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A voice of the crying of the shepherds, and a moaning of the sheep and the rams: for the Lord has destroyed their pastures.


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Thus said the Lord; Stand in the court of the Lord's house, and you shall declare to all the Jews, and to all that come to worship in the house of the Lord, all the words which I commanded you to speak to them; abate not one word.


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Peradventure they will hear, and turn every one from his evil way: then I will cease from the evils which I purpose to do to them, because of their evil practices.


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And you shall say, Thus said the Lord; If you° will not listen to me, to walk in my statutes which I set before you,


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to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you early in the morning; yes, I sent them, but you° listened not to me;


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then will I make this house as Selo, and I will make <i>this</i> city a curse to all the nations of all the earth.


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And the priests, and the false prophets, and all the people heard Jeremias speaking these words in the house of the Lord.


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And it came to pass, when Jeremias had ceased speaking all that the Lord had ordered him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the false prophets and all the people took him, saying,


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You shall surely die, because you have prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, This house shall be as Selo, and this city shall be made quite destitute of inhabitants. And all the people assembled against Jeremias in the house of the Lord.


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And the princes of Juda heard this word, and they went up out of the house of the king to the house of the Lord, and sat in the entrance of the new gate.


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Then the priests and the false prophets said to the princes and to all the people, The judgement of death <i>is due</i> to this man; because he has prophesied against this city, as you° have heard with your ears.


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Then Jeremias spoke to the princes, and to all the people, saying, The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city, all the words which you° have heard.


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And now amend your ways and your works, and listen to the voice of the Lord; and the Lord shall cease from the evils which he has pronounced against you.


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But know for a certainty, that if you° kill me, you° bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon them that dwell in it; for in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak in your ears all these words.


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Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the false prophets; Judgement of death is not <i>due</i> to this man; for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.


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Michaeas the Morathite lived in the days of Ezekias king of Juda, and said to all the people of Juda, Thus says the Lord; Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become a desolation, and the mountain of the house shall be a thicket of trees.


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Did Ezekias and all Juda in any way kill him? Was it not that they feared the Lord, and they made supplication before the Lord, and the Lord ceased from the evils which he <i>had</i> pronounced against them? whereas we have wrought great evil against our own souls.


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And there was <i>another</i> man prophesying in the name of the Lord, Urias the son of Samaeas of Cariathiarim; and he prophesied concerning this land according to all the words of Jeremias.


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And king Joakim and all the princes heard all his words, and sought to kill him; and Urias heard <i>it</i> and went into Egypt.


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and they brought him thence, and brought him into the king; and he struck him with the sword, and cast him into the sepulchre of the children of his people.


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and you shall send them to the king of Idumea, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hands of their messengers that come to meet them at Jerusalem to Sedekias king of Juda.


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And you shall commission them to say to their lords, Thus said the Lord God of Israel; Thus shall you° say to your lords;


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I have made the earth by my great power, and with my high arm, and I will give it to whoever it shall seem <i>good</i> in my eyes.


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And the nation and kingdom, all that shall not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, with sword and famine will I visit them, says the Lord, until they are consumed by his hand.


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And listen you° not to your false prophets, nor to them that divine to you, nor to them that foretell events by dreams to you, nor to your auguries, nor your sorcerers, that say, You° shall by no means work for the king of Babylon:


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But the nation which shall put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, I will even leave it upon its land, and it shall serve him, and dwell in it.


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for I sent them not, says the Lord; and they prophesy <i>in</i> my name unjustly, that I might destroy you, and you° should perish, and your prophets, who unrighteously prophesy lies to you.


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I spoke to you, and to all this people, and to the priests, saying, Thus said the Lord; Listen not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the Lord's house shall return from Babylon: for they prophesy to you unrighteous <i>words</i>.


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If they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is in them, let them meet me, for thus has the Lord said.


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And it came to pass in the fourth year of Sedekias king of Juda, in the fifth month, <i>that</i> Ananias the false prophet, the son of Azor, from Gabaon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord, in the sight of the priests and all the people, saying,


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Then Jeremias spoke to Ananias in the sight of all the people, and in the sight of the priests that stood in the house of the Lord,


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and Jeremias said, May the Lord indeed do thus; may he confirm your word which you do prophesy, to return the vessels of the house of the Lord, and all the captivity, out of Babylon to this place.


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Nevertheless hear you° the word of the Lord which I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people.


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The prophets that were before me and before you of old, also prophesied over much country, and against great kingdoms, concerning war.


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<i>As for</i> the prophet that has prophesied for peace, when the word has come <i>to pass</i>, they shall know the prophet whom the Lord has sent them in truth.


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Then Ananias took the yokes from the neck of Jeremias in the sight of all the people, and broke them to pieces.


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And Ananias spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus said the Lord; Thus will I break the yoke of the king of Babylon from the necks of all the nations. And Jeremias went his way.


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And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, after that Ananias had broken the yokes off his neck, saying,


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Go and speak to Ananias, saying, Thus says the Lord; You have broken the yokes of wood; but I will make instead of them yokes of iron.


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For thus said the Lord, I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all the nations, that they may serve the king of Babylon.


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And Jeremias said to Ananias, The Lord has not sent you; and you have caused this people to trust in unrighteousness.


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Therefore thus said the Lord: Behold, I <i>will</i> cast you off from the face of the earth: this year you shall die.


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And these are the words of the book which Jeremias sent from Jerusalem to the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the false prophets, even an epistle to Babylon for the captivity, and to all the people;


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(after the departure of Jechonias the king and the queen, and the eunuchs, and every freeman, and bondman, and artificer, out of Jerusalem;)


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by the hand of Eleasan son of Saphan, and Gamarias son of Chelcias, (whom Sedekias king of Juda sent to the king of Babylon to Babylon) saying,


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Thus said the Lord God of Israel concerning the captivity which I caused to be carried away from Jerusalem;


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and take you° wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and be multiplied, and be not diminished.


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And seek the peace of the land into which I have carried you captive, and you° shall pray to the Lord for the people: for in its peace you° shall <i>have</i> peace.


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For thus says the Lord; Let not the false prophets that are amongst you persuade you, and let not your diviners persuade you, and listen not to your dreams which you° dream.


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For thus said the Lord; When seventy years shall be on the point of being accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you, and will confirm my words to you, to bring back your people to this place.


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And I will devise for you a device of peace, and not evil, to bestow upon you these <i>good things</i>.


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And do you° pray to me, and I will listen to you: and do you° earnestly seek me, and you° shall find me;


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Thus says the Lord concerning Achiab, and concerning Sedekias; Behold, I <i>will</i> deliver them into the hands of the king of Babylon; and he shall strike them in your sight.


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And they shall make of them a curse in all the captivity of Juda in Babylon, saying, The Lord do to you as he did to Sedekias, and as he did to Achiab, whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire;


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because of the iniquity which they wrought in Israel, and <i>because</i> they committed adultery with the wives of their fellow-citizens; and spoke a word in my name, which I did not command them <i>to speak</i>, and I am witness, says the Lord.


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The Lord has made you priest in the place of Jodae the priest, to be ruler in the house of the Lord over every prophet, and to every madman, and you shall put them in prison, and into the dungeon.


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Did he not send for this purpose? for in the course of this month he sent to you to Babylon, saying, It is far off: build you° houses, and inhabit <i>them</i>; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.


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Send to the captivity, saying, Thus says the Lord concerning Samaeas the Aelamite, Since Samaeas has prophesied to you, and I sent him not, and he has made you to trust in iniquity,


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therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I will visit Samaeas, and his family: and there shall not be a man of them in the midst of you to see the good which I will do to you: they shall not see <i>it</i>.<pb/>


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


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For, behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel and Juda, said the Lord: and I will bring them back to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall be lords of it.


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Enquire, and see if a male has born a child? and <i>ask</i> concerning the fear, wherein they shall hold their loins, and <i>look for</i> safety: for I have seen every man, and his hands are on his loins; <i>their</i> faces are turned to paleness.


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For that day is great, and there is not such <i>another</i>; and it is a time of straitness to Jacob; but he shall be saved out of it.


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In that day, said the Lord, I will break the yoke off their neck, and will burst their bonds, and they shall no longer serve strangers:


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There is none to judge your cause: you have been painfully treated for healing, there is no help for you.


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All your friends have forgotten you; they shall not ask <i>about you</i> at all, for I have struck you with the stroke of an enemy, <i>even</i> severe correction: your sins have abounded above all your iniquity.


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Your sins have abounded beyond the multitude of your iniquities, <i>therefore</i> they have done these things to you. Therefore all that devour you shall be eaten, and all your enemies shall eat all their <i>own</i> flesh.


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And they that spoil you shall become a spoil, and I will give up to be plundered all that have plundered you.


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For I will bring about your healing, I will heal you of your grievous wound, says the Lord; for you are called Dispersed: she is your prey, for no one seeks after her.


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Thus said the Lord; Behold, I will turn the captivity of Jacob, and will have pity upon his prisoners; and the city shall be built upon her hill, and the people shall settle after their manner.


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And there shall go forth from them singers, <i>even</i> the sound of men making merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not at all be diminished.


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And their sons shall go in as before, and their testimonies shall be established before me, and I will visit them that afflict them.


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And their mighty ones shall be over them, and their prince shall proceed of themselves; and I will gather them, and they shall return to me: for who is this that has set his heart to return to me? says the Lord.<pb/>


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At that time, says the Lord, I will be a God to the family of Israel, and they shall be to me a people.


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Thus says the Lord, I found him warm in the wilderness with them that were slain with the sword: go you° and destroy not Israel.


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The Lord appeared to him from afar, <i>saying</i>, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore have I drawn you in compassion.


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For I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: you shall yet take your timbrel, and go forth with the party of them that make merry.


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For it is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall call, <i>saying</i>, Arise you°, and go up to Sion to the Lord your God.


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For thus says the Lord to Jacob; Rejoice you°, and exult over the head of the nations: make proclamation, and praise you°: say, The Lord has delivered his people, the remnant of Israel.


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Behold, I bring them from the north, and will gather them from the end of the earth to the feast of the passover: and <i>the people</i> shall beget a great multitude, and they shall return hither.


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They went forth with weeping, and I will bring them back with consolation, causing them to lodge by the channels of waters in a straight way, and they shall not err in it: for I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.


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Hear the words of the Lord, you° nations, and proclaim <i>them</i> to the islands afar off; say, He that scattered Israel will also gather him, and keep him as one that feeds his flock.


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For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, he has rescued him out of the hand of them <i>that were</i> stronger than he.


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And they shall come, and shall rejoice in the mount of Sion, and shall come to the good things of the Lord, <i>even</i> to a land of corn, and wine, and fruits, and cattle, and sheep: and their soul shall be as a fruitful tree; and they shall hunger no more.


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Then shall the virgins rejoice in the assembly of youth, and the old men shall rejoice; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will make them merry.


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I will expand and cheer with wine the soul of the priests the sons of Levi, and my people shall be satisfied with my good things: thus says the Lord.


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A voice was heard in Rama, of lamentation, and of weeping, and wailing; Rachel would not cease weeping for her children, because they are not.


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Thus says the Lord; Let your voice cease from weeping, and your eyes from your tears: for their is a reward for your works; and they shall return from the land of <i>your</i> enemies.


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I have heard the sound of Ephraim lamenting, <i>and saying</i>, You have chastened me, and I was chastened; I as a calf was not <i>willingly</i> taught: turn you me, and I shall turn; for you <i>are</i> the Lord my God.


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For after my captivity I repented; and after I knew, I groaned for the day of shame, and showed you that I bore reproach from my youth.


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Ephraim is a beloved son, a pleasing child to me: for because my words are in him, I will surely remember him: therefore I made haste <i>to help</i> him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the Lord.


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Prepare yourself, O Sion; execute vengeance; look to your ways: return, O virgin of Israel, by the way by which you went, return mourning to your cities.


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How long, O disgraced daughter, will you turn away? for the Lord has created safety for a new plantation: men shall go about in safety.


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For thus says the Lord; They shall yet speak this word in the land of Juda, and in the cities thereof, when I shall turn his captivity; blessed be the Lord on his righteous holy mountain!


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And there shall be dwellers in the cities of Juda, and in all his land, together with the husbandman, and <i>the shepherd</i> shall go forth with the flock.


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Therefore, behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Juda with the seed of man, and the seed of beast.


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And it shall come to pass, that as I watched over them, to pull down, and to afflict, so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, says the Lord.<pb/>


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The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias in the tenth year of king Sedekias, this is the eighteenth year of king Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon.


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And the host of the king of Babylon had made a rampart against Jerusalem: and Jeremias was kept in the court of the prison, which is in the king's house;


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in which king Sedekias <i>had</i> shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy, saying, Thus says the Lord, Behold, I <i>will</i> give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;


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and Sedekias shall by no means be delivered out of the hand of the Chaldeans, for he shall certainly be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and his mouth shall speak to his mouth, and his eyes shall look upon his eyes;


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Behold, Anameel the son of Salom your father's brother is coming to you, saying, Buy you my field that is in Anathoth: for you <i>have</i> the right to take <i>it</i> as a purchase.


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So Anameel the son of Salom my father's brother came to me into the court of the prison, and said, Buy you my field that is in the land of Benjamin, in Anathoth: for you <i>have</i> a right to buy it, and you are the elder. So I knew that it was the word of the Lord.


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And I bought the field of Anameel the son of my father's brother, and I weighed him seventeen shekels of silver.


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And I wrote <i>it</i> in a book, and sealed <i>it</i>, and took the testimony of witnesses, and weighed the money in the balance.


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and I gave it to Baruch son of Nerias, son of Maasaeas, in the sight of Anameel my father's brother's son, and in the sight of the men that stood by and wrote in the book of the purchase, and in the sight of the Jews that were in the court of the prison.


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Take this book of the purchase, and the book that has been read; and you shall put it into an earthen vessel, that it may remain many days.


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And I prayed to the Lord after I had given the book of the purchase to Baruch the son of Nerias, saying,


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O <i>ever</i> living Lord! you have made the heaven and the earth by your great power, and with your high and lofty arm: nothing can be hidden from you.


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Granting mercy to thousands, and recompensing the sins of the fathers into the bosoms of their children after them: the great, the strong God;<pb/>


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And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the second time, when he was yet bound in the court of the prison, saying,


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Cry to me, and I will answer you, and I will declare to you great and mighty things, which you know not.


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For thus says the Lord concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the king of Juda, which have been pulled down for mounds and fortifications,


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to fight against the Chaldeans, and to fill it with the corpses of men, whom I struck in my anger and my wrath, and turned away my face from them, for all their wickedness:


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Behold, I bring upon her healing and cure, and I will show <i>myself</i> to them, and will heal her, and make both peace and security.


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And I will turn the captivity of Juda, and the captivity of Israel, and will build them, even as before.


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And I will cleanse them from all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and will not remember their sins, whereby they have sinned against me, and revolted from me.


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And it shall be for joy and praise, and for glory to all the people of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I will do: and they shall fear and be provoked for all the good things and for all the peace which I will bring upon them.


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Thus says the Lord; There shall yet be heard in this place, of which you° say, it is destitute of men and cattle, in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, <i>the places</i> that have been made desolate for lack of men and cattle,


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the voice of gladness, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of men saying, Give thanks to the Lord Almighty: for the Lord is good; for his mercy <i>endures</i> fore ever: and they shall bring gifts into the house of the Lord; for I will turn all the captivity of that land as before, said the Lord.


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Thus says the Lord of hosts; There shall yet be in this place, that is desert for lack of man and beast, in all the cities thereof, resting-places for shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.


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The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord (now Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the country of his dominion, were warring against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Juda,) saying,


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Thus has the Lord said; Go to Sedekias king of Juda, and you shall say to him, Thus has the Lord said, This city shall certainly be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it, and shall burn it with fire:


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and you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall certainly be taken, and shall be given into his hands; and your eyes shall see his eyes, and you shall enter into Babylon.


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You shall die in peace: and as they wept for your fathers that reigned before you, they shall weep also for you, <i>saying</i>, Ah lord! and they shall lament for you down to the grave: for I have spoken the word, said the Lord.


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And the host of the king of Babylon warred against Jerusalem, and against the cities of Juda, and against Lachis, and against Azeca: for these strong cities were left amongst the cities of Juda.


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The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias, after king Sedekias had concluded a covenant with the people, to proclaim a release;


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That every one should set at liberty his servant, and every one his handmaid, the Hebrew man and Hebrew woman, that no man of Juda should be a bondman.


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Then all the nobles, and all the people who had entered into the covenant, <i>engaging</i> to set free every one his man-servant, and every one his maid, turned,


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Thus says the Lord; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day wherein I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,


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When six years are accomplished, you shall set free your brother the Hebrew, who shall be sold to you: for he shall serve you six years, and <i>then</i> you shall let him go free: but they listened not to me, and inclined not their ear.


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And this day they turned to do that which was right in my sight, to proclaim every one the release of his neighbour; and they had concluded a covenant before me, in the house whereon my name is called.


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But you° turned and profaned my name, to bring back every one his servant, and every one his handmaid, whom you° had sent forth free <i>and</i> at their own disposal, to be to you menservants and maidservants.


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Therefore thus said the Lord; You° have not listened to me, to proclaim a release every one to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a release to you, to the sword, and to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will give you up to dispersion <i>amongst</i> all the kingdoms of the earth.


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And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, who have not kept my covenant, which they made before me, the calf which they prepared to sacrifice with it,<pb/>


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Go to the house of the Archabin, and you shall bring them to the house of the Lord, into one of the courts, and give them wine to drink.


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So I brought forth Jechonias the son of Jeremin the son of Chabasin, and his brethren, and his sons, and all the family of the Archabin;


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and I brought them into the house of the Lord, into the chamber of the sons of Joanan, the son of Ananias, the son of Godolias, a man of God, who dwells near the house of the princes that are over the house of Maasaeas the son of Selom, who kept the court.


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But they said, We will on no account drink wine, for our father Jonadab the son of Rechab commanded us, saying, You° shall on no account drink wine, <i>neither</i> you°, nor your sons for ever:


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nor shall you° at all build houses, nor sow any seed, nor shall you° have a vineyard: for you° shall dwell in tents all your days; that you° may live many days upon the land, in which you° sojourn.


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And we listened to the voice of Jonadab our father, so as to drink no wine all our days, we, and our wives, and our sons, and our daughters;


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


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And it came to pass, when Nabuchodonosor came up against the land, that we said we would come in; and we entered into Jerusalem, for fear of the host of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the host of the Assyrians: and we lived there.


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Thus says the Lord, Go, and say to the men of Juda, and to them that dwell in Jerusalem, Will you° not receive correction to listen to my words?


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The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept the word which he commanded his children, that they should drink no wine; and they have not drunk <i>it</i>: but I spoke to you early, and you° listened not.


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And I sent to you my servants the prophets, saying, Turn you° every one from his evil way, and amend your practices, and go not after other gods to serve them, and you° shall dwell upon the land which I gave to you and to your fathers: but you° inclined not your ears, and listened not.


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But the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept the command of their father; but this people has not listened to me.


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Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I <i>will</i> bring upon Juda and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evils which I pronounced against them.


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Therefore thus says the Lord; Since the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have listened to the command of their father, to do as their father commanded them:


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Take you a roll of a book, and write upon it all the words which I spoke to you against Jerusalem, and against Juda, and against all the nations, from the day when I spoke to you, from the days of Josias king of Juda, even to this day.


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Perhaps the house of Juda will hear all the evils which I purpose to do to them; that they may turn from their evil way; and <i>so</i> I will be merciful to their iniquities and their sins.


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So Jeremias called Baruch the son of Nerias: and he wrote from the mouth of Jeremias all the words of the Lord, which he had spoken to him, on a roll of a book.


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so you shall read in this roll in the ears of the people in the house of the Lord, on the fast day; and in the ears of all Juda that come out of their cities, you shall read to them.


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Peradventure their supplication will come before the Lord, and they will turn from their evil way: for great is the wrath and the anger of the Lord, which he has pronounced against this people.


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And Baruch did according to all that Jeremias commanded him—reading in the book the words of the Lord in the Lord's house.


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And it came to pass in the eighth year of king Joakim, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem, and the house of Juda, proclaimed a fast before the Lord.


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And Baruch read in the book the words of Jeremias in the house of the Lord, in the house of Gamarias son of Saphan the scribe, in the upper court, in the entrance of the new gate of the house of the Lord, and in the ears of all the people.


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And Michaeas the son of Gamarias the son of Saphan heard all the words of the Lord, out of the book.


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And he went down to the king's house, into the house of the scribe: and, behold, there were sitting there all the princes, Elisama the scribe, and Dalaeas the son of Selemias, and Jonathan the son of Acchobor, and Gamarias the son of Saphan, and Sedekias the son of Ananias, and all the princes.


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And Michaeas reported to them all the words which he had heard Baruch reading in the ears of the people.<pb/>


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And Sedekias the son of Josias reigned instead of Joakim, whom Nabuchodonosor appointed to reign over Juda.


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And he and his servants and the people of the land listened not to the words of the Lord, which he spoke by Jeremias.


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And king Sedekias sent Joachal son of Selemias and Sophonias the priest son of Maasaeas to Jeremias, saying, Pray now for us to the Lord.


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Now Jeremias came and went through the midst of the city: for they <i>had</i> not put him into the house of the prison.


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And the host of Pharao was come forth out of Egypt; and the Chaldeans heard the report of them, and they went up from Jerusalem.


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Thus said the Lord; Thus shall you say to the king of Juda who sent to you, to seek me; Behold, the army of Pharao which is come forth to help you: they shall return to the land of Egypt:


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and the Chaldeans themselves shall turn again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.


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For thus says the Lord; Suppose not in your hearts, saying, The Chaldeans will certainly depart from us: for they shall not depart.


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And though you° should strike the whole host of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there should be left a few wounded <i>men</i>, these should rise up each in his place, and burn this city with fire.


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And it came to pass, when the host of the Chaldeans had gone up from Jerusalem for fear of the host of Pharao,


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that Jeremias went forth from Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to buy thence <i>a property</i> in the midst of the people.


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And he was in the gate of Benjamin, and <i>there was</i> there a man with whom he lodged, Saruia the son of Selemias, the son of Ananias; and he caught Jeremias, saying, You are fleeing to the Chaldeans.


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And he said, <i>It is</i> false; I do not flee to the Chaldeans. But he listened not to him; and Saruia caught Jeremias, and brought him to the princes.


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And the princes were very angry with Jeremias, and struck him, and sent him into the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made this a prison.


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Then Sedekias sent, and called him; and the king asked him secretly, saying, Is there a word from the Lord? and he said, There is: you shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.


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And Jeremias said to the king, Wherein have I wronged you, or your servants, or this people, that you put me in prison?


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


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Now therefore, my lord the king, let my supplication come before your face: and why do you send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe? and let me not on any account die there.


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And Saphanias the son of Nathan, and Godolias the son of Paschor, and Joachal the son of Semelias, heard the words which Jeremias spoke to the people, saying,


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Thus says the Lord; He that remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine: but he that goes out to the Chaldeans shall live; and his soul shall be given him for a found treasure, and he shall live.


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For thus says the Lord; This city shall certainly be delivered into the hands of the host of the king of Babylon, and they shall take it.


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And they said to the king, Let that man, we pray you, be slain, for he weakens the hands of the fighting men that are left in the city, and the hands of all the people, speaking to them according to these words: for this man does not prophesy peace to this people, but evil.


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And it came to pass in the ninth month of Sedekias king of Juda, <i>that</i> Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.


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And in the eleventh year of Sedekiass, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was broken <i>up</i>.


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and they sent, and took Jeremias out of the court of the prison, and gave him <i>in charge</i> to Godolias the son of Achicam, the son of Saphan: and they brought him out, and he sat in the midst of the people.


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Go and say to Abdemelech the Ethiopian, Thus said the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I <i>will</i> bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good.


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But I will save you in that day, and I will by no means deliver you into the hands of the men before whom you are afraid.


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The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias, after that Nabuzardan the captain of the guard had let him go out of Rama, when he had taken him in manacles in the midst of the captivity of Juda, <i>even</i> those who were carried to Babylon.


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And the chief captain of the guard took him, and said to him, The Lord your God has pronounced all these evils upon this place:


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Behold, I have loosed you from the manacles that were upon your hands. If it seem good to you to go with me to Babylon, then will I set my eyes upon you.


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But if not, depart; return to Godolias the son of Achicam, the son of Saphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed governor in the land of Juda, and dwell with him in the midst of the people in the land of Juda: to whatever places it seems good in your eyes to go, do you even go. And the captain of the guard made him presents, and let him go.


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And he came to Godolias to Massepha, and lived in the midst of his people that was left in the land.


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And all the leaders of the host that was in the country, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Godolias <i>governor</i> in the land, and they committed to him the men and their wives, whom <i>Nabuchodonosor had</i> not removed to Babylon.<pb/>


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Now it came to pass in the seventh month that Ismael the son of Nathanias the son of Eleasa of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, to Godolias to Massepha: and they ate bread there together.


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And Ismael rose up, and the ten men that were with him, and struck Godolias, whom the king of Babylon had appointed <i>governor</i> over the land,


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that there came men from Sychem, and from Salem, and from Samaria, <i>even</i> eighty men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes torn, and beating their breasts, and <i>they had</i> manna and frankincense in their hands, to bring <i>them</i> into the house of the Lord.


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And Ismael went out to meet them; <i>and</i> they went on and wept: and he said to them, Come in to Godolias.


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And it came to pass, when they had entered into the midst of the city, <i>that</i> he killed them <i>and cast them</i> into a pit.


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But ten men were found there, and they said to Ismael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, wheat and barley, honey and oil. So he passed by, and killed them not in the midst of their brethren.


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Now the pit into which Ismael cast all whom he struck, is the great pit, which king Asa had made for fear of Baasa king of Israel: <i>even</i> this Ismael filled with slain men.


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And Ismael brought back all the people that were left in Massepha, and the king's daughter, whom the captain of the guard had committed in charge to Godolias the son of Achicam: and he went away beyond the children of Ammon.


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And Joanan the son of Caree, and all the leaders of the host that were with him, heard of all the evil deeds which Ismael had done.


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And they brought all their army, and went to fight against him, and found him near much water in Gabaon.


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And it came to pass, when all the people that was with Ismael saw Joanan, and the leaders of the host that was with him,


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And Joanan, and all the leaders of the host that were with him, took all the remnant of the people, whom he <i>had</i> brought back from Ismael, mighty men in war, and the women, and the other <i>property</i>, and the eunuchs, whom they <i>had</i> brought back from Gabaon:


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and they departed, and lived in Gaberoch-amaa, that is by Bethleem, to go into Egypt, for fear of the Chaldeans:


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Then came all the leaders of the host, and Joanan, and Azarias the son of Maasaeas, and all the people great and small,


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to Jeremias the prophet, and said to him, Let now our supplication come before your face, and pray you to the Lord your God for this remnant; for we are left few out of many, as your eyes see.


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And let the Lord your God declare to us the way wherein we should walk, and the thing which we should do.


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And Jeremias said to them, I have heard <i>you</i>; behold, I will pray for you to the Lord our God, according to your words; and it shall come to pass, <i>that</i> whatever word the Lord God shall answer, I will declare <i>it</i> to you; I will not hide anything from you.


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And they said to Jeremias, Let the Lord be between us for a just and faithful witness, if we do not according to every word which the Lord shall send to us.


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And whether <i>it be</i> good, or whether <i>it be</i> evil, we will listen to the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, because we shall listen to the voice of the Lord our God.


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And he called Joanan, and the leaders of the host, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,


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If you° will indeed dwell in this land, I will build you, and will not pull <i>you</i> down, but will plant you, and in no wise pluck you up: for I have ceased from the calamities which I brought upon you.


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Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you° are afraid; be not afraid of him, says the Lord: for I am with you, to deliver you, and save you out of their hand.


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for we will go into the land of Egypt, and we shall see no war, and shall not hear the sound of a trumpet, and we shall not hunger for bread; and there we will dwell:


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If you° set your face towards Egypt, and go in there to dwell; then it shall be, <i>that</i> the sword which you° fear shall find you in the land of Egypt, and the famine to which you° have regard, shall overtake you, <i>coming</i> after you in Egypt; and there you° shall die.


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And all the men, and all the strangers who have set their face towards the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall be consumed by the sword, and by the famine: and there shall not one of them escape from the evils which I bring upon them.


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For thus says the Lord; As my wrath has dropped upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath drop upon you, when you° have entered into Egypt: and you° shall be a desolation, and under the power of others, and a curse and a reproach: and you° shall no more see this place.


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<i>These are the words</i> which the Lord has spoken concerning you the remnant of Juda; Enter you° not into Egypt: and now know you° for a certainty,


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that you° have wrought wickedness in your hearts, when you° sent me, saying, Pray you for us to the Lord; and according to all that the Lord shall speak to you we will do.


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And it came to pass, when Jeremias ceased speaking to the people all the words of the Lord, <i>for</i> which the Lord had sent him to them, <i>even</i> all these words,


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that Azarias son of Maasaeas spoke, and Joanan, the son of Caree, and all the men who had spoken to Jeremias, saying, <i>It is</i> false: the Lord has not sent you to us, saying, Enter not into Egypt to dwell there:


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but Baruch the son of Nerias sets you against us, that you may deliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans, to kill us, and that we should be carried away captives to Babylon.


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So Joanan, and all the leaders of the host, and all the people, refused to listen to the voice of the Lord, to dwell in the land of Juda.


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And Joanan, and all the leaders of the host, took all the remnant of Juda, who had returned to dwell in the land;


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the mighty men, and the women, and the children that were left, and the daughters of the king, and the souls which Nabuzardan had left with Godolias the son of Achicam and Jeremias the prophet, and Baruch the son of Nerias.


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And they came into Egypt: for they listened not to the voice of the Lord: and they entered into Taphnas.


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Take you great stones, and hide them in the entrance, at the gate of the house of Pharao in Taphnas, in the sight of the men of Juda:


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and you shall say, Thus has the Lord said; Behold, I <i>will</i> send, and will bring Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and he shall place his throne upon these stones which you have hidden, and he shall lift up weapons against them.


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And he shall enter in, and strike the land of Egypt, <i>delivering</i> some for death to death; and some for captivity to captivity; and some for the sword to the sword.


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And he shall kindle a fire in the houses of their gods, and shall burn them, and shall carry them away captives: and shall search the land of Egypt, as a shepherd searches his garment; and he shall go forth in peace.


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THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAS for all the Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt, and for those settled in Magdolo and in Taphnas, and in the land of Pathura, saying,


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Thus has the Lord God of Israel said; You° have seen all the evils which I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon the cities of Juda; and, behold, they are desolate without inhabitants,


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because of their wickedness, which they have wrought to provoke me, <i>by</i> going to burn incense to other gods, whom you° knew not.


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yet I sent to you my servants the prophets early in the morning, and I sent, saying, Do not you° this abominable thing which I hate.


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But they listened not to me, and inclined not their ear to turn from their wickedness, so as not to burn incense to strange gods.


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So my anger and my wrath dropped <i>upon them</i>, and was kindled in the gates of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they became a desolation and a waste, as at this day.


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And now thus has the Lord Almighty said, Therefore do you° commit <i>these</i> great evils against your souls? to cut off man and woman of you, infant and suckling from the midst of Juda, to the end that not one of you should be left;


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by provoking me with the works of your hands, to burn incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which you° entered to dwell there, that you° might be cut off, and that you° might become a curse and a reproach amongst all the nations of the earth?


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Have you° forgotten the sins of your fathers, and the sins of the kings of Juda, and the sins of your princes, and the sins of your wives, which they wrought in the land of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem?


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And have not ceased even to this day, and they have not kept to my ordinances, which I set before their fathers.


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to destroy all the remnant that are in Egypt; and they shall fall by the sword, and by famine, and shall be consumed small and great: and they shall be for reproach, and for destruction, and for a curse.


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And I will visit them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have visited Jerusalem, with sword and with famine:


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and there shall not one be preserved of the remnant of Juda that sojourn in the land of Egypt, to return to the land of Juda, to which they hope in their hearts to return: they shall not return, but only they that escape.


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Then all the men that knew that their wives burnt incense, and all the women, a great multitude, and all the people that lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathura, answered Jeremias, saying,


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<i>As for</i> the word which you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you.


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For we will surely perform every word that shall proceed out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink-offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, and our kings and princes, in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and <i>so</i> we were filled with bread, and were well, and saw no evils.


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But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, we have all been brought low, and have been consumed by sword and by famine.


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And whereas we burnt incense to the queen of heaven, and poured drink-offerings to her, did we make cakes to her, and pour drink-offerings to her, without our husbands?


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Then Jeremias answered all the people, the mighty men, and the women, and all the people that returned him <i>these</i> words for answer, saying,


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Did not the Lord remember the incense which you° burnt in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you°, and your fathers, and your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land? and came it not into his heart?


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And the Lord could no longer bear <i>you</i>, because of the wickedness of your doings, and because of your abominations which you° wrought; and so your land became a desolation and a waste, and a curse, as at this day;


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because of your burning incense, and <i>because</i> of the things wherein you° sinned against the Lord: and you° have not listened to the voice of the Lord, and have not walked in his ordinances, and in his law, and in his testimonies; and so these evils have come upon you.


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Thus has the Lord God of Israel said; You° women have spoken with your mouth, and you° fulfilled <i>it</i> with your hands, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink-offerings to her: full well did you° keep to your vows, and you° have indeed performed <i>them</i>.


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Therefore hear you° the word of the Lord, all Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says the Lord, my name shall no longer be in the mouth of every Jew to say, The Lord lives, in all the land of Egypt.


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For I have watched over them, to hurt them, and not to do them good: and all the Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt shall perish by sword and by famine, until they are utterly consumed.


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And they that escape the sword shall return to the land of Juda few in number, and the remnant of Juda, who have continued in the land <i>of</i> Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose word shall stand.


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Thus said the Lord; Behold, I <i>will</i> give Uaphres king of Egypt into the hands of his enemy, and into the hands of one that seeks his life; as I gave Sedekias king of Juda into the hands of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, his enemy, and who sought his life.


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THE WORD WHICH JEREMIAS THE PROPHET spoke to Baruch son of Nerias, when he wrote these words in the book from the mouth of Jeremias, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda.


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Whereas you have said, Alas! alas! for the Lord has laid a grievous trouble upon me; I lay down in groaning, I found no rest;


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say you to him, Thus says the Lord; Behold, I pull down those whom I have built up, and I pluck up those whom I have planted.


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And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the ninth month, on the tenth day of the month, <i>that</i> Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and they made a rampart round it, and built a wall round about it with large stones.


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on the ninth day of the month, and <i>then</i> the famine was severe in the city, and 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 went out by night by the way of the gate, between the wall and the outworks, which were by the king's garden; and the Chaldeans were by the city round about; and they went by the way <i>leading</i> to the wilderness.


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But the host of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the <i>country</i> beyond Jericho; and all his servants were dispersed from <i>about</i> him.


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And the king of Babylon killed the sons of Sedekias before his eyes; and he killed all the princes of Juda in Deblatha.


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And he put out the eyes of Sedekias, and bound him in fetters; and the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon, and put him into the grinding-house, until the day when he died.


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And in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nabuzardan the captain of the guard, who waited on the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem;


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and he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house; and all the houses of the city, and every great house he burnt with fire.


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And the Chaldeans broke in pieces the brazen pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the Lord, and they took the brass thereof, and carried it away to Babylon.


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Also the rim, and the bowls, and the flesh hooks, and all the brazen vessels, wherewith they ministered;


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and the basins, and the snuffers, and the oil-funnels, and the candlesticks, and the censers, and the cups, the golden, of gold, and the silver, of silver, the captain of the guard took away.


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And the two pillars, and the one sea, and the twelve brazen oxen under the sea, which <i>things</i> king Solomon made for the house of the Lord; the brass of which <i>articles</i> was without weight.


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And as for the pillars, the height of one pillar was thirty-five cubits; and a line of twelve cubits compassed it round; and the thickness of it <i>all</i> round was four fingers.


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And <i>there was</i> a brazen chapiter upon them, and the length was five cubits, <i>even</i> the height of one chapiter; and <i>there were</i> on the chapiter round about network and pomegranates, all of brass: and correspondingly the second pillar <i>had</i> eight pomegranates to a cubit for the twelve cubits.


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And the pomegranates were ninety-six on a side; and all the pomegranates on the network round about were a hundred.


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And the captain of the guard took the chief priest, and the second priest, and those that kept the way;


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and one eunuch, who was over the men of war, and seven men of renown, who were in the king's presence that were found in the city; and the scribe of the forces, who did the part of a scribe to the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.


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And Nabuzardan the captain of the king's guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Deblatha.


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And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year after that Joakim king of Juda had been carried away captive, in the twelfth month, on the four and twentieth <i>day</i> of the month, <i>that</i> Ulaemadachar king of Babylon, in the year in which he began to reign, raised the head of Joakim king of Juda, and shaved him, and brought him out of the house where he was kept,


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and changed his prison garments: and he ate bread continually before him all the days that he lived.


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And it came to pass, after Israel was taken captive, and Jerusalem made desolate, <i>that</i> Jeremias sat weeping, and lamented <i>with</i> this lamentation over Jerusalem, and said, ALEPH. How does the city that was filled with people sit solitary! she is become as a widow: she that was magnified amongst the nations, <i>and</i> princess amongst the provinces, has become tributary.


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BETH. She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; and there is none of all her lovers to comfort her: all that were her friends have dealt deceitfully with her, they are become her enemies.


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GIMEL. Judea is gone into captivity by reason of her affliction, and by reason of the abundance of her servitude: she dwells amongst the nations, she has not found rest: all her pursuers have overtaken her between her oppressors.


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DALETH. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the feast: all her gates are ruined: her priests groan, her virgins are led captive, and she is in bitterness in herself.


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HE. Her oppressors are become the head, and her enemies have prospered; for the Lord has afflicted her because of the multitude of her sins: her young children are gone into captivity before the face of the oppressor.


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VAU. And all her beauty has been taken away from the daughter of Sion: her princes were as rams finding no pasture, and are gone <i>away</i> in weakness before the face of the pursuer.


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ZAIN. Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction, and her rejection; <i>she thought on</i> all her desirable things which were from the days of old, when her people fell into the hands of the oppressor, and there was none to help her: when her enemies saw <i>it</i> they laughed at her habitation.


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HETH. Jerusalem has sinned a <i>great</i> sin; therefore has she come into tribulation, all that used to honour her have afflicted her, for they have seen her shame: yes, she herself groaned, and turned backward.


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TETH. Her uncleanness is before her feet; she remembered not her last end; she has lowered her boasting <i>tone</i>, there is none to comfort her. Behold, O Lord, my affliction: for the enemy has magnified himself.


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JOD. The oppressor has stretched out his hand on all her desirable things: for she has seen the Gentiles entering into her sanctuary, <i>concerning</i> whom you did command that they should not enter into your congregation.


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CHAPH. All her people groan, seeking bread: they have given their desirable things for meat, to restore their soul: behold, Lord, and look; for she is become dishonoured.


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LAMED. All you° that pass by the way, turn, and see if there is sorrow like to my sorrow, which has happened <i>to me</i>. The Lord who spoke by me has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.


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MEM. He has sent fire from his lofty habitation, he has brought it into my bones: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate <i>and</i> mourning all the day.


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NUN. He has watched over my sins, they are twined about my hands, they have come up on my neck: my strength has failed; for the Lord has laid pains on my hands, I shall not be able to stand.


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SAMECH. The Lord has cut off all my strong men from the midst of me: he has summoned against me a time for crushing my choice men: the Lord has trodden a wine-press for the virgin daughter of Juda: for these things I weep.


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AIN. Mine eye has poured out water, because he that should comfort me, that should restore my soul, has been removed far from me: my sons have been destroyed, because the enemy has prevailed.


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PHE. Sion has spread out her hand, <i>and</i> there is none to comfort her: the Lord has commanded <i>concerning</i> Jacob, his oppressors are round about him: Jerusalem has become amongst them as a removed woman.


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TSADE. The Lord is righteous; for I have provoked his mouth: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my grief: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.


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KOPH. I called my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders failed in the city; for they sought meat that they might restore their souls, and found <i>it</i> not.


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RHECHS. Behold, O Lord; for I am afflicted: my belly is troubled, and my heart is turned within me; for I have been grievously rebellious: abroad the sword has bereaved me, even as death at home.


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CHSEN. Hear, I pray you, for I groan: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard <i>of</i> my afflictions, and rejoice because you have done <i>it</i>: you have brought on the day, you have called the time: they are become like to me.


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ALEPH. How has the Lord darkened in his wrath the daughter of Sion! he has cast down the glory of Israel from heaven to earth, and has not remembered his footstool.


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BETH. In the day of his wrath the Lord has overwhelmed <i>her</i> as in the sea, <i>and</i> not spared: he has brought down in his fury all the beautiful things of Jacob; he has brought down to the ground the strongholds of the daughter of Juda; he has profaned her kings and her princes.


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GIMEL. He has broken in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he has turned back his right hand from the face of the enemy, and has kindled a flame in Jacob as a fire, and it has devoured all things round about.


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DALETH. He has bent his bow as an opposing enemy: he has strengthened his right hand as an adversary, and has destroyed all the desirable things of my eyes in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion: he has poured forth his anger as fire.


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HE. The Lord is become as an enemy: he has overwhelmed Israel as in the sea, he has overwhelmed her palaces: he has destroyed her strongholds, and has multiplied the afflicted and humbled ones to the daughter of Juda.


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VAU. And he has scattered his tabernacle as a vine, he has marred his feast: the Lord has forgotten the feast and the sabbath which he appointed in Sion, and in the fury of his wrath has vexed the king, and priest, and prince.


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ZAIN. The Lord has rejected his altar, he has cast off his sanctuary, he has broken by the hand of the enemy the wall of her palaces; they have uttered their voice in the house of the Lord as on a feast day.


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HETH. And he has turned to destroy the wall of the daughter of Sion: he has stretched out the measuring line, he has not turned back his hand from afflicting <i>her</i>: therefore the bulwark mourned, and the wall was weakened with it.


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TETH. Her gates are sunk into the ground: he has destroyed and broken to pieces her bars, <i>and</i> her king and her prince amongst the Gentiles: there is no law, nay, her prophets have seen no vision from the Lord.


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JOD. The elders of the daughter of Sion have sat upon the ground, they have kept silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloths: they have brought down to the ground the chief virgins in Jerusalem.


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CHAPH. Mine eyes have failed with tears, my heart is troubled, my glory is cast down to the ground, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; while the infant and suckling swoon in the streets of the city.


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LAMED. They said to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? while they fainted like wounded men in the streets of the city, while their souls were poured out into their mother's bosom.


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MEM. What shall I testify to you, or what shall I compare to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? who shall save and comfort you, O virgin daughter of Sion? for the cup of your destruction is enlarged: who shall heal you?


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NUN. Your prophets have seen for you vanities and folly: and they have not discovered your iniquity, to turn back your captivity; but they have seen for you vain burdens, and worthless visions.


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SAMECH. All that go by the way have clapped their hands at you; they have hissed and shaken their head at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city, they say, the crown of joy of all the earth?


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AIN. All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and said, We have swallowed her up: moreover this is the day which we looked for; we have found it, we have seen it.


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PHE. The Lord has done that which he purposed; he has accomplished his word, <i>even</i> the things which he commanded from the ancient days: he has thrown down, and has not spared: and he has caused the enemy to rejoice over you, he has exalted the horn of him that afflicted you.


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TSADE. Their heart cried to the Lord, You° walls of Sion, pour down tears like torrents day and night: give yourself no rest; let not the apple of your eyes cease.


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KOPH. Arise, rejoice in the night at the beginning of your watch: pour out your heart as water before the face of the Lord; lift up your hands to him for the life of your infants, who faint for hunger at the top of all the streets.


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RHECHS. Behold, O Lord, and see for whom you have gathered thus. Shall the women eat the fruit of their womb? the cook has made a gathering: shall the infants sucking at the breasts be slain? will you kill the priest and prophet in the sanctuary of the Lord?


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CHSEN. The child and old man have lain down in the street: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity: you have slain <i>them</i> with the sword and with famine; in the day of your wrath you have mangled <i>them</i>, you have not spared.


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THAU. He has called my sojourners round about to a solemn day, and there was not in the day of the wrath of the Lord any one that escaped or was left; whereas I have strengthened and multiplied all my enemies.<pb/>


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he has troubled me, <i>as</i> a she-bear lying in wait: he is to me <i>as</i> a lion in secret places.


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ZAIN. I remembered by reason of my poverty, and because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered;


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HETH. <i>It is</i> the mercies of the Lord, that he has not failed me, because his compassions are not exhausted. Pity <i>us</i>, O Lord, early <i>every</i> month: for we are not brought to an end, because his compassions are not exhausted.


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CHAPH. For he that has brought down will pity, and <i>that</i> according to the abundance of his mercy.


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He has not answered <i>in anger</i> from his heart, though he has brought low the children of a man.


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SAMECH. You have visited <i>us</i> in wrath, and driven us away: you have slain, you have not pitied.


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PHE. Mine eye is drowned <i>with tears</i>, and I will not be silent, so that there shall be no rest,


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ALEPH. How will the gold be tarnished, <i>and</i> the fine silver changed! the sacred stones have been poured forth at the top of all the streets.


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BETH. The precious sons of Zion, who were equalled in value with gold, how are they counted as earthen vessels, the works of the hands of the potter!


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GIMEL. Nay, serpents have drawn out the breasts, they give suck to their young, the daughters of my people are incurably cruel, as an ostrich in a desert.


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DALETH. The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst: the little children ask for bread, <i>and</i> there is none to break <i>it</i> to them.


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HE. They that feed on dainties are desolate in the streets: they that used to be nursed in scarlet have clothed themselves with dung.


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VAU. And the iniquity of the daughter of my people has been increased beyond the iniquities of Sodoma, <i>the city</i> that was overthrown very suddenly, and none laboured against her <i>with their</i> hands.


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ZAIN. Her Nazarites were made purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were purified <i>as</i> with fire, their polishing was superior to sapphire stone.


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HETH. Their countenance is become blacker than smoke; they are not known in the streets: their skin has cleaved to their bones; they are withered, they are become as a stick.


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TETH. The slain with the sword were better than they that were slain with hunger: they have departed, pierced through from <i>lack of</i> the fruits of the field.


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JOD. The hands of tender-hearted women have sodden their own children: they became meat for them in the destruction of the daughter of my people.


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CHAPH. The Lord has accomplished his wrath; he has poured out fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Sion, and it has devoured her foundations.


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LAMED. The kings of the earth, <i>even</i> all that dwell in the world, believed not that an enemy and oppressor would enter through the gates of Jerusalem.


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MEM. For the sins of her prophets, <i>and</i> iniquities of her priests, who shed righteous blood in the midst of her,


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NUN. her watchmen staggered in the streets, they were defiled with blood in their weakness, they touched their raiment <i>with it</i>.


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SAMECH. Depart you° from the unclean ones: call you° them: depart, depart, touch <i>them</i> not: for they are on fire, yes, they stagger: say you° amongst the nations, They shall no more sojourn <i>there</i>.


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AIN. The presence of the Lord <i>was</i> their portion; <i>but</i> he will not again look upon them: they regarded not the person of the priests, they pitied not the prophets.


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PHE. While we yet lived our eyes failed, while we looked in vain for our help. TSADE. We looked to a nation that could not save.


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We have hunted <i>for</i> our little ones, that they should not walk in our streets. KOPH. Our time has drawn near, our days are fulfilled, our time is come.


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Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky, they flew on the mountains, in the wilderness they laid wait for us.


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RECHS. The breath of our nostrils, <i>our</i> anointed Lord, was taken in their destructive snares, of whom we said, In his shadow we shall live amongst the Gentiles.


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CHSEN. Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Idumea, that dwell in the land: yet the cup of the Lord shall pass through to you: you shall be drunken, and pour forth.


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THAU. O daughter of Sion, your iniquity has come to an end; he shall no more carry you captive: he has visited your iniquities, O daughter of Edom; he has discovered your sins.<pb/>


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We shall bring in our bread with <i>danger of</i> our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.


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But you, O Lord, shall dwell for ever; your throne <i>shall endure</i> to generation and generation.


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Now it came to pass in the thirties year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, that I was in the midst of the captivity by the river of Chobar; and the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.


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And the word of the Lord came to Jezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river of Chobar; and the hand of the Lord was upon me.


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And I looked, and, behold, a sweeping wind came from the north, and a great cloud on it, and <i>there was</i> brightness round about it, and gleaming fire, and in the midst of it as it were the appearance of amber in the midst of the fire, and brightness in it.


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And in the midst as it were the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; the likeness of a man was upon them.


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And their legs were straight; and their feet were winged, and <i>there were</i> sparks, like gleaming brass, and their wings were light.


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And the likeness of their faces was the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right of the four; and the face of a calf on the left of the four; and the face of an eagle to the four.


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And the four had their wings spread out above; each one <i>had</i> two joined to one another, and two covered their bodies.


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And I looked, and, behold, the four <i>had each</i> one wheel on the ground near the living creatures.


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And the appearance of the wheels was as the appearance of beryl: and the four had one likeness: and their work was as it were a wheel in a wheel.


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neither did their backs <i>turn</i>: and they were high: and I [*]saw them, and the backs of them four were full of eyes round about.


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And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures lifted themselves off the earth, the wheels were lifted off.


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Wherever the cloud happened to be, there was the spirit ready to go: the wheels went and were lifted up with them; because the spirit of life was in the wheels.


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When those went, <i>the wheels</i> went; and when those stood, <i>the wheels</i> stood; and when those lifted themselves off the earth, they were lifted off with them: for the spirit of life was in the wheels.


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And the likeness over the heads of the living creatures was as a firmament, as the appearance of crystal, spread out over their wings above.


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And their wings were spread out under the firmament, reaching one to the other; two <i>wings</i> to each, covering their bodies.


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And I heard the sound of their wings when they went, as the sound of much water: and when they stood, their wings were let down.


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that was over their head, <i>there was</i> as the appearance of a sapphire stone, <i>and</i> the likeness of a throne upon it: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as an appearance of a man above.


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And I saw as it were the resemblance of amber from the appearance of the loins and upwards, and from the appearance of the loins and under I saw an appearance of fire, and the brightness thereof round about.


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As the appearance of the bow when it is in the cloud in days of rain, so was the form of brightness round about.<pb/>


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This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And I saw and fell upon my face, and heard the voice of one speaking: and he said to me, Son of man, stand upon your feet, and I will speak to you.


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And the Spirit came upon me, and took me up, and raised me, and set me on my feet: and I heard him speaking to me.


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And he said to me, Son of Man, I send you forth to the house of Israel, them that provoke me; who have provoked me, they and their fathers to this day.


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Whether then indeed they shall hear or fear, (for it is a provoking house,) yet they shall know that you are a prophet in the midst of them.


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And you, son of man, fear them not, nor be dismayed at their face; (for they will madden and will rise up against you round about, and you dwell in the midst of scorpions): be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their countenance, for it is a provoking house.


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And you, son of man, hear him that speaks to you; be not you provoking, as the provoking house: open your mouth, and eat what I give you.


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And he unrolled it before me: and in it the front and the back were written <i>upon</i>: and there was written <i>in it</i> Lamentation, and mournful song, and woe.<pb/>


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your mouth shall eat, and your belly shall be filled with this volume that is given to you. So I ate it; and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.


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And he said to me, Son of man, go your way, and go in to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.


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neither to many nations of other speech and other tongues, nor of harsh language, whose words you would not understand: although if I <i>had</i> sent you to such, they would have listened to you.


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But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are stubborn and hard-hearted.


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And, behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and I will strengthen your power against their power.


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And it shall be continually stronger than a rock: be not afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their faces, because it is a provoking house.


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And he said to me, Son of man, receive into your heart all the words that I have spoken to you, and hear <i>them</i> with your ears.


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And go your way, go in to the captivity, to the children of your people, and you shall speak to them, and say to them, Thus says the Lord; whether they will hear, <i>or</i> whether they will forbear.


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Then the Spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the voice <i>as</i> of a great earthquake, <i>saying</i>, Blessed <i>be</i> the glory of the Lord from his place.


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And I perceived the sound of the wings of the living creatures clapping one to the other, and the sound of the wheels was near them, and the sound of the earthquake.


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And the Spirit lifted me, and took me up, and I went in the impulse of my spirit; and the hand of the Lord was mighty upon me.


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Then I passed through the air and came into the captivity, and went round <i>to</i> them that lived by the river of Chobar who were there; and I sat there seven days, conversant in the midst of them.


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I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel; and you shall hear a word of my mouth, and shall threaten them from me.


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When I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; and you have not warned him, to give warning to the wicked, to turn from his ways, that he should live; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.


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But if you warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, and from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, and you shall deliver your soul.


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And when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits a trespass, and I shall bring punishment before him, he shall die, because you did not warn him: he shall even die in his sins, because his righteousness shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.


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But if you warn the righteous not to sin, and he sin not, the righteous shall surely live, because you have warned him; and you shall deliver your own soul.


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And the hand of the Lord came upon me; and he said to me, Arise, and go forth into the plain, and there shall you be spoken to.


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And I arose, and went forth to the plain: and, behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, according to the vision, and according to the glory of the Lord, which I saw by the river of Chobar: and I fell on my face.


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Then the Spirit came upon me, and set me on my feet, and spoke to me, and said to me, Go in, and shut yourself up in the midst of your house.


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And you, son of man, behold, bonds are prepared for you, and they shall bind you with them, and you shall not come forth of the midst of them.


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Also I will bind your tongue, and you shall be dumb, and shall not be to them a reprover: because it is a provoking house.


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But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord, He that hears, let him hear; and he that is disobedient, let him be disobedient: because it is a provoking house.<pb/>


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And you, son of man, take you a brick, and you shall set it before your face, and shall portray on it the city, <i>even</i> Jerusalem.


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And you shall besiege it, and build works against it, and throw up a mound round about it, and pitch camps against it, and set up engines round about.


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And take you to yourself an iron pan, and you shall set it <i>for</i> an iron wall between you and the city: and you shall set your face against it, and it shall be in a siege, and you shall besiege it. This is a sign to the children of Israel.


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And you shall lie upon your left side, and lay the iniquities of the house of Israel upon it, according to the number of the hundred and fifty days <i>during</i> which you shall lie upon it: and you shall bear their iniquities.


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For I have appointed you their iniquities for a number of days, for a hundred and ninety days: so you shall bear the iniquities of the house of Israel.


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And you shall accomplish this, and <i>then</i> shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquities of the house of Juda forty days: I have appointed you a day for a year.


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So you shall set your face to the siege of Jerusalem, and shall strengthen your arm, and shall prophesy against it.


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And, behold, I have prepared bonds for you, and you may not turn from your one side to the other, until the days of your siege shall be accomplished.


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Take you also to you wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and bread-corn; and you shall cast them into one earthen vessel, and shall make them into loaves for yourself; and you shall eat them a hundred and ninety days, according to the number of the days <i>during</i> which you sleep on your side.


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And you shall drink water by measure, even from time to time you shall drink the sixth part of a hin.


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And you shall eat them <i>as</i> a barley cake: you shall bake them before their eyes in man's dung.


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And you shall say, Thus says the Lord God of Israel; Thus shall the children of Israel eat unclean things amongst the Gentiles.


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Then I said, Not so, Lord God of Israel: surely my soul has not been defiled with uncleanness; nor have I eaten, that which died of itself or was torn of beasts from my birth until now; neither has any corrupt flesh entered into my mouth.


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And he said to me, Behold, I have given you dung of oxen instead of man's dung, and you shall prepare your loaves upon it.


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And he said to me, Son of man, behold, I break the support of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight and in lack; and shall drink water by measure, and in a state of ruin:


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that they may lack bread and water; and a man and his brother shall be brought to ruin, and they shall pine away in their iniquities.<pb/>


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And you, son of man, take you a sword sharper than a barber's razor; you shall procure it for yourself, and shall bring it upon your head, and upon your beard: and you shall take a pair of scales, and shall separate the hair.


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A fourth part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, at the fulfilment of the days of the siege: and you shall take a fourth part, and burn it up in the midst of it: and a fourth part you shall cut with a sword round about it: and a fourth part you shall scatter to the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.


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And you shall take of these again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them up with fire: from thence shall come forth fire; and you shall say to the whole house of Israel,


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Thus says the Lord; This is Jerusalem: I have set her and the countries round about her in the midst of the nations.


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And you shall declare my ordinances to the lawless one from out of the nations; and my statutes <i>to the sinful one</i> of the countries round about her: because they have rejected my ordinances, and have not walked in my statutes.


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Therefore thus says the Lord, Because your occasion <i>for sin has been taken</i> from the nations round about you, and you° have not walked in my statutes, nor kept my ordinances, nay, you° have not even done according to the ordinances of the nations round about you; therefore thus says the Lord;


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Behold, I am against you, and I will execute judgement in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.


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And I will do in you things which I have not done, and the like of which I will not do again, for all your abominations.


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Therefore the fathers shall eat <i>their</i> children in the midst of you, and children shall eat <i>their</i> fathers; and I will execute judgements in you, and I will scatter all that are left of you to every wind.


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Therefore, <i>as</i> I live, says the Lord; surely, because you have defiled my holy things with all your abominations, I also will reject you; my eye shall not spare, and I will have no mercy.


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A fourth part of you shall be cut off by pestilence, and a fourth part of you shall be consumed in the midst of you with famine: and <i>as for another</i> fourth part of you, I will scatter them to every wind; and a fourth part of you shall fall by sword round about you, and I will draw out a sword after them.


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And my wrath and my anger shall be accomplished upon them: and you shall know that I the Lord have spoken in my jealousy, when I have accomplished my anger upon them.


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And I will make you desolate, and your daughters round about you, in the sight of every one that passes through.


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And you shall be mourned over and miserable amongst the nations round about you, when I have executed judgements in you in the vengeance of my wrath. I the Lord have spoken.


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And when I have sent against them shafts of famine, then they shall be consumed, and I will break the strength of your bread.


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So I will send forth against you famine and evil beasts, and I will take vengeance upon you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through upon you; and I will bring a sword upon you round about. I the Lord have spoken.<pb/>


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and you shall say, You° mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; thus says the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the valleys, and to the forests; Behold, I bring a sword upon you, and your high places shall be utterly destroyed.


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And your altars shall be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats; and I will cast down your slain <i>men</i> before your idols.


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and in all your habitations: the cities shall be made desolate, and the high places utterly laid waste; that your altars may be destroyed, and your idols be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats be abolished.


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then they of you that escape amongst the nations whither they were carried captive shall remember me; (I have sworn <i>an oath</i> against their heart that goes a-whoring from me, and their eyes that go a-whoring after their practices;) and they shall mourn over themselves for all their abominations.


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Thus says the Lord; Clap with <i>your</i> hand, and stamp with <i>your</i> foot and say, Aha, aha! for all the abominations of the house of Israel: they shall fall by the sword, and by pestilence, and by famine.


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He that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that is far off shall die by the pestilence; and he that is in the siege shall be consumed with famine: and I will accomplish my anger upon them.


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Then you° shall know that I am the Lord, when your slain are in the midst of your idols round about your altars, on every high hill, and under <i>every</i> shady tree, where they offered a sweet savour to all their idols.


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And I will stretch out my hand against them, and I will make the land desolate and ruined from the wilderness of Deblatha, in all their habitations: <i>and</i> you° shall know that I am the Lord.<pb/>


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Thus says the Lord; An end is come to the land of Israel, the end is come on the four corners of the land.


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the inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day has drawn near, not with tumult, nor with pangs.


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Now I will pour out my anger upon you near at hand, and I will accomplish my wrath on you: and I will judge you for your ways, and recompense upon you all your abominations.


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Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy: for I will recompense your ways upon you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the Lord that strike <i>you</i>.


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Now the end <i>is come</i> to you, and I will send <i>judgement</i> upon you: and I will take vengeance on your ways, and will recompense all your abominations upon you.


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Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy: for I will recompense your way upon you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the Lord.


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pride has sprung up, and will break the staff of the wicked one, and <i>that</i> not with tumult, nor with haste.


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For the buyer shall never again return to the seller, neither shall a man cleave with the eye <i>of hope</i> to his life.


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<i>There shall be</i> war with the sword without, and famine and pestilence within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword; and famine and pestilence shall destroy them that are in the city.


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But they that escape of them shall be delivered, and shall be upon the mountains: and I will kill all <i>the rest</i>, every one for his iniquities.


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And they shall gird themselves with sackcloth, and amazement shall cover them; and shame shall be upon them, <i>even</i> upon every face, and baldness upon every head.


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Their silver shall be cast forth in the streets, and their gold shall be despised: their souls shall not be satisfied, and their bellies shall not be filled: for it was the punishment of their iniquities.


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<i>As for</i> their choice ornaments, they employed them for pride, and they made of them images of their abominations: therefore have I made them uncleanness to them.


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And I will deliver them into the hands of strangers to make them a prey, and to the pests of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane them.


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And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall defile my charge, and shall go in to them unguardedly, and profane them.


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And they shall work uncleanness: because the land is full of strange nations, and the city is full of iniquity.


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And <i>though</i> propitiation shall come, and <i>one</i> shall seek peace, yet there shall be none.


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There shall be woe upon woe, and there shall be message upon message; and a vision shall be sought from a prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.


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The prince shall clothe himself with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be made feeble: I will do to them according to their ways, and according to their judgements will I punish them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.<pb/>


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And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth <i>day</i> of the month, I was sitting in the house, and the elders of Juda were sitting before me: and the hand of the Lord came upon me.


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And I looked, and, behold, the likeness of a man: from his loins and downwards <i>there was</i> fire, and from his loins upwards <i>there was</i> as the appearance of amber.


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And he stretched forth the likeness of a hand, and took me by the crown of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and sky, and brought me to Jerusalem in a vision of God, to the porch of the gate that looks to the north, where was the pillar of the Purchaser.


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And, behold, the glory of the Lord God of Israel was there, according to the vision which I saw in the plain.


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And he said to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes towards the north. So I lifted up my eyes towards the north, and, behold, <i>I looked</i> from the north towards the eastern gate.


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And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what these do? They commit great abominations here so that I should keep away from my sanctuary: and you shall see yet greater iniquities.


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So I went in and looked; and [*]saw vain abominations, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon them round about.


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And seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and Jechonias the son of Saphan stood in their presence in the midst of them, and each one held his censer in his hand; and the smoke of the incense went up.


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And he said to me, You have seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel do, each one of them in their secret chamber: because they have said, The Lord see not; The Lord has forsaken the earth.


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And he brought me in to the porch of the house of the Lord that looks to the north; and, behold <i>there were</i> women sitting there lamenting for Thammuz.


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And he said to me, Son of man, you have seen; but you shall yet see <i>evil</i> practices greater then these.


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And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty men, with their back parts towards the temple of the Lord, and their faces <i>turned</i> the opposite way; and these were worshipping the sun.


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And he said to me, Son of man, you have seen this. <i>Is it</i> a little thing to the house of Juda to practise the iniquities which they have practised here? for they have filled the land with iniquity: and, behold, these are as scorners.


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And he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, The judgement of the city has drawn near; and each had the weapons of destruction in his hand.


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And, behold, six men came from the way of the high gate that looks towards the north, and each one's axe was in his hand; and there was one man in the midst of them clothed with a long robe down to the feet, and a sapphire girdle was on his loins: and they came in and stood near the brazen altar.


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And the glory of the God of Israel, that was upon them, went up from the cherubs to the porch of the house. And he called the man that was clothed with the long robe, who had the girdle on his loins;


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And said to him, Go through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that groan and that grieve for all the iniquities that are done in the midst of them.


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And he said to the first in my hearing, Go after him into the city, and strike: and let not your eyes spare, and have no mercy.


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Slay utterly old man and youth, and virgin, and infants, and women: but go you° not near any on whom is the mark: begin at my sanctuary. So they began with the elder men who were within in the house.


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And it came to pass as they were striking, that I fell upon my face, and cried out, and said, Alas, O Lord! will you destroy the remnant of Israel, in pouring out your wrath upon Jerusalem?


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Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Juda is become very exceedingly great: for the land is filled with many nations, and the city is filled with iniquity and uncleanness: because they have said, The Lord has forsaken the earth, The Lord looks not upon <i>it</i>.


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Therefore my eye shall not spare, neither will I have any mercy: I have recompensed their ways upon their heads.


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And, behold, the man clothed with the long robe, and girded with the girdle about his loins, answered and said, I have done as you did command me.<pb/>


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Then I looked, and, behold, over the firmament that was above the head of the cherubs <i>there was</i> a likeness of a throne over them, as a sapphire stone.


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And he said to the man clothed with the <i>long</i> robe, Go in between the wheels that are under the cherubs, and fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubs, and scatter <i>them</i> over the city. And he went in my sight.


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And the cherubs stood on the right hand of the house, as the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.


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Then the glory of the Lord departed from the cherubs to the porch of the house; and the cloud filled the house, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the Lord.


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And the sound of the cherubs' wings was heard as far as the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God speaking.


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And it came to pass, when he gave a charge to the man clothed with the sacred robe, saying, Take fire from between the wheels from between the cherubs, that he went in, and stood near the wheels.


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And he stretched forth his hand into the midst of the fire that was between the cherubs, and took <i>thereof</i>, and put <i>it</i> into the hands of the man clothed with the sacred robe: and he took <i>it</i>, and went out.


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And I saw, and behold, four wheels stood by the cherubs, one wheel by each cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the appearance of a carbuncle stone.


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And <i>as for</i> their appearance, <i>there was</i> one likeness to the four, as if there should be a wheel in the midst of a wheel.


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When they went, they went on their four sides; they turned not when they went, for whichever way the first head looked, they went; and they turned not as they went.


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And their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about the four wheels.


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And when the cherubs went, the wheels went, and they were close to them: and when the cherubs lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, their wheels turned not.


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When they stood, <i>the wheels</i> stood; and when they mounted up, <i>the wheels</i> mounted up with them: because the spirit of life was in them.


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And the cherubs lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went forth, the wheels were also beside them, and they stood at the entrance of the front gate of the house of the Lord; and the glory of the God of Israel was upon them above.


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This is the living creature which I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chobar; and I knew that they were cherubs.


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Each one <i>had</i> four faces, and each one <i>had</i> eight wings; and under their wings was the likeness of men's hands.


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And <i>as for</i> the likeness of their faces, these are the <i>same</i> faces which I saw under the glory of the God of Israel by the river of Chobar: and they went each straight forward.<pb/>


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Moreover the Spirit took me up, and brought me to the front gate of the house of the Lord, that looks eastward: and behold at the entrance of the gate were about five and twenty men; and I saw in the midst of them Jechonias the son of Ezer, and Phaltias the son of Banaeas, the leaders of the people.


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And the Lord said to me, Son of man, these are the men that devise vanities, and take evil counsel in this city:


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And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said to me, say; Thus says the Lord; Thus have you° said, O house of Israel: and I know the devices of your spirit.


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Therefore thus says the Lord; Your dead whom you° have struck in the midst of it, these are the flesh, and this <i>city</i> is the cauldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.


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And I will bring you forth out of the midst of it, and will deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgements amongst you.


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You° shall fall by the sword; I will judge you on the mountains of Israel; and you° shall know that I am the Lord.


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Son of man, your brethren, and the men of your captivity, and all the house of Israel are come to the full, to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, Keep you° far away from the Lord: the land is given to us for an inheritance.


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Therefore say you, Thus says the Lord; I will cast them off amongst the nations, and will disperse them into every land, yet will I be to them for a little sanctuary in the countries which they shall enter.


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Therefore say you, Thus says the Lord; I will also take them from the heathen, and gather them out of the lands wherein I have scattered them, and will give them the land of Israel.


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And they shall enter in there, and shall remove all the abominations of it, and all its iniquities from it.


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And I will give them another heart, and will put a new spirit within them; and will extract the heart of stone from their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh:


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that they may walk in my commandments, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.


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And as for the heart <i>set upon</i> their abominations and their iniquities, as their heart went <i>after them</i>, I have recompensed their ways on their heads, says the Lord.


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Then 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 was in front of the city.


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And the Spirit took me up, and brought me to the land of the Chaldeans, to the captivity, in a vision by the Spirit of God: and I went up after the vision which I saw.


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Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the iniquities of those, who have eyes to see, and see not; and have ears to hear, and hear not: because it is a provoking house.


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You therefore, son of man, prepare yourself baggage for going into captivity by day in their sight; and you shall be led into captivity from your place into another place in their sight; that they may see that it is a provoking house.


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And you shall carry forth your baggage, baggage for captivity, by day before their eyes: and you shall go forth at even, as a captive goes forth, in their sight.


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you shall be lifted up on <i>men's</i> shoulders, and shall go forth in secret: you shall cover your face, and shall not see the ground: because I have made you a sign to the house of Israel.


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And I did thus according to all that he commanded me; and I carried forth my baggage for captivity by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall for myself, and went out secretly; I was taken up on <i>men's</i> shoulders before them.


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Say to them, Thus says the Lord God, the Prince and the Ruler in Israel, even to all the house of Israel who are in the midst of them:


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say, I am performing signs: as I have done, so shall it be to him: they shall go into banishment and captivity.


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And the prince in the midst of them shall be borne upon shoulders, and shall go forth in secret through the wall, and shall dig so that he may go forth thereby: he shall cover his face, that he may not be seen by <i>any</i> eye, and he himself shall not see the ground.


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And I will spread out my net upon him, and he shall be caught in my toils: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; but he shall not see it, though he shall die there.


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And I will scatter to every wind all his assistants round about him, and all that help him; and I will draw out a sword after them;


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And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have scattered them amongst the nations; and I will disperse them in the countries.


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And I will leave of them <i>a few</i> men in number <i>spared</i> from the sword, and from famine, and pestilence; that they may declare all their iniquities amongst the nations whither they have gone; and they shall know that I am the Lord.


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And you shall say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, on the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread in scarcity, and shall drink their water in desolation, that the land may be desolate with all that it contains: for all that dwell in it are ungodly.


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And their inhabited cities shall be laid utterly 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 your parable on the land of Israel, that you° say, The days are long, the vision has perished?


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Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord; I will even set aside this parable, and the house of Israel shall no more at all use this parable: for you shall say to them, The days are at hand, and the import of every vision.


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For there shall no more be any false vision, nor any one prophesying flatteries in the midst of the children of Israel.


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For I the Lord will speak my words; I will speak and perform <i>them</i>, and will no more delay, for in your days, O provoking house, I will speak the word, and will perform <i>it</i>, says the Lord.


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Son of man, behold, the provoking house of Israel boldly say, The vision which this man sees is for many days, and he prophesies for times afar off.


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Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord; Henceforth none of my words shall linger, which I shall speak: I will speak and do, says the Lord.<pb/>


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Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, and you shall prophesy, and shall say to them, Hear you° the word of the Lord:


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They have not continued steadfast, and they have gathered flocks against the house of Israel, they that say,


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In the day of the Lord, have not stood, seeing false <i>visions</i>, prophesying vanities, who say, The Lord says, and the Lord has not sent them, and they began <i>to try</i> to confirm the word.


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And therefore say, Thus says the Lord; Because your words are false, and your prophecies are vain, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the Lord.


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And I will stretch forth my hand against the prophets that see false <i>visions</i>, and those that utter vanities: they shall not partake of the instruction of my people, neither shall they be written in the roll of the house of Israel, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel; and they shall know that I am the Lord.


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Because they have caused my people to err, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and one builds a wall, and they plaster it, —it shall fall.


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Say to them that plaster <i>it</i>, It shall fall; and there shall be a flooding rain; and I will send great stones upon their joinings, and they shall fall; and there shall be a sweeping wind, and it shall be broken.


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And behold! the wall has fallen; and will they not say to you, Where is your plaster wherewith you° plastered <i>it</i>?


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Therefore thus says the Lord; I will even cause to burst forth a sweeping blast with fury, and there shall be a flooding rain in my wrath; and in <i>my</i> fury I will bring on great stones for complete destruction.


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And I will break down the wall which you° have plastered, and it shall fall; and I will lay it on the ground, and its foundations shall be discovered, and it shall fall; and you° shall be consumed with rebukes: and you° shall know that I am the Lord.


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And I will accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that plaster it; it shall fall: and I said to you, The wall is not, nor they that plaster it,


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even the prophets of Israel, who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see <i>visions of</i> peace for her, and there is no peace, says the Lord.


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


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And you shall say, Thus says the Lord, Woe to the <i>women</i> that sew pillows under every elbow, and make kerchiefs on the head of every stature to pervert souls! The souls of my people are perverted, and they have saved souls alive.


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And they have dishonoured me before my people for a handful of barley, and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls which should not die, and to save alive the souls which should not live, while you° speak to a people hearing vain speeches.


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Therefore thus says the Lord God, Behold, I am against your pillows, whereby you° there confound souls, and I will tear them away from your arms, and will set at liberty their souls which you° pervert to scatter them.


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And I will tear your kerchiefs, and will rescue my people out of your hands, and they shall no longer be in your hands to be confounded; and you° shall know that I am the Lord.


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Because you° have perverted the heart of the righteous, whereas I perverted him not, and <i>that</i> in order to strengthen the hands of the wicked, that he should not at all turn from his evil way and live:


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therefore you° shall not see false <i>visions</i>, and you° shall no more utter prophecies: but I will deliver my people out of your hand; and you° shall know that I am the Lord.<pb/>


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Son of man, these men have conceived their devices in their hearts, and have set before their faces the punishment of their iniquities: shall I indeed answer them?


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Therefore speak to them, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord; Any man of the house of Israel, who shall conceive his devices in his heart, and shall set the punishment of his iniquity before his face, and shall come to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him <i>according to the things</i> in which his mind is entangled,


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that he should turn aside the house of Israel, according to their hearts that are estranged from me in their thoughts.


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Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God, Be converted, and turn from your <i>evil</i> practices, and from all your sins, and turn your faces back again.


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For any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who shall separate himself from me, and conceive his imaginations in his heart, and set before his face the punishment of his iniquity, and come to the prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the Lord will answer him, <i>according to the things</i> wherein he is entangled.


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And I will set my face against that man, and will make him desolate and ruined, and will cut him off from the midst of my people; and you° shall know that I am the Lord.


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And if a prophet should cause to err and should speak, I the Lord have caused that prophet to err, and will stretch out my hand upon him, and will utterly destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.


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And they shall bear their iniquity according to the trespass of him that asks; and it shall be in like manner to the prophet according to the trespass:


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that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, and that they may no more defile themselves with any of their transgressions: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God, says the Lord.


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Son of man, if a land shall sin against me by committing a trespass, then will I stretch out my hand upon it, and will break its staff of bread, and will send forth famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast.


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And though these three men should be in the midst of it, Noe, and Daniel, and Job, they <i>alone</i> should be delivered by their righteousness, says the Lord.


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If again I bring evil beasts upon the land, and take vengeance upon it, and it be ruined, and there be no one to pass through for fear of the wild beasts:


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and <i>if</i> these three men should be in the midst of it, <i>as</i> I live, says the Lord, neither sons nor daughters shall be saved, but these only shall be saved, and the land shall be destroyed.


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Or again if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Let the sword go through the land; and I cut off from them man and beast:


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though these three men were in the midst of it, as I live, says the Lord, they shall not deliver sons or daughters, but they only shall be saved themselves.


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Or <i>if</i> again I send pestilence upon that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to destroy from off it man and beast:


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and should Noe, and Daniel, and Job, be in the midst of it, <i>as</i> I live, says the Lord, there shall be left <i>them</i> neither sons nor daughters; <i>only</i> they by their righteousness shall deliver their souls.


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Thus says the Lord, And if I even send upon Jerusalem my four sore judgements, sword, and famine, and evil beasts, and pestilence, to destroy from out of it man and beast;


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yet, behold, <i>there shall be</i> men left in it, the escaped thereof, who <i>shall</i> lead forth of it sons and daughters: behold, they <i>shall</i> go forth to you, and you° shall see their ways and their thoughts: and you° shall mourn over the evils which I have brought upon Jerusalem, <i>even</i> all the evils which I have brought upon it.


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And they shall comfort you, because you° shall see their ways and their thoughts: and you° shall know that I have not done in vain all that I have done in it, says the Lord.<pb/>


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And you, son of man—of all the wood, of the branches that are amongst the trees of the forest, what shall be made of the wood of the vine?


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Will they take wood of it to make <i>it fit</i> for work? will they take of it a peg to hang any vessel upon it?


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It is only given to the fire to be consumed; the fire consumes that which is yearly pruned of it, and it is utterly gone. Will it be useful for <i>any</i> work?


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Not even while it is yet whole will it be <i>useful</i> for <i>any</i> work: if the fire shall have utterly consumed it, will it still be <i>fit</i> for work?


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Therefore say, Thus says the Lord, As the vine tree amongst the trees of the forest, which I have given up to the fire to be consumed, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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And I will set my face against them; they shall go forth of the fire, and <i>yet</i> fire shall devour them; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have set my face against them.


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and you shall say, Thus says the Lord to Jerusalem; Your root and your birth are of the land of Chanaan: your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Chettite.


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And <i>as for</i> your birth in the day wherein you were born, you did not bind your breasts, and you were not washed in water, neither were you salted with salt, neither were you swathed in swaddling-bands.


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Nor did my eye pity you, to do for you one of all these things, to feel at all for you; but you were cast out on the face of the field, because of the deformity of your person, in the day wherein you were born.


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And I passed by to you, and saw you polluted in your blood; and I said to you, <i>Let there be</i> life out of your blood:


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increase; I have made you as the springing grass of the field. So you did increase and grow, and did enter into great cities: your breasts were set, and your hair grew, whereas you were naked and bare.


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And I passed by you and saw you, and, behold, <i>it was</i> your time and a time of resting; and I spread my wings over you, and covered your shame, and swear to you: and I entered into covenant with you, says the Lord, and you became mine.


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And I clothed you with embroidered <i>garments</i>, and clothed you beneath with purple, and girded you with fine linen, and clothed you with silk,


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So you were adorned with gold and silver; and your raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and variegated work: you did eat fine flour, and oil, and honey, and did become extremely beautiful.


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And your name went forth amongst the nations for your beauty: because it was perfected with elegance, <i>and</i> in the comeliness which I put upon you, says the Lord.


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You did trust in your beauty, and did go a-whoring because of your renown, and did pour out your fornication on every passer by.


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And you did take of your garments, and made to yourself idols of needlework, and did go a-whoring after them; therefore you shall never come in, nor shall <i>the like</i> take place.


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And you took your fair ornaments of my gold and of my silver, of what I gave you, and you made to yourself male images, and you did commit whoredom with them.


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And you did take your variegated apparel and did clothe them, and you did set before them my oil and my incense.


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And <i>you took</i> my bread which I gave you, (<i>yes</i> I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey) and did set them before them for a sweet smelling savour: yes, it was so, says the Lord.


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And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore, and did sacrifice <i>these</i> to them to be destroyed. You did go a-whoring as <i>if that were</i> little,


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This is beyond all your fornication, and you did not remember your infancy, when you were naked and bare, <i>and</i> did live <i>though</i> defiled in your blood.


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that you did build yourself a house of fornication, and did make yourself a public place in every street;


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and on the head of every way you did set up your fornications, and did defile your beauty, and did open your feet to every passer by, and did multiply your fornication.


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And you did go a-whoring after the children of Egypt your neighbours, great of flesh; and did go a-whoring, often to provoke me to anger.


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And if I stretch out my hand against you, then will I abolish your statutes, and deliver <i>you</i> up to the wills of them that hate you, <i>even to</i> the daughters of the Philistines that turned you aside from the way wherein you sinned.


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And you did go a-whoring to the daughters of Assur, and not even thus were you satisfied; yes, you did go a-whoring, and were not satisfied.


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And you did multiply your covenants with the land of the Chaldeans; and not even with these were you satisfied.


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Why should I make a covenant with your daughter, says the Lord, while you do all these things, the works of a harlot? and you have gone a-whoring in a threefold degree with your daughters.


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You have built a house of harlotry in every top of a way, and have set up your high place in every street; and you did become as a harlot gathering hires.


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She has even given rewards to all that went a-whoring after her, and you have given rewards to all your lovers, yes, you did load them with rewards, that they should come to you from every side for your fornication.


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And there has happened in you perverseness in your fornication beyond <i>other</i> women, and they have committed fornication with you, in that you give hires over and above, and hires were not given to you; and <i>thus</i> perverseness happened in you.


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Thus says the Lord, Because you have poured forth your money, therefore your shame shall be discovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and <i>with</i> regard to all the imaginations of your iniquities, and for the blood of your children which you have given to them.


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Therefore, behold, I <i>will</i> gather all your lovers with whom you have consorted, and all whom you have loved, with all whom you did hate; and I will gather them against you round about, and will expose your wickedness to them, and they shall see all your shame.


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And I will be avenged on you with the vengeance of an adulteress, and I will bring upon you blood of fury and jealousy.


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And I will deliver you into their hands, and they shall break down your house of harlotry, and destroy your high place; and they shall strip you of your garments, and shall take your proud ornaments, and leave you naked and bare.


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And they shall bring multitudes upon you, and they shall stone you with stones, and pierce you with their swords.


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And they shall burn your houses with fire, and shall execute vengeance on you in the sight of many women: and I will turn you back from harlotry, and I will no more give <i>you</i> rewards.


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So will I slacken my fury against you, and my jealousy shall be removed from you, and I will rest, and be no more careful <i>for you</i>.


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Because you did not remember your infancy, and you did grieve me in all these things; therefore, behold, I have recompensed your ways upon your head, says the Lord: for thus have you wrought ungodliness above all your <i>other</i> iniquities.


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As is the mother, so is your mother's daughter: you are she that has rejected her husband and her children; and the sisters of your sisters have rejected their husbands and their children: your mother was a Chettite, and <i>your</i> father an Amorite.


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Your elder sister who dwells on your left hand is Samaria, she and her daughters: and your younger sister, that dwells on the right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.


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Yet notwithstanding you have not walked in their ways, neither have you done according to their iniquities within a little, but you have exceeded them in all your ways.


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<i>As</i> I live, says the Lord, this Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.


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Moreover this was the sin of your sister Sodom, pride: she and her daughters lived in pleasure, in fullness of bread <i>and</i> in abundance: this belonged to her and her daughters, and they helped not the hand of the poor and needy.


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Also Samaria has not sinned according to half of your sins; but you have multiplied your iniquities beyond them, and you have justified your sisters in all your iniquities which you have committed.


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You therefore bear your punishment, for that you have corrupted your sisters by your sins which you have committed beyond them; and you have made them <i>appear</i> more righteous than yourself: you therefore be ashamed, and bear your dishonour, in that you have justified your sisters.


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And I will turn their captivity, <i>even</i> the captivity of Sodom and her daughters; and I will turn the captivity of Samaria and her daughters; and I will turn your captivity in the midst of them:


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that you may bear your punishment, and be dishonoured for all that you have done in provoking me to anger.


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And your sister Sodom and her daughters shall be restored as they were at the beginning, and you and your daughters shall be restored as you° were at the beginning.


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before your wickedness was discovered, even now you are the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all that are round about her, <i>even</i> of the daughters of the Philistines that compass you round about.


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Thus says the Lord; I will even do to you as you have done, as you have dealt shamefully in these things to transgress my covenant.


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And I will remember my covenant <i>made</i> with you in the days of your infancy, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.


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Then you shall remember your way, and shall be utterly dishonoured when you receive your elder sisters with your younger ones: and I will give them to you for building up, but not by your covenant.


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that you may remember, and be ashamed, and may no more be able to open your mouth for your shame, when I am reconciled to you for all that you have done, says the Lord.<pb/>


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and you shall say, Thus says the Lord; A great eagle with large wings, spreading them out very far, with many claws, which has the design of entering into Libanus—and he took the choice <i>branches</i> of the cedar:


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he cropped off the ends of the tender twigs, and brought them into the land of Chanaan; he laid them up in a walled city.


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And he took of the seed of the land, and sowed it in a field planted by much water; he set it in a conspicuous place.


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And it sprang up, and became a weak and little vine, so that the branches thereof appeared <i>upon</i> it, and its roots were under it: and it became a vine, and put forth shoots, and sent forth its tendrils.


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And there was another great eagle, with great wings and many claws: and, behold, this vine bent itself round towards him, and her roots <i>were turned</i> towards him, and she sent forth her branches towards him, that <i>he</i> might water her together with the growth of her plantation.


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She thrives in a fair field by much water, to produce shoots and bear fruit, that she might become a great vine.


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Therefore say, Thus says the Lord; Shall it prosper? shall not the roots of her tender stem and her fruit be blighted? yes, all her early shoots shall be dried up, and <i>that</i> not by a mighty arm, nor by many people, to tear her up from her roots.


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And, behold, it thrives: shall it prosper? shall it not wither as soon as the east wind touches it? it shall be withered together with the growth of its shoots.


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Son of man, say now to the provoking house, Know you° not what these things were? say <i>to them</i>, Whenever the king of Babylon shall come against Jerusalem, then he shall take her king and her princes, and shall take them home to Babylon.


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And he shall take of the seed royal, and shall make a covenant with him, and shall bind him with an oath: and he shall take the princes of the land:


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that it may become a weak kingdom, so as never to lift itself up, that he may keep his covenant, and establish it.


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And <i>if</i> he shall revolt from him, to send his messengers into Egypt, that <i>they</i> may give him horses and much people; shall he prosper? shall he that acts as an adversary be preserved? and shall he that transgresses the covenant be preserved?


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<i>As</i> I live, says the Lord, verily in <i>the</i> place where the king is that made him king, who dishonoured my oath, and who broke my covenant, shall he die with him in the midst of Babylon.


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And Pharaoh shall make war upon him not with a large force or great multitude, in throwing up a mound, and in building of forts, to cut off souls.


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Whereas he has profaned the oath so as to break the covenant, when, behold, I engage his hand, and he has done all these things to him, he shall not escape.


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Therefore say, Thus says the Lord; <i>As</i> I live, surely my oath which he has profaned, and my covenant which he has transgressed, I will even recompense it upon his head.


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In every battle of his they shall fall by the sword, and I will scatter <i>his</i> remnant to every wind: and you° shall know that I the Lord have spoken it.


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For thus says the Lord; I will even take of the choice <i>branches</i> of the cedar from the top <i>thereof</i>, I will crop off their hearts, and I will plant it on a high mountain:


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and I will hang it on a lofty mountain of Israel: yes, I will plant it, and it shall put forth shoots, and shall bear fruit, and it shall be a great cedar: and every bird shall rest beneath it, even every fowl shall rest under its shadow: its branches shall be restored.


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And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord that bring low the high tree, and exalt the low tree, and wither the green tree, and cause the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken, and will do <i>it</i>.<pb/>


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Son of man, what mean you° by this parable amongst the children of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten unripe grapes, and the children's teeth have been set on edge?


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


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who shall not eat upon the mountains, and shall not at all lift up his eyes to the devices of the house of Israel, and shall not defile his neighbour's wife, and shall not draw near to her that is removed,


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and shall not oppress any man, <i>but</i> shall return the pledge of the debtor, and shall be guilty of no plunder, shall give his bread to the hungry, and clothe the naked;


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and shall not lend his money upon usury, and shall not receive usurious increase, and shall turn back his hand from injustice, shall execute righteous judgement between a man and his neighbour,


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and has walked in my commandments and kept my ordinances, to do them; he is righteous, he shall surely live, says the Lord.


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who has not walked in the way of his righteous father, but has even eaten upon the mountains, and has defiled his neighbour's wife,


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and has oppressed the poor and needy, and has committed robbery, and not restored a pledge, and has set his eyes upon idols, has wrought iniquities,


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has lent upon usury, and taken usurious increase; he shall by no means live: he has wrought all these iniquities; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.


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And if he beget a son, and <i>the son</i> see all his father's sins which he has wrought, and fear, and not do according to them,


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and <i>if he</i> has not eaten on the mountains, and has not set his eyes on the devices of the house of Israel, and has not defiled his neighbour's wife,


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


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


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


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


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


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


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None of his trespasses which he has committed shall be remembers: in his righteousness which he has done he shall live.


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Shall I at all desire death of the sinner, says the Lord, as I <i>desire</i> that he should turn from <i>his</i> evil way, and live?


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


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


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When the righteous turns away from his righteousness and commits a trespass, and dies in the trespass he has committed, he shall <i>even</i> die in it.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And she saw that he was driven away from her, <i>and</i> her hope <i>of him</i> perished, and she took another of her whelps; she made him a lion.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And fire is gone out of a rod of her choice <i>boughs</i>, and has devoured her; and there was no rod of strength in her. Her race is become a parable of lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.<pb/>


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


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Son of man, speak to the elders of the house of Israel, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord; Are you° come to enquire of me? <i>As</i> I live, I will not be enquired of by you, says the Lord.


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


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


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


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


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But they revolted from me, and would not listen to me: they cast not away the abominations of their eyes, and forsook not the devices of Egypt: then I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my wrath upon them in the midst of Egypt.


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But I wrought <i>so</i> that my name should not be at all profaned in the sight of the Gentiles, in the midst of whom they are, amongst whom I was made known to them in their sight, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.


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And I gave them my commandments, and made known to them my ordinances, all which <i>if</i> a man shall do, he shall even live in them.


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And I gave them my sabbaths, that they should be for a sign between me and them, that they should know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.


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And I said to the house of Israel in the wilderness, Walk you° in my commandments: but they walked not <i>in them</i>, and they rejected my ordinances, which <i>if</i> a man shall do, he shall even live in them; and they grievously profaned my sabbaths: and I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.


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But I wrought <i>so</i> that my name should not be at all profaned before the Gentiles, before whose eyes I brought them out.


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


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


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Yet my eyes spared them, so as <i>not</i> to destroy them utterly, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.


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And I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk not you° in the customs of your fathers, and keep not their ordinances, and have no fellowship with their practices, nor defile yourselves <i>with them</i>.


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and hallow my sabbaths, and let them be a sign between me and you, that you° may know that I am the Lord your God.


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But they provoked me, and their children walked not in my commandments, and they took no heed to my ordinances to do them, which <i>if</i> a man shall do, he shall even live in them, and they profaned my sabbaths: then I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to accomplish my anger upon them.


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


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I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them amongst the Gentiles, <i>and</i> disperse them in the countries;


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


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So I gave them commandments <i>that were</i> not good, and ordinances in which they should not live.


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And I will defile them by their <i>own</i> decrees, when I pass through upon every one that opens the womb, that I may destroy them.


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


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


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


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


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and <i>do you° pollute yourselves</i> with the first fruits of your gifts, in the offerings wherewith you° pollute yourselves in all your imaginations, until this day; and shall I answer you, O house of Israel? <i>As</i> I live, says the Lord, I will not answer you, neither shall this thing come upon your spirit.


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


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Therefore, <i>as</i> I live, says the Lord, I will reign over you with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath:


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


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


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


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And I will separate from amongst you the ungodly and the revolters; for I will lead them forth out of their place of sojourning, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you° shall know that I am the Lord, <i>even</i> the Lord.


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And <i>as to</i> you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord, <i>even</i> the Lord; Put away each one his <i>evil</i> practices, and hereafter if you° listen to me, then shall you° no more profane my holy name by your gifts and by devices.


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For upon my holy mountain, on the high mountain, says the Lord, <i>even</i> the Lord, there shall all the house of Israel serve me for ever: and there will I accept <i>you</i>, and there will I have respect to your first fruits, and the first fruits of your offerings, in all your holy things.


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I will accept you with a sweet smelling savour, when I bring you out from the nations, and take you out of the countries wherein you° have been dispersed; and I will be sanctified amongst you in the sight of the nations.


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


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


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


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Son of man, set your face against Thaeman, and look towards Darom, and prophesy against the chief forest of Nageb,


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


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


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


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Because I will destroy out of you the unrighteous and the transgressor, <i>therefore</i> so shall my sword come forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:


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


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


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


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


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that you may kill victims; be sharpened that you may be bright, ready for slaughter, kill, set at nothing, despise every tree.


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And he made it ready for his hand to hold: the sword is sharpened, it is ready to put into the hand of the slayer.


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Cry out and howl, son of man: for this <i>sword</i> is come upon my people, this <i>sword is come</i> upon all the princes of Israel: they shall be as strangers: <i>judgement</i> with the sword is come upon my people: therefore clap your hands, for sentence has been passed:


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


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


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and you, son of man, appoint you two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may enter in: the two shall go forth of one country; and <i>there shall be</i> a force at the top of the way of the city, you shall set <i>it</i> at the top of the way,


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


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For the king of Babylon shall stand on the old way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination, to make bright the arrow, and to enquire of the graven images, and to examine <i>the victims</i>.


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


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


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


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And you profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day, <i>even</i> an end, is come in a sea of iniquity, thus says the Lord;


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You have taken off the mitre and put on the crown, it shall not have such <i>another</i> after it: you have abased that which was high, and exalted that which was low.


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Injustice, injustice, injustice, will I make it: woe to it: such shall it be until he comes to whom it belongs; and I will deliver <i>it</i> to him.


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


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While you are seeing vain <i>visions</i>, and while you are prophesying falsehoods, to bring yourself upon the necks of ungodly transgressors, the day is come, <i>even</i> an end, in a season of iniquity.


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


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You shall be fuel for fire; your blood shall be in the midst of your land; there shall be no remembrance at all of you: for I the Lord have spoken <i>it</i>.<pb/>


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


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to those near you, and to those far distant from you; and they shall mock you, <i>you that are</i> notoriously unclean, and abundant in iniquities.


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


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


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<i>There are</i> robbers in you, to shed blood in you; and in you they have eaten upon the mountains: they have wrought ungodliness in the midst of you.


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


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


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


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shall your heart endure? shall your hands be strong in the days which I bring upon you? I the Lord have spoken, and will do <i>it</i>.


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


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


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Son of man, behold, the house of Israel are all become to me <i>as it were</i> mixed with brass, and iron, and tin, and lead; they are mixed up in the midst of the silver.


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


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


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


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


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


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Her priests also have set at nothing my law, and profaned my holy things: they have not distinguished between the holy and profane, nor have they distinguished between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.


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


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


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


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And I sought from amongst them a man behaving uprightly, and standing before me perfectly in the time of wrath, so that I should not utterly destroy her: but I found <i>him</i> not.


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So I have poured out my wrath upon her in the fury of my anger, to accomplish <i>it</i>. I have recompensed their ways on their own heads, says the Lord God.<pb/>


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


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And their names were Oola the elder, and Ooliba her sister: and they were mine, and bore sons and daughters: and <i>as for</i> their names, Samaria was Oola, and Jerusalem was Ooliba.


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clothed with purple, princes and captains; <i>they were</i> young men and choice, all horseman riding on horses.


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And she bestowed her fornication upon them; all were choice sons of the Assyrians: and on whoever she doted herself, with them she defiled herself in all <i>their</i> devices.


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


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


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


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And her sister Ooliba saw <i>it</i>, and she indulged in her fondness more corruptly than she, and in her fornication more than the fornication of her sister.


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She doted upon the sons of the Assyrian, princes and captains, her neighbours, clothed with fine linen, horsemen riding on horses; <i>they were</i> all choice young men.


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having variegated girdles on their loins, having also richly dyed <i>attire</i> upon their heads; all had a princely appearance, the likeness of the children of the Chaldeans, of their native land.


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


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and you did dote upon the Chaldeans, whose flesh is as the flesh of the asses, and their members <i>as</i> the members of horses.


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And you did look upon the iniquity of your youth, <i>the things</i> which you wrought in Egypt in your lodgings, where were the breasts of your youth.


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Therefore, Ooliba, thus says the Lord; Behold, I <i>will</i> stir up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them upon you round about,


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


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


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


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


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Therefore thus says the Lord God; Behold, I <i>will</i> deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, from whom your soul is alienated.


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And they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take all <i>the fruits</i> of your labours and your toils, and you shall be naked and bare: and the shame of your fornication shall be exposed: and your ungodliness and your fornication


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


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


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drink you it, and I will take away her feasts and her new moons: for I have spoken <i>it</i>, says the Lord.


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Therefore thus says the Lord; Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore receive you <i>the reward</i> of your ungodliness and your fornication.


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


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


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


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


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and sat on a prepared bed, and before it <i>there was</i> a table set out, and <i>as for</i> my incense and my oil, they rejoiced in them,


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and they raised a sound of music, and <i>that</i> with men coming from the wilderness out of a multitude of men, and they put bracelets on their hands, and a crown of glory on their heads;


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Therefore I said, Do they not commit adultery with these? and has she also gone a-whoring <i>after</i> the manner of a harlot?


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And they went in to her, as <i>men</i> go in to a harlot; so they went in to Oola and to Ooliba to work iniquity.


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


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


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


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


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And your ungodliness shall be recompensed upon you, and you° shall bear the guilt of your devices: and you° shall know that I am the Lord.<pb/>


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And the word of the Lord came to me, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth <i>day</i> of the month, saying,


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Son of man, write for yourself daily from this day, on which the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem, <i>even</i> from this day.


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


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<i>which are</i> taken from choice cattle, and burn the bones under them: her bones are boiled and cooked in the midst of her.


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


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


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


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


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and that <i>it</i> may stand upon the coals, that her brass may be thoroughly heated, and be melted in the midst of her filthiness, and her scum may be consumed,


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Her scum shall become shameful, because you did defile yourself: and what if you shall be purged no more until I have accomplished my wrath?


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


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


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You shall groan for blood, and have mourning upon your loins; your hair shall not be braided upon you, and your sandals <i>shall be</i> on your feet; you shall in no wise be comforted by their lips, and you shall not eat the bread of men.


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


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Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord; Behold, I <i>will</i> profane my sanctuary, the boast of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and for which your souls are concerned; and your sons and your daughters, whom you° have left, shall fall by the sword.


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


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And your hair <i>shall be</i> upon your head, and your shoes on your feet: neither shall you° at all lament or weep; but you° shall pine away in your iniquities, and shall comfort every one his brother.


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


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


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


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


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therefore, behold, I <i>will</i> deliver you to the children of Kedem for an inheritance, and they shall lodge in you with their stuff, and they shall pitch their tents in you: they shall eat your fruits, and they shall drink your milk.


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


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


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


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Thus says the Lord; Because Moab has said, Behold, are not the house of Israel and Juda like all the <i>other</i> nations?


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Therefore, behold, I will weaken the shoulder of Moab from his frontier cities, <i>even</i> the choice land, the house of Bethasimuth above the fountain of the city, by the sea-side.


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


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Thus says the Lord; Because of what the Idumeans have done in taking vengeance on the house of Juda, and <i>because they</i> have remembered injuries, and have exacted full recompense;


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therefore thus says the Lord; I will also stretch out my hand upon Idumea, and will utterly destroy out of it man and beast; and will make it desolate; and they that are pursued out of Thaeman shall fall by the sword.


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


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Therefore thus says the Lord, Because the Philistines have wrought revengefully, and raised up vengeance rejoicing from their heart to destroy <i>the Israelites</i> to a man;


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therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I <i>will</i> stretch out my hand upon the Philistines, and will utterly destroy the Cretans, and will cut off the remnant that dwell by the sea-coast.


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And I will execute great vengeance upon them; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have brought my vengeance upon them.<pb/>


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And it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first <i>day</i> of the month, <i>that</i> the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


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


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


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


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She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for repairing nets: for I have spoken <i>it</i>, says the Lord: and it shall be a spoil for the nations.


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And her daughters <i>which are</i> in the field shall be slain with the sword, and they shall know that I am the Lord.


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For thus says the Lord; Behold, I <i>will</i> bring up against you, O Sor, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon from the north: he is a king of kings, with horses, and chariots, and horsemen, and a concourse of very many nations.


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


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


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


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


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


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And I will make you a bare rock: you shall be a place to spread nets upon; you shall be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken <i>it</i>, says the Lord.


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


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And all the princes of the nations of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and shall take off their crowns from their heads, and shall take off their embroidered raiment: they shall be utterly amazed; they shall sit upon the ground, and fear their <i>own</i> destruction, and shall groan over you.


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


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


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


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


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


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They made your oars <i>of wood</i> out of the land of Basan; your sacred utensils they made of ivory, your shady houses of wood from the isles of Chetiim.


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


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


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


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Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in your army: your warriors hung in you shields and helmets; these gave <i>you</i> your glory.


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


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


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


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The sons of the Rhodians were your merchants; from the islands they multiplied your merchandise, <i>even</i> elephants' teeth: and to them that came in you did return your prices,


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<i>even</i> men <i>as</i> your merchandise, from the multitude of your trading <i>population</i>, myrrh and embroidered works from Tharsis: Ramoth also and Chorchor furnished your market.


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Juda and the children of Israel, these were your merchants; in the sale of corn and ointments and cassia: and they gave the best honey, and oil, and resin, to your trading <i>population</i>.


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<i>The people of</i> Damascus were your merchants by reason of the abundance of all your power; wine out of Chelbon, and wool from Miletus; and they brought wine into your market.


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Out of Asel <i>came</i> wrought iron, and there is the sound of wheels amongst your trading <i>population</i>.


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Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, these were your traders with you, <i>bringing</i> camels, and lambs, and rams, in which they trade with you.


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The merchants of Sabba and Ramma, these were your merchants, with choice spices, and precious stones: and they brought gold to your market.


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Ships were your merchants, in abundance, with your trading <i>population</i>: and you were filled and very heavily loaded in the heart of the sea.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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Merchants from the nations have hissed at you; you are utterly destroyed, and shall not be any more for ever.<pb/>


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


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Hast you gained power for yourself by your <i>own</i> knowledge or your <i>own</i> prudence, and <i>gotten</i> gold and silver in your treasures?


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


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


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


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


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


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


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From the day that you were created you <i>were</i> with the cherub: I set you on the holy mount of God; you were in the midst of the stones of fire.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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Yes, they shall dwell upon it safely, and they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and dwell securely, when I shall execute judgement on all that have dishonoured them, <i>even</i> on those <i>that are</i> round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God, and the God of their fathers.<pb/>


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In the twelfth year, in the tenth month, on the first <i>day</i> of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


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Son of man, set your face against Pharao king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against the whole of Egypt:


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


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


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


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


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When they took hold of you with their hand, you did break: and when every hand was clapped against them, and when they leaned on you, you were utterly broken, and did crush the loins of them all.


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Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I <i>will</i> bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you man and beast;


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


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


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


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And I will cause her land to be utterly destroyed in the midst of a land that is desolate, and her cities shall be <i>desolate</i> forty years in the midst of cities that are desolate: and I will disperse Egypt amongst the nations, and will utterly scatter them into the countries.


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and I will turn the captivity of the Egyptians, and will cause them to dwell in the land of Phathore, in the land whence they were taken;


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and it shall be a base kingdom beyond all <i>other</i> kingdoms; it shall not any more be exalted over the nations; and I will make them few in number, that they may not be <i>great</i> amongst the nations.


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


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And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, on the first <i>day</i> of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


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Son of man, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre; every head was bald, and every shoulder peeled; yet there was no reward to him or to his army <i>serving</i> against Tyre, nor for the service wherewith they served against it.


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Thus says the Lord God; Behold, I <i>will</i> give to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon the land of Egypt, and he shall take the plunder thereof, and seize the spoils thereof; and <i>it</i> shall be a reward for his army.


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


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


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And the sword shall come upon the Egyptians, and there shall be tumult in Ethiopia, and in Egypt <i>men</i> shall fall down slain together, and her foundations shall fall.


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


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


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And it shall be made desolate in the midst of desolate countries, and their cities shall be <i>desolate</i> in the midst of desolate cities:


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and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall send fire upon Egypt, and <i>when</i> all that help her shall be broken.


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


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


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his <i>hand</i> and his people's; <i>they are</i> plagues sent forth from the nations to destroy the land: and they all shall unsheath their swords against Egypt, and the land shall be filled with slain.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh <i>day</i> of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


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


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


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


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


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Yes, I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharao shall fail: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have put my sword into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out over the land of Egypt.


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And I will disperse the Egyptians amongst the nations, and utterly scatter them amongst the countries; and they all shall know that I am the Lord.<pb/>


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And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first <i>day</i> of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And such cypresses <i>as this</i> were in the paradise of God; and there were no pines like his shoots, and there were no firs like his branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty,


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


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


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


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


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


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Thus says the Lord God; In the day wherein he went down to Hades, the deep mourned for him: and I stayed her floods, and restrained her abundance of water: and Libanus saddened for him, all the trees of the field fainted for him.


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At the sound of his fall the nations quaked, when I brought him down to Hades with them that go down to the pit: and all the trees of Delight comforted him in the heart, and the choice of <i>plants</i> of Libanus, all that drink water.


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For they went down to hell with him amongst the slain with the sword; and his seed, <i>even</i> they that lived under his shadow, perished in the midst of their life.


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To whom are you compared? descend, and be you debased with the trees of paradise to the depth of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword. Thus shall Pharao be, and the multitude of his host, says the Lord God.<pb/>


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And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the tenth month, on the first <i>day</i> of the month, <i>that</i> the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


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Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharao king of Egypt, and say to him, You are become like a lion of the nations, and as a serpent that is in the sea: and you did make assaults with your rivers, and did disturb the water with your feet, and did trample your rivers.


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


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and I will stretch you upon the earth: the fields shall be covered <i>with you</i>, and I will cause all the birds of the sky to settle upon you, and I will fill <i>with you</i> all the wild beasts of the earth.


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


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


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


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


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And many nations shall mourn over you, and their kings shall be utterly amazed, when my sword flies in their faces, as they wait for their <i>own</i> fall from the day of your fall.


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


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And I will destroy all her cattle from <i>beside</i> the great water; and the foot of man shall not trouble it any more, and the step of cattle shall no more trample it.


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


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


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And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the first month, on the fifteenth <i>day</i> of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


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They shall fall with him in the midst of them <i>that are</i> slain with the sword, and all his strength shall perish: the giants also shall say to you,


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Be you in the depth of the pit: to whom are you superior? yes, go down, and lie with the uncircumcised, in the midst of them <i>that are</i> slain with the sword.


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and their burial is in the depth of the pit, and his company are set around about his tomb: all the slain that fell by the sword, who had caused the fear of them <i>to be</i> upon the land of the living.


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


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


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


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


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There are the princes of the north, <i>even</i> all the captains of Assur, who go down slain <i>to Hades</i>: they lie uncircumcised amongst the slain with the sword together with their terror and their strength, and they have received their punishment with them that go down to the pit.


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


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


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


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and he that hears the sound of the trumpet shall hear <i>indeed</i>, and <i>yet</i> not take heed, and the sword shall come upon him, and overtake him, his blood shall be upon his <i>own</i> head.


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


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But if the watchman see the sword coming, and do not sound the trumpet, and the people do not watch; and the sword come, and take a soul from amongst them, that <i>soul</i> is taken because of its iniquity; but the blood <i>thereof</i> will I require at the watchman's hand.


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And you, son of man, I have set you <i>as</i> a watchman to the house of Israel, and you shall hear a word from my mouth.


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


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


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


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


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Say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him, in the day wherein he errs: and the iniquity of the ungodly shall not harm him, in the day wherein he turns from his iniquity, but the righteous <i>erring</i> shall not be able to deliver himself.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And this is that which you° said, The way of the Lord is <i>not</i> straight. I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one for his ways.


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And it came to pass in the tenth year of our captivity, in the twelfth month, on the fifth <i>day</i> of the month, <i>that</i> one that had escaped from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city is taken.


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


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Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God, <i>As</i> I live, surely they that are in the desolate places shall fall by swords and they that are in the open plain shall be given for food to the wild beasts of the field, and them that are in the fortified <i>cities</i> and them that are in the caves I will kill with pestilence.


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


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


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


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They approach you as a people comes together, and sit before you, and hear your words, but they will not do them: for <i>there is</i> falsehood in their mouth, and their heart <i>goes</i> after their pollutions.


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


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But whenever it shall come <i>to pass</i>, they will say, Behold, it is come: and they shall know that there was a prophet in the midst of them.<pb/>


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


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Behold, you° feed on the milk, and clothe yourselves with the wool, and kill the fat: but you° feed not my sheep.


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


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


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


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<i>As</i> I live, says the Lord God, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became meat to all the wild beasts of the field, because there were no shepherds, and the shepherds sought not out my sheep, and the shepherds fed themselves, but fed not my sheep.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And <i>as for</i> you, you° sheep, thus says the Lord God, Behold, I will distinguish between sheep and sheep, <i>between</i> rams and he-goats.


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And <i>is it</i> not enough for you that you° fed on the good pasture, that you° trampled with your feet the remnant of your pasture? and <i>that</i> you° drank the standing water, <i>that</i> you° disturbed the residue with your feet?


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


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


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


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Therefore I will save my sheep, and they shall not be any more for a prey; and will judge between ram and ram.


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And I will raise up one shepherd over them, and he shall tend them, <i>even</i> my servant David, and he shall be their shepherd;


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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therefore, <i>as</i> I live, says the Lord, I will even deal with you according to your enmity, and I will be made known to you when I shall judge you:


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


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You shall be desert, O mount Seir, and all Idumea; and it shall be utterly consumed: and you shall know that I am the Lord their God.<pb/>


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


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


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


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therefore, you° mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; Thus says the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the streams, and to the valleys, and to <i>the places</i> that have been made desolate and destroyed, and to the cities that have been deserted, and have become a spoil and a trampling to the nations that were left round about;


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therefore, thus says the Lord; Verily in the fire of my wrath have I spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Idumea, because they have appropriated my land to themselves for a possession with joy, disregarding the lives <i>of the inhabitants</i>, to destroy <i>it</i> by plunder:


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


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


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


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and I will multiply men upon you, <i>even</i> all the house of Israel to the end: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the desolate land shall be built upon.


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And I will multiply men and cattle upon you; and I will cause you to dwell as at the beginning, and will treat you well, as in your former <i>times</i>: and you° shall know that I am the Lord.


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And I will increase men upon you, <i>even</i> my people Israel; and they shall inherit you, and you° shall be to them for a possession; and you° shall no more be bereaved of them.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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But I spared them for the sake of my holy name, which the house of Israel profaned amongst the nations, amongst whom they went.


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


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


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


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


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


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And I will put my Spirit in you, and will cause you to walk in my ordinances, and to keep my judgements, and do <i>them</i>.


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


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


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


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


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Not for your sakes do I <i>this</i>, says the Lord God, <i>as</i> it is known to you: be you° ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.


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Thus says the Lord God; In the day wherein I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities I will also cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste <i>places</i> shall be built upon:


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


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


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And the nations, as many as shall have been left round about you, shall know that I the Lord have built the ruined <i>cities</i> and planted the waste <i>lands</i>: I the Lord have spoken, and will do <i>it</i>.


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Thus says the Lord God; Yet <i>for</i> this will I be sought by the house of Israel, to establish them; I will multiply them <i>even</i> men as sheep;


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as holy sheep, as the sheep of Jerusalem in her feasts; thus shall the desert cities be full of flocks of men: and they shall know that I <i>am</i> the Lord.<pb/>


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


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And he led me round about them every way: and, behold, <i>there were</i> very many on the face of the plain, very dry.


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


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


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So I prophesied as <i>the Lord</i> commanded me: and it came to pass while I was prophesying, that, behold, <i>there was</i> a shaking, and the bones approached each one to his joint.


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


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And he said to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus says the Lord; Come from the four winds, and breathe upon these dead <i>men</i>, and let them live.


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


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


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Therefore prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord; Behold, I <i>will</i> open your tombs, and will bring you up out of your tombs, 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, that I may bring up my people from <i>their</i> graves.


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And I will put my Spirit within you, and you° shall live, and I will place you upon your own land: and you° shall know that I <i>am</i> the Lord; I have spoken, and will do <i>it</i>, says the Lord.


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


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


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


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


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And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord God; Behold, I <i>will</i> take the whole house of Israel out of the midst of the nations, amongst whom they have gone, and I will gather them from all that are round about them, and I will bring them into the land of Israel.


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And I will make them a nation in my land, even on the mountains of Israel; and they shall have one prince: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided any more at all into two kingdoms:


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


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And my servant David <i>shall be</i> a prince in the midst of them: there shall be one shepherd of <i>them</i> all; for they shall walk in my ordinances, and keep my judgements, and do them.


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And they shall dwell in their land, which I have given to my servant Jacob, where their fathers lived; and they shall dwell upon it: and David my servant <i>shall be their</i> prince forever.


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


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Son of man, set your face against Gog, and the land of Magog, Rhos, prince of Mesoch and Thobel, and prophesy against him,


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


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


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


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He shall be prepared after many days, and he shall come at the end of years, and shall come to a land that is brought back from the sword, when <i>the people</i> are gathered from many nations against the land of Israel, which was entirely desolate: and he is come forth out of the nations, and they shall all dwell securely.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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Thus says the Lord God, to Gog; You are <i>he</i> concerning whom I spoke in former times, by the hand of my servants the prophets of Israel, in those days and years, that I would bring you up against them.


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


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<i>that</i> my wrath and my jealousy shall arise, I have spoken in the fire of my anger, verily in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;


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


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And I will summon against it even every fear, says the Lord: the sword of <i>every</i> man shall be against his brother.


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


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


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And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord; Behold, I am against you, O Gog, Rhos prince of Mesoch and Thobel:


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


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


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


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


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And my holy name shall be known in the midst of my people Israel; and my holy name shall no more be profaned: and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy <i>One</i> in Israel.


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


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


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


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


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


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Yes, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a <i>place</i> of renown in the day wherein it was glorified, says the Lord.


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


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


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


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


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


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And you° shall be filled at my table, <i>eating</i> horse, and rider, and mighty man, and every warrior, says the Lord.


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And I will set my glory amongst you, and all the nations shall see my judgement which I have wrought, and my hand which I have brought upon them.


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And all the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity because of their sins, because they rebelled against me, and I turned away my face from them, and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.


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


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


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And they shall bear their reproach, and the iniquity which they committed when they lived upon their land in peace. Yet there shall be none to terrify <i>them</i>


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And behold a wall round about the house without, and in the man's hand a reed, the measure <i>of it was</i> six cubits by the cubit, and a span: and he measured across the front wall; the breadth was equal to the reed, and the length of it equal to the reed.


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


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


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And the porch of the gateway (near the porch of the gate) eight cubits; and the posts there of two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward:


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and the chambers of the gate of the chamber in front <i>were</i> three on one side and three on the other, and <i>there was</i> one measure to the three: <i>there was</i> one measure to the porches on this side and on that.


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


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


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


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And the open space of the porch of the gate without, was twenty cubits to the chambers round about the gate.


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And the open space of the gate without to the open space of the porch of the gate within was fifty cubits.


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And <i>there were</i> secret windows to the chambers, and to the porches within the gate of the court round about, and in the same manner windows to the porches round about within: and on the porch <i>there were</i> palm-trees on this side and on that side.


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


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


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And he measured the breadth of the court, from the open space of the outer gate inwards to the open space of the gate looking outwards: a hundred cubits <i>was the distance to the place</i> of the gate looking eastward: and he brought me to the north;


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and behold a gate looking northwards <i>belonging to</i> the outer court, and he measured it, both the length of it and the breadth;


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


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


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And <i>there was</i> a gate to the inner court looking towards the north gate, after the manner of the gate looking towards the east; and he measured the court from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.


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


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


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And it had seven steps, and porches within: and it <i>had</i> palm-trees on the posts, one on one side, and one on the other side.


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And <i>there was</i> a gate opposite the gate of the inner court southward: and he measured the court from gate to gate, a hundred cubits in breadth southward.


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


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and the porches, according to these measures: and <i>there were</i> windows to it and to the porches round about: its length was fifty cubits, and <i>its</i> breadth twenty-five cubits,


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from the porch to the outer court: and <i>there were</i> palm-trees to the post <i>thereof</i>, and eight steps.


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


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


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And <i>there were</i> porches <i>opening</i> into the inner court, and palm-trees on the posts on this side and on that side: and it <i>had</i> eight steps.


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and the chambers, and the posts, and the porches: and it <i>had</i> windows round about, and <i>it had</i> its porches: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.


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And its porches were towards the inner court; and <i>there were</i> palm-trees to the posts on this side and on that side: and it <i>had</i> eight steps.


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And behind the drain for the whole burnt offerings at the north <i>gate</i>, two tables eastward behind the second gate; and <i>behind</i> the porch of the gate two tables eastward.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And he measured the court, the length <i>whereof was</i> a hundred cubits, and the breadth a hundred cubits, on its four sides; and the altar in front of the house.


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And he brought me into the porch of the house; and he measured the post of the porch, the breadth was five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other side; and the breadth of the door <i>was</i> fourteen cubits, and the side-pieces of the door of the porch <i>were</i> three cubits on one side, and three cubits on the other side.


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


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


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And the breadth of the gateway was ten cubits, and the side-pieces of the gateway were five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and he measured the length of it, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.


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


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


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And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits: and the breadth of <i>each</i> side, four cubits round about.


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


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


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And as for the height of the house round about, <i>each</i> space between the sides was equal to a reed of six cubits;


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


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And the doors of the chambers were towards the space left by the one door that looked northward, and <i>there was</i> one door southward; and the breadth of the remaining open space <i>was</i> five cubits in extent round about.


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And the partition <i>wall</i> in front of the remaining space, towards the west, was seventy cubits in breadth; the breadth of the partition wall was five cubits round about, and the length of it ninety cubits.


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


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And the breadth in front of the house, and the remaining <i>spaces</i> before <i>it were</i> a hundred cubits.


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


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And the windows were latticed, <i>giving</i> light round about to the three <i>storeys</i>, so as to look through: and the house and the parts adjoining were planked round about, and <i>so was</i> the floor, and from the floor up to the windows, and the window <i>shutters</i> folded back in three parts for one to look through.


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And almost all the way to the inner, and close to the outer <i>side</i>, and upon all the wall round about within and without,


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were carved cherubs and palm-trees between the cherubs, <i>and each</i> cherub <i>had</i> two faces.


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


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


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


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And the temple <i>had</i> two doors, and the sanctuary <i>had</i> two doors, with two turning leaves <i>apiece</i>;


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And <i>there was</i> carved work upon them, and cherubs on the doors of the temple, and palm-trees according to the carving of the sanctuary; and <i>there were</i> stout planks in front of the porch without.


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


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ornamented accordingly as the gates of the inner court, and arranged accordingly as the peristyles of the outer court, <i>with</i> triple porticos fronting one another.


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


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And the upper walks were in like manner: for the peristyle projected from it, <i>even</i> from the range of columns below, and <i>there was</i> a space between; so <i>were there</i> a peristyle and a space between, and so <i>were there</i> two porticos.


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


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And <i>there was</i> light without, corresponding to the chambers of the outer court looking towards the front of the northern chambers; the length <i>of them was</i> fifty cubits.


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


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And <i>there were</i> doors of these chambers for an outlet towards the east, so that one should go through them out of the outer court,


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by the opening of the walk at the corner; and the south parts were towards the south, towards the remaining space, and towards the partition, and <i>so were</i> the chambers.


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


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<i>So were the measures</i> of the chambers towards the south, and according to the doors at the entrance of the walk, as it were the distance of a reed for light, and eastward as one went in by them.


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


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


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


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And he stood behind the gate looking eastward, and measured five hundred <i>cubits</i> with the measuring reed.


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And he turned to the north and measured in front of the north <i>side</i> five hundred cubits with the measuring reed.


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And he turned to the west, and measured in front of the west side, five hundred <i>cubits</i> with the measuring reed.


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And he turned to the south, and measured in front of the south side, five hundred <i>cubits</i> by the measuring reed.


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


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


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


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


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And I stood, and behold <i>there was</i> a voice out of the house of one speaking to me, and a man stood near me,


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and he said to me, Son of man, you have seen the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, in which my name shall dwell in the midst of the house of Israel for ever; and the house of Israel shall no more profane my holy name, they and their princes, by their fornication, or by the murders of <i>their</i> princes in the midst of them;


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when they set my door-way by their door-way, and my thresholds near to their thresholds: and they made my wall as it were joining myself and them, and they profaned my holy name with their iniquities which they wrought: and I destroyed them in my wrath and with slaughter.


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


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


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And they shall bear their punishment for all the things that they have done: and you shall describe the house, and its entrances, and the plan thereof, and all its ordinances, and you shall make known to them all the regulations of it, and describe <i>them</i> before them: and they shall keep all my commandments, and all my ordinances, and do them.


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And you shall show the plan of the house on the top of the mountain: all its limits round about <i>shall be</i> most holy.


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


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


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And the altar <i>shall be</i> of the length of twelve cubits, by twelve cubits <i>in breadth</i>, square upon its four sides.


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


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


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And you shall appoint to the priests the Levites of the seed of Sadduc, that draw near to me, says the Lord God, to minister to me, a calf of the herd for a sin-offering.


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


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


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


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


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And you° shall offer <i>them</i> before the Lord, and the priests shall sprinkle salt upon them, and shall offer them up <i>as</i> whole burnt offerings to the Lord.


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


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


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


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


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


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And you shall say to the provoking house, <i>even</i> to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God; Let it suffice you <i>to have committed</i> all your iniquities, O house of Israel!


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


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


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


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yet they shall minister in my sanctuary, <i>being</i> porters at the gates of the house, and serving the house: they shall kill the victims and the whole burnt offerings for the people, and they shall stand before the people to minister to them.


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


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And they shall not draw near to me to minister to me in the priests' office, nor to approach the holy things of the children of Israel, nor <i>to approach</i> my holy of holies: but they shall bear their reproach for the error wherein they erred.


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


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


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These shall enter into my sanctuary, and these shall approach my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charges.


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And it shall come to pass when they enter the gates of the inner court, <i>that</i> they shall put on linen robes; and they shall not put on woollen garments when they minister at the gate of the inner court.


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


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


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


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Neither shall they take to themselves to wife a widow, or one that is put away, but a virgin of the seed of Israel: but if there should happen to be a priest's widow, they shall take <i>her</i>.


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And they shall teach my people <i>to distinguish</i> between holy and profane, and they shall make known to them <i>the difference</i> between unclean and clean.


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And these shall attend at a judgement of blood to decide it: they shall rightly observe my ordinances, and judge my judgements, and keep my statutes and my commandments in all my feasts; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.


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And they shall not go in to the dead body of a man to defile themselves: only <i>a priest</i> may defile himself for a father, or for a mother, or for a son, or for a daughter, or for a brother, or for his sister, who has not been married.


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


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


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


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<i>And</i> the first fruits of all things, and the firstborn of all <i>animals</i> and all offerings, of all your first fruits there shall be <i>a share</i> for the priests; and you° shall give your earliest produce to the priest, to bring your blessings upon your houses.


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And when you° measure the land for inheritance, you° shall set apart first fruits to the Lord, a holy space of the land, in length twenty and five thousand <i>reeds</i>, and in breadth twenty thousand; it shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.


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


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And out of this measurement shall you measure the length five and twenty thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand: and in it shall be the holy of holies.


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


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the length <i>shall be</i> twenty-five thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand: and the Levites that attend the house, they shall have cities to dwell in for a possession.


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And you° shall appoint <i>for</i> the possession of the city five thousand in breadth, and in length twenty-five thousand: after the manner of the first fruits of the holy portion, they shall be for all the house of Israel.


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And the prince <i>shall have a portion</i> out of this, and out of this <i>there shall be a portion</i> for the first fruits of the sanctuary, <i>and</i> for the possession of the city, in front of the first fruits of the sanctuary, and in front of the possession of the city westward, and from the western parts eastward: and the length <i>shall be</i> equal to one of the parts of the western borders, and the length <i>shall be</i> to the eastern borders of the land.


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


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


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And in like manner there shall be one choenix as a measure of capacity; the tenth of the homer <i>shall be</i> the choenix, and the tenth of the homer shall be in fair proportion to the homer.


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And the weights <i>shall be</i> twenty oboli, your pound shall be five shekels, fifteen shekels and fifty shekels.


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And these are the first fruits which you° shall offer; a sixth part of a homer of wheat, and the sixth part of it <i>shall consist</i> of an ephah of a core of barley.


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And <i>you° shall give as</i> the appointed measure of oil one bath of oil out of ten baths; for ten baths are a homer.


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


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And through the prince shall be <i>offered</i> the whole burnt offerings and the meat-offerings, and the drink-offerings in the feasts, and at the new moons, and on the sabbaths; and in all the feasts of the house of Israel: he shall offer the sin-offerings, and the meat-offering, and the whole burnt offerings, and the peace-offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.


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Thus says the Lord God; In the first month, on the first <i>day</i> of the month, you° shall take a calf without blemish out of the herd, to make atonement for the holy place.


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


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And thus shall you do in the seventh month; on the first <i>day</i> of the month you shall take a rate from each one; and you° shall make atonement for the house.


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And in the first <i>month</i>, on the fourteenth <i>day</i> of the month, you° shall have the feast of the passover; seven days shall you° eat unleavened bread.


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


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


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And in the seventh month, on the fifteenth <i>day</i> of the month, you shall sacrifice in the feast in the same way seven days, as <i>they sacrificed</i> the sin-offerings, and the whole burnt offerings, and the free will offering, and the oil.<pb/>


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Thus says the Lord God; The gate that is in the inner court, that looks eastward, shall be shut the six working days; <i>but</i> let it be opened on the sabbath-day, and it shall be opened on the day of the new moon.


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


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


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


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


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


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and a meat-offering for the ram, and there shall be a meat-offering for the calf as a free will offering, and for the lambs, according as his hand can furnish, and <i>there shall be</i> a hin of oil for the cake.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And he shall prepare a free will offering for it in the morning, the sixth part of a measure <i>of flour</i>, and a third part of a hin of oil to mix <i>therewith</i> the fine flour, <i>as</i> a free will offering to the Lord, a perpetual ordinance.


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You° shall prepare the lamb, and the free will offering, and the oil in the morning, <i>for</i> a perpetual whole burnt sacrifice.


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Thus says the Lord God; If the prince shall give a gift to one of his sons out of his inheritance, this shall be to his sons a possession <i>as</i> an inheritance.


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


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And the prince shall by no means take of the inheritance of the people, to oppress them: he shall give an inheritance to his sons out of his <i>own</i> possession: that my people be not scattered, every one from his possession.


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And he brought me into the entrance of the <i>place</i> behind the gate, into the chamber of the sanctuary belonging to the priests, that looks towards the north: and, behold, there was a place set apart.


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


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And he brought me into the outer court, and led me round upon the four sides of the court; and, behold, there was a court on <i>each of</i> the sides of the court,


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


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And <i>there were</i> chambers in them round about, round about the four, and cooking-places formed under the chambers round about.


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


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


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


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


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and he passed through the water; <i>it was</i> water of a fountain: and <i>again</i> he measured a thousand, and passed through the water; and the water was up to the thighs: and <i>again</i> he measured a thousand; and he passed through water up to the loins.


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and <i>again</i> he measured a thousand; and he could not pass through: for <i>the water</i> rose as of a torrent which <i>men</i> can’t pass over.


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And he said to me, Hast you seen <i>this</i>, son of man? Then he brought me, and led me back to the brink of the river


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as I returned; and, behold, on the brink of the river <i>there were</i> very many trees on this side and on that side.


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


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


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And fishers shall stand there from Ingadin to Enagallim; it shall be a place to spread out nets upon; it shall be distinct; and the fishes thereof <i>shall be</i> as the fishes of the great sea, a very great multitude.


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


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And every fruit tree shall grow by the river, <i>even</i> on the bank of it on this side and on that side: they shall not decay upon it, neither shall their fruit fail: they shall bring forth the first-fruit of their early crop, for these their waters come forth of the sanctuary: and their fruit shall be for meat, and their foliage for health.


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Thus says the Lord God; You° shall inherit these borders of the land; <i>they are</i> given by lot to the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.


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And you° shall inherit it, each according to his brother's portion, <i>even the land</i> concerning which I lifted up my hand to give <i>it</i> to your fathers: and this land shall fall to you by lot.


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


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Maabthera, Ebrameliam, between the coasts of Damascus and the coasts of Emathi, the habitation of Saunan, which <i>places</i> are above the coasts of Auranitis.


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These are the borders from the sea, from the habitations of Aenan, the coasts of Damascus, and the northern <i>coasts</i>.


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And the eastern coasts between Loranitis, and Damascus, and the land of Galaad, and the land of Israel, the Jordan divides to the sea that is east of the city of palm-trees. These are the eastern <i>coasts</i>.


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And the southern and south-western <i>coasts are</i> from Thaeman and the city of palm-trees, to the water of Marimoth Cadem, reaching forth to the great sea. This part is the south and southwest.


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This part of the great sea forms a border, till <i>one comes</i> opposite the entrance of Emath, <i>even</i> as far as the entrance thereof. These are the parts west of Emath.


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You° shall cast the lot upon it, for yourselves and the strangers that sojourn in the midst of you, who have begotten children in the midst of you: and they shall be to you as natives amongst the children of Israel; they shall eat with you in <i>their</i> inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel.


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And they shall be in the tribe of proselytes amongst the proselytes that are with them: there shall you° give them an inheritance, says the Lord God.<pb/>


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And these are the names of the tribes from the northern corner, on the side of the descent that draws a line to the entrance of Emath the palace of Aelam, the border of Damascus northward on the side of Emath the palace; and they shall have the eastern parts as far as the sea, for Dan, one <i>portion</i>.


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And from the borders of Asser, from the eastern parts as far as the west coasts, for Nephthalim, one.


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


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And from the borders of Juda, from the eastern parts shall be the offering of first fruits, in the breadth twenty-five thousand <i>reeds</i>, and in length as one of the portions <i>measured</i> from the east even to the western parts: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of them.


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<i>As for</i> the first fruits which they shall offer to the Lord, <i>it shall be</i> in length twenty-five thousand, and in breadth twenty-five thousand.


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Out of this shall be the first fruits of the holy things to the priests, northward, five and twenty-thousand, and towards the west, ten thousand, and southward, five and twenty thousand: and the mountain of the sanctuary, shall be in the midst of it,


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


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And the first fruits shall be given to them out of the first fruits of the land, <i>even</i> a most holy portion from the borders of the Levites.


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


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No <i>part</i> of it shall be sold, nor measured <i>as for sale</i>, neither shall the first fruits of the land be taken away: for they are holy to the Lord.


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But <i>concerning</i> the five thousand that remain in the breadth in the five and twenty thousand, they shall be a suburb to the city for dwelling, and for a space before it: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.


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And these <i>shall be</i> its dimensions; from the northern side four thousand and five hundred, and from the southern side four thousand and five hundred, and from the eastern side four thousand and five hundred, and from the western side <i>they shall measure</i> four thousand and five hundred.


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


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And the remainder of the length that is next to the first fruits of the holy <i>portion shall be</i> ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and they shall be the first fruits of the sanctuary; and the fruits thereof shall be for bread to them that labour for the city.


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The whole offering <i>shall be</i> a square of twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you° shall separate <i>again part</i> of it, the first fruits of the sanctuary, from the possession of the city.


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


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And there shall be <i>a portion taken</i> from the Levites, from the possession of the city in the midst of the princes between the borders of Juda and the borders of Benjamin, and it shall be <i>the portion</i> of the princes.


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And <i>as for</i> the rest of the tribes, from the eastern parts as far as the western, Benjamin <i>shall have</i> one <i>portion</i>.


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And from the borders of Gad, from the eastern parts to the south-western parts; his coasts shall even be from Thaeman, and the water of Barimoth Cades, for an inheritance, to the great sea.


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


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And the gates of the city <i>shall be</i> after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; the gate of Ruben, one, and the gate of Juda, one, and the gate of Levi, one.


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


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


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And westward, four thousand and five hundred by measure: <i>and</i> three gates; the gate of Gad, one, and the gate of Asser, one, and the gate of Nephthalim, one.


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The circumference, eighteen thousand <i>measures</i>: and the name of the city, from the day that it shall be finished, shall be the name thereof.


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In the third year of the reign of Joakim king of Juda, came Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and besieged it.


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And the Lord gave into his hand Joakim king of Juda, and part of the vessels of the house of God: and he brought them into the land of Sennaar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure-house of his god.


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And the king told Asphanez his chief eunuch, to bring in some of the captive children of Israel, and of the seed of the kingdom, and of the princes;


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


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


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And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: to Daniel, Baltasar; and to Ananias, Sedrach; and to Misael, Misach; and to Azarias, Abdenago.


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


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


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And Daniel said to Amelsad, whom the chief of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Ananias, Misael, <i>and</i> Azarias.


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Prove now your servants ten days; and let them give us pulse, and let us eat, and let us drink water:


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


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


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And <i>as for</i> these four children, God gave them understanding and prudence in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.


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And at the end of the days, <i>after</i> which the king had given orders to bring them in, then the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nabuchodonosor.


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


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


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In the second year of <i>his</i> reign Nabuchodonosor dreamt a dream, and his spirit was amazed, and his sleep departed from him.


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


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And the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, <i>saying</i>, O king, live for ever: do you tell the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation.


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


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But if you° make known to me the dream, and the interpretation thereof, you° shall receive of me gifts and presents and much honour: only tell me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.


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


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


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


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


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


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So the decree went forth, and they began to kill the wise men; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to kill <i>them</i>.


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Then Daniel answered <i>with</i> counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the royal guard, who was gone forth to kill the wise men of Babylon; <i>saying</i>,


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Chief magistrate of the king, therefore has the preemptory command proceeded from the king? So Arioch made known the matter to Daniel.


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And Daniel entreated the king to give him time, and that he might <i>thus</i> declare to the king the interpretation of it.


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So Daniel went into his house, and made known the matter to Ananias, and Misael, and Azarias, his friends.


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


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


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


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And he changes times and seasons: he appoints kings, and removes <i>them</i>, giving wisdom to the wise, and prudence to them that have understanding:


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I give thanks to you, and praise <i>you</i>, O God of my fathers, for you have given me wisdom and power, and has made known to me the things which we asked of you; and you have made known to me the king's vision.


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


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


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And the king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Baltasar, Canst you declare to me the dream which I saw, and the interpretation thereof?


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And Daniel answered before the king, and said, The mystery which the king asks <i>the explanation of</i> is not <i>in the power</i> of the wise men, magicians, enchanters, <i>or</i> soothsayers to declare to the king.


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But there is a God in heaven revealing mysteries, and he has made known to king Nabuchodonosor what things must come to pass in the last days. Your dream, and the visions of your head upon your bed, are as follows,


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O king: your thoughts upon your bed arose <i>as to</i> what must come to pass hereafter: and he that reveals mysteries has made known to you what must come to pass.


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


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You, O king, saw, and behold an image: that image was great, and the appearance of it excellent, standing before your face; and the form of it was terrible.


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<i>It was</i> an image, the head of which was of fine gold, its hands and breast and arms of silver, <i>its</i> belly and thighs of brass,


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And <i>whereas</i> the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of earthenware, part of the kingdom shall be strong, and <i>part</i> of it shall be broken.


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


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And in the days of those kings the God of heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed: and his kingdom shall not be left to another people, <i>but</i> it shall beat to pieces and grind to powder all <i>other</i> kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.


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


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


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


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


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And Daniel asked of the king, and he appointed Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel was in the king's palace.<pb/>


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In <i>his</i> eighteenth year Nabuchodonosor the king made a golden image, its height was sixty cubits, its breadth six cubits: and he set it up in the plain of Deira, in the province of Babylon.


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


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


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


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


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And it came to pass when the nations heard the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, and sackbut, and lute, and all kinds of music, all the nations, tribes, <i>and</i> languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image which king Nabuchodonosor had set up.


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You, O king, has made a decree that every man who shall hear the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, sackbut, and lute, and all kinds of music,


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There are <i>certain</i> Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Sedrach, Misach, <i>and</i> Abdenago, who have not obeyed your decree, O king: they serve not your gods, and worship not the golden image which you have set up.


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Then Nabuchodonosor in wrath and anger commanded to bring Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago: and they were brought before the king.


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And Nabuchodonosor answered and said to them, Is it true, Sedrach, Misach, <i>and</i> Abdenago, that you° serve not my gods, and worship not the golden image which I have set up?


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Now then if you° be ready, whenever you° shall hear the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, and sackbut, and lute, and harmony, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the golden image which I have made; <i>well</i>: but if you° worship not, in the same hour you° shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace; and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand?


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Then answered Sedrach, Misach <i>and</i> Abdenago and said to king Nabuchodonosor, We have no need to answer you concerning this matter.


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For our God whom we serve is in the heavens, able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will rescue us from your hands, O king.


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But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we <i>will</i> not serve your gods, nor worship the image which you have set up.


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Then Nabuchodonosor was filled with wrath, and the form of his countenance was changed towards Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago: and he gave orders to heat the furnace seven times <i>more than usual</i>, until it should burn to the uttermost.


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And he commanded mighty men to bind Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago, and to cast <i>them</i> into the burning fiery furnace.


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Then those men were bound with their coats, and caps, and hose, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace,


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Then these three men, Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago, fell bound into the midst of the burning furnace, and walked in the midst of the flame, singing praise to God, and blessing the Lord.


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And Nabuchodonosor heard them singing praises; and he wondered, and rose up in haste, and said to his nobles, Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? and they said to the king, Yes, O king.


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And the king said, But I see four men loose, and walking in the midst of the fire, and there has no harm happened to them; and the appearance of the fourth is like the Son of God.


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Then Nabuchodonosor drew near to the door of the burning fiery furnace, and said, Sedrach, Misach, <i>and</i> Abdenago, you° servants of the most high God, proceed forth, and come here. So Sedrach, Misach, <i>and</i> Abdenago, came forth out of the midst of the fire.


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Then were assembled the satraps, and captains, and heads of provinces, and the royal princes; and they saw the men, <i>and perceived</i> that the fire had not had power against their bodies, and the hair of their head was not burnt, and their coats were not scorched, nor was the smell of fire upon them.


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And king Nabuchodonosor answered and said, Blessed be the God of Sedrach, Misach, <i>and</i> Abdenago, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants, because they trusted in him; and they have changed the king's word, and delivered their bodies to be burnt, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.


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Therefore I publish a decree: Every people, tribe, <i>or</i> language, that shall speak reproachfully against the God of Sedrach, Misach, <i>and</i> Abdenago shall be destroyed, and their houses shall be plundered: because there is no other God who shall be able to deliver thus.


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Then the king promoted Sedrach, Misach, <i>and</i> Abdenago, in the province of Babylon, and advanced them, and gave them authority to rule over all the Jews who were in his kingdom.<pb/>


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I saw a vision, and it terrified me, and I was troubled on my bed, and the visions of my head troubled me.


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And I made a decree to bring in before me all the wise men of Babylon, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.


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So the enchanters, magicians, soothsayers, <i>and</i> Chaldeans came in: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known to me the interpretation thereof;


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until Daniel came, whose name is Baltasar, according to the name of my God, who has within him the Holy Spirit of God; to whom I said,


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O Baltasar, chief of the enchanters, of whom I know that the Holy Spirit of God is in you, and no mystery is too hard for you, hear the vision of my dream which I had, and tell me the interpretation of it.


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The tree grew large and strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its extent to the extremity of the whole earth:


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its leaves were fair, and its fruit abundant, and in it was meat for all; and under it the wild beasts of the field took shelter, and the birds of the sky lodged in the branches of it, and all flesh was fed of it.


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I [*]saw in the night vision upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven and cried aloud, and thus he said,


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Cut down the tree, and pluck off its branches, and shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the wild beasts be removed from under it, and the birds from its branches.


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Only leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and <i>bind it</i> with an iron and brass band; and it shall lie in the grass that is without and in the dew of heaven, and its portion <i>shall be</i> with the wild beasts in the grass of the field.


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His heart shall be changed from that of man, and the heart of a wild beast shall be given to him; and seven times shall pass over him.


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The matter is by the decree of the watcher, and the demand is a word of the holy ones; that the living may know that the Lord is most high <i>over</i> the kingdom of men, and he will give it to whoever he shall please, and will set up over it that which is set at nothing of men.


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This is the vision which I king Nabuchodonosor saw: and do you, Baltasar, declare the interpretation, for none of the wise men of my kingdom are able to show me the interpretation of it: but you, Daniel, are able; for the Holy Spirit of God is in you.


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Then Daniel, whose name is Baltasar, was amazed about one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. And Baltasar answered and said, <i>My</i> lord, let the dream be to them that hate you, and the interpretation of it to your enemies.


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The tree which you saw, that grew large and strong, whose height reached to the sky and its extent to all the earth;


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and whose leaves were flourishing, and its fruit abundant, (and it was meat for all; under it the wild beasts lodged, and the birds of the sky took shelter in its branches:)


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is yourself, O king; for you are grown great and powerful, and your greatness has increased and reached to heaven, and your dominion to the ends of the earth.


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And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven, and he said, Strip the tree, and destroy it; only leave the stump of its roots in the ground, and <i>bind it</i> with a band of iron and brass; and it shall lie in the grass that is without, and in the dew of heaven, and its portion shall be with wild beasts, until seven times have passed over it;


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this is the interpretation of it, O king, and it is a decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king.


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And they shall drive you forth from men, and your dwelling shall be with wild beasts, and they shall feed you with grass as an ox, and you shall have your lodging under the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over you, until you known that the Most High is Lord of the kingdom of men, and will give it to whom he shall please.


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And whereas they said, Leave the stumps of the roots of the tree; your kingdom abides <i>sure</i> to you from the time that you shall know the power of the heavens.


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Therefore, O king, let my counsel please you, and atone for your sins by alms, and <i>your</i> iniquities by compassion on the poor: it may be God will be longsuffering to your trespasses.


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the king answered and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my power, for the honour of my glory?


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While the word was yet in the king's mouth, there came a voice from heaven, <i>saying</i>, To you, king Nabuchodonosor, they say, The kingdom has departed from you.


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And they <i>shall</i> drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the wild beasts of the field, and they shall feed you with grass as an ox: and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High is Lord of the kingdom of men, and he will give it to whoever he shall please.


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In the same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nabuchodonosor: and he was driven forth from men, and he ate grass as an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until his hairs were grown like lions' <i>hairs</i>, and his nails as birds' <i>claws</i>.


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And at the end of the time I Nabuchodonosor lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised him that lives for ever, and gave <i>him</i> glory; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom <i>lasts</i> to all generations:


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and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and amongst the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none who shall withstand his power, and say to him, What have you done?


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At the same time my reason returned to me, and I came to the honour of my kingdom; and my <i>natural</i> form returned to me, and my princes, and my nobles, sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and more abundant majesty was added to me.


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Baltasar the king made a great supper for his thousand nobles, and <i>there was</i> wine before the thousand.


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And Baltasar drinking gave orders as he tasted the wine that they should bring the gold and silver vessels, which Nabuchodonosor his father had brought forth from the temple in Jerusalem; that the king, and his nobles, and his mistresses, and his concubines, should drink out of them.


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So the gold and silver vessels were brought which <i>Nabuchodonosor</i> had taken out of the temple of God in Jerusalem; and the king, and his nobles, and his mistresses, and his concubines, drank out of them.


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They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of iron, and of wood, and of stone.


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In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote in front of the lamp on the plaster of the wall of the king's house: and the king saw the knuckles of the hand that wrote.


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Then the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one another.


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And the king cried aloud to bring in the magicians, Chaldeans, <i>and</i> soothsayers; and he said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and make known to me the interpretation, shall be clothed with scarlet, and <i>there shall be</i> a golden chain upon his neck, and he shall be the third ruler in my kingdom.


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Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known the interpretation to the king.


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And king Baltasar was troubled, and his countenance changed upon him, and his nobles were troubled with him.


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Then the queen came into the banquet house, and said, O king, live for ever: let not your thoughts trouble you, and let not your countenance be changed.


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There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the Spirit of God; and in the days of your father watchfulness and understanding were found in him; and king Nabuchodonosor your father made him chief of the enchanters, magicians, Chaldeans, <i>and</i> soothsayers.


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For <i>there is</i> an excellent spirit in him, and sense and understanding in him, interpreting dreams <i>as he does</i>, and answering hard <i>questions</i>, and solving difficulties: <i>it is</i> Daniel, and the king gave him the name of Baltasar: now then let him be called, and he shall tell you the interpretation of the writing.


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Then Daniel was brought in before the king: and the king said to Daniel, Are you Daniel, of the children of the captivity of Judea, which the king my father brought?


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I have heard concerning you, that the Spirit of God is in you, and <i>that</i> watchfulness and understanding and excellent wisdom have been found in you.


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And now, the wise men, magicians, <i>and</i> soothsayers, have come in before me, to read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation: but they could not tell it me.


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And I have heard concerning you, that you are able to make interpretations: now then if you shall be able to read the writing, and to make known to me the interpretation of it, you shall be clothed with purple, and there shall be a golden chain upon your neck, and you shall be third ruler in my kingdom.


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And Daniel said, before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and give the present of your house to another; but I will read the writing, and will make known to you the interpretation of it.


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O king, the most high God gave to your father Nabuchodonosor a kingdom, and majesty, and honour, and glory:


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and by reason of the majesty which he gave to him, all nations, tribes, <i>and</i> languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he killed; and whom he would he struck; and whom he would he exalted; and whom he would he abased.


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But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was emboldened to act proudly, he was deposed from his royal throne, and <i>his</i> honour was taken from him.


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And he was driven forth from men; and his heart was given him after the nature of wild beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; and they fed him with grass as an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven; until he knew that the most high God is Lord of the kingdom of men, and will give it to whoever he shall please.


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And you accordingly, his son, O Baltasar, has not humbled your heart before God: know you not all this?


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And you have been exalted against the Lord God of heaven; and they have brought before you the vessels of his house, and you, and your nobles, and your mistresses, and your concubines, have drunk wine out of them; and you have praised the gods of gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and wood, and stone, which see not, and which hear not, and know not: and the God in whose hand are your breath, and all your ways have you not glorified.


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Therefore from his presence has been sent forth the knuckle of a hand; and he has ordered the writing.


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Then Baltasar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put the golden chain about his neck, and proclaimed concerning him that he was the third ruler in the kingdom.


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And it pleased Darius, and he set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, to be in all his kingdom;


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and over them three governors, of whom one was, Daniel; for the satraps to give account to them, that the king should not be troubled.


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And Daniel was over them, for <i>there was</i> an excellent spirit in him; and the king set him over all his kingdom.


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Then the governors and satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel; but they found against him no occasion, nor trespass, nor error, because he was faithful.


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And the governors said, We shall not find occasion against Daniel, except in the ordinances of his God.


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All who preside over your kingdom, captains and satraps, chiefs and local governors, have taken counsel together, to establish by a royal statue and to confirm a decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.


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Now then, O king, establish the decree, and publish a writ, that the decree of the Persians and Medes be not changed.


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And when Daniel knew that the decree was ordered, he went into his house; and his windows were opened in his chambers towards Jerusalem, and three times in the day he knelt upon his knees, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he used to do before.


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And they came and said to the king, O king, have you not made a decree, that whatever man shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, but of you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? And the king said, The word is true, and the decree of the Medes and Persians shall not pass.


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Then they answered and said before the king, Daniel of the children of the captivity of Judea, has not submitted to your decree; and three times in the day he makes his requests of his God.


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Then the king, when he heard the saying, was much grieved for Daniel and he greatly exerted himself for Daniel to deliver him: and he exerted himself till evening to deliver him.


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Then those men said to the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is that we must not change any decree of statue which the king shall make.


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Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. But the king said to Daniel, Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.


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And they brought a stone, and put it on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed <i>it</i> with his ring, and with the ring of his nobles; that the case might not be altered with regard to Daniel.


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And the king departed to his house, and lay down fasting, and they brought him no food; and his sleep departed from him. But God shut the mouths of the lions, and they did not molest Daniel.


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And when he drew near to the den, he cried with a loud voice, Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lion's mouth?


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My God has sent his angel, and stopped the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me: for uprightness was found in me before him; and moreover before you, O king, I have committed no trespass.


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Then the king was very glad for him, and he commanded to bring Daniel out of the den. So Daniel was brought out of the den, and there was found no hurt upon him, because he believed in his God.


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And the king commanded, and they brought the men that had accused Daniel, and they were cast into the den of lions, they, and their children, and their wives: and they reached not the bottom of the den before the lions had the mastery of them, and utterly broke to pieces all their bones.


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Then king Darius wrote to all nations, tribes, <i>and</i> languages, who dwell in all the earth, <i>saying</i>, Peace be multiplied to you.


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This decree has been set forth by me in every dominion of my kingdom, that <i>men</i> tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living and eternal God, and his kingdom shall not be destroyed, and his dominion is for ever.


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He helps and delivers, and works signs and wonders in the heaven and on the earth, who has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.


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In the first year of Baltasar, king of the Chaldeans Daniel had a dream, and visions of his head upon his bed: and he wrote his dream.


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The first <i>was</i> as a lioness, and her wings as an eagle's; I [*]saw until her wings were plucked, and she was lifted off from the earth, and she stood on human feet, and a man's heart was given to her.


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And, behold, a second beast like a bear, and it supported itself on one side, and there were three ribs in its mouth, between its teeth: and thus they said to it, Arise, devour much flesh.


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After this one I looked, and behold another wild beast as a leopard, and it had four wings of a bird upon it: and the wild beast had four heads, and power was given to it.


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After this one I looked, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and exceedingly strong, and its teeth were of iron; devouring and crushing to atoms, and it trampled the remainder with its feet: and it was altogether different from the beasts that were before it; and it <i>had</i> ten hours.


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I noticed his horns, and behold, another little horn came up in the midst of them, and before it three of the former horns were rooted out: and, behold, <i>there were</i> eyes as the eyes of a man in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things.


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I [*]saw until the thrones were set, and the Ancient of days sat; and his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head, as pure wool: his throne was a flame of fire, <i>and</i> his wheels burning fire.


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A stream of fire rushed forth before him: thousand thousands ministered to him, and ten thousands of myriads, attended upon him: the judgement sat, and the books were opened.


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I [*]saw then because of the voice of the great words which that horn spoke, until the wild beast was slain and destroyed, and his body given to be burnt with fire.


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And the dominion of the rest of the wild beasts was taken away; but a prolonging of life was given them for certain times.


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I [*]saw in the night vision, and, behold, <i>one</i> coming with the clouds of heaven as the Son of man, and he came on to the Ancient of days, and was brought near to him.


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And to him was given the dominion, and the honour, and the kingdom; and all nations, tribes, and languages, shall serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom shall not be destroyed.


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And I drew near to one of them that stood by, and I sought to learn of him the truth of all these things: and he told me the truth, and made known to me the interpretation of the things.


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which shall be taken away; and the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess it for ever and ever.


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Then I enquired carefully concerning the fourth beast; for it differed from every <i>other</i> beast, exceeding dreadful: its teeth were of iron, and its claws of brass, devouring, and utterly breaking to pieces, and it trampled the remainder with its feet:


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and concerning it ten horns that were in its head, and the other that came up, and rooted up <i>some</i> of the former, which had eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and his look was bolder than the rest.


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until the Ancient of days came, and he gave judgement to the saints of the Most High; and the time came on, and the saints possessed the kingdom.


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And he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom on the earth, which shall excel all <i>other</i> kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and trample and destroy it.


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And his ten horns are ten kings <i>that</i> shall arise: and after them shall arise another, who shall exceed all the former ones in wickedness and he shall subdue three kings.


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And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change times and law: and <i>power</i> shall be given into his hand for a time and times and half a time.


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And the judgement has sat, and they shall remove <i>his</i> dominion to abolish it, and to destroy it utterly.


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And the kingdom and the power and the greatness of the kings that are under the whole heaven were given to the saints of the Most High; and his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all powers shall serve and obey him.


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Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my thoughts greatly troubled me, and my countenance was changed: but I kept the matter in my heart.<pb/>


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In the third year of the reign of king Baltasar a vision appeared to me, <i>even</i> to me Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.


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And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, a ram standing in front of the Ubal; and he had high horns; and one was higher than the other, and the high one came up last.


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And I saw the ram butting westward, and northward, and southward; and no beast could stand before him, and there was none that could deliver out of his hand; and he did according to his will, and became great.


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And I was considering, and, behold, a he-goat came from the southwest on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the earth: and the goat <i>had</i> a horn between his eyes.


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And he came to the ram that had the horns, which I had seen standing in front of the Ubal, and he ran at him with the violence of his strength.


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And I saw him coming up close to the ram, and he was furiously enraged against him, and he struck the ram, and broke both his horns: and there was no strength in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him on the ground, and trampled on him; and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.


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And the he-goat grew exceedingly great: and when he was strong, his great horn was broken; and four other <i>horns</i> rose up in its place towards the four winds of heaven.


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And out of one of them came forth one strong horn, and it grew very great towards the south, and towards the host:


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and it magnified itself to the host of heaven; and there fell to the earth <i>some</i> of the host of heaven and of the stars, and they trampled on them.


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And <i>this shall be</i> until the chief captain shall have delivered the captivity: and by reason of him the sacrifice was disturbed, and he prospered; and the holy place shall be made desolate.


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And a sin-offering was given for the sacrifice, and righteousness was cast down to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.


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And I heard one saint speaking, and a saint said to a certain one speaking, How long shall the vision continue, <i>even</i> the removal of the sacrifice, and the bringing in of the sin of desolation; and <i>how long</i> shall the sanctuary and host be trampled?


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And he said to him, Evening and morning <i>there shall be</i> two thousand and four hundred days; and <i>then</i> the sanctuary shall be cleansed.


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And it came to pass, as I, <i>even</i> I Daniel, saw the vision, and sought to understand it, that, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.


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And I heard the voice of a man between <i>the banks of</i> the Ubal; and he called, and said, Gabriel, cause that man to understand the vision.


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And he came and stood near where I stood: and when he came, I was struck with awe, and fell upon my face: but he said to me, Understand, son of man: for yet the vision is for an appointed time.


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And while he spoke with me, I fell upon my face to the earth: and he touched me, and set me on my feet.


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And he said, Behold, I make you know the things that shall come to pass at the end of the wrath: for the vision <i>is</i> yet for an appointed time.


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The he-goat is the King of the Greeks: and the great horn which was between his eyes, he is the first king.


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And <i>as for</i> the one that was broken, in whose place there stood up four horns, four kings shall arise out of his nation, but not in their <i>own</i> strength.


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And at the latter time of their kingdom, when their sins are coming to the full, there shall arise a king bold in countenance, and understanding riddles.


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And his power <i>shall be</i> great, and he shall destroy wonderfully, and prosper, and practise, and shall destroy mighty men, and the holy people.


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And the yoke of his chain shall prosper: <i>there is</i> craft in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by craft shall destroy many, and he shall stand up for the destruction of many, and shall crush them as eggs in his hand.


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And the vision of the evening and morning that was mentioned is true: and do you seal the vision; for <i>it is</i> for many days.


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And I Daniel fell asleep, and was sick: then I arose, and did the king's business; and I wondered at the vision, and there was none that understood <i>it</i>.<pb/>


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In the first year of Darius the son of Assuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,


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I Daniel understood by books the number of the years which was the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremias, <i>even</i> seventy years for the accomplishment of the desolation of Jerusalem.


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And I set my face towards the Lord God, to seek <i>him</i> diligently by prayer and supplications, with fastings and sackcloth.


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And I prayed to the Lord my God, and confessed, and said, O Lord, the great and wonderful God, keeping your covenant and your mercy to them that love you, and to them that keep your commandments; we have sinned,


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we have done iniquity, we have transgressed, and we have departed and turned aside from your commandments and from your judgements:


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and we have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, and our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.


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To you, O Lord, <i>belongs</i> righteousness, and to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Juda, and to the dwellers in Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off in all the earth, wherever you have scattered them, for the sin which they committed.


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In you, O Lord, is our righteousness, and to us <i>belongs</i> confusion of face, and to our kings, and to our princes, and to our fathers, forasmuch as we have sinned.


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To you, the Lord our God, <i>belong</i> compassions and forgivenesses, whereas we have departed <i>from you</i>;


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neither have we listened to the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by the hands of his servants the prophets.


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Moreover all the people of Israel have transgressed your law, and have refused to listen to your voice; so the curse has come upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.


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And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, <i>by</i> bringing upon us great evils, such as have not happened under the whole heaven, according to what has happened in Jerusalem.


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As it is written in the law of Moses, all these evils have come upon us: yet we have not implored the Lord our God, that we might turn away from our iniquities, and have understanding in all your truth.


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The Lord also has watched, and brought the evils upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his work which he has executed, but we have not listened to his voice.


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And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made to yourself a name, as <i>at</i> this day; we have sinned, we have transgressed.


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O Lord, your mercy is over all: let, I pray you, your wrath turn away, and your anger from your city Jerusalem, <i>even</i> your holy mountain: for we have sinned, and because of our iniquities, and those of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are become a reproach amongst all that are round about us.


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And now, O lord our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and his supplications, and cause your face to shine on your desolate sanctuary, for your <i>own</i> sake, O Lord.


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Incline your ear, O my God, and hear; open your eyes and behold our desolation, and that of your city on which your name is called: for we do not bring our pitiful case before you on <i>the ground of</i> our righteousness, but on <i>the ground of</i> your manifold compassions, O Lord.


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Listen, O Lord; be propitious, O Lord; attend, O Lord; delay not, O my God, for your own sake: for your name is called upon your city and upon your people.


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And while I was yet speaking, and praying, and confessing my sins and the sins of my people Israel, and bringing my pitiful case before the Lord my God concerning the holy mountain;


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yes, while I was yet speaking in prayer, behold the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, <i>came</i> flying, and he touched me about the hour of the evening sacrifice.


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And he instructed me, and spoke with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to impart to you understanding.


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At the beginning of your supplication the word came forth, and I am come to tell you; for you are a man much beloved: therefore consider the matter, understand the vision.


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Seventy weeks have been determined upon your people, and upon the holy city, for sin to be ended, and to seal up transgressions, and to blot out the iniquities, and to make atonement for iniquities, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal the vision and the prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy.


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And you shall know and understand, that from the going forth of the command for the answer and for the building of Jerusalem until Christ the prince <i>there shall be</i> seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks; and then <i>the time</i> shall return, and the street shall be built, and the wall, and the times shall be exhausted.


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And after the sixty-two weeks, the anointed one shall be destroyed, and there is no judgement in him: and he shall destroy the city and the sanctuary with the prince that is coming: they shall be cut off with a flood, and to the end of the war which is rapidly completed he shall appoint <i>the city</i> to desolations.


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And one week shall establish the covenant with many: and in the midst of the week my sacrifice and drink-offering shall be taken away: and on the temple <i>shall be</i> the abomination of desolations; and at the end of time an end shall be put to the desolation.<pb/>


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In the third year of Cyrus king of the Persians a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Baltasar; and the thing was true, and great power and understanding in the vision was given to him.


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I ate no pleasant bread, and no flesh or wine entered into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself with oil, until three whole weeks were accomplished.


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And I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold a man clothed in linen, and his loins were girded with gold of Ophaz:


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and his body was as Tharsis, and his face was as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his legs as the appearance of shining brass, and the voice of his words as the voice of a multitude.


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And I Daniel only saw the vision: and the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great amazement fell upon them, and they fled in fear.


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So I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there was no strength left in me, and my glory was turned into corruption, and I retained no strength.


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Yet I heard the voice of his words: and when I heard him I was pricked <i>in the heart</i>, and <i>I fell with</i> my face to the earth.


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And he said to me, O Daniel, man greatly beloved, understand the words which I speak to you, and stand upright: for I am now sent to you. And when he had spoken to me this word, I stood trembling.


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And he said to me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that you did set your heart to understand, and to afflict yourself before the Lord your God, your words were heard, and I have come because of your words.


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But the prince of the kingdom of the Persians withstood me twenty-one days: and behold, Michael, one of the princes, came to help me; and I left him there with the chief of the kingdom of the Persians:


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and I have come to inform you of all that shall befall your people in the last days: for the vision is yet for <i>many</i> days.


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And when he had spoken with me according to these words, I turned my face to the ground, and was pricked <i>in the heart</i>.


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And, behold, as it were the likeness of a son of man touched my lips; and I opened my mouth, and spoke, and said to him that stood before me, O <i>my</i> lord, at the sight of you my bowels were turned within me, and I had no strength.


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And how shall your servant be able, O <i>my</i> lord, to speak with this my lord? and as for me, from henceforth strength will not remain in me, and there is no breath left in me.


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and said to me, Fear not, man greatly beloved: peace be to you, quit yourself like a man, and be strong. And when he had spoken with me, I received strength, and said, Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me.


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And he said, Know you, therefore I am come to you? and now I will return to fight with the prince of the Persians: and I was going in, and the prince of the Greeks came.


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But I will tell you that which is ordained in the scripture of truth: and there is no one that holds with me in these matters but Michael your prince.<pb/>


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And now I will tell you the truth. Behold, there shall yet rise up three kings in Persia: and the fourth shall be very far richer than all: and after that he is master of his wealth, he shall rise up against all the kingdoms of the Greeks.


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An there shall rise up a mighty king, and he shall be lord of a great empire, and shall do according to his will.


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And when his kingdom shall stand up, it shall be broken, and shall be divided to the four winds of heaven; but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled over: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, and <i>given</i> to others beside these.


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And the king of the south shall be strong; and one of their princes shall prevail against him, and shall obtain a great dominion.


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And after his years they shall associate; and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north, to make agreements with him: but she shall not retain power of arm; neither shall his seed stand: and she shall be delivered up, and they that brought her, and the maiden, and he that strengthened her in these times.


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<i>But</i> out of the flower of her root there shall arise <i>one on</i> his place, and shall come against the host, and shall enter into the strongholds of the king of the north, and shall fight against them, and prevail.


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Yes, he shall carry with a body of captives into Egypt their gods with their molten <i>images, and</i> all their precious vessels of silver and gold; and he shall last longer than the king of the north.


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And his sons shall gather a multitude amongst many: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through, and he shall rest, and collect his strength.


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And the king of the south shall be greatly enraged, and shall come forth, and shall war with the king of the north: and he shall raise a great multitude; but the multitude shall be delivered into his hand.


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And he shall take the multitude, and his heart shall be exalted; and he shall cast down many thousands; but he shall not prevail.


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For the king of the north shall return, and bring a multitude greater than the former, and at the end of the times of years an invading army shall come with a great force, and with much substance.


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And in those times many shall rise up against the king of the south; and the children of the spoilers of your people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; and they shall fail.


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And the king of the north shall come in, and cast up a mound, and take strong cities: and the arms of the king of the south shall withstand, and his chosen ones shall rise up, but there shall be no strength to stand.


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And he that comes in against him shall do according to his will, and there is no one to stand before him: and he shall stand in the land of beauty, and it shall be consumed by his hand.


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And he shall set his face to come in with the force of his whole kingdom, and shall cause everything to prosper with him: and he shall give him the daughter of women to corrupt her: but she shall not continue, neither be on his side.


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And he shall turn his face to the islands, and shall take many, and cause princes to cease from their reproach: nevertheless his own reproach shall return to him.


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Then he shall turn back his face to the strength of his own land: but he shall become weak, and fall, and not be found.


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And there shall arise out of his root one that shall cause a plant of the kingdom to pass over his place, earning kingly glory: and yet in those days shall he be broken, yet not openly, nor in war.


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<i>One</i> shall stand on his place, <i>who</i> has been set at nothing, and they have not put upon him the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in prosperously, and obtain the kingdom by deceitful ways.


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And the arms of him that overflows shall be washed away as with a flood from before him, and shall be broken, and <i>so shall be</i> the head of the covenant.


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And because of the leagues made with him he shall work deceit: and he shall come up, and overpower them with a small nation.


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And he shall enter with prosperity, and <i>that</i> into fertile districts; and he shall do what his fathers and his fathers' fathers have not done; he shall scatter amongst them plunder, and spoils, and wealth; and he shall devise plans against Egypt, even for a time.


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And his strength and his heart shall be stirred up against the king of the south with a great force; and the king of the south shall engage in war with a great and very strong force; but <i>his forces</i> shall not stand, for they shall devise plans against him:


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and they shall eat his provisions, and shall crush him, and he shall carry away armies as with a flood, and many shall fall down slain.


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And <i>as for</i> both the kings, their hearts <i>are set</i> upon mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper; for yet the end is for a <i>fixed</i> time.


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And he shall return to his land with much substance; and his heart <i>shall be</i> against the holy covenant; and he shall perform <i>great deeds</i>, and return to his own land.


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At the <i>set</i> time he shall return, and shall come into the south, but the last <i>expedition</i> shall <i>not</i> be as the first.


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For the Citians issuing forth shall come against him, and he shall be brought low, and shall return, and shall be incensed against the holy covenant: and he shall do <i>thus</i>, and shall return, and have intelligence with them that have forsaken the holy covenant.


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And seeds shall spring up out of him, and they shall profane the sanctuary of strength, and they shall remove the perpetual <i>sacrifice</i>, and make the abomination desolate.


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And the transgressors shall bring about a covenant by deceitful ways: but a people knowing their God shall prevail, and do <i>valiantly</i>.


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And the intelligent of the people shall understand much: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, and by captivity, and by spoil of <i>many</i> days.


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And when they are weak they shall be helped with a little help: but many shall attach themselves to them with treachery.


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And <i>some</i> of them that understand shall fall, to try them as with fire, and to test <i>them</i>, and that they may be manifested at the time of the end, for the matter <i>is</i> yet for a <i>set</i> time.


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And he shall do according to his will, and the king shall exalt and magnify himself against every god, and shall speak great swelling words, and shall prosper until the indignation shall be accomplished: for it is coming to an end.


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And he shall not regard any gods of his fathers, nor the desire of women, neither shall he regard any deity: for he shall magnify himself above all.


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And he shall honour the god of forces on his place: and a god whom his fathers knew not he shall honour with gold, and silver, and precious stones, and desirable things.


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And he shall do <i>thus</i> in the strong places of refuge with a strange god, and shall increase his glory: and he shall subject many to them, and shall distribute the land in gifts.


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And at the end of the time he shall conflict with the king of the south: and the king of the north shall come against him with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and they shall enter into the land: and he shall break in pieces, and pass on:


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and he shall enter into the land of beauty, and many shall fail: but these shall escape out of his hand, Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.


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And he shall have the mastery over the secret <i>treasures</i> of gold and silver, and over all the desirable <i>possessions</i> of Egypt, and of the Libyans and Ethiopians in their strongholds.


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But rumours and anxieties out of the east and from the north shall trouble him; and he shall come with great wrath to destroy many.


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And he shall pitch the tabernacle of his palace between the seas in the holy mountain of beauty: <i>but</i> he shall come to his end with none to deliver him.<pb/>


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And at that time Michael the great prince shall stand up, that stands over the children of your people: and there shall be a time of tribulation, such tribulation as has not been from the time that there was a nation on the earth until that time: at that time your people shall be delivered, <i>even</i> every one that is written in the book.


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And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproach and everlasting shame.


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And the wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and <i>some</i> of the many righteous as the stars for ever and ever.


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And you, Daniel, close the words, and seal the book to the time of the end; until many are taught, and knowledge is increased.


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And I Daniel saw, and, behold, two others stood, on one side of the bank of the river, and the other on the other side of the bank of the river.


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And <i>one</i> said to the man clothed in linen, who was over the water of the river, When <i>will be</i> the end of the wonders which you have mentioned?


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And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was over the water of the river, and he lifted up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and sware by him that lives for ever, that <i>it should be</i> for a time of times and half a time: when the dispersion is ended they shall know all these things.


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Many must be tested, and thoroughly whitened, and tried with fire, and sanctified; but the transgressors shall transgress: and none of the transgressors shall understand; but the wise shall understand.


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And from the time of the removal of the perpetual sacrifice, when the abomination of desolation shall be set up, <i>there shall be</i> a thousand and two hundred and ninety days.


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But go you, and rest; for <i>there are</i> yet days and seasons to the fulfilment of the end; and you shall stand in your lot at the end of the days.


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The word of the Lord which came to Osee the son of Beeri, in the days of Ozias, and Joatham, and Achaz, and Ezekias, kings of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joas, king of Israel.


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The beginning of the word of the Lord by Osee. And the Lord said to Osee, Go, take to yourself a wife of fornication, and children of fornication: for the land will surely go a-whoring in departing from the Lord.


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And the Lord said to him, Call his name Jezrael; for yet a little <i>while</i>, and I will avenge the blood of Jezrael on the house of Juda, and will make to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.


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And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And he said to him, Call her name, Unpitied: for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, but will surely set myself in array against them.


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But I will have mercy on the house of Juda, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them with bow, nor with sword, nor by war, nor by horses, nor by horsemen.


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And he said, Call his name, Not my people: for you° are not my people, and I am not your <i>God</i>.


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Yet the number of the children of Israel was as the sand of the sea, which shall not be measured nor numbered: and it shall come to pass, <i>that</i> in the place where it was said to them, You° are not my people, even they shall be called the sons of the living God.


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And the children of Juda shall be gathered, and the children of Israel together, and shall appoint themselves one head, and shall come up out of the land: for great <i>shall be</i> the day of Jezrael.<pb/>


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Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband: and I will remove her fornication out of my presence, and her adultery from between her breasts:


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that I may strip her naked, and make her again as she was at the day of her birth: and I will make her desolate, and make her as a dry land, and will kill her with thirst.


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And their mother went a-whoring: she that bore them disgraced <i>them</i>: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, and my garments, and my linen clothes, my oil and my necessaries.


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Therefore, behold, I hedge up her way with thorns, and I will stop the ways, and she shall not find her path.


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And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: and she shall say, I will go, and return to my former husband; for it was better with me than now.


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And she knew not that I gave her her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied silver to her: but she made silver and gold <i>images</i> for Baal.


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Therefore I will return, and take away my corn in its season, and my wine in its time; and I will take away my raiment and my linen clothes, so that she shall not cover her nakedness.


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And now I will expose her uncleanness before her lovers, and no one shall by any means deliver her out of my hand.


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And I will take away all her gladness, her feasts, and her festivals at the new moon, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.


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And I will utterly destroy her vines, and her fig-trees, all things of which she said, These are my hire which my lovers have given me: and I will make them a testimony, and the wild beasts of the field, and the birds of the sky, and the reptiles of the earth shall devour them.


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And I will recompense on her the days of Baalim, wherein she sacrificed to them, and put on her ear-rings, and her necklaces, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the Lord.


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Therefore, behold, I <i>will</i> cause her to err, and will make her as desolate, and will speak comfortably to her.


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And I will give her possessions from thence, and the valley of Achor to open her understanding: and she shall be afflicted there according to the days of her infancy, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord, <i>that</i> she shall call me, My husband, and shall no longer call me Baalim.


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And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and their names shall be remembered no more at all.


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And I will make for them in that day a covenant with the wild beasts of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the reptiles of the earth: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle from off the earth, and will cause you to dwell safely.


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And I will betroth you to myself for ever; yes, I will betroth you to myself in righteousness, and in judgement, and in mercy, and in tender compassions;


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And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord, I will listen to the heaven, and it shall listen to the earth;


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and the earth shall listen to the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall listen to Jezrael.


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And I will sow her to me on the earth; and will love her that was not loved, and will say to that which was not my people, You are my people; and they shall say, You are the Lord my God.<pb/>


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And the Lord said to me, Go yet, and love a woman that loves evil things, an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, and they have respect to strange gods, and love cakes of dried grapes.


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So I hired <i>her</i> to myself for fifteen <i>pieces</i> of silver, and a homer of barley, and a flagon of wine.


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And I said to her, You shall wait for me many days; and you shall not commit fornication, neither shall you be for <i>another</i> man; and I <i>will be</i> for you.


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For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an altar, and without a priesthood, and without manifestations.


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And afterward shall the children of Israel return, and shall seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall be amazed at the Lord and at his goodness in the latter days.<pb/>


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Hear the word of the Lord, you° children of Israel: for the Lord <i>has</i> a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.


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Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery abound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.


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Therefore shall the land mourn, and shall be diminished with all that dwell in it, with the wild beasts of the field, and the reptiles of the earth, and with the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea shall fail:


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that neither any one may plead, nor any one reprove <i>another</i>; but my people are as a priest spoken against.


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Therefore they shall fall by day, and the prophet with you shall fall: I have compared your mother to night.


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My people are like as if they had no knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall not minister as priest to me: and <i>as</i> you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.


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And the priest shall be as the people: and I will avenge on them their ways, and I will recompense to them their counsels.


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And they shall eat, and shall not be satisfied: they have gone a-whoring, and shall by no means prosper: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.


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They asked counsel by <i>means of</i> signs, and they reported answer to them by their staves: they have gone astray in a spirit of whoredom, and gone grievously a-whoring from their God.


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They have sacrificed on the tops of the mountains, and on the hills they have sacrificed under the oak and poplar, and under the shady tree, because the shade was good: therefore your daughters shall go a-whoring, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery.


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And I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they shall commit adultery: for they themselves mingled themselves with harlots, and sacrificed with polluted ones, and the people that understood not entangled itself with a harlot.


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But you, O Israel, be not ignorant, and go you° not, <i>men of</i> Juda, to Galgala; and go not up to the house of On, and swear not by the living Lord.


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He has chosen the Chananites: they have grievously gone a-whoring: they have loved dishonour through her insolence.


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Hear these things, you° priests; and attend, O house of Israel; and listen, O house of the king; for the controversy is with you, because you° have been a snare in Scopia, and as a net spread on Itabyrium,


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I know Ephraim, and Israel is not far from me: for now Ephraim has gone grievously a-whoring, Israel is defiled.


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They have not framed their counsels to return to their God, for the spirit of fornication is in them, and they have not known the Lord.


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And the pride of Israel shall be brought low before his face; and Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquities; and Judas also shall fall with them.


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They shall go with sheep and calves diligently to seek the Lord; but they shall not find him, for he has withdrawn himself from them.


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For they have forsaken the Lord; for strange children have been born to them: now shall the cankerworm devour them and their heritages.


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Blow you° the trumpet on the hills, sound aloud on the heights: proclaim in the house of On, Benjamin is amazed.


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Ephraim has come to nothing in the days of reproof: in the tribes of Israel I have shown faithful <i>dealings</i>.


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The princes of Juda became as they that removed the bounds: I will pour out upon them my fury as water.


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Ephraim altogether prevailed against his adversary, he trod judgement under foot, for he began to go after vanities.


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And Ephraim saw his disease, and Judas his pain; then Ephraim went to the Assyrians, and sent ambassadors to king Jarim: but he could not heal you, and your pain shall in nowise cease from you.


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Therefore I am as a panther to Ephraim, and as a lion to the house of Juda: and I will tear, and go away; and I will take, and there shall be none to deliver.


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I will go and return to my place, until they are brought to nothing, and <i>then</i> shall they seek my face.<pb/>


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In their affliction they will seek me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us;


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After two days he will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before him, and shall know <i>him</i>:


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let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find him ready as the morning, and he will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth.


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What shall I do to you, Ephraim? What shall I do to you, Juda? whereas your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that goes away.


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Therefore have I mown down your prophets; I have slain them with the word of my mouth: and my judgement shall go forth as the light.


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For I will <i>have</i> mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole burnt offerings.


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And your strength <i>is that</i> of a robber: the priests have hid the way, they have murdered <i>the people of</i> Sicima; for they have wrought iniquity in the house of Israel.


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I have seen horrible <i>things</i> there, <i>even</i> the fornication of Ephraim: Israel and Juda are defiled;<pb/>


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When I have healed Israel, then shall the iniquity of Ephraim be revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they have wrought falsehood: and a thief shall come in to him, <i>even</i> a robber spoiling in his way;


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that they may concert together as <i>men</i> singing in their heart: I remember all their wickedness: now have their own counsels compassed them about; they came before my face.


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They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot-baking, on account of the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.


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<i>In</i> the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.


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Therefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the night: Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning is come; he is burnt up as a flame of fire.


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They are all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings are fallen; there was not amongst them one that called on me.


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Strangers devoured his strength, and he knew <i>it</i> not; and grey hairs came upon him, and he knew <i>it</i> not.


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And the pride of Israel shall be brought down before his face: yet they have not returned to the Lord their God, neither have they diligently sought him for all this.


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And Ephraim was as a silly dove, not having a heart: he called to Egypt, and they went to the Assyrians.


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Whenever they shall go, I will cast my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the sky, I will chasten them with the rumour of their <i>coming</i> affliction.


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Woe to them! for they have started aside from me: they are cowards; for they have sinned against me: yet I redeemed them, but they spoke falsehoods against me.


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They turned aside to that which is not, they became as a bent bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, by reason of the unbridled state of their tongue: this is their setting at nothing in the land of Egypt.<pb/>


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<i>He shall come</i> into their midst as the land, as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and have sinned against my law.


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They have made kings for themselves, but not by me: they have ruled, but they did not make it known to me: <i>of</i> their silver and their gold they have made images to themselves, that they might be destroyed.


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Cast off your calf, O Samaria; my anger is kindled against them: how long will they be unable to purge themselves in Israel?


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for they sowed blighted <i>seed</i>, and their destruction shall await them, a sheaf of corn that avails not to make meal; and even if it should produce it, strangers shall devour it.


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For they have gone up to the Assyrians: Ephraim has been strengthened against himself; they loved gifts.


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Therefore shall they be delivered to the nations: now I will receive them, and they shall cease a little to anoint a king and princes.


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I will write down a multitude <i>of commands</i> for him; but his statutes are accounted strange things, <i>even</i> the beloved altars.


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For if they should offer a sacrifice, and eat flesh, the lord will not accept them: now will he remember their iniquities, and will take vengeance on their sins: they have returned to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things amongst the Assyrians.


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And Israel has forgotten him that made him, and they have built fanes, and Juda has multiplied walled cities: but I will send fire on his cities, and it shall devour their foundations.<pb/>


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Rejoice not, O Israel, neither make merry, as <i>other</i> nations: for you have gone a-whoring from your God; you have loved gifts upon every threshing floor.


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They lived not in the Lord's land: Ephraim lived in Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things amongst the Assyrians.


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They have not offered wine to the Lord, neither have their sacrifices been sweet to him, <i>but</i> as the bread of mourning to them; all that eat them shall be defiled; for their bread for their soul shall not enter into the house of the Lord.


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Therefore, behold, they go forth from the trouble of Egypt, and Memphis shall receive them, and Machmas shall bury them: <i>as for</i> their silver, destruction shall inherit it; thorns <i>shall be</i> in their tents.


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The days of vengeance are come, the days of your recompense are come; and Israel shall be afflicted as the prophet that is mad, as a man deranged: by reason of the multitude of your iniquities your madness has abounded.


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The watchman of Ephraim <i>was</i> with God: the prophet is a crooked snare in all his ways: they have established madness in the house of God.


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They have corrupted themselves according to the days of the hill: he will remember their iniquities, he will take vengeance on their sins.


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I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness, and I saw their fathers as an early watchman in a fig tree: they went in to Beel-phegor, and were shamefully estranged, and the abominable became as the beloved.


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Ephraim has flown away as a bird; their glories from the birth, and the travail, and the conception.


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For even if they should rear their children, yet shall they be utterly bereaved: therefore also there is woe to them, <i>though</i> my flesh is of them.


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Ephraim, <i>even</i> as I saw, gave their children for a prey; yes, Ephraim <i>was ready</i> to bring out his children to slaughter.


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All their wickedness is in Galgal: for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their practices, I will cast them out of my house, I will not love them any more: all their princes are disobedient.


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Ephraim is sick, he is dried up at his roots, he shall in no wise any more bear fruit: therefore even if they should beget <i>children</i>, I will kill the desired <i>fruit</i> of their womb.


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God shall reject them, because they have not listened to him: and they shall be wanderers amongst the nations.<pb/>


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Israel is a vine with goodly branches, her fruit is abundant: according to the multitude of her fruits she has multiplied <i>her</i> altars; according to the wealth of his land, he has set up pillars.


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They have divided their hearts; now shall they be utterly destroyed: he shall dig down their altars, their pillars shall mourn.


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and what should a king do for us, speaking false professions <i>as his</i> words? he will make a covenant: judgement shall spring up as a weed on the soil of the field.


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The inhabitants of Samaria shall dwell near the calf of the house of On; for the people of it mourned for it: and as they provoked him, they shall rejoice at his glory, because he has departed from them.


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And having bound it for the Assyrians, they carried it away as presents to king Jarim: Ephraim shall receive a gift, and Israel shall be ashamed of his counsel.


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And the altars of On, the sins of Israel, shall be taken away: thorns and thistles shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.


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From the time the hills <i>existed</i> Israel has sinned: there they stood: war <i>waged</i> against the children of iniquity


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to chastise them shall not overtake them on the hill, the nations shall be gathered against them, when they are chastened for their two sins,


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Ephraim is a heifer taught to love victory, but I will come upon the fair part of her neck: I will mount Ephraim; I will pass over Juda in silence; Jacob shall prevail against him.


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Sow to yourselves for righteousness, gather in for the fruit of life: light you° for yourselves the light of knowledge; seek the Lord till the fruits of righteousness come upon you.


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Therefore have you° passed over ungodliness in silence, and reaped the sins of it? you° have eaten false fruit; for you have trusted in your sins, in the abundance of your power.


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Therefore shall destruction rise up amongst your people, and all your strong places shall be ruined: as a prince Solomon <i>departed</i> out of the house of Jeroboam, in the days of battle they dashed the mother to the ground upon the children,


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Early in the morning were they cast off, the king of Israel has been cast off: for Israel is a child, and I loved him, and out of Egypt have I called his children.


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As I called them, so they departed from my presence: they sacrificed to Baalim, and burnt incense to graven images.


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When men were destroyed, I drew them with the bands of my love: and I will be to them as a man striking <i>another</i> on his cheek: and I will have respect to him, I will prevail with him.


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Ephraim lived in Egypt; and <i>as for</i> the Assyrian, he was his king, because he would not return.


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And in his cities he prevailed not with the sword, and he ceased <i>to war</i> with his hands: and they shall eat <i>of the fruit</i> of their own devices:


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and his people <i>shall</i> cleave fondly to their habitation; but God shall be angry with his precious things, and shall not at all exalt him.


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How shall I deal with you, Ephraim? <i>how</i> shall I protect you, Israel? what shall I do with you? I will make you as Adama, and as Seboim; my heart is turned at once, my repentance is powerfully excited.


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I will not act according to the fury of my wrath, I will not abandon Ephraim to be utterly destroyed: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One within you: and I will not enter into the city.


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I will go after the Lord: he shall utter <i>his voice</i> as a lion: for he shall roar, and the children of the waters shall be amazed.


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They shall be amazed <i>and fly</i> as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of the Assyrians: and I will restore them to their houses, says the Lord.


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Ephraim has compassed me with falsehood, and the house of Israel and Juda with ungodliness: <i>but</i> now God knows them, and they shall be called God's holy people.<pb/>


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But Ephraim is an evil spirit, he has chased the east wind all the day: he has multiplied empty and vain things, and made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil has gone in the way of traffic into Egypt.


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And the Lord <i>has</i> a controversy with Juda, in order to punish Jacob: according to his ways and according to his practices will he recompense him.


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And he prevailed with the angel and was strong: they wept, and entreated me: they found me in the house of On, and there <i>a word</i> was spoken to them.


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You therefore shall return to your God: keep you mercy and judgement, and draw near to your God continually.


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And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment to myself. None of his labours shall be found <i>available</i> to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.


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But I the Lord your God brought you up out of the land of Egypt: I will yet cause you to dwell in tabernacles, according to the days of the feast.


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And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.


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If Galaad exists not, then the chiefs in Galaad when they sacrificed were false, and their altars were as heaps on the ground of the field.


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And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserve.


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Ephraim was angry and excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.<pb/>


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According to the word of Ephraim he adopted ordinances for himself in Israel; and he established them for Baal, and died.


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And now they have sinned increasingly, and have made for themselves a molten image of their silver, according to the fashion of idols, the work of artificers accomplished for them: they say, Sacrifice men, for the calves have come to an end.


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Therefore shall they be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as chaff blown away from the threshing floor, and as a vapour from tears.


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But I am the Lord your God that establishes the heaven, and creates the earth, whose hands have framed the whole host of heaven: but I showed them not to you that you should go after them: and I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and you shall know no God but me; and there is no Saviour beside me.


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According to their pastures, so they were completely filled; and their hearts were exalted; therefore they forgot me.


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I will meet them by the way of the Assyrians, as a she-bear excited, and I will rend the caul of their heart, and the lions' whelps of the thicket shall devour them there; the wild beasts of the field shall rend them in pieces.


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Where is this your king? let him even save you in all your cities: let him judge you, of whom you said, Give me a king and a prince.


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Pains as of a woman in travail shall come upon him: he is your wise son, because he shall not stay in the destruction of <i>your</i> children.


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I will deliver <i>them</i> out of the power of Hades, and will redeem them from death: where is your penalty, O death? O Hades, where is your sting? comfort is hidden from my eyes.


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Samaria shall be utterly destroyed: for she has resisted her God; they shall fall by the sword, and their sucklings shall be dashed against the ground, and their women with child ripped up.


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Take with you words, and turn to the Lord your God: speak to him, that you° may not receive <i>the reward of</i> unrighteousness, but that you° may receive good things: and we will render in return the fruit of our lips.


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Assur shall never save us; we will not mount on horseback; we will no longer say to the works of our hands, Our gods. He who is in you shall pity the orphan.


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His branches shall spread, and he shall be as a fruitful olive, and his smell shall be as <i>the smell</i> of Libanus.


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They shall return, and dwell under his shadow: they shall live and be satisfied with corn, and he shall flower as a vine: his memorial shall be to Ephraim as the wine of Libanus.


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What <i>has</i> he to do any more with idols? I have afflicted him, and I will strengthen him: I am as a leafy juniper tree. From me is your fruit found.


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Hear these <i>words</i>, you° elders, and listen all you° that inhabit the land. <n>Gr. if. </n> Have such things happen in your days, or in the days of your fathers?


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Tell your children concerning them, and <i>let</i> your children <i>tell</i> their children, and their children another generation.


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The leavings of the <n>It is difficult to assign the exact meaning of the Greek. </n> caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.


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Awake, you° drunkards, from <n>Gr. their. </n> your wine, and weep: mourn, all you° that drink wine to drunkenness: for joy and gladness and removed are from your mouth.


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For a strong and innumerable nation is come up against my land, their teeth are lion's teeth, and their back teeth those of a <i>lion's</i> whelp.


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He has ruined my vine, and utterly broken my fig-trees: he has utterly searched <i>my vine</i>, and cast it down; he has <n>Gr. whitened, Gen 30,37. </n> peeled its branches.


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Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the <n>i.e. one who married her as a virgin. </n> husband of her youth.


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The meat-offering and drink-offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, you° priests that serve at the altar of the Lord.


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For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the corn languishes; the wine is dried up, the oil becomes scarce;


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the husbandmen are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley; for the <n>Or, vintage. </n> harvest has perished from off the field.


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The vine is dried up, and the fig-trees are become few; the pomegranate, and palm tree, and apple, and all trees of the field are dried up: for the sons of men <n>Gr. disfigured, or, disgraced. </n>have abolished joy.


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Gird yourselves <i>with sackcloth</i>, and lament, you° priests: mourn, you° that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloths, you° that minister to God: for the meat-offering and drink-offering are withheld from the house of your God.


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Sanctify a fast, proclaim a <i>solemn</i> service, gather the elders <i>and</i> all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God, and cry earnestly to the Lord,


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Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.


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<i>Your</i> meat has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of your God.


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The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the wine presses are broken down; for the corn is withered.


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What shall we store up for ourselves? the herds of cattle have mourned, because they had no pasture; and the flocks of sheep have been utterly destroyed.


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To you, O Lord, will I cry: for fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness, and a flame has burnt up all the trees of the field.


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And the cattle of the field have looked up to you: for the <n>Gr. issues. See 2 Ki22:16. Ezek47:4 </n> fountains of waters have been dried up, and fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness.<pb/>


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Sound the trumpet in Sion, make a proclamation in my holy mountain, and let all the inhabitants of the land be confounded: for the day of the Lord is near;


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for a day of darkness and gloominess is near, a day of cloud and mist: a numerous and strong people shall be spread upon the mountains as the morning; there has not been from the <n>Gr. age. </n> beginning one like it, and after it there shall not be again even to the years of many generations.


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Before <n>Gr. it, sc. the people. </n> them is a consuming fire, and behind them is a flame kindled: the land before them is as a paradise of delight, and behind them a desolate plain: and there shall none <n>Lit. to him, sc. the people. </n> of them escape.


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As the sound of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, and as the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble, and as a numerous and strong people setting themselves in array for battle.


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Before them shall the people be crushed: every face <i>shall be</i> as the blackness of a <n>Or, pot. </n> cauldron.


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As warriors shall they run, and as men of war shall they mount on the walls; and each shall move in his <i>right</i> path, and they shall not turn aside from their tracks:


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and not one shall stand aloof from his brother: they shall go on weighed down with their arms, and they fall upon their weapons, yet shall they in no wise be destroyed.


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They shall seize upon the city, and run upon the walls, and go up upon the houses, and enter in through the windows as thieves.


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Before them the earth shall be confounded, and the sky shall be shaken: the sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their light.


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And the Lord shall utter his voice before his host: for his camp is very great: for the <n>Gr. works. </n> execution of his words is mighty: for the day of the Lord is great, very glorious, and who shall be <n>Gr. sufficient for it? </n> able to <i>resist</i> it?


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Now therefore, says the Lord your God, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with lamentation:


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and rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God: for he is merciful and compassionate, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy, and repents of evils.


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Who knows if he will return, and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meat-offering and a drink-offering to the Lord your God?


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gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the infants at the breast: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.


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Between the <n>Gr. base. </n> porch and the altar let the priests that minister to the Lord weep, and say, Spare your people, O Lord, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them, lest they should say amongst the heathen, Where is their God?


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And the Lord answered and said to his people, Behold, I <i>will</i> send you corn, and wine, and oil, and you° shall be satisfied with them: and I will no longer make you a reproach amongst the Gentiles.


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And I will chase away from you the northern <i>adversary</i>, and will drive him away into a dry land, and I will sink <n>Gr. cause to disappear. </n> his face in the former sea, and his back parts in the latter sea, and his <n>Gr. corruption. </n> ill savour shall come up, and his <n>See Job 6,7. </n> stink come up, because he has <n>Gr. magnified his works. </n> wrought great things.


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Be of good courage, you° beasts of the plain, for the plains of the wilderness have budded, for the trees have borne their fruit, the fig tree and the vine have yielded their strength.


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Rejoice then and be glad, you° children of Sion, in the Lord your God: for he has given you food <n>Gr. to exactness. </n> fully, and he will rain on you the early and the latter rain, as before.


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And I will recompense you for the years which the locust, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, and the cankerworm have eaten, <i>even</i> my great army, which I sent against you.


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And you° shall eat abundantly, and be satisfied, and shall praise the name of the Lord your God <i>for the things</i> which he has wrought wonderfully with you: and my people shall not be ashamed for ever.


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And you° shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and <i>that</i> I am the Lord your God, and <i>that</i> there is none else beside me; and my people shall no more be ashamed for ever.


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And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.


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The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.


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And it shall come to pass <i>that</i> whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved: for in mount Sion and in Jerusalem shall the saved one be as the Lord has said, and they that have glad tidings preached to them, whom the Lord has called.<pb/>


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For, behold, in those days and at that time, when I shall have turned the captivity of Juda and Jerusalem,


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I will also gather all the <n>Or, nations. See Mat 25,31. </n> Gentiles, and bring them down to the valley of Josaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and my heritage Israel, who have been dispersed amongst the Gentiles; and <i>these Gentiles</i> have divided my land,


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and cast lots over my people, and have given <i>their</i> boys to harlots, and sold <i>their</i> girls for wine, and have drunk.


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And what have you° to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all Galilee of the <n>ἀλλοφυλων, usually Philistines. </n> Gentiles? do you° render me a recompense? or do you° bear malice against me? quickly and speedily will I return your recompense on your own heads:


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because you° have taken my silver and my gold, and you° have brought my choice ornaments into your temples;


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and you° have sold the children of Juda and the children of Jerusalem to the children of the Greeks, that you° might expel them from their coasts.


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Therefore, behold, I <i>will</i> raise them up out of the place whither you° have sold them, and I will return your recompense on your own heads.


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And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Juda, and they shall sell them into captivity to a far distant nation: for the Lord has spoken <i>it</i>.


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Proclaim these things amongst the Gentiles; <n>Gr. sanctify. </n> declare war, arouse the warriors, draw near and go up, all you° men of war.


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Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your sickles into <n>Or, daggers. </n> spears: let the weak say, I am strong.


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Gather yourselves together, and go in, all you° nations round about, and gather yourselves there; let the <n>Gr. meek. </n> timid become a warrior.


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Let them be aroused, let all the nations go up to the valley of Josaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the Gentiles round about.


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Bring forth the sickles, for the vintage is come: go in, tread <i>the grapes</i>, for the press is full: cause the vats to overflow; for their wickedness is multiplied.


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Noises have resounded in the valley of judgement: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of judgement.


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And the Lord shall cry out of Sion, and shall utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heaven and the earth shall be shaken, but the Lord shall spare his people, and shall strengthen the children of Israel.


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And you° shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwell in Sion my holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall not pass through her anymore.


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And it shall come to pass in that day <i>that</i> the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the <n>See chap 1:20. </n> fountains of Juda shall flow with water, and a fountain shall go forth of the house of the Lord, and water the valley of flags.


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Egypt shall be a desolation, and Idumea shall be a desolate plain, because of the wrongs of the children of Juda, because they have shed righteous blood in their land.


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And I will make inquisition for their blood, and will by no means leave it unavenged: and the Lord shall dwell in Sion.


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The words of Amos which came <i>to him</i> in Accarim out of Thecue, which he saw concerning Jerusalem, in the days of Ozias king of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joas king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.


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And he said, The Lord has spoken out of Sion, and has uttered his voice out of Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds have mourned, and the top of Carmel is dried up.


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And the Lord said, For three sins of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they sawed with iron saws the women with child of the Galaadites.


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And I will send a fire on the house of Azael, and it shall devour the foundations of the son of Ader.


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And I will break to pieces the bars of Damascus, and will destroy the inhabitants out of the plain of On, and will cut in pieces a tribe out of the men of Charrhan: and the famous people of Syria shall be led captive, says the Lord.


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Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they took prisoners the captivity of Solomon, to shut <i>them</i> up into Idumea.


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And I will destroy the inhabitants out of Azotus, and a tribe shall be cut off from Ascalon, and I will stretch out my hand upon Accaron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, says the Lord.


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Thus says the Lord; For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they shut up the prisoners of Solomon into Idumea, and remembered not the covenant of brethren.


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Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Idumea, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they pursued their brother with the sword, and destroyed the mother upon the earth, and summoned up his anger for a testimony, and kept up his fury to the end.


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Thus says the Lord; For three sins of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they ripped up the women with child of the Galaadites, that they might widen their coasts.


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And I will kindle a fire on the walls of Rabbath, and it shall devour her foundations with shouting in the day of war, and she shall be shaken in the days of her destruction:


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Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they burnt the bones of the king of Idumea to lime.


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But I will send forth a fire on Moab, and it shall devour the foundations of its cities: and Moab shall perish in weakness, with a shout, and with the sound of a trumpet.


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Thus says the Lord; For three sins of the children of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his ordinances, and their vain <i>idols</i> which they made, which their fathers followed, caused them to err.


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Thus says the Lord; for three sins of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for sandals,


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wherewith to tread on the dust of the earth, and they have struck upon the heads of the poor, and have perverted the way of the lowly: and a son and his father have gone into the same maid, that they might profane the name of their God.


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And binding their clothes with cords they have made them curtains near the altar, and they have drunk wine gained by extortion in the house of their God.


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Nevertheless I cut off the Amorite from before them, whose height was as the height of a cedar, and he was strong as an oak; and I dried up his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.


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And I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you about in the desert forty years, that you° should inherit the land of the Amorites.


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And I took of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for consecration. Are not these things so, you° sons of Israel? says the Lord.


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But you° gave the consecrated ones wine to drink; and you° commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.


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And flight shall perish from the runner, and the strong shall not hold fast his strength, and the warrior shall not save his life:


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and the archer shall not withstand, and he that is swift of foot shall in no wise escape; and the horseman shall not save his life.


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And the strong shall find no confidence in power: the naked shall flee away in that day, says the Lord.<pb/>


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Hear you° this word, O house of Israel, which the Lord has spoken concerning you, and against the whole family whom I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying,


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You especially have I known out of all the families of the earth: therefore will I take vengeance upon you for all your sins.


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Will a lion roar out of his thicket if he has no prey? will a <i>lion's</i> whelp utter his voice at all out of his lair, if he have taken nothing?


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Will a bird fall on the earth without a fowler? will a snare be taken up from the earth without having taken anything?


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Shall the trumpet sound in the city, and the people not be alarmed? shall there be evil in a city which the Lord has not wrought?


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Proclaim it to the regions amongst the Assyrians, and to the regions of Egypt, and say, Gather yourselves to the mountain of Samaria, and behold many wonderful things in the midst of it, and the oppression that is in it.


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And she knew not what things would come against her, says the Lord, <i>even</i> those that store up wrong and misery in their countries.


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Therefore thus says the Lord God; O Tyre, your land shall be made desolate round about <i>you</i>; and he shall bring down your strength out of you, and your countries shall be spoiled.


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Thus says the Lord; As when a shepherd rescues from the mouth of a lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so shall be drawn forth the children of Israel who dwell in Samaria in the presence of <i>a foreign</i> tribe, and in Damascus.


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For in the day wherein I shall take vengeance of the sins of Israel upon him, I will also take vengeance on the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be broken down, and they shall fall upon the ground.


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I will crush and strike the turreted-house upon the summer-house; and the ivory-houses shall be destroyed, and many other houses also, says the Lord.<pb/>


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Hear you° this word, you° heifers of the land of Basan that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, and trample on the needy, which say to their masters, Give us that we may drink.


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The Lord swears by his holiness, that, behold, the days come upon you, when they shall take you with weapons, and fiery destroyers shall cast those with you into boiling cauldrons.


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And you° shall be brought forth naked in the presence of each other; and you° shall be cast forth on the mountain Romman, says the Lord.


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You° went into Bethel, and sinned, and you° multiplied sin at Galgala; and you° brought your meat-offerings in the morning, <i>and</i> your tithes every third day.


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And they read the law without, and called for public professions: proclaim aloud that the children of Israel have loved these things, says the Lord.


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And I will give you dullness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places: yet you° returned not to me, says the Lord.


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Also I withheld from you the rain three months before the harvest: and I will rain upon one city, and on another city I will not rain: one part shall be rained upon, and the part on which I shall not rain shall be dried up.


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And <i>the inhabitants of</i> two or three cities shall be gathered to one city to drink water, and they shall not be satisfied: yet you° have not returned to me, says the Lord.


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I struck you with parching, and with blight: you° multiplied your gardens, your vineyards, and your fig-grounds, and the cankerworm devoured your olive yards: yet not <i>even</i> thus did you° return to me, says the Lord.


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I sent pestilence amongst you by the way of Egypt, and killed your young men with the sword, together with your horses that were taken captive; and in my wrath against you I set fire to your camps: yet not even thus did you° return to me, says the Lord.


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I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodoma and Gomorrha, and you° became as a brand plucked out of the fire: yet not even thus did you° return to me, says the Lord.


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Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel: nay because I will do thus to you, prepare to call on your God, O Israel.


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For, behold, I am he that strengthens the thunder, and creates the wind, and proclaims to men his Christ, forming the morning and the darkness, and mounting on the high places of the earth, The Lord God Almighty is his name.<pb/>


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Hear you° this word of the Lord, even a lamentation, which I take up against you. The house of Israel is fallen; it shall no more rise.


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Therefore thus says the Lord God; The city out of which there went forth a thousand, <i>in it</i> there shall be left a hundred, and <i>in that</i> out of which there went forth a hundred, there shall be left ten to the house of Israel.


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But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgala, and cross not over to the Well of the Oath: for Galgala shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall be as that which is not.


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Seek you° the Lord, and you° shall live; lest the house of Joseph blaze as fire, and it devour him, and there shall be none to quench it for the house of Israel.


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<i>It is he</i> that executes judgement in the height <i>above</i>, and he has established justice on the earth:


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who makes all things, and changes <i>them</i>, and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night: who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth: the Lord is his name:


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Therefore because they have struck the poor with their fists, and you° have received of them choice gifts; you° have built polished houses, but you° shall not dwell in them; you° have planted desirable vineyards, but you° shall not drink the wine of them.


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For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside <i>the judgement of</i> the poor in the gates.


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Seek good, and not evil, that you° may live: and so the Lord God Almighty shall be with you, as you° have said,


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We have hated evil, and loved good: and restore you° judgement in the gates; that the Lord God Almighty may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.


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Therefore thus says the Lord God Almighty; In all the streets <i>shall be</i> lamentations; and in all the ways shall it be said, Woe, woe! the husbandman shall be called to mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining.


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And <i>there shall be</i> lamentation in all the ways; because I will pass through the midst of you, says the Lord.


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Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! what is this day of the Lord to you? whereas it is darkness, and not light.


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As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he should spring into his house, and lean his hands upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.


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Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? and is not this <i>day</i> gloom without brightness?


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I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smell <i>your</i> meat-offerings in your general assemblies.


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Therefore if you° should bring me your whole burnt sacrifices and meat-offerings, I will not accept <i>them</i>: neither will I have respect to your grand peace-offerings.


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Yes, you° took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Raephan, the images of them which you° made for yourselves.


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Woe to them that set at nothing Sion, and that trust in the mountain of Samaria: they have gathered <i>the harvest of</i> the heads of the nations, and they have gone in themselves.


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O house of Israel, pass by all <i>of you</i>, and see; and pass by thence to Ematrabba; and thence descend to Geth of the Philistines, the chief of all these kingdoms, <i>see</i> if their coasts are greater than your coasts.


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who sleep upon beds of ivory, and live delicately on their couches, and eat kids out of the flocks, and sucking calves out of the midst of the stalls;


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who excel in the sound of musical instruments; they have regarded them as dwelling, not as fleeting <i>pleasures</i>;


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who drink strained wine, and anoint themselves with the best ointment; and have suffered nothing on occasion of the calamity of Joseph.


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Therefore now shall they depart into captivity from the dominion of princes, and the neighing of horses shall be cut off from Ephraim.


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For the Lord has sworn by himself, <i>saying</i>, Because I abhor all the pride of Jacob, I do also hate his countries, and I will cut off <i>his</i> city with all who inhabit it.


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But a remnant shall be left behind, and their relations shall take them, and shall strenuously endeavour to carry forth their bones from the house: and one shall say to the heads of the house, Is there yet <i>any one</i> else with you?


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And he shall say, No <i>one</i> else. And <i>the other</i> shall say, Be silent, that you name not the name of the Lord.


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For, behold, the Lord commands, and he will strike the great house with breaches, and the little house with rents.


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Will horses run upon rocks? will they refrain from neighing at mares? for you° have turned judgement into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness:


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Thus has the Lord God showed me; and, behold, a swarm of locusts coming from the east; and, behold, one caterpillar, king Gog.


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And it came to pass when he had finished devouring the grass of the land, that I said, Lord God, be merciful; who shall raise up Jacob? for he is small in number.


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Thus has the Lord showed me; and, behold, the Lord called for judgement by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and devoured the Lord's portion.


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Then I said, O Lord, cease, I pray you: who shall raise up Jacob? for he is small in number. Repent, O Lord, for this.


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Thus the Lord showed me; and behold, he stood upon a wall of adamant, and in his hand <i>was</i> an adamant.


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And the Lord said to me, What see you, Amos? And I said, An adamant. And the Lord said to me, Behold, I appoint an adamant in the midst of my people Israel: I will not pass by them any more.


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And the joyful altars shall be abolished, and the sacrifices of Israel shall be set aside; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.


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Then Amasias the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos is forming conspiracies against you in the midst of the house of Israel: the land will be utterly unable to bear all his words.


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For thus says Amos, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall be led away captive from his land.


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And Amasias said to Amos, Go, seer, remove you into the land of Juda, and live there, and you shall prophesy there:


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but you shall no longer prophesy at Bethel: for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the royal house.


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And Amos answered, and said to Amasias, I was not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet; but I was a herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruits.


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And now hear the word of the Lord: You say, Prophesy not to Israel, and raise not a tumult against the house of Jacob.


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Therefore thus says the Lord; Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be measured with the line; and you shall die in an unclean land; and Israel shall be led captive out of his land. Thus has the Lord God showed me.<pb/>


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And he said, What see you, Amos? And I said, A fowler's basket. And the Lord said to me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not pass by them any more.


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And the ceilings of the temple shall howl in that day, says the Lord God: <i>there shall be</i> many a fallen one in every place; I will bring silence upon <i>them</i>.


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Hear now this, you° that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth,


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saying, When will the month pass away, and we shall sell, and the sabbath, and we shall open the treasure, to make the measure small, and to enlarge the weight, and make the balance unfair?


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That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit.


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And shall not the land be troubled for these things, and shall not every one who dwells in it mourn? whereas destruction shall come up as a river, and shall descend as the river of Egypt.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord God, <i>that</i> the sun shall go down at noon, and the light shall be darkened on the earth by day:


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and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make them as the mourning of a beloved <i>friend</i>, and those with them as a day of grief.


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Behold, the days come, says the Lord, that I will send forth a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the word of the Lord.


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And the waters shall be troubled from sea to sea, and from the north to the east shall <i>men</i> run hither and there, seeking the word of the Lord, and they shall not find <i>it</i>.


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they who swear by the propitiation of Samaria, and who say, Your god, O Dan, lives; and, Your god, O Bersabee, lives; and they shall fall, and shall no more rise again.<pb/>


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I saw the Lord standing on the altar: and he said, Strike the mercy-seat, and the porch shall be shaken: and cut through into the heads of all; and I will kill the remnant of them with the sword: no one of them fleeing shall escape, and no one of them, striving to save himself shall be delivered.


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Though they hid themselves in hell, thence shall my hand drag them forth; and though they go up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.


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If they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, thence will I search <i>them</i> out and take them; and if they should go down from my presence into the depths of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.


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And if they should go into captivity before the face of their enemies, there will I command the sword, and it shall kill them: and I will set my eyes against them for evil, and not for good.


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And the Lord, the Lord God Almighty, <i>is he</i> that takes hold of the land, and causes it to shake, and all that inhabit it shall mourn; and its destruction shall go up as a river, and shall descend as the river of Egypt.


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<i>It is he</i> that builds his ascent up to the sky, and establishes his promise on the earth; who calls the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth; the Lord Almighty is his name.


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Are not you° to me as the sons of the Ethiopians, O children of Israel? says the Lord. Did I not bring Israel up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of the deep?


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Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the kingdom of sinners, and I will cut it off from the face of the earth; only I will not utterly cut off the house of Jacob, says the Lord.


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For I <i>will</i> give commandment, and sift the house of Israel amongst all the Gentiles, as <i>corn</i> is sifted in a sieve, and <i>yet</i> a fragment shall not in any wise fall upon the earth.


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All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, Calamities shall certainly not draw near, nor come upon us.


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In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and will rebuild the ruins of it, and will set up the parts thereof that have been broken down, and will build it up as in the ancient days:


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that the remnant of men, and all the Gentiles upon whom my name is called, may earnestly seek <i>me</i>, says the Lord who does all these things.


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Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when the harvest shall overtake the vintage, and the grapes shall ripen at seed time; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall be planted.


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And I will turn the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities, and shall inhabit <i>them</i>; and they shall plant vineyards, and shall drink the wine from them; and they shall form gardens, and eat the fruit of them.


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And I will plant them on their land, and they shall no more be plucked up from the land which I have given them, says the Lord God Almighty.


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The vision of Obdias. Thus says the Lord God to Idumea; I have heard a report from the Lord, and he has sent forth a message to the nations.


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Behold, I have made you small amongst the Gentiles: you are greatly dishonoured. The pride of your heart has elated you, dwelling <i>as you do</i> in the holes of the rocks, <i>as one that</i> exalts his habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground?


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If you should mount up as the eagle, and if you should make your nest amongst the stars, thence will I bring you down, says the Lord.


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If thieves came in to you, or robbers by night, where would you have been cast away? would they not have stolen <i>just</i> enough for themselves? and if grape gatherers went in to you, would they not leave a gleaning?


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They sent you to your coasts: all the men of your covenant have withstood you; your allies have prevailed against you, they have set snares under you: they have no understanding.


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In that day, says the Lord, I will destroy the wise men out of Idumea, and understanding out of the mount of Esau.


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And your warriors from Thaeman shall be dismayed, to the end that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.


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Because of the slaughter and the sin <i>committed against</i> your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.


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From the day that you stood in opposition <i>to him</i>, in the days when foreigners were taking captive his forces, and strangers entered into his gates, and cast lots on Jerusalem, you also were as one of them.


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And <n>Or, look not you, etc. </n> you should not have looked on the day of your brother in the day of strangers; nor should you have rejoiced against the children of Juda in the day of their destruction; neither should you have boasted in the day of <i>their</i> affliction.


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Neither should you have gone into the gates of the people in the day of their troubles; nor yet should you have looked upon their gathering in the day of their destruction, nor should you have attacked their host in the day of their perishing.


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Neither should you have stood at the opening of their passages, to destroy utterly those of them that were escaping; neither should you have shut up his fugitives in the day of affliction.


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For the day of the Lord is near upon all the Gentiles: as you have done, so shall it be <i>done</i> to you: your recompense shall be returned on your <i>own</i> head.


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For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, <i>so</i> shall all the nations drink wine; they shall drink, and go down, and be as if they were not.


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But on mount Sion there shall be deliverance, and there shall be a sanctuary; and the house of Jacob shall take for an inheritance those that took them for an inheritance.


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And the house of Jacob shall be fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau <i>shall be</i> for stubble; and <i>Israel</i> shall flame forth against them, and shall devour them, and there shall not be a corn-field <i>left</i> to the house of Esau; because the Lord has spoken.


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And they <i>that dwell</i> in the <n>The Gr. is the Hebrew word. </n> south shall inherit the mount of Esau, and they in the plain the Philistines: and they shall inherit the mount of Ephraim, and the plain of Samaria, and Benjamin, and the land of Galaad.


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And this <i>shall be</i> the domain of the captivity of the children of Israel, the land of the Chananites as far as Sarepta; and the captives of Jerusalem <i>shall inherit</i> as far as Ephratha; they shall inherit the cities of the south.


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And they that escape shall come up from mount Sion, to take vengeance on the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord's.


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Rise, and go to Nineve, the great city, and preach in it; for the cry of its wickedness is come up to me.


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But Jonas rose up to flee to Tharsis from the presence of the Lord. And he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tharsis: and he paid his fare, and went up into it, to sail with them to Tharsis from the presence of the Lord.


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And the Lord raised up a wind on the sea; and there was a great storm on the sea, and the ship was in danger of being broken.


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And the sailors were alarmed, and cried every one to his god, and cast out the wares that were in the ship into the sea, that it might be lightened of them. But Jonas was gone down into the <n>[[Lit. ]] hollow. </n> hold of the ship, and was asleep, and snored.


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And the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, Why snore you? arise, and call upon your God, that God may save us, and we perish not.


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And each man said to his neighbour, Come, let us cast lots, and find out for whose sake this mischief is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonas.


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And they said to him, Tell us <n>[[Alex. ]] + 'for those whose cause this evil is upon us' </n> what is your occupation, and whence come you, and of what country and what people are you?


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And he said to them, I am a servant of the Lord; and I worship the Lord God of heaven, who made the sea, and the dry <i>land</i>.


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Then the men feared exceedingly, and said to him, What is this <i>that</i> you have done? for the men knew that he was fleeing from the face of the Lord, because he had told them.


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And they said to him, What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us? for the sea <n>[[Gr. ]] went. </n> rose, and lifted its wave exceedingly.


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And Jonas said to them, Take me up, and cast me into the sea, and the sea shall be calm to you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.


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And the men tried hard to return to the land, and were not able: for the sea <n>[[Lit. ]] went and rose up more. </n> rose and grew more and more tempestuous against them.


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And they cried to the Lord, and said, <n>[[Gr. ]] by no means. See Acts 10. 14 </n> Forbid it, Lord: let us not perish for the sake of this man's life, and bring not righteous blood upon us: for you, Lord, have done as you would.


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Now the Lord had commanded a great whale to swallow up Jonas: and Jonas was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights.


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and said, I cried in my affliction to the Lord my God, and he listened to me, <i>even</i> to my cry out of the belly of hell: you heard my voice.


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You did cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: all your billows and your waves have passed upon me.


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Water was poured around me to the soul: the <n>[[Gr. ]] last. </n> lowest deep compassed me, my head went down


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to the clefts of the mountains; I went down into the earth, whose bars are the everlasting barriers: yet, O Lord my God, let my ruined life be restored.


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When my soul was failing <n>[[Gr. ]] from me. </n> me, I remembered the Lord; and may my prayer come to you into your holy temple.


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They that observe <n>[[Gr. ]] vain and false  [[d things. ]][[d* ]]</n> vanities and lies have forsaken their own mercy.


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But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of praise and thanksgiving: all that I have vowed I will pay to you, <n>[[Or, ]] for a thank-offering to the Lord. </n> the Lord of <i>my</i> salvation.<pb/>


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Rise, go to Nineve, the great city, and preach in it according to the former preaching which I spoke to you of.


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And Jonas arose, and went to Nineve, as the Lord had spoken. Now Nineve was <n>[[Lit. ]] a great city to God. Acts 7. 20. </n> an exceeding great city, of about three days' journey.


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And Jonas began to enter into the city about a day's journey, and he proclaimed, and said, Yet three days, and Nineve shall be overthrown.


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And the men of Nineve believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloths, from the greatest of them to the least of them.


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And the word reached the king of Nineve, and he arose from off his throne, and took off his raiment from him, and put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes.


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And proclamation was made, and it was commanded in Nineve by the king and by his great men, saying, Let not men, or cattle, or oxen, or sheep, taste <i>any thing</i>, nor feed, nor drink water.


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So men and cattle were clothed with sackcloths, and cried earnestly to God; and they turned every one from their evil way, and from the iniquity that was in their hands, saying,


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And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways; and God repented of the evil which he had said he would do to them; and he did <i>it</i> not.<pb/>


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And he prayed to the Lord, and said, O Lord, were not these my words when I was yet in my land? therefore I <n>[[Gr. ]] anticipate. </n> made haste to flee to Tharsis; because I knew that you are merciful and compassionate, longsuffering, and abundant in kindness, and repent of evil.


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And now, <n>[[Gr. ]] sovereign Lord. </n> Lord God, take my life from me; for <i>it is</i> better for me to die than to live.


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And Jonas went out from the city, and sat over against the city; and he made for himself there a booth, and he sat under it, until he should perceive what would become of the city.


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And the Lord God commanded a gourd, and it came up over the head of Jonas, to be a shadow over his head, to shade him from his calamities: and Jonas rejoiced with great joy for the gourd.


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And it came to pass at the rising of the sun, that God commanded a burning east wind; and the sun struck on the head of Jonas, and he fainted, and despaired of his life, and said, <i>It is</i> better for me to die than to live.


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And God said to Jonas, Are you very much grieved for the gourd? And he said, I am very much grieved, even to death.


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And the Lord said, You had pity on the gourd, for which you have not suffered, neither did you rear it; which came up <n>[[Or, ]] little before. </n> before night, and perished before <i>another</i> night:


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and shall not I spare Nineve, the great city, in which dwell more than twelve myriads of human beings, who do not know their right hand or their left hand; and <i>also</i> much cattle?


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And the word of the Lord came to Michaeas the son of Morasthi, in the days of Joatham, and Achaz, and Ezekias, kings of Juda, concerning what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem.


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Hear <i>these</i> words, you° people; and let the earth give heed, and all that are in it: and the Lord God shall be amongst you for a testimony, the Lord out of his holy habitation.


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For, behold, the Lord comes forth out of his place, and will come down, and will go upon the high places of the earth.


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And the mountains shall be shaken under him, and the valleys shall melt like wax before the fire, and as water rushing down a declivity.


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All these <i>calamities are</i> for the transgression of Jacob, and for the sin of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? <i>is it</i> not Samaria? and what is the sin of the house of Juda? <i>is it</i> not Jerusalem?


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Therefore I will make Samaria <i>as</i> a store-house of the fruits of the field, and <i>as</i> a planting of a vineyard: and I will utterly demolish her stones, and I will expose her foundations.


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And they shall cut in pieces all the graven images, and all that she has hired they shall burn with fire, and I will utterly destroy all her idols: because she has gathered of the hires of fornication, and of the hires of fornication has she amassed <i>wealth</i>.


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Therefore shall she lament and wail, she shall go barefooted, and <i>being</i> naked she shall make lamentation as <i>that</i> of serpents, and mourning as of the daughters of sirens.


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For her plague has become grievous; for it has come even to Juda; and has reached to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.


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You° that are in Geth, exalt not yourselves, and you° Enakim, do not rebuild from <i>the ruins of</i> the house in derision: sprinkle dust <i>in the place of</i> your laughter.


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The inhabitant of Sennaar, fairly inhabiting her cities, came not forth to mourn for the house next to her: she shall receive of you the stroke of grief.


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Who has begun <i>to act</i> for good to her that dwells in sorrow? for calamities have come down from the Lord upon the gates of Jerusalem,


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<i>even</i> a sound of chariots and horsemen: the inhabitants of Lachis, she is the leader of sin to the daughter of Sion: for in you were found the transgressions of Israel.


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Therefore shall he cause men to be sent forth as far as the inheritance of Geth, <i>even</i> vain houses; they are become vanity to the kings of Israel;


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until they bring the heirs, O inhabitant of Lachis: the inheritance shall reach to Odollam, <i>even</i> the glory of the daughter of Israel.


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Shave your hair, and make yourself bald for your delicate children; increase your widowhood as an eagle; for <i>your people</i> are gone into captivity from you.<pb/>


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They meditated troubles, and wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God.


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And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance.


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Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I devise evils against this family, out of which you° shall not lift up your necks, neither shall you° walk upright speedily: for the time is evil.


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In that day shall a parable be taken up against you, and a plaintive lamentation shall be uttered, saying, We are thoroughly miserable: the portion of my people has been measured out with a line, and there was none to hinder him so as to turn him back; your fields have been divided.


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Weep not with tears in the assembly of the Lord, neither let <i>any</i> weep for these things; for he shall not remove the reproaches,


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who says, The house of Jacob has provoked the Spirit of the Lord; are not these his practices? Are not the Lord's words right with him? and have they not proceeded correctly?


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Even beforetime my people withstood <i>him</i> as an enemy against his peace; they have stripped off his skin to remove hope <i>in</i> the conflict of war.


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The leaders of my people shall be cast forth from their luxurious houses; they are rejected because of their evil practices; draw you° near to the everlasting mountains.


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Arise you, and depart; for this is not your rest because of uncleanness: you° have been utterly destroyed;


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you° have fled, no one pursuing <i>you: your</i> spirit has framed falsehood, it has dropped on you for wine and strong drink. But it shall come to pass, <i>that</i> out of the dropping of this people,


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Jacob shall be completely gathered with all <i>his people:</i> I will surely receive the remnant of Israel; I will cause them to return together, as sheep in trouble, as a flock in the midst of their fold: they shall rush forth from amongst men through the breach made before them:


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they have broken through, and passed the gate, and gone out by it: and their king has gone out before them, and the Lord shall lead them.<pb/>


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And he shall say, Hear now these words, you° heads of the house of Jacob, and you° remnant of the house of Israel; is it not for you to know judgement?


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<i>who</i> hate good, and seek evil; <i>who</i> tear their skins off them, and their flesh off their bones:


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even as they devoured the flesh of my people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided <i>them</i> as flesh for the cauldron, and as meat for the pot,


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thus they shall cry to the Lord, but he shall not listen to them; and he shall turn away his face from them at that time, because they have done wickedly in their practices against themselves.


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Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets that lead my people astray, that bit with their teeth, and proclaim peace to them; and <i>when</i> nothing was put into their mouth, they raised up war against them:


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therefore there shall be night to you instead of a vision, and there shall be to you darkness instead of prophecy; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be dark upon them.


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And the seers of night-visions shall be ashamed, and the prophets shall be laughed to scorn: and all the people shall speak against them, because there shall be none to listen to them.


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Surely I will strengthen myself with the Spirit of the Lord, and of judgement, and of power, to declare to Jacob his transgressions, and to Israel his sins.


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Hear now these words, you° chiefs of the house of Jacob, and the remnant of the house of Israel, who hate judgement, and pervert all righteousness;


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The heads thereof have judged for gifts, and the priests thereof have answered for hire, and her prophets have divined for silver: and <i>yet</i> they have rested on the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord amongst us? no evil shall come upon us.


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Therefore on your account Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.<pb/>


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And at the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be manifest, established on the tops of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and the peoples shall hasten to it.


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And many nations shall go, and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and they shall show us his way, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Sion shall go forth a law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.


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And he shall judge amongst many peoples, and shall rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles; and nation shall no more lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war any more.


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And every one shall rest under his vine, and every one under his fig tree; and there shall be none to alarm <i>them</i>: for the mouth of the Lord Almighty has spoken these <i>words</i>.


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For all <i>other</i> nations shall walk everyone in his own way, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.


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In that day, says the Lord, I will gather her that is bruised, and will receive her that is cast out, and those whom I rejected.


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And I will make her that was bruised a remnant, and her that was rejected a mighty nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Sion from henceforth, even for ever.


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And you, dark tower of the flock, daughter of Sion, on you the dominion shall come and enter in, <i>even</i> the first kingdom from Babylon to the daughter of Jerusalem.


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And now, why have you known calamities? was there not a king to you? or has your counsel perished that pangs as of a woman in travail have seized upon you?


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Be in pain, and strengthen yourself, and draw near, O daughter of Sion, as a woman in travail: for now you shall go forth out of the city, and shall lodge in the plain, and shall reach even to Babylon: thence shall the Lord your God deliver you, and thence shall he redeem you out of the hand of your enemies.


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And now have many nations gathered against you, saying, We will rejoice, and our eyes shall look upon Sion.


