shall turn back his face to the strength of his own land, but he shall become weak, and fall, and not be found.


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And there shall arise out of his root one that shall cause a plant of the kingdom to pass over his place, earning kingly glory, and yet in those days shall he be broken, yet not openly, nor in war.


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[One] shall stand on his place, [who] has been set at nought, and they have not put upon him the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in prosperously, and obtain the kingdom by deceitful ways.


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And the arms of him that overflows shall be washed away as with a flood from before him, and shall be broken, and [so shall be] the head of the covenant.


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And because of the leagues made with him he shall work deceit; and he shall come up, and overpower them with a small nation.


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And he shall enter with prosperity, and [that] into fertile districts; and he shall do what his fathers and his fathers' fathers have not done; he shall scatter among them plunder, and spoils, and wealth; and he shall devise plans against Egypt, even for a time.


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And his strength and his heart shall be stirred up against the king of the south with a great force; and the king of the south shall engage in war with a great and very strong force; but [his forces] shall not stand, for they shall devise plans against him.


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And they shall eat his provisions, and shall crush him, and he shall carry away armies as with a flood, and many shall fall down slain.


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And [as for] both the kings, their hearts [are set] upon evil, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper; for yet the end is for a [fixed] time.


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And he shall return to his land with much substance; and his heart [shall be] against the holy covenant; and he shall perform [great deeds], and return to his own land.


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At the [set] time he shall return, and shall come into the south, but the last [expedition] shall [not] be as the first.


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For the Cyprians issuing forth shall come against him, and he shall be brought low, and shall return, and shall be incensed against the holy covenant: and he shall do [thus], and shall return, and have intelligence with them that have forsaken the holy covenant.


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And seeds shall spring up out of him, and they shall profane the sanctuary of strength, and they shall remove the perpetual [sacrifice], and make the abomination of desolation.


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And the transgressors shall bring about a covenant by deceitful ways; but a people knowing their God shall prevail, and do [valiantly.]


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And the intelligent of the people shall understand much; yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, and by captivity, and by the spoil of [many] days.


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And when they are weak they shall be helped with a little help, but many shall attach themselves to them with treachery.


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And [some] of them that understand shall fall, to try them as with fire, and to test [them], and that they may be manifested at the time of the end, for the matter [is] yet for an [appointed] time.


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And he shall do according to his will, and the king shall exalt and magnify himself against every god, and shall speak great swelling words, and shall prosper until the indignation shall be accomplished; for it is coming to an end.


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And he shall not regard any gods of his fathers, nor the desire of women, neither shall he regard any deity: for he shall magnify himself above all.


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And he shall honor the god of fortresses in his place: and a god whom his fathers knew not he shall honor with gold, and silver, and precious stones, and desirable things.


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And he shall do [thus] in the strong places of refuge with a strange god, and shall increase his glory; and he shall subject many to them, and shall distribute the land in gifts.


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And at the end of the time he shall conflict with the king of the south. And the king of the north shall come against him with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and they shall enter into the land, and he shall break in pieces, and pass on.


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And he shall enter into the land of beauty, and many shall fail. But these shall escape out of his hand, Edom, Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.


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And he shall have the mastery over the secret [treasures] of gold and silver, and over all the desirable [possessions] of Egypt, and of the Libyans and Ethiopians in their strongholds.


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But rumors and anxieties out of the east and from the north shall trouble him; and he shall come with great wrath to destroy many.


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And he shall pitch the tabernacle of his palace between the seas in the holy mountain of beauty; [but] he shall come to his portion, and there is none to deliver him.


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And at that time Michael the great prince shall stand up, that stands over the children of your people, and there shall be a time of tribulation, such tribulation as has not been from the time that there was a nation on the earth until that time. At that time your people shall be delivered, everyone that is written in the book.


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And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproach and everlasting shame.


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And the wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and [some] of the many righteous as the stars forever and ever.


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And you, Daniel, close the words, and seal the book to the time of the end; until many are taught, and knowledge is increased.


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And I Daniel, saw, and behold, two others stood, on one side of the bank of the river, and the other on the other side of the bank of the river.


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And [one] said to the man clothed in linen, who was over the water of the river, When [will be] the end of the wonders which you have mentioned?


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And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was over the water of the river, and he lifted up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by Him that lives forever, that [it should be] for a time, times and half a time. When the dispersion is ended, they shall know all these things.


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Many must be tested, and thoroughly whitened, and tried with fire, and sanctified; but the transgressors shall transgress: and none of the transgressors shall understand, but the wise shall understand.


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And from the time of the removal of the perpetual sacrifice, when the abomination of desolation shall be set up, [there shall be] a thousand two hundred and ninety days.


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But you, go [your] way, and rest; for [there are] yet days and seasons to the fulfillment of the end; and you shall stand in your inheritance at the end of the days.


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The word of the Lord which came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel.


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The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take to yourself a wife of fornication, and children of fornication: for the land will surely go a-whoring in departing from the Lord.


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And the Lord said to him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little [while] and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Judah, and will make to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.


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And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And He said to him, Call her name, Unpitied: for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, but will surely set Myself in array against them.


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But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them with bow, nor with sword, nor by war, nor by horses, nor by horsemen.


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Yet the number of the children of Israel was as the sand of the sea, which shall not be measured nor numbered: and it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, even they shall be called the sons of the living God.


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And the children of Judah shall be gathered, and the children of Israel together, and shall appoint themselves one head, and shall come up out of the land: for great [shall be] the day of Jezreel.


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Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband: and I will remove her fornication out of My presence, and her adultery from between her breasts:


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that I may strip her naked, and make her again as she was at the day of her birth: and I will make her desolate, and make her as a dry land, and will kill her with thirst.


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And their mother went a-whoring: she that bore them disgraced [them]: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, and my garments, and my linen clothes, my oil and my necessaries.


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Therefore, behold, I hedge up her way with thorns, and I will stop the ways, and she shall not find her path.


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And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: and she shall say, I will go, and return to my former husband; for it was better with me [before] than it is now.


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And she knew not that I gave her her grain, and wine, and oil, and multiplied silver to her: but she made silver and gold [images] for Baal.


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Therefore I will return, and take away My grain in its season, and My wine in its time; and I will take away My raiment and My linen clothes, so that she shall not cover her nakedness.


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And now I will expose her uncleanness before her lovers, and no one shall by any means deliver her out of My hand.


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And I will take away all her gladness, her feasts, and her festivals at the new moon, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.


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And I will utterly destroy her vines, and her fig trees, all things of which she said, These are my hire which my lovers have given me: and I will make them a testimony, and the wild beasts of the field, and the birds of the sky, and the reptiles of the earth shall devour them.


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And I will recompense on her the days of Baalam, wherein she sacrificed to them, and put on her earrings, and her necklaces, and went after her lovers, and forgot Me, says the Lord.


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Therefore, behold, I [will] cause her to err, and will make her as desolate, and will speak comfortably to her.


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And I will giver her possessions from there, and the valley of Achor to open her understanding: and she shall be afflicted there according to the days of her infancy, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord, [that] she shall call Me, My husband, and shall no longer call me Baalam.


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And I will take away the names of Baalam out of her mouth, and their names shall be remembered no more at all.


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And I will make for them in that day a covenant with the wild beasts of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the reptiles of the earth: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle from off the earth, and will cause you to dwell safely.


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And I will betroth you to Myself forever; yea, I will betroth you to Myself in righteousness, and in judgment, and in mercy, and in tender compassions;


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And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord, I will hearken to the heaven, and it shall hearken to the earth;


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and the earth shall hearken to the grain, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hearken to Jezreel.


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And I will sow her to Me on the earth; and will love her that was not loved, and will say to that which was not My people, You are My people; and they shall say, You are the Lord my God.


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And the Lord said to me, Go yet, and love a woman that loves evil things, an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, and they have respect to strange gods, and love cakes of dried grapes.


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So I hired [her] to myself for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and a homer of barley, and a flagon of wine.


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And I said unto her, You shall wait for me many days; and you shall not commit fornication, neither shall you be for [another] man; and I [will be] for you.


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For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an altar, and without a priesthood, and without manifestations.


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And afterward shall the children of Israel return, and shall seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall be amazed at the Lord and at His goodness in the latter days.


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Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel: for the Lord [has] a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.


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Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery bound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.


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Therefore shall the land mourn, and shall be diminished with all that dwell in it, with the wild beasts of the field, and the reptiles of the earth, and with the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea shall fail:


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that neither anyone may plead, nor any one reprove [another]; but My people are as a priest spoken against.


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Therefore they shall fall by day, and the prophet with you shall fall: I have compared your mother unto night.


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My people are like as if they had no knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you, that you shall not minister as priest unto Me: and [as] you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.


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And the priest shall be as the people: and I will avenge on them their ways, and I will recompense to them their counsels.


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And they shall eat, and shall not be satisfied: they have gone a-whoring, and shall by no means prosper: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.


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They asked counsel by [means of] signs, and they reported answer to them by their staves: they have gone astray in a spirit of harlotry, and gone grievously a-whoring from their God.


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They have sacrificed on the tops of the mountains, and on the hills they have sacrificed under the oak and poplar, and under the shady tree, because the shade was good: therefore your daughters shall go a-whoring, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery.


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And I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they shall commit adultery: for they themselves mingled themselves with harlots, and sacrificed with polluted ones, and the people that understood not entangled itself with a harlot.


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But you, O Israel, be not ignorant, and go not to Gilgal, O [men of] Judah, and go not up to the house of On, and swear not by the living Lord.


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He has chosen the Canaanites: they have grievously gone a-whoring: they have loved dishonor through her insolence.


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Hear these things, you priests; and attend, O house of Israel; and hearken, O house of the king; for the controversy is with you, because you have been a snare in Mizpah, and as a net spread on Tabor,


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I know Ephraim, and Israel is not far from Me: for now Ephraim has gone grievously a-whoring, Israel is defiled.


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They have not framed their counsels to return to their God, for the spirit of fornication is in them, and they have not known the Lord.


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And the pride of Israel shall be brought low before his face; and Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquities; and Judah also shall fall with them.


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They shall go with sheep and calves diligently to seek the Lord; but they shall not find Him, for He has withdrawn Himself from them.


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For they have forsaken the Lord; for strange children have been born to them: now shall the cankerworm devour them and their heritage.


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Blow the trumpet on the hills, sound aloud on the heights: proclaim in the house of On, Benjamin is amazed.


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Ephraim has come to nought in the days of reproof: in the tribes of Israel I have shown faithful [dealings].


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The princes of Judah have become as those that removed the landmarks: I will pour out upon them My fury as water.


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Ephraim altogether prevailed against his adversary, he trod judgment under foot, for he began to go after vanities.


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And Ephraim saw his disease, and Judah his pain; then Ephraim went to the Assyrians, and sent ambassadors to King Jareb: but he could not heal you, and your pain shall by no means cease from you.


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For I am as a panther to Ephraim, and as a lion to the house of Judah. And I will tear, and go away; and I will take, and there shall be none to deliver.


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I will go and return to My place, until they are brought to nought, and [then] shall they seek My face.


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In their affliction they will seek Me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for He has torn, and will heal us; He will smite, and bind us up.


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After two days He will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before Him, and shall know [Him.]


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Let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find Him ready as the morning, and He will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth.


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What shall I do unto you, Ephraim? What shall I do to you, Judah? For your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that goes away.


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Therefore have I mown down your prophets; I have slain them with the word of My mouth; and My judgment shall go forth as the light.


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For I desire mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole burnt offerings.


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And your strength [is that] of a robber: the priests have hid the way, they have murdered [the people of] Shechem; for they have wrought iniquity in the house of Israel.


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I have seen horrible [things] there, [even] the fornication of Ephraim. Israel and Judah are defiled;


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When I have healed Israel, then shall the iniquity of Ephraim be revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they have wrought falsehood. And a thief shall come in to him, [even] a robber spoiling in his way;


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that they may concert together as [men] singing in their heart. I remember all their wickedness; now have their own counsels compassed them about; they came before My face.


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They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot baking, on account of the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.


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[In] the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.


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Wherefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the night. Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning has come; he is burnt up as a flame of fire.


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They are all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges. All their kings are fallen; there was not one among them that called on Me.


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Strangers devoured his strength, and he knew [it] not; and gray hairs came upon him, and he knew [it] not.


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And the pride of Israel shall be brought down before his face: yet they have not returned to the Lord their God, neither have they diligently sought Him for all this.


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And Ephraim was as a silly dove, not having a heart: he called to Egypt, and they went to the Assyrians.


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Whenever they shall go, I will cast My net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the sky, I will chasten them with the rumor of their [coming] affliction.


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Woe to them! For they have started aside from Me: they are cowards; for they have sinned against Me: yet I redeemed them, but they spoke falsehoods against Me.


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They turned aside to that which is not, they became as a bent bow. Their princes shall fall by the sword, by reason of the unbridled state of their tongue. This is their setting at nought in the land of Egypt.


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[He shall come] into their midst as the land, as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed My covenant, and have sinned against My law.


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They have made kings for themselves, but not by Me: they have ruled, but they did not make it known to Me: [of] their silver and their gold they have made images to themselves, that they might be destroyed.


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Cast off your calf, O Samaria; My anger is kindled against them: how long will they be unable to purge themselves in Israel?


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For they sowed blighted [seed], and their destruction shall await them, a sheaf of corn that avails not to make meal; and even if it should produce it, strangers shall devour it.


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For they have gone up to the Assyrians; Ephraim has been strengthened against himself; they loved gifts.


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Therefore shall they be delivered to the nations. Now I will receive them, and they shall cease a little to anoint a king and princes.


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I will write down a multitude [of commands] for him; but his statutes are accounted strange things, [even] the beloved altars.


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For if they should offer a sacrifice, and eat flesh, the Lord will not accept them. Now will He remember their iniquities, and will take vengeance on their sins; they have returned to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things among the Assyrians.


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And Israel has forgotten Him that made him, and they have built palaces, and Judah has multiplied walled cities: but I will send fire on his cities, and it shall devour their foundations.


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Rejoice not, O Israel, neither make merry, as [other] nations. For you have gone a-whoring from your God; you have loved gifts upon every threshing floor.


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They dwelt not in the Lord's land: Ephraim dwelt in Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things among the Assyrians.


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They have not offered wine to the Lord, neither have their sacrifices been sweet to Him, [but] as the bread of mourning to them; all that eat them shall be defiled; for their bread for their soul shall not enter into the house of the Lord.


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Therefore, behold, they go forth from the trouble of Egypt, and Memphis shall receive them, and Machmas shall bury them. [As for] their silver, destruction shall inherit it; thorns [shall be] in their tents.


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The days of vengeance have come, the days of your recompense have come; and Israel shall be afflicted as the prophet that is mad, as a man deranged. By reason of the multitude of your iniquities your madness has abounded.


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The watchman of Ephraim [was] with God. The prophet is a crooked snare in all his ways: they have established madness in the house of God.


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They have corrupted themselves according to the days of the hill. He will remember their iniquities, He will take vengeance on their sins.


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I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness, and I saw their fathers as an early watchman in a fig tree. They went in to Baal Peor, and were shamefully estranged, and the abominable became as the beloved.


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Ephraim has flown away as a bird; their glories from the birth, and the travail, and the conception.


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For even if they should rear their children, yet shall they be utterly bereaved. Wherefore also there is woe to them, [though] My flesh is of them.


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Ephraim, [even] as I saw, gave their children for a prey; yes, Ephraim [was ready] to bring out his children to slaughter.


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All their wickedness is in Gilgal. For there I hated them; because of the wickedness of their practices, I will cast them out of My house, I will not love them anymore; all their princes are disobedient.


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Ephraim is sick, he is dried up at his roots, he shall by no means bear fruit any longer. For even if they should beget [children], I will kill the desired [fruit] of their womb.


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God shall reject them, because they have not hearkened to Him, and they shall be wanderers among the nations.


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Israel is a vine with choice branches, her fruit is abundant: according to the multitude of her fruits she has multiplied [her] altars; according to the wealth of his land, he has set up pillars.


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They have divided their hearts; now shall they be utterly destroyed: he shall dig down their altars, their pillars shall mourn.


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And what should a king do for us, speaking false professions [as his] words? He will make a covenant: judgment shall spring up as a weed on the soil of the field.


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The inhabitants of Samaria shall dwell near the calf of the house of On; for the people of it mourned for it. And as they provoked Him, they shall rejoice at His glory, because He has departed from them.


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And having bound it for the Assyrians, they carried it away as presents to King Jareb. Ephraim shall receive a gift, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.


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And the altars of On, the sins of Israel shall be taken away. Thorns and thistles shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.


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From the time the hills [existed] Israel has sinned. There they stood. War [waged] against the children of iniquity,


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to chastise them. The nations shall be gathered against them, when they are chastened for their two sins,


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Ephraim is a heifer taught to love victory, but I will come upon the fairest part of her neck: I will Mount Ephraim; I will pass over Judah in silence; Jacob shall prevail against him.


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Sow to yourselves for righteousness, gather in for the fruit of life: light for yourselves the light of knowledge; seek the Lord till the fruits of righteousness come upon you.


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For have you passed over ungodliness in silence, and reaped the sins of it? You have eaten false fruit; for you has trusted in your sins, in the abundance of your power.


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Therefore shall destruction rise up among your people, and all your strong places shall be ruined. As a prince Solomon [departed] out of the house of Jeroboam, in the days of battle they dashed the mother to the ground upon the children,


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Early in the morning were they cast off, the king of Israel has been cast off: for Israel is a child, and I loved him, and out of Egypt have I called his children.


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As I called them, so they departed from My presence; they sacrificed to Baalam, and burnt incense to graven images.


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When men were destroyed, I drew them with the bands of My love: and I will be to them as a man smiting [another] on his cheek: and I will have regard for him, [and] I will prevail with him.


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And in his cities he prevailed not with the sword, and he ceased [to war] with his hands; and they shall eat [of the fruit] of their own devices.


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And his people [shall] cleave fondly to their habitation; but God shall be angry with his precious things, and shall not at all exalt him.


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How shall I deal with you, O Ephraim? [How] shall I protect you, O Israel? What shall I do with you? I will make you as Adamah, and as Zeboiim; My heart is turned at once, My repentance is powerfully excited.


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I will not act according to the fury of My wrath, I will not abandon Ephraim to be utterly destroyed: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in your midst; and I will not enter into the city.


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I will go after the Lord: He shall utter [His voice] as a lion. For He shall roar, and the children of the waters shall be amazed.


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They shall be amazed [and fly] as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of the Assyrians: and I will restore them to their houses, says the Lord.


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Ephraim has compassed Me with falsehood, and the house of Israel and Judah with ungodliness; [but] now God knows them, and they shall be called God's holy people.


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But Ephraim is an evil spirit, he has chased the east wind all the day. He has multiplied empty and vain things, and made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil has gone in the way of traffic into Egypt.


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And the Lord [has] a controversy with Judah, in order to punish Jacob: according to His ways and according to His practices will He recompense him.


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And he prevailed with the Angel and was strong. They wept, and entreated Me: they found Me in the house of On, and there [a word] was spoken to them.


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You therefore shall return to your God. Keep mercy and judgment, and draw near to your God continually.


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And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment for myself. None of his labors shall be found [available] to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.


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But I the Lord your God brought you up out of the land of Egypt. I will yet cause you to dwell in tents, according to the days of the feast.


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And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.


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If Gilead exists not, then the chiefs in Gilead when they sacrificed were false, and their altars were as heaps on the ground of the field.


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And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserved.


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Ephraim was angry and excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.


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According to the word of Ephraim he adopted ordinances for himself in Israel; and he established them for Baal, and died.


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And now they have sinned increasingly, and have made for themselves a molten image of their silver, according to the fashion of idols, the work of artificers accomplished for them. they say, Sacrifice men, for the calves have come to an end.


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Therefore shall they be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as chaff blown away from the threshing floor, and as a vapor from tears.


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But I am the Lord your God that establishes the heavens, and creates the earth, whose hands have framed the whole host of heaven. But I showed them not to you, that you should go after them; and I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and you shall know no God but Me; and there is no Saviour beside Me.


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According to their pastures, so they were completely filled; and their hearts were exalted; therefore they forgot Me.


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I will meet them by the way of the Assyrians, as a female bear excited, and I will tear open their rib cage, and the lions' cubs in the thicket shall devour them there; the wild beasts of the field shall tear them to pieces.


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Where is this your king? Let him even save you in all your cities. Let him judge you, of whom you said, Give me a king and a prince.


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Pains as of a woman in travail shall come upon him: he is your wise son, because he shall not stay in the destruction of [your] children.


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I will deliver [them] out of the power of Hades, and will redeem them from death. O death, where is your punishment? O Hades, where is your sting? Comfort is hidden from My eyes.


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Though he will cause a division among [his] brothers, the Lord shall bring upon him an east wind from the desert, and shall dry up his veins [and] quite drain his fountains. He shall dry up his land, and [spoil] all his precious vessels.


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Samaria shall be utterly destroyed, for she has resisted her God; they shall fall by the sword, and their sucklings shall be dashed against the ground, and their women and children ripped up.


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Take with you words, and turn to the Lord your God. Speak to Him, that you may not receive [the reward of] unrighteousness, but that you may receive good things; and we will render in return the fruit of our lips.


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Assyria shall never save us; we will not mount on horseback; we will no longer say to the works of our hands, Our gods. He who is in you shall pity the orphan.


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His branches shall spread, and he shall be as a fruitful olive, and his smell shall be as [the smell] of Lebanon.


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They shall return, and dwell under his shadow: they shall live and be satisfied with grain, and he shall flower like a vine. His memorial shall be to Ephraim as the wine of Lebanon.


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What [has] he to do anymore with idols? I have afflicted him, and I will strengthen him. I am as a leafy juniper tree. From Me is your fruit found.


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Who is wise, and will understand these things? Or prudent, and will know them? For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the righteous shall walk in them; but the ungodly shall fall therein.


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Hear these [words], you elders, and hear, you that inhabit the land. Have such things happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?


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Tell your children concerning them, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation.


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The leavings of the caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.


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Awake, you drunkards, from your wine, and weep: mourn, all you that drink wine to drunkenness: for joy and gladness are removed from your mouth.


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For a strong and innumerable nation has come up against My land, their teeth are [like] lion's teeth, and their back teeth [as] those of a [lion's] whelp.


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He has ruined My vine, and utterly broken My fig trees: he has utterly searched [My vine], and cast it down; he has peeled its branches.


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The grain offering and drink offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, you priests that serve at the altar of the Lord.


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For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the grain languishes; the wine is dried up, the oil becomes scarce;


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the farmers are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley; for the harvest has perished from off the field.


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The vine is dried up, and the fig trees have become few; the pomegranate, and palm tree, and apple, and all the trees of the field have dried up: for the sons of men have abolished joy.


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Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, you priests: mourn, you that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloth, you that minister to God: for the grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.


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Sanctify a fast, proclaim a solemn service, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God, and cry earnestly to the Lord,


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Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.


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[Your] food has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of your God.


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The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the wine presses are broken down; for the grain is withered.


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What shall we store up for ourselves? The herds of cattle have mourned, because they had no pasture; and the flocks of sheep have been utterly destroyed.


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To You, O Lord, will I cry; for fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness, and a flame has burnt up all the trees of the field.


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And the cattle of the field have looked up to You; for the fountains of waters have been dried up, and fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness.


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Sound the trumpet in Zion, make a proclamation in My holy mountain, and let all the inhabitants of the land be confounded; for the day of the Lord is near;


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for a day of darkness and gloominess is near, a day of cloud and mist; a numerous and strong people shall be spread upon the mountains as the morning; there has not been one like it from the beginning, and after it there shall not be again, even to the years of many generations.


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Before them is a consuming fire, and behind them is a flame kindled; the land before them is as a paradise of delight, and behind them a desolate plain, and none of them shall escape.


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As the sound of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, and as the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble, and as a numerous and strong people setting themselves in array for battle.


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As warriors shall they run, and as men of war shall they mount on the walls; and each shall move in his [right] path, and they shall not turn aside from their tracks;


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and not one shall stand aloof from his brother: they shall go on weighed down with their arms, and they fall upon their weapons, yet shall they in no way be destroyed.


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They shall seize upon the city, and run upon the walls, and go up upon the houses, and enter in through the windows as thieves.


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Before them the earth shall be confounded, and the sky shall be shaken: the sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their light.


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And the Lord shall utter His voice before His army, for His camp is very great; for the execution of His words is mighty; for the day of the Lord is great, very glorious, and who shall be able to [resist] it?


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Now therefore, says the Lord your God, turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with lamentation:


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and tear your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God: for He is merciful and compassionate, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy, and relenting of evil.


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Who knows if He will return, and repent, and leave a blessing behind Him, even a grain offering and a drink offering to the Lord your God?


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gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the infants at the breast: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.


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Between the porch and the altar let the priests that minister to the Lord weep, and say, Spare Your people, O Lord, and give not Your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them, lest they should say among the heathen, Where is their God?


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And the Lord answered and said to His people, Behold, I will send you grain, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied with them: and I will no longer make you a reproach among the Gentiles.


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And I will chase away from you the northern [adversary], and will drive him away into a dry land, and I will sink his face in the former sea, and his back parts in the latter sea, and his stench shall come up, and his foul odor will rise, because he has worked great things.


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Be of good courage, you beasts of the plain, for the plains of the wilderness have budded, for the trees have borne their fruit, the fig tree and the vine have yielded their strength.


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Rejoice then and be glad, you children of Zion, in the Lord your God; for He has given you food fully, and He will rain on you the early and the latter rain, as before.


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And I will recompense you for the years which the locust, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, and the cankerworm have eaten, even My great army, which I sent against you.


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And you shall eat abundantly, and be satisfied, and shall praise the name of the Lord your God [for the things] which He has wrought wonderfully with you, and My people shall not be put to shame.


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And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and [that] I am the Lord your God, and [that] there is none else beside Me; and My people shall no more be ashamed forever.


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And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.


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The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.


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And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall the saved one be as the Lord has said, and they that have glad tidings preached to them, whom the Lord has called.


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For behold, in those days and at that time, when I shall have turned the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,


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I will also gather all the Gentiles, and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for My people and My heritage Israel, who have been dispersed among the Gentiles; and [these Gentiles] have divided My land,


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and cast lots over My people, and have given [their] boys to harlots, and sold [their] girls for wine, and have drunk.


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And what have you to do with Me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all Galilee of the Gentiles? Do you render Me a recompense? Or do you bear malice against Me? Quickly and speedily will I return your recompense on your own heads:


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because you have taken My silver and My gold, and you have brought My choice ornaments into your temples;


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and you have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the children of the Greeks, that you might expel them from their coasts.


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Therefore, behold, I [will] raise them up out of the place where you have sold them, and I will return your recompense on your own heads.


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And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them into captivity to a far distant nation: for the Lord has spoken [it].


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Proclaim these things among the Gentiles; declare war, arouse the warriors, draw near and go up, all you men of war.


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Gather yourselves together, and go in, all you nations round about, and gather yourselves there; let the timid become a warrior.


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Let them be aroused, let all the nations go up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the Gentiles round about.


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Bring forth the sickles, for the vintage is come: go in, tread [the grapes], for the press is full: cause the vats to overflow; for their wickedness is multiplied.


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Noises have resounded in the valley of judgment: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of judgment.


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And the Lord shall cry out of Zion, and shall utter His voice from Jerusalem; and the heaven and the earth shall be shaken, but the Lord shall spare His people, and shall strengthen the children of Israel.


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And you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwells in Zion My holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall not pass through her anymore.


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And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the fountains of Judah shall flow with water, and a fountain shall go forth of the house of the Lord, and water the Valley of Flags.


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Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate plain, because of the wrongs of the children of Judah, because they have shed righteous blood in their land.


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And I will make inquisition for their blood, and will by no means leave it unavenged: and the Lord shall dwell in Zion.


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The words of Amos, which came [to him] in Accarim out of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Jerusalem, 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 has spoken out of Zion, and has uttered His voice out of Jerusalem, and the pastures of the shepherds have mourned, and the top of Carmel is dried up.


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And the Lord said, For three sins of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away from it, because they sawed with iron saws the women with child of the Gileadites.


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And I will send a fire on the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the foundations of the son of Ader.


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And I will break to pieces the bars of Damascus, and will destroy the inhabitants out of the plain of On, and will cut in pieces a tribe out of the men of Harrhan; and the famous people of Syria shall be led captive, says the Lord.


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Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away from them, because they took prisoners the captivity of Solomon, to shut [them] up into Edom.


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And I will destroy the inhabitants out of Azotus, and a tribe shall be cut off from Ashkelon, and I will stretch out My hand upon Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, says the Lord.


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Thus says the Lord; For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away from it, because they shut up the prisoners of Solomon into Edom, and remembered not the covenant of brethren.


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Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away from them, because they pursued their brother with the sword, and destroyed the mother upon the earth, and summoned up his anger for a testimony, and kept up his fury to the end.


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Thus says the Lord; For three sins of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away from him, because they ripped up the women with child of the Gileadites, that they might widen their coasts.


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And I will kindle a fire on the walls of Rabbah, and it shall devour her foundations with shouting in the day of war, and she shall be shaken in the days of her destruction:


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Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away from it, because they burnt the bones of the king of Edom to lime.


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But I will send forth a fire on Moab, and it shall devour the foundations of its cities, and Moab shall perish in weakness, with a shout, and with the sound of a trumpet.


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Thus says the Lord; For three sins of the children of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away from him, because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept His ordinances, and their vain [idols] which they made, which their fathers followed, caused them to err.


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Thus says the Lord; for three sins of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away from him, because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for sandals,


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in which to tread on the dust of the earth, and they have smitten upon the heads of the poor, and have perverted the way of the lowly; and a son and his father have gone into the same maid, that they might profane the name of their God.


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And binding their clothes with cords, they have made them curtains near the altar, and they have drunk wine gained by extortion in the house of their God.


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Nevertheless I cut off the Amorite from before them, whose height was as the height of a cedar, and he was strong as an oak; and I dried up his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.


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And I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you about in the desert forty years, that you should inherit the land of the Amorites.


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And I took of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for consecration. Are not these things so, you sons of Israel? Says the Lord.


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But you gave the consecrated ones wine to drink, and you commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.


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And flight shall perish from the runner, and the strong shall not hold fast his strength, and the warrior shall not save his life;


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and the archer shall not withstand, and he that is swift of foot shall by no means escape; and the horseman shall not save his life.


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And the strong shall find no confidence in power: the naked shall flee away in that day, says the Lord.


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Hear this word, O house of Israel, which the Lord has spoken concerning you, and against the whole family whom I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying,


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You especially have I known out of all the families of the earth: therefore will I take vengeance upon you for all your sins.


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Will a lion roar out of his thicket if he has no prey? Will a young [lion] utter his voice at all out of his lair, if he has taken nothing?


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Will a bird fall on the earth without a fowler? Will a snare be taken up from the earth without having taken anything?


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Shall the trumpet sound in the city, and the people not be alarmed? Shall there be evil in a city which the Lord has not wrought?


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Proclaim it to the regions among the Assyrians, and to the regions of Egypt, and say, Gather yourselves to the mountain of Samaria, and behold many wonderful things in the midst of it, and the oppression that is in it.


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And she knew not what things would come against her, says the Lord, even those that store up wrong and misery in their countries.


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Therefore thus says the Lord God; O Tyre, your land shall be made desolate round about [you]; and he shall bring down your strength out of you, and your countries shall be spoiled.


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Thus says the Lord; As when a shepherd rescues from the mouth of a lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so shall be drawn forth the children of Israel who dwell in Samaria in the presence of [a foreign] tribe, and in Damascus.


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For in the day wherein I shall take vengeance of the sins of Israel upon him, I will also take vengeance on the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be broken down, and they shall fall upon the ground.


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I will crush and smite the winter house upon the summer house, and the ivory-houses shall be destroyed, and many other houses also, says the Lord.


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Hear this word, you heifers of the land of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor and trample on the needy, which say to their masters, Give us, that we may drink.


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The Lord swears by His holiness, that behold, the days come upon you, when they shall take you with weapons, and fiery destroyers shall cast those with you into boiling caldrons.


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And you shall be brought forth naked in the presence of each other, and you shall be cast forth onto Mount Harmon, says the Lord.


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You went into Bethel and sinned, and you multiplied sin at Gilgal; and you brought your grain offerings in the morning, and your tithes every third day.


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And they read the law outdoors, and called for public professions: proclaim aloud that the children of Israel have loved these things, says the Lord.


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And your teeth shall be idle in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places; yet you did not return to Me, says the Lord.


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Also I withheld from you the rain three months before the harvest, and I will rain upon one city, and on another city I will not rain; one part shall be rained upon, and the part on which I shall not rain shall be dried up.


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And [the inhabitants of] two or three cities shall be gathered to one city to drink water, and they shall not be satisfied; yet you have not returned to Me, says the Lord.


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I blasted you with parching, and with blight; you multiplied your gardens, your vineyards, and your fig trees, and the cankerworm devoured your olive trees; yet still you did not return to Me, says the Lord.


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I sent pestilence among you by the way of Egypt, and slew your young men with the sword, together with your horses that were taken captive; and in My wrath against you I set fire to your camps; yet not even thus did you return to Me, says the Lord.


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I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you became as a brand plucked out of the fire; yet not even then did you return to Me, says the Lord.


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Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel: because I will do thus to you, prepare to call on your God, O Israel.


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For behold, I am He that strengthens the thunder, and creates the wind, and proclaims His Messiah unto men, forming the morning and the darkness, and mounting on the high places of the earth; The Lord God Almighty is His name.


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Hear this word of the Lord, even a lamentation, which I take up against you. The house of Israel has fallen; it shall not rise again.


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Therefore thus says the Lord God: The city out of which there went forth a thousand, [in it] there shall be left a hundred, and [in that] out of which there went forth a hundred, there shall be left ten to the house of Israel.


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But seek not Bethel, and go not into Gilgal, and cross not over to the Well of the Oath: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall be as that which is not.


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But seek the Lord, and you shall live; lest the house of Joseph blaze as fire, and it devour him, and there shall be none to quench it for the house of Israel.


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[It is He] that executes judgment in the heights [above], and He has established justice on the earth;


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who makes all things, and changes [them], and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night; who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth: the Lord is His name;


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Therefore because they have smitten the poor with their fists, and you have received of them choice gifts, you have built polished houses, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink the wine of them.


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For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside [the judgment of] the poor in the gates.


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Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord God Almighty shall be with you, as you have said,


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We have hated evil, and loved good; restore judgment in the gates, so that the Lord God Almighty may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.


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Therefore thus says the Lord God Almighty: In all the streets [shall be] lamentations, and in all the ways shall it be said, Woe, woe! The farmer shall be called to mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining.


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And [there shall be] lamentation in all the ways, because I will pass through the midst of you, says the Lord.


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Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! What is this day of the Lord to you? Seeing that it is darkness, and not light.


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As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he should spring into his house, and lean his hands upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.


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Wherefore if you should bring Me your whole burnt sacrifices and grain offerings, I will not accept them, neither will I have respect to your grand peace offerings.


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Yea, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Rephan, the images of them which you made for yourselves.


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Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and that trust in the mountain of Samaria; they have gathered [the harvest of] the heads of the nations, and they have gone in themselves.


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O house of Israel, pass by all of you, and see; and pass by from there to Hamath; and from there descend to Gath of the Philistines, the chief of all these kingdoms, see if their coasts are greater than your coasts.


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who sleep upon beds of ivory, and live delicately on their couches, and eat kids out of the flocks, and calves out of the midst of the stalls;


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who excel in the sound of musical instruments; they have regarded them as abiding, not as fleeting [pleasures];


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who drink strained wine, and anoint themselves with the best ointment, and have suffered nothing on occasion of the calamity of Joseph.


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Therefore now shall they depart into captivity from the dominion of princes, and the neighing of horses shall be cut off from Ephraim.


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For the Lord has sworn by Himself, saying, Because I abhor all the pride of Jacob, I do also hate his countries, and I will cut off his city with all who inhabit it.


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But a remnant shall be left behind, and their relations shall take them, and shall strenuously endeavor to carry forth their bones from the house; and one shall say to the heads of the house, Is there yet [anyone] else with you? [ 6:11] And he shall say, No one else. And [the other] shall say, Be silent, that you name not the name of the Lord.


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[ 6:12] For, behold, the Lord commands, and He will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.


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[ 6:13] Will horses run upon rocks? Will they refrain from neighing at mares? For you have turned judgment into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness.


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[ 6:15] For behold, O house of Israel, I will raise up against you a nation, says the Lord of hosts, and they shall afflict you so that you shall not enter into Hamath, and as it were to the valley of the Arabah.


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Thus has the Lord God showed me; and behold, a swarm of locusts coming from the east; and behold, one caterpillar, King Gog.


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And it came to pass when he had finished devouring the grass of the land, that I said, Lord God, be merciful; who shall raise up Jacob? For he is small in number.


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Thus has the Lord showed me; and behold, the Lord called for judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and devoured the Lord's portion.


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Then I said, O Lord, cease, I pray: who shall raise up Jacob? For he is small in number. Relent, O Lord, of this.


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Thus the Lord showed me; and behold, He stood upon a wall [made] with a plumb line, and in His hand was a plumb line.


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And the Lord said to me, What do you see, Amos? And I said, A plumb line. And the Lord said to me, Behold, I appoint a plumb line in the midst of My people Israel; I will not pass by them anymore.


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And the joyful altars shall be abolished, and the sacrifices of Israel shall be set aside; and I will rise up against 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 is forming conspiracies against you in the midst of the house of Israel: the land will be utterly unable to bear all his words.


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For thus says Amos, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall be led away captive from his land.


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And Amaziah said to Amos, Go, seer, remove yourself to the land of Judah, and live there, and you shall prophesy there:


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but you shall no longer prophesy at Bethel- for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the royal house.


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And Amos answered, and said to Amaziah, I was not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet; but I was a sheepbreeder, and a gatherer of sycamore fruits.


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And now hear the word of the Lord: You say, Do not prophesy to Israel, and do not raise a tumult against the house of Jacob.


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Therefore thus says the Lord; Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be measured with the line; and you shall die in an unclean land; and Israel shall be led captive out of his land. Thus has the Lord God showed me.


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And He said, What do you see, Amos? And I said, A fowler's basket. And the Lord said to me, The end has come upon My people Israel; I will not pass by them anymore.


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And the ceilings of the temple shall howl in that day, says the Lord God: [there shall be] many a fallen one in every place; I will bring silence upon [them].


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Hear now this, you that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth,


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saying, When will the month pass away, and we shall sell, and the sabbath, and we shall open the treasure, to make the measure small, and to enlarge the weight, and make the balance unfair?


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That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit.


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And shall not the land be troubled for these things, and shall not everyone who dwells in it mourn? Whereas destruction shall come up as a river, and shall descend as the river of Egypt.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at noon, and the light shall be darkened on the earth by day;


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and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make them as the mourning of a beloved [friend], and those with them as a day of grief.


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Behold, the days come, says the Lord, that I will send forth a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the word of the Lord.


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And the waters shall be troubled from sea to sea, and from the north to the east shall [men] run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord, and they shall not find it.


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they who swear by the propitiation of Samaria, and who say, Your god, O Dan, lives; and, Your god, O Beersheba, lives; and they shall fall, and shall not rise again.


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I saw the Lord standing on the altar: and He said, Strike the mercy seat, and the porch shall be shaken; and cut through into the heads of all; and I will slay the remnant of them with the sword: he who flees shall not escape, and he who escapes shall not be delivered.


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Though they hid themselves in hell, from there shall My hand drag them forth; and though they go up to heaven, from there will I bring them down.


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If they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, from there will I search them out and take them; and if they should go down from My presence into the depths of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.


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And if they should go into captivity before the face of their enemies, there will I command the sword, and it shall slay them; and I will set My eyes against them for evil, and not for good.


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And the Lord, the Lord God Almighty, is He that takes hold of the land, and causes it to shake, and all that inhabit it shall mourn; and its destruction shall go up as a river, and shall descend as the river of Egypt.


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[It is He] that builds His ascent up to the sky, and establishes His promise on the earth; who calls the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth; the Lord Almighty is His name.


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Are not you to Me as the sons of the Ethiopians, O children of Israel? Says the Lord. Did I not bring Israel up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of the deep?


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Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the kingdom of sinners, and I will cut it off from the face of the earth; only I will not utterly cut off the house of Jacob, says the Lord.


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For I [will] give commandment, and sift the house of Israel among all the Gentiles, as [grain] is sifted in a sieve, and yet a fragment shall by no means fall upon the earth.


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All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, who say, Calamities shall certainly not draw near, nor come upon us.


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In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and will rebuild the ruins of it, and will set up the parts thereof that have been broken down, and will build it up as in the ancient days:


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that the remnant of men, and all the Gentiles upon whom My name is called, may earnestly seek Me, says the Lord who does all these things.


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Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when the harvest shall overtake the vintage, and the grapes shall ripen at seed time; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall be planted.


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And I will turn the captivity of My people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities, and shall inhabit [them]; and they shall plant vineyards, and shall drink the wine from them; and they shall form gardens, and eat the fruit of them.


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And I will plant them on their land, and they shall no more be plucked up from the land which I have given them, says the Lord God Almighty.


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The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God to Edom; I have heard a report from the Lord, and He has sent forth a message to the nations.


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Behold, I have made you small among the Gentiles: you are greatly dishonored. The pride of your heart has elated you, dwelling [as you do] in the holes of the rocks, [as one that] exalts his habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground?


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If you should mount up as the eagle, and if you should make your nest among the stars, from there will I bring you down, says the Lord.


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If thieves came in to you, or robbers by night, where would you have been cast away? Would they not have stolen just enough for themselves? And if grape-gatherers went in to you, would they not leave a gleaning?


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They sent you to your coasts: all the men of your covenant have withstood you; your allies have prevailed against you, they have set snares under you: they have no understanding.


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In that day, says the Lord, I will destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau.


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And your warriors from Teman shall be dismayed, to the end that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.


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Because of the slaughter and the sin [committed against] your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.


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From the day that you stood in opposition [to him], in the days when foreigners were taking captive his forces, and strangers entered into his gates, and cast lots on Jerusalem, you also were as one of them.


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And you should not have looked on the day of your brother in the day of strangers; nor should you have rejoiced against the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither should you have boasted in the day of their affliction.


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Neither should you have gone into the gates of the people in the day of their troubles; nor yet should you have looked upon their gathering in the day of their destruction, nor should you have attacked their host in the day of their perishing.


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Neither should you have stood at the opening of their passages, to destroy utterly those of them that were escaping; neither should you have shut up his fugitives in the day of affliction.


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For the day of the Lord is near upon all the Gentiles: as you have done, so shall it be done to you: your recompense shall be returned on your own head.


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For as you have drunk upon My holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink wine; they shall drink, and go down, and be as if they were not.


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But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance, and there shall be a sanctuary; and the house of Jacob shall take for an inheritance those that took them for an inheritance.


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And the house of Jacob shall be fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau [shall be] for stubble; and [Israel] shall flame forth against them, and shall devour them, and there shall not be a corn field [left] to the house of Esau; because the Lord has spoken.


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And those [that dwell] in the south shall inherit the mount of Esau, and they in the plain the Philistines: and they shall inherit the mount of Ephraim, and the plain of Samaria, and Benjamin, and the land of Gilead.


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And this [shall be] the domain of the captivity of the children of Israel, the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem [shall inherit] as far as Ephratha; they shall inherit the cities of the south.


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And they that escape shall come up from Mount Zion, to take vengeance on the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord's.


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Rise, and go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach in it; for the cry of its wickedness has come up before Me.


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But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. And he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish: and he paid his fare, and went up into it, to sail with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.


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And the Lord raised up a wind on the sea; and there was a great storm on the sea, and the ship was in danger of being broken.


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And the sailors were alarmed, and cried everyone to his god, and cast out the wares that were in the ship into the sea, that it might be lightened of them. But Jonah had gone down into the hold of the ship, and was asleep, and snored.


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And the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, Why do you snore? Arise, and call upon your God, that God may save us, and we perish not.


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And each man said to his neighbor, Come, let us cast lots, and find out for whose sake this mischief is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.


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And they said to him, Tell us, what is your occupation, and where do you come from, and of what country and of what people are you?


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And he said to them, I am a servant of the Lord; and I worship the Lord God of heaven, who made the sea, and the dry land.


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Then the men feared exceedingly, and said to him, What is this that you have done? For the men knew that he was fleeing from the face of the Lord, because he had told them.


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And they said to him, What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us? For the sea rose, and lifted its waves exceedingly.


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And Jonah said to them, Take me up, and cast me into the sea, and the sea shall be calm for you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.


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And the men tried hard to return to the land, and were not able: for the sea rose and grew more and more tempestuous against them.


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And they cried to the Lord, and said, Forbid it, Lord: let us not perish for the sake of this man's life, and bring not righteous blood upon us: for You, O Lord, have done as You willed.


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[ 2:1] Now the Lord had commanded a great whale to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights.


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[ 2:3] and said, I cried in my affliction to the Lord my God, and He hearkened unto me, even to my cry out of the belly of hell: You heard my voice.


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[ 2:4] For You have cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: all Your billows and Your waves have passed upon me.


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[ 2:5] And I said, I am cast out of Your presence: shall I indeed look again toward Your holy temple?


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[ 2:7] to the clefts of the mountains; I went down into the earth, whose bars are the everlasting barriers: yet, O Lord my God, let my ruined life be restored.


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[ 2:8] When my soul was failing me, I remembered the Lord; and may my prayer come to You into Your holy temple.


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[ 2:10] But I will sacrifice to You with the voice of praise and thanksgiving: all that I have vowed I will pay to You, the Lord of my salvation.


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Rise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach in it according to the former preaching which I spoke to you of.


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And Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, as the Lord had spoken. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, of about three days' journey.


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And Jonah began to enter into the city about a day's journey, and he preached, and said, Yet three days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.


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And the men of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.


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And the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from off his throne, and took off his robe, and put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes.


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And proclamation was made, and it was commanded in Nineveh by the king and by his great men, saying, Let not men, or cattle, or oxen, or sheep, taste any thing, nor feed, nor drink water.


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So men and cattle were clothed with sackcloth, and cried earnestly to God; and they turned everyone from their evil way, and from the iniquity that was in their hands, saying,


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And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways; and God relented of the evil which He had said He would do to them; and He did it not.


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And he prayed to the Lord, and said, O Lord, were not these my words when I was yet in my land? Therefore I made haste to flee to Tarshish; because I knew that You are merciful and compassionate, long suffering, and abundant in kindness, and relent of [bringing about] evil.


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And Jonah went out from the city, and sat over against the city; and he made for himself there a booth, and he sat under it, until he should perceive what would become of the city.


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And the Lord God commanded a gourd, and it came up over the head of Jonah, to be a shadow over his head, to shade him from his calamities: and Jonah rejoiced with great joy for the gourd.


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And it came to pass at the rising of the sun, that God commanded a burning east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, and he fainted, and despaired of his life, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.


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And God said to Jonah, Are you very much grieved for the gourd? And he said, I am very much grieved, even to death.


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And the Lord said, you had pity on the gourd, for which you have not suffered, neither did you rear it; which came up before night, and perished before another night:


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and shall not I spare Nineveh, the great city, in which dwell more than twelve myriads of human beings, who do not know their right hand or their left hand; and also much cattle?


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And the word of the Lord came to Micah the son of Moresheth, in the days of Jotham, and Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, concerning what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem.


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Hear [these] words, you people; and let the earth give heed, and all that are in it: and the Lord God shall be among you for a testimony, the Lord out of His holy habitation.


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For behold, the Lord comes forth out of His place, and will come down, and will go upon the high places of the earth.


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And the mountains shall be shaken under Him, and the valleys shall melt like wax before the fire, and as water rushing down a steep place.


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All these [calamities] are for the transgression of Jacob, and for the sin of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the sin of the house of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?


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Therefore I will make Samaria as a store house of the fruits of the field, and as a planting of a vineyard: and I will utterly demolish her stones, and I will expose her foundations.


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And they shall cut in pieces all the graven images, and all that she has hired they shall burn with fire, and I will utterly destroy all her idols: because she has gathered of the hires of fornication, and of the hires of fornication has she amassed [wealth].


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Therefore shall she lament and wail, she shall go barefooted, and [being] naked she shall make lamentation as [that] of serpents, and mourning as of the daughters of sirens.


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For her plague has become grievous; for it has come even to Judah; and has reached to the gate of My people, even to Jerusalem.


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You that are in Gath, exalt not yourselves, and you Enakim, do not rebuild from [the ruins of] the house in derision: sprinkle dust [in the place of] your laughter.


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The inhabitant of Shaphir, fairly inhabiting her cities, did not come forth to mourn for the house next to her: she shall receive of you the stroke of grief.


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Who has begun [to act] for good to her that dwells in sorrow? For calamities have come down from the Lord upon the gates of Jerusalem,


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even a sound of chariots and horsemen: the inhabitants of Lachish, she is the leader of sin to the daughter of Zion: for in you were found the transgressions of Israel.


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Therefore shall he cause men to be sent forth as far as the inheritance of Gath, even vain houses; they have become vanity to the kings of Israel;


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until they bring the heirs, O inhabitant of Lachish: the inheritance shall reach to Adullam, even the glory of the daughter of Israel.


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Shave your hair, and make yourself bald for your delicate children; increase your widowhood as an eagle; for [your people] have gone into captivity from you.


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They meditated troubles, and wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God.


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And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance.


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Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I devise evils against this family, out of which you shall not lift up your necks, neither shall you walk upright speedily: for the time is evil.


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In that day shall a parable be taken up against you, and a plaintive lamentation shall be uttered, saying, We are thoroughly miserable: the portion of my people has been measured out with a line, and there was none to hinder him so as to turn him back; your fields have been divided.


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Weep not with tears in the assembly of the Lord, neither let [any] weep for these things; for He shall not remove the reproaches,


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who says, The house of Jacob has provoked the Spirit of the Lord; are not these his practices? Are not the Lord's words right with him? And have they not proceeded correctly?


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Even before time My people withstood him as an enemy against his peace; they have stripped off his skin to remove hope in the conflict of war.


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The leaders of My people shall be cast forth from their luxurious houses; they are rejected because of their evil practices; draw near to the everlasting mountains.


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Arise, and depart; for this is not your rest because of uncleanness: you have been utterly destroyed;


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you have fled, no one pursues [you]: [your] spirit has framed falsehood, it has dropped on you for wine and strong drink. But it shall come to pass, that out of the dropping of this people,


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Jacob shall be completely gathered with all [his people]: I will surely receive the remnant of Israel; I will cause them to return together, as sheep in trouble, as a flock in the midst of their fold: they shall rush forth from among men through the breach made before them:


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they have broken through, and passed the gate, and gone out by it, and their king has gone out before them, and the Lord shall lead them.


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And He shall say, Hear now these words, you heads of the house of Jacob, and you remnant of the house of Israel; is it not for you to know judgment?


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even as they devoured the flesh of My people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided [them] as flesh for the caldron, and as meat for the pot,


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thus they shall cry to the Lord, but He shall not hearken to them; and He shall turn away His face from them at that time, because they have done wickedly in their practices against themselves.


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Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets that lead My people astray, that bite with their teeth, and proclaim peace to them; and [when] nothing was put into their mouth, they raised up war against them:


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therefore there shall be night to you instead of a vision, and there shall be to you darkness instead of prophecy; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be dark upon them.


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And the seers of night visions shall be ashamed, and the prophets shall be laughed to scorn: and all the people shall speak against them, because there shall be none to listen to them.


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Surely I will strengthen myself with the Spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of power, to declare to Jacob his transgressions, and to Israel his sins.


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Hear now these words, you chiefs of the house of Jacob, and the remnant of the house of Israel, who hate judgment, and pervert all righteousness;


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Their heads have judged for gifts, and their priests have answered for hire, and her prophets have divined for silver: and yet they have rested on the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord among us? No evil shall come upon us.


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Therefore on your account Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.


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And at the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be manifest, established on the tops of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and the peoples shall hasten to it.


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And many nations shall go, and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and they shall show us His way, and we will walk in His paths: for out of Zion shall go forth a law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.


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And He shall judge among many peoples, and shall rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plow shares, and their spears into sickles; and nation shall no more lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war any more.


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And everyone shall rest under his vine, and everyone under his fig tree; and no one shall alarm them: for the mouth of the Lord Almighty has spoken these [words].


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For all other nations shall walk everyone in his own way, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.


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In that day, says the Lord, I will gather her that is bruised, and will receive her that is cast out, and those whom I rejected.


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And I will make her that was bruised a remnant, and her that was rejected a mighty nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in Mount Zion from now on, even forever.


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And you, dark tower of the flock, daughter of Zion, on you the dominion shall come and enter in, even the first kingdom from Babylon to the daughter of Jerusalem.


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And now, why have you known calamities? Is there no king in you? Or has your counsel perished that pangs as of a woman in labor have seized upon you?


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Be in pain, and strengthen yourself, and draw near, O daughter of Zion, as a woman in labor: for now you shall go forth out of the city, and you shall dwell in the plain, and you shall reach even to Babylon: there shall the Lord your God deliver you, and there shall He redeem you out of the hand of your enemies.


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And now have many nations gathered against you, saying, We will rejoice, and our eyes shall look upon Zion.


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But they know not the thought of the Lord, and have not understood His counsel: for He has gathered them as sheaves of the floor.


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Arise, and thresh them, O daughter of Zion: for I will make your horns iron, and I will make your hoofs brass: and you shall utterly destroy many nations, and shall consecrate their abundance to the Lord, and their strength to the Lord of all the earth.


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Now shall the daughter [of Zion] be completely hedged in: he has laid siege against us: they shall smite the tribes of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.


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And you, Bethlehem, house of Ephratha, are few in number to be reckoned among the thousands of Judah; yet out of you shall one come forth to Me, to be a ruler of Israel; and His goings forth were from the beginning, even from eternity.


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Therefore shall He appoint them to wait till the time of her that labors: she shall bring forth, and then the remnant of their brothers shall return to the children of Israel.


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And the Lord shall stand, and see, and feed His flock with power, and they shall dwell in the glory of the name of the Lord their God: for now shall they be magnified to the ends of the earth.


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And she shall have peace when the Assyrian shall come into your land, and when he shall come up upon your country; and there shall be raised up against him seven shepherds, and eight attacks of men.


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And they shall tend the Assyrian with a sword, and the land of Nimrod with her trench: and He shall deliver you from the Assyrian, when he shall come upon your land, and when he shall invade your coasts.


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And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many peoples, as dew falling from the Lord, and as lambs on the grass; that none may assemble nor resist among the sons of men.


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And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many nations, as a lion in the forest among cattle, and as a lion's whelp among the flocks of sheep, even as when he goes through, and selects, and carries off [his prey], and there is none to deliver.


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Your hand shall be lifted up against them that afflict you, and all your enemies shall be utterly destroyed.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord, that I will utterly destroy the horses out of the midst of you, and destroy your chariots;


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and I will utterly destroy your sorceries out of your hands; and there shall be no soothsayers in you.


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And I will utterly destroy your graven images, and your statues out of the midst of you; and you shall never any more worship the works of your hands.


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Hear now a word: the Lord God has said; Arise, plead with the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.


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Hear, O you mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and you valleys; even the foundations of the earth: for the Lord has a controversy with His people, and will plead with Israel.


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O My people, what have I done to you? Or wherein have I grieved you? Or wherein have I troubled you? Answer Me.


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For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, and sent before you Moses, and Aaron, and Miriam.


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O My people, remember now, what counsel Balak king of Moab took against you, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, from the reeds to Gilgal; that the righteousness of the Lord might be known.


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With what shall I reach the Lord, and lay hold of my God most high? Shall I reach Him by whole burnt offerings, by calves of a year old?


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Will the Lord accept thousands of rams, or ten thousands of fat goats? Should I give my first born for ungodliness, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?


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Has it not been told you, O man, what is good? Or what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, and love mercy, and be ready to walk with the Lord your God?


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The Lord's voice shall be proclaimed in the city, and He shall save those that fear His name: hear, O tribe; and who shall order the city?


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[Is there] not fire, and the house of the wicked heaping up wicked treasures, and that with the pride of unrighteousness?


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whereby they have accumulated their ungodly wealth, and they that dwell in the city have uttered falsehoods, and their tongue has been exalted in their mouth?


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You shall eat, and shall not be satisfied; and there shall be darkness upon you; and he shall depart from you, and you shall not escape; and all that shall escape shall be delivered over to the sword.


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You shall sow, but you shall not reap; you shall press the olive, but you shall not anoint yourself with oil; and [shall make] wine, but you shall drink no wine: and the ordinances of My people shall be utterly abolished.


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For you have kept the statues of Omri, and done all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their ways, that I might deliver you to utter destruction, and those that inhabit the city to hissing: and you shall bear the reproach of nations.


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Alas for me! For I have become as one gathering straw in harvest, and as [one gathering] grape-gleanings in the vintage, when there is no cluster for me to eat the first-ripe fruit: alas my soul!


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For the godly has perished from the earth; and there is none upright among men: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict everyone his neighbor.


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They prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks a [reward], and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul;


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therefore I will take away their goods as a devouring moth, and as one who acts by a [rigid] rule in a day of visitation. Woe, woe, your times of vengeance have come; now shall be their lamentations.


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Trust not in friends, and confide not in guides: beware of your wife, so as not to commit anything to her.


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For the son dishonors his father, the daughter will rise up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: those in his house [shall be] all a man's enemies.


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Rejoice not against me, mine enemy; for I have fallen yet shall arise; for though I should sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light to me.


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I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against Him, until He make good my cause: He also shall maintain my right, and shall bring me out to the light, and I shall behold His righteousness.


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And she that is my enemy shall see it, and shall clothe herself with shame, who says, Where is the Lord your God? My eyes shall look upon her: now shall she be for trampling as mire in the ways.


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[It is] the day of brick-making; that day shall be your utter destruction, and that day shall utterly abolish your ordinances.


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And your cities shall be leveled, and parted among the Assyrians; and your strong cities shall be parted from Tyre to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.


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And the land shall be utterly desolate together with them that inhabit it, because of the fruit of their doings.


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Tend your people with your rod, the sheep of your inheritance, those that inhabit by themselves the thicket in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in the land of Bashan, and in the land of Gilead, as in the days of old.


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The nations shall see and be ashamed; and at all their might they shall lay their hands upon their mouth, their ears shall be deafened.


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They shall lick the dust as serpents crawling on the earth, they shall be confounded in their holes; they shall be amazed at the Lord our God, and will be afraid of you.


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Who is a God like You, canceling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of His inheritance? And He has not kept His anger for a testimony, for He delights in mercy.


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He will return and have mercy upon us; He will sink our iniquities, and they shall be cast into the depth of the sea, even all our sins.


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He shall give blessings truly to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers, according to the former days.


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God is jealous, and the Lord avenges; the Lord avenges with wrath; the Lord takes vengeance on His adversaries, and He cuts off His enemies.


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The Lord is longsuffering, and His power is great, and the Lord will not hold any guiltless: His way is in destruction and in the whirlwind, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.


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He threatens the sea, and dries it up, and exhausts all the rivers: the land of Bashan and Carmel are brought low, and the flourishing [trees] of Lebanon have come to nought.


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The mountains quake at Him, and the hills are shaken, and the earth recoils at His presence, even the world, and all that dwell in it.


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Who shall stand before His anger? And who shall withstand in the anger of His wrath? His wrath brings to nought kingdoms, and the rocks are thrown down by Him.


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The Lord is good to them that wait on Him in the day of affliction; and He knows them that reverence Him.


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But with an overrunning flood He will make an utter end: darkness shall pursue those that rise up against [Him] and His enemies.


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What do you devise against the Lord? He will make a complete end: He will not take vengeance by affliction twice at the same time.


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For [the enemy] shall be laid bare even to the foundation, and shall be devoured as twisted yew, and as stubble fully dry.


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Thus says the Lord who rules over many waters: Even thus shall they be sent away, and the report of you shall not be heard any more.


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And the Lord shall give a command concerning you; your name shall be fruitful no longer: I will utterly destroy the graven [images] out of the house of your god, and the molten [images]: I will make your grave; for [they are] swift.


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Behold, upon the mountains the feet of him that brings glad tidings, and proclaims peace! O Judah, keep your feasts, pay your vows: for they shall no more pass through you to your decay.


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It is all over with him, he has been removed, one who has been delivered from affliction has come up panting into your presence, watch the way, strengthen your loins, be very valiant in your strength.


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For the Lord has turned aside the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel: for they have utterly rejected them, and have destroyed their branches.


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[They have destroyed] the arms of their power from among men, their mighty men sporting with fire: the reins of their chariots [shall be destroyed] in the day of his preparation, and the horsemen shall be thrown into confusion


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in the ways, and the chariots shall clash together, and shall be entangled in each other in the broad ways: their appearance is as lamps of fire, and as gleaming lightning.


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And their mighty men shall bethink themselves and flee by day; and they shall be weak as they go; and they shall hasten to her walls, and shall prepare their defenses.


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and the foundation has been exposed; and she has gone up, and her maid servants were led [away] as doves moaning in their hearts.


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And as for Nineveh, her waters shall be as a pool of water: and they fled, and stood not, and there was none to look back.


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They plundered the silver, they plundered the gold, and there was no end of their adorning; they were loaded [with it] upon all their pleasant vessels.


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[There is] thrusting forth, and shaking, and tumult, and heart breaking, and loosing of knees, and pangs on all loins; and the faces of all are as the blackening of a pot.


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Where is the dwelling place of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions? Where did the lion go, that the lion's cub should enter in there, and there was none to scare [him] away?


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The lion seized enough prey for his cubs, and strangled for his [young] lions, and filled his lair with prey, and his dwelling place with spoil.


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Behold, I am against you, says the Lord Almighty, and I will burn up your multitude in the smoke, and the sword shall devour your lions; and I will utterly destroy your prey from off the land, and your deeds shall be heard of no more.


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The noise of whips, and the noise of the rumbling of wheels, and of the pursuing horse, and of the bounding chariot,


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and of the mounting rider, and of the glittering sword, and of the gleaming arms, and of a multitude of slain, and of heavy falling: and there was no end to her nations, but they shall be weak in their bodies


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because of the abundance of her fornication: she is a fair harlot, and well-favored, skilled in sorcery, that sells the nations by her fornication, and peoples by her sorceries.


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Behold, I am against you, says the Lord God Almighty, and I will uncover your skirts in your presence, and I will show the nations your shame, and the kingdoms your disgrace.


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And I will cast abominable filth upon you according to your unclean ways, and will make you a public spectacle.


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And it shall be that everyone that sees you shall go down from you, and shall say, Wretched Nineveh! Who shall lament for her? Where shall I seek comfort for her?


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Prepare a portion, tune the chord, prepare a portion for Ammon: she that dwells among the rivers, water is round about her, whose dominion is the sea, and whose walls are water.


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And Ethiopia is her strength, and Egypt; and there was no limit of the flight [of her enemies]; and the Libyans became her helpers.


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Yet she shall go as a prisoner into captivity, and they shall dash her infants against the ground at the top of all her ways: and they shall cast lots upon all her glorious [possessions], and all her nobles shall be bound in chains.


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And you will be drunk, and shall be overlooked; and you will seek strength for yourself because of your enemies.


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All your strongholds are as fig trees having watchers: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.


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Behold, your people within you are as women: the gates of your land shall surely be opened to your enemies: the fire shall devour your bars.


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Draw your water for a siege, and well secure your strongholds: enter into the clay, and thus be trodden in the chaff, make [the fortifications] stronger than brick.


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There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall utterly destroy you, it shall devour you as the locust, and you shall be pressed down as a palmerworm.


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You have multiplied your merchandise beyond the stars of heaven: the palmerworm has attacked it, and has flown away.


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Your mixed [multitude] has suddenly departed as the grasshopper, as the locust perched on a hedge in a frosty day; the sun arises, and it flies off, and knows not its place: woe to them!


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Your shepherds have slumbered, the Assyrian king has laid low your mighty men: your people departed to the mountains, and there was none to receive them.


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There is no healing for your bruise; your wound has rankled: all that hear the report of you shall clap their hands against you; for upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?


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How long, O Lord, shall I cry out, and You will not hear? How long shall I cry out to You being injured, and You will not save?


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Why have You shown me troubles and grievances to look upon, misery and ungodliness? Judgment is before me, and the judge receives a reward.


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Therefore the law is frustrated, and judgment never goes forth, for the ungodly man prevails over the just; therefore perverse judgment will proceed.


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Behold, you despisers, and look, and wonder marvelously, and vanish: for I work a work in your days which you will by no means believe, though a man declare it to you.


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Wherefore, behold, I stir up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that walks upon the breadth of the earth, to inherit tabernacles not his own.


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He is terrible and infamous; his judgment shall proceed of himself, and his dignity shall come out of himself.


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And his horses shall bound more swiftly than leopards, and they are fiercer than the wolves of Arabia: and his horsemen shall ride forth, and shall rush from far; and they shall fly as an eagle [that] hastens to eat.


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Destruction shall come upon ungodly men, resisting with their adverse front, and he shall gather the captivity as the sand.


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And he shall be at his ease with kings, and princes are his toys, and he shall mock at every stronghold, and shall cast a mound, and take possession of it.


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Then shall he change his spirit, and he shall pass through, and make an atonement, saying, This strength belongs to my God.


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Are You not from everlasting, O Lord God, my Holy One? And surely we shall not die. O Lord, You have established it for judgment, and He has formed me to chasten with His correction.


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His eye is too pure to behold evil doings, and to look upon grievous afflictions: why do You look upon despisers? Will You be silent when the ungodly swallows up the just?


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He has brought up destruction with a hook, and drawn one with a casting net, and caught another in his drags: therefore shall his heart rejoice and be glad.


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Therefore will he sacrifice to his drag, and burn incense to his casting net, because by them he has made his portion fat, and his meats choice.


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I will stand upon my watch, and mount upon the rock, and watch to see what He will say by me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.


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And the Lord answered me and said, Write the vision, and that plainly on a tablet, that he that reads it may run.


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For the vision is yet for a time, and it shall shoot forth at the end, and not in vain: though he should tarry, wait for him; for he will surely come, and will not tarry.


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But the arrogant man and the scorner, the boastful man, shall not finish anything; who has enlarged his desire as the grave, and like death he is never satisfied, and he will gather to himself all the nations, and will receive to himself all the peoples.


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Shall not all these take up a parable against him? And a proverb to tell against him? And they shall say, Woe to him that multiplies to himself the possessions which are not his! How long? And who heavily loads his yoke.


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For suddenly there shall arise up those that bite him, and those that plot against you shall awake, and you shall be a plunder to them.


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Because you have plundered many nations, all the nations that are left shall plunder you, because of the blood of men, and the sins of the land and city, and of all that dwell in it.


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Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evils.


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You have devised shame to your house, you have utterly destroyed many nations, and your soul has sinned.


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Are not these things of the Lord Almighty? Surely many people have been exhausted in the fire, and many nations have fainted.


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For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord; it shall cover them as water.


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Woe to him that gives his neighbor to drink the thick lees of wine, and intoxicates him, that he may look upon their secret parts.


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Drink also your fill of disgrace instead of glory: shake, O heart, and quake, the cup of the right hand of the Lord has come round upon you, and dishonor has gathered upon your glory.


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For the ungodliness of Lebanon shall cover you, and distress because of wild beasts shall dismay you, because of the blood of men, and the sins of the land and city, and of all that dwell in it.


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What profit is the graven image, that they have graven it? One has made it a molten work, a false image; for the maker has trusted in his work, to make dumb idols.


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Woe to him that says to the wood, Awake, arise; and to the stone, Arise! For it is an image, and this is a casting of gold and silver, and there is no breath in it.


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O Lord, I have heard Your report, and was afraid: I considered Your works, and was amazed: You shall be known between the two living creatures, You shall be acknowledged when the years draw nigh; You shall be manifested when the time is come; when my soul is troubled, You will in wrath remember mercy.


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His excellence covered the heavens, and the earth was full of His praise. And His brightness shall be as light; there were horns in His hands, and He caused a mighty love of His strength.


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the earth stood at His feet and trembled: He beheld, and the nations melted away: the mountains were violently burst through, the everlasting hills melted at His everlasting going forth.


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Because of troubles I looked upon the tents of the Ethiopians: the tabernacles also of the land of Midian shall be dismayed.


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Were You angry, O Lord, with the rivers? Or was Your wrath against the rivers, or Your anger against the sea? For You will mount on Your horses, and Your chariots are salvation.


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Surely you bent your bow at scepters, says the Lord. Pause. The land of rivers shall be torn asunder.


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The nations shall see You and be in pain, as You divided the moving waters: the deep uttered her voice, and raised her form on high.


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The sun was exalted, and the moon stood still in her course: Your darts shall go forth at the light, at the brightness of the gleaming of Your spear.


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You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed: You shall bring death on the heads of transgressors; You have brought bands upon their neck. Pause.


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You thrust through the heads of princes with amazement, they shall tremble in it; they shall burst their bridles, they shall be as a poor man devouring in secret.


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I watched, and my belly trembled at the sound of the prayer of my lips, and trembling entered into my bones, and my frame was troubled within me; I will rest in the day of affliction, from going up to the people of my sojourning.


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For though the fig tree shall bear no fruit, and there shall be no produce on the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall produce no food: the sheep have failed from the pasture, and there are no oxen at the cribs;


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The Lord God is my strength, and He will perfectly strengthen my feet; He mounts me upon high places, that I may conquer by His song.


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The word of the Lord which came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amoriah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah.


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Let man and cattle be cut off; let the birds of the air and the fish of the sea be cut off; and the ungodly shall fail, and I will take away the transgressors from the face of the land, says the Lord.


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And I will stretch out My hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will remove the names of Baal out of this place, and the names of the priests;


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and them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and swear by the Lord, and them that swear by their king;


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and them that turn aside from the Lord, and them that seek not the Lord, and them that cleave not to the Lord.


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Be fearful before the Lord God; for the day of the Lord is near; for the Lord has prepared His sacrifice, and has sanctified His guests.


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And it shall come to pass in the day of the Lord's sacrifice, that I will take vengeance on the princes, and on the king's house, and upon all that wear strange apparel.


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And I will openly take vengeance on the porches in that day, [on the men] that fill the house of the Lord their God with ungodliness and deceit.


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And there shall be in that day, says the Lord, the sound of a cry from the gate of men slaying, and a howling from the second [gate], and a great crashing from the hills.


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Lament, you that inhabit the [city] that has been broken down, for all the people have become like Canaan; and all that were exalted by silver have been utterly destroyed.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will search Jerusalem with a lamp, and I will take vengeance on the men that despise the things committed to them; but they say in their hearts, The Lord will not do any good, neither will He do any evil.


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And their power shall be for a spoil, and their houses for utter desolation; and they shall build houses, but shall not dwell in them; and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine of them.


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For the great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and very speedy; the sound of the day of the Lord is made bitter and harsh.


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A mighty day of wrath is that day, a day of affliction and distress, a day of desolation and destruction, a day of gloominess and darkness, a day of clouds and vapor,


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And I will greatly afflict the men, and they shall walk as blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord; therefore He shall pour out their blood as dust, and their flesh as dung.


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And their silver and their gold shall by no means be able to rescue them in the day of the Lord's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of His jealously; for He will bring a speedy destruction on all them that inhabit the land.


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before you become as the flower that passes away, before the anger of the Lord come upon you, before the day of the wrath of the Lord come upon you.


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Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth; do judgment, and seek justice, and answer accordingly; that you may be hid in the day of the wrath of the Lord.


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For Gaza shall be utterly forsaken, and Ashkelon shall be destroyed; and Azotus shall be cast forth at noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.


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Woe to them that dwell on the border of the sea, neighbors of the Cretans! The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines, and I will destroy you out of your dwelling place.


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And the sea coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall pasture upon them in the houses of Ashkelon; they shall rest in the evening because of the children of Judah; for the Lord their God has visited them, and He will turn away their captivity.


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I have heard the revilings of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have reviled My people, and magnified themselves against My coasts.


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Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah; and Damascus [shall be] left as a heap of the threshing floor, and desolate forever: and the remnant of My people shall plunder them, and the remnant of My nations shall inherit them.


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This is their punishment in return for their haughtiness, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the Lord Almighty.


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The Lord shall appear against them, and shall utterly destroy all the gods of the nations of the earth; and they shall worship Him everyone from his place, [even] all the islands of the nations.


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And He shall stretch forth His hand against the north and destroy the Assyrian, and make Nineveh a dry wilderness, even as a desert.


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And flocks, and all the wild beasts of the land, and chameleons shall feed in the midst thereof: and hedgehogs shall lodge in the ceilings thereof; and wild beasts shall cry in the breaches thereof, and ravens in her porches, whereas her loftiness was [as] a cedar.


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[ 3:1] This is the scornful city that dwells securely, that says in her heart, I am, and there is no longer any [to be] after me: how has she become desolate, and a habitation of wild beasts! Everyone that passes through her shall hiss, and shake their hands [in contempt].


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The dove hearkened not to the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord, and she drew not near to her God.


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Her princes within her were as roaring lions, her judges as the wolves of Arabia; they remained not till the morning.


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Her prophets are insolent and scornful men: her priests profane the holy things, and sinfully transgress the law.


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But the righteous Lord is in the midst of her, and He will never do an unjust thing: morning by morning He will bring out His judgment to the light, and it is not hidden, and He knows not injustice by extortion, nor injustice in strife.


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I have brought down the proud with destruction; their corners are destroyed: I will make their ways completely waste, so that none shall go through: their cities are come to an end, by reason of no man living or dwelling [in them].


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I said, But do you fear Me, and receive instruction, and you shall not be cut off from the face of the land for all the vengeance I have brought upon her: prepare yourself; rise early: all their produce is spoiled.


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Therefore wait upon Me, says the Lord, until the day when I rise up for a witness: because My judgment shall be on the gatherings of the nations, to draw to Me kings, to pour out upon them all My fierce anger: for the whole earth shall be consumed with the fire of My jealousy.


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For then will I turn to the peoples a tongue for her generation, that all may call on the name of the Lord, to serve Him under one yoke.


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From the boundaries of the rivers of Ethiopia will I receive My dispersed ones; they shall offer sacrifices to Me.


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In that day you shall not be ashamed of all your practices, where you have transgressed against Me: for then will I take away from you your disdainful pride, and you shall no more magnify yourself upon My holy mountain.


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and the remnant of Israel shall fear the name of the Lord, and shall do no iniquity, neither shall they speak vanity; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed, and lie down, and there shall be none to terrify them.


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Rejoice, O daughter of Zion; cry aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem; rejoice and delight yourself with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.


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The Lord has taken away your iniquities, He has ransomed you from the hand of your enemies: the Lord, the King of Israel, is in the midst of you: you shall not see evil any more.


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At that time the Lord shall say to Jerusalem, Be of good courage, Zion; let not your hands be slack.


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The Lord your God is in you; the Mighty One shall save you: He shall bring joy upon you, and shall refresh you with His love; and He shall rejoice over you with delight as in a day of feasting.


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Behold, I [will] work in you for your sake at that time, says the Lord: and I will save her that was oppressed, and receive her that was rejected; and I will make them a praise, and honored in all the earth.


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And [their enemies] shall be ashamed at that time, when I shall deal well with you, and at the time when I shall receive you: for I will make you honored and a praise among all the nations of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before you, says the Lord.


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In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first [day] of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of the prophet Haggai, saying, Speak to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, of the tribe of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,


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Thus says the Lord Almighty, saying, This people say, The time has not come to build the house of the Lord.


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You have sown much, but brought in little; you have eaten, and are not satisfied; you have drunk, and are not satisfied with drink, you have clothed yourselves, and have not become warm thereby: and he that earns wages has gathered [them] into a bag full of holes.


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Go up to the mountain, and cut timber; build the house, and I will take pleasure in it, and be glorified, says the Lord.


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You looked for much, and there came little; and it was brought into the house, and I blew it away. Therefore thus says the Lord Almighty, Because My house is desolate, and you run everyone into his own house;


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And I will bring a sword upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the wine, and upon the oil, and all that the earth produces, and upon the men, and upon the cattle, and upon all the labors of their hands.


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And Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, of the tribe of Judah, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the remnant of the people, hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of the prophet Haggai, according as the Lord their God had sent him to them, and the people feared before the Lord.


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And Haggai the Lord's messenger spoke among the messengers of the Lord to the people, [saying], I am with you, says the Lord.


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And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, of the tribe of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the remnant of all the people; and they went in, and worked in the house of the Lord Almighty their God,


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[ 2:2] In the seventh month, on the twenty-first [day] of the month, the Lord spoke by Haggai the prophet, saying,


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[ 2:3] Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, of the tribe of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, saying,


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[ 2:4] Who is [there] of you that saw this house in her former glory? And how do you now look upon it, as it were nothing before your eyes?


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[ 2:5] Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says the Lord; and strengthen yourself, O Joshua the high priest, the son of Jehozadak; and let all the people of the land strengthen themselves, says the Lord, and work, for I am with you, say the Lord Almighty;


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[ 2:7] For thus says the Lord Almighty; Yet once I will shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry [land];


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[ 2:8] and I will shake all nations, and the choice [portions] of all the nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord Almighty.


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[ 2:10] For the glory of this house shall be great, the latter more than the former, says the Lord Almighty: and in this place will I give peace, says the Lord Almighty, even peace of soul for a possession to everyone that builds, to raise up this temple.


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[ 2:11] On the twenty-fourth [day] of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Haggai the prophet, saying,


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[ 2:13] If a man should take holy meat in the fold of his garment, and the fold of his garment should touch bread, or stew, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.


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[ 2:14] And Haggai said, If a defiled person who is unclean by reason of a dead body, touch any of these, shall it be defiled? And the priests answered and said, It shall be defiled.


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[ 2:15] And Haggai answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before Me, says the Lord; and so are all the works of their hands: and whosoever shall approach them, shall be defiled because of their early burdens: they shall be pained because of their toils; and you have hated him that reproved in the gates.


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[ 2:16] And now consider from this day forward, before they laid a stone upon a stone in the temple of the Lord, what manner of men you were.


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[ 2:17] When you cast into the grain bin twenty measures of barley, and there were [only] ten measures of barley: and you went to the vat to draw out fifty measures, and there were [but] twenty.


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[ 2:18] I struck you with blight and with mildew, and all the works of your hands with hail; yet you returned not to Me, says the Lord.


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[ 2:19] Set your hearts now [to think] from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth [day] of the ninth month, even from the day when the foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid;


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[ 2:20] consider in your hearts, whether [this] shall be known on the grain floor, and whether yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive trees that bear no fruit [are with you]: from this day will I bless [you].


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[ 2:21] And the word of the Lord came the second time to Haggai the prophet, on the twenty-fourth [day] of the month, saying,


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[ 2:22] Speak to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, of the tribe of Judah, saying, I shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry [land];


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[ 2:23] and I will overthrow the thrones of kings, and I will destroy the power of the kings of the nations; and I will overthrow chariots and riders; and the horses and their riders shall come down, everyone by the sword striving against his brother.


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[ 2:24] In that day, says the Lord Almighty, I will take you, O Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, My servant, says the Lord, and will make you as a seal: for I have chosen you, says the Lord Almighty.


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In the eighth month, in the second year of [the reign of] Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,


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And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord Almighty: Turn to Me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the Lord of hosts.


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And be not as your fathers, whom the prophets before charged, saying, Thus says the Lord Almighty: Turn from your evil ways, and from your evil practices: but they did not hear, nor heed Me, says the Lord.


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But do you receive My words and My ordinances, all that I command by My Spirit to My servants the prophets, who lived in the days of your fathers? And they answered and said, As the Lord Almighty determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so has He done to us.


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On the twenty-fourth [day] in the eleventh month, this is the month of Shebat, in the second year of [the reign of] Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,


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I saw by night, and behold, a man mounted on a red horse, and he stood between the shady mountains; and behind him were red horses, and gray, and piebald, and white.


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And I said, What are these, [my] lord? And the angel spoke with me said to me, I will show you what these [things] are.


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And the man that stood between the mountains answered, and said to me, These are [those] whom the Lord has sent forth to go round the earth.


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And they answered the Angel of the Lord that stood between the mountains, and said, We have gone round all the earth, and behold, all the earth is inhabited, and is at rest.


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Then the Angel of the Lord answered and said, O Lord Almighty, how long will You have no mercy on Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, which You has disregarded these seventy years?


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And the angel that spoke with me said to me, Cry out and say, Thus says the Lord Almighty; I have been jealous for Jerusalem and Zion with great jealousy.


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And I am very angry with the heathen that combine to attack [her]: for as I indeed was a little angry, but they combined to attack [her] for evil.


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Therefore thus says the Lord: I will return to Jerusalem with compassion; and My house shall be rebuilt in her, says the Lord Almighty, and a measuring line shall yet be stretched out over Jerusalem.


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And the angel that spoke with me said to me, Cry yet, and say, Thus says the Lord Almighty; Yet shall cities be spread abroad through prosperity; and the Lord shall yet have mercy upon Zion, and shall choose Jerusalem.


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And I said to the angel that spoke with me, What are these things, my lord? And he said to me, These are the horns that have scattered Judah and Israel, and Jerusalem.


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And I said, What are these coming to do? And he said, These are the horns that scattered Judah, and they broke Israel in pieces, and none of them lifted up his head: and these have come forth to sharpen them for their hands, even the four horns, the nations that lifted up the horn against the land of the Lord to scatter it.


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And I said to him, Where are you going? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth of it, and what is the length of it.


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and spoke to him, saying, Run and speak to that young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be fully inhabited by reason of the abundance of men and cattle in the midst of her.


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And I will be to her, says the Lord, a wall of fire round about, and I will be for a glory in the midst of her.


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Up, up! Flee from the land of the north, says the Lord; for I will gather you from the four winds of heaven, says the Lord,


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For thus says the Lord Almighty; After the glory has he sent Me to the nations that spoiled you: for he that touches you is as one that touches the apple of His eye.


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For behold, I bring My hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to them that serve them: and you shall know that the Lord Almighty has sent Me.


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Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I come, and will dwell in the midst of you, says the Lord.


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And many nations shall flee for refuge to the Lord in that day, and they shall be for a people to Him, and they shall dwell in the midst of you; and you shall know that the Lord Almighty has sent Me to you.


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And the Lord shall take possession of Judah, His portion in the holy land, and He will yet choose Jerusalem.


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And the Lord showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the Lord, and the Devil stood on his right hand to resist him.


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And the Lord said to the Devil, [ 3:3] The Lord rebuke you, O Devil, even the Lord that has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you. Behold, is not this as a brand plucked from the fire?


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[ 3:5] And [the Lord] answered and spoke to those who stood before Him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And He said to him, Behold, I have taken away your iniquities, and clothed you with a long robe,


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[ 3:6] and place a clean turban upon his head. So they placed a clean turban upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the Angel of the Lord stood by.


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[ 3:8] Thus says the Lord Almighty; If you will walk in My ways, and take heed to My charges, then shall you judge My house: and if you will diligently keep My court, then will I give you men to walk in the midst of these that stand here.


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[ 3:9] Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your neighbors that are sitting before you- for they are diviners; for behold, I bring forth My servant the Branch.


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[ 3:10] For as for the stone which I have set before the face of Joshua, on the one stone are seven eyes: behold, I am digging a trench, says the Lord Almighty, and I will search out all the iniquity of that land in one day.


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[ 3:11] In that day, says the Lord Almighty, you shall call together every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.


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And the angel that talked with me returned, and awakened me, as when a man is awakened out of his sleep.


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And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I have seen, and behold a lampstand of solid gold, with a bowl upon it, and seven lamps upon it, and seven oil funnels to the lamps upon it.


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And the angel that talked with me answered, and spoke to me, saying, Don't you know what these things are? And I said, No, my lord.


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And he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, not by mighty power, nor by strength, but by My Spirit, says the Lord Almighty.


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Who are you, O great mountain before Zerubbabel, that you should prosper? Whereas I will bring out the stone of the inheritance, its grace equal to My grace.


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The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands shall finish it; and you shall know that the Lord Almighty has sent Me to you.


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For who has despised the small days? Surely they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet of tin in the hand of Zerubbabel: these are the seven eyes that look upon all the earth.


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And I answered, and said to him, What are these two olive trees, which are on the right and left hand of the lampstand?


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And I asked the second time, and said to him, What are the two branches of the olive trees that are by the side of the two golden pipes that pour into and communicate with the golden oil funnels?


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And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see a flying sickle, its length [is] twenty cubits, and its width [is] ten cubits.


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And he said to me, This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole earth; for every thief shall be punished with death on this side, and every false swearer shall be punished on that side.


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And I will bring it forth, says the Lord Almighty, 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 rest in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, and the timber of it, and the stones of it.


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And the angel that talked with me went forth, and said to me, Lift up your eyes, and see this that goes forth.


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And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the measure that goes forth. And he said, This is their iniquity in all the earth.


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And he said, This is iniquity. And he cast it into the midst of the measure, and cast the weight of lead on the mouth of it.


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And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, two women coming forth, and the wind was in their wings; and they had stork's wings; and they lifted up the measure between the earth and the sky.


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And he said to me, To build a house for it in the land of Babylon, and to prepare [a place for it]; and they shall set it there on its own base.


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And I turned, and lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, four chariots coming out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of bronze.


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And the angel that talked with me answered and said, These are the four winds of heaven, and they are going forth to stand before the Lord of all the earth.


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[As for the chariot] in which were the black horses, they went out to the land of the north; and the white went out after them; and the piebald went out to the land of the south.


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And the ash-colored went out, and looked to go and compass the earth: and he said, Go, and compass the earth. And they compassed the earth.


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And He cried out and spoke to me, saying, Behold, these go out to the land of the north, and they have quieted My anger in the land of the north.


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Take the things of the captivity from the chief men, and from the useful men of it, and from them that have understood it; and you shall enter in that day into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah that came out of Babylon.


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And you shall take silver and gold, and make crowns, and you shall put them upon the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak the high priest;


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and you shall say to him, Thus says the Lord Almighty; Behold the man whose name is the Branch; and He shall spring up from His stem, and build the house of the Lord.


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And He shall receive power, and shall sit and rule upon His throne; and there shall be a priest on His right hand, and a peaceable counsel shall be between them both.


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And the crown shall be to them that wait patiently, and to the useful men of the captivity, and to them that have known it, and for the favor of the son of Zephaniah, and for a psalm in the house of the Lord.


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And they [that are] far from them shall come and build in the house of the Lord, and you shall know that the Lord Almighty has sent Me to you: and this shall come to pass, if you will diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God.


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And it came to pass in the fourth year of Darius the king, [that] the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.


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speaking to the priests that were in the house of the Lord Almighty, and to the prophets, saying, The holy offering has come in here in the fifth month, as it has done already many years.


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Speak to the whole people of the land, and to the priests, saying, Though you fasted or lamented in the fifth or seventh [months] (yea, behold, these seventy years) have you at all fasted to Me?


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Are not these the words which the Lord spoke by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and her cities round about her, and the hill country and the low country was inhabited?


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Thus says the Lord Almighty; Judge righteous judgment, and deal mercifully and compassionately, everyone with his brother,


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and oppress not the widow, or the fatherless, or the stranger, or the poor; and let not one of you remember in his heart the injury of his brother.


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But they refused to attend, and madly turned their back, and made their ears heavy, so that they should not hear.


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And they made their heart disobedient, so as not to hearken to My law, and the words which the Lord Almighty sent forth by His Spirit by the former prophets: so there was great wrath from the Lord Almighty.


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Therefore it came to pass, [that] as He spoke and they did not listen, so they shall cry, and I will not listen, says the Lord Almighty.


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And I will cast them out among all the nations, whom they know not; and the land behind them shall be made utterly destitute of any going through or returning; for they have made the choice land a desolation.


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Thus says the Lord Almighty; I have been jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with great jealousy, and I have been jealous for her with great fury.


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Thus says the Lord; I will return to Zion, and dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a true city, and the mountain of the Lord Almighty a holy mountain.


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Thus says the Lord Almighty; There shall yet dwell old men and old women in the streets of Jerusalem, everyone holding his staff in his hand for age.


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Thus says the Lord Almighty; If it shall be impossible in the sight of the remnant of this people in those days, shall it also be impossible in My sight? Says the Lord Almighty.


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Thus says the Lord Almighty; Behold, I [will] save My people from the east country, and the west country;


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and I will bring them in, and cause [them] to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and they shall be to Me a people, and I will be to them a God, in truth and in righteousness.


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Thus says the Lord Almighty; Let your hands be strong, [you that] hear in these days these words out of the mouth of the prophets, from the day that the house of the Lord Almighty was founded, and from the time that the temple was built.


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For before those days the wages of men could not be profitable, and there could be no hire of cattle, and there could be no peace by reason of the affliction to him that went out or to him that came in, for I would have let loose all men, everyone against his neighbor.


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But now I [will] not do to the remnant of this people according to the former days, says the Lord Almighty.


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But I will show peace: the vine shall yield her fruit, and the land shall yield her produce, and the heaven shall give its dew: and I will give as an inheritance all these things to the remnant of My people.


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And it shall come to pass, as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing: be of good courage, and strengthen your hands.


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For thus says the Lord Almighty; As I took counsel to afflict you when your fathers provoked Me, says the Lord Almighty, and I did not relent,


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so have I prepared and taken counsel in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: be of good courage.


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These are the things which you shall do: speak truth everyone with his neighbor; judge truth and peaceable judgment in your gates:


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and let none of you devise evil in his heart against his neighbor, and love not a false oath: for all these things I hate, says the Lord Almighty.


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Thus says the Lord Almighty, The fourth fast, and the fifth fast, and the seventh fast, and the tenth fast, shall be to the house of Judah for joy and gladness, and for good feasts; and you shall rejoice; therefore love the truth, and peace.


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and the inhabitants of five cities shall come together to one city, saying, Let us go to make supplication to the Lord, and to seek the face of the Lord Almighty; I will go also.


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And many peoples and many nations shall come to seek earnestly the face of the Lord Almighty in Jerusalem, and to obtain [the] favor of the Lord.


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Thus says the Lord Almighty; In those days [My word shall be fulfilled] if ten men of all the languages of the nations should take hold- even take hold of the hem of 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, in the land of Hadrach, and His sacrifice shall be in Damascus; for the Lord looks upon men, and upon all the tribes of Israel.


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And Tyre built strongholds for herself, and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the ways.


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And therefore the Lord will take them for a possession, and will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be consumed with fire.


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Ashkelon shall see and fear; Gaza also, and shall be greatly pained, and Ekron; for she is ashamed at her trespass; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.


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And I will take their blood out of their mouth, and their abominations from between their teeth; and these also shall be left to our God, and they shall be as a captain of a thousand in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.


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And I will set up a defense for My house, that they may not pass through, nor turn back, neither shall an oppressor come upon them to drive them away: for now have I seen with My eyes.


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Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; proclaim it aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, your King is coming to you, righteous, and [your] Savior; He is meek and riding on a donkey, a young foal of a donkey.


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And He shall destroy the chariots out of Ephraim, and the horse out of Jerusalem, and the bow of war shall be utterly destroyed; and there shall be abundance and peace out of the nations; and He shall rule over the waters as far as the sea, and the rivers to the ends of the earth.


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You shall dwell in strongholds, you prisoners of the congregation: and for one day of your captivity I will recompense you double.


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For I have bent you, O Judah, for Myself as a bow, I have filled Ephraim; and I will raise up your children, O Zion, against the children of the Greeks, and I will handle you as the sword of a warrior.


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And the Lord shall be over them, and His arrow shall go forth as lightning: and the Lord Almighty shall blow with the trumpet; and shall proceed with the tumult of His threatening.


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The Lord Almighty shall protect them, and they shall destroy them, and overwhelm them with slingstones; and they shall swallow them down as wine, and fill the bowls as the altar.


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And the Lord their God shall save them in that day, even His people as a flock; for holy stones are rolled upon His land.


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For if He has anything good, and if He has anything fair, the young men shall have grain, and there shall be fragrant wine to the virgins.


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Ask of the Lord rain in [its] season, the early and the latter rain. The Lord has given bright signs, and will give them abundant rain, to everyone grass in the field.


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For the speakers have uttered grievous things, and the diviners have seen false visions, and they have spoken false dreams, they have given vain comfort: therefore have they fallen away like sheep, and been afflicted, because there was no healing.


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My anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I will visit the lambs; and the Lord God Almighty shall visit His flock, the house of Judah, and He shall make them as His royal horse in war.


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And from Him he looked, and from Him He set the battle in order, and from Him came the bow in anger, and from Him shall come forth every oppressor together.


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And they shall be as warriors treading clay in the ways in war; and they shall set the battle in array, because the Lord is with them, and the riders on horses shall be put to shame.


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And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and save the house of Joseph, and I will settle them; because I have loved them: and they shall be as if I had not cast them off: for I am the Lord their God, and I will hear them.


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And they shall be as the warriors of Ephraim, and their heart shall rejoice as with wine: and their children also shall see it, and be glad; and their heart shall rejoice in the Lord.


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I will make a sign to them, and gather them in; for I will redeem them, and they shall be multiplied according to their number before.


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And I will sow them among the people, and they that are afar off shall remember Me: they shall nourish their children, and they shall return.


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And I will bring them again from the land of Egypt, and I will gather them in from among the Assyrians; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and to Lebanon; and not one of them shall be left behind.


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And they shall pass through a narrow sea, they shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deep places of the rivers shall be dried up: and all the pride of the Assyrians shall be taken away, and the scepter of Egypt shall be removed.


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Let the pine howl, because the cedar has fallen; for the mighty men have been greatly afflicted. Howl, you oaks of the land of Bashan, for the thickly planted forest has been torn down.


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There is a voice of the shepherds mourning, for their greatness is brought low; a voice of roaring lions, for the pride of the Jordan is brought down.


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which their possessors have slain, and have not repented: and they that sold them said, Blessed be the Lord; for we have become rich: and their shepherds have suffered no sorrow for them.


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Therefore I will no longer have mercy upon the inhabitants of the land, says the Lord: but, behold, I will deliver up the men, everyone [of them,] into the hand of his neighbor, and into the hand of his king; and they shall destroy the land, and I will not rescue out of their hand.


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And I will tend the flock of slaughter in the land of Canaan: and I will take for Myself two rods; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Line; and I will tend the flock.


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And I will cut off three shepherds in one month, and My soul shall grieve over them, for their souls cried out against Me.


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And I said, I will not tend you: that which dies, let it die; and that which falls off, let it fall off; and let the rest eat the flesh of his neighbor.


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And I will take My beautiful staff, and cast it away, that I may break My covenant which I made with all the people.


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And it shall be broken in that day; and the Canaanites, the sheep that are kept for me, shall know that it is the word of the Lord.


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And I will say to them, If it is good in your eyes, give me my price, or refuse it. And they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.


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And the Lord said to me, Drop them into the furnace, and I will see if it is good metal, as I was proved for their sakes. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them into the furnace in the house of the Lord.


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And I cast away my second rod, even Line, that I might break the possession between Judah and Israel.


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And the Lord said to me, Take to yourself shepherd's implements belonging to an unskillful shepherd.


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For behold, I will raise up a shepherd against the land: he shall not visit that which is perishing, and he shall not seek that which is scattered, and he shall not heal that which is bruised, nor guide that which is whole: but he shall devour the flesh of the choice ones, and shall dislocate the joints of their necks.


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Alas for the vain shepherds that have forsaken the sheep! The sword shall be upon the arms of such a one, and upon his right eye; his arm shall be completely withered, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.


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The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel. Thus says the Lord, that stretches out the sky, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.


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Behold, I [will] make Jerusalem as trembling door posts to all the nations round about, and in Judea there shall be a siege against Jerusalem.


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And it shall come to pass in that day [that] I will make Jerusalem a trodden stone to all the nations; everyone that tramples on it shall utterly mock at it, and all the nations of the earth shall be gathered together against it.


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In that day, says the Lord Almighty, I will smite every horse with amazement, and his rider with madness: but I will open My eyes upon the house of Judah, and I will smite all the horses of the nations with blindness.


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And the captains of thousands of Judah shall say in their hearts, We shall find for ourselves the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the Lord Almighty their God.


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In that day I will make the captains of thousands of Judah as a firebrand among wood, and as a torch of fire in stubble; and they shall devour on the right hand and on the left all the nations round about; and Jerusalem shall dwell again by herself, even in Jerusalem.


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And the Lord shall save the tabernacles of Judah as at the beginning, that the boast of the house of David, and the pride of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, may not magnify themselves against Judah.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord shall defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the weak one among them in that day shall be as David, and the house of David as the house of 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 nations 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 compassion: and they shall look upon Me, because they have mocked Me, and they shall make lamentation for Him, as for a beloved [friend], and they shall grieve intensely, as for a firstborn son.


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In that day the lamentation in Jerusalem shall be very great, as the mourning for the pomegranate grove cut down in the plain.


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And the land shall lament in separate families, the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;


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the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of Simeon by itself, and their wives by themselves;


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In that day every place shall be opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for removal and for separation.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord of hosts, that I will utterly destroy the names of the idols from off the land, and there shall be no longer any remembrance of them: and I will cut off the false prophets and the evil spirit from the land.


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And it shall come to pass, if a man will yet prophesy, that his father and his mother which gave birth to him shall say to him, You shall not live; for you have spoken lies in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother who gave him birth shall bind him as he is prophesying.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the prophets shall be ashamed, everyone of his vision, when he prophesies; and they shall clothe themselves with a garment of hair, because they have lied.


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And one shall say, I am not a prophet, but I am a farmer, for a man brought me up [thus] from my youth.


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And I will say to him, What are these wounds between your hands? And he shall say, [Those] with which I was wounded in my beloved house.


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Awake, O sword, against My shepherds, and against the man who is My citizen, says the Lord Almighty; strike the shepherds, and draw out the sheep: and I will bring My hand upon the little ones.


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And it shall come to pass that in all the land, says the Lord, two-thirds in it shall be cut off and perish; but one-third shall be left in it.


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And I will bring the third [part] through the fire, and I will try them as silver is tried, and I will prove them as gold is proved: they shall call upon My name, and I will hear them, and say, This is My people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.


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And I will gather all the Gentiles to Jerusalem to war, and the city shall be taken, and the houses plundered, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, but the rest of My people shall not be utterly cut off from the city.


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And His feet shall stand in that day on the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall be split in two, from east to west, a very great division; half the mountain shall lean to the north, and half of it to the south.


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And the valley of My mountains shall be closed up, and the valley of the mountains shall be joined on to Jasod, and shall be blocked up as it was blocked up in the days of the earthquake, in the days of Uzziah king of Judah; and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with Him.


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and there shall be for one day cold and frost, and that day [shall be] known to the Lord, and [it shall] not [be] day, nor night: but towards evening it shall be light.


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And in that day living water shall come forth out of Jerusalem; half of it toward the former sea, and half of it toward the latter sea: and so shall it be in summer and spring.


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And the Lord shall be king over all the earth. In that day there shall be one Lord, and His name one,


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compassing all the earth, and the wilderness from Geba unto Rimmon south of Jerusalem. And Rama shall remain in its place. From the gate of Benjamin to the place of the first gate, to the gate of the corners, and to the tower of Hananel, as far as the king's winepresses,


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And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will smite all the nations, as many as have fought against Jerusalem: their flesh shall dissolve while they are standing upon their feet, and their eyes shall melt out of their sockets, and their tongue shall dissolve in their mouth.


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And there shall be in that day a great panic from the Lord upon them; and they shall lay hold every man of the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall be clasped with the hand of his neighbor.


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Judah also shall fight in Jerusalem; and [God] shall gather the strength of all the nations round about- gold, silver, and apparel, in great abundance.


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And this shall be the overthrow of the horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the beasts that are in those camps, according to this overthrow.


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And it shall come to pass, [that] whoever shall be left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem, shall come up every year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.


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And it shall come to pass, that whichever of all the families of the earth shall not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, even these shall be added to the others.


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And if the family of Egypt shall not go up, nor come; then upon them shall be the plague with which the Lord shall smite all the nations, whichever of them shall not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.


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This shall be the sin of Egypt, and the sin of all the nations, those that shall not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.


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In that day there shall be [engraved] upon the bridle of every horse, Holiness to the Lord Almighty. And the caldrons in the house of the Lord shall be as bowls before the altar.


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And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holy to the Lord Almighty, and all that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and shall cook [meat] in them. And in that day there shall be no more Canaanites in the house of the Lord Almighty.


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The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the hand of his messenger. Take this to heart, I pray.


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I have loved you, says the Lord. And you said, How have You loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? Says the Lord: yet I loved Jacob,


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Because one will say, Edom has been overthrown, but let us return and rebuild the desolate places; thus says the Lord Almighty, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall be called The borders of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord has set Himself forever.


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A son honors [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I am a Father, where is My honor? And if I am a Master, where is My fear? Says the Lord Almighty. You the priests are they that despise My name: yet you said, In what way have we despised Your name?


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In that you bring to My altar polluted bread; and you said, In what way have we polluted it? In that you say, The table of the Lord is polluted, and that which was set on it you have despised.


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For if you bring a blind [victim] for sacrifices, is it not evil? And if you bring the lame or the sick, [is it] not evil? Offer it now to your ruler, and see if he will receive you, if he will accept your person, says the Lord Almighty.


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And now entreat the face of your God, and make supplication to Him. These things have been done by your hands; shall I accept you? Says the Lord Almighty.


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Because even among you the doors shall be shut, and one will not kindle [the fire of] My altar for nothing, I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord Almighty, and I will not accept a sacrifice at your hands.


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For from the rising of the sun, even to the going down thereof, My name has been glorified among the Gentiles; and in every place incense is offered to My name, and a pure offering: for My name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord Almighty.


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But you profane it, in that you say, The table of the Lord is polluted, and His foods set on it are despised.


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And you said, These [services] are troublesome: therefore I have utterly rejected them with scorn, says the Lord Almighty: and you brought in torn victims, and lame, and sick: if then you should bring an offering, shall I accept them at your hands? Says the Lord Almighty.


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And cursed is [the man] who had the power, and possessed a male in his flock, and whose vow is upon him, and who sacrifices a corrupt thing to the Lord: for I am a great King, says the Lord Almighty, and My name is glorious among the nations.


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If you will not hear, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to My name, says the Lord Almighty, then I will send forth the curse upon you, and I will bring a curse upon your blessing: yes, I will curse it, and I will scatter your blessing, and it shall not exist among you, because you take this not to heart.


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Behold, I turn My back upon you, and I will scatter dung upon your faces, the dung of your feasts, and I will carry you away at the same time.


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And you shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, that My covenant might be with the sons of Levi, says the Lord Almighty.


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My covenant of life and peace was with him, and I gave it to him that he might reverently fear Me, and that he might be awe struck at My name.


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The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked before Me directing [his way] in peace, and he turned many from unrighteousness.


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For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty.


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But you have turned aside from the way, and caused many to fail in [following] the law: you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord Almighty.


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And I have made you despised and cast out among all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have been partial in the law.


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Have you not all one Father? Did not one God create you? Why have you forsaken every man his brother, to profane the covenant of your fathers?


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Judah has been forsaken, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holy things of the Lord, which He delighted in, and has gone after other gods.


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The Lord will utterly destroy the man that does these things, until he be even cast down from out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and from among them that offer sacrifice to the Lord Almighty.


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And these things which I hated, you did: you covered with tears the altar of the Lord, and with weeping and groaning because of troubles: [is it] right [for Me] to have respect for your sacrifice, or to receive [anything] from your hands as welcome?


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Yet you said, For what reason? Because the Lord has borne witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have forsaken, and yet she was your partner, and the wife of your covenant.


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And did he not do well? And [there was] the residue of his spirit. But you said, What does God seek but a seed? But take heed to your own spirit, and forsake not the wife of your youth.


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But if you should hate [your wife] and put her away, says the Lord God of Israel, then ungodliness shall cover your thoughts, says the Lord Almighty: therefore take heed to your own spirit, and forsake them not,


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you that have provoked God with your words. But you said, In what way have we provoked Him? In that you say, Everyone that does evil is a pleasing object in the sight of the Lord, and He takes pleasure in such; and where is the God of justice?


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Behold, I send forth My messenger, and he shall survey the way before Me: and the Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come into His temple, even the Messenger of the covenant, whom you take pleasure in: behold, He is coming, says the Lord Almighty.


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And who will abide the day of His coming? Or who will withstand at His appearing? For He is coming in as the fire of a furnace and as the herb of fullers.


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He shall sit to melt and purify as it were silver, and as it were gold: and He shall purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver, and they shall offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness.


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And the sacrifice of Judah and Jerusalem shall be pleasing to the Lord, according to the former days, and according to the former years.


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And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by My name, and against them that keep back the hireling's wages, and them that oppress the widow, and afflict orphans, and that wrest the judgment of the stranger, and do not fear Me, says the Lord Almighty.


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but you, the sons of Jacob, have not refrained from the iniquities of your fathers: you have perverted My statutes, and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you, says the Lord Almighty. But you said, In what way shall we return?


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Will a man insult God? For you insult Me. But you say, How have we insulted You? In that the tithes and firstfruits are with you [still].


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The year is completed, and you have brought all the produce into the storehouses; but there shall be the plunder thereof in its house: return now on this behalf, says the Lord Almighty, [see] if I will not open to you the torrents of heaven, and pour out My blessing upon you, until you are satisfied.


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And I will appoint food for you, and I will not destroy the fruit of your land; and your vine in the field shall not fail, says the Lord Almighty.


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You have spoken grievous words against Me, says the Lord. Yet you said, In what way have we spoken against You?


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You said, He that serves God labors in vain: and what have we gained in that we have kept His ordinances, and in that we have walked as suppliants before the face of the Lord Almighty?


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And now we pronounce strangers blessed; and all they who act unlawfully are built up; and they have resisted God, and yet have been delivered.


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Thus they spoke, [those] that feared the Lord, everyone to his neighbor: and the Lord gave heed, and listened, and He wrote a book of remembrance before him for them that feared the Lord and reverenced His name.


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And they shall be Mine, says the Lord Almighty, in the day which I appoint for a peculiar possession; and I will make choice of them, as a man makes choice of his son that serves him.


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Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, and between him that serves God, and him that serves Him not.


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For behold, a day comes burning as an oven, and it shall consume them; and all the aliens, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that is coming shall set them on fire, says the Lord Almighty, and there shall not be left of them root or branch.


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But to you that fear My name shall the Sun of righteousness arise, and healing [shall be] in His wings: and you shall go forth, and bound as young calves let loose from bonds.


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And you shall trample the wicked; for they shall be ashes underneath your feet in the day which I appoint, says the Lord Almighty.


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Remember the law of My servant Moses, accordingly as I charged him [with it] in Horeb for all Israel, even the commandments and ordinances.


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And, behold, I will send to you Elijah the Tishbite, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes;


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who shall turn again the heart of the father to the son, and the heart of a man to his neighbor, lest I come and smite the earth grievously.


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So all the generations from Abraham till David [were] fourteen generations, from David until the captivity in Babylon [were] fourteen generations, and from the captivity in Babylon until the Christ [were] fourteen generations.


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Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.


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Then Joseph her husband, being righteous and not wanting to make her a public example, purposed to put her away secretly.


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But while he was thinking about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take unto [you] Mary your wife, for that which is begotten in her is of the Holy Spirit.


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And she shall bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He shall save His people from their sins."


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Now all this came to pass that the thing spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled, saying,


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Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel," which is translated, "God with us."


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Then Joseph, having been aroused from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had ordered him and took to [him] his wife,


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Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East arrived in Jerusalem,


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saying, "Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East, and have come to worship Him."


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And having gathered together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired from them where the Christ would be born.


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'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you shall come forth a Ruler who will shepherd My people Israel.'"


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Then Herod, secretly having called the wise men, ascertained from them the time that the star appeared.


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And having sent them to Bethlehem, he said, "Go and carefully search for the young Child, and as soon as you find [Him], report back to me, so that I also may come and worship Him."


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When they heard the king, they departed; and behold, the star which they had seen in the East went before them, till it came and stood over where the young Child was.


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And having come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and falling down, they worshipped Him, and opening their treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.


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And having been divinely instructed in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew into their own country by another way.


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Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise, and take along the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you; for Herod is about to seek the young Child to destroy Him."


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and was there until the death of Herod, so that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, "Out of Egypt I called My Son."


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Then Herod, seeing that he had been deceived by the wise men, was greatly enraged; and he sent and executed all the boys in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had ascertained from the wise men.


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A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted, because they are no more."


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saying, "Arise, and take with [you] the young Child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the life of the young Child have died."


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But hearing that Archelaus was reigning over Judea instead of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And being divinely instructed in a dream, he withdrew into the regions of Galilee.


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And when he arrived, he settled down in a city called Nazareth, so that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, "He would be called a Nazarene."


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For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying: "A voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the LORD; make His paths straight.'"


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And John himself had his clothing [made] from camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.


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But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?


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and do not think to say among yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham out of these stones.


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But even now, the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.


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I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit,


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whose winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His threshing floor, and He will gather His wheat into the barn; but the chaff He will burn up with unquenchable fire."


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But John tried to prevent Him, saying, "I have need by You to be baptized, and You are coming to me?"


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But Jesus answered and said to him, "Permit it now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he permitted Him.


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And having been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming upon Him.


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And behold, a voice came out of the heavens, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I have found delight."


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And approaching Him, the tempter said, "If You are the Son of God, speak so that these stones may become 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 to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: 'He shall give His angels orders concerning you,' and, 'In their hands they will lift you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.'"


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Again, the devil took Him up on a very high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.


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Then Jesus said to him, "Get behind Me, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him alone you shall serve.'"


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And leaving Nazareth behind, He came and settled down in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the regions of Zebulun and Naphtali,


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The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,


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the people sitting in darkness have seen a great light, and to those who sat in the land and the shadow of death, light sprang up on them."


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Now as He was walking alongside the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.


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And having gone forth from there, He saw two other brothers, James the [son] of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. And He called them.


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And Jesus went about all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every illness among the people.


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And the report of Him went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all those were ill, suffering with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them.


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And large crowds followed Him from Galilee and from Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and beyond the Jordan.


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And seeing the crowds, He went up into the mountain, and after He had sat down, His disciples approached Him.


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Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.


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Blessed are you whenever they revile you, and they persecute you, and they say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.


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Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.


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You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt becomes tasteless, with what shall it be salted? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and to be trampled underfoot by men.


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Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it shines on everything in the house.


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Thus let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good works, and they may glorify your Father who is in heaven.


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Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill.


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For assuredly I say to you, until heaven and earth may pass away, one iota or one tittle shall by no means pass away from the law until all things are fulfilled.


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Whoever therefore shall break one of the least of these commandments, and shall teach men thus, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does [them] and teaches [them], he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.


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For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.


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You have heard that it was said to the ancients, 'You shall not kill,' and whoever kills will be liable to the judgment.


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But I say to you that whoever gets angry with his brother without cause will be liable to the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, 'Empty-head!' will be liable to the council. But whoever says, ' fool!' will be liable to the fiery hell.


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Therefore if you offer your gift on the altar, and there you remember that your brother has something against you,


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leave your gift there before the altar, and go, first be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift.


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Make friends with your adversary quickly, while you are on the road with him, lest your adversary hand you over to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and you be cast into prison.


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But I say to you, that whoever looks at a woman in order to lust after her has already committed adultery [with] her in his heart.


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If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is better for you that one of your members be lost, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.


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And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is better for you that one of your members be lost, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.


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But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for a matter of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorcee commits adultery.


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Again you have heard that it was said to the ancients, 'You shall not swear falsely, but you shall pay your oaths to the Lord.'


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But let your word be 'Yes', 'yes,'; 'No,' 'no.' For whatever is more than these is from the evil [one].


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But I say to you not to resist an evil person. But whoever shall slap you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.


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But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,


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so that you may prove to be sons of your Father in heaven; because He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and He sends rain on the just and on the unjust.


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For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?


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And if you greet your friends only, what more are you doing [than others]? Do not even the tax collectors do so?


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Take care not to be doing your charitable giving before men, so as to be seen by them. Otherwise, you have not a reward from your Father in heaven.


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Whenever therefore you do charitable giving, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by men. Assuredly I say to you, they receive their reward in full.


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so that your charitable giving may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will Himself reward you openly.


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And whenever you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in the synagogues, and on the streetcorners, so that they may be seen by men. Assuredly I say to you, that they receive their reward in full.


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But you, whenever you pray, enter into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you openly.


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But when you pray, do not babble like the heathen, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.


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Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows what things you have need of before you ask Him.


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And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil [one]. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.


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Moreover, when you fast, do not become gloomy, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men [to be] fasting. Assuredly I say to you, that they receive their reward in full.


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so that you do not appear to men [to be] fasting, but to your Father in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.


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Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves dig through and steal;


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but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupts, and where thieves do not dig through and steal.


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The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.


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But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!


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No one is able to serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and he will love the other, or else he will be devoted to the one, and he will despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.


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Because of this I say to you, do not worry [about] your life--what you shall eat, or what you shall drink--nor [about] your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food and the body [more than] clothing?


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Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap, nor do they gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than they?


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So why do you worry about clothes? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither labor, nor spin;


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But if God thus clothes the grass of the field, which exists today, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, [will He] not much more [clothe] you, [O you] of little faith?


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Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we put on?'


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For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.


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But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.


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Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own affairs. Each day has enough trouble of its own.


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For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with what measure you measure, it will be measured [back] to you.


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And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not notice the plank in your own eye?


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Or how will you say to your brother, 'Permit me to remove the speck from your eye'; and look, [there is] a plank in your own eye?


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Hypocrite! First remove the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.


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Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.


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For everyone that asks receives, and he that seeks finds, and to him that knocks, it shall be opened.


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If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, by how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!


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Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, thus also you do to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.


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Enter in through the narrow gate; because wide is the gate, and broad is the way which leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in through it.


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But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.


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You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grape clusters from thorns, or figs from thistles?


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Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.


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Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name we cast out demons, and in Your name we did many mighty works?'


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Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine and does them, I will compare him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock:


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and the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and fell against that house; and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock.


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And everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not do them, will be compared to a foolish man who built his house on the sand:


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and the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And its fall was great."


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And behold, a leper came and worshipped Him, saying, "Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean."


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And reaching out His hand, Jesus touched him, saying, "I am willing; be cleansed." Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.


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And Jesus said to him, "See that you tell no one; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."


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The centurion answered and said, "Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But just say the word and my servant will be healed.


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For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this [one], '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 marveled, and said to those who were following, "Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!


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And I say to you that many shall come from east and west, and recline [to eat] with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;


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but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."


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Then Jesus said to the centurion, "Go; and as you believed, may it be unto you." And his servant was healed that same hour.


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Now when Jesus had come into Peter's house, He saw his wife's mother having been laid up, and burning with fever.


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When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and He healed all that were ill,


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so that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: "He Himself took our infirmities, and bore our diseases."


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And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have dens, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head."


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And behold, a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered by waves; but He was sleeping.


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But He said to them, "Why are you fearful, O [you] of little faith?" Then having risen, He rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.


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So the men marveled, saying, "What kind [of Man] is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?"


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And when He came to the other side, to the region of the Gergesenes, [there] met Him two demon-possessed [men], coming out of the tombs, very violent, so that no one was able to pass by that way.


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And suddenly they cried out, saying, "What have we to do with You, Jesus, Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?"


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So the demons implored Him, saying, "If You cast us out, permit us to go off into the herd of swine."


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And He said to them, "Go." So they came out, and went off into the herd of swine. And behold, the whole herd of swine rushed violently down the steep bank into the sea, and died in the waters.


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Then those who tended them fled; and going off into the city, they reported everything, including what had happened to the demon-possessed [men].


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And behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus. And seeing Him, they implored Him that He might go away from their region.


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And behold, they were carrying a paralytic to Him lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, "Have courage, child; your sins are forgiven you."


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But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on the earth to forgive sins"--then He said to the paralytic, "Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house."


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And as Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, "Follow Me." And arising, he followed Him.


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Now it came to pass, as He reclined [to eat] in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners, having come, were reclining [to eat] with Jesus and His disciples.


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And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"


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When Jesus heard that, He said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need of a physician, but those who are ill.


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But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice.' For I did not come to call [the] righteous, but sinners, to repentance."


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Then the disciples of John approached Him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?"


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And Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.


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No one puts on a patch of a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for it takes away its completeness from the garment, and the tear is made worse.


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Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins burst, and the wine spills out, and the wineskins will be ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved."


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As He spoke these things to them, behold, a certain leader came and worshipped Him, saying, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay Your hand on her, and she shall live."


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And behold, a woman hemorrhaging for twelve years, approaching from behind, touched the hem of His garment.


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But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, "Take courage, daughter; your faith has healed you." And the woman was healed from that hour.


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And when Jesus came into the house of the leader, and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion,


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He said to them, "Make room, for the girl has not died, but she is sleeping." And they were ridiculing Him.


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And as Jesus passed by from there, two blind [men] followed Him, crying out and saying, "Son of David, have pity on us!"


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And when He came into the house, the blind [men] approached Him, and Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" They said to Him, "Yes, Lord."


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And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them, saying, "See [that you] let no one know."


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And when the demon was cast out, the mute spoke. And the crowds marveled, saying, "It was never seen like this in Israel!"


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And Jesus was going about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every illness and every disease among the people.


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But seeing the crowds, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and prostrated, like sheep having no shepherd.


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And summoning His twelve disciples, He gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every illness.


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Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who was called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the [son] of Zebedee, and John his brother;


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Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the [son] of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, who was surnamed Thaddaeus;


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These twelve Jesus sent forth, commanding them, saying, "Do not go off into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans.


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not a knapsack for the road, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staffs; for a worker is worthy of his food.


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And whatever city or village you enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and stay there until you go out.


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And if indeed the house should be worthy, let your peace come upon it. But if it should not be worthy, let your peace return to you.


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And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet.


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Assuredly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!


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Behold, I am sending you forth like sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be as wise as serpents and innocent as doves.


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But beware of men, for they will hand you over to councils and they will flog you in their synagogues.


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And you will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the nations.


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But whenever they hand you over, do not worry how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak;


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Now brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents, and put them to death.


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And you will be hated by all [people] for My name's sake. But he who endures to the end shall be saved.


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But whenever they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly I say to you, by no means will you have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.


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It is enough for a disciple that he become like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call his household members!


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Therefore do not fear them. For nothing is concealed that shall not be unveiled, and secret that shall not be made known.


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What I say to you in the dark, say in the light; and what you hear in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.


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And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both the soul and the body in hell.


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Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them shall fall on the ground apart from the [will] of your Father.


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Therefore whoever who will confess Me before men, I also will confess Him before My Father who is in heaven.


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For I have come to 'turn a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law';


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He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.


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He that receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward. And he that receives a righteous [man] in the name of a righteous [man] shall receive a righteous [man's] reward.


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And whoever gives one of these little [ones] only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, assuredly I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward."


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Now it came to pass, when Jesus finished directing His twelve disciples, that He moved on from there to teach and to preach in their cities.


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The blind receive sight, and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.


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Now as these men were going, Jesus began to say to the crowds concerning John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?


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But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Indeed, those who wear soft garments are in kings' houses.


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For this is he about whom it is written: 'Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You.'


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Assuredly I say to you, among [those] born of women there has not risen one greater than John the Baptist; but he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.


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And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and violent men seize it.


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But to what shall I compare this generation? It is similar to children who sit in the marketplaces and call to their playmates,


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and say, 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; We mourned to you, and you did not lament.'


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The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' And so wisdom is justified by her children."


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Then He began to reproach the cities in which His very many miracles had been done, because they did not repent:


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Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! Because if the miracles which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.


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Nevertheless I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.


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And you, Capernaum, the [one] having been exalted to heaven, you will be brought down to Hades; because if the miracles which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.


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But I say to you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you."


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At that time Jesus answered and said, "I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to babes.


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All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one fully knows the Son except the Father, nor does anyone fully know the Father except the Son, and [the one] to whom the Son wills to reveal [Him].


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Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.


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At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. And His disciples became hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.


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But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, "Look, Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!"


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But He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and those who were with him:


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how they entered the house of God, and ate the showbread which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, except only for the priests?


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Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?


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But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.


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And behold, there was a man who had a withered hand. And they asked Him, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"--that they might accuse Him.


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Then He said to them, "What man is there among you who shall have one sheep, and if it should fall into a ditch on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out?


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Then He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched it out, and it was restored whole like the other.


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But when Jesus knew it, He withdrew from there. And great crowds followed Him, and He healed them all.


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Behold, My Servant whom I have chosen, My Beloved in whom My soul is well pleased! I will put My Spirit upon Him, and He will announce justice to the Gentiles.


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A bruised reed He shall not break, and a smoldering wick He shall not quench, till He bring forth justice to victory;


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Then one was brought to Him who was demon-possessed, blind and mute; and He healed him, so that the blind and mute [man] both spoke and saw.


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But the Pharisees, having heard, said, "This [Man] does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, ruler of the demons."


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But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said to them: "Every kingdom being divided against itself is made desolate, and every city or house being divided against itself shall not stand.


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And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast [them] out? Therefore they shall be your judges.


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Or how is one able to enter a strong [man's] house to plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong [man]? And then he will plunder his household.


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Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven unto men.


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And whoever says a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age, or in the coming [one].


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Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; for a tree is known by its fruit.


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Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.


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A good man out of his good treasure brings forth good things, and an evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil things.


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But I say to you, that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.


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But He answered and said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.


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For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.


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The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater [than] Jonah [is] here.


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The queen of the South shall rise up in the judgment with this generation and she shall condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater [than] Solomon [is] here.


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When an unclean spirit goes out from a man, he goes through waterless places, seeking rest, and does not find [any].


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Then he says, 'I will return to my house from where I came out.' And when he comes, he finds it unoccupied, swept, and adorned.


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Then he goes and takes along with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and entering in they dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Thus it shall also be for this wicked generation."


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And while He was still speaking to the crowds, behold, His mother and brothers stood outside, seeking to speak with Him.


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Then one said to Him, "Look, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, seeking to speak with You."


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And great crowds were gathered together to Him, so that He got into the boat and sat; and the crowd stood on the shore.


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But others fell on the stony ground, where it did not have much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth.


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But others fell on good ground and it was yielding fruit: some a hundred[fold], some sixty, some thirty.


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He answered and said to them, "To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.


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For whoever has, to him more shall be given, and he shall be in abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him.


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Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.


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And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says: 'Hearing you shall hear and by no means understand, and seeing you shall see and by no means perceive.


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For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes have closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn back, that I should heal them.'


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For assuredly I say to you, that many prophets and righteous [men] desired to see what you see, and they did not see, and to hear what you hear, and they did not hear."


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When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand, then the evil [one] comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the [seed] being sown beside the road.


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yet he has no root in himself, but is short-lived. For when tribulation or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he stumbles.


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But the [seed] sown in the thorns is he who hears the word, and the anxiety of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches chokes out the word, and it becomes fruitless.


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But the [seed] sown on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundred[fold], some sixty, some thirty."


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Another parable He set before them, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man sowing good seed in his field.


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So the servants of the master of the house approached and said to him, 'Sir, [was it] not good seed you sowed in your field? From where then does it have tares?'


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He said to them, 'An enemy did this.' So the servants said to him, 'Do you wish then that we should go and gather them up?'


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Leave both to grow together until the harvest; and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, "First gather together the tares, and bind them into bundles to burn them, but gather together the wheat into my barn." '"


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Another parable He set before them, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field,


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which indeed is smaller [than] all the seeds; but whenever it is grown, it is greater [than] the garden vegetables and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches."


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Another parable He spoke to them: "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and mixed in with three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened."


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Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds, and without a parable He did not speak to them,


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so that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: "I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world."


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Then having dismissed the crowds, Jesus went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field."


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And the field is the world, and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the evil [one].


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The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.


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Therefore just as the tares are gathered and burned with fire, thus it will be at the end of this age.


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The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who work iniquity,


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Then the righteous will shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"


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Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure having been hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it, he went and sold everything he had, and bought that field."


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Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet having been cast into the sea, and gathering some of every kind,


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which, when it was filled, they pulled up on the shore; and sitting down, they collected the good into vessels, but the rotten they threw out.


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Thus it shall be at the end of the age: the angels shall go forth and separate the evil from among the righteous,


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Then He said to them, "Therefore every scribe having become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure new and old [things]."


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And coming into His hometown, He began to teach them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, "Where did this Man get this wisdom and the miracles?


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Is this not the carpenter's son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Jude?


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So they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, and in his [own] house."


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and said to his servants, "This is John the Baptist; he has been raised from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him."


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For Herod had laid hold of John and bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.


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Now when Herod's birthday was being celebrated, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and she pleased Herod.


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So she, being urged on by her mother, said, "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist."


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And the king was grieved, but because of the oaths, and because of those who reclined [to eat] with him, he commanded it to be given.


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And his head was brought on a platter and it was given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.


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Then his disciples came forward and took the body and buried it, and coming, they reported it to Jesus.


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When Jesus heard it, He withdrew from there in a boat for a deserted place privately. But when the crowds heard it, they followed Him on foot from the cities.


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And coming out, Jesus saw a large crowd, and He was moved with compassion towards them, and healed their sick.


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Now when evening came, His disciples came to Him, saying, "The place is deserted, and the hour is already late. Dismiss the crowds, that they may go to the villages and buy themselves food."


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And commanding the crowds to recline on the grass, taking the five loaves of bread and the two fish, looking up to heaven, He blessed, and breaking [them], He gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples [gave] to the crowds.


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So they all ate and were satisfied, and they took up what they had left of the fragments, twelve baskets full.


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And immediately Jesus compelled the disciples to get into the boat, and to go ahead of Him to the other side, until He could dismiss the crowds.


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And having dismissed the crowds, He went up on the mountain privately to pray. And when evening had come, He was there alone.


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But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, being harassed by the waves, for the wind was against [them].


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And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, "It is a ghost!" And they cried out for fear.


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But seeing the strong wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!"


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And immediately, Jesus reaching out His hand, laid hold of him, and said to him, "O you of little faith, why did you doubt?"


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And when the men of that place recognized Him, they sent out into all that surrounding region, and they brought to Him all those who were ill,


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and begged Him that they might only touch the hem of His garment. And as many as touched [Him] were completely healed.


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Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands whenever they eat bread."


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He answered and said to them, "Why do you also transgress the commandment of God on account of your tradition?


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For God commanded, saying, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who curses father or mother, with death let him die.'


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But you say, 'Whoever says to his father or mother, "[It is] a gift [to God], whatever profit you might have received from me"--


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then by no means should he honor his father or mother.' Thus you have nullified the commandment of God on account of your tradition.


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'These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and they honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far away from Me.


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Then His disciples approached and said to Him, " You know that when the Pharisees heard this message they were offended?"


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Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guides the blind, both will fall into a ditch."


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Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach, and is cast out into a latrine?


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For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.


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And behold, a Canaanite woman coming forth from that region cried out to Him, saying, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon-possessed."


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But He answered her not a word. And His disciples approached and urged Him, saying, "Send her away, for she cries out after us."


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But He answered and said, "It is not good to take the children's bread and to throw [it] to the little dogs."


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But she said, "Yes, Lord, for even the little dogs eat from the crumbs falling from their masters' table."


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Then Jesus answered and said to her, "O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that very hour.


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And moving on from there, Jesus came alongside the Sea of Galilee, and going up into a mountain, He sat down there.


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And great crowds came to Him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others; and they put them down at Jesus' feet, and He healed them.


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So the multitude marveled when they saw the mute speaking, the maimed made whole, the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.


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Now Jesus, having summoned His disciples, He said, "I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been remaining with Me three days, and they do not have anything to eat. And I do not desire to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way."


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Then His disciples said to Him, "Where could we get so many loaves of bread in [this] deserted place, so as to satisfy so great a crowd?"


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And He took the seven loaves and the fish, having given thanks, He broke [them], and gave [them] to His disciples; and the disciples [gave] to the crowd.


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So they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up what they had left of the fragments, seven hampers full.


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Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing [Him], they asked Him to show them a sign out of heaven.


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And in the morning, 'Today [will be] stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.' Hypocrites! Indeed you know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times.


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An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah." And leaving them behind He went away.


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But Jesus, knowing [about it], said to them, "O you of little faith, why are you reasoning among yourselves, because you did not take bread?


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Do you not yet perceive, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took [up]?


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How is it you do not perceive that I did not speak to you about bread, but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?"


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Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.


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When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He was questioning His disciples, saying, "Who do men pronounce Me, the Son of Man, to be?"


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So they said, "Some [say] John the Baptist, but others [say] Elijah, and [yet] others [say] Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."


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Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal [this] to you, but My Father who is in heaven.


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And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I shall build My church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.


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And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on the earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on the earth will have been loosed in heaven."


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From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go off to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and to be killed, and to be raised the third day.


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And taking Him aside, Peter began to rebuke Him, saying, "God be gracious to You, Lord! This shall by no means happen to You!"


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But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block unto Me, because you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men."


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Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.


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For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of Me shall find it.


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For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, but forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give [as] an exchange for his soul?


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For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will render to each according to his works.


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Assuredly I say to you, there are some standing here who will by no means taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom."


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Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and led them up on a high mountain in private;


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and He was transfigured before them, and His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.


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Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here; if You desire, let us make here three tents: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."


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While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and behold, a voice [came] out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!"


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And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, "Tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man is risen from the dead."


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But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they desired. Thus also the Son of Man is about to suffer by them."


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Lord, have pity on my son, for he is moonstruck and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.


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Then Jesus answered and said, "O unfaithful and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me."


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So Jesus said to them, "Because of your unbelief; for assuredly I say to you, if you have faith like a mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, 'Be moved from here to there,' and it shall move; and nothing shall be impossible for you.


