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And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, and shall see and shall read all these words,


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then you shall say, O LORD, You have spoken against this place to cut it off, so that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be a ruin forever.


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And it shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, you shall tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of Euphrates.


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And you shall say, In this way shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring on her. And they shall be weary. So far [are] the words of Jeremiah.


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Babylon [has been] a golden cup in the LORD's hand, which made all the earth drunk. The nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations rage.


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Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed. Wail for her; take balm for her pain, if perhaps she may be healed.


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We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her and let us go, each one into his own country; for her judgment reaches to the heavens and is lifted up to the skies.


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Zedekiah [was] twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.


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And the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the rulers of Judah in Riblah.


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And he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah. And the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.


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And in the fifth month, in the tenth of the month, which [was] the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, chief of the executioners, [who] served the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem.


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And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house. And he burned with fire all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great ones.


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And all the army of the Chaldeans with the chief of the executioners broke down all Jerusalem's walls all around.


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And Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners exiled [some] of the poor of the people, and the rest of the people who remained in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.


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But Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners left [some] of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for farmers.


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Also the Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that [were] in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the bronze sea in the house of the LORD, and carried all the bronze of them to Babylon.


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They also took away the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they served.


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And the chief of the executioners took away the basins, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the spoons, and the cups; what [was] gold, [in] gold; and what [was] silver, [in] silver.


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the two pillars, one sea, and twelve bronze bulls that [were] under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD; the bronze of all these vessels was without weight.


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And the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits. And a line of twelve cubits went around it, and the thickness of it [was] four fingers. [It was] hollow.


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And a capital of bronze [was] on it. And the height of one capital [was] five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capitals all around, all [of] bronze. The second pillar also, and the pomegranates, [were] like these.


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And there were ninety-six pomegranates on a side; all the pomegranates on the network [were] a hundred all around.


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He also took out of the city a eunuch who was in charge of the men of war; and seven men from those who were near the king's person, who were found in the city; and the chief scribe of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the middle of the city.


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And Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners took them and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.


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And the king of Babylon struck them and slaughtered them in Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was exiled out of his own land.


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This [is] the people whom Nebuchadnezzar exiled: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;


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in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he exiled from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons;


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For it was because of the anger of the LORD in Jerusalem and Judah (until He had cast them out from His presence) that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.


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in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners exiled seven hundred and forty-five persons of the Jews. All the persons [were] four thousand and six hundred.


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And it happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the [first] year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him out from prison,


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and spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who [were] with him in Babylon.


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And his allowance in continual allowance was given him from the king of Babylon, the matter of a day in its day, until the day of his death, all the days of his life.


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And it happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it and built forts against it all around.


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And in the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, the famine was very grievous in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.


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And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which [was] by the king's garden. (And the Chaldeans lay around the city all around.) And they went by the way of the plain.


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But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And all his army was scattered from him.


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And they took the king and carried him up to the king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgments against him.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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and then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?


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Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I also have seen, says the LORD.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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But you shall say to them, This [is] a nation which does not obey the voice of Jehovah their God, nor receives instruction; truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.


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Cut off your hair and throw [it] away, and take up a weeping on the high places. For the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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How alone sits the city [that was] full of people! She has become like a widow, [once] great among the nations, a noblewoman among the nations, [but now] has become a tribute-payer.


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The enemy has spread out his hand upon all her desirable things; for she has seen the nations enter her holy place, whom You commanded that they should not enter into Your congregation.


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All her people sigh; they seek bread. They have given their desirable things for food to relieve the soul. See, O LORD, and look on [me], for I have become vile.


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[Is it] nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow which is done to me, with which the LORD has afflicted [me] in the day of His fierce anger.


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From above He has sent fire into my bones and it has laid them low. He has spread a net for my feet; He has turned me back; He has made me amazed [and] faint all the day.


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The yoke of my transgressions is bound by His hand; they intertwine; they rise on my neck. He has made my strength to falter; the LORD has delivered me into [their] hands. I am not able to rise up.


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The LORD has trampled all my mighty ones in my midst; He has called a gathering against me to crush my young men. The LORD has trod the virgin daughter of Judah, [as] in a winepress.


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For these I weep; my eye, my eye runs down [with] water, because the comforter who could refresh my soul is far from me. My sons are desolated because the enemy prevails.


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Zion spreads forth her hands; none [is] comforting to me; the LORD has commanded concerning Jacob that his enemies [should be] all around him; Jerusalem has become as an impure thing among them.


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The LORD [is] righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. I beseech you, all peoples, hear and behold my sorrow. My virgins and my young men went into exile.


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I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me; my priests and my elders expired in the city while they sought food for them to bring back their life.


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She bitterly weeps in the night, and her tears [are] on her cheeks; among all her lovers, she has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt deceitfully with her; they became her enemies.


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Behold, O LORD, for I [am] in trouble; my inward parts ferment; my heart is turned within me, for I have grievously rebelled. On the outside the sword bereaves; in the house [it is] as death.


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They hear that I sigh; [there is] none to comfort me. All my enemies have heard my evil; they are glad that You have done [it]. You will bring the day [that] You have called, and they shall be like me.


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Let all their wickedness come before You; and do to them as You have done to me for all my transgressions. For my sighs [are] many, and my heart [is] faint.


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Judah went into captivity because of affliction, and from great slavery. She dwells among the nations; she finds no rest; all her pursuers have overtaken her between the narrows.


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The roads of Zion mourn without [any] going to the appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests sigh; her virgins are afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness.


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Her enemies have become as chief; her haters are at ease; for the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her sins. Her children have gone, captive before the enemy.


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And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty has departed. Her rulers have become like bucks: they find no pasture, and they have gone without strength before the pursuer.


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[In the] days of her affliction and her wandering Jerusalem remembered all her desirable things from previous days; when her people fell into the hand of the foe; and there is no ally for her. The foes saw her; they laughed at her annihilation.


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Jerusalem has grievously sinned, therefore she has been removed. All knowing her despise her because they saw her nakedness; yea, she sighs and turns backward.


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Her uncleanness [is] in her skirts; she did not remember her end, and has gone down astoundingly. There is no comforter for her. O LORD, behold my affliction, for the enemy has magnified [himself].


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How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in His anger! He cast down the beauty of Israel from the heavens to the earth and remembered not His footstool in the day of His anger.


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The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground and [are] silent; they send up dust on their heads; they gird on sackclothes. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.


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My eyes fail with tears; my inward parts ferment; my liver is poured on the ground for the ruin of the daughter of my people, in that the children and the babies faint in the streets of the city.


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They say to their mothers, Where [are] grain and wine? In their fainting [they are] like the wounded in the streets of the city, in their pouring out their lives to their mothers' bosom.


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What can I testify for you? What thing shall I compare to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I equal to you, so that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your break [is] great like the sea! Who can heal you?


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Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you, and they have not uncovered your iniquity, to turn away your captivity; but they have seen false oracles and seductions for you.


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All who pass by clap [their] hands at you; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city which they called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?


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All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; they hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed [her] up. Certainly this [is] the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen.


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The LORD has done [what] He has purposed; He has fulfilled His word which He commanded from the days of old. He has thrown down and not pitied. And He caused your hater to rejoice over you; He has set up the horn of your foes.


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Their heart cried to the LORD. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a torrent day and night; give yourself no rest. Let not the daughter of your eye cease.


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Arise, cry out in the night. At the beginning of the watches, pour out your heart like water before the face of the LORD. Lift up your hands toward Him for the life of your children who are faint for hunger in the head of every street.


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The Lord swallowed up all the dwelling-places of Jacob [and] has not pitied. In His wrath He has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought [them] down to the ground. He has defiled the kingdom and its rulers.


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Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom You have done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, children of tender care? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the holy place of the Lord?


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Young and old lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed [them] in the day of Your anger; You have killed and not pitied.


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You have called as in a solemn day my terrors all around, and there was not an escaped one or a survivor in the day of the LORD's anger. Those whom I have nursed and multiplied, my enemy has consumed.


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He has cut off all the horn of Israel in [His] fierce anger; He has drawn back His right hand from before the enemy, and He burned against Jacob like flaming fire [which] devours all around.


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He has bent His bow like an enemy; [He stood with] His right hand like an adversary, and killed all [who were] desirable to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. He poured out His fury like fire.


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The LORD was like an enemy; He swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, [and] destroyed His strongholds. And [He] has increased mourning and weeping in the daughter of Judah.


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And He violated His booth like a garden, [and] destroyed His meeting places. The LORD caused the meeting places and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and He despised the king and the priest in the fury of His anger.


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The LORD has cast off His altar; He rejected His sanctuary; He has given up the walls of her palaces into the hater's hand. They gave a noise in the house of the LORD, as a day of meeting.


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The LORD purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out a line; He has not withdrawn His hand from swallowing, and He made rampart and wall lament; they languish together.


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Her gates have sunk in the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her kings and her rulers [are] among the nations. The law is no more; also her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.


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How the gold has become dim; the fine gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.


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The hands of the pitying women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the ruin of the daughter of my people.


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The LORD has fulfilled His fury; He has poured out His fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured its foundations.


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The kings of the earth, and all the people of the world, would not have believed that the foe and the hater would go into Jerusalem's gates.


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For the sins of her prophets [and] the iniquities of her priests, shedding the blood of the just in her midst,


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they reeled blind in the streets; they are defiled with blood, so that not [any] can touch their clothes.


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They cried to them, Depart! Unclean! Depart, depart! Touch not! Indeed they fled and reeled; they said among the nations, They will not continue to live [there].


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The face of the LORD has shared them out; He will no longer look on them; they did not respect the persons of the priests; they did not favor the elders.


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While we are, our eyes fail, for our help is vain; in our watching we have watched for a nation; it does not save.


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They hunted our steps from going in our streets; our end was near, our days were fulfilled, for our end has come.


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Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens; they pursued us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.


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The precious sons of Zion are weighed against pure gold; how they are counted as earthen vessels, the work of a potter's hand!


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The breath of our nostrils, the anointed [of] the LORD, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, In his shadow we shall live among the nations.


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Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, who lives in the land of Uz. The cup also shall pass through unto you; you shall be drunken and stripped naked.


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The punishment of your iniquity [is] fulfilled, O daughter of Zion; He will exile you no more. He will visit your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.


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Even the jackals draw out the breast; they suckle their young ones. The daughter of my people [is] cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.


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The suckling's tongue cleaves to his palate in thirst; the young children ask bread; there is no breaking to them.


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And the iniquity of the daughter of my people is heaped more than the sin of Sodom, overthrown as [in] a moment, and no hands spun on her.


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Her Nazarites [were] purer than snow, whiter than milk; they [were] redder [of] bone than corals; their cuttings [as] lapis lazuli, [azure blue].


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Their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones; it is dried up; it has become like wood.


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Better [are] the ones slain by the sword than the ones slain by hunger; those who pine away, pierced because the fruits of my fields [failed].


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And it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.


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And the likeness of their faces: the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right [side] to the four of them; and the face of an ox on the left side to the four of them; and the face of an eagle to the four of them.


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So their faces [were]. And their wings [were] stretched upward; to each, the two [wings] of each one were joined; and two [wings] covered their bodies.


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And each went toward the front of their faces. To where the spirit was to go, there they went; they did not turn in their going.


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And the likeness of the living creatures: they looked like burning coals of fire; like the appearance of torches. It was continually circling among the living creatures. And the fire [was] bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.


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And as I looked at the living creatures, behold, one wheel [was] on the earth by the living creatures, with its four faces.


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The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship [was] the color of beryl, and the four of them had one likeness. And their appearance and their workmanship [was] like a wheel in the middle of a wheel.


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And their rims: they [were] even high; they were even awesome. And their rims [were] full of eyes all around the four of them.


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And in the going of the living creatures, the wheels went beside them; and in the lifting up of the living creatures from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.


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Wherever the spirit was to go, there they went; there the spirit [was] to go, and the wheels were lifted up along with them. For the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.


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In their going, [these] went; and in their standing still, these stood still. And in their lifting up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up along with them. For the spirit of the living creature [was] in the wheels.


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And there [was] a likeness over the heads of the living creature; an expanse, like the color of awesome crystal stretched out over their heads from above.


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And under the expanse their wings [were] straight, the one toward the other. Each one had two [wings] covering on this [side], and to each two covering on that [side of] their bodies.


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And I heard the sound of their wings, like the sound of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, in their going [was] the sound of tumult, like the sound of an army. In their standing still, they let down their wings.


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And there was a voice from the expanse which [was] over their heads, in their standing still, and they let down their wings.


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And from above the expanse that [was] over their heads [was] a likeness like a sapphire stone, the likeness of a throne. And on the likeness of the throne [was] a likeness looking like a man on it from above.


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And I saw [Him] looking like the color of polished bronze, looking like fire all around within it. From the likeness of His loins even upward, and from the likeness of His loins even downward, I saw [Him], looking like fire, and it had brightness all around.


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As the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain looks, so the brightness all around looked. This was how the likeness of the glory of the LORD looked. And I saw. And I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking.


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Coming the Word of Jehovah became known] to Ezekiel, the son of Buzi, the priest in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar. And the hand of the LORD was on him there.


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And I looked, and behold, a windstorm came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire flashing itself, and a brightness to it all around, and out of its midst, like the color of polished bronze out of the middle of the fire.


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Also out of its midst [came] the likeness of four living creatures. And this [was] how they looked; they had the likeness of a man.


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And their feet [were] straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot. And they sparkled like the color of burnished copper.


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And the [hands] of a man [extended] from under their wings on their four sides; and the four of them [had] their faces and their wings,


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joining each one to the other [by] their wings. They did not turn in their going; each one went toward the front of their face.


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And I looked, and behold! In the expanse over the head of the cherubs appeared the look of the form of a throne, like a sapphire stone, above them.


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When they went, they went on their four sides. They did not turn as they went, for to the place where the head faces, after it they went. They did not turn as they went.


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And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels [were] full of eyes all around, [even] their wheels that the four of them had.


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And four faces were to each one. The first face [was] the face of a cherub, and the second face [was] the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.


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And when the cherubs went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubs lifted their wings to soar from the earth, the wheels did not turn from beside them, even they.


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When they stood still, [these] stood still, and when they rose up, [these] lifted up. For the spirit of the living creature [was] in them.


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And the cherubs lifted up their wings and rose up from the earth in my sight. When they went out, the wheels also [were] beside them. And he stood at the door of the eastern gate of the LORD's house. And the glory of the God of Israel [was] over them from above.


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And He spoke to the man clothed [with] linen, and said, Go in among the wheels, under the cherub, and fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubs, and scatter [them] on the city. And he went in before me.


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This [is] the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar, and I knew that they [were] cherubs.


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Four, [even] four faces [are] to each; and four wings to each. And the form of a man's hands [was] under their wings.


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And the form of their faces, they [are] the faces that I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances even theirs. They each went straight forward.


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And the cherubs were standing on the right side of the house when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.


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And the glory of the LORD rose from the cherub, over the threshold of the house. And the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's glory.


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And the sound of the cherubs' wings was heard over the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when He speaks.


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And it happened when He had commanded the man clothed [with] linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubs; he went in then and stood beside the wheels.


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And a cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubs to the fire between the cherubs, and he lifted it and put [it] into the hands of the one clothed with linen. And he took [it] and went out.


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And I looked, and behold, the four wheels [were] beside the cherubs, one wheel was by one cherub, and another wheel by one cherub; and the wheels looked like the color of a stone of Tarshish.


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And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the eastern gate of the LORD's house, which faces eastward. And behold, twenty-five men were at the opening of the gate; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, rulers of the people.


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You shall fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel, and you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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This [city] shall not be your pot, nor shall you be the flesh in her midst. But I will judge you in the border of Israel,


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and you shall know that I [am] the LORD. For you have not walked in My statutes, nor have you done My judgments, but have done after the customs of the nations all around you.


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And it happened when I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. And I fell on my face and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord Jehovah! Will You make a full end [of] the remnant of Israel?


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Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your redemption, and all the house of Israel, of all that have heard the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying to all of them, Go far away from Jehovah; this land is given to us for a possession.


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Therefore say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Though I have sent them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the lands, yet I will be to them as a little sanctuary in the lands where they had gone.


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Therefore say, So says the Lord Jehovah: I will even gather you from the people and assemble you out of the lands, in those where you were scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.


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And they shall come there, and they shall take away all its hateful things and all its abominations from it.


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And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will remove the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh,


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And He said to me, Son of man, these [are] the men who plot evil and give wicked advice in this city;


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so that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances, and do them. And they shall be My people, and I will be their God.


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And [as] to [those whose] heart is going [after] their hateful things, and [also] their heart [is after] their disgusting idols, I will give their way on their own heads, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And the cherubs lifted up their wings, and the wheels beside them. And the glory of the God of Israel [was] over them above.


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And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood on the mountain which [is] on the east side of the city.


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And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the exiles. And the vision that I had seen went up from me.


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And the Spirit of the LORD fell on me, and said to me, Speak: So says the LORD: So you have said, O house of Israel, for I Myself know the elevations of your spirit.


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Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: Your slain whom you have laid in her midst, they [are] the flesh, and this [city is] the pot. But I will bring you out of her midst.


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And I will bring you out of her midst, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments on you.


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Say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: This burden [concerns] the king in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel among them.


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Say, I [am] your sign: As I have done, so it shall be done to them. They shall go into exile, into captivity.


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And the king who [is] among them shall carry [burdens] on [his] shoulder in the dark, and shall go out. They shall dig through the wall to carry out by it. He shall hide his face so that he does not see the ground with his] eye.


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I will also spread My net on him, and He shall be taken in My snare. And I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans. Yet he shall not see it, though he shall die there.


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And I will scatter to every wind all who [are] around him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.


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And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations and scatter them in the countries.


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But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the plague, so that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come. And they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And say to the people of the land: So says the Lord Jehovah of the people of Jerusalem [and] of the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with horror, so that her land may be desolated of her fullness, because of the violence of all those who dwell in it.


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Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see and see not. They have ears to hear and hear not, for they [are] a rebellious house.


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And the cities that have people shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate. And you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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Son of man, what [is] this proverb [that] you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days will go on and every vision shall fail?


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Therefore tell them, So says the Lord Jehovah: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel. But say to them, The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.


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For I, the LORD, will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be done. It shall no more be delayed; for in your days, O rebellious house, I will say the word and will do it, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, behold, the house of Israel says, The vision that he sees [is] for many days to come, and he prophesies of the times that are far off.


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Therefore say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: There shall none of my words be delayed any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Therefore, son of man, prepare for yourself vessels for exile, and go into exile by day before their eyes. And you shall be exiled from your place to another place before their eyes. It may be they will consider, though they [are] a rebellious house.


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And you shall bring out your vessels, as vessels for exile, by day before their eyes. And you shall go out at evening before their eyes, as those going into exile.


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Before their eyes you shall carry [it] on [your] shoulders, carry it out in the dark. You shall cover your face so that you do not see the ground, for I have set you as a sign to the house of Israel.


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And I did as I was commanded. By day I brought out my vessel as a vessel for exile. And in the evening I dug by hand through the wall. I brought [it] out in the dark, and I carried it on [my] shoulder before their eyes.


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Because, even because they made My people go astray, saying, Peace; and [there was] no peace; and he builds a wall, and lo, [others] daubed it with lime.


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Say to those who daub [with] lime, yes, it shall fall; [there] will be a flooding rain; and you, O hailstones, shall fall, and a stormy wind will break.


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And, behold, when the wall has fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where [is] the daubing with which you have daubed?


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Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: I will even break [it with] a stormy wind in My fury. And there shall be an flooding rain in My anger, and hailstones in fury to destroy it.


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And I will break down the wall that you have daubed [with] lime, and touch it to the ground; yea, I will bare its base. And it shall fall, and you shall be destroyed in her midst; and you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And I will fulfill My wrath on the wall and on those who daubed it [with] lime. And I will say to you, The wall [is] no more; and, Those who daubed [are] no more;


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the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and [there is] no peace, says the LORD.


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And you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart. And prophesy against them,


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and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Woe to those sewing bands to all joints of my hands, and make long veils for the head of every [man] of stature, to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of My people, and will you save alive the souls for yourselves?


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And will you profane Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls that should not die; and to save alive the souls that should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies.


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Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy. And say to those who prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear the Word of Jehovah:


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Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I [am] against your bands with which you are hunting the souls there, to make them fly. And I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, the souls which you are hunting, to make them fly.


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Also I will tear your long veils and deliver My people out of your hand, and they shall no more be in your hand to be hunted. And you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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Because with lies you have saddened the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and have made the hands of the wicked strong, so that he should not turn from his wicked way, by promising him life;


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therefore you shall not see vanity, and you shall not divine any divination. and I will deliver My people out of your hands; and you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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So says the Lord Jehovah, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!


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You have not gone up into the breaks, nor built the wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.


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They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD says. And the LORD has not sent them; but they hoped to confirm [their] word.


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Did you not see a vain vision, and speak a lying divination? Yet you say, The LORD says; although I have not spoken?


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Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: Because you have spoken vanity and seen a lie, therefore, behold, I [am] against you, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And My hand shall be against the prophets who see vanity and who divine a lie. They shall not be in the council of My people, nor shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I [am] the Lord Jehovah.


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And they shall bear their iniquity. As the iniquity of the inquirer, so the iniquity of the prophet shall be.


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So that the house of Israel may never again go astray from Me, nor be defiled again with all their transgressions, but they are to Me My people, and I will be to them for God, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, when a land sins against Me by traitorous betraying, then I will stretch out My hand on it, and will break the staff of its bread, and will send famine on it, and will cut off man and beast from it.


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And [though] these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver [only] their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord Jehovah.


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If I cause destroying beasts to come through the land, and they spoil it so that it is deserted, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts,


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[though] these three men were in its midst, [as] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters. They only shall be delivered, but the land shall be deserted.


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Or [if] I bring a sword on that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it;


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though these three men [were] in it, [as] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they [only] shall be delivered themselves.


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Or [if] I send a plague into that land, and pour out My fury on it in blood, to cut off man and beast from it;


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though Noah, Daniel, and Job [were] in it, [as] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter. They shall [only] deliver their own souls by their righteousness.


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For so says the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send My four evil judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the destroying beast, and the plague, to cut off man and beast from it.


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Yet, behold, there shall be left a remnant in it that shall be brought out, sons and daughters. Behold, they shall come out to you, and you shall see their way and their doings. And you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I brought on Jerusalem, [for] all that I have brought on it.


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And they shall comfort you when you see their way and their doings. And you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and put the stumbling-block of their iniquity before their face. Should I at all be inquired of by them?


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Therefore speak to them, and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Every man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him in it by the host of his idols;


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so that I may capture the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are estranged from Me by their idols, all of them.


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Therefore say to the house of Israel, So says the Lord Jehovah: Repent and turn from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations.


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For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger who lives in Israel, who separates himself from Me and sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to a prophet to ask of him concerning Me; I the LORD will answer him Myself.


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And I will set My face against that man, and I will make him desolate for a sign and for proverbs. And I will cut him off from the midst of My people; and you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And the prophet, if he is deceived, and he speaks a word, I the LORD have deceived that prophet. And I will stretch out My hand on him and will destroy him in the midst of My people Israel.


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Son of man, how is the vine tree more than any other tree, [or than] a branch which is among the trees of the forest?


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Shall wood be taken from it to do work? Or will [men] take from it [for] a peg to hang any vessel on it?


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Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel. The fire devours both its ends, and its middle is charred. Is it fit for [any] work?


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Behold, when it was whole, it was not made for work. How much less when the fire has devoured it, and it is charred? Shall it yet be made to work?


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Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah, As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give the people of Jerusalem.


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And I will set My face against them; they shall go out from the fire, and the fire shall devour them. And you shall know that I [am] the LORD when I set My face against them.


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And I will make the land [to be] desolate, because they have committed a treacherous act, says the Lord Jehovah.


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I also clothed you [with] embroidered work, and I shod you [with] dugong [sandals]. And I wrapped you in fine linen, and I covered you [with] silk.


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And you were adorned with gold and silver; and your clothing [was of] fine linen and silk and embroidered work. You ate fine flour and honey and oil; and you were exceedingly beautiful. And you advanced to regal estate.


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And your name went out among the nations, because of your beauty; for it [was] perfect in My beauty, which I had put on you, says the Lord Jehovah.


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But you trusted in your beauty, and played the harlot because of your name, and poured out your fornications on all who passed by; it was his.


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And you took from your clothes and adorned your high places with different colors, and fornicated on them, [such as] had not come, nor shall be.


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And you have taken beautiful things of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made images of males, and fornicated with them.


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And [you] took your embroidered dresses and covered them, and you have given to their face My oil and My incense.


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Also My food which I gave you, fine flour and oil and honey [with which] I fed you, you have given it to their face for a soothing aroma. And it happened, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to Me, and you gave these to them for food. [Are] your fornications small?


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And in all your hateful deeds and your fornications you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, [and] squirming in your blood.


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[that] you have also built yourself a mound, and you have made yourself a high place in every street.


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You have built your high place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty to be despised, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and have multiplied your fornications.


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You have also whored with the Egyptians, your neighbors great of flesh, and have multiplied your fornications to provoke Me to anger.


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And, behold, therefore I have stretched out My hand over you, and drew back your portion. And I gave you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your wicked way.


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You have whored with the Assyrians, without your being satisfied; yea, you whored and yet you were not satisfied.


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And your whoredom is idolatry in the land of Canaan, [to the] Chaldean, and yet you were not satisfied with this.


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And say, So says the Lord Jehovah to Jerusalem, Your origin and your birth [is] of the land of Canaan. Your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.


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How weak is your heart, says the Lord Jehovah, since you do all these, the work of a woman, an overbearing harlot;


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in that you build your mound at the head of every way, and make your high place in every street. Yet you have not been as a harlot, scorning wages.


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They give a gift to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them to come to you from all around, for your fornication.


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And in you was the opposite from [those] women in your fornications, since no one whores after you, and in your giving wages, and hire is not given to you. [In] this you are opposite.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness was bared in your fornications with your lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your sons whom you gave to them;


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behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have been pleased, even all [whom] you loved, with all whom you have hated; I will even gather them against you from all around, and will uncover your nakedness to them, and they will see all your nakedness.


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And I will judge you with judgments of adulteresses, and with shedders of blood. And I will give you blood and fury and jealousy.


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And I will also give you into their hand, and they will tear down your mound, and will demolish your high places. They shall also strip you of your clothes, and shall take your beautiful things, and leave you naked and bare.


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And [as for] your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse [you]. And you were not salted, nor swaddled at all.


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They shall also raise a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and cut you with their swords.


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And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. And I will make you stop whoring; and also, you shall not give hire again.


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And I will make My fury to rest against you, and My jealousy shall depart from you, and I will be quiet and will be angry no more.


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Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have troubled Me in all these [things]; so, behold, I will also repay your way on [your] head, says the Lord Jehovah. And you shall not commit this wickedness above all your abominations.


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Behold, all who use proverbs shall use [this] proverb against you, saying, As the mother, [so is] her daughter.


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You [are] your mother's daughter, who despises her husband and her sons. And you [are] the sister of your sisters, who despise their husbands and their sons. Your mother [was] a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.


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And your older sister [is] Samaria, she and her daughters who dwell at your left hand. And your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, [is] Sodom and her daughters.


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Yet you have not walked according to their ways, nor done according to their hateful deeds; but, as [if it were] a very little [thing], you were corrupted more than they were in all your ways.


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[As] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, Sodom your sister, she nor her daughters, has not done as you have done, you and your daughters.


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Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom; pride. Fullness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters. Nor did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.


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No eye pitied you, to do any of these to you, to have compassion on you. But you were thrown out into the open field, because your life was despised in the day that you were born.


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Nor has Samaria sinned [as much] as half your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have done.


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You also, who have judged your sisters, bear your own shame for your sins which you have committed more abominable than they. They are more righteous than you! Yes, blush and bear your shame, since you have justified your sisters.


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When I shall return their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then [also] the captivity of your captivity in their midst;


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When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, then you and your daughters shall return to your former state.


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before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of [your] reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all her neighbors, the daughters of the Philistines who hated you from all around.


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For so says the Lord Jehovah: I will even deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.


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And when I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you in your blood, Live! Yes, I said to you in your blood, Live!


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But I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.


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And you shall remember your ways and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your older and your younger. And I will give them to you for daughters, but not by [your] covenant.


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so that you may remember and be ashamed; and it will not be [possible] to open [your] mouth any more because of your shame; in that I am propitiated for all that you have done, says the Lord Jehovah.


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I have caused you to multiply like the bud of the field, and you are grown, and you are great; and you come [in] the finest ornaments. [Your] breasts are formed, and hair is grown, yet you [were] naked and bare.


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And I passed by you and looked on you, and, behold, your time [was] the time of love. And I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness. And I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Jehovah. And you became Mine.


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And behold, [being] planted, shall it prosper? Shall it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It shall wither in the beds [where] it sprouted.


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Say now to the rebellious house: Do you not know what these [things mean]? Tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon has come to Jerusalem and has taken its king and its rulers, and brings them to himself to Babylon.


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And he has taken of the king's seed and has made a covenant with him, and has taken an oath from him. He has also taken the mighty of the land,


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so that the kingdom might be low, that it might not lift itself up, [but] that by keeping his covenant it might stand.


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But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, to give him horses and many people. Shall he be blessed? Shall he who does such [things] escape? Or shall he break the covenant and be delivered?


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[As] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, surely in the place of the king who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.


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Nor shall Pharaoh with [his] mighty army and great company work for him in the war, by pouring out siege mounds and building forts, to cut off many persons.


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And he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant. And, behold, he had given his hand, and has done all these, he shall not escape.


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Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: [As] I live, surely My oath that he has despised, and My covenant that he has broken, I will even repay it on his own head.


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And I will spread My net on him, and he shall be taken in My snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and I will judge him there with his sin which he has sinned against Me.


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And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered toward all winds. And you shall know that I the LORD have spoken.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: I, [even] I, will also take of the top of the highest cedar and will set [it]; I will crop off from the first of its young twigs a tender one, and will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.


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In a mountain, in a high place of Israel, I will plant it. And it shall bear boughs, and bear fruit, and be a majestic cedar. And under it shall dwell every bird of every wing; in the shadow of its branches they shall dwell.


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And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish. I the LORD have spoken and acted.


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And say, So says the Lord Jehovah: A great eagle with great wings, long of pinion, full of feathers, who had different colors, came to Lebanon and took the highest branch of the cedar.


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He plucked off the top of its young twigs and carried it into a land of traders. He set it in a city of merchants.


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He also took of the seed of the land and planted it in a fruitful field. He placed [it] by great waters and set [it] as a willow tree.


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And it grew and became a spreading low vine, whose branches turned toward him. And its roots were under him. So it became a vine and brought out branches and shot out boughs.


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There was also another great eagle [with] great wings and many feathers. And behold, this vine bent its roots toward him and shot out its branches toward him, that he might water it, away from the beds of its planting.


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It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring out branches, and that it might bear fruit, to be a splendid vine.


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Say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Shall it prosper? Shall he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, and wither it? All the leaves of its sprouting shall wither, and not with great arm, nor by many people [shall any] raise it by its roots.


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And if he fathers a son [who is] violent, who sheds blood, and who does to a brother [any] of these;


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even if he does do not any of these himself, but his son] has, but has even eaten on the mountains, and has defiled his neighbor's wife;


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has ill-treated the poor and needy; thieving, he stole; has not given back the pledge; and has lifted up his eyes to the idols; has committed abomination;


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has loaned on usury; and has taken increase; shall he then live? He shall not live! He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him.


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And, lo, [if] he fathers a son who sees all his father's sins which he has done, and fears, and does not do like him;


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[who] has not eaten on the mountains; nor has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel; has not defiled his neighbor's wife;


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nor has ill-treated any man; has not withheld the pledge; nor has robbed by violence; [but] has given his bread to the hungry; and has covered the naked [with] clothes;


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has withdrawn his hand from the poor; has not received usury nor increase; has done My judgments; has walked in My statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father; he shall surely live.


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His father, because he extorted, robbed [his] brother by robbery, and did [what is] not good among his people; lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.


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Yet you say, Why? Does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done justice and right, has kept all My statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.


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What is it to you that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the teeth of the sons [are] dull?


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The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.


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But if the wicked will turn from all his sins which he has committed, and keep all My statutes, and do justice and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.


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All his transgressions that he has done, they shall not be mentioned to him; in his righteousness that he has done he shall live.


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Do I actually delight in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Jehovah. Is it not that he should turn from his ways and live?


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But when the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, [and] does according to all the abominations that the wicked do, shall he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be remembered; in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.


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Yet you say, The way of the LORD is not fair. Hear now, O house of Israel: Is not My way fair? Are your ways not unfair?


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When a righteous one turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and dies in them; for his iniquity that he has done, he shall die.


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Again, when the wicked turns away from his wickedness that he has committed and does that which is lawful and righteous, he shall save his soul alive.


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Because he looks carefully, and turns away from all his sins that he has committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.


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Yet says the house of Israel: The way of the LORD is not fair. O house of Israel, are not My ways fair? Are not your ways unfair?


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[As] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, to you there is no longer any [occasion] to use this proverb in Israel.


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So I will judge you, O house of Israel, each one of you according to his ways, says the Lord Jehovah. Turn and be made to turn from all your sins; and iniquity shall not be your stumbling-block.


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


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Behold, all souls [are] Mine. As the soul of the father, also the soul of the son, they [are] Mine. The soul that sins, it shall die.


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and has not eaten on the mountains, nor has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor has defiled his neighbor's wife, nor has come near a menstruating woman,


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and has not ill-treated any man, [but] has given the debtor's pledge back to him, has robbed none by violence, has given his bread to the hungry and has covered the naked with a garment;


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he has not given out on usury, nor has taken any increase, he has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has done judgment between man and man,


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has walked in My statutes, and has kept My judgments to deal truly, he [is] righteous, he shall surely live, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Your mother [is] like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters; she was fruitful and full of branches because of many waters.


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And she [had] strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches; and it was seen in her height, with the multitude of her branches.


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But she was plucked up in fury; she was thrown down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit. Her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire burned them up.


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And fire has gone out from a rod of her branches, [which] has licked up her fruit so that there is no strong rod in her to be a scepter to rule. This is a mourning and [shall be] for a mourning.


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and say: What [is] your mother? A lioness. She lay down among lions; she multiplied her cubs among young lions.


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And she brought up one of her cubs; it became a strong lion and learned to tear the prey. It ate men.


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The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.


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And when she saw that she had waited [and] that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a strong lion.


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


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And he knew his widows, and he laid their cities waste, and the land and its fullness was desolated, from the sound of his roaring.


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And the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him. He was taken in their pit.


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And they put him in a cage in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into hunting nets, so that his voice should never again be heard on the mountains of Israel.


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And He spread it before me; and it [was] written on the face and the back. And written on it [were] weepings, and mourning, and woe.


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And the Spirit entered into me when He spoke to me, and set me on my feet, so that I heard Him who spoke to me.


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And He said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the sons of Israel, to the nations, the rebelling ones who have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have sinned against Me, to this day.


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And the sons [are] stiff of face, and hard of heart. I am sending you to them; and you shall say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah.


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And they, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear; for they [are] a rebellious house. Yea, they shall know that there has been a prophet among them.


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And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them, and of their words, though briers and thorns [are] with you, and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words, nor frightened by their faces, though they [are] a rebellious house.


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And you shall speak My words to them, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear, for they [are] rebellious.


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But you, son of man, hear what I am saying to you. Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.


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And it happened in the seventh year, in the fifth [month], the tenth of the month, some of the elders of Israel came to ask of the LORD, and sat before me.


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And I gave them My statutes and showed them My judgments, which [if] a man do, he shall even live in them.


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And also I gave them My sabbaths to be a sign between Me and them, that [they] might know that I [am] the LORD who sets them apart.


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But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes, and they despised My judgments, which [if] a man does, he shall even live in them. And they greatly profaned My sabbaths. And I said, I] will pour out My fury on them in the wilderness to destroy them.


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But I worked for My name's sake, so that it should not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I brought them out.


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And also I lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, that [I] would not bring them into the land which I had given [them], flowing [with] milk and honey; it [is] the glory of all lands;


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because they despised My judgments and walked not in My sabbaths; and they profaned My sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.


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But I said to their sons in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.


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and keep My sabbaths holy; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I [am] Jehovah your God.


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But the sons rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes, nor kept My judgments to do them; the judgments which, [if] a man do, he shall even live in them; they profaned My sabbaths and I said [I] would pour out My fury on them, to fulfill My anger against them in the wilderness.


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But I withdrew My hand and worked for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations, from whom I brought them out in their eyes.


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I also lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations and scatter them through the lands,


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because they had not done My judgments, but had despised My sabbaths and had profaned My sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.


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And I defiled them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that open the womb to pass through [the fire], that I might waste them, to the end that they might know that I [am] the LORD.


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Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed Me, in that they have committed a sin against Me.


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When I had brought them into the land [for] which I lifted up My hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered their sacrifices there. And there they offered their provoking gifts. There also they made their sweet aroma, and poured out their drink offerings there.


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And I said to them, What [is] the high place to which you go? And the name of it is called High Place to this day.


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


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Therefore say to the house of Israel, So says the Lord Jehovah: Are you defiled in the same way as your fathers? And do you go whoring after their abominations?


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For when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols, even to [this] day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? [As] I Live, says the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you.


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And what comes up on your spirit shall not happen at all, that you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.


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[As] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, I will reign over you.


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And I will bring you out from the people, and I will gather you out of the lands in which you are scattered among them, with a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm and with fury poured out.


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And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.


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Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And I will purge out from among you the rebels and those who sin against Me. I will bring them out from the land where they reside, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And you, O house of Israel, so says the Lord Jehovah: [Every] man go and serve his idols, and do so from now on if you will not listen to Me. But never again defile My holy name with your gifts and with your idols.


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Will you judge [them], son of man, will you judge them? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers.


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For in My holy mountain, in the mountain height [of] Israel, says the Lord Jehovah, there all the house of Israel, all of those in the land, shall serve Me. There will I receive them, and there will I ask for your offerings and the firstfruits of your offerings, with all your holy things.


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I will receive you with your sweet aroma when I bring you out from the people and gather you out of the lands into which you have been scattered among them. And I will be sanctified in you in the eyes of the nations.


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And you shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the land [for] which I lifted up My hand, to give it to your fathers.


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And there you shall remember your ways and all your doings in which you have been defiled. And you shall despise yourselves in your own sight for all your evils which you have committed.


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And you shall know that I [am] the LORD when I have worked with you for My name's sake, not according to your wicked ways nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, set your face toward the south, and drop a [word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field.


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And say to the forest of the south, Hear the Word of the LORD. So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall burn up every green tree in you, and every dry tree among you. The flaming flame shall not be put out, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned in it.


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And say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: In the day that I chose Israel, and lifted up My hand to the seed of the house of Jacob, and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt; when I lifted up My hand to them, saying, I [am] Jehovah your God;


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in the day [that] I lifted up My hand to them, to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing [with] milk and honey, which [is] the glory of all lands;


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then I said to them, Let each man throw away the abominations of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I [am] Jehovah your God.


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But they rebelled against Me and would not listen to Me. They did not each man throw away the abominations of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. And I said, I will pour out My fury against them to fulfill My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.


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But I worked for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned before the nations among whom they [were, for] I made Myself known to them in their eyes, by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.


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It is sharpened in order to slaughter; it is polished so that there may be a flash to it. Or shall we rejoice? You are despising the rod of My son, [as if it were] every tree.


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And He has given it to be polished, to be taken by the hand. The sword, it is sharpened, and it it polished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.


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Cry and howl, son of man; for it [shall be] on My people; it [shall be] on all the rulers of Israel. They are thrown to the sword with My people; Therefore slap [your] thigh.


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And you, son of man, prophesy and strike [your] hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain. It [is] the sword of the slain, the great one that surrounds them;


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so that [their] heart may melt, and many stumble at all [their] gates. I have given the threatening sword. Ah! It is made like lightning; it is wrapped for a slaughter.


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And also I, I will also strike My hands together, and I will cause My fury to rest. I the LORD have spoken.


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And you, son of man, set for yourself two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come. Both of them shall come out of one land. And create a hand at the head of the way to the city; create it.


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Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop [a word] toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel.


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You shall set a way that the sword may enter [into] Rabbah of the Ammonites, and [into] Judah, into fortified Jerusalem.


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For the king of Babylon shall stand at the parting of the way, at the head of the two highways, to practice divination. He shall shake arrows; he shall ask household idols; he shall look at the liver.


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At his right shall be the divining [for] Jerusalem, to set [battering] rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering-rams against the gates, to pour out and to build a siege wall.


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And it shall be to them an empty divining before their eyes, those who have sworn oaths to them. But He will remember iniquity, that they may be taken.


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, in that your sins are revealed in all your deeds; because you have been remembered, you shall be taken with the hand.


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And you, O slain, wicked king of Israel, of whom has come his day in the time of iniquity of the end.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: Remove the diadem, and take off the crown. This [shall] not [be] as it was. Lift up the low one, and put down the high one.


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Ruin, ruin, ruin, I will appoint it. Also this shall not be until the coming of Him whose is the right. And I will give it to Him.


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And you, son of man, prophesy and say, So says the Lord Jehovah concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their shame. Even say: The sword, the sword [is] drawn, polished for slaughter to make an end, that [it may be] like lightning;


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while they see false visions for you, while they divine a lie to you, to put you on the necks of the slain of the wicked whose day has come in the day of iniquity; [it shall have] an end.


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And say to the land of Israel, So says the LORD: Behold, I [am] against you, and will draw out My sword out of its sheath and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.


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Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.


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And I will pour out My disgust on you; with the fire of My wrath I will blow against you, and give you into the hand of burning men, able to destroy.


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You shall be for food to the fire. Your blood shall be in the midst of the land. You shall be remembered no [more]; for I the LORD have spoken.


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Since then I will cut off the righteous and the wicked from you, therefore My sword shall be drawn from its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north,


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so that all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn out My sword from its sheath. It shall not return any more.


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And you, son of man, groan with the breaking of [your] loins; and groan with bitterness before their eyes.


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And it will be when they say to you, Why do you groan? You shall answer, Because of the news [that] it is coming; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as] water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, prophesy and say, So says the LORD. Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished.


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In you they have uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you they have humbled her defiled by impurity.


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And a man has done abomination with his neighbor's wife; and a man has defiled his daughter-in-law in unchaste acts; and a man has humbled within you his sister, his father's daughter.


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In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken usury and increase, and you gained by extortion of your neighbors, and you have forgotten Me, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And behold, I have struck My palm against your unjust gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in your midst.


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Can your heart stand, or can your hands be strong, in the day that I shall deal with you? I the LORD have spoken, and [I] will act.


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And I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you in the lands, and will destroy your uncleanness out of you.


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And you will be profaned in you before the eyes of the nations, and you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them [are] bronze, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the middle of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.


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Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: Because you have all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem.


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And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? And you shall make her know all her abominations.


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[As they] gather silver, and bronze, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it to melt [it], so I will gather [you] in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave [you there] and melt you.


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And I will gather you and blow on you in the fire of My wrath, and you shall be melted in the middle of it.


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As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so you shall be melted in the middle of it; and you shall know that I the LORD have poured out My fury on you.


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A plot [by] her prophets [is] in her midst, like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they multiplied her many widows in her midst.


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Her priests have broken My law and have defiled My holy things. They have put no difference between the holy and the common, and have not taught between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am defiled among them.


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Her rulers in her midst [are] like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, to get unjust gain.


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And her prophets have daubed themselves [with] lime, seeing vanity and divining lies to them, saying, So says the Lord Jehovah; when the LORD has not spoken.


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The people of the land have used oppression and practiced robbery, and they have troubled the poor and needy. Yea, [they] have oppressed the stranger without right.


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And you shall say, So says the Lord Jehovah: The city sheds blood in her midst that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to defile [herself].


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And I sought for a man among them who should wall up a wall for the land, and stand in the break before me, that I should not destroy it. But I did not find one.


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Therefore I have poured out My fury on them. I have burned them up with the fire of My wrath. I have given their way on their heads, says the Lord Jehovah.


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You are guilty in your blood that you have shed; and you have defiled yourself in your idols you have made. And your days [are] brought near, and have come to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all lands.


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[Those who are] near and [those] far from you shall mock against you, O defiled of name, abounding in tumult.


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In you they have despised father and mother. In your midst they have dealt with the stranger by oppression. In you they oppressed the orphan and the widow.


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In you are men of slander to shed blood; and in you they eat on the mountains; in your midst they do unchaste acts.


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They uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters and killed her with the sword. And she became notorious among women, and they executed judgment on her.


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And her sister Oholibah saw, she was more corrupt in her lustfulness than she, and her fornications were greater than her sister's whoredom.


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She lusted to the sons of Assyria, governors and rulers nearby, clothed most perfectly; horsemen riding horses, all of them desirable young men.


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And she added to her fornications. And she saw men carved on the wall; images of the Chaldeans engraved with vermilion,


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girded with girdles on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the sons of Babylon [in] Chaldea, the land of their birth;


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And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with fornications. And she was defiled with them, and her mind was alienated from them.


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So she uncovered her fornications and uncovered her nakedness. And My soul was alienated from her just as My soul was alienated from her sister.


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Yet she multiplied her fornications to recall the days of her youth, in which she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.


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And she lusted on her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose issue [is like] the issue of horses.


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So you longed for the wickedness of your youth, when the Egyptians worked your nipples, for the sake of the breasts of your youth.


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So, O Oholibah, the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, I will raise up against you your lovers, from whom your soul is alienated; and I will bring them against you from all around;


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the Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, [and] all the Assyrians with them; all of them desirable young men, governors and rulers, all of them, third heads and called ones; all of them riding on horses.


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And they shall come against you [with] weapons, chariots, and wheels, and with an assembly of peoples; buckler and shield and helmet shall set against you all around. And I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge you by their judgments.


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And I will set My jealousy against you, and they shall deal with you in fury. They shall take away your nose and your ears, and the rest of you shall fall by the sword. They shall take away your sons and your daughters, and the rest of you shall be devoured by the fire.


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So I will make your wickedness to cease from you, and your fornication from the land of Egypt. And you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor shall you remember Egypt any more.


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For so says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will give you into the hand of [those] whom you hate, into the hand of whom your soul was alienated, from them.


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And they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your fornications shall be uncovered, both your wickedness and your fornications.


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And they fornicated in Egypt; they whored in their youth, their breasts were handled, and there their virgin nipples were worked.


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These [things] will be done to you because you have whored after the nations, and because you are defiled with their idols.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: You shall drink of your sister's cup deep and large; you shall be laughed to scorn and mocked; for it holds much.


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[In] drunkenness and sorrow you are filled, the cup of horror and ruin, the cup of your sister Samaria.


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You shall even drink it and empty it. And you shall break its pieces, and tear off your own breasts. For I have spoken, says the Lord Jehovah.


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, therefore bear also your wickedness and your adulteries.


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And the LORD said to me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah, and declare to them their abominations,


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that they have committed adultery, and blood [is] on their hands? And they have committed adultery with their idols and have also caused their sons whom they bore to Me to pass through the fire to them, to devour them.


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And yet they have done this to Me: They have defiled My sanctuary in that day, and have profaned My sabbaths.


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And when they had slain their sons to their idols, then they came into My sanctuary in that day to profane it. And lo, this they have done in the midst of My house.


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And their names [were] Oholah, the oldest, and Oholibah, her sister. And they were Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And their names: Samaria [is] Oholah, and Jerusalem [is] Oholibah.


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And they have even sent for men to come from far, to whom a messenger [was] sent. And lo, they came. You washed yourself for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments,


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And the sound of a crowd [was] at ease with her; and drunkards from the wilderness were brought with the men of the host of mankind; and they put bracelets on their hands, and crowns of beauty on their heads.


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And they went in to her, as [they] go in to a woman of harlotry; so they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the wicked women.


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And [as] righteous men, they shall judge them [with] the judgment of adulteresses, and the judgment of women who shed blood; because they [are] adulteresses, and blood [is] in their hands.


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For so says the Lord Jehovah: I will bring up a company on them, and will give them to be removed and stripped.


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And the company shall stone them [with] stones, and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.


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So I will cause wickedness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught, even not to go after your wickedness.


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And they shall put your wickedness on you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols. And you shall know that I [am] the Lord Jehovah.


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So she bestowed her harlotries on them, the choice sons of Assyria; [with] all of them, and with all whom she lusted after; she defiled herself with all their idols.


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Nor did she leave her fornications from Egypt. For in her youth they lay with her, and they worked her virgin nipples, and poured their fornications on her.


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Therefore I have given her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians on whom she lusted.


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Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth of the month, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,


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And heap on the wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and mix in the spice, and let the bones be burned.


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And set it empty on its coals, so that its bronze may be hot and may glow, and [that] its uncleanness may be melted in it, [that] the scum of it may be burned away.


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She has wearied [herself] with lies, and her great scum did not go out from her. Her scum [shall be] in the fire.


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In your defilement [is] wickedness. Because I have purged you and you were not purged, you shall not be purged from your defilement any more, until I have caused My fury to cease on you.


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I the LORD have spoken. It shall come, and I will do [it]. I will not let go, nor will I spare, nor will I repent. According to your ways, and according to your doings, they shall judge you, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke. Yet neither shall you mourn nor weep, nor shall your tears run down.


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Groan [but] be silent; make no mourning [for] the dead; tie your turban on you, and put your sandals on your feet, and do not cover [your] lips, and do not eat the bread of men.


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So I spoke to the people in the morning. And in the evening my wife died, and I did in the morning as I was commanded.


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Son of man, write for yourself the name of the day, even of this same day. The king of Babylon has leaned toward Jerusalem this same day.


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Speak to the house of Israel. So says the Lord Jehovah: behold, I will defile My sanctuary, the glory of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities. And your sons and your daughters whom you have left shall fall by the sword.


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And your turbans [shall be] on your heads, and your sandals on your feet. You shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away for your iniquities and mourn to one another.


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So Ezekiel is a sign to you. According to all that he has done, you shall do. And when this comes, you shall know that I [am] the Lord Jehovah.


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Also, son of man, [will it] not [be] in the day [when] I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that on which they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,


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In that day your mouth shall be open to him who has escaped, and you shall speak and be no more dumb. And you shall be a sign to them, and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And speak a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Set on a pot; set [it] on, and also pour water into it.


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Gather its pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder. Fill [it with] the choice bones.


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Take the choice of the flock, and also burn the bones under it; make it boil high, and let them boil its bones in it.


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum [is] in it, and whose scum has not gone out of it! Bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall on it.


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For her blood is in her midst; she set it on the top of a rock. She did not pour it on the ground, to cover it [with] dust,


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that it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance. I have set her blood on a shining rock, that it should not be covered.


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to the men of the east with the Ammonites. And I will give them in possession so that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended and revenged himself on them;


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therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: I will also stretch out My hand on Edom, and will cut man and beast off from it; and I will make it a waste from Teman, even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.


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And I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel. And they shall do in Edom according to My anger and according to My fury. And they shall know My vengeance, says the Lord Jehovah.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: Because the Philistines have taken vengeance; yes, have taken vengeance with spite in [their] soul, to destroy [with] never-ending enmity,


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, I will stretch out My hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and will destroy the rest of the sea coast.


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And I will execute great vengeance on them with rebukes; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall lay My vengeance on them.


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And say to the Ammonites, Hear the Word of the Lord Jehovah. So says the Lord Jehovah: Because you said, Aha, against My sanctuary when it was defiled, and against the land of Israel when it was ruined, and against the house of Judah when they went into captivity;


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therefore, behold, I will give you to the sons of the east for a possession. And they shall set their camp sites among you, and put among you their dwellings. They shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.


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And I will make Rabbah a pasture [for] camels, and the Ammonites a crouching-place [for] flocks. And you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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For so says the Lord Jehovah: Because you have clapped [your] hands and stamped the foot, and rejoiced in heart with all your spite against the land of Israel;


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behold, therefore I will stretch out My hand on you, and will give you as a prize to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the lands. I will destroy you, and you shall know that I [am the LORD.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: Because Moab and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah [is] like all the nations;


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therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities, from his borders, the glory of the land, even Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim,


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And it happened in the eleventh year, in the first of the month, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,


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Because of his many horses, their dust shall cover you. Your walls shall shake at the sound of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your gates, as [men] enter a city that is breached.


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With the hoofs of his horses he shall trample all your streets. He shall kill your people by the sword, and the pillars of your strength shall go down to the ground.


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And they shall plunder your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise. And they shall break down your walls and destroy your desirable houses. And they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the water.


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


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And I will make you like a shining rock. You shall be [a place] to spread nets on; you shall be built no more; for I the LORD have spoken, says the Lord Jehovah.


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So says the Lord Jehovah to Tyre: Shall not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the slain groan, when the slaughter is made in your midst?


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And all the rulers of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their embroidered garments. They shall clothe themselves [with] trembling; they shall sit on the ground and tremble at [every moment, and be amazed at you.


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And they shall take up a mourning for you, and say to you, How you who lived by the sea are destroyed, the famous city which was strong in the sea, she and her people who caused their terror [to be] on all who lived in it!


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And the coastlands shall tremble in the day of your fall; yea, the coastlands by the sea shall be troubled at your going.


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For so says the Lord Jehovah: When I shall make you a ruined city, like the cities that have no inhabitants; when I shall bring up the deep on you, and great waters shall cover you;


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Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha! She is shattered, the doors of the peoples, she has turned to me; I shall be filled; she is laid waste.


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when I shall bring you down with those who go down into the Pit, with the people of old time, and shall set you in the low parts of the earth, in places ruined in days of old, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you have no inhabitants (but I gave glory in the land of the living)


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I will give you terrors, and you [will] not [be]. Though you are sought, yet you shall never be found forever says the Lord Jehovah.


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, I [am] against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, [as] the sea causes its waves to come up.


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And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her and make her like a shining rock.


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It shall be a spreading place of nets in the middle of the sea. For I have spoken, says the Lord Jehovah. And it shall become a spoil to the nations.


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


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For so says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon on Tyre, a king of kings from the north, with horses and with chariots and with a company of horsemen, and many people.


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He shall kill your daughters with the sword in the field. And he shall make siege walls against you, and pour out a siege mound against you, and lift up the shield against you.


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


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Persia and Lud and Lydia were in your army, your men of war. They hung the shield and helmet in you; they set your splendor.


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The sons of Arvad and your army [were] on your walls all around, and warriors [were] in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around; they have made your beauty perfect.


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Tarshish [was] your merchant because of the multitude of [your] wealth; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they gave for your wares.


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Javan, Tubal, and Meshech [were] your merchants. They traded the souls of men and vessels of bronze for your goods.


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The sons of Dedan [were] your merchants; many coastlands [were] the traffic of your hand. They brought as your gift tusks of ivory and ebony.


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Syria [was] your merchant because of the multitude of your works; with emeralds, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies they gave for your wares.


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Judah and the land of Israel [were] your merchants with wheat [from] Minnith and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm, they gave for your goods.


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Damascus [was] your merchant in the multitude of your works, from the multitude of all riches, in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.


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Dan and Javan also, going about, gave for your wares; smooth iron, cassia, and cane were among your goods.


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Arabia, and all the rulers of Kedar [were] traders of your hand, in lambs, and rams, and goats; in them [was] your trade.


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The merchants of Sheba and Raamah [were] your merchants, with the chief of all the spices, and with every precious stone, and gold they gave for your wares.


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They [were] your merchants in perfect things, in violet cloth, and embroidered work, and in carpets of many colors, with tightly bound cords, and cedars among your merchandise.


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The ships of Tarshish [were] the travelers of your goods. And you were filled and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.


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Your rowers have made you come into great waters; the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.


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Your riches, and your wares, your goods, your seamen, and your sailors reinforcing your seams, and the traders of your goods, and all your men of war, who [are] in you, and all your company which [is] in your midst, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.


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And all who handle the oar, the mariners, all the sailors of the sea, shall come down from their ships. They shall stand on the land,


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And say to Tyre, O you who are placed at the entrance of the sea, a merchant of the peoples for many coastlands, so says the Lord Jehovah: O Tyre, you have said, I [am] of perfect beauty.


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and shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall throw dust on their heads. They shall wallow themselves in the ashes.


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And they will be bald for you, and gird with sackcloth. And they shall weep for you with bitterness of soul, a bitter wailing.


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And in their wailing they shall lift up a lamentation [and] lament over you, [saying], Who [is] like Tyre; as she who is quiet in the midst of the sea?


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When your goods went out from the seas, you filled many people. With the plenty of your riches and your goods you enriched the kings of the earth.


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At [this time] you are broken by the seas, in the depths of the waters, your goods and all your company in your midst have fallen.


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All the residents of the coastlands are appalled at you, and their kings are horribly terrified; [their] faces tremble.


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The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you have become terrors. And you [shall] not [be] forever.


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


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They have made the oaks [of] Bashan your oars; the daughter of Assyria has made your deck of ivory from the coasts of Kittim.


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Your sail was of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt, an ensign for you; violet and purple from the coasts of Elishah was your covering.


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The residents of Sidon and Arvad were your seamen. Your wise ones, O Tyre, were in you, they [were] your sailors.


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The elders of Gebal and her wise [men] were with you, reinforcing your seams. All the ships of the sea with their seamen were with you, to exchange your merchandise.


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You shall die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers. For I have spoken, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, lift up a lament over the king of Tyre, and say to him, So says the Lord Jehovah: You seal the measure, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.


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You have been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone [was] your covering, the ruby, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the turquoise, and the emerald, and gold. The workmanship of your tambourines and of your flutes was prepared in you in the day that you were created.


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You [were] the anointed cherub that covers, and I had put you in the holy height of God [where] you were.; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.


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You [were] perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until iniquity was found in you.


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By the multitude of your goods they have filled your midst [with] violence, and you have sinned. So I cast you profaned from the height of God, and I destroy you, O covering cherub, from among the stones of fire.


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Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have spoiled your wisdom because of your brightness. I will cast you to the ground; I will put you before kings, that they may behold you.


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By the host of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your trade, you have profaned your holy places; so I brought a fire from your midst; it shall devour you, and I will give you for ashes on the earth, before the eyes of all who see you.


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All who know you among the peoples shall be astonished at you; you shall be terrors, and you [will] not [be] forever.


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Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre. So says the Lord Jehovah: Because your heart [is] lifted up, and you have said, I [am] a god, I sit [in] the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you [are] a man and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of gods;


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And say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I [am] against you, O Sidon, and I will be glorified in your midst. And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have executed judgments in her and have revealed My holiness in her.


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For I will send a plague into her, and blood into her streets. And the wounded shall fall in her midst by the sword on her on every side. And they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And there will not be a pricking brier, or a painful thorn to the house of Israel any more, from all who surround them, [those] who hate them. And they shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: When I have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among [whom] they are scattered, and have been sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their land that I have given to My servant Jacob.


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And they shall dwell safely in it, and shall build houses and plant vineyards. Yea, they shall dwell safely when I have executed judgments on all those who despise them all around them; and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah their God.


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With your wisdom and with your understanding you have made riches for yourselves, and have worked gold and silver into your treasuries.


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By your great wisdom [and] by your trade you have multiplied your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches.


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behold, therefore I will bring awesome strangers [of] the nations. And they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.


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They shall bring you down to the Pit, and you shall die the deaths of those slain in the heart of the seas.


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Will you yet say before him who kills you, I [am of the] gods? But you [are] a man, and not God, in the hand of him who kills you.


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In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth of the month, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,


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Behold, and therefore I [am] against you and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt a complete waste, a ruin, from Migdol [to] Syene, even to the border of Ethiopia.


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No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, and you shall not live in it forty years.


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And I will make the land of Egypt a ruin in the midst of the ruined lands; and her cities shall be deserted forty years among the cities [that are] laid waste. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will scatter them through the lands.


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Yet so says the Lord Jehovah: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered.


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And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return [to] the land of Pathros, into their homeland. And they shall be a low kingdom there.


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It shall be the lowest of the kingdoms, and shall no more exalt itself above the nations. For I will make them so few, that they shall no more rule over the nations.


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And it shall never again be the hope of the house of Israel, recalling the iniquity of their turning after them. And they shall know that I [am] the Lord Jehovah.


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And it happened in the twenty-seventh year, in the first [month], in the first of the month, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,


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Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head [was] made bald, and every shoulder was peeled. Yet neither he nor his army had any pay for Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he shall take her host, and take her spoil, and seize her plunder. And it shall be the wages for his army.


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


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I have given him the land of Egypt [for] his labor with which he served against it, because they worked for Me, says the Lord Jehovah.


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In that day I will make a horn spring up to the house of Israel, and I will give you the opening of the mouth in their midst. And they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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Speak and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I, even I, [am] against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon who lies in the midst of his rivers, who has said, My river [is] mine, and I have made it.


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But I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales, and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, and all the fish of your rivers shall stick to your scales.


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And I will leave you [to] the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You shall fall on the open fields; you shall not be removed nor gathered. I have given you for food to the beasts of the field and to the birds of the heavens.


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And all the people of Egypt shall know that I [am] the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.


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When they took you by your hand, you broke and tore off all their shoulder. And when they leaned on you, you shattered and made all their loins stand.


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and cut off man and beast from you.


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


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And He said to me, Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this roll, and go speak to the house of Israel.


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And He said to me, Son of man, receive all My words which I shall speak to you in your heart, and hear with your ears.


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And go! Go to those of the captivity, to the sons of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, So says the Lord Jehovah; whether they will hear or whether they will forbear.


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And the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a sound of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed [be] the glory of the LORD from His place.


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[I] also [heard] the sound of the wings of the living creatures touching one another, and the sound of the wheels along with them, and a sound of a great rushing.


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So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong on me.


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Then I came to the exiles at Tel-at-abib, who lived by the river Chebar. And I sat [where] they sat; and I also dwelt seven days, being stricken dumb among them.


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And it happened at the end of seven days, even it happened [that] the Word of the LORD [came] to me, saying,


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Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word of My mouth, and give them warning from Me.


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When I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; and you do not give him warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked one shall die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.


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Yet if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.


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And when the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and when I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.


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But if you warn the righteous so that the righteous does not sin, and if he does not sin, he shall surely live because he is warned; also you have delivered your soul.


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And the hand of the LORD was on me there. And He said to me, Arise, go out into the plain, and I will talk with you there.


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Then I arose and went out into the plain; and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chebar. And I fell on my face.


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And the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet; and spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself inside your house!


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But you, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands on you and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them.


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And I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be dumb and shall not be one who warns them. For they [are] a rebellious house.


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But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: He who hears, let him hear; and he who stops his ears, let him stop; for they [are] a rebellious house.


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And He said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your belly with this roll that I give you. Then I ate [it]; and in my mouth it was like honey for sweetness.


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For you [are] not sent to a people of a deep lip and of a difficult language, [but] to the house of Israel;


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not to many people of a deep lip and of a difficult language, whose words you cannot hear. Surely, if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.


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But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to Me; for all the house of Israel [are] strong of forehead and hard of heart.


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Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces and your forehead strong against their foreheads.


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I have made your forehead as an adamant harder than flint. Do not be bowed down by their faces, though they [are] a rebellious house.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.


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He and his people with them, the fearful of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land. And they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land [with] the slain.


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And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked. And I will waste the land, and her fullness, by the hand of strangers. I the LORD have spoken.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph. And there shall no more be a ruler of the land in Egypt; and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.


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And I will set fire in Egypt; Sin shall greatly anguish, and No shall be torn in pieces, and Noph [shall have] daily woes.


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The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these [cities] shall go into exile.


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And at Tahpanhes also the day shall be held back, when I shatter the yokes of Egypt there. And the pride of her strength shall cease in her; as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into exile.


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And it happened in the eleventh year, in the first [month], in the seventh of the month, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,


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Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And lo, it shall not lie bound up to give healing, to put a bandage to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, I [am] against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong one and the broken one. And I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.


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And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put My sword in his hand. But I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of one who is stabbed.


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But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall. And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it on the land of Egypt.


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And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and scatter them among the lands. And they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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For the day [is] near, even the day of the LORD [is] near, a cloudy day. It shall be the time of the nations.


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And the sword shall come on Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.


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Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mixed people; and Chub, and the men of the land [who are in] covenant with them shall fall by the sword.


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So says the LORD: Those who uphold Egypt shall also fall, and the pride of her power shall come down. From Migdol to Syene they shall fall in it by the sword, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And they shall be ruined in the midst of the wasted lands, and her cities shall be in the midst of the wasted cities.


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


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In that day messengers shall go out from Me in ships to terrify the confident Ethiopians, and anguish shall be on them, as in the day of Egypt; for lo, it is coming.


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And it happened in the eleventh year, in the third [month], in the first of the month, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: Because you have lifted yourself up in height, and he set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;


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so I have given him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with him; I have expelled him for his evil.


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And strangers have cut him off, the fearful of the nations, and have left him. On the mountains and in all the valleys his branches have fallen, and his boughs have been broken by all the rivers of the land. And all the people of the earth have gone from his shadow, and have left him.


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On his ruin shall all the birds of the heavens remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be on his branches,


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to the end that none of all the trees [by] the waters shall be exalted in their height, nor give their top among the thick boughs, nor should their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water. For all of them are given to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the sons of men, with those who go down into the Pit.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: In the day when he went down to the grave, I caused a mourning. I covered the deep for him, and I held back its floods, and the great waters were held back. And I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted because of him.


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I made the nations shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with those who go down in the Pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the lower parts of the earth.


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They also went down into hell with him to [those who are] slain with the sword, even his arm, who lived under his shadow in the midst of the nations.


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To whom are you like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with [those] slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all [his] multitude, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: To whom are you like in your greatness?


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Behold, Assyria [was like] a cedar in Lebanon, [with] fair branches and forest shade, and of great height. And his top was among the thick boughs.


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The waters made him great; the deep set him up on high with her rivers running all around his plants, and sent out her little channels to all the trees of the field.


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So his height was lifted up above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the many waters, when he sent out.


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All the birds of the heavens nested in his boughs, and under his branches all the beasts of the field bore their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.


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So he was beautiful in his greatness, in the length of his branches. For his root was by great waters.


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The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him; the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches. Nor was any tree in the garden of God like him in his beauty.


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I have made him beautiful by his many branches, so that all the trees of Eden in the garden of God envied him.


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And it happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth [month], on the first of the month, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,


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Yea, I will make many people amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish My sword before them; and they shall tremble at [every] moment, [each] man for his own life, in the day of your fall.


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By the swords of the mighty, I will cause your host to fall, the fearful of the nations, all of them. And they shall spoil the pride of Egypt, and all its host shall be destroyed.


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I will also destroy all its beasts from beside the great waters. Nor shall the foot of man stir them any more, nor shall the hoofs of beasts stir them.


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When I shall make the land of Egypt a ruin, and the land shall be stripped of its fullness; when I shall strike all those who dwell in it; then they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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This [is] the mourning with which they shall mourn her. The daughters of the nations shall mourn her; they shall mourn for her, for Egypt and for all her multitude, says the Lord Jehovah.


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It was also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth of the month, [that] the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,


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Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and bring it down, her and the daughters of the majestic nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down [into] the Pit.


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Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, You were like a young lion of the nations, but you [were] like a sea-monster. And you came out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.


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They shall fall in the midst of [those] slain by the sword; she is delivered to the sword; they draw her and all her multitudes.


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The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with those who help him. They have gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.


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Assyria [is] there and all her company. His graves [are] around him; all of them are slain, fallen by the sword;


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their graves are set in the sides of the Pit, and her company is all around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, those who caused terror in the land of the living.


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There [is] Elam and her multitude all around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living. Yet they have borne their shame with those who go down to the Pit.


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They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude. Her graves [are] all around him; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; though their terror was given in the land of the living, yet they have borne their shame with those who go down to the Pit. He is put among the slain.


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There [is] Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude. Her graves [are] all around him. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they gave their terror in the land of the living.


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And they shall not lie with the mighty [that are] fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to hell with their weapons of war. And they have put their swords under their heads, but their sins shall be on their bones, though they [were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.


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Yea, you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shall lie with [those] slain with the sword.


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There [is] Edom, her kings, and all her rulers, who with their might are laid by [those] slain by the sword. They shall be with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the Pit.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: I will therefore spread out My net over you with an assembly of many peoples; and they shall lift you up in My net.


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There [are] the rulers of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain in their terror. They are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.


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Pharaoh shall see them and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army killed by the sword, says the Lord Jehovah.


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For I had put his terror in the land of the living. And he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with [those] slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And I will leave you on the land; I will cast you on the face of the field, and cause all the birds of the heavens to remain on you, and I will fill the beasts of all the earth with you.


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I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of you.


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And when I put you out, I will cover the heaven and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.


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I will make all the bright lights of the heavens dark over you, and will set darkness on your land, says the Lord Jehovah.


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I will also vex the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your breaking among the nations, into the lands which you have not known.


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And you, son of man, speak to the house of Israel. So you have spoken, saying, When our transgressions and our sins [are] on us, and we are wasting away in them, How then shall we live?


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Say to them: [As] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, I have no delight in the death of the wicked, except in the turning of the wicked from his way, and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?


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Therefore, son of man, say to the sons of your people: The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression. As for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it in the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor shall the righteous be able to live for his [righteousness] in the day that he sins.


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When I shall say to the righteous [that] he shall surely live; if he trusts in his own righteousness and commits iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he has committed, he shall die for it.


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Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turns from his sin and does justice and right;


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[if] the wicked gives back the pledge, gives again what he had robbed, walks in the statutes of life without committing iniquity, then he shall surely live; he shall not die.


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None of his sins that he has committed shall be called to his memory. He has done justice and right; he shall surely live.


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Yet the sons of your people say, The way of the Lord is not fair. But as for them, their way is not fair.


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Son of man, speak to the sons of your people, and say to them: When I bring the sword on it, on a land, and take one man from the people of the land, of their borders, and set him for their watchman;


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Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not fair. O house of Israel, I will judge you, each one according to his ways.


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And it was in the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth [month], on the fifth of the month, one who escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city is stricken.


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And the LORD's hand was on me in the evening, before he who had escaped came. And He had opened my mouth until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was dumb no more.


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Son of man, those who live in those wastes of the land of Israel are speaking, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land. But we [are] many; the land is given to us for inheritance.


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So say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood; and shall you possess the land?


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You stand on your sword, you work abomination, each defiling his neighbor's wife. And shall you possess the land?


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Speak to them in this way, So says the Lord Jehovah: [As] I live, surely those who [are] in the ruins shall fall by the sword, and I will give him who [is] in the open field to the beasts to be eaten up, and those in the forts and in the caves shall die of the plague.


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For I have made the land a ruin, and the pride of her strength has ceased. And the mountains of Israel shall be a waste, so that none shall pass through.


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And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have made the land a ruin because of all their abominations which they have committed.


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And you, son of man, the sons of your people are still talking about you by the walls, and in the doors of the houses, and speaking to one another, each man to his brother, saying, I pray you, come and hear what is the word which comes from the LORD.


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And they come to you as the people come, and they sit before you [as] My people, and they hear your words. But they will not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, [but] their heart goes after their unjust gain.


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And lo, you [are] to them as a singer of love songs [with] a beautiful voice, and able to play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them.


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then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, if the sword does come and take him away, his blood shall be on his own head.


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He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning. His blood shall be on himself. But he who takes warning shall deliver his soul.


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But if the watchman sees the sword coming, and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned; if the sword comes and takes [any] person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity. But I will require his blood at the watchman's hand.


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And you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore you shall hear the Word from My mouth, and warn them from Me.


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When I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die; if you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked one shall die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.


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But, if you warn the wicked of his way, to turn from it; if he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I [am] against the shepherds, and I will require My flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock. Nor shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver My flock from their mouth, and they will not be food to devour.


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As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out My sheep and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.


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And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the lands, and will bring them to their own land and feed them on the mountain of Israel by the rivers, and in all the places of the land where people live.


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I will feed them in a good pasture, and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Israel. There they shall lie in a good fold, and [in] a fat pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel.


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I will seek the lost, and bring again those driven away, and will bind up the broken, and will strengthen the sick. But I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.


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And you, My flock, says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I judge between lamb and lamb, [between] rams and he-goats.


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Is it a small thing to you to have eaten up the good pasture, but you must trample the rest of your pastures with your feet? And to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the rest with your feet?


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Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah to the shepherds: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks?


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So the Lord Jehovah says this to them: Behold I Myself will even judge between the fat lamb and the lean lamb.


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Because you have thrust with side and with shoulder, and have pushed all the weak with your horns until you have scattered them to the outside,


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therefore I will save My flock, and they shall no more be a prey. And I will judge between lamb and lamb.


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And I will set up one Shepherd over them, and He shall feed them, My servant David. He shall feed them, and He shall be their Shepherd.


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And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will send the evil beasts out of the land. And they shall dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.


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And I will make them, and the places around My hill, a blessing; and I will bring down the shower in its season. There shall be showers of blessing.


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


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And no more shall they be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beast of the land eat them. But they shall dwell safely, and none shall terrify [them].


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And I will raise up for them a [noted] planting place, and they shall never again [be of] those gathered by famine in the land, nor shall they bear the shame of the nations any more.


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You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you kill the fat ones, [but] you do not feed the flock.


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And they shall know that I, Jehovah their God, [am] with them, and they, the house of Israel, [are] My people, says the Lord Jehovah.


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You have not made the weak strong, nor have you healed the sick, nor have you bound up the broken. You have not brought again those driven away, nor have you sought that which was lost; but you have ruled them with force and with cruelty.


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And they were scattered for lack of a shepherd. And they became food to all the beasts of the field when they were scattered.


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My sheep wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill. Yea, My flock was scattered on all the face of the earth, and none searched nor sought for them.


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[As] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, surely because My flock became a prey, and My flock became food to every beast of the field, because [there was] no shepherd, nor did My shepherds search [for] My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock,


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Because you have said, These two nations and these two lands shall be mine, and we shall possess it; yet the LORD was there;


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therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, I will act by your anger and by your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them. And I will make Myself known among them when I have judged you.


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And you shall know that I [am] the LORD. I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, Desolation! They are given to us for food.


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So with your mouth you have boasted against Me, and have multiplied your words against Me. I have heard [them].


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As you rejoiced at the inheritance of the house of Israel because of desolation, so I will do to you. You shall be a desolation, O Mount Seir and all Idumea, even all of it. And they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And say to it, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, O Mount Seir, I [am] against you, and I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you a ruin and a waste.


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Because you have had a never-ending hatred, and have shed [the blood of] the sons of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time [that] iniquity [had] an end,


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therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, I will yield you up to blood, and blood shall pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, even blood shall pursue you.


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So I will make Mount Seir a ruin, and cut off from it the one passing through, and the one returning.


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And I will fill his mountains [with] his dead. [In] your hills, and your valleys, and all your rivers, those slain with the sword shall fall in them.


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I will make you ruins forever, and your cities shall not be inhabited. And you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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Also, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, Mountains of Israel, hear the Word of the LORD.


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And I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, all of it. And the cities shall have people, and the wastes shall be built.


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And I will multiply men and beast on you, and they shall increase and be fruitful. And I will make you dwell as before, and I will do better [to you] than at your beginnings. And you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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Yea, I will cause men to walk on you, even My people Israel. And they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and not any more will increase their bereavement.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: Because they say to you, You [are] a devourer of men, and you have bereaved your nations;


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so you shall devour men no more, nor shall you bereave your nations any more, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Nor will I allow you to hear the shame of the nations any more, nor shall you bear the shame of the peoples any more, nor shall you cause your nations to fall any more, says the Lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings, even as the defilement of woman's impurity, their way was before Me.


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So I poured My fury on them, because of the blood that they had shed on the land, and for their idols [by which] they defiled it.


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And I scattered them among the nations, and they were scattered through the lands. I judged them according to their way and according to their doings.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! Even the old high places have become a possession to us.


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And when they entered the nations where they went, they even profaned My holy name by saying to them, These [are] the people of the Jehovah, and they are gone out of His land.


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But I had pity for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.


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Therefore say to the house of Israel, So says the Lord Jehovah: I do not do [this] for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.


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And I will sanctify My great name, which was profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst. And the nations shall know that I [am] the LORD, says the Lord Jehovah, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.


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For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all lands, and will gather you into your own land.


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And I will sprinkle clean waters on you, and you shall be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from your idols.


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


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


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And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. And you shall be My people, and I will be your God.


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I will also save you from all your defilements, and I will call for the grain, and will increase it, and will lay no famine on you.


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Therefore prophesy and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Because of the wasting and crushing of you from all around, that you might be a possession to the rest of the nations, and you were lifted up on the tip of the tongue, and the talking of the people;


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And I will multiply the fruits of the tree and the increase of the field, so that you shall never again receive the curse of famine among the nations.


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And you shall remember your own evil ways, and your doings that [were] not good, and shall despise yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.


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I do not do [this] for your sake, says the Lord Jehovah, be it known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will also cause [you] to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be built.


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And they shall say, This land that was wasted has become like the garden of Eden. And the wasted, deserted and ruined cities now [are] fortified and inhabited.


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And the nations that are left all around you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined [places and] plant that which was wasted. I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: yet this, I will be sought by the house of Israel to act for them. I will increase them with men like a flock.


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As a holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men. And they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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so, mountains of Israel, hear the Word of the Lord Jehovah. So says the Lord Jehovah to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the deserted wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and a mockery to the rest of the nations all around.


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Idumea, who have given My land to themselves for a possession with all joy of heart, with scorning of soul, to make it open land for a prey.


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So prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My fury, because you have borne the shame of the nations.


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Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: I have lifted up My hand; surely the nations around you shall bear their shame.


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But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall put out your branches and yield your fruit to My people Israel; for they have drawn near to come.


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The hand of the LORD was on me, and brought me by the Spirit of the LORD, and made me rest in the midst of a valley, and it [was] full of bones.


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So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the Spirit came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.


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And He said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones [are] dried and our hope is lost; we are cut off by ourselves.


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Therefore prophesy and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, and will bring you into the land of Israel.


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


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And I shall put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. And you shall know that I the LORD have spoken and have done it, says the LORD.


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And you, son of man, take a stick and write on it, For Judah and for his companions, the sons of Israel. And take another stick and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and all the house of Israel, his companions.


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And when the sons of your people shall speak to you, saying, Will you not declare to us what these [mean] to you?


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Say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which [is] in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions, and I will put them with him, with the stick of Judah, and will make them one stick, and they shall be one in My hand.


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And He made me pass among them all around. And behold, very many [were] on the face of the valley. And lo, [they were] very dry.


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And say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and will gather them on every side, and will bring them into their own land.


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And I will make them one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel, and one King shall be king to them all. And they shall not still be two nations, nor shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.


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Nor shall they be defiled with their idols, even with their filthy idols, nor with all of their transgressions. But I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in them where they sinned, and will cleanse them. And they shall be to Me for a people, and I will be to them for God.


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And David My servant [shall be] King over them. And there shall be one Shepherd to all of them. And they shall walk in My judgments, and obey My laws, and do them.


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And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, the land in which your fathers have lived. And they shall dwell in it, even they and their sons, and the sons of their sons for ever. And My servant David [shall be their ruler forever.


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And I will cut a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them, and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in their midst forever.


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And the nations shall know that I the LORD sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary shall be in their midst forever.


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Again He said to me, Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the Word of the LORD.


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So says the Lord Jehovah to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.


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And I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live. And you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a noise. And behold, a shaking! And the bones came near, a bone to its bone.


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And I watched. And behold! The sinews and the flesh came up on them, and the skin covered them above. But [there was] no breath in them.


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And He said to me, Prophesy to the Spirit, prophesy, son of man, and say to the Spirit, So says the Lord Jehovah: Come from the four winds, O Spirit, and breathe on these dead ones so that they may live.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: And it shall be in that day that things shall come into your heart, and you shall devise an evil plan.


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And you shall say, I will go up to the land of open spaces. I will go [to] those at ease, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and there are no bars nor gates to them,


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in order to take a spoil, and to steal a prize; to turn your hand on the inhabited waste places, and on the people gathered out of the nations, who have gotten cattle and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.


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Sheba and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all their young lions, shall say to you, Have you come to take a spoil? Have you gathered your company to steal a prize, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?


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So, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, So says the Lord Jehovah: In that day when My people of Israel dwells securely, shall you not know [it] ?


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And you shall come from your place out of the recesses of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army.


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And you shall come up on My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It shall be in the last days, and I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I shall be sanctified in you, O Gog, before their eyes.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: [Are] you he of whom I have spoken in former days, by the hand of My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days [and] years that I would bring you against them?


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And it shall be on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel, says the Lord Jehovah, My fury shall come up in My face.


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For in My jealousy [and] in the fire of My wrath I have spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great quaking in the land of Israel,


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


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so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all the men on the face of the earth, shall quake at My presence. And the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.


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And I will call for a sword against him on all My mountains, says the Lord Jehovah. [Each] man's sword shall be against his brother.


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And I will judge him with a plague and with blood. And I will rain on him, and on his bands, and on the many peoples with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire and brimstone.


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So I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself. And I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I [am] against you, O Gog, the chief ruler of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal.


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And I will turn you back, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed most perfectly, a great assembly [with] buckler and shield, all of them swordsmen;


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Gomer and all his bands; the house of Togarmah [from] the recesses of the north, and all his bands; [and] many peoples with you.


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Be prepared; yea, prepare for yourself, you and all your assembly that are assembled to you, and be a guard to them.


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After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you shall come into the land turned back from the sword, gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have always been waste. (But he has been brought out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them.)


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And you shall go up, coming like a storm. You shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you and all your bands, and many peoples with you.


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Therefore, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I [am] against you, O Gog, the chief ruler of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal.


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so that they shall take no wood out of the field, nor cut down [any] out of the forests for they shall burn the weapons for fire. And they shall plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And it will be in that day I will give to Gog a place there, a grave in Israel, the valley of those who pass by, east of the sea. And it shall stop the [noses] of those who pass by. And there they shall bury Gog and all his multitude. And [they] shall call [it], The Valley of the Multitude of Gog.


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And all the people of the land shall bury. And it shall be a name to them, the day when I am glorified, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And men shall separate those who continually pass through the land, burying those who passed through, who remain on the face of the earth, to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they shall search.


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And [as] they pass, those who pass through the land, and [any] man sees a bone, then he shall build a post beside it, until the buriers have buried it in The Valley of the Multitude of Gog.


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And you, son of man, So says the Lord Jehovah. Speak to the bird of every wing, and to every beast of the field: Gather yourselves and come; gather yourselves from all around to My sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, so that you may eat flesh and drink blood.


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You shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the rulers of the earth, of rams, lambs, goats, [and] bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.


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


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And I will turn you back, and lead you on. And I will bring you up from the recesses of the north, and I will bring you on the mountains of Israel.


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And you shall be filled at My table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, all the men of war, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And I will set My glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see My judgments which I have done, and My hand that I have laid on them.


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And the nations shall know that the house of Israel was exiled for their iniquity. Because they sinned against Me, therefore I hid My face from them and gave them into the hand of their enemies. So they all fell by the sword.


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According to their uncleanness and according to their sins I have done to them, and have hidden My face from them.


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Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: And I will return the captivity of Jacob, and will have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for My holy name;


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[after] they have borne their shame and all their sins by which they have sinned against Me, when they dwell securely in their land and no one terrifies;


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when I have brought them again from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;


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then they shall know that I [am] the LORD their God who exiled them among the nations. But I have gathered them to their own land, and have not left any of them there.


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Nor will I hide My face from them any more, for I have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.


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You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your bands, and the people with you. I will give you for food to the birds of prey of every kind, and [to] the beasts of the field.


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And I will send a fire on Magog, and on the secure inhabitants of the coasts. And they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel. And I will not [let them] profane My holy name any more. And the nations shall know that I [am] the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.


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Behold, it is coming, and it will be done, says the Lord Jehovah. This [is] the day of which I have spoken.


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And the inhabitants of the cities of Israel shall go out and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the javelins, and the spears. And they shall burn them with fire seven years,


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And you, son of man, take a tile to yourself, and lay it before you, and portray on it the city Jerusalem.


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And your food which you shall eat [shall be] by weight twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it.


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And you shall eat it [as] barley cakes, and you shall bake it with dung of the excrement of man, in their sight.


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And the LORD said, Even so shall the sons of Israel eat their defiled bread among the nations, where I will drive them.


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Then I said, Ah Lord Jehovah! Behold, my soul has not been defiled. For from my youth up, even till now, I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither did there come any unclean flesh into my mouth.


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Then He said to me, Lo, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread with it.


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And He said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. And they shall eat bread by weight, and with care. And they shall drink water by measure, and in silence,


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so that they may lack bread and water, and be stricken dumb with one another, and waste away in their iniquity.


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And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mound against it. Also set the camp against it, and set [battering] rams against it all around.


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And take an iron griddle to yourself, and set it [for] a wall of iron between you and the city. And set your face against it, and it shall be under attack. And you shall set a battle against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.


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Also lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; [according] to the number of days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.


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For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.


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And when you have fulfilled them, lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days; a day for a year; a day for a year, I have set for you.


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And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm [shall be] uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it.


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And, behold, I will lay bands on you, and you shall not turn yourself from one side to [another] until you have ended the days of your siege.


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Take also to yourself wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself. [According] to the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat of it.


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In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was stricken, in the same day the hand of the LORD was on me, and brought me there.


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And the gate rooms eastward [were] three from here, and three from there; one measure to the three of them; and one measure [was] to the pillars from here and from there.


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And he measured the breadth of the gate-opening, ten cubits. The length of the gate [was] thirteen cubits.


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And the border in front of the rooms [was] one cubit from here, and the space [was] one cubit from there. And the room [was] six cubits from here and six cubits from there.


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and latticed windows [were] to the rooms and to their pillars inside the gate all around. And so for the porches; and windows [were] all around inside; and to each pillar [were] palm trees.


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And he brought me into the outer court, and lo, chambers, and a pavement made for the court all around. Thirty rooms [were] on the pavement.


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And the pavement by the side of the gates to equal the length of the gates [was] the lower pavement.


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And he measured the breadth from the front of the lower gate to the front of the inner court on the outside, a hundred cubits eastward and northward.


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In the visions of God He brought me into the land of Israel, and made me rest on a very high mountain. And it went up, as the structure of the city on the south.


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And the gate which faces the way of the north of the outer court, he measured its length and its breadth.


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And its rooms [were] three from here and three from there. And its pillars and its porches were according to the first measure. Its length [was] fifty cubits, and its breadth, twenty-five cubits.


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And their windows, and their porches, and their palm trees, [were] according to the measure of the gate facing the east. And they went up to it by seven steps; and its porches [were] before them.


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And the gate of the inner court [was] across from the gate toward the north and toward the east. And he measured from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.


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And he led me southward, and behold a gate southward. And he measured its pillars and its porches according to these measures.


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And [there were] windows in it and in its porches all around, like those windows. The length [was] fifty cubits, and the breadth, twenty-five cubits.


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And seven steps [were] going up to it, and its porches [were] before them. And [it had] palm trees, one from here and another from there, on its pillars.


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


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And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. And he measured the south gate according to these measures,


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and its rooms and its pillars and its porches according to these measures. And [there were] windows in it and in its porches all around. It [was] fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.


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And He brought me there, and behold, a man whose appearance [was] like the look of bronze, and a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed. And he stood in the gate.


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And its porches [were] toward the outer court; and palm trees on its pillars. And its stairway [had] eight steps.


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And he brought me into the inner court eastward. And he measured the gate according to these measures.


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And its rooms, and its pillars, and its porches, [were] measured according to these measures. And there [were] windows in it and in its porches all around. It [was] fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.


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And its porches [were] toward the outer court. And palm trees [were] on its pillars, from here, and from there. And its stairway [had] eight steps.


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its rooms, its pillars, and its porches, and its windows all around. The length [was] fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.


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And its pillars [were] toward the outer court. And palm trees [were] on its pillars, from here and from there. And its stairway [had] eight steps.


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And the chamber and its door [was] by the pillars of the gates; they washed the burnt offering there.


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And in the porch of the gate [were] two tables from here and two tables from there, for the slaughtering of the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.


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And the man said to me, Son of man, behold with your eyes and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you. For you are brought here so that I might show them to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.


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And to the side outside, as one goes up to the door of the gate northward [were] two tables; and on the other side at the porch of the gate, two tables.


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Four tables [were] from here, and four tables [were] from there, by the side of the gate: eight tables; they slaughter on them.


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And the four tables for burnt offering [were] of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high. They also rested on them the instruments with which they slaughtered the burnt offering and the sacrifice.


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And the double hooks of one span [were] fastened in the house all around, and on the tables the flesh of the offering.


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And from the outside to the inner court [were] the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which [was] at the side of the north gate. And their face [was] southward: one at the side of the east gate looked the way of the north.


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And he said to me, This chamber facing southward [is] for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.


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And the chamber facing northward [is] for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar. They are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, who come near the LORD to minister to Him.


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And he measured the court, a square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide; and the altar [was] before the house.


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And he brought me to the porch of the house and measured [each] pillar of the porch, five cubits from here and five cubits from there. And the gate [was] three cubits wide from here and three cubits from there.


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The porch [was] twenty cubits long, and eleven cubits wide. And [he brought me] by the steps by which they went up to it. And columns [were] by the pillars, one from here and another from there.


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And behold, a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man's hand [was] a measuring reed, six cubits [long], with a cubit and a span. And he measured the building's breadth, one reed; and the height, one reed.


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And he came to the gate which faced eastward, and went up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide, even the one threshold, one reed wide.


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And a room [was] one reed long and one reed wide. And between the rooms [were] five cubits. And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate from the house, one reed.


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And he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its pillars, two cubits; also the porch of the gate from the house.


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And he brought me to the temple and measured the pillars, six cubits wide from here and six cubits wide from there, which [was] the breadth of the tabernacle.


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And the door of the side chamber [was] toward the open space, one door northward and one door southward. And the width of the place of the open space [was] five cubits all around.


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And the building that [was] before the separate place at the end of the way of the west [was] seventy cubits wide. And the wall of the building [was] five cubits wide all around, and its length, ninety cubits.


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And he measured the house, a hundred cubits long. And the separate place, and the building, and its wall, [were] a hundred cubits long.


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And he measured the length of the building to the front of the separate place which [was] behind it; and its gallery from here and from there, a hundred cubits, with the inner temple and the porches of the court,


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the thresholds, and the latticed narrow windows, and the galleries all around, their three stories across from the threshold, with wood panelings all around, and [from] the ground up to the windows; and the windows [were] covered;


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to that above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall around inside and outside, by measure.


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And it [was] made with cherubs and palm trees, and a palm tree [was] between cherub and cherub. And each cherub had two faces,


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the face of a man [was] toward the palm tree from here, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree from there. It [was] made through all the house all around.


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And the breadth of the door [was] ten cubits; and the sides of the door, five cubits from here, and five cubits from there. And he measured its length, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.


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From the ground to above the door [were] cherubs and palm trees made, and [on] the wall of the temple.


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The temple doorposts [were] squared, and the face of the sanctuary. The looks of the one was like the looks of the other.


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


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And two doors [leaves] [were] to [each] of the doors, two turning doors, two for the one door, and two for the other door.


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And on them, on the temple doors, [were] made cherubs and palm trees like those made on the walls, and thick wood on the face of the porch outside.


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And latticed windows, and palm trees, [were] from here and from there, on the sides of the porch, and on the side chambers of the house, and wooden [canopies].


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And he went inside and measured the pillar of the door, two cubits; and the door [was] six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.


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And he measured its length, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple. And he said to me, This [is] the Holy of Holies.


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And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of each side room [was] four cubits, all around the house on [every] side.


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And the side chambers [were] a side chamber over a side chamber, three stories, and thirty times. And [they] entered the wall of the house for the side chambers all around, that they might be fastened, for they [were] not fastened to the wall of the house.


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And there [was] a widening, and a winding upwards [and] upwards to the side chambers. For the winding around of the house went upward [and] upward, all around the house. On account of this the width of the house went upward, and so from the lowest it went up to the highest by the middle [story].


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I also saw the height of the house all around. The foundations of the side rooms [were] a full reed, six large cubits by joining.


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The width of the wall, which [was] for the side chamber to the outside, [was] five cubits, and what [was] left between the side chambers that [were] of the house.


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And he brought me out into the outer court, the way northward. And he brought me into the chamber that [was] across from the separate place and which [was] in front of the building to the north.


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in the width of the wall of the court eastward, to the front of the separate area, and to the front of the building [were] chambers.


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And the way in front of them looked like the chambers which [were] northward, as their length, so their width. And all their exits [were] as their patterns, and as their doors.


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And as the doors of the chambers that [were] southward [was] a door in the head of the way, [even] the way directly in front of the wall eastward, as one enters them.


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And he said to me, The north chambers [and] the south chambers which [are] in front of the separate place, they [are] holy chambers, where the priests shall eat, [those] who approach to the LORD shall eat the most holy [things]. There they shall lay the most holy things, and the food offering, and the sin offering, and the guilt offering. For the place [is holy.


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When the priests enter, then they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but they shall lay their clothes there by which they minister in them, for they are holy. And they shall put on other clothes, and shall approach that which is for the people.


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And he finished measuring the inner house; he brought me out the way of the gate whose view is eastward, and measured all around.


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He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed, all around.


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He measured it by the four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred long, and five hundred wide, to make a separation between the holy place and the common place.


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Across from the twenty cubits which [were] for the inner court, and across from the pavement which [was] for the outer court, gallery [was] on gallery in three stories.


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And before the chambers [was] a walk of ten cubits width inward, a way of one cubit. And their doors [were] northward.


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And the upper chambers [were] shorter; for the galleries used up more space than the lower and middle ones in the building.


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For they [were] in three [stories], but there [were] no columns to them like the columns of the courts. So [the third] story was made narrower than the lower and the middle stories from the ground.


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And the wall that [was] outside near the chambers, toward the outer court on the front of the chambers, its length [was] fifty cubits.


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For the length of the chambers that [were] in the outer court [was] fifty cubits. And lo, in front of the temple [was] a hundred cubits.


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And under these chambers [was] the entrance on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court,


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You, son of man, declare [to] the house of Israel, the [temple] house, so that they may be ashamed of their iniquities. And let them measure [its] size.


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And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, the form of the house, and its arrangement, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its statutes, and all its forms, and all its laws, make known to them. And write them before their eyes, so that they may observe all its form, and all its statutes, and do them.


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This [is] the law of the house. On the top of the mountain [is] all its border, all around, most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.


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And these are the measures of the altar by the cubit. The cubit [is] a cubit and a span; even the base [shall be] a cubit, and the width a cubit, and its border by its edge all around shall be] a span. And this [is the upper part of the altar.


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And from the base on the ground even to the lower ledge [shall be] two cubits, and the width one cubit. And from the smaller ledge even to the greater ledge [shall be] four cubits, and the width one cubit.


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And the altar hearth [shall be] four cubits, and from the altar hearth and upward [shall be] four horns.


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And the ledge [shall be] fourteen long and fourteen wide in its four sides. And the border around it [shall be] half a cubit, and its base a cubit around. And its steps shall face eastward.


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And He said to me, Son of man, so says the Lord Jehovah: These [are] the statutes of the altar in the day of its being made to offer on it burnt offerings, and to sprinkle blood on it.


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And you shall give a young bull for a sin offering to the priests the Levites, who [are] of the seed of Zadok, who approach Me to minister to Me, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. And His voice [was] like the sound of many waters. And the earth shone with His glory.


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And you shall take of its blood and put [it] on its four horns, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around. So you shall cleanse and purge it.


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You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and he shall burn [it] in the appointed place of the house, outside the sanctuary.


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And on the second day you shall offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering. And they shall cleanse the altar as they cleansed it with the bull.


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And when you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish and a ram out of the flock without blemish.


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And you shall offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to the LORD.


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Every day [for] seven days you shall prepare a goat [for] a sin offering. They also shall prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.


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And when these days are expired, it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings before the altar, and your peace offerings. And I will accept you, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And it looked the same as the vision which I saw, even according to the vision which I saw when I came to destroy the city. And the visions [were] like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar. And I fell on my face.


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And the Spirit took me up and brought me into the inner chamber. And behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.


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And He said to me, Son of man, the house of Israel shall no more defile the place of My throne, and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel forever; neither they, nor their kings, by their fornication, nor by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places.


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In their setting of their doorstep by My threshold, and their doorpost by My doorpost; and the wall between Me and them, they have even defiled My holy name by their abominations which they have done. And I have consumed them in My anger.


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Now [let] them put away their fornication, and the dead bodies of their kings from Me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.


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And he brought me back by the way of the gate of the outer sanctuary which looks eastward. And it [was] shut.


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But the Levites who have gone far away from Me, when Israel went astray; those who went astray from Me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.


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Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, overseers at the gates of the house and ministering to the house. They shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.


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Because they ministered to them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity, therefore I have lifted up My hand against them, says the Lord Jehovah, and they shall bear their iniquity.


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And they shall not come near Me, to do the office of a priest to Me, nor to come near any of My holy things, in the most holy place; but they shall bear their shame and their abominations which they have committed.


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But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house for all its service, and for all that shall be done in it.


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But the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of My sanctuary when the sons of Israel went astray from Me, they shall come near Me to minister to Me, and they shall stand before Me to offer to Me the fat and the blood, says the Lord Jehovah.


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They shall enter My sanctuary, and they shall come near My table, to minister to Me, and they shall keep My charge.


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And it shall be, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with bleached [linen] clothing. And no wool shall come on them while they serve in the gates of the inner court, and inside.


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Turbans of bleached [linen] shall be on their heads, and shall have bleached [linen] undergarments on their loins. They shall not clothe themselves with anything that causes sweat.


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And when they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court of the people, they shall put off their clothes in which they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers. And they shall put on other clothes, so that they shall not sanctify the people with their own clothes.


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And the LORD said to me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it. Because Jehovah, the God of Israel, has entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.


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Nor shall they shave their heads nor allow their hair to grow long; they shall only trim their heads.


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Nor shall they take for their wives a widow nor her who is put away. But they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who had a priest before.


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And they shall teach My people to discern between the holy and common, and between the unclean and the clean.


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And in a dispute they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to My judgments. And they shall keep My laws and My statutes in all My assemblies, and they shall keep My sabbaths holy.


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And he shall not come near any dead person to defile [himself;] but he may defile themselves for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband.


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And in the day that he goes into the sanctuary, to the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And it shall be to them for an inheritance. I [am] their inheritance. And you shall give them no possession in Israel; I [am] their possession.


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They shall eat the food offering, and the sin offering, and the guilt offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.


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[It is] for the ruler; the ruler shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD. He shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the same way.


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And the first of all the firstfruits of all, and every offering of all, of every [kind] of your sacrifices, shall be the priest's. You shall also give the priest the first of your dough, so that he may cause the blessing to rest in your house.


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The priests shall not eat of anything that died of itself, or is torn, whether it is bird or animal.


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And He brought me by the way of the north gate before the house. And I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD. And I fell on my face.


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And the LORD said to me, Son of man, note carefully: see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I say to you concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all its laws. And set your heart to the entrance of the house, with all the exits of the sanctuary.


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And you shall say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, This says the Lord Jehovah: O house of Israel, let it be more than enough for you, of all your hateful deeds,


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that you have brought strangers, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary, to profane it, [even] My house, when you offer My bread, the fat and the blood. And they have broken My covenant because of all your abominations.


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And you have not kept the charge of My holy things, but you have set keepers of My charge in My sanctuary for themselves.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: No son of an alien, uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh, shall enter into My sanctuary, or any son of an alien among the sons of Israel.


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And, when you make fall the land by lot for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to the LORD, a holy [portion] of the land. The length [shall be] twenty-five thousand [cubits long, and the width ten thousand. It shall be holy in all its borders all around.


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The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth [part] of a homer, and the ephah the tenth [part] of a homer. Its measure shall be according to the homer.


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


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This [is] the heave offering that you shall offer: the sixth of an ephah of a homer of wheat, and the sixth of an ephah of a homer of barley.


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And as to the statute of oil, the bath of oil, you shall offer the tenth of a bath out of the cor, which is a homer of ten baths; for ten baths [are] a homer;


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and one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the watered [pasture] of Israel; for a food offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And it shall be the ruler's [part] to give burnt offerings and food offerings and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering and the food offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: In the first [month], in the first of the month, you shall take a bull without blemish, a son of the herd, and cleanse the sanctuary.


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And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering and put [it] on the doorposts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts of the inner court.


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Of this there shall be five hundred by five hundred cubits for the sanctuary, square all around; and fifty cubits around shall be for its open space.


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And so you shall do on the seventh of the month for each man who goes astray, and for the simple. So you shall atone for the house.


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In the first [month], on the fourteenth of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days. Unleavened bread shall be eaten.


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And on that day the ruler shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull [for] a sin offering.


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And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bulls and seven rams, without blemish, daily [for] the seven days, and a kid of the goats daily [for] a sin offering.


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And he shall prepare a food offering of an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil for an ephah.


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In the seventh [month], on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast he shall prepare like these seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the food offering, and according to the oil.


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And from this measure you shall measure the length of twenty-five thousand, and the width of ten thousand. And in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place.


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It is the holy [portion] of the land for the priests, it shall be for the ministers of the sanctuary who come near to minister to the LORD. And it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.


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And the twenty-five thousand cubits in length, and the ten thousand in width, shall also be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, for themselves for a possession, twenty rooms.


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And you shall give the possession of the city, five thousand [cubits] wide, and twenty-five thousand long, beside the offering of the holy [portion]. It shall be for the whole house of Israel.


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And a [portion shall be] for the ruler from here and from there, for [the] heave offering of the holy place, and of the possession of the city, in front of the heave offering of the holy place, and to the front of the city's possession, from the west side westward and from the east side eastward. And the length [shall be] alongside one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.


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It shall be for a land to him, for a possession in Israel; and My rulers shall never again oppress My people. And they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: Enough for you, O rulers of Israel. Remove violence and spoil, and do judgment and justice. Take away your demands on My people, says the Lord Jehovah.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: The gate of the inner court that faces eastward shall be shut the six working days. But on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.


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And in the feasts and in the appointed feasts the food offering shall be an ephah to a bull, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.


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And when the ruler shall prepare a free-will burnt offering or peace offerings willingly to the LORD, [one] shall then open to him the gate that faces eastward, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the Sabbath day. And he shall go out. And after his going out, one shall shut the gate.


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You shall daily prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, a lamb without blemish, a son of a year. You shall prepare it every morning.


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And you shall prepare a food offering for it every morning, the sixth of an ephah, and the third of a hin of oil, to make the fine flour moist; a food offering every day by an ordinance forever to the LORD.


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So they shall prepare the lamb, and the food offering, and the oil, every morning for a burnt offering continually.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: If the ruler gives a gift to any of his sons, the inheritance of it shall be his sons'; it [shall be] their possession by inheritance.


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But if he gives a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty. Afterwards. it shall return to the ruler, but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them.


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And the ruler shall not take of the people's inheritance, oppressing them out of their possession. But he shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own possession; so that My people may not be scattered, each man from his possession.


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And he brought me through the entry which [was] at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, facing north. And behold, there [was] a place on the two sides westward.


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And the ruler shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate outside, and shall stand by the gatepost. And the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. And he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.


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And he said to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the food offering, so that they may not bear [them] out into the outer court to sanctify the people.


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And he led me out into the outer court and he made me pass by the four corners of the court. And behold, in every corner of the court there [was] a court.


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In the four corners of the court [were] enclosed courts, forty [cubits] long and thirty wide, one measure to the four of them, being made in corners.


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And a row [was] all around in them, all around the four of them. And boiling water [was] made under the rows all around.


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And he said to me, These [are] the places of those who boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.


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And the people of the land shall worship [at] the door of that gate before the LORD on the sabbaths and in the new moons.


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


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And the food offering [shall be] an ephah for a ram, and the food offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.


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And in the day of the new moon [it shall be] a bull without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram. They shall be without blemish.


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And he shall prepare a food offering, an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as his hand shall be able to get, and a hin of oil to an ephah.


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And when the ruler shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and by its way he shall go out.


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But when the people of the land come before the LORD in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate. And he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go out by the way of the north gate. He shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall leave opposite it.


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And he led me again to the door of the house. And behold, water came out from under the threshold of the house eastward. For the front of the house [is] east, and the water came down from under the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.


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And it will be, the fishermen shall stand on it from En-gedi even to En-eglaim, a spreading place for nets shall be there. Their fish shall be according to their kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea, very many.


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And all trees [for] food shall go up by the torrent, on its bank on this [side], and on that [side]. Its leaf shall not fade, nor its fruit fail. It will bear by its months, because its waters come out from the sanctuary. And its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for healing.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: This [shall be] the border by which you shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph [shall have two] parts.


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And you shall inherit it, each man like his brother, that I lifted up My hand to give to your fathers; even this land shall fall to you for an inheritance.


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And this [is] the border of the land to the north side, from the Great Sea, the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad;


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Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which [is] between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which [is] by the border of Hauran.


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And the border shall be from the sea to Hazar-enan, at the border of Damascus and the north northward, even the border of Hamath. And [this is] the north side.


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And you shall measure the east side from between Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and the land of Israel, [shall be] the Jordan, from the border to the Eastern Sea. And [this is] the east side.


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And the south side, southward from Tamar, to the waters of Meriboth-kadesh, the torrent to the Great Sea. And [this is] the south side southward.


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And he led me out by the way of the north gate, and led me around the way outside to the outer gate, by the way facing the east. And behold, water [was] trickling out of the right side.


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And the west side [is] the Great Sea from the border until one is beside the entrance of Hamath. [This is] the west side.


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And it will be, you shall make it fall by lot for an inheritance to yourselves, and to the strangers who live among you, who shall father sons among you. And they shall be to you as native-born among the sons of Israel. They shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.


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And it shall be, in the tribe in which the stranger resides, there you shall give his inheritance, says the Lord Jehovah.


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When the man went out eastward, and a line in his hand, he measured a thousand cubits. And he passed me through the water. The water [was to] the ankles.


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And he measured a thousand cubits, and passed me through the water, water [to] the knees. And he measured a thousand, and passed me through water [to] the loins.


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And he measured a thousand; and there was a torrent which I [was] not able to pass; for the water had risen, water to swim [in], a torrent that could not be passed.


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And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen? And he led me, and caused me to return to the bank of the torrent.


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When I returned, then behold, on the edge of the torrent [were] very many trees, from here and from there.


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And he said to me, These waters go out toward the eastern circuit, and go down into the Arabah, and go into the sea. They are brought out into the sea, and the waters shall be healed.


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And it shall be that every living soul which swarms in every [place], there where the two torrents go, [that soul] shall live. And there shall be very many fish, because these waters shall come there. And they shall be healed. And all shall live where the torrent goes.


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And these [are] the names of the tribes. From the north end, at the hand of the way of Hethlon [to] the entrance of Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus northward, at the hand of Hamath. And there shall be to it an east side and a west: one [part] for Dan.


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And for these shall be the holy heave offering for the priests; northward, twenty-five thousand; and westward ten thousand wide; and eastward ten thousand wide, and southward twenty-five thousand long. And the sanctuary of the LORD [shall be] in the middle of it,


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for the priests who are sanctified, of the sons of Zadok, who have kept My charge, who did not go astray when the sons of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.


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And the heave offering shall be theirs, from the heave offering of the land, the holiest of the holy places, by the border of the Levites.


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And the Levites [shall have] alongside the border of the priests twenty-five thousand [cubits] long, and ten thousand wide. All the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the width ten thousand.


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And they shall not sell any of it, nor trade it, nor cause the first-fruits of the land to pass away. For [it is] holy to the LORD.


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And the five thousand that are left in the width in front of the twenty-five thousand [shall be] common for the city, for dwelling and for open land. And the city shall be in her midst.


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And these shall be its measures: the north side, four thousand and five hundred; and the south side, four thousand and five hundred; and on the east side, four thousand and five hundred; and the west side, four thousand and five hundred.


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And the open land of the city shall be 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 rest in length alongside the heave offering of the holy [parts shall be] ten thousand eastward and ten thousand westward. And it shall be alongside the heave offering of the holy part]. And its produce shall be for bread to those who serve the city.


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All the heave offering [shall be] twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand, four-square. You shall offer the holy heave offering to the possession of the city.


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And the rest [shall be] for the ruler, on this [side], and on that [side] of the holy heave offering, and of the possession of the city, in the front of the twenty-five thousand of the heave offering to the east border, and westward in the front of the twenty-five thousand to the west border, alongside the [lots] for the ruler. And it shall be the holy heave offering. And the sanctuary of the house [shall be] in her midst.


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And to the ruler shall be from the possessions of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, amidst [that] for the ruler; between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the ruler.


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And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meriboth-kadesh, and to the torrent toward the Great Sea.


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This [is] the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these [are] their parts, says the Lord Jehovah.


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


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And at the east side four thousand and five hundred, and three gates: and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.


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And the south side, four thousand and five hundred measures, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.


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The west side, four thousand and five hundred, their gates three: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.


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All around [it shall be] eighteen thousand [cubits]. And the name of the city from [that] day [is] JEHOVAH IS THERE.


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And by the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the heave offering which you shall offer: twenty-five thousand [cubits] wide and long, as one of the [parts], from the east side to the west side. And the sanctuary shall be in its middle.


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The heave offering that you shall offer to the LORD shall be twenty-five thousand cubits long, and ten thousand cubits wide.


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And you, son of man, take a sharp sword to yourself, take a barber's razor also, and cause [it] to pass on your head and on your beard. Then take scales to weigh, and divide the [hair].


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So the fathers shall eat the sons in your midst, and the sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments in you, and I will scatter the whole remnant of you into all the winds.


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Therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord Jehovah, surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also withdraw; nor shall My eye spare you, nor will I have any pity.


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A third part of you shall die with the plague, and shall be consumed with the famine in your midst. And a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.


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So My anger shall be fulfilled, and I will cause My fury to rest on them, and I will be comforted. And they shall know that I the LORD have spoken [it] in My zeal, when I have fulfilled My fury in them.


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And I will make you a waste and a curse among the nations that [are] all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.


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So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an chastening and a horror to the nations which [are] all around you, when I shall execute judgments against you in anger and in fury and in rebukes [among them]. I the LORD have spoken it.


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When I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for [their] ruin, which I will send to destroy you; even I will increase the famine on you, and break your staff of bread;


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yea, I will send on you famine and evil beasts, and you will be bereaved. And pestilence and blood shall pass among you; and I shall bring a sword on you. I the LORD have spoken.


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You shall burn a third part with fire in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part [and] beat around it with a sword; and you shall scatter a third part in the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.


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Then take of them again, and throw them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for a fire shall come forth from them into all the house of Israel.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: This [is] Jerusalem. I have set it in the middle of the nations, and all around her [are] the lands.


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And she has changed My judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and [defiled] My laws more than the countries that [are] all around her; for they have rejected My judgments and My laws; they have not walked in them.


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Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: Because you multiplied more than the nations that [are] all around you, [and] have not walked in My laws, neither have kept My judgments, nor have done according to the judgments of the nations all around you;


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therefore so says the Lord Jehovah; Behold, I, even I, [am] against you, and will carry out judgments in your midst before the nations.


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And I will do in you that which I have not done, and the like of which I will never do again, because of all your abominations.


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And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, [and that] I have not said in vain to do this evil to them.


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So says the Lord Jehovah: Strike with your hand and stamp with your foot, and say, Alas, for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! For they shall fall by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague.


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He who is afar off shall die of the plague; and he who is near shall fall by the sword; and he who remains and is under siege shall die by the famine. So I will fulfill My fury on them.


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Then you shall know that I [am] the LORD, when their dead shall be among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, the place where they offered sweet aroma to all their idols.


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And I will stretch out My hand on them and make the land a waste, even more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all the places where they live; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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And say, Mountains of Israel, hear the Word of the Lord. So says the Lord Jehovah to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.


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And your altars shall be wasted, and your pillars shall be broken. And I will make fall your slain before your idols.


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And I will put the dead bodies of the sons of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.


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In all the places where you live, cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be deserted; so that your altars may be laid waste and become guilty, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your pillars may be cut down, and your works wiped out.


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Yet I will leave a reminder that may be [left] to you [some] who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the lands.


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And those of you who escape shall remember Me among the nations where they shall be exiled, because I was broken [by] their whoring heart which has departed from Me, and with their whoring eyes which go after their idols. And they shall despise themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.


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Behold the day! Behold, it has come; the encirclement has gone out; the rod has blossomed; pride has budded.


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Violence has risen up for a rod of wickedness. None of them [shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of any of their riches; nor [shall] there [be] wailing for them.


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The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath [is] on all her multitude.


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For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they are still alive; for the vision to all her multitude shall not return, and a man shall not hold his life strong in iniquity.


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They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goes to the battle, for My wrath [is] on all her multitude.


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The sword [is] outside, and the plague and the famine inside. He who [is] in the field shall die with the sword; and he in the city shall be devoured by famine and plague.


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But [if] their fugitives shall escape, then they shall be like doves of the valleys on the mountains, all of them mourning, each one for his iniquity.


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They shall also gird [on] sackcloth, and trembling shall cover them; and shame [shall be] on all faces, and baldness on all heads.


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They shall throw their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be an impure thing. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because their iniquity has become a stumbling-block for them.


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And you, son of man, so says the Lord Jehovah to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land.


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And the beauty of His ornament, He set it in majesty. But they made the images of their abominations [and] of their hateful things in it; therefore I have put it to them as an impure thing.


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And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prize, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall defile it.


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I will also turn My face from them, and they shall defile My secret [place]; and violent ones shall enter into it and defile it.


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And I will bring the most evil of the nations, and they shall possess their houses. I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.


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Disaster on disaster shall come, and rumor to rumor shall be. And they shall seek a vision from the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and wisdom from the elders.


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The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled. I will do to them according to their way, and according to their judgments I will judge them; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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Now the end [is] on you, and I will send My anger on you and will judge you according to your ways, and will lay on you all your abominations.


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And My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity. But I will repay your ways on you, and your abominations shall be in your midst; and you shall know that I [am] the LORD.


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The encirclement has come to you, O dwellers of the land. The time has come, the day of tumult [is] near, and not a shout of the mountains.


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And I will soon pour out My fury on you, and fulfill My anger on you. And I will judge you according to your ways, and will repay you for all your abominations.


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And My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; I will repay you according to your ways and your abominations [that] are in your midst. And you shall know that I [am] the LORD who strikes.


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And it was in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], on the fifth of the month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me. And the hand of the Lord Jehovah fell on me there.


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And I went in and saw. And behold, every kind of creeping thing, and hateful beast, and all the idols of the house of Israel, were carved on the wall all around.


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And seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, standing among them, these were before them, and each man with his censor in his hand. And the odor of the cloud of incense was rising.


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And He said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, each man in his image room? For they are saying, The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the earth.


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And He brought me to the opening of the gate of the LORD's house, toward the north. And behold, women were sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.


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And He said to me, Have you seen, O son of man? Turn yet again, [and] you shall see greater evils than these.


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And He brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and behold, at the opening of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, [were] about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they bowed themselves eastward to the sun.


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And He said to me, Have you seen, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they do the hateful things which they do here? For they have filled the land with violence and have turned to provoke Me to anger. And lo, they put the branch to their nose.


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And I will also deal with fury; My eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in My ears [with] a loud voice, I will not hear them.


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And I looked, and behold! A likeness as the look of fire; from the appearance of His loins and downward, [like] fire. And from His loins and upward as the look of brightness, like the color of polished bronze.


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And He put out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head. And the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heavens, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the opening of the inner gate facing north, where there [was] a seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.


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And, behold! The glory of the God of Israel [was] there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.


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And He said to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now to the way of the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and behold, northward at the gate of the altar the image of jealousy [was] at the entrance.


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And He said to me, Son of man, do you see what they do; even the great abominations which the house of Israel is doing here, that I should go far off from My sanctuary? But turn again, [and] you shall see greater abominations.


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And He cried in my ears [with] a loud voice, saying, Let the overseers of the city draw near, even each [with] his destroying weapon in his hand.


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And behold, the man clothed with linen, [with] the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as You have commanded me.


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And behold, six men came from the way of the Upper Gate which faces north, and each had his shattering weapon in his hand. And one man among them [was] clothed with linen, and a writer's inkhorn by his side. And they went in and stood beside the bronze altar.


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And the glory of the God of Israel had gone on from the cherub, where it was on it, to the threshold of the house. And He called to the man clothed in linen, [with] the writer's inkhorn by his side.


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And the LORD said to him, Go through in the midst of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men who are groaning and are mourning because of all the abominations that are done in her midst.


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And He said to those in my hearing, Go over in the city after him, and strike. Let not your eye spare, nor have pity.


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Fully destroy old [men], young men and virgins, and little children and women. But do not come near any man on whom [is] the mark. And begin at My sanctuary. And they began at the old men who [were] before the house.


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And He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out! And they went out and killed in the city.


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And it happened as they were slaying them, and I remained, then I fell on my face and cried, and said, Ah Lord Jehovah! Will You destroy all the remnant of Israel in Your pouring out of Your fury on Jerusalem?


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And He said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] great, and the land is full of blood, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, The LORD has forsaken the land; and, the LORD does not see.


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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 chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has chosen your food and your drink. For why should he see your faces worse looking than the boys who [are] of your kind? Then you would forfeit my head to the king.


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


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Then let our look be seen before you, and the look of the boys who eat of the king's food. And as you see, deal with your servants.


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And at the end of ten days their faces looked fairer and fatter in flesh than all the boys who had eaten the king's food.


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So Melzar took away their part of the food, and the wine that they were to drink, and gave them vegetables.


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As for these four boys, God gave them knowledge and skill in all writing and wisdom. And Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.


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And at the end of the days that the king had said he would bring them in, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.


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And the king talked with them. And among them all were found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. So they stood before the king.


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And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God, which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god. And he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.


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And [in] any matters of wisdom [and] understanding that the king asked them, he found them ten times better than all the horoscopists [and] conjurers who were in all his kingdom.


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And the king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs that he should bring [some] of the sons of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the rulers;


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sons [in] whom was no blemish, but who were handsome and skillful in all wisdom; and who had knowledge and understanding, even those who were able to stand in the king's palace, and to whom they might teach the writing and the language of the Chaldeans.


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And the king gave them the portion of a day in its day from the king's food, and the wine which he drank, even to rear them three years, so that at their end they might stand before the king.


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to whom the ruler of the eunuchs gave names. For he called Daniel, Belteshazzar; and Hananiah, Shadrach; and Mishael, Meshach; and Azariah, Abednego.


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But Daniel laid on his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's food, nor with the wine which he drank. So he asked permission of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.


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In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar. And the thing was true, and a great conflict. And he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.


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And he said to me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright. For to you I am now sent. And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling.


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Then he said to me, Do not fear, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and to chasten yourself before your God, your words were heard. And I have come for your words.


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But the ruler of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days. But lo, Michael, one of the chief rulers, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.


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Now I have come to make you understand what shall happen to your people in the latter days. For the vision is yet for [many] days.


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And behold, one looking like the sons of men touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke and said to him who stood before me, O lord, my sorrows are turned on me by the vision, and I have kept no strength.


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For how can the servant of my lord talk with my lord? For as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me, nor is there breath left in me.


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and said, O man greatly beloved, do not fear. Peace to you; be strong; yes, be strong. And when he had spoken to me, I was made stronger, and [I] said, Speak my lord, for you have made me stronger.


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Then he said, Do you know why I come to you? And now I will return to fight with the ruler of Persia. And when I have gone out, lo, the ruler of Greece shall come.


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But I will show you that which is written in the Scripture of Truth. And there is none who holds strongly with me in these things, but Michael your ruler.


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I ate no food for delight, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.


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And in the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which [is] Tigris,


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then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a certain man was clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz.


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His body also [was] like the beryl, and his face looked like lightning. And his eyes [were] like lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet in color were like polished bronze, and the voice of his words like the sound of a multitude.


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And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision. For the men who were with me did not see the vision; but a great quaking fell on them, so that they fled to hide themselves.


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Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me. For my beauty was turned within me to corruption, and I kept no strength.


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Yet I heard the voice of his words. And when I heard the voice of his words, then I was in a deep sleep on my face, and my face [was] toward the ground.


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And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I was standing for a supporter and for a fortress for him.


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But his sons shall be stirred up and shall gather a multitude of great forces. And [one] shall certainly come and overflow, and pass through. Then he shall return and be stirred up, even to his fortress.


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And the king of the south shall be bitter, and shall come out and fight with him, even with the king of the north. And he shall send out a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand.


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And when he has taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up. And he shall cast down many ten thousands, but he shall not be made stronger.


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For the king of the north shall return, and shall send out a multitude greater than the former, and at the end of times, years, shall come with a great army and with much equipment.


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And in those times there shall stand up many against the king of the south. Also the robbers of your people shall rise up to establish [the] vision, but they shall fall.


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So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a siege mound, and take a fortified city. And the arms of the south shall not hold out, nor his chosen people, nor [will be] any strength to hold out.


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But he who comes against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him. And he shall stand in the glorious land, which [shall be] destroyed by his hand.


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He also shall set his face to enter with the strength of all his kingdom, and upright ones with him. So he shall do. And [he] shall give the daughter of women to him, to destroy it; but she shall not stand, nor be for him.


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And he shall turn his face to the coastlands, and shall capture many. But a ruler shall make cease his reproach for him, but his reproach will return to him.


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And he shall turn his face to the fortresses of his land. But he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found.


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And now I will declare to you the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia. And the fourth shall be far richer than all of them. And by his strength, through his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece.


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And one who sends an exacter shall stand in his place, [for] the glory of [the] kingdom. But within few days he shall be broken, not in anger nor in battle.


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And a despised one shall stand up in his place, and they shall not give to him the honor of the king; but he will enter while at ease and seize [the] kingdom by intrigues.


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And the forces of the overflow will be swept from before him, and they will be broken, and also the ruler of a covenant.


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He shall enter safely, even into the rich places of [the] province. And he shall do what his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers. He shall plunder, and spoil, and scatter goods among them. And he shall devise his plots against the strongholds, even for a time.


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And he shall stir up his power and his heart against the king of the south with a great army. And the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army, but he shall not stand. For they shall devise plots against him.


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Yea, those who eat his food shall break him, and his army shall overflow. And many shall fall down slain.


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And both these kings' hearts shall be to do evil, and they shall speak lies at one table. But it shall not succeed. For still [the] end [comes] at the time appointed.


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And he shall return to his land with great riches. And his heart [shall be] against [the] holy covenant. And he will act, and he shall return to his land.


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At the time appointed he shall return and come against the south. But it shall not be as the former or as the latter.


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For the ships of Kittim shall come against him. And he shall be grieved and return, and have fury against the holy covenant. So he shall do; he shall even return and give heed to those who forsake the holy covenant.


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And forces will stand from him, and they will profane the sanctuary, the fortress, and shall remove the daily [sacrifice], and they shall place the desolating abomination.


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And he will ruin by flattery those who do evil against [the] covenant. But the people who know their God will be strong and will work.


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And those who understand among [the] people shall teach many; yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by exile, and spoil, for days.


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And when they stumble, they shall be helped with a little help, but many will join them, with hypocrisy.


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And [many] of those who understand shall stumble, to refine and purge them, and [to] make white, to the time of [the] end. Because [it is] still for the appointed time.


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And the king shall do according to his will. And he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper until the fury is fulfilled. For that which is decreed shall be done.


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He will not regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god. For he shall magnify himself above all.


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But in his place he shall honor the god of forces; and a god whom his fathers did not know, he shall honor with gold and silver, and with precious stones and desirable things.


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So he shall act in the fortresses of [the] strongholds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge. He shall multiply in glory, and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for a price.


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And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken and shall be divided toward the four winds of the heavens. And it shall not be given to his sons, nor according to his power with which he ruled; for his kingdom shall be pulled up, even for others besides these.


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And at the end-time, the king of the south shall butt at him. And the king of the north shall come against him like a tempest, with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships.


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And he shall enter into the countries and shall overflow and pass over. He shall also enter into the glorious land, and many shall be stumbled. But these shall escape out of his hand: Edom and Moab, and the chief of the sons of Ammon.


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But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt. And the Libyans and the Ethiopians [shall be] at his steps.


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But news out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him. Then he will go out with great fury to destroy, and to devote many to destruction.


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And he shall plant his palace tents between [the] seas in the glorious holy mountain. Yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.


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And the king of the south shall be strong. And [one] of his rulers, even he shall overcome him and have power. His kingdom [shall be] a great kingdom.


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And in the end of years they shall join together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make a treaty. But she shall not keep the power of the arm. Nor shall he stand, nor his arm. But she [shall be given up, and those who brought her in, and her begetter, and he who made her strong in [these] times.


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But out of a branch of her roots, one shall stand up [in] his place, who shall come with an army and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north. And he shall act against them, and show himself strong.


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And he shall also carry their gods captives with their molten images into Egypt, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold. And he shall stand [for] years away from the king of the north.


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And at that time Michael shall stand up, the great ruler who stands for the sons of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation; until that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.


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Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried. But the wicked shall do wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.


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And from the time that the daily [sacrifice] shall be taken away, and the desolating abomination set up, a thousand two hundred and ninety days [shall occur].


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And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame [and] everlasting contempt.


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And those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the sky; and those who turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever.


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But you, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.


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Then I Daniel looked, and behold, there stood another two, the one on this [side], and the one on that [side] of the bank of the river.


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And [one] said to the man clothed in linen on the waters of the river: Until when [shall be] the end of these wonders?


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And I heard the man clothed in linen, who [was] on the waters of the river, when he held up his right and his left [hand] to Heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever that it [shall be] for a time, times, and a half. And when they have made an end of scattering the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.


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And I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, O my lord, what [shall be] the end of these things?


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And in the second year of the reign of king Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, with which his spirit was troubled and his sleep left him.


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The Chaldeans answered before the king and said, There is not a man on the earth who can reveal the king's matter, because not any king, lord, nor ruler has asked such a thing from any horoscopist or conjurer or Chaldean.


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And [it is] a rare thing that the king asks, and there is no other who can reveal it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.


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For this cause the king was enraged and angered, and commanded all the wise men of Babylon to be destroyed.


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And the law went out that the wise men should be killed. And they sought Daniel and his fellows to be killed.


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Then Daniel answered [with] counsel and insight to Arioch the chief of the king's executioners, who had gone forth to kill the wise men of Babylon.


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He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.


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Then Daniel went in and asked of the king that he would give him time, and that he would make known the meaning to the king.


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Then Daniel went to his house and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions,


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that they might pray for the mercies of God in Heaven concerning this secret, that Daniel and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.


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And the king commanded to call to the horoscopists, and to the conjurers, and to the sorcerers, and to the Chaldeans, to tell to the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.


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Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are His.


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And He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.


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He reveals the deep and secret things; He knows what [is] in the darkness, and the light dwells with Him.


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I thank You, and praise You, O God of my fathers, who has given me wisdom and might, and have made known to me now what we asked of You. For You have now made known to us the king's matter.


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Then Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had chosen to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said this to him; Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon. Bring me in before the king, and I will declare the meaning to the king.


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Then Arioch quickly brought Daniel in before the king, and said this to him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah who will make the meaning known to the king.


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The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name [was] Belteshazzar, Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and its meaning?


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Daniel answered before the king and said, The secret which the king has demanded cannot be shown to the king by the wise men, the conjurers, the horoscopists, or the fortune-tellers.


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But there is a God in Heaven who reveals secrets and makes known to King Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head upon your bed [are] these.


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As for you, O king, your thoughts came on your bed, what should happen after this. And He who reveals secrets makes known to you what shall happen.


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But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for [any] wisdom that I have more than any living man, but so that the meaning might be known to the king, and that you might know the thoughts of your heart.


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You, O king, were seeing. And, behold! A great image! That great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before you. And its form [was] dreadful.


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This image's head [was] of fine gold; his breast and his arms [were] of silver; his belly and his thighs [were] of bronze;


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You watched until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image upon its feet [which were] of iron and clay, and broke them to pieces.


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Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken to pieces together. And they became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. And the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.


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You, O king, [are] a king of kings. For the God of Heaven has given you a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.


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And wherever the sons of men, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens live, He has given [them] into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all. You are this head of gold.


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And after you shall arise another kingdom lower than you, and another third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth.


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And the Chaldeans spoke to the king [in] Aramaic, O king, live forever. Tell your servants the dream, and we will reveal the meaning.


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And the fourth kingdom shall be [as] strong as iron. Since iron crushes and smashes all things; and as the iron that shatters all these, it will crush and shatter.


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And as to that which you saw: the feet and toes, part of potters' clay and part of iron; [the] kingdom shall be divided. But there shall be in it the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.


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And [as] the toes of the feet [were] part of iron and part of clay, [so] the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle.


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And as you saw iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mix themselves with the seed of men. But they shall not cling to one another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.


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And in the days of these kings, the God of Heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed. And the kingdom shall not be left to other peoples, but it shall crush and destroy all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.


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Because you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it crushes the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what shall occur after this. And the dream is] certain, and its meaning is sure.


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Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face and worshiped Daniel, and he commanded to offer an offering and incense to him.


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The king answered Daniel and said, It is true that your God [is] a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you could reveal this secret.


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Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over all the province of Babylon, and chief of the prefects over all the wise men of Babylon.


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And Daniel asked the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon. But Daniel [sat] in the gate of the king.


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The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing has gone from me. If you will not make known to me the dream, with its meaning, you will be made into [mere] members, and your houses shall be made an outhouse.


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But if you make known the dream and its meaning, you shall receive gifts and a present and great honor from me. Therefore reveal to me the dream and its meaning.


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They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will reveal its meaning.


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The king answered and said, For I know that you surely want to gain time, because you see the thing is gone from me.


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But if you will not make the dream known to me, [there is] only one judgment for you. For you have prepared lying and deceiving words to speak before me, until the time has changed. Therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can reveal to me its meaning.


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Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height [was] sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.


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You, O king, have made a decree that every man who shall hear the sound of the horn, the pipe, zither, the lyre, harp, and the bagpipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image.


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And whoever does not fall down and worship, he should be thrown into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.


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There are men, Jews, whom you have set over the business of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, do not heed you. They do not serve your gods nor worship the golden image which you have set up.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar in anger and wrath commanded them to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king.


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Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said to them, [Is it] true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego? Do you not serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?


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Now if you are ready, at the time you hear the sound of the horn, the pipe, zither, the lyre, harp, and bagpipe, and all kinds of music, fall down and worship the image which I have made. But if you do not worship, in that moment you shall be thrown into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. And who is that god who shall deliver you out of my hand?


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Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we [have] no need to return a word to you on this matter.


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If it is [so that] our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, then He will deliver us out of your hand, O king.


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But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods nor worship the golden image which you have set up.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with wrath, and the form of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the satraps, the prefects, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the justices, and all the officials of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.


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And he commanded mighty men in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to throw [them] into the burning fiery furnace.


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Then these men were tied up in their slippers, their tunics, and their mantles, and their [other] clothes, and were thrown into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.


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Then because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.


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And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was amazed. And he rose up in haste and spoke and said to his advisers, Did we not throw three men bound into the middle of the fire? They answered and said to the king, True, O king.


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He answered and said, Behold! I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and there is no harm among them. And the form of the fourth is like a son of [the] gods.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar came near the door of the burning fiery furnace. He answered and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the most high God, come forth and come [here]. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth from the middle of the fire.


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And the satraps, the prefects, the governors, and the king's advisers gathered and saw these men [on whose] bodies the fire had no power (and the hair of their head was not scorched, nor were their slippers changed, nor had the smell of fire clung on them).


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Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed [be] the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His Angel and has delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and have changed the king's words and has given their bodies that they might not serve nor worship any god except their own God.


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And a decree is given by me, that every people, nation, and language, who speak anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be made into mere members, and his house shall be made an outhouse. Because there is no other God who can deliver in this way.


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Then were gathered the satraps, the prefects, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the justices, and all the officials of the provinces, to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. And they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.


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at the time you hear the sound of the horn, the pipe, zither, the lyre, harp, bagpipe, and all kinds of music, you shall fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.


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And whoever does not fall down and worship, at that moment they will be thrown into the middle of a burning fiery furnace.


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Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the horn, the pipe, zither, the lyre, harp, and all kinds of music, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.


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Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.


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As to the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height [was] great.


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The tree grew and was strong, and its height reached to the heavens; and the sight of it reached to the end of all the earth.


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Its leaves [were] beautiful, and its fruit plentiful, and in it [was] food for all. The animals of the field sought shade under it, and the birds of the heavens lived in its boughs, and all flesh was fed by it.


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I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from Heaven.


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He cried aloud and said this, Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches; shake off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the animals get away from under it, and the birds from its branches.


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But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field. And let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let its portion [be] with the animals in the grass of the earth.


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Let his heart be changed from man's, and let the heart of an animal be given to him. And let seven times pass over him.


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This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones, so that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.


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I, King Nebuchadnezzar, have seen this dream. Now you, O Belteshazzar, declare its meaning, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make the meaning known to me. But you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods [is] in you.


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Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stunned for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spoke and said, Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its meaning trouble you. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream is] to those who hate you, and its meaning to your foes.


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The tree that you saw, which became great and strong, whose height reached to the heaven, and the sight of it to all the earth;


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whose leaves were fair, and its fruit plentiful, and in it [was] food for all, under which the animals of the field dwelt, and on whose branches the birds of the heavens had their home;


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it [is] you, O king, for you have become great and strong, for your greatness has grown and reached to the heaven, and your rule to the end of the earth.


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And as the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from Heaven, and saying, Cut the tree down and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots of it in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and [let] his portion [be] with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him;


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this [is] the meaning, O king, and this the decree of the Most High, which has come on my lord the king.


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They shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field, and they shall make you eat grass like oxen. And they shall wet you [with] the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He will.


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And in that they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; your kingdom [shall be] sure to you after you have known that Heaven rules.


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Therefore, O king, let my advice be pleasing to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, whether there will be duration to your prosperity.


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How great [are] His signs! And how mighty [are] His wonders! His kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom, and His rule [is] from generation to generation.


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The king spoke and said, [Is] this not great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty?


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While the word [was] in the king's mouth, a voice fell from Heaven, saying, O 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 animals of the field. They shall make you eat grass like oxen, and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He will.


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The same hour the thing was fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar. And he was driven from men, and ate grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the heavens, until his hair had grown like eagles' feathers], and his nails like birds' [claws].


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And at the end of days, I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up my eyes to Heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored Him who lives forever, whose kingdom is] an everlasting kingdom, and His rule is from generation to generation.


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And all the people of the earth are counted as nothing; and He does according to His will in the army of heaven, and [among] the people of the earth. And none can strike His hand, or say to Him, What are You doing?


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At that time my reason returned to me. And the glory of my kingdom, my honor and brightness returned to me. And my advisers and my lords came for me, and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added to me.


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Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and exalt and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth and His ways judgment. And those who walk in pride He is able to humble.


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I saw a dream and it terrified me, and [the] thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.


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So I made a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the meaning of the dream.


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Then the horoscopists, the conjurers, the Chaldeans, and the fortune-tellers came in. And I told the dream before them, but they did not make its meaning known to me.


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But at last Daniel came in before me, whose name [was] Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom [is] the spirit of the holy gods. And I told the dream before him, [saying],


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O Belteshazzar, master of the horoscopists, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods [is] in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its meaning.


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Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.


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The queen came into the banquet house because of the king's words, and his nobles. And the queen spoke and said, O king, live forever. Do not let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.


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There [is] a man in your kingdom, in whom [is] the spirit of the holy gods. And in the days of your father there was found in him light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods. Your father, King Nebuchadnezzar, your father the king, appointed him master of the horoscopists, conjurers, Chaldeans, [and] fortune-tellers,


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because an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, explaining of dreams, and revealing of hard sentences, and the unraveling of knots, were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will reveal the meaning.


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Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, Are you that Daniel who [is] of the exiled sons of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah?


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I have even heard of you, that the spirit of the gods [is] in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.


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And now the wise men and the conjurers have been brought in before me, that they might read this writing and make the meaning known to me. But they could not declare the meaning of the thing.


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And I have heard of you that you can interpret meanings and unravel knots. Now if you can read the writing, and reveal its meaning to me, you shall be clothed with scarlet and [have] a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.


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Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another. Yet I will read the writing to the king, and make the meaning known to him.


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O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honor.


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And for the majesty that He gave him, all people, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he would, and whom he would he kept alive. And whom he would, he set up; and whom he would, he put down.


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When tasting the wine, Belshazzar commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem, that the king and his rulers, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.


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But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was put down from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him.


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And he was driven from the sons of men. And his heart was made like the animals, and his dwelling [was] with the wild asses. They fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the heavens, until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that He appoints over it whomever He will.


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But you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And they have brought the vessels of His house before you; and you, and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, or bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor know. And you have not glorified the God in whose hand [is] your breath and all your ways.


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Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet and a golden chain around his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.


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Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God in Jerusalem. And the king, and his rulers, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.


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They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.


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At that moment fingers of a man's hand came out and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace across from the lampstand. And the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.


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Then the king's face was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosened, and his knees knocked against one another.


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The king cried aloud to bring in the conjurers, the Chaldeans, and the fortune-tellers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing, and show me its meaning, shall be clothed with scarlet, and [have a chain of gold around his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.


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Then all the king's wise men came in. But they could not read the writing, nor make the meaning known to the king.


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Then King Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his face was changing in him, and his lords were perplexed.


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It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, that they might be over the whole kingdom.


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And when he had learned that the document was signed, Daniel went to his house. And his windows were open in his roof room toward Jerusalem; and he kneeled on his knees three times a day and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.


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Then they came near and spoke before the king concerning the king's ban. Have you not signed a ban that every man who shall ask a petition of any god or man within thirty days, except of you, O king, shall be thrown into the lion's den? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.


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Then they answered and said before the king, Daniel, who [is] of the exiled sons of Judah, has not respected you, O king, nor the ban that you have signed, but makes his prayer three times a day.


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Then the king, when he heard the word, was very much displeased with himself. And he set [his] heart on Daniel to deliver him. And he labored until sundown to deliver him.


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Then these men met before the king and said to the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians [is] that no ban nor law which the king establishes may be changed.


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Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions' den. The king answered and said to Daniel, Your God, whom you always serve, will deliver you.


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And a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den. And the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords, that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.


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Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting. And diversions were not brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.


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And over them [were] three presidents (Daniel was one of them), so that these satraps might give account to them, and the king should have no loss.


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And when he came to the den, he cried with a grieved voice to Daniel. The king spoke and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God whom you always serve able to deliver you from the lions?


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My God has sent His Angel, and has shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me, because before Him purity was found in me. And also before you, O king, I have done no harm.


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Then the king was exceedingly glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of hurt was found on him, because he trusted in his God.


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And the king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they threw [them] into the lions' den; them, their sons, and their wives. And the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces before they came to the bottom of the den.


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Then king Darius wrote to all people, nations, and languages who dwell in all the earth. Peace be multiplied to you.


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I make a decree that in all the domain of my kingdom, [there] shall be trembling and fear before the God of Daniel. For He [is] the living God, and endures forever, and His kingdom is that which shall not be destroyed, and His rule [shall be] to the end.


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He delivers and rescues, and He works signs and wonders in the heavens and in earth, He who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.


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Then this Daniel was made overseer of the presidents and satraps, because an excellent spirit [was] in him. And the king was planning to set him over all the kingdom.


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Then the presidents and rulers sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom. But they could find no occasion or fault, because he [was] faithful. Neither [was] there any error or fault found in him.


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Then these men said, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.


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Then these presidents and rulers assembled to the king, and said this to him: King Darius, live forever.


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All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects, and the satraps, and the officials and governors, have planned together to establish a royal law, and to make a strong ban that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except from you, O king, he shall be thrown into the den of lions.


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Now, O king, establish the ban and sign the writing, so that it may not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians which cannot be changed.


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In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed. Then he wrote the dream and gave the sum of the matters.


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A stream of fire went out and came out from before Him. A thousand thousands served Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him. The judgment was set, and the books were opened.


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Then I was looking because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke. I watched until the beast was slain, and his body was destroyed and given to the burning flame.


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And the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away. Yet their lives were made longer for a season and time.


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I saw in the night visions, and behold, [One] like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him.


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And dominion and glory was given Him, and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations and languages, should serve Him. His dominion [is] an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.


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And I came near one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the meaning of the things.


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But the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.


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Then I wanted to know the truth of the fourth beast, which [was] different from all the others, very frightening, whose teeth [were of] iron, and his nails of bronze; [who] devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the rest with his feet;


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Daniel spoke and said, In my vision by night I was looking: and behold, the four winds of the heavens were stirring up the Great Sea.


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and of the ten horns that were in his head, and [of] the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even [of] that horn that had eyes, and a mouth speaking very great things, whose look [was] greater than his fellows.


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until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High. And the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.


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And he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all kingdoms and shall devour the whole earth, and shall trample it and crush it.


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And the ten horns out of this kingdom [are] ten kings that shall arise. And another shall arise after them. And he shall be different from the first, and he shall humble 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 plot to change times and laws. And they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and one-half time.


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But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his rulership, to cut off and to destroy until the end.


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And the kingdom and rulership, and the greatness of the kingdom under all the heavens, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom. And all kingdoms shall serve and obey Him.


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Here [is] the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my thoughts troubled me much, and my face changed on me. But I kept the matter in my heart.


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The first was like a lion and had eagle's wings. I watched until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on its feet like a man. And a man's heart was given to it.


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And behold another beast, a second, like a bear. And it raised itself up on one side, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. And they said this to it: Arise, eat up much flesh.


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After this I saw, and lo, another, like a leopard, which [had] four wings of a bird on its back. The beast also [had] four heads; and rulership was given to it.


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After this I looked in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, frightening and terrifying, and very strong. And it [had] great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the rest with its feet. And it [was] different from all the beasts before it; and it had ten horns.


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I was thinking about the horns, and behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom three of the first horns were uprooted. And behold, in this horn [were] eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.


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I watched until the thrones were thrown up, and the Ancient of Days sat, whose robe [was] white as snow, and the hair of His head like the pure wool. His throne [was] like flames of fire, and His wheels [like] burning fire.


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In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, [to] me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.


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And it became great, [even] to the host of heaven. And it made fall some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and trampled them.


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Yea, he magnified himself, even to the ruler of the host, and the daily [sacrifice] was taken away by him, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.


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And an army was given [to him] against the daily [sacrifice] because of transgression, and it cast the truth to the ground. And it worked and succeeded.


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Then I heard a certain holy one speaking, and another holy one said to that one who spoke, Until when shall the vision last, concerning the daily [sacrifice] and the transgression that astounds, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled?


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And he said to me, For two thousand, three hundred evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary shall be vindicated.


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And it happened when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me the form of a man.


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And I heard a man's voice between [the banks of] Ulai, which called and said, Gabriel, make this one understand the vision.


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So he came near beside my place. And when he came, I was afraid and fell on my face. But he said to me, Understand, O son of man, for the vision [is] for the time of the end.


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And as he was speaking with me, I was stunned, on my face toward the ground. But he touched me and set me upright.


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And he said, Behold, I will make you know what shall happen in the last end of the indignation. For [it is] for the time appointed for the end.


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And in a vision I looked. And it happened when I looked, I [was] at Shushan the palace, which [is] in the province of Elam. And in a vision I looked, and I was by the Ulai Canal.


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And as for that being broken, and four stood up in its place; four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in its power.


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And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king, fierce of face, and skilled at intrigues, shall stand up.


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And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power. And he shall destroy marvelously, and shall prosper and work, and destroy the mighty and the holy people.


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And also through his understanding, he shall cause deceit to succeed in his hand. And he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many. He also shall stand up against the Ruler of rulers. But he shall be broken without a hand.


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And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told [is] true. But you shall shut up the vision; for it [shall be] for many days.


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And I Daniel fainted, and was sick [for] days. Afterward I rose up, and did the king's business. And I was amazed at the vision, but there was no understanding.


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Then I lifted up my eyes, and looked. And behold, a ram with [two] horns stood before the Canal [having] two horns, and the [two] horns were high, but one [was] higher than the other, and the higher came up last.


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I saw the ram pushing westward and northward and southward; so that no beasts could stand before him, nor any that could deliver out of his hand. But he did according to his will, and became great.


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And as I was watching, behold, a he-goat came from the west, over the face of the all earth, and did not touch the ground. And the he goat [had] an outstanding horn between his eyes.


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And he came to the ram that [had two] horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran to him in the fury of his power.


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And I saw him come close beside the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram and shattered his two horns. And there was no power in the ram to stand before him. But he threw him down to the ground and stamped on him. And none could deliver the ram out of his hand.


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Then the he-goat became very great. And when he was strong, the great horn was broken. And in its place came up four outstanding [ones] towards the four winds of the heavens.


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And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which became very great, toward the south and toward the east and toward the bountiful [land].


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In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,


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We have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in His laws which He set before us by His servants the prophets.


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Yea, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and turned aside, that they might not obey Your voice. Therefore the curse has been poured out on 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 on us a great evil. For under all the heavens [it] has not been done as [it] has been done to Jerusalem.


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As [it is] written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we did not make our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand Your truth.


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Therefore the LORD has watched over the evil, and has brought it on us. For the LORD our God [is] righteous in all His works which He does; for we did not obey His voice.


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And now, O Lord our God, who have brought Your people out from the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have brought fame to Yourself, as it is today, we have sinned, we have done wrong.


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O Lord, I pray You, according to all Your righteousness let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain. Because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people [have become] a curse to all those who are around us.


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And now, O our God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his holy desires, and cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary that [is] desolate, for the Lord's sake.


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O my God, bow down Your ear and hear. Open Your eyes and behold our ruins, and the city which is called by Your name. For we do not present our prayers before You on account of our righteousnesses, but because of Your great mercies.


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O LORD, hear; O LORD, forgive; O LORD, listen and do. Do not delay, for Your own sake, O my God; for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.


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in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood the number of the years by books, which came of the Word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.


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And while I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin, and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my cry before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;


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yes, while I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, touched me in [my] severe exhaustion, about the time of the evening sacrifice.


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And he enlightened me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I have now come out to give you skill and understanding.


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At the beginning of your prayers the commandment came out, and I have come to explain. For you are greatly beloved; therefore understand the matter, and attend to the vision:


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Seventy weeks are decreed as to your people and as to your holy city, to finish the transgression and to make an end of sins, and to make atonement for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.


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Know therefore and understand, [that] from the going out of the command to restore and to build Jerusalem, to Messiah [the] Prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in times of affliction.


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And after sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not [for] Himself. And the people of the ruler who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. And the end of it [shall be with the flood, and ruins are determined, until [the] end [shall be] war.


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And he shall confirm a covenant with many [for] one week. And in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease, and on a corner [of the altar] desolating abominations, even until [the] end. And that which was decreed shall be poured on the desolator.


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And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek by prayer and holy desires, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.


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And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and awesome God, keeping the covenant and mercy to those who love Him, and to those who keep His commandments,


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we have sinned and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Your commandments and from Your judgments.


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Neither have we listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our rulers, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.


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O Lord, righteousness [belongs] to You, but to us the shame of [our] faces, as [it is] today to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem, and to all Israel who are near and who are afar off, through all the countries where You have driven them because of their sin which they have sinned against You.


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O Lord, shame of face [belongs] to us, to our kings, to our rulers, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You.


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The Word of the LORD that 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 the son of Joash, king of Israel.


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Yet the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, You [are] not My people, there it shall be said to them, [You are the sons of the living God.


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Then the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel shall be gathered together, and shall set over themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land. For great [shall be] the day of Jezreel.


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The beginning of the LORD speaking by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take to yourself a wife of adultery and children of adultery. For the land has utterly gone lusting away from the LORD.


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And the LORD said to him, Call his name God Will Sow. For still [in] a little [while], and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.


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And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And [God] said to him, Call her name No-mercy, for I will no more have mercy [on] the house of Israel. But I will utterly take them away.


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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 by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.


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Israel [is] an luxuriant vine; he brings out fruit to himself. According to the multitude of his fruit, he has increased the altars. They have made beautiful images according to the goodness of his land.


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When I desire, I shall bind them; and the peoples shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves to their two perversities.


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And Ephraim [is] like a trained heifer, trying to tread out. But I passed over on the goodness of her neck. I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.


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Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground. For [it is] time to seek the LORD, until He comes and rains righteousness on you.


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You have plowed wickedness; you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies, because you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.


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And an uproar shall arise among your peoples, and all your fortresses shall be spoiled, as the ruin [of] Beth-arbel by Shalman in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces on [her] sons.


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So He does to you, Bethel, because of your great evil. In a morning the king of Israel shall be utterly cut off.


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Their heart is divided; now they shall be guilty. He shall break down their altars, and He shall spoil their images.


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For now they shall say, We have no king because we did not fear the LORD; what then should a king do to us?


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They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. So judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field.


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Because of the calves of Beth-aven, the people of Samaria shall dread. For its people shall mourn over it, and its priest rejoiced on it for its glory, because it has departed from it.


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It shall also be carried to Assyria for a present to king Jareb. Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.


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Also the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle 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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O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they stood; the battle against the sons of iniquity did not overtake them in Gibeah.


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They shall walk after the LORD; He shall roar like a lion. When He shall roar, then the sons shall tremble from the west.


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They shall tremble like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria. And I will place them in their houses, says the LORD.


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Ephraim [circles] around Me with lying, and the house of Israel with deceit. But Judah still rules with God, and is faithful with the saints.


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As they called them, so they went from them. They sacrifice to the Baals, and burn incense to graven images.


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I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as those who take off the yoke on their jaws, and I gently give food to him.


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He shall not return to the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian [shall be] his king, because they refused to return.


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And the sword shall remain on his cities, and shall destroy his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.


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And My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they called them to the Most High, none at all would exalt [Him].


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How shall I give you up, Ephraim? How shall I deliver you, Israel? How shall I make you like Admah? How shall I set you as Zeboim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassions are kindled together.


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I will not carry out the heat of My anger; I will not return to destroy Ephraim. 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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Ephraim feeds on wind and follows after the east wind. He daily multiplies lies and cruelty. And they make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.


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I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions and have used parables by the hand of the prophets.


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[Is there] iniquity in Gilead? Surely they are vanity; they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal. Yes, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields.


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And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept watch.


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Ephraim provoked [Me] to anger most bitterly; therefore he shall leave his blood on him, and his Lord shall turn his reproach to him.


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The LORD also has a quarrel with Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings He will repay him.


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Yes, he wept and cried to Him, and he had power over the Angel and overcame. He found him [in] Bethel, and there He spoke with us,


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And Ephraim said, Yet I have become rich, I have found much wealth for myself. [In] all my labors they shall find in me no iniquity that is sin.


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And I the LORD, who have been your God from the land of Egypt, will yet make you to dwell in tents as in the days of the appointed feast.


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Where [is] your king now, that he may save you in all your cities; and your judges of whom you said, Give me a king and rulers?


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The pains of a woman in travail shall come to him. He [is] an unwise son; for he cannot stand still in the time of the breaking forth of sons.


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I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. O Death, where [are] your plagues; O Grave, where [is] your ruin! Repentance shall be hidden from My eyes.


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Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind shall come. The wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall be ashamed, and his fountain shall be dried up. He shall plunder the treasure of all desirable vessels.


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Samaria shall become a waste, for she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword. Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women shall be ripped up.


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And now they sin more and more, and have made themselves a molten image of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves.


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Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff storm-driven out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.


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Yet I [am] the LORD your God from the land of Egypt, and you shall know no God but Me. For there is no Savior besides Me.


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According to their pasture, so were they filled. They were filled and their heart was lifted up. Therefore they have forgotten Me.


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I will meet them like a bereaved bear, and will tear the lining of their heart. And there I will devour them like a lion; the wild beast shall tear them.


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Take with you words, and turn to the LORD. Say to Him, Take away all iniquity, and receive [us] graciously, that we may repay [with] the calves of our lips.


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Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses. Nor shall we say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods, for in You the fatherless finds mercy.


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They who dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive like the grain, and grow like the vine. Their scent [shall be] as the wine of Lebanon.


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Ephraim [shall say], What [have] I to do any more with idols? I have heard [him] and watched him; I [am] like a green fir tree. Your fruit is found from Me.


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Who [is] wise, and he shall understand these things? Understanding, and he shall know them? For the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them; but sinners shall fall in them.


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And now I will uncover her shamefulness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.


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I will also cause all her joy to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.


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And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, They [are] my rewards that my lovers have given me. And I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.


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And I will visit on her the days of the Baals, in which she burned incense to them, and she adorned herself with her nose-rings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers and forgot Me, says the LORD.


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And I will give her vineyards to her from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope. And she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.


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And it shall be at that day, says the LORD, you shall call Me, My Husband, and shall no more call Me, My Baal.


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For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no more be remembered by their name.


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And in that day I will cut a covenant for them, with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and [with] the creeping things of the ground. And I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.


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And I will betroth you to Me forever. Yea, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies.


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Contend! Contend with your mother, for she [is] not my wife, nor am I her husband. Let her therefore put away her fornications out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts,


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And it will be, in that day I will answer, says the LORD. I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth,


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And I will sow her to Me in the earth. And I will have mercy on No-mercy. And I will say to Not-my-people, You are My people. And they shall say, My God.


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lest I strip her naked and set her out as in the day that she was born; and lest I make her as the wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.


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For their mother has prostituted [herself]. She who conceived them has done shamefully. For she said, I will go after my lovers who give my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.


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Therefore behold, I will hedge your way with thorns, and wall up her wall, that she shall not find her paths.


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And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them. She shall seek them, but shall not find [them]. Then she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then [it was] better with me than now.


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For she did not know that I gave her grain, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, [which] they prepared for Baal.


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So I will return and take away My grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and will recover my wool and my flax [given] to cover her nakedness.


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And the LORD said to me, Go again. Love a woman beloved by a friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the sons of Israel, who turn to other gods, and love raisin-cakes of grapes.


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So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces of] silver, and [for] a homer of barley and a half homer of barley.


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And I said to her, You shall abide for me many days. You shall not be a harlot, nor be for a man. And I also [will be] for you.


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For the sons of Israel shall live many days [with] no king, and no ruler, and with no sacrifice, and no pillars, and no ephod, or teraphim.


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Afterward the sons of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. And they shall fear the LORD and His goodness in the ends of the days.


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Hear the Word of the LORD, sons of Israel. For the LORD [has] a quarrel with the people of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.


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For they shall eat and not have enough. They shall fornicate and not increase, because they have stopped taking heed to the LORD.


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My people seek advice from their wooden [idols], and their rod declares to them. For the spirit of harlotry has caused them to go astray, and they have gone lusting away from under their God.


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They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because its shade is good. So your daughters shall be harlots, and your brides shall commit adultery.


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I will not punish your daughters when they fornicate, nor your wives when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go aside with harlots, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes. The people [who] do not understand are thrown down.


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Though you, Israel, fornicate, yet do not let Judah become guilty. And do not come [to] Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, nor swear, [As] the LORD lives.


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For Israel slides back like a backsliding heifer. Now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.


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There is lying, and swearing, and killing, and stealing, and the committing of adultery; and blood touches blood.


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Therefore the land shall mourn, and everyone who dwells in it shall droop, with the beasts of the field and with the birds of the heavens. Yes, the fish of the sea shall also be taken away.


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Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another. For your people [are] as those who strive with the priest.


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And you shall stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with you [in the] night, and I will cut off your mother.


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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your sons, even I.


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And it has become, Like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them for their doings.


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Hear this, O priests, and listen, house of Israel. And give ear, house of the king. For judgment [is] toward you, because you have been a snare on Mizpah and a net spread on Tabor.


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When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to the Assyrian and sent to king Jareb. Yet he could not heal you nor cure you of your wound.


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For I [will be] to Ephraim as a lion, and as a strong lion to the house of Judah. I, [even] I, will tear and go away. I will take away, and none shall rescue him.


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I will go; I will return to My place until they confess their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will seek Me diligently.


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I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me. For now, O Ephraim, you have fornicated; Israel is defiled.


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Their doings will not allow [them] to turn to their God; for the spirit of fornication [is] in their midst, and they have not known the LORD.


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And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. So Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.


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They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find Him. He has withdrawn Himself from them.


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They have acted treacherously against the LORD, for they have brought out strange sons. Now a new moon shall devour them with their portions.


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Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel I have made known that which is confirmed.


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Come and let us return to the LORD. For He has torn, and He will heal us; He has stricken, and He will bind us up.


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I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel; the harlotry of Ephraim [is] there; Israel is defiled.


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After two days He will bring us to life; in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight.


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Then we shall know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD. His going out is prepared as the morning; and He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain to the earth.


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O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? For your goodness [is] like a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goes away.


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So I have cut [them] down by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth. And your judgments [were as] the light that goes out.


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And as troops of robbers wait for a man, the company of priests murder [in] the way of Shechem; for they committed wickedness.


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When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they have worked falsehood. And the thief comes in, the troop of robbers plunders outside.


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And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. And they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek Him in all this.


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When they go, I will spread My net on them; I will bring them down like the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, as a report to their congregation.


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Woe to them! For they have fled from Me. Ruin to them! Because they have sinned against Me. Though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against Me.


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And they have not cried to Me with their heart, when they howled on their beds; they gather themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against Me.


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They return, but not to the [Most] High. They are like a deceitful bow; their rulers shall fall by the sword from the rage of their tongue. This [shall be] their scorn in the land of Egypt.


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And they do not say within their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their own doings have hemmed them in; they are before My face.


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They [are] all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker; he stops stirring, from kneading the dough, while it is leavened.


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[In] the day of our king, the rulers have sickened themselves [with] the heat of wine. He stretches out his hand with scorners.


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For they have brought their heart near like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps at night; in the morning it burns like a flaming fire.


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They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen; there is none among them who calls to Me.


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Strangers have eaten up his strength, and he does not know. Yea, gray hairs are here and there on him, yet he knows it not.


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Put a trumpet to your mouth. [He comes] like an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have broken My covenant and have sinned against My law.


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Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now I will gather them. And they began to be few, from the burden of the king of rulers.


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They sacrifice flesh [for] the sacrifices of My offerings, and eat it; but the LORD does not receive them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins. They shall return [to] Egypt.


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For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples. And Judah has multiplied cities. But I will send a fire on his cities, and it shall burn up her palaces.


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They have set up kings, but not by Me; they have made rulers, and I knew it not. They have made themselves idols [with] their silver and their gold, so that they may be cut off.


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Your calf, O Samaria, has cast [you] off. My anger is kindled against them. Until when will they not attain purity?


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For from Israel it [came] also. The craftsman made it, but [it is] not God. For the calf of Samaria shall be splinters.


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For they sow the wind, and they reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal; if it does yield, strangers shall swallow it up.


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Israel is swallowed up; now they shall be among the nations as a vessel in which there is no pleasure.


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O Israel, rejoice not for joy, like the peoples. For you have gone lusting away from your God; you have loved a reward on every grain floor.


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I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first-fruit in the fig tree at her first time. But they went [to] Baal-peor and set themselves apart to a shameful thing; and they became abominable like that which they loved.


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Ephraim is like a bird; their glory shall fly away from birth, and from the womb, and from conception.


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Though they bring up their sons, yet I will make them childless, without a man. Yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!


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Ephraim, when I looked toward Tyre, was planted in a pleasant place. But Ephraim shall bring out his sons to the murderer.


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All their wickedness [is] in Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them out of My house for the wickedness of their doings. I will love them no more; all their rulers [are] revolters.


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Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Yea, though they bear, yet I will slay the beloved ones of their womb.


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My God shall cast them away because they did not listen to Him. And they shall be wanderers among the nations.


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They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.


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They shall not pour wine to the LORD, nor shall they be pleasing to Him. Their sacrifices [shall be] like the bread of sorrows to them; all who eat of them shall be defiled. For their bread is for their soul, it shall not come into the house of the LORD.


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For lo, they have left because of destruction. Egypt shall gather them up; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess the desirable things of their silver; thorns [shall be] in their tents.


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The days of her judgment have come; the days of vengeance have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man [is] insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and the great hatred.


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The watchman of Ephraim [was] with my God. The prophet [is] a snare of a fowler in all his ways, [and] hatred in the house of his God.


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They have deeply corrupted, as [in] days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.


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The field is wasted; the land mourns, for the grain is wasted. The new wine is dried up; the oil tree droops.


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Be ashamed, husbandmen; howl, vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.


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The vine is dried up, and the fig tree droops, [the] pomegranate and the palm tree, and the apple tree; all the trees of the field are dried up, because joy has dried up from the sons of men.


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Gird up and lament, priests; howl, ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God. For the food offering and the drink offering are held back from the house of your God.


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Set apart a fast; call a solemn gathering; gather the elders and all the people of the land [into] the house of the LORD your God, and cry to the Lord,


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Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD [is] at hand, and it shall come as a ruin from the Almighty.


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The seed is rotten under their clods; the storage bins are laid waste; the barns are broken down, for the grain has dried up.


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How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are troubled because they [have] no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are destroyed.


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O LORD, to You will I cry; for the fire has burned up the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.


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Hear this, you old men, and give ear, all dwellers of the land. Has this been in your days or even in the days of your fathers?


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The beasts of the field also cry to You; for the rivers of water are dried up, and the fire has burned up the pastures of the wilderness.


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That which the creeping locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten. And that which the swarming locust has left, the locust larvae has eaten. And that which the locust larvae has left, the stripping locust has eaten.


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Awake, drunkards, and weep; and howl, all drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.


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For a nation has come up on My land, strong and without number, whose teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, and he has the jaw teeth of a lioness.


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He has laid My vine waste and splintered My fig tree. He has stripped it and cast [it] away; its branches grow white.


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The food offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.


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Blow a ram's horn in Zion, and sound an alarm in My holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble. For the day of the LORD comes, for [it is] near at hand;


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The earth shall tremble before them; the heavens shall shake. The sun and the moon shall grow dark, and the stars shall gather in their light.


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And the LORD shall utter His voice before His army; for His camp [is] very great; for strong [is He] who does His Word. For the day of the LORD [is] great and very terrible; and who can stand it?


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Yet even now, says the LORD, turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.


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Yes, tear your heart and not your robes, and turn to the LORD your God: for He [is] gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and He pities because of the evil.


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Who knows [if] He will turn and have pity and leave a blessing behind Him, a food offering and a drink offering to the LORD your God?


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Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, gather the elders, gather the children and those who suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth out of his chamber, and the bride out of her room.


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Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Have pity on Your people, O LORD, and give not Your inheritance to shame, for a proverb among those of the nations. Why should they say among the people, Where [is] their God?


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Yes, the LORD will answer and say to His people, Behold, I will send you grain, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied with it. And I will no more make you a curse among the nations.


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a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread on the mountains; a great people and a strong people; there has not been ever the like, nor shall there ever be again, even to the years of many generations.


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But I will remove the northern army far from you, and will drive him into a barren and deserted land, with his face toward the eastern sea and his rear toward the western sea. And his stench shall come up, and his ill odor shall come up, because he was doing great things.


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Do not be afraid, beasts of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness grow green; for the tree bears its fruit, and the fig tree and the vine yield their strength.


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Be glad then, sons of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God. For He has given you the former rain according to righteousness, and He will cause the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain in the first [month].


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And I will restore to you the years which the swarming locust has eaten, the locust larvae, and the stripping locust, and the cutting locust, My great army which I sent among you.


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And you shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt with you wonderfully; and My people shall never be ashamed.


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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 no one else; and My people shall never be ashamed.


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And it shall be afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; your old men shall dream dreams; your young men shall see visions.


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A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land [is] as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. Yes, and nothing shall escape them.


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The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD.


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And it shall be, whoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be saved; for salvation shall be in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, as the LORD has said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.


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They shall leap like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle order.


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They shall run like mighty ones. They shall climb the wall like men of war, and they shall march each one on his way, and they shall not break their ranks.


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And each one shall not press his brother; they [each] go in his paths. And [if] they fall behind their weapons, they shall not be cut off.


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They shall rush on the city; they shall run on the wall; they shall climb up on the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.


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For, behold, in those days and in that time, [when] I will bring again the exiles of Judah and Jerusalem,


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Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, I [am] strong.


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Gather yourselves and come, all you nations, and gather yourselves together all around; cause Your mighty ones to come down there, O LORD.


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Let the nations be awakened and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the nations all around.


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Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, come down; for the press is full; the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.


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Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision; for the day of the LORD [is] near in the valley of decision!


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The LORD shall also roar out of Zion and utter His voice from Jerusalem. And the heavens and the earth shall shake. But the LORD [will be] the hope of His people and the strength of the sons of Israel.


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So you shall know that I [am] the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be a holy thing, and no aliens shall pass through her any more.


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And it shall be, in that day the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow [with] milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow [with] waters; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.


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Egypt shall be a ruin, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, from violence [done] to the sons of Judah, whose innocent blood they poured out in their land.


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I will also gather all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will fight with them there for My people and for My inheritance Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and divided My land.


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And they have cast lots for My people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, so that they might drink.


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Yea, and what [have] you to do with Me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the borders of Philistia? [Will you] give Me a reward? And if you reward Me, swiftly and speedily I will turn your reward on your own head,


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You have also sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you might remove them far from their border.


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Behold, I [am] rising them out of the place where you have sold them, and will turn your reward on your own head.


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And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off; for the LORD has spoken it.


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Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up.


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The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa; the word which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.


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So says the LORD: For three transgressions of Edom, yea for four, I will not turn away [from] it. Because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pities, and his anger tore without end, and he kept his wrath forever.


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So says the LORD: For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon, yea for four, I will not turn away [from] it. Because they have ripped up the pregnant women of Gilead, to make their own border larger.


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But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour its palaces with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind.


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And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion and utter His voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall dry up.


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So says the LORD: For three transgressions of Damascus, yea for four, I will not turn away [from] it; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.


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I will also break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the dweller from the Valley of Aven, and from him who holds the scepter from the house of Eden. And the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir, says the LORD.


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So says the LORD: For three transgressions of Gaza, yea for four, I will not turn away [from] it; because they deported [as] exiles to deliver up a complete [population] to Edom.


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And I will cut off the people from Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon, and I will turn My hand against Ekron. And the rest of the Philistines shall perish, says the Lord God.


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So says the LORD: For three transgressions of Tyre, yea for four, I will not turn away [from] it. Because they delivered up [as] exiles a complete [population] to Edom, and did not remember the brotherly covenant.


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So says the LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, yea for four, I will not turn away [from] it; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.


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Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years through the wilderness to possess the land of the Amorite.


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And I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazarites from your young men. [Is it] not even so, O sons of Israel? says the LORD.


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And refuge shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his power, nor shall the mighty deliver his life;


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nor shall he who handles the bow stand. And the swift-footed shall not save; and the horse rider shall not save his life.


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But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth. And Moab shall die with great noise, with shouting, with the sound of a trumpet.


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So says the LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, yea for four, I will not turn away [from] it; because they have despised the laws of the LORD, and have not kept His commandments. And their lies after which their fathers walked led them astray.


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So says the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, yea for four, I will not turn away [from] it; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals;


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panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father will go [in] to the same woman, to defile My holy name.


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And they will stretch beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and they drink the wine of the condemned [in] the house of their god.


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Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height [was] like the height of the cedars, and he [was] strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from below.


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Hear this Word that the LORD has spoken against you, sons of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,


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For they do not know to do right, says the LORD, those who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: An enemy! And he [shall be] all around the land; and he shall bring you down from your strength, and your palaces shall be plundered.


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So says the LORD: As the shepherd takes two legs out of the mouth of the lion, or a piece of an ear; so shall the sons of Israel be taken out, those who dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus [on] a couch.


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for in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel. And the horns of the altar shall be cut off and shall fall to the ground.


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And I will strike the winter house together with the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish. And the great houses shall be swept away, says the LORD.


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You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you [for] all your iniquities.


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Will a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey for him? Will a young lion cry out of his den unless he has caught?


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Will a bird fall into a trap [on] the ground, and there is no bait for it? Will a trap spring up from the ground, and nothing at all be caught?


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If a ram's horn is blown in a city, will the people not also tremble? If there is a calamity in a city, has the LORD not also done it?


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Make [it] heard at the palaces of Ashdod, and the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say: Gather yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great uproars in its midst, and the oppressed in its midst.


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Hear this word, cows of Bashan who [are] in the mountain of Samaria; who press down the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring in, that we may drink.


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I have sent the plague among you in the way of Egypt; I have slain your young men with the sword, and have taken away your horses. And I have made the stench of your camps to come up into your nostrils; yet you have not returned to Me, says the LORD.


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I have overthrown some among you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand plucked out of the burning; yet you have not returned to Me, says the LORD.


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So I will do this to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.


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For lo, He forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what his thought [is]. He who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth; the LORD, the God of hosts, [is] His name.


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The Lord Jehovah has sworn by His holiness that the days shall come on you that He will lift you up with meat hooks, and your sons with fishhooks.


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And you shall go out at the breaches, each woman straight before her. And you shall cast down the high place, says the LORD.


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Come to Bethel and transgress; to Gilgal and multiply transgressing [at] Gilgal. And bring your sacrifices for the morning, your tithes for three years;


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and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving from that [which is] leavened, and cry out; call out the voluntary offerings! For so you love [to do], O sons of Israel, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, and you have not returned to Me, says the LORD.


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And I have also withheld the rain from you, when [there were] yet three months to the harvest. And I caused rain to fall on one city and caused it not to rain on another city; one piece was rained on, and the piece on which it did not rain dried up.


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So two [or] three cities wandered to one city to drink water, but they were not satisfied; yet you have not returned to Me, says the LORD.


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I have stricken you with blasting and mildew. When your gardens and your vineyards, and your fig trees. and your olive trees increased, the creeping locust devoured them; yet you have not returned to Me, says the LORD.


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So, because of your trampling on the poor, and you take tribute of grain from him; you have built houses of carved stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink wine from them.


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For I know your many transgressions and your many sins. They afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate.


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Seek good and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken.


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Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate. It may be that the Lord Jehovah of hosts will be gracious [to] the remnant of Joseph.


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So the LORD, the God of hosts, the Master, says this: Wailing [shall be] in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! Alas! And they shall call the tiller to mourning, and those who are skillful in mourning to wailing.


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Woe to those desiring the day of the LORD! What [is] this for you? The day of the LORD [is] darkness and not light;


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as [if] a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.


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The virgin of Israel has fallen; she shall rise no more; she lies forsaken on her land. There is none to raise her up.


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[Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?


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Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your food offerings, I will not be pleased. Nor will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.


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Take the noise of your songs away from Me; for I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.


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But you have carried the booth of your king and Kiyyun, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves.


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So I will cause you to go into exile beyond Damascus, says the LORD, the God of hosts [is] His name.


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For thus says the Lord Jehovah: The city that went out [by] a thousand shall leave a hundred, and that which went out [by] a hundred shall have ten left in the house of Israel.


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But do not seek Bethel nor enter into Gilgal, and do not pass to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nothing.


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Seek the LORD, and you shall live; lest He break out like a fire [on] the house of Joseph and devour it, and there be none to put it out in Bethel.


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seek Him who created the Pleiades and Orion, and who turned the deep darkness into the morning and He darkened the day [into] night. Seek Him who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the face of the earth; the LORD is] His name;


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Woe to those at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, who are noted [as] leader of the nations. And the house of Israel came to them.


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And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he who burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say to [him] left in the recesses of the house, Are any still with you? And he shall say, No. Then he shall say, Hush! For not one shall mention the name of Jehovah.


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For, behold, the LORD commands, and He will strike the great house into pieces, and the little house [into] cracks.


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Shall horses run on the rock? Will one plow [there] with oxen? For you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock;


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But behold, I will raise a nation up against you, O house of Israel, says the Lord, the God of hosts. And they shall oppress you from the entrance to Hamath to the torrent of the Arabah.


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Pass to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great. Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. [Are they] better than these kingdoms, or their border greater than your border?


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who lie on beds of ivory, and those sprawling on their couches, and eat lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;


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who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best of oils; nor do they grieve for the breaking of Joseph!


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So now they shall go into exile with the first of the exiles. And the feast of those who stretch themselves shall cease.


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The Lord Jehovah has sworn by Himself, says the LORD, the God of hosts: I despise the glory of Jacob, and hate his palaces; and I will shut up the city and all its fullness.


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The Lord Jehovah made me see this: And behold, He is forming locusts at the beginning of the coming up of the late grass; even behold, the late grass after the king's mowings.


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Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos has plotted against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.


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For so Amos says: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely go into exile out of his land.


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And Amaziah said to Amos, O seer, go, flee for yourself into the land of Judah; and eat bread there, and prophesy there.


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But do not prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king's temple, and it [is] the king's royal house.


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Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah: I [was] no prophet, nor [was] I a prophet's son. But I [was] a herdsman and a gatherer [from] sycamore trees.


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And the LORD took me from behind the flock, and the LORD said to me, Go, prophesy to My people Israel.


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Now then hear the Word of the LORD. You say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not drop [words] against the house of Isaac.


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So the LORD says this: 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 divided by line. And you shall die in a defiled land; and Israel shall surely go into exile out of his land.


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And it happened when it had made an end of eating the tender plant of the land, then I said, O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I pray You. How can Jacob stand? For he [is] small.


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The Lord Jehovah made me see this: And behold, the Lord Jehovah was calling to contend by fire. And it consumed the great deep, and [it was] devouring part of it.


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He made me see this: And behold, the Lord was standing by the plumbline-wall, and a plumbline in His hand.


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And the LORD said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A plumbline. Then the Lord said, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of My people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.


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And the high places of Isaac shall be wasted, and the holy places of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.


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And I will turn your feast into mourning, and all your songs into weeping; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning of an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.


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Behold, the days come, says the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land; not [a famine] of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.


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And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the Word of the LORD, and shall not find [it].


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They who swear by the sin of Samaria and say, [As] your God lives, O Dan; and, [As] the way of Beer-sheba lives; even they shall fall and never rise up again.


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And He said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then the LORD said to me, The end has come to My people Israel: I will never pass by them any more.


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And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, says the Lord Jehovah. The dead bodies [shall be] many. In every place one shall throw [them] out, saying, Hush!


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saying, When will the new moon be gone so that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel great, and perverting the balances by deceit;


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that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals; and sell the chaff of the wheat?


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Shall not the land tremble for this, and all who dwell in it mourn? And all of it shall rise up like the light. And it shall overflow and sink like the Nile of Egypt.


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And it shall be in that day, says the Lord Jehovah, I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the light of day.


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I saw the Lord standing by the altar. And He said, Strike the capital of the door, so that the thresholds shall shake; and break them on the head of all of them. And I will kill the last of them with the sword. Not one of them fleeing will flee, and not a fugitive of them will escape.


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All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, who say, The evil shall not draw near, or come in front about us.


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In that day I will raise up the booth of David that has fallen, and close up its breaks; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;


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so that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the nations [on] whom My name is called, says the LORD who is doing this.


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Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the plowman and the reaper shall draw near, the treader of grapes, and he who draws along the seed. And the mountains will drip must, and all the hills will be dissolved.


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And I will turn back the captivity of My people Israel, and they shall build the cities which are desolate, and they shall live [in] them. And they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine. They shall also make gardens and eat their fruit.


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And I will plant them on their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says the LORD your God.


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If they dig into hell, there My hand shall take them. And if they go up to the heavens, I will bring them down from there.


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And if they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there. And if they are hidden from My sight in the bottom of the sea, I will command the serpent there, and he shall bite them.


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And if they go into captivity before their enemies, I will command the sword there, and it shall kill them; and I will set My eyes on them for evil, and not for good.


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And the Lord Jehovah of hosts [is] He who touches the land, and it shall melt, and all who dwell in it shall mourn. And all of it shall rise up like the Nile, and sink down like the Nile of Egypt.


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[It is] He who builds His staircase in the heavens, and He has founded the [heavens] on the earth; He who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the face of the earth; the LORD [is] His name.


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Are you not like sons of the Ethiopians to Me, O sons of Israel, says the LORD? Have I not brought Israel up out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?


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Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah [are] on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth; except that I will not completely destroy the house of Jacob, says the LORD.


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For lo, I will command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, as one shakes with a sieve, yet not a grain shall fall [to] the earth.


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The vision of Obadiah. So says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a message from the LORD, and a messenger is sent among the nations: Rise up, even let us rise up against her for battle.


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Shame shall cover you from the violence against your brother Jacob, and you shall be cut off forever.


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On the day of your standing on the other [side], on the day that the strangers were capturing his force, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you [were] like one of them.


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But you should not have looked on the day of your brother on the day of his alienation; nor should you have rejoiced over the sons of Judah in the day of their ruin; nor should you have enlarged your mouth in the day of distress.


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You should not have entered into the gate of My people in the day of their calamity; also, you should not have looked on his evil in the day of their calamity. Nor should you have sent out against his force in the day of his calamity.


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Nor should you have stood on the crossways to cut off those of him who escaped; nor should you have shut up his survivors in the day of distress.


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For the day of the LORD [is] near on all the nations; as you have done, it shall be done to you. Your reward shall return upon your head.


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For as you have drunk upon My holy mountain, [so] all the nations shall drink forever. Yes, they shall drink, and they shall swallow, and they shall be as [though] they had not been.


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But upon Mount Zion shall be those who escaped; and it shall be holy. And the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.


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And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame. And the house of Esau [shall be] for stubble. And they shall kindle in them and burn them up. And no survivor shall be to the house of Esau; for the LORD has spoken it.


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And [those of] the south shall possess the mountain of Esau and the low country of the Philistines. And they shall possess the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria; and Benjamin [shall possess] Gilead.


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And the exiles of this army [shall go] to the sons of Israel who shall possess [the land] of the Canaanites to Zarephath; even the exiles of Jerusalem who [are] in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the south.


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And deliverers shall go up into the mountain of Zion to judge the mountain of Esau; and the kingdom shall be to the LORD.


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The pride of your heart has deceived you, dwelling in the clefts of the rock, his dwelling [is] lofty; saying in his heart, Who shall bring me down [to] the ground?


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Though you rise high like the eagle, and though [you] set your nest between the stars, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD.


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If thieves came to you, if destroyers by night (how you have been cut off!), would they not have stolen until they had enough? If the grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?


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All the men of your covenant have dismissed you to the border; the men who were at peace with you have deceived you, [and] have overcome you. They are setting your bread as a snare under you; [there is] no understanding in them.


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Shall I not in that day even destroy the wise out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau, says the LORD?


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And your mighty ones, O] Teman, shall be afraid, so that each man from the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.


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Then the men were afraid [with] a great fear. And they said to him, What is this you have done? For the men knew that he was fleeing from before the face of Jehovah, because he had told them.


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Then they said to him, What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us? For the sea was going on and being stormy.


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And he said to them, Take me up and throw me out into the sea. And the sea shall be calm to you; for I know that this great storm [has come] on you for my sake.


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But the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not, for the sea was going on and being stormy against them.


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And they cried to Jehovah and said, We beg You, O Jehovah, we beg You, let us not perish for this man's life, and do not lay on us innocent blood. For You, O Jehovah, have done as it pleased You.


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And Jehovah had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.


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But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah. And he went down to Joppa. And he found a ship going to Tarshish. And he gave its fare, and went down into it, in order to go with them to Tarshish, away from the sight of Jehovah.


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But Jehovah hurled a great wind into the sea, and there was a great storm in the sea, so that the ship [was] thought to be broken.


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Then the seamen were afraid, and each man cried to his god. And they threw out the [ship's] articles in the ship, into the sea in order to lighten [it]. But Jonah had gone down into the hold of the ship; and he lay there, and was fast asleep.


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And the chief of the seaman came to him and said to him, What [is it] to you, O sound sleeper? Arise, call upon your God! It may be that our god will notice us, and we will not perish.


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And they said, each one to his fellow, Come and let us cast lots, so that we may know who has caused this evil [to occur] to us. And they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.


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Then they said to him, Please tell us, for what reason this evil [has come] on us. What is your business? And where do you come from? Where [is] your country? And of what people [are] you?


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And he said to them, I [am] a Hebrew; and I fear Jehovah, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.


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and he said, I cried to Jehovah from my distress. And He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried for help, [and] You heard my voice.


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For You cast me [into the] depths of the seas, and the current surrounded me. All Your breakers and Your waves passed over me.


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Waters encompassed me, [even] to the soul; the depth closed around me; the seaweed was bound to my head.


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I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was around me forever; yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.


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When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; and my prayer came in to You, into Your holy temple.


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but I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; I will fulfill that which I have vowed. Salvation [belongs] to Jehovah!


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And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. And God was compassionate over the evil that He had said to do to them, and He did not do [it].


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Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out to it the proclamation that I am declaring to you.


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And Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the Word of Jehovah. And Nineveh was a very great city of three days' journey.


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And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried and said, Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown!


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And the people of Nineveh believed God. And they called a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.


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For word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne. And he laid his robe from him, and covered himself [with] sackcloth, and sat in ashes.


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And he cried out and said in Nineveh by the decree of the king and his great ones, saying, Do not let man or beast, herd or flock taste anything; do not let them feed, nor drink water.


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But let man and animal be covered [with] sackcloth, and cry mightily to God. And let them each one turn from his evil way, and from the violence that [is] in their hands.


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Who knows? He may repent, and God may have pity and turn away from the glow of His anger, so that we do not perish.


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And Jehovah said, You have had pity on the plant, for which you had not labored, nor made it grow, which was a son of a night, and perished the son of a night.


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And should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than a hundred and twenty thousand men who do not know between [their] right [and their] left hand, besides much cattle?


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And he prayed to Jehovah and said, Please, O Jehovah, [was] this not my saying when I was still in my land? On account of this I fled before to Tarshish. For I knew that You [are] a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and One who repents over calamity.


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And Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east of the city. And he made himself a booth there and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would happen in the city.


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And Jehovah God prepared a plant, and it came up over Jonah, to be shade over his head, in order to deliver him from his misery. And Jonah rejoiced [with] great joy over the plant.


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But God prepared a worm as the morning dawned the next day. And it struck the plant, and it withered.


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And it happened when the sun shone, God ordained a scorching east wind. And the sun beat on the head of Jonah, so that he fainted. And he asked for his life to die. And he said, Better [is] my death than my life.


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And God said to Jonah, Is your anger rightly kindled over the plant? And he said, My anger is rightly kindled, [even] to death.


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And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first [day] of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,


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of the sons of Joseph; of Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;


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These [were] the noted ones of the congregation, rulers of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.


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And they gathered all the congregation on the first [day] of the second month. And they declared their pedigrees according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their heads.


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Take the sum of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, according to their families, by their fathers' house, with the number of names, every male by their heads,


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And the sons of Reuben, Israel's first-born son, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, by their heads, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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Of the sons of Simeon, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their heads, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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Of the sons of Gad, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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Of the sons of Judah, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all able to go forth to war:


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Of the sons of Issachar, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their armies.


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Of the sons of Zebulun, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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Of the sons of Joseph, of the sons of Ephraim, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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Of the sons of Manasseh, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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Of the sons of Benjamin, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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Of the sons of Dan, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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Of the sons of Asher, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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Of the sons of Naphtali, by their generations, according to their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war:


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These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the rulers of Israel being twelve men. Each one was for the house of his fathers.


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And all those that were numbered of the sons of Israel, by their fathers' house, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel:


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And these [are] the names of the men that shall stand with you: Of Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur;


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But you shall set the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all its vessels, and over all its things. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its vessels. And they shall serve it, and shall camp around the tabernacle.


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And when the tabernacle sets forth, the Levites shall take it down. And when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. And the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.


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And the sons of Israel shall pitch their tents, each man by his own camp, and each man by his own banner, throughout their armies.


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But the Levites shall pitch around the tabernacle of testimony, so that there may be no wrath upon the congregation of the sons of Israel. And the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.


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Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings, so that they may be to you for a memorial before your GOD. I [am] the LORD your God.


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And on the twentieth of the second month, in the second year, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the testimony.


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And the sons of Israel pulled up in their journeyings out of the wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.


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And at the front the sons of Judah pulled up the standard of the camp by their armies. And over his army [was] Nahshon the son of Amminadab.


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And the tabernacle was taken down. And the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari pulled up, carrying the tabernacle.


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And the standard of the camp of Reuben pulled up according to their armies. And over his army [was] Elizur the son of Shedeur.


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Make two trumpets of silver for yourself. You shall make them of beaten work. And they shall be used for the calling of the assembly and for causing the camps to go forward.


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And the Kohathites pulled up carrying the sanctuary. And the tabernacle was set up before they came.


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And the standard of the camp of the sons of Ephraim pulled up according to their armies. And over his army [was] Elishama the son of Ammihud.


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And the standard of the camp of the sons of Dan set forward, the rear guard of all the camps throughout their army. And over his army [was] Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


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And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law: We are going to the place of which the LORD said, I will give it to you. Come with us, and we will do you good. For the LORD has spoken good concerning Israel.


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And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall gather themselves to you at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And he said, Please do not leave us, because you know how we are to camp in the wilderness, and so you may be to us for eyes.


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And it shall be, if you go with us, then it shall be, whatever goodness the LORD shall do to us, the same will we do to you.


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And they moved three days' journey from the mountain of the LORD. And the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to look for a resting-place for them.


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And it happened when the ark pulled up, Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let Your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate You flee before You.


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And if they blow with one, then the rulers [who are] heads of the thousands of Israel shall gather themselves to you.


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When you blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall pull up. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys.


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And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets. And they shall be to you for an ordinance forever throughout your generations.


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And if you go to war in your land against the enemy who fights against you, then you shall blow with the trumpets. And you shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.


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And the people [were] evil, as those complaining in the ears of the LORD. And the LORD heard, and His anger was kindled. And the fire of the LORD burned among them and devoured in the outermost parts of the camp.


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Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent. And the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly. Moses also was displeased.


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And Moses said to the LORD, Why have You afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, so that You lay the burden of all this people upon me?


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Have I conceived all this people? Did I bring them forth, that You should say to me, Carry them in your bosom like a nursing father carries the sucking child, to the land which You swore to their fathers?


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From where should I get flesh to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh that we may eat.


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And if You are going to part this way with me, I beg You to kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and let me not see my misery.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and the officers over them. And bring them to the tabernacle of the congregation so that they may stand there with you.


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And I will come down and talk with you there. And I will take of the spirit on you, and will put [it] on them, and they shall bear the burden of the people with you so that you do not bear [it] yourself alone.


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And say to the people, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat flesh. For you have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat, for [it was] well with us in Egypt? Therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and you shall eat.


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Even a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is hateful to you, because you have despised the LORD among you, and have wept before Him, saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?


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And Moses said, The people among whom I [am] [are] six hundred thousand footmen. And You have said, I will give them flesh so that they may eat a whole month!


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Shall the flocks and the herds be killed for them, to be enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be enough for them?


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And the LORD said to Moses, Has the LORD's hand become short? You shall see now whether or not My word shall come to pass to you.


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And Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them all around the tabernacle.


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And the LORD came down in a cloud and spoke to him, and took of the spirit on him and gave [it] to the seventy elders. And it happened when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they never did so again.


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But two of the men stayed in the camp; the name of the one [was] Eldad, and the name of the other was Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them. And they [were] of those who were written, but did not go out to the tabernacle. And they prophesied in the camp.


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And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, [one] of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, make them cease.


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And Moses said to him, Are you jealous for my sake? Would God that all the LORD's people were prophets, that the LORD would put His Spirit upon them!


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And a wind went forth from the LORD. And it cut off quails from the sea and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and about a day's journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits [high upon the face of the earth.


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And the people stood up all that day and all night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails. And he that gathered least gathered ten homers. And they spread [them] out for themselves all around the camp.


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And while the flesh [was] yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.


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And he called the name of that place Graves of Lust, because there they buried the people that lusted.


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And the mixed multitude in their midst lusted with [great] lust. And the sons of Israel also turned and wept, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?


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We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.


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The people went around and gathered, and ground it in mills, or beat [it] in a mortar, and baked in pans, and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of fresh oil.


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And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had taken. For he had taken a Cushite woman.


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And the cloud moved from the tabernacle. And behold! Miriam [became] leprous, as snow. And Aaron looked on Miriam, and behold, [she was] leprous.


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And Aaron said to Moses, Oh, my lord, I beg you, do not lay upon us the sin in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned.


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Let her not be like one dead, of whom the flesh is half gone when he comes out of his mother's womb.


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And the LORD said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received.


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And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days. And the people did not pull up until Miriam was brought in.


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And they said, Has the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? Has He not also spoken by us? And the LORD heard.


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And the LORD spoke suddenly to Moses and to Aaron and to Miriam, You three come out to the tabernacle of the congregation. And the three came out.


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And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud and stood [in] the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam. And they both came forth.


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And He said, Hear now My words. If there is a prophet among you, [I] the LORD will make Myself known to him in a vision, and will speak to him in a dream.


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I will speak with him mouth to mouth, even clearly, and not in dark speeches. And he shall behold the likeness of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?


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These [were] the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Joshua.


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And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up this [way], southward, and go up [into] the mountain.


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And see the land, what it [is], and the people that live in it, whether it is strong or weak, few or many.


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And see what the land [is] that they live in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they dwell in, whether in tents or in strongholds;


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Send men so that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give to the sons of Israel. You shall send a man from every tribe of their fathers, everyone a ruler among them.


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and what the land [is], whether fat or lean, whether there is wood in it or not. And be of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time [was] the time of first ripe grapes.


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And they went up by the south and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the sons of Anak [were]. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)


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And they came to the valley of Eshcol and cut from there a branch with one cluster of grapes. And they carried it between two men upon a staff, and some of the pomegranates and of the figs.


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The place was called the valley of Eshcol because of the cluster of grapes which the sons of Israel cut down from there.


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And they left and came to Moses and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh. And they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.


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And they told him and said, We came to the land where you sent us, and surely it flows with milk and honey. And this [is] the fruit of it.


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However, the people that dwell in the land [are] strong, and the cities [are] walled, very great. And also we saw the children of Anak there.


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The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south, and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea and by the coast of Jordan.


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And Moses by the command of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran. All those men [were] heads of the sons of Israel.


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And Caleb stilled the people before Moses and said, Let us go up at once and possess it. For we are well able to overcome it.


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But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they [are] stronger than we.


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And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched to the sons of Israel, saying, The land through which we have gone to search it, [is] a land that eats up those who live in it. And all the people whom we saw in it were men of stature.


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And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, of the giants. And we were in our own sight like grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.


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But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the sons of Israel.


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And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people provoke Me? And how long will it be before they believe Me, for all the signs which I have shown among them?


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I will strike them with the pestilence and will disinherit them, and will make of you a greater nation and mightier than they.


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And Moses said to Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear, for You have brought up this people in Your might from among them.


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And they will say to the inhabitant of this land. They have heard that You, LORD, [are] among this people, who is seen eye to eye. You [are] Jehovah, and Your cloud stands over them, and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.


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And will you kill this people as one man? Then the nations who have heard Your fame will speak, saying,


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Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore to them, therefore He has slain them in the wilderness.


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The LORD [is] long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth [generation].


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I beseech You, pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your mercy, and as You have forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.


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And all the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. And the whole congregation said to them, Oh that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or, Oh that we had died in the wilderness!


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Because all those men who have seen My glory and My miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted Me now these ten times, and have not listened to My voice,


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surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked Me see it.


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But My servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed Me fully, I will bring him into the land into which he went. And his seed shall possess it.


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(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites lived in the valley.) Tomorrow turn and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.


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How long [shall I bear with] this evil congregation, which murmurs against Me? I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel which they murmur against Me.


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Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me,


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And why has the LORD brought us into this land to fall by the sword, so that our wives and our sons should be a prey? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?


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you shall certainly not come into the land which I swore to make you live in, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.


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But your little ones, which you said should be a prey, I will bring them in and they shall know the land which you have despised.


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And your sons shall feed in the wilderness forty years and bear your fornications, until your dead bodies have wasted in the wilderness.


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According to the number of the days in which you searched the land-- forty days-- each day for a year you shall bear your iniquities, forty years; and you shall know my alienation.


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I the LORD have spoken; I will surely do it to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. They shall be destroyed in this wilderness, and there they shall die.


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And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report upon the land,


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But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of the men that went to spy out the land, lived.


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And they rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we are here, and will go up to the place which the LORD has promised, for we have sinned.


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For the Amalekites and the Canaanites [are] there before you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.


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But they presumed to go up to the hill top. But the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and Moses, did not leave the camp.


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And the Amalekites and the Canaanites who were living in that mountain came down and struck them, and beat them down, to Hormah.


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And Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.


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And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those that searched the land, tore their clothes.


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And they spoke to all the company of the [sons] of Israel saying, The land which we passed through to search is an exceedingly good land.


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If the LORD delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.


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Only do not rebel against the LORD, neither fear the people of the land. For they [are] bread for us. Their protection has moved from them, and the LORD [is] with us. Do not fear them.


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And you shall bring for a drink offering half a hin of wine, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD.


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According to the number that you shall prepare, so you shall do to everyone according to their number.


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All that are born of the country shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD.


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And if a stranger stays with you, or whoever [is] among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire of a sweet savor to the LORD; as you do, so he shall do.


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One ordinance for you of the congregation and also for the stranger that resides [with you], an ordinance forever in your generations. As you are, so the stranger shall be before the LORD.


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then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a heave offering to the LORD.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you have come into the land of your dwelling places, which I give to you,


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You shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough, a heave offering, as the heave offering of the threshing-floor, so you shall lift it up.


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all that the LORD has commanded you by the hand of Moses from the day that the LORD commanded, and onward in your generations,


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then it shall be if it is committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer up one young bull for a burnt offering, for a sweet savor to the LORD, with its food offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.


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And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them, for it [is] ignorance. And they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance.


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And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the sons of Israel and the stranger that lives among them, since all the people [were] in ignorance.


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And if one soul sins through ignorance, then he shall bring a female goat of the first year for a sin offering.


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And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul, when he sins through error before the LORD, to make an atonement for him. And it shall be forgiven him.


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And you shall have one law for him who acts through ignorance; [for] him that is native among the sons of Israel and for the alien that resides among them.


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and will make an offering by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a free-will offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savor to the LORD, from the herd or from the flock,


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But the soul who acts with a high hand, [whether] of the native or of the alien, the same blasphemes the LORD. And that soul shall be cut off from among his people.


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Because he has despised the word of the LORD and has broken His commandment, that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity [shall be] upon him.


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And while the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day.


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And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation.


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And the LORD said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.


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And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died, even as the LORD commanded Moses.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and command them that they make fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribbon of blue.


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And it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look upon it and remember all the commands of the LORD, and do them; and so that you do not seek after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you prostitute yourself,


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then he who offers his offering to the LORD shall bring a food offering of a tenth part of flour mixed with the fourth of a hin of oil.


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I [am] Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I [am] Jehovah your God.


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And the fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering shall you prepare with the burnt offering, or sacrifice, for one lamb.


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Or for a ram, you shall prepare a food offering, two-tenth parts of flour mixed with the third of a hin of oil.


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And for a drink offering you shall offer the third of a hin of wine [for] a sweet savor to the LORD.


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And when you prepare a bull, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings to the LORD,


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then he shall bring with the bull, a food offering of three-tenth parts of flour mixed with half a hin of oil.


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Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, took both Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben;


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And He has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you. And do you seek the priesthood also?


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For this cause you and all your company [are] gathered against the LORD. And what is Aaron, that you murmur against him?


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[Is it] a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but must you also seize dominion over us?


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Besides, you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance in fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.


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And Moses was very angry, and said to the LORD, Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.


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And Moses said to Korah, Stand before the LORD, you and all your company-- you and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.


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And every man take his fire-pan and put incense in them, and let every man bring his fire-pan before the LORD, two hundred and fifty fire-pans, you also, and Aaron, each with his fire-pan.


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And every man took his fire-pan and put fire in them, and laid incense on it, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.


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And Korah gathered all the congregation against them, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And the glory of the LORD appeared to all the congregation.


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even they rose up before Moses with some of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty rulers of the assembly, elect men in the congregation, men who were well-known.


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And they fell upon their faces and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin and will You be angry with all the congregation?


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And he spoke to the congregation, saying, I pray you, get away from the tents of these wicked men. And touch nothing of theirs lest you be destroyed in all their sins.


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So they got away from the tent of Korah, Dathan and Abiram, on every side. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little sons.


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And Moses said, By this you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, [and] that not from my own heart.


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If these men die the common death of all men, or if they are visited according to the examination of all men, the LORD has not sent me.


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And they gathered themselves against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, [You take] too much upon you, since all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you lift yourselves up above the congregation of the LORD?


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But if the LORD makes a new thing, and the earth opens her mouth and swallows them up with all that they have, and they go down alive into the pit, then you shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.


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And it happened, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, the ground under them split apart.


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And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who [were] for Korah, and all [their] goods.


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They and all that they had went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed upon them. And they perished from among the congregation.


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And there came out a fire from the LORD and burned up the two hundred and fifty men who offered incense.


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Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the fire-pans out of the burning, and scatter the fire yonder. For they are holy.


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The fire-pans of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them into broad plates, a covering for the altar; for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are made holy. And they shall be a sign to the sons of Israel.


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And Eleazar the priest took the bronze fire-pans, the ones with which those who had been burned up had offered, and they were made into broad [plates], a covering of the altar,


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a memorial to the sons of Israel, that no stranger not of the seed of Aaron may come near to offer incense before the LORD, so that he may not be as Korah and as his company-- as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.


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But on the next day all the congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron saying, You have killed the people of the LORD.


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And it happened when the congregation was gathered together against Moses and against Aaron, they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation. And behold! The cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.


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Get away from this congregation so that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.


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And Moses said to Aaron, Take a fire-pan, and put fire in it from the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly to the congregation and make an atonement for them. For wrath has gone out from the LORD. The plague has begun.


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And Aaron did as Moses commanded and ran into the midst of the congregation. And behold! The plague had begun among the people. And he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.


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And those who died in the plague were fourteen thousand, seven hundred, besides the ones who died about the matter of Korah.


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And he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, Even tomorrow the LORD will show [who are] His, and him who is holy, and will cause him to come near to Him; even him whom He has chosen, He will cause to come near to Him.


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And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the plague was stayed.


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and put fire in them, and put incense in them before the LORD tomorrow. And it shall be the man whom the LORD chooses, he [shall be] holy. You take too much upon you, sons of Levi!


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[is it] only a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near Himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD and to stand before the congregation to minister to them?


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And the LORD said to Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept as a token against the rebels. And you shall completely take away their murmurings from Me so that they do not die.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, and take a rod from each of them for a father's house, of all their rulers, for their fathers' house, twelve rods. Write every man's name upon his rod.


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And you shall write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi. For one rod [shall be] for the head of the house of their fathers.


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And you shall lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.


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And it shall be, the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall blossom. And I will make to cease from Me the murmurings of the sons of Israel by which they murmur against you.


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And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, and all their rulers gave to him a rod, for each ruler, one rod for each ruler, for their father's house, twelve rods. And the rod of Aaron [was] among their rods.


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And it happened on the next day Moses went into the tabernacle of witness. And behold! The rod of Aaron for the house of Levi had budded and had brought forth buds, and had bloomed blossoms, and had yielded almonds.


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And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD to all the sons of Israel. And they looked, and each one took his rod.


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And the LORD said to Aaron, You and your sons, and your father's house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary. And you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.


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And this [is] yours, the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the sons of Israel. I have given them to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you, by a statute forever. Everyone that is clean in your house shall eat it.


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All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the first-fruits of them which they shall offer to the LORD, I have given them to you.


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The first fruits of all that is in the land, which they shall bring to the LORD, shall be yours. Everyone that is clean in your house shall eat [of] it.


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Everything that opens the womb in all flesh, which they bring to the LORD, of men or animals, shall be yours. Nevertheless, the first-born of man you shall surely redeem, and the first-born of unclean animals you shall redeem.


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And those that are to be redeemed from a month old you shall redeem, according to your judgment for the silver of five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which [is] twenty gerahs.


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But the first-born of a cow, or the first-born of a sheep, or the first-born of a goat, you shall not redeem. They [are] holy. You shall sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shall burn their fat, an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor to the LORD.


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All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the sons of Israel offer to the LORD, I have given you and your sons and your daughters with you, by a law forever. It [is] a covenant of salt forever before the LORD to you and to your seed with you.


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And bring your brothers also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father with you, so that they may be joined to you and minister to you, you and your sons with you, before the tabernacle of witness.


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And the LORD said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any part among them. I [am] your part and your inheritance among the sons of Israel.


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And behold, I have given the sons of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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Neither must the sons of Israel come near the tabernacle of the congregation from now on, lest they bear sin and die.


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But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity, a statute forever throughout your generations, that among the sons of Israel they have no inheritance.


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But the tithes of the sons of Israel, which they offer [as] a heave offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit. Therefore I have said to them, Among the sons of Israel they shall have no inheritance.


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And you shall speak to the Levites, and you shall say to them, When you take tithes from the sons of Israel, which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave offering of it for the LORD, a tenth of the tithe.


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And your heave offering shall be credited to you as grain of the threshing-floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.


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So you also shall offer a heave offering to the LORD of all your tithes which you receive from the sons of Israel. And you shall give from it the LORD's heave offering to Aaron the priest.


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Out of all your gifts you shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all its fat, the holy part of it out of it.


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And they shall keep your charge and the charge of all the tabernacle. Only they shall not come near the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, so that neither they nor you also may die.


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And you shall say to them, When you have lifted up its fat, then it shall be credited to the Levites as the increase of the threshing-floor, and as the increase of the winepress.


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And you shall eat it in every place, you and your households. For it [is] your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And you shall bear no sin because of it, when you have lifted up the fat of it. Neither shall you defile the holy things of the sons of Israel, lest you die.


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And they shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle. And a stranger shall not come near you.


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And you shall keep the charge of the sanctuary and the charge of the altar, so that there may be no wrath any more upon the sons of Israel.


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And I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the sons of Israel. [They are] given to you [as] a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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Therefore you and your sons with you shall keep your priests' office for everything of the altar and inside the veil. And you shall serve. I have given your priest's office as a service of gift. And the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.


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And the LORD spoke to Aaron, Behold, I have also given you the charge of My heave offerings of all the holy things of the sons of Israel. I have given them to you for the anointing, and to your sons, by an ordinance forever.


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This shall be yours of the most holy things, [reserved] from the fire, every sacrifice of theirs, every food offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall give Me. These are] most holy for you and for your sons.


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And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. And it shall be to the sons of Israel, and to the stranger that lives among them, for a statute forever.


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He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean. But if he does not purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.


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Whoever touches the dead body of any man that is dead, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. And that soul shall be cut off from Israel. Because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness [is] still upon him.


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This [is] the law when a man dies in a tent. All that come into the tent, and all in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.


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And whoever touches one that is killed with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.


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And for the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of cleansing for sin, and running water shall be put to it in a vessel.


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And a clean person shall take hyssop and dip in the water, and sprinkle upon the tent and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one killed, or one dead, or a grave.


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And the clean [person] shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day. And on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water. And he shall be clean at evening.


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This [is] the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel that they bring you a red heifer, a perfect one, in which there is no blemish, on which no yoke ever came.


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But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of separation has not been sprinkled upon him. He [is unclean.


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And it shall be a perpetual law to them, that he who sprinkles the water of separation shall wash his clothes. And he that touches the water of separation shall be unclean until evening.


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And whatever the unclean touches shall be unclean. And the soul who touches shall be unclean until evening.


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And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest that he may bring her forth outside the camp. And he shall kill her before his face.


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And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times.


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And he shall burn the heifer in his sight, her skin and her flesh and her blood with her dung, he shall burn.


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And the priest shall take cedar-wood and hyssop and scarlet, and throw [it] into the midst of the burning of the heifer.


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Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water. And afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.


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And he who burns her shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.


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And a man [that is] clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay up outside the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the sons of Israel for a water of separation. It is a cleansing for sin.


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On the south side [shall be] the standard of the camp of Reuben, according to their armies; the ruler of the sons of Reuben [shall be] Elizur the son of Shedeur.


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And those who pitch beside him [shall be] the tribe of Simeon. And the captain of the sons of Simeon [shall be] Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.


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All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben [were] a hundred fifty-one thousand, four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall go forward in the second rank.


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And the tabernacle of the congregation shall go forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp. As they camp, so they shall go forward, each man in his place, by their banners.


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On the west side [shall be] the banner of the camp of Ephraim, according to their armies. And the ruler of the sons of Ephraim [shall be] Elishama the son of Ammihud.


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Every man of the sons of Israel shall pitch by his own banner, with the banner of their father's house. They shall pitch far off, around the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And beside him [shall be] the tribe of Manasseh. And the ruler of the sons of Manasseh [shall be] Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.


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All that [were] numbered of the camp of Ephraim were a hundred eight thousand, one hundred, by their armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank.


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The banner of the camp of Dan [shall be] on the north side of their armies. And the ruler of the sons of Dan [shall be] Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


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And those that camp beside him [shall be] the tribe of Asher. And the ruler of the sons of Asher [shall be] Pagiel the son of Ocran.


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And those who pitch on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall be those of the banner of the camp of Judah, throughout their armies. And Nahshon the son of Amminadab [shall be] captain of the sons of Judah.


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All those who [were] numbered in the camp of Dan were a hundred fifty-seven thousand, six hundred. They shall go last with their banners.


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These [are] those numbered of the sons of Israel, by their fathers' house. All those numbered of the camps throughout their armies were six hundred three thousand, five hundred and fifty.


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And the sons of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses. So they pitched by their banners, and so they went forward, everyone according to their families, according to the house of their fathers.


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And those that pitch next to him [shall be] the tribe of Issachar. And Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the sons of Issachar.


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All that were numbered of the camp of Judah [were] a hundred and eighty-six thousand and four hundred, by their armies. They shall set forth first.


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Then the sons of Israel came, the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month. And the people stayed in Kadesh. And Miriam died there and was buried there.


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And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now you rebels. Must we bring water for you out of this rock?


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And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he struck the rock twice. And the water came out plentifully, and the congregation and their animals drank.


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And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, Because you did not believe Me, to sanctify Me in the eyes of the sons of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.


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These [are] the Waters of Strife, because the sons of Israel fought with the LORD, and He showed Himself holy among them.


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And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, so says your brother Israel, You know all the trouble that has happened to us,


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how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have lived in Egypt a long time. And the Egyptians troubled us and our fathers.


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And when we cried to the LORD, He heard our voice and sent an Angel, and has brought us forth out of Egypt. And behold! We [are] in Kadesh, a city in the outermost part of your border.


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Let us pass, I pray you, through your country. We will not pass through a field, nor through a vineyard, neither will we drink [of] the water of a well. We will go by the king's highway. We will not turn to the right hand nor to the left until we have passed your borders.


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And the sons of Israel said to him, We will go by the highway. And if I and my cattle drink of your water, then I will pay for it. Without [doing] anything, I will only go through on my feet.


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And there was no water for the congregation. And they gathered themselves against Moses and against Aaron.


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And he said, You shall not go through. And Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.


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Aaron shall be gathered to his people. For he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the sons of Israel, because you rebelled against My word at the Waters of Strife.


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And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son. And Aaron shall be gathered [to his people], and shall die there.


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And Moses did as the LORD commanded. And they went up into Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.


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And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son. And Aaron died there in the top of the mount. And Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.


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And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, all the house of Israel.


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And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying, Oh that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!


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And why have you brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, so that we and our cattle should die there?


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And why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us into this evil place? It [is] no place of seed or of figs or of vines or of pomegranates. And there is no water to drink.


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And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared to them.


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Take the rod, and gather the assembly, you and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes. And it shall give forth its water, and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock. So you shall give the congregation and their animals drink.


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And king Arad the Canaanite, who lived in the south, heard that Israel came by the Way of the Spies, then he fought against Israel and took prisoners of them.


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And they pulled up from Oboth and pitched at Ije-abarim in the wilderness before Moab, toward the sunrising.


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From there they pulled up and pitched on the other side of Arnon, in the wilderness that comes out of the borders of the Amorites; for Arnon [is] in the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.


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Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD, Waheb in Suphah, and in the torrents of Arnon,


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and at the stream of the torrents that goes down to the dwelling of Ar and lies upon the border of Moab.


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And from there [they went] to Beer. That is the well of which the LORD spoke to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.


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The well which the rulers dug, which the nobles of the people dug with their staves by [the word] of the Lawgiver. And from the wilderness [they went] to Mattanah,


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And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD and said, If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will completely destroy their cities.


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and from Bamoth [in] the valley, in the country of Moab, [they worked] to the top of Pisgah, which looks toward the wilderness.


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Let me pass through your land. We will not turn into the fields or into the vineyards. We will not drink the waters of the well. We will go along by the king's highway until we are past your borders.


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And Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border. But Sihon gathered all his people, and went out against Israel in the wilderness. And he came to Jahaz and fought against Israel.


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And Israel struck him with the edge of the sword and possessed his land from Arnon to Jabbok, even to the sons of Ammon. For the border of the sons of Ammon [was] strong.


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And Israel took all these cities. And Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites in Heshbon, and in all its villages.


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For Heshbon [was] the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken all his land out of his hand, even to Arnon.


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Therefore they who speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and prepared.


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For there has gone out a fire from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of Arnon.


