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<pb/>And you will bring forth your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for moving. And you will go forth yourself at evening in their sight, as when men go forth into exile.


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You will bear it upon your shoulder in their sight and carry it forth in the dark. You will cover your face, that you do not see the land. For I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel.


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<pb/>And I did so as I was commanded. I brought out my stuff by day, as stuff for moving and in the evening I dug through the wall with my hand. I brought it forth in the dark and bore it upon my shoulder in their sight.


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You say to them, The lord Jehovah says thus: This burden concerns the ruler in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel among whom they are.


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<pb/>Say, I am your* sign. Just as I have done, so will it be done to them. They will go into exile, into captivity.


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And the ruler who is among them will bear upon his shoulder in the dark and will go forth. They will dig through the wall to carry out by it. He will cover his face, because he will not see the land with his eyes.


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<pb/>I will also spread my net upon him and he will be taken in my snare. And I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans, yet he will not see it, though he will die there.


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<pb/>And I will scatter toward every wind all who are all around him to help him and all his groups. And I will draw out the sword after them.


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<pb/>And they will know that I am Jehovah, when I will disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries.


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<pb/>But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine and from the pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come. <pb/>And they will know that I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>And say to the people of the land, The lord Jehovah says thus concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with fearfulness and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate of all that is in it, because of the violence of all those who dwell in it.


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And the cities that are inhabited will be laid waste and the land will be a desolation. <pb/>And you* will know that I am Jehovah.


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Son of man, what is this proverb that you* have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged and every vision fails?


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<pb/>Tell them therefore, The lord Jehovah says thus: I will make this proverb to cease and they will no more use it as a proverb in Israel, but say to them, The days are at hand and the fulfillment of every vision.


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<pb/>For I am Jehovah. I will speak and the word that I will speak will be performed. It will be no more prolonged. For in your* days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and will perform it, says the lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, behold, those of the house of Israel say, The vision that he sees is for many day to come and he prophesies of times that are far off.


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<pb/>Therefore say to them, The lord Jehovah says thus: There will none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I will speak will be performed, says the lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy and you say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, Hear the word of Jehovah.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!


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<pb/>You* have not gone up into the gaps, nor built up the wall for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of Jehovah.


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They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, Jehovah says, but Jehovah has not sent them. And they have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.


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Have you* not seen a false vision and have you* not spoken a lying divination, in that you* say, Jehovah says, But I have not spoken?


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<pb/>Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Because you* have spoken falsehood and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you*, says the lord Jehovah.


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And my hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who divine lies. <pb/>They will not be in the council of my people, nor will they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither will they enter into the land of Israel. <pb/>And you* will know that I am the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace and there is no peace and when a man builds up a wall, behold, they daub it with untempered mortar,


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say to those who daub it with untempered mortar, that it will fall. <pb/>There will be an overflowing shower and you*, O great hailstones, will fall and a stormy wind will tear it.


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Behold, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you*, Where is the daubing with which you* have daubed it?


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<pb/>Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath and there will be an overflowing shower in my anger and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.


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<pb/>So I will break down the wall that you* have daubed with untempered mortar and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation of it will be uncovered. And it will fall and you* will be consumed in the midst of it. <pb/>And you* will know that I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>Thus I will accomplish my wrath upon the wall and upon those who have daubed it with untempered mortar. And I will say to you*, The wall is no more, nor those who daubed it,


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namely, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem and who see visions of peace for her and there is no peace, says the lord Jehovah.


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


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And say, The lord Jehovah says thus: Woe to the women who sew pillows upon all elbows and make headdresses for the head of every stature to hunt souls! <pb/>Will you* hunt the souls of my people and save souls alive for yourselves?


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And you* have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your* lying to my people who listen to lies.


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<pb/>Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against your* pillows, with which you* hunt the souls there to make fly and I will tear them from your* arms. And I will let the souls go, even the souls that you* hunt to make fly.


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I will also tear your* headdresses and deliver my people out of your* hand and they will no more be in your* hand to be hunted. <pb/>And you* will know that I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>Because with lies you* have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way and be saved alive.


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Therefore you* will no more see false visions, nor divine divinations. And I will deliver my people out of your* hand. <pb/>And you* will know that I am Jehovah.


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Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?


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<pb/>Therefore speak to them and say to them, The lord Jehovah says thus: Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face and comes to the prophet, I Jehovah will answer him in it according to the multitude of his idols,


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


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<pb/>Therefore say to the house of Israel, The lord Jehovah says thus: Return and turn yourselves from your* idols and turn away your* faces from all your* abominations.


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<pb/>For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who journey in Israel, that separates himself from me and takes his idols into his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me, I Jehovah will answer him by myself.


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And I will set my face against that man and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb. And I will cut him off from the midst of my people. <pb/>And you* will know that I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>And if the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, Jehovah, have deceived that prophet. And I will stretch out my hand upon him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.


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<pb/>And they will bear their iniquity. The iniquity of the prophet will be even as the iniquity of him who seeks him,


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that the house of Israel may no more go-astray from me, nor defile themselves any more with all their transgressions, but that they may be my people and I may be their God, says the lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass and I stretch out my hand upon it and break the staff of the bread of it and send famine upon it and cut off from it man and beast,


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though these three men, Noah, Daniel and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>If I cause evil beasts to pass through the land and they ravage it and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the beasts,


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though these three men were in it, as I live, says the lord Jehovah, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, they only would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.


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<pb/>Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Sword, go through the land, so that I cut off from it man and beast,


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


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<pb/>Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast,


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though Noah, Daniel and Job, were in it, as I live, says the lord Jehovah, they would deliver neither son nor daughter, they would but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.


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<pb/>For thus says the lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four severe judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword and the famine and the evil beasts and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!


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<pb/>Yet, behold, there will be left a remnant in it that will be carried forth, both sons and daughters. Behold, they will come out to you* and you* will see their way and their practices. And you* will be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.


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<pb/>And they will comfort you* when you* see their way and their practices. And you* will know that I have not done all that I have done in it without cause, says the lord Jehovah.


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


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<pb/>Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel. The fire has devoured both the ends of it and the midst of it is burned. Is it profitable for any work?


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Behold, when it was whole, it was fit for no work. How much less, when the fire has devoured it and it is burned, will it yet be fit for any work!


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<pb/>Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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And I will set my face against them. They will go forth from the fire, but the fire will devour them. <pb/>And you* will know that I am Jehovah when I set my face against them.


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and say, The lord Jehovah says thus to Jerusalem: Your birth and your nativity is from the land of the Canaanite. The Amorite was your father and your mother was a Hittite.


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<pb/>And as for your nativity, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, nor were you washed in water to cleanse you. You were not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.


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No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion upon you, but you were cast out in the open field. For with loathing of your soul in the day you were born.


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<pb/>And when I passed by you and saw you treading in your blood, I said to you, Live in your blood! Yes, I said to you, Live in your blood!


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I caused you to multiply as what grows in the field and you increased and grew great. And you attained to excellent ornament, your breasts were fashioned and your hair was grown. Yet you were naked and bare.


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<pb/>Now when I passed by you and looked upon you, behold, your time was the time of love. And I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the lord Jehovah and you became mine.


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<pb/>Then I washed you with water. Yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you and I anointed you with oil.


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I also clothed you with embroidered work and shod you with a certain skin. And I girded you around with fine linen and covered you with silk.


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<pb/>Thus you were decked with gold and silver and your garments was of fine linen and silk and embroidered work. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. <pb/>And you were very beautiful and you prospered to royalty.


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And your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty. For it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put upon you, says the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>But you trusted in your beauty and played the prostitute because of your renown and poured out your prostitutions on everyone who passed by; his it was.


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And you took of your garments and made high places for you, decked with various colors and played the prostitute upon them, things which should not come, nor should it be.


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<pb/>You also took your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you and made for you images of men and played the prostitute with them.


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My bread also which I gave you, fine flour and oil and honey, with which I fed you, you even set it before them for a sweet aroma and thus it was, says the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Were your prostitutions a small matter,


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that you have slain my children and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?


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<pb/>And in all your abominations and your prostitutions you have not remembered the days of your youth when you were naked and bare and were weltering in your blood.


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You have built your lofty place at the head of every way and have made your beauty an abomination. And have opened your feet to everyone who passed by and multiplied your prostitution.


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You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.


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<pb/>Behold therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you and have diminished your portion and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.


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You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable. Yes, you have played the prostitute with them and yet you were not satisfied.


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You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of traffic, to Chaldea and yet you were not satisfied with this.


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<pb/>How weak is your heart, says the lord Jehovah, seeing you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute,


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in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way and make your lofty place in every street. And have not even been as a prostitute, in that you scorn hire.


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<pb/>They give gifts to all prostitutes, but you give your gifts to all your lovers and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitutions.


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And you are different from other women in your prostitutions, in that none follows you to play the prostitute. And in your giving a hire and no hire is given to you, therefore you are different.


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The lord Jehovah says thus: Because your filthiness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitutions with your lovers and because of all the idols of your abominations and for the blood of your sons, that you gave to them,


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therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure and all those whom you have loved, with all those whom you have hated, I will even gather them against you on every side. And I will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.


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<pb/>And I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged. And I will bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.


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I will also give you into their hand and they will throw down your vaulted place and break down your lofty places. And they will strip you of your clothes and take your fair jewels and they will leave you naked and bare.


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<pb/>They will also bring up a company against you and they will stone you with stones and thrust you through with their swords.


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And they will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. And I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute and you will also give no wage any more.


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So I will cause my wrath toward you to rest and my jealousy will depart from you and I will be quiet and will no more be angry.


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<pb/>Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things, therefore, behold, I also will bring your way upon your head, says the lord Jehovah. And you will not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.


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<pb/>Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.


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You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her sons. And you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their sons. Your* mother was a Hittite and your* father an Amorite.


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And your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters. And your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.


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<pb/>Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done according to their abominations, but, like it was a very little thing, you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.


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<pb/>As I live, says the lord Jehovah, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.


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Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters and she did not strengthen the hand of a poor and needy man.


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<pb/>Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins, but you have multiplied your abominations more than they and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done.


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<pb/>You also, bear your own shame, in that you have given judgment for your sisters, through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they. They are more righteous than you. Yes, be also confounded and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.


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<pb/>And I will turn back again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters and the captivity of your captives in the midst of them,


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that you may bear your own shame and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.


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<pb/>And your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will return to their former estate and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former estate and you and your daughters will return to your* former estate.


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before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria and of all who are all around her, the daughters of the Philistines, who do despite to you all around.


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<pb/>For thus says the lord Jehovah: I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.


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<pb/>Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.


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Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you will receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.


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that you may remember and be confounded and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the lord Jehovah.


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and say, The lord Jehovah says thus: A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar.


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He cropped off the topmost of the young twigs of it and carried it to a land of merchandise. He set it in a city of merchants.


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<pb/>He took also of the seed of the land and planted it in a fruitful soil. He placed it beside many waters. He set it as a willow tree.


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And it grew and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him and the roots of it were under him. So it became a vine and brought out branches and shot forth sprigs.


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<pb/>There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. And behold, this vine bent its roots toward him and shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.


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


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<pb/>You say, The lord Jehovah says thus: Shall it flourish? Shall he not pull up the roots of it and cut off the fruit of it, that it may wither? It will wither in all its fresh springing leaves, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots of it.


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Yes, behold, being planted, will it flourish? Shall it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the beds where it grew.


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Say now to the rebellious house, do you* not know what these things mean? <pb/>Tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took the king of it and the rulers of it and brought them to him to Babylon.


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And he took of the seed royal and made a covenant with him. He also brought him under an oath and took away the mighty of the land,


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that the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.


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<pb/>But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt that they might give him horses and many people. Shall he prosper? Shall he escape who does such things? Shall he break the covenant and yet escape?


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<pb/>As I live, says the lord Jehovah, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon he will die.


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<pb/>Nor will Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war when they cast up mounds and build forts to cut off many persons.


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For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant. And behold, he had given his hand and yet has done all these things. He will not escape.


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<pb/>Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: As I live, surely my oath that he has despised and my covenant that he has broken, I will even bring it upon his own head.


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


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And all his fugitives in all his groups will fall by the sword and those who remain will be scattered toward every wind. <pb/>And you* will know that I, Jehovah, have spoken it.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: I will also take of the lofty top of the cedar and will set it. I will crop off a tender one from the topmost of its offshoots and I will plant it upon a high and lofty mountain.


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I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel and it will bring forth branches and bear fruit and be a majestic cedar. And all birds of every wing will dwell under it; they will dwell in the shade of the branches of it.


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<pb/>And all the trees of the field will know that I, Jehovah, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree and have made the dry tree to flourish. I, Jehovah, have spoken and have done it.


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What do you* mean, that you* use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the son's teeth are set on edge?


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<pb/>As I live, says the lord Jehovah, you* will not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.


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


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


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and has not wronged any man, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to a hungry man and has covered a naked man with a garment,


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he who has not given forth upon interest, nor has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from unrighteousness, has executed true justice between man and man,


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has walked in my statutes and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly, he is just. He will surely live, says the lord Jehovah.


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and who does not do any of those duties, but has even eaten upon the mountains and defiled his neighbor's wife,


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has wronged the poor and needy man, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,


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has given forth upon interest and has taken increase, will he then live? He will not live. He has done all these abominations. He will surely die. His blood will be upon him.


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<pb/>Now behold, if he begets a son, who sees all his father's sins, which he has done and fears and does not do such like,


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who has not eaten upon the mountains, nor has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife,


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nor has wronged any man, has not taken anything to pledge, nor has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to a hungry man and has covered a naked man with a garment,


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who has withdrawn his hand from a poor man, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes, he will not die for the iniquity of his father. He will surely live.


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<pb/>As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother and did what is not good among his people, behold, he will die in his iniquity.


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<pb/>Yet you* say, Why does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done what is lawful and right and has kept all my statutes and has done them, he will surely live.


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The soul that sins, it will die. <pb/>The son will not bear the iniquity of the father, nor will the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of a righteous man will be upon him and the wickedness of a wicked man will be upon him.


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<pb/>But if a wicked man turns from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is lawful and right, he will surely live. He will not die.


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None of his transgressions that he has committed will be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done he will live.


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<pb/>Have I any pleasure in the death of a wicked man? says the lord Jehovah and not rather that he should return from his way and live?


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<pb/>But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits unrighteousness and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, will he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he will die.


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<pb/>Yet you* say, The way of the Lord is not equitable. Hear now, O house of Israel. Is not my way equitable? Are not your* ways inequitable?


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<pb/>When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits unrighteousness and dies in it, in his unrighteousness that he has done, he will die.


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Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed and does what is lawful and right, he will save his soul alive.


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Because he considers and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he will surely live. He will not die.


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<pb/>Yet the house of Israel says, The way of the Lord is not equitable. O house of Israel, are not my ways equitable? Are not your* ways inequitable?


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<pb/>Therefore I will judge you*, O house of Israel, each one according to his ways, says the lord Jehovah. Return and turn yourselves from all your* transgressions, so iniquity will not be your* ruin.


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<pb/>Cast away from you* all your* transgressions, by which you* have transgressed and make you* a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you* die, O house of Israel?


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For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the lord Jehovah, therefore turn yourselves back and live.


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and say, What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions. In the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.


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And she brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion and he learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.


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


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<pb/>Now when she saw that she had waited and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.


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


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And he knew their palaces and laid waste their cities. And the land was desolate and the fullness of it, because of the noise of his roaring.


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<pb/>Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces and they spread their net over him. He was taken in their pit.


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And they put him in a cage with hooks and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.


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<pb/>Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches because of many waters.


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And it had strong twigs for the scepters of those who bore rule. And their stature was exalted among the thick branches and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.


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<pb/>But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong twigs were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them.


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And fire has gone out of the twigs of its branches. It has devoured its fruit, so that there is no strong twig in it to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation and will be for a lamentation.


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<pb/>And it happened in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Jehovah and sat before me.


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Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, The lord Jehovah says thus: Is it to inquire of me that you* have come? As I live, says the lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you*.


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<pb/>Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers,


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and say to them, The lord Jehovah says thus: In the day when I chose Israel and swore to the seed of the house of Jacob and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, I am Jehovah your* God,


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I swore to them in that day, to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.


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<pb/>And I said to them, Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am Jehovah your* God.


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But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me. They did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.


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But I worked for my name's sake (that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them) in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.


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And I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.


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<pb/>Moreover I also gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.


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<pb/>But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he will live in them. And they greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.


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


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<pb/>Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands,


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because they rejected my ordinances and did not walk in my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, for their heart went after their idols.


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Nevertheless my eye spared them and I did not destroy them, nor did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.


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<pb/>And I said to their sons in the wilderness, Walk you* not in the statutes of your* fathers. Neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.


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and sanctify my Sabbaths and they will be a sign between me and you*, that you* may know that I am Jehovah your* God.


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<pb/>But the sons rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes, nor kept my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he will live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.


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


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<pb/>Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,


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because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes and had profaned my Sabbaths and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.


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<pb/>Moreover I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances in which they will not live.


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And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, The lord Jehovah says thus: In this moreover your* fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.


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<pb/>For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every thick tree and they offered there their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There also they made their sweet aroma and they poured out there their drink offerings.


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Then I said to them, What does the high place to which you* go mean? So the name of it is called Bamah   <n>{High Place}</n>   to this day.


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<pb/>Therefore say to the house of Israel, The lord Jehovah says thus: Do you* pollute yourselves according to the manner of your* fathers and play you* the prostitute according to their abominations?


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And when you* offer your* gifts, when you* make your* sons to pass through the fire, do you* pollute yourselves with all your* idols to this day? And shall I be inquired of by you*, O house of Israel? As I live, says the lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you*.


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<pb/>And what comes into your* mind will not be at all, in that you* say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.


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As I live, says the lord Jehovah, surely with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out, I will be king over you*.


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<pb/>And I will bring you* out from the peoples and will gather you* out of the countries in which you* are scattered, with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out,


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


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<pb/>Just as I entered into judgment with your* fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you*, says the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>And I will purge out from among you* the rebels and those who transgress against me. I will bring them forth out of the land where they journey, but they will not enter into the land of Israel. <pb/>And you* will know that I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>As for you*, O house of Israel, thus says the lord Jehovah: Go you*. Serve each one his idols and hereafter also, if you* will not listen to me. But you* will no more profane my holy name with your* gifts and with your* idols.


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<pb/>For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, says the lord Jehovah, there will all the house of Israel, all of them, serve me in the land. There I will accept them and there I will require your* offerings and the first-fruits of your* oblations, with all your* holy things.


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<pb/>I will accept you* as a sweet aroma when I bring you* out from the peoples and gather you* out of the countries in which you* have been scattered. And I will be made holy in you* in the sight of the nations.


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And you* will know that I am Jehovah when I will bring you* into the land of Israel, into the country which I swore to give to your* fathers.


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<pb/>And there you* will remember your* ways and all your* practices, by which you* have polluted yourselves. And you* will loathe yourselves in your* own sight for all your* evils that you* have committed.


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<pb/>And you* will know that I am Jehovah when I have dealt with you* for my name's sake, not according to your* evil ways, nor according to your* corrupt practices, O you* house of Israel, says the lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, set your face toward the south and drop your word toward the south and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South.


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And say to the forest of the South, Hear the word of Jehovah. The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will kindle a fire in you and it will devour every green tree in you and every dry tree. The flaming flame will not be quenched and all faces from the south to the north will be burnt by it.


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Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem and drop your word toward the sanctuaries and prophesy against the land of Israel.


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And say to the land of Israel, Jehovah says thus: Behold, I am against you. And will draw forth my sword out of its sheath and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.


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<pb/>Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore my sword will go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north.


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And all flesh will know that I, Jehovah, have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath. It will not return any more.


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<pb/>Sigh therefore, you son of man. With the breaking of your loins and with bitterness you will sigh before their eyes.


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And it will be, when they say to you, Why do you sigh? That you will say, Because of the news. For it comes and every heart will melt and all hands will be feeble and every spirit will faint and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes and it will be done, says the lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, prophesy and say, Jehovah says thus: Say, A sword, a sword. It is sharpened and also furbished.


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It is sharpened that it may make a slaughter. It is polished that it may be as lightning. Shall we then rejoice? It scorns the scepter of my son, every tree.


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And it is given to be polished, that it may be handled. The sword, it is sharpened, yes, it is polished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.


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<pb/>Cry and wail, son of man, for it is upon my people. It is upon all the rulers of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with my people. Strike therefore upon your thigh.


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<pb/>You therefore, son of man, prophesy and kill* your hands together. And let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded. It is the sword of the great man who is deadly wounded, which enters into their chambers.


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<pb/>I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt and their stumblings be multiplied. Ah! It is made as lightning. It is pointed for slaughter.


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Gather you together. Go to the right. Set yourself in array. Go to the left, wherever your face is set.


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Also, you son of man, appoint you two ways that the sword of the king of Babylon may come. Those two will come forth out of one land. And mark out a place. Mark it out at the head of the way to the city.


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You will appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the sons of Ammon and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.


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<pb/>For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows to and fro. He consulted the household-idol. He looked in the liver.


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<pb/>In his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.


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And it will be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them. But he brings iniquity to remembrance, that they may be taken.


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<pb/>Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Because you* have made your* iniquity to be remembered, in that your* transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your* practices your* sins do appear, because you* have come to remembrance, you* will be taken with the hand.


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<pb/>And you, O deadly wounded wicked man, the ruler of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,


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thus says the lord Jehovah: Remove the miter and take off the crown. This will be no more the same. Exalt what is low and humble what is high.


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I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is. And I will give it.


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<pb/>And you, son of man, prophesy and say, The lord Jehovah says thus concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning their reproach. And you say, A sword, a sword is drawn. It is polished for the slaughter, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning,


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while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you upon the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.


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<pb/>Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, I will judge you.


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And I will pour out my indignation upon you. I will breathe fire of my wrath upon you and I will deliver you into the hand of stupid men, skillful to destroy.


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You will be for fuel to the fire. Your blood will be in the midst of the land. You will no more be remembered. For I, Jehovah, have spoken it.


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And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.


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<pb/>And you will say, The lord Jehovah says thus: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come and who makes idols against herself to defile her!


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You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed and are defiled in your idols which you have made. And you have caused your days to draw near and have come even to your years. <pb/>Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mocking to all the countries.


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Those that are near and those that are far from you, will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult.


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In you they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of you they have dealt with the traveler by oppression. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.


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Slanderers have been in you to shed blood and in you they have eaten upon the mountains. In the midst of you they have committed lewdness.


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In you they have uncovered their fathers' nakedness. In you they have humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.


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And one has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.


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<pb/>In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase. And you have greedily gained from your neighbors by oppression and have forgotten me, says the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.


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<pb/>Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, Jehovah, have spoken it and will do it.


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<pb/>And I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries and I will consume your filthiness out of you.


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And you will be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations. <pb/>And you will know that I am Jehovah.


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Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.


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<pb/>Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Because you* have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you* into the midst of Jerusalem


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as they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it. So I will gather you* in my anger and in my wrath and I will lay you* there and melt you*.


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Yes, I will gather you* and blow upon you* with the fire of my wrath and you* will be melted in the midst of it.


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<pb/>As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so you* will be melted in the midst of it. And you* will know that I, Jehovah, have poured out my wrath upon you*.


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Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.


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<pb/>There is a conspiracy by her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made her widows many in the midst of it.


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<pb/>Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, nor have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths and I am profaned among them.


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<pb/>Her rulers in the midst of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.


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<pb/>And her prophets have daubed with untempered mortar for them, seeing false visions and divining lies to them, saying, The lord Jehovah says thus, when Jehovah has not spoken.


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<pb/>The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have distressed the poor and needy man and have oppressed the traveler wrongfully.


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<pb/>And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.


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<pb/>Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way upon their heads, says the lord Jehovah.


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And they played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. There their breasts were pressed and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.


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<pb/>And the names of them were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister. And they became mine and they bore sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem Oholibah.


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<pb/>And Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,


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who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.


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And she bestowed her prostitutions upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them. <pb/>And on whomever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.


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Neither has she left her prostitutions since Egypt. For in her youth they lie with her and they handled the bosom of her virginity and they poured out their prostitution upon her.


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<pb/>Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.


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These uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters and they killed her with the sword. And she became a parable among women, for they executed judgments upon her.


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<pb/>And her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her doting than she and in her prostitutions which were more than the prostitutions of her sister.


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She doted upon the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.


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girded with belts upon their loins, with flowing turbans upon their heads, all of them rulers to look upon, according to the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their nativity.


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<pb/>So she uncovered her prostitutions and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her, just as my soul was alienated from her sister.


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Yet she multiplied her prostitutions, remembering the days of her youth in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.


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And she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys and whose seminal-discharge is like the seminal-discharge of horses.


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<pb/>Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth, in the handling of your bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of your youth.


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<pb/>Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the lord Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated and I will bring them against you on every side:


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the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and rulers all of them, rulers and men of renown, all of them riding upon horses.


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<pb/>And they will come against you with weapons, chariots and wagons and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you with buckler and shield and helmet all around. And I will commit the judgment to them and they will judge you according to their judgments.


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<pb/>And I will set my jealousy against you and they will deal with you in fury. They will take away your nose and your ears and your residue will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters and your residue will be devoured by the fire.


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<pb/>Thus I will make your lewdness to cease from you and your prostitution from the land of Egypt, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.


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<pb/>For thus says the lord Jehovah: Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of those whom you hate, into the hand of those from whom your soul is alienated.


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


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<pb/>These things will be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations and because you are polluted with their idols.


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The lord Jehovah says thus: You will drink of your sister's cup, which is deep and large. You will be laughed to scorn and have <i>more</i> scorning. It contains much.


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You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.


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You will even drink it and drain it out. And you will gnaw the shards of it and will tear your breasts, for I have spoken it, says the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitutions.


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<pb/>Jehovah said moreover to me, Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.


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For they have committed adultery and blood is in their hands. And with their idols they have committed adultery. And they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire for them to be devoured.


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<pb/>Moreover they have done this to me: They have defiled my sanctuary in the same day and have profaned my Sabbaths.


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<pb/>And furthermore you* have sent for men who come from far, to whom a messenger was sent. And behold, they came, for whom you washed yourself, painted your eyes and decked yourself with ornaments,


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and sat upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, you did set my incense and my oil upon it.


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<pb/>And the voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. And with men of the common sort, were brought drunkards from the wilderness and they put bracelets upon the hands of those two women and beautiful crowns upon their heads.


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<pb/>Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, Now they will play the prostitute with her and she with them.


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<pb/>And righteous men, they will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.


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<pb/>For thus says the lord Jehovah: I will bring up a company against them and will give them to be tossed to and fro and robbed.


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<pb/>Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be instructed not to do according to your* lewdness.


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Son of man, write the name of the day, even of this same day; the king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same day.


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<pb/>And utter a parable to the rebellious house and say to them, The lord Jehovah says thus: Set on the caldron. Set it on and also pour water into it.


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Gather the pieces of it into it, even every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.


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Take the choice of the flock and also a pile of wood for the bones under the caldron. Make it boil well, yes, let the bones of it is boiled in the midst of it.


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<pb/>Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is in it and whose rust has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece. No lot has fallen upon it.


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<pb/>For her blood is in the midst of her. She set it upon the bare rock. She did not pour it upon the ground to cover it with dust.


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That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood upon the bare rock, that it should not be covered.


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Heap on the wood; make the fire hot. Boil the flesh well and make the broth thick. And let the bones be burned.


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Then set it empty upon the coals of it, that it may be hot and the brass of it may burn and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.


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<pb/>She has wearied herself with toil, yet her great scum does not go forth out of her, her scum by fire.


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In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you and you were not cleansed, you will not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, till I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.


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<pb/>I, Jehovah, have spoken it. It will happen and I will do it. I will not go back. I will neither spare, nor will I relent. According to your ways and according to your practices, they will judge you, says the lord Jehovah.


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


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Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind your headdress upon you and put your shoes upon your feet. And do not cover your lips and do not eat the bread of men.


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<pb/>So I spoke to the people in the morning and at evening my wife died. And I did in the morning as I was commanded.


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Speak to the house of Israel, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your* power, the desire of your* eyes and what your* soul has compassion. And your* sons and your* daughters whom you* have left behind will fall by the sword.


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And your* coverings will be upon your* heads and your* shoes upon your* feet. You* will not mourn nor weep, but you* will pine away in your* iniquities and moan one toward another.


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Thus Ezekiel will be to you* a sign, according to all that he has done you* will do. <pb/>When this comes, then you* will know that I am the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>And you, son of man, will it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes and that upon which they set their heart — their sons and their daughters–


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<pb/>And say to the sons of Ammon, Hear the word of the lord Jehovah. The lord Jehovah says thus: Because you said, Aha, against my sanctuary when it was profaned and against the land of Israel when it was made desolate and against the house of Judah when they went into captivity,


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therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the sons of the east for a possession and they will set their encampments in you and make their dwellings in you. They will eat your fruit and they will drink your milk.


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And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels and the sons of Ammon a couching-place for flocks. <pb/>And you* will know that I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>For thus says the lord Jehovah: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped with the feet and rejoiced with all the spite of your soul against the land of Israel,


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therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand upon you and will deliver you for a spoil to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and I will cause you to perish out of the countries. I will destroy you. <pb/>And you will know that I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: Because Moab and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations,


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therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country — Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon and Kiriathaim–


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open to the sons of the east, against the sons of Ammon. And I will give them for a possession, that the sons of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance and has greatly offended and revenged himself upon them,


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therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: I will stretch out my hand upon Edom and will cut off man and beast from it and I will make it desolate. From Teman, even to Dedan they will fall by the sword.


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<pb/>And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel and they will do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath. And they will know my vengeance, says the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge and have taken vengeance with spite of soul to destroy with everlasting enmity,


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therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon the Philistines and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.


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And I will execute great vengeance upon them with wrathful rebukes. <pb/>And they will know that I am Jehovah when I will lay my vengeance upon them.


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<pb/>And it happened in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,


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Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken, the gate of the peoples. She has turned around to me. I will be replenished, now that she is laid waste,


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therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.


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<pb/>And they will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her and make her a bare rock.


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She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken it, says the lord Jehovah. <pb/>And she will become a spoil to the nations,


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and her daughters who are in the field will be slain with the sword. <pb/>And they will know that I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>For thus says the lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring upon Tyre, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses and with chariots and with horsemen and a company and many people.


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<pb/>He will kill your daughters in the field with the sword. And he will make forts against you and cast up a mound against you and raise up the buckler against you.


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And he will set his battering engines against your walls and with his axes he will break down your towers.


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<pb/>Because of the abundance of his horses their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and of the wagons and of the chariots, when he will enter into your gates, as men enter into a city in which a breach is made.


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<pb/>With the hoofs of his horses he will tread down all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword and the pillars of your strength will go down to the ground.


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And they will make a spoil of your riches and make a prey of your merchandise. And they will break down your walls and destroy your desirable houses and they will lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters.


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<pb/>And I will cause the roar of your songs to cease and the sound of your harps will no more be heard.


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And I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be built no more, for I Jehovah have spoken it, says the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus to Tyre: Shall not the isles shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of you?


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Then all the rulers of the sea will come down from their thrones and lie aside their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit upon the ground and will tremble every moment and be astonished at you.


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<pb/>And they will take up a lamentation over you and say to you, How you are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city that was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who dwelt there!


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Now the isles will tremble in the day of your fall. Yes, the isles that are in the sea will be dismayed at your departure.


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<pb/>For thus says the lord Jehovah: When I will make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I will bring up the deep upon you and the great waters will cover you,


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then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time and will make you to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you not be inhabited. And I will set glory in the land of the living.


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<pb/>I will make you a horror and you will no more have any being. Though you are sought for, yet you will not be found again everlasting, says the lord Jehovah.


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and say to Tyre, O you that dwells at the entry of the sea, that is the merchant of the peoples to many isles, thus says the lord Jehovah: you, O Tyre, have said, I am perfect in beauty.


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They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir. They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.


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Of the oaks of Bashan they have made your oars. They have made your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the isles of Kittim.


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Of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail, that it might be to you for an ensign. Blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was your awning.


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<pb/>The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers. Your wise men, O Tyre, were in you; they were your pilots.


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The old men of Gebal and the wise men of it were the repairers. All the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise.


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<pb/>Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war. They hung the shield and helmet in you. They set forth your comeliness.


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The men of Arvad with your army were upon your walls all around and valorous men were in your towers. They hung their shields upon your walls all around. They have perfected your beauty.


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<pb/>Tarshish was your merchant because of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin and lead. They traded for your wares.


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<pb/>Javan, Tubal and Meshech, they were your merchants. They traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for your merchandise.


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<pb/>The men of Dedan were your merchants. Many isles were the mart of your hand. They brought you in exchange horns of ivory and ebony.


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<pb/>Syria was your merchant because of the multitude of your handiworks. They traded for your wares with emeralds, purple and embroidered work and fine linen and coral and rubies.


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<pb/>Judah and the land of Israel, they were your merchants. They traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith and pannag   <n>{cakes?}</n>   and honey and oil and balm.


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<pb/>Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your handiworks, because of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine of Helbon and white wool.


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<pb/>Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares. Bright iron, cassia and cane, were among your merchandise.


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<pb/>Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar, they were the merchants of your hand, in lambs and rams and goats. In these they were your merchants.


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<pb/>The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were your merchants. They traded for your wares with the chief of all spices and with all precious stones and gold.


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<pb/>These were your merchants in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and embroidered work and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise.


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<pb/>The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise. And you were replenished and made very glorious in the heart of the seas


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<pb/>Your rowers have brought you into great waters. The east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.


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Your riches and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners and your pilots, your repairers and the dealers in your merchandise and all your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is in the midst of you, will fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.


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and will cause their voice to be heard over you and will cry bitterly and will cast up dust upon their heads. They will wallow themselves in the ashes.


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And they will make themselves bald for you and gird with sackcloth and they will weep for you in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.


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<pb/>And in their wailing they will take up a lamentation for you and lament over you, saying, Who is there like Tyre, like her that is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?


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When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many peoples. You enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise.


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<pb/>In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company fell in the midst of you.


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All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at you and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their countenance.


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The merchants among the peoples hiss at you. You have become a horror and you <i>will</i> not <i>be</i> until everlasting.


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Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, The lord Jehovah says thus: Because your heart is lifted up and you have said, I am a god. I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas. Yet you are man and not God, though you did set your heart as the heart of God.


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By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you riches and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures.


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By your great wisdom and by your traffic you have increased your riches. And your heart is lifted up because of your riches.


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therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you, the terrible of the nations and they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and they will defile your brightness.


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They will bring you down to the pit and you will die the death of those who are slain, in the heart of the seas.


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<pb/>Will you yet say before him who slays you, I am God? But you are man and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.


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You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers. For I have spoken it, says the lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and say to him, The lord Jehovah says thus: You seal up the sum, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.


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<pb/>You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was your covering, the ruby, the topaz and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald and the carbuncle and gold. The workmanship of your tambourine and of your pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared.


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<pb/>You were the anointed cherub who covers. And I set you, so that you were upon the holy mountain of God. You have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.


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<pb/>You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, till unrighteousness was found in you.


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<pb/>By the abundance of your commerce they filled the midst of you with violence and you have sinned. Therefore I have cast you out of the mountain of God as profane and I have destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.


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<pb/>Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have corrupted your wisdom because of your brightness. I have cast you to the ground. I have laid you before kings, that they may behold you.


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<pb/>By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your commerce, you have profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought out a fire from the midst of you. It has devoured you and I have turned you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all those who behold you.


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<pb/>All those who know you among the peoples will be astonished at you. You have become a horror and you will not be until everlasting.


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and say, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I am against you, O Sidon. And I will be glorified in the midst of you. <pb/>And they will know that I am Jehovah, when I will have executed judgments in her and will be made holy in her.


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For I will send pestilence into her and blood into her streets. And the wounded will fall in the midst of her, with the sword upon her on every side. <pb/>And they will know that I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>And there will no more be a prickling brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any who are all around them, who did spite to them. <pb/>And they will know that I am the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: When I will have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered and will be made holy in them in the sight of the nations, then they will dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob.


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<pb/>And they will dwell securely in it. Yes, they will build houses and plant vineyards and will dwell securely, when I have executed judgments upon all those who do them spite all around them. <pb/>And they will know that I am Jehovah their God.


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<pb/>In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,


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


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Speak and say, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh King of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, My river is my own and I have made it for myself.


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<pb/>And I will put hooks in your jaws and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.


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And I will cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You will fall upon the open field. You will not be brought together, nor gathered. I have given you for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens.


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<pb/>And all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Jehovah, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.


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When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders. And when they leaned upon you, you broke and made all their loins to be at a stand still.


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<pb/>Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring a sword upon you and will cut off from you man and beast.


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And the land of Egypt will be a desolation and a waste. <pb/>And they will know that I am Jehovah. <pb/>Because he has said, The river is mine and I have made it,


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therefore, behold, I am against you and against your rivers. And I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the Migdol <i>to</i> Syene, even to the border of Ethiopia.


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No foot of man will pass through it, nor foot of beast will pass through it. Neither will it be inhabited forty years.


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<pb/>And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are desolate. And her cities among the cities that are laid waste will be a desolation forty years. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and will disperse them through the countries.


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<pb/>For thus says the lord Jehovah: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered,


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and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth. <pb/>And they will be a base kingdom there.


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It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, nor will it lift itself up any more above the nations. And I will diminish them, that they will no more rule over the nations.


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And it will be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to remembrance, when they turn to look after them. <pb/>And they will know that I am the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>And it happened in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,


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Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder was worn, yet he had no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.


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<pb/>Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and he will carry off her multitude and take her spoil and take her prey. And it will be the wages for his army.


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I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he served, because they worked for me, says the lord Jehovah


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<pb/>In that day I will cause a horn to bud forth to the house of Israel and I will give you the opening of the mouth in the midst of them. And they will know that I am Jehovah.


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For the day is near, even the day of Jehovah is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.


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<pb/>And a sword will come upon Egypt and anguish will be in Ethiopia, when the slain will fall in Egypt and they will take away her multitude and her foundations will be broken down.


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Ethiopia and Put and Lud and all the mixed people and Cub and the sons of the land that is in league, will fall with them by the sword.


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<pb/>Jehovah says thus: They who also uphold Egypt will fall and the pride of her power will come down. From the Migdol to Syene, they will fall in it by the sword, says the lord Jehovah.


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And they will be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate and her cities will be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.


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<pb/>And they will know at I am Jehovah when I have set a fire in Egypt and all her helpers are destroyed.


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In that day messengers will go forth from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid and there will be anguish upon them, as in the day of Egypt, for behold, it comes.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.


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He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. And they will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.


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And I will make the rivers dry and will sell the land into the hand of evil men. And I will make the land desolate and all that is in it, by the hand of strangers. <pb/>I, Jehovah, have spoken it.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: I will also destroy the idols and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis. And there will no more be a ruler from the land of Egypt. And I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.


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<pb/>And I will make Pathros desolate and will set a fire in Zoan and will execute judgments upon No.


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And I will set a fire in Egypt. Sin will be in great anguish and No will be broken up and Memphis will have adversaries in the daytime.


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The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth will fall by the sword and these cities will go into captivity.


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At Tehaphnehes also the day will withdraw itself when I will break the yokes of Egypt there and the pride of her power will cease in her. As for her, a cloud will cover her and her daughters will go into captivity.


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<pb/>And it happened in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,


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Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh King of Egypt. And behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it is strong to hold the sword.


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<pb/>Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against Pharaoh King of Egypt. And I will break his arms, the strong arm and what was broken and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.


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<pb/>And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand. But I will break the arms of Pharaoh and he will groan before him with the groanings of a mortally wounded man.


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<pb/>And I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon and the arms of Pharaoh will fall down. And they will know that I am Jehovah when I will put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he will stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.


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<pb/>And it happened in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,


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<pb/>Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches and with a forest-like shade and of high stature and its top was among the thick branches.


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The waters nourished it. The deep made it to grow. The rivers of it ran all around its plantation and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.


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<pb/>Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field and its boughs were multiplied and its branches became long because of many waters, when it shot them forth.


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All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs and under its branches all the beasts of the field brought out their young and under its shadow dwelt all great nations.


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<pb/>Thus it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches, for its root was by many waters.


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The cedars in the garden of God could not dim it. The fir trees were not like its boughs and the plane trees were not as its branches, nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.


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<pb/>I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.


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<pb/>Therefore thus said the lord Jehovah: Because you are exalted in stature and he has set his top among the thick branches and his heart is lifted up in his height,


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I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He will surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness.


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<pb/>And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off and have left him. Upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land. And all the peoples of the earth have gone down from his shadow and have left him.


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to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick branches, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, even all that drink water. For they are all delivered to death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning. I covered the deep for him. And I restrained the rivers of it and the great waters were stayed. And I caused Lebanon to mourn for him and all the trees of the field fainted for him.


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<pb/>I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the nether parts of the earth.


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<pb/>To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the nether parts of the earth. You will lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>And it happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,


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Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh King of Egypt and say to him, You were compared to a young lion of the nations. Yet you are as a monster in the seas and you broke forth with your rivers and troubled the waters with your feet and fouled their rivers.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: I will spread out my net upon you with a company of many peoples and they will bring you up in my net.


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And I will leave you upon the land. I will cast you forth upon the open field and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle upon you and I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with you.


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I will also water the land, in which you swim, with your blood, even to the mountains. And the watercourses will be full of you.


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<pb/>And when I will extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and make the stars of it dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud and the moon will not give its light.


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All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you and set darkness upon your land, says the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>I will also distress the hearts of many peoples when I will bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.


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Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you. And their kings will be horribly afraid for you when I will brandish my sword before them. And they will tremble at every moment, each man for his own life, in the day of your fall.


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By the swords of the mighty I will cause your multitude to fall. They are all the terrible of the nations. And they will bring to nothing the pride of Egypt and all the multitude of it will be destroyed.


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<pb/>I will destroy also all the beasts of it from beside many waters. Neither the foot of man will trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.


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<pb/>Then I will make their waters clear and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the lord Jehovah.


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When I will make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that of which it was full, when I will kill* all those who dwell in it, then they will know that I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>This is the lamentation with which they will lament. The daughters of the nations will lament with that over Egypt and over all her multitude. They will lament with that, says the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>It happened also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,


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Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt and cast them down, even her and the daughters of the famous nations, to the nether parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.


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They will fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her away and all her multitudes.


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The strong among the mighty will speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with those who help him. They have gone down. They lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.


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whose graves are set in the outermost parts of the pit. And her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.


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<pb/>There is Elam and all her multitude all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.


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<pb/>They have set a bed for her in the midst of the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are all around her, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword. For their terror was caused in the land of the living and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. He is put in the midst of those who are slain.


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<pb/>There is Meshech, Tubal and all their multitude. Their graves are all around them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, for they caused their terror in the land of the living.


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<pb/>And they will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war and have laid their swords under their heads. But their iniquities are upon their bones, for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.


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<pb/>But you will be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised and will lie with those who are slain by the sword.


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<pb/>There is Edom, its kings and all its rulers, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword. They will lie with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the pit.


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<pb/>There are the rulers of the north, all of them and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain. In the terror which they caused by their might they are put to shame. And they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.


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<pb/>Pharaoh will see them and will be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, says the lord Jehovah.


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For I have put his terror in the land of the living and he will be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, speak to the sons of your people and say to them, When I bring the sword upon a land and the people of the land take a man from among them and set him for their watchman,


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then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and takes no warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood will be upon his own head.


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<pb/>He heard the sound of the trumpet and took no warning; his blood will be upon him. But if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul.


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<pb/>But if the watchman sees the sword come and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at the watchman's hand.


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<pb/>So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word at my mouth and give them warning from me.


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When I say to the wicked man, O wicked man, you will surely die and you do not speak to warn the wicked man from his way, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at your hand.


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<pb/>Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked man of his way to turn from it and he does not turn from his way, he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.


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<pb/>And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, You* speak thus, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live?


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<pb/>Say to them, As I live, says the lord Jehovah, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, but that the wicked man turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your* evil ways, for why will you* die, O house of Israel?


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<pb/>And you, son of man, say to the sons of your people, The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression. And as for the wickedness of the wicked man, he will not fall by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness, nor will he who is righteous be able to live by it in the day that he sins.


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<pb/>When I say to the righteous man, that he will surely live, if he trusts his righteousness and commits unrighteousness, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered, but in his unrighteousness that he has committed, in it he will die.


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<pb/>Again, when I say to the wicked man, You will surely die, if he turns from his sin and does what is lawful and right,


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if the wicked man restores the pledge, gives again what he had taken by robbery, walks in the statutes of life, committing no unrighteousness, he will surely live; he will not die.


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<pb/>None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done what is lawful and right; he will surely live.


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<pb/>Yet the sons of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equitable. But as for them, their way is not equitable.


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<pb/>When the righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits unrighteousness, he will even die in it.


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And when the wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is lawful and right, he will live by it.


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<pb/>Yet you* say, The way of the Lord is not equitable. O house of Israel, I will judge you* everyone according to his ways.


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<pb/>And it happened in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that a man who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city is struck.


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<pb/>Now the hand of Jehovah had been upon me in the evening, before he who escaped came. And he had opened my mouth until he came to me in the morning. And my mouth was opened and I was no more mute.


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Son of man, those who inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one and he inherited the land, but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance


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<pb/>Therefore say to them, The lord Jehovah says thus: You* eat with the blood and lift up your* eyes to your* idols and shed blood. And will you* possess the land?


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You* stand upon your* sword, you* work abomination and you* defile every man his neighbor's wife. And will you* possess the land?


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<pb/>Thus you will say to them. The lord Jehovah says thus: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places will fall by the sword and he who is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves will die of the pestilence.


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<pb/>And I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment. And the pride of her power will cease. And the mountains of Israel will be desolate, so that none will pass through.


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<pb/>Then they will know that I am Jehovah when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed.


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<pb/>And as for you, son of man, the sons of your people talk of you by the walls and in the doors of the houses and speak one to another, each one to his brother, saying, Come, I beseech you* and hear what is the word that comes forth from Jehovah.


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<pb/>And they come to you as the people come and they sit before you as my people. And they hear your words, but do not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.


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<pb/>And behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of he who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument. For they hear your words, but they do not do them.


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<pb/>And when this occurs, (behold, it comes), then they will know that a prophet has been among them.


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Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the sheep?


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<pb/>You* eat the fat and you* clothe yourselves with the wool. You* kill the fattened-ones, but you* do not feed the sheep.


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You* have not strengthened the diseased, nor have you* healed what was sick, nor have you* bound up what was broken, nor have you* brought back what was driven away, nor have you* sought what was lost, but you* have ruled over them with force and with rigor.


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<pb/>And they were scattered because there was no shepherd. And they became food to all the beasts of the field and were scattered.


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My sheep wandered through all the mountains and upon every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered upon all the face of the earth and there was none who searched or sought.


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As I live, says the lord Jehovah, surely inasmuch as my sheep became a prey and my sheep became food to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed my sheep,


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I am against the shepherds and I will require my sheep at their hand and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep. Neither will the shepherds feed themselves any more and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.


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<pb/>For thus says the lord Jehovah: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep and will seek them out.


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As a shepherd seeks out his flock, in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.


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<pb/>And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses and in all the inhabited places of the country.


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I will feed them with good pasture and their fold will be upon the mountains of the height of Israel. There they will lie down in a good fold and on fat pasture they will feed upon the mountains of Israel.


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<pb/>I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep and I will cause them to lie down, says the lord Jehovah.


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I will seek what was lost and will bring back what was driven away and will bind up what was broken and will strengthen what was sick, but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.


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<pb/>And as for you*, O my flock, thus says the lord Jehovah: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male-goats.


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<pb/>Does it seem a small thing to you* to have fed upon the good pasture, but you* must tread down with your* feet the residue of your* pasture and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you* must foul the residue with your* feet?


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And as for my sheep, they eat what you* have trodden with your* feet and they drink what you* have fouled with your* feet.


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<pb/>Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.


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Because you* thrust with side and with shoulder and push all the diseased with your* horns, till you* have scattered them abroad,


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therefore I will save my flock and they will no more be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep.


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<pb/>And I will set up one shepherd over them and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them and he will be their shepherd.


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And I, Jehovah, will be their God and my servant David ruler among them. I, Jehovah, have spoken it.


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<pb/>And I will make a covenant of peace with them and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land and they will dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.


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And I will make them and the places all around my hill a blessing and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there will be showers of blessing.


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<pb/>And the tree of the field will yield its fruit and the earth will yield its increase and they will be secure in their land. And they will know that I am Jehovah when I have broken the bars of their yoke and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made bondmen of them.


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<pb/>And they will no more be a prey to the nations, nor will the beasts of the earth devour them, but they will dwell securely and none will make them afraid.


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And I will raise up to them a plantation for renown and they will no more be consumed with famine in the land, nor bear the shame of the nations any more.


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<pb/>And they will know that I, Jehovah, their God am with them and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the lord Jehovah.


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And say to it, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir and I will stretch out my hand against you and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.


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<pb/>Because you have had a everlasting enmity and have given over the sons of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end,


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therefore, as I live, says the lord Jehovah, I will prepare you to blood and blood will pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue you.


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<pb/>Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation and I will cut off from it he who passes through and he who returns.


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And I will fill its mountains with its slain. In your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses will fall who are slain with the sword.


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I will make you a everlasting desolation and your cities will not be inhabited. <pb/>And you* will know that I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries will be mine and we will possess it, and Jehovah was there,


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therefore, as I live, says the lord Jehovah, I will do according to your anger and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them. And I will make myself known among them when I will judge you.


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<pb/>And you will know that I, Jehovah, have heard all your revilings which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate. They are given us to devour.


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And you* have magnified yourselves against me with your* mouth and made your* words abundant against me. I have heard it.


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As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, O Mount Seir and all Edom, even all of it. And they will know that I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, You* mountains of Israel, hear the word of Jehovah.


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The lord Jehovah says thus: Because the enemy has said against you*, Aha! and, The high places of old are ours in possession,


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therefore prophesy and say, The lord Jehovah says thus: Because, even because they have made you* desolate and swallowed you* up on every side, that you* might be a possession to the residue of the nations and you* are taken up in the lips of talkers and the evil report of the people,


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therefore, you* mountains of Israel, hear the word of the lord Jehovah. <pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which have become a prey and scorning to the residue of the nations that are all around,


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therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the residue of the nations and against all Edom, who have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with spite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.


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<pb/>Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you* have borne the shame of the nations.


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Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: I have sworn, saying, Surely the nations that are all around you*, they will bear their shame.


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<pb/>But you*, O mountains of Israel, you* will shoot forth your* branches and yield your* fruit to my people Israel, for they are at hand to come.


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<pb/>And I will multiply men upon you*, all the house of Israel, even all of it and the cities will be inhabited and the waste places will be built.


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And I will multiply upon you* man and beast and they will increase and be fruitful.And I will cause you* to be inhabited according to your* former estate and will do better to you* than at your* beginnings. And you* will know that I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>Yes, I will cause men to walk upon you*, even my people Israel and they will possess you and you will be their inheritance and you will no more hereafter bereave them of sons.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: Because they say to you*, You O land are a devourer of men and have been bereaved your nation,


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Neither will I let you hear any more the shame of the nations, nor will you bear the reproach of the peoples any more, nor will you cause your nation to stumble any more, says the lord Jehovah.


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Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their practices. Their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.


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<pb/>Therefore I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood which they had poured out upon the land and because they had defiled it with their idols.


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And I scattered them among the nations and they were dispersed through the countries. I judged them according to their way and according to their practices.


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<pb/>And when they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name, in that men said of them, These are the people of Jehovah and have gone forth out of his land.


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But I had regard for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.


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<pb/>Therefore say to the house of Israel, The lord Jehovah says thus: I do this not for your* sake, O house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you* have profaned among the nations where you* went.


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And I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you* have profaned in the midst of them. <pb/>And the nations will know that I am Jehovah, says the lord Jehovah, when I will be made holy in you* before their eyes.


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<pb/>For I will take you* from among the nations and gather you* out of all the countries and will bring you* into your* own land.


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And I will sprinkle clean water upon you* and you* will be clean. I will cleanse you* from all your* filthiness and from all your* idols.


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<pb/>I will also give you* a new heart and I will put a new spirit within you*. And I will take away the stony heart out of your* flesh and I will give you* a heart of flesh.


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And I will put my Spirit within you* and cause you* to walk in my statutes and you* will keep my ordinances and do them.


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<pb/>And you* will dwell in the land that I gave to your* fathers and you* will be my people and I will be your* God.


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And I will save you* from all your* uncleannesses. And I will call for the grain and will multiply it and lay no famine upon you*.


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And I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field, that you* may no more receive the reproach of famine among the nations.


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<pb/>Then you* will remember your* evil ways and your* practices that were not good. And you* will loathe yourselves in your* own sight for your* iniquities and for your* abominations.


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I do this not for your* sake, says the lord Jehovah; be it known to you*. Be ashamed and confounded for your* ways, O house of Israel.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: In the day that I cleanse you* from all your* iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited and the waste places will be built.


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And the land that was desolate will be tilled, rather than a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.


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And they will say, This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. And the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.


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<pb/>Then the nations that are left all aroundyou* will know that I, Jehovah, have built the ruined places and planted what was desolate. I, Jehovah, have spoken it and I will do it.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them. I will increase them with men like a flock.


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As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so will the waste cities be filled with flocks of men. And they will know that I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>The hand of Jehovah was upon me and he brought me out in the Spirit of Jehovah and set me down in the midst of the valley and it was full of bones.


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<pb/>And he caused me to pass by them all around. And behold, there were very many in the open valley, and behold, they were very dry.


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<pb/>Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones and say to them, O you* dry bones, hear the word of Jehovah.


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The lord Jehovah says thus to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you* and you* will live.


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And I will lay muscles upon you* and will bring up flesh upon you* and cover you* with skin and put breath in you* and you* will live. <pb/>And you* will know that I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, an earthquake and the bones came together, bone to its bone.


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And I beheld, and behold, there were muscles upon them and flesh came up and skin covered them above, but there was no breath in them.


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<pb/>Then he said to me, Prophesy to the wind. Prophesy, son of man and say to the wind, The lord Jehovah says thus: Come from the four winds, O breath and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.


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<pb/>So I prophesied as he commanded me and the breath came into them and they lived and stood up upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.


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<pb/>Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried up and our hope is lost. We are clean cut off.


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<pb/>Therefore prophesy and say to them, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will open your* graves and cause you* to come up out of your* graves, O my people and I will bring you* into the land of Israel.


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<pb/>And you* will know that I am Jehovah when I have opened your* graves and caused you* to come up out of your* graves, O my people.


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And I will put my Spirit in you* and you* will live. And I will place you* in your* own land. And you* will know that I, Jehovah, have spoken it and performed it, says Jehovah.


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And you, son of man, take one stick and write upon it, For Judah and for the sons of Israel his companions. Then take another stick and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions.


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<pb/>And when the sons of your people will speak to you, saying, Will you not show us what you mean by these?


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say to them, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel his companions and I will put them with it, even with the stick of Judah and make them one stick and they will be one in my hand.


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<pb/>And say to them, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone and will gather them on every side and bring them into their own land.


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And I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel and one king will be king to them all. And they will no more be two nations, nor will they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.


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<pb/>Neither will they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions, but I will save them out of all their dwelling-places in which they have sinned and will cleanse them. So they will be my people and I will be their God.


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<pb/>And my servant David will be king over them and they all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances and observe my statutes and do them.


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And they will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your* fathers dwelt. And they will dwell in it, they and their sons and their son's sons, everlasting. And David my servant will be their ruler everlasting.


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<pb/>Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them and I will place them and multiply them and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them everlasting.


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<pb/>And the nations will know that I am Jehovah, who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary will be in the midst of them everlasting.


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


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And say, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, ruler of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal.


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<pb/>And I will turn you around and put hooks into your jaws and I will bring you forth and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords,


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Gomer and all his hordes, the house of Togarmah in the outermost parts of the north and all his hordes, even many peoples with you.


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<pb/>Be prepared. Yes, prepare yourself, you and all your companies that are assembled to you and be a guard to them.


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After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, upon the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste, but it is brought forth out of the peoples and they will dwell securely, all of them.


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<pb/>And you will ascend. You will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud to cover the land, you and all your hordes and many peoples with you.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: It will happen in that day, that things will come into your mind and you will devise an evil plan.


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<pb/>And you will say, I will go up to the land of un-walled villages. I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls and having neither bars nor gates,


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to take the spoil and to take the prey, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten cattle and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.


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<pb/>Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, will say to you, Have you come to take the spoil? Have you assembled your company to take the prey, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take great spoil?


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<pb/>Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, The lord Jehovah says thus: In that day when my people Israel dwell securely, will you not know it?


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<pb/>And you will come from your place out of the outermost parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding upon horses, a great company and a mighty army.


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And you will come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land. It will happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I will be made holy in you, O Gog, before their eyes.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them?


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<pb/>And it will happen in that day, when Gog will come against the land of Israel, says the lord Jehovah, that my wrath will come up into my nostrils.


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For I have spoken in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath. <pb/>Surely in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel,


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so that the fishes of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep upon the earth and all the men who are upon the face of the earth, will shake at my presence. And the mountains will be thrown down and the steep places will fall and every wall will fall to the ground.


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<pb/>And I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains, says the lord Jehovah. Every man's sword will be against his brother.


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And I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood. And I will rain upon him and upon his hordes and upon the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower and great hailstones, fire and brimstone.


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<pb/>And I will magnify myself and sanctify myself and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations. And they will know that I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, ruler of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal.


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And I will turn you around and will lead you on and will cause you to come up from the outermost parts of the north and I will bring you upon the mountains of Israel.


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<pb/>And I will kill* your bow out of your left hand and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.


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You will fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your hordes and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.


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And I will send a fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the isles. <pb/>And they will know that I am Jehovah.


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<pb/>And I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel, nor will I allow my holy name to be profaned any more. And the nations will know that I am Jehovah, the Holy One in Israel.


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Behold, it comes and it will be done, says the lord Jehovah. This is the day of which I have spoken.


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<pb/>And those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go forth and will make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows and the hand staves and the spears. And they will make fires of them seven years,


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so that they will take no wood out of the field, nor cut down any out of the forests, for they will make fires of the weapons. And they will plunder those who plundered them and rob those who robbed them, says the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>And it will happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel: the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea. And it will stop those who pass through and they will bury Gog and all his multitude there. And they will call it The valley of Hamon-gog.


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Yes, all the people of the land will bury them and it will be to them a renown in the day that I will be glorified, says the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>And they will set apart men who will continual pass through the land. And with those who pass through, those that bury those who remain upon the face of the land, to cleanse it, after the end of seven months they will search.


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<pb/>And you, son of man, thus says the lord Jehovah: Speak to the birds of every sort and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves and come. Gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you*, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that you* may eat flesh and drink blood.


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<pb/>You* will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the rulers of the earth, of rams, of lambs and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatten <i>sheep</i> of Bashan.


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And you* will eat fat till you* are full and drink blood till you* are drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you*.


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And you* will be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men and with all men of war, says the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>And I will set my glory among the nations. And all the nations will see my judgment that I have executed and my hand that I have laid upon them.


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<pb/>And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they trespassed against me and I hid my face from them. So I gave them into the hand of their adversaries and they fell all of them by the sword.


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I did to them according to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions. And I hid my face from them.


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<pb/>Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Now I will bring back the captivity of Jacob and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel. And I will be jealous for my holy name.


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<pb/>And they will bear their shame and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they will dwell securely in their land. And none will make them afraid


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when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies' lands and am made holy in them in the sight of many nations.


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<pb/>And they will know that I am Jehovah their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations and have gathered them to their own land. And I will leave none of them any more there,


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nor will I hide my face any more from them. For I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, says the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck, in the same day, the hand of Jehovah was upon me and he brought me there.


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He brought me in the visions of God into the land of Israel and set me down upon a very high mountain, upon which was as it were the frame of a city on the south.


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<pb/>And he brought me there, and behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand and a measuring reed. And he stood in the gate.


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<pb/>And the man said to me, Son of man, behold with your eyes and hear with your ears and set your heart upon all that I will show you. For you are brought here to the intent that I may show them to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.


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<pb/>And behold, a wall on the outside of the house all around and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each. So he measured the thickness of the building, one reed and the height, one reed.


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<pb/>Then he came to the gate which looks toward the east and went up the steps of it. And he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad and the other threshold, one reed broad.


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And every little chamber was one reed long and one reed broad and the space between the little chambers was five cubits. And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.


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Then he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits and the posts of it, two cubits. And the porch of the gate was toward the house.


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And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side and three on that side; those three were of one measure. And the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.


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And he measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits,


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and a border before the little chambers, one cubit on this side and a border, one cubit on that side and the little chambers, six cubits on this side and six cubits on that side.


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And he measured the gate from the roof of the one little chamber to the roof of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits, door against door.


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And from the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.


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And there were closed windows to the little chambers and to their posts within the gate all around and likewise to the arches. And windows were all around inward and upon each post were palm trees.


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<pb/>Then he brought me into the outer court. And behold, there were chambers and a pavement, made for the court all around; thirty chambers were upon the pavement.


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And the pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.


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Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, a hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north.


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And the gate of the outer court whose view is toward the north, he measured the length of it and the breadth of it.


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And the little chambers of it were three on this side and three on that side. And the posts of it and the arches of it were according to the measure of the first gate: the length of it was fifty cubits and the breadth twenty-five cubits.


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And the windows of it and the arches of it and the palm trees of it, were according to the measure of the gate whose view is toward the east. And they went up to it by seven steps and the arches of it were before them.


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And there was a gate to the inner court opposite the other gate, both on the north and on the east and he measured from gate to gate a hundred cubits.


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<pb/>And he led me toward the south. And behold, a gate toward the south. And he measured the posts of it and the arches of it according to these measures.


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And there were windows in it and in the arches of it all around, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits and the breadth twenty-five cubits.


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


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And there was a gate to the inner court toward the south. And he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.


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<pb/>Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. And he measured the south gate according to these measures,


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and the little chambers of it and the posts of it and the arches of it, according to these measures. And there were windows in it and in the arches of it all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits broad.


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And the arches of it were toward the outer court and palm trees were upon the posts of it. And the ascent to it had eight steps.


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<pb/>And he brought me into the inner court toward the east. And he measured the gate according to these measures,


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And the arches of it were toward the outer court and palm trees were upon the posts of it, on this side and on that side. And the ascent to it had eight steps.


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the little chambers of it, the posts of it and the arches of it. And there were windows in it all around. The length was fifty cubits and the breadth twenty-five cubits.


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And the posts of it were toward the outer court and palm trees were upon the posts of it, on this side and on that side. And the ascent to it had eight steps.


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And a chamber with the door of it was by the posts at the gates. There they washed the burnt offering.


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And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, to kill on it the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.


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And on the one side outside, at the going up to the entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables.


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Four tables were on this side and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate, eight tables, upon which they killed the sacrifices.


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And there were four tables for the burnt offering, of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long and a cubit and a half broad and one cubit high, upon which they laid the instruments of which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice.


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And the hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened inside all around. And upon the tables was the flesh of the oblation.


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<pb/>And outside the inner gate were chambers for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate and their view was toward the south, one at the side of the east gate having the view toward the north.


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<pb/>And he said to me, This chamber, whose view is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.


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And the chamber whose view is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to Jehovah to minister to him.


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<pb/>And he measured the court, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits broad, square. And the altar was before the house.


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<pb/>Then he brought me to the porch of the house and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side. And the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side.


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The length of the porch was twenty cubits and the breadth eleven cubits, even by the steps by which they went up to it. And there were pillars by the posts, one on this side and another on that side.


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<pb/>And he brought me to the temple and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.


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And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits. And the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side and five cubits on the other side. And he measured the length of it, forty cubits and the breadth, twenty cubits.


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<pb/>Then he went inward and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits and the entrance, six cubits and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits.


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And he measured the length of it, twenty cubits and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple. And he said to me, This is the most holy place.


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<pb/>Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, all around the house on every side.


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And the side-chambers were in three stories, one over another and thirty in order. And they entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side-chambers all around, that they might be attached to it and not be attached to the wall of the house.


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And the side-chambers were broader as they circled the house higher and higher, for the circling of the house went higher and higher all around the house. Therefore the breadth of the house continued upward and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the middle chamber.


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<pb/>I also saw that the house had a raised basement all around. The foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.


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The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers, on the outside, was five cubits. And what was left was the place of the side-chambers that belonged to the house.


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And the doors of the side-chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north and another door toward the south. And the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits all around.


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<pb/>And the building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around and the length of it ninety cubits.


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<pb/>So he measured the house, a hundred cubits long and the separate place and the building, with the walls of it, a hundred cubits long,


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also the breadth of the face of the house and of the separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits.


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<pb/>And he measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at the back of it and the galleries of it on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits and the inner temple and the porches of the court,


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the thresholds and the closed windows and the galleries all around on their three stories, opposite the threshold, paneled with wood all around and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),


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to the space above the door, even to the inner house and outside and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure.


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And it was made with cherubim and palm trees and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub. And every cherub had two faces,


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so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side, made through all the house all around.


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Cherubim and palm trees were made from the ground to above the door. Thus was the wall of the temple.


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<pb/>As for the temple, the door-posts were squared. And as for the face of the sanctuary, the appearance was as the appearance of the temple.


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<pb/>The altar was of wood, three cubits high and the length of it two cubits and the corners of it and the length of it and the walls of it, were of wood. And he said to me, This is the table that is before Jehovah.


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


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And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, just as were made upon the walls. And there was a threshold of wood upon the face of the porch outside.


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And there were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch. Thus were the side-chambers of the house and the thresholds.


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<pb/>Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north. And he brought me into the chamber that was opposite the separate place and which was opposite the building toward the north.


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Opposite the twenty which belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story.


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And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, a way of one cubit and their doors were toward the north.


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Now the upper chambers were shorter, for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.


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For they were in three stories and they did not have pillars as the pillars of the courts. Therefore the uppermost was narrowed more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.


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And the wall that was outside by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, the length of it was fifty cubits.


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For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits. And behold, of those on the front of the temple were a hundred cubits.


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And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as going into them from the outer court.


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In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place and before the building, there were chambers.


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And the way before them was like the appearance of the way of the chambers which were toward the north. According to their length so was their breadth. And all their exits were both according to their fashions and according to their doors.


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And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as entering into them.


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<pb/>Then he said to me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they are the holy chambers, where the priests that are near to Jehovah will eat the most holy things. There they will lay the most holy things and the meal offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering, for the place is holy.


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When the priests enter in, then they will not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but they will lay their garments there in which they minister, for they are holy. And they will put on other garments and will approach to what pertains to the people.


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<pb/>Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose view is toward the east and measured it all around.


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He measured on the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.


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He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall all around, the length five hundred and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between what was holy and what was common.


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And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. And his voice was like the sound of many waters and the earth shone with his glory.


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And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city. And the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar. And I fell upon my face.


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<pb/>And the glory of Jehovah came into the house by the way of the gate whose view is toward the east.


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And the Spirit took me up and brought me into the inner court, and behold, the glory of Jehovah filled the house.


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And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel everlasting. And the house of Israel will no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places,


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in their setting of their threshold by my threshold and their door-post beside my door-post and there was but the wall between me and them. And they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed. Therefore I have consumed them in my anger.


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Now let them put away their prostitution and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me and I will dwell in the midst of them everlasting.


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<pb/>You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities and let them measure the pattern.


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And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house and the fashion of it and the exits of it and the entrances of it and all the forms of it and all the ordinances of it and all the forms of it and all the laws of it. And write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form of it and all the ordinances of it and do them.


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<pb/>This is the law of the house. Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit of it all around will be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.


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<pb/>And these are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth). The bottom will be a cubit and the breadth a cubit and the border of it by the edge of it all around a span. And this will be the base of the altar.


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And from the bottom upon the ground to the lower ledge will be two cubits and the breadth one cubit. And from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge will be four cubits and the breadth a cubit.


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And the upper altar will be four cubits. And from the altar hearth and upward there will be four horns.


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And the ledge will be fourteen long by fourteen broad in the four sides of it. And the border about it will be half a cubit and the bottom of it will be a cubit all around. And the steps of it will look toward the east.


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<pb/>And he said to me, Son of man, thus says the lord Jehovah: These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they will make it, to offer burnt offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it.


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You will give to the priests the Levites who are of the seed of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me, says the lord Jehovah, a young bullock for a sin offering.


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And you will take of the blood of it and put it on the four horns of it and on the four corners of the ledge and upon the border all around. Thus you will cleanse it and make atonement for it.


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You will also take the bullock of the sin offering and it will be burnt in the appointed place of the house, outside the sanctuary.


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<pb/>And on the second day you will offer a male-goat without blemish for a sin offering. And they will cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bullock.


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When you have made an end of cleansing it, you will offer a young bullock without blemish and a ram out of the flock without blemish.


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And you will bring them near before Jehovah and the priests will cast salt upon them and they will offer them up for a burnt offering to Jehovah.


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<pb/>Seven days you will prepare each day a goat for a sin offering. They will also prepare a young bullock and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.


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And when they have accomplished the days, it will be that upon the eighth day and forward, the priests will make your* burnt offerings upon the altar and your* peace offerings. And I will accept you*, says the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east. And it was shut.


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And Jehovah said to me, This gate will be shut. It will not be opened, nor will any man enter in by it, for Jehovah, the God of Israel, has entered in by it. Therefore it will be shut.


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As for the ruler, he will sit in it as ruler to eat bread before Jehovah. He will enter by the way of the porch of the gate and will go out by the way of the same.


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<pb/>Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house. And I looked, and behold, the glory of Jehovah filled the house of Jehovah. And I fell upon my face.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to me, Son of man, mark well and behold with your eyes and hear with your ears all that I say to you concerning all the ordinances of the house of Jehovah and all the laws of it. And mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.


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<pb/>And you will say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, The lord Jehovah says thus: O you* house of Israel, let it suffice you* of all your* abominations,


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in that you* have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you* offer my bread, the fat and the blood. And they have broken my covenant, to add to all your* abominations.


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And you* have not kept the charge of my holy things, but you* have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, will enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners that are among the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went-astray, who went-astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity.


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Yet they will be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house and ministering in the house. They will kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people and they will stand before them to minister to them.


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<pb/>Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have lifted up my hand against them, says the lord Jehovah and they will bear their iniquity.


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And they will not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy, but they will bear their shame and their abominations which they have committed.


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Yet I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service of it and for all that will be done in it.


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<pb/>But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the sons of Israel went-astray from me, they will come near to me to minister to me. And they will stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the lord Jehovah:


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


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<pb/>And it will be that, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they will be clothed with linen garments and no wool will come upon them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court and within.


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They will have linen headdresses upon their heads and will have linen breeches upon their loins. They will not gird themselves with anything that causes sweat.


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And when they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they will put off their garments in which they minister and lay them in the holy chambers. And they will put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.


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<pb/>Neither will they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long. They will only cut off the hair of their heads.


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Neither will they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away, but they will take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.


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And they will teach my people the difference between the holy and the common and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.


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<pb/>And in a controversy they will stand to judge. They will judge it according to my ordinances. And they will keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts and they will sanctify my Sabbaths.


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<pb/>And they will go in to no dead person to defile themselves. But for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.


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And in the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he will offer his sin offering, says the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>And they will have an inheritance: I am their inheritance. And you* will give them no possession in Israel. I am their possession.


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They will eat the meal offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering. And every devoted thing in Israel will be theirs.


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And the first of all the first-fruits of every thing and every oblation of everything, of all your* oblations, will be for the priest. You* will also give to the priests the first of your* dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.


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<pb/>Moreover, when you* will divide the land by lot for inheritance, you* will offer an oblation to Jehovah, a holy portion of the land. The length will be the length of twenty-five thousand measures and the breadth will be ten thousand. It will be holy in all the border of it all around.


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Of this there will be for the holy place five hundred by five hundred square all around and fifty cubits for the suburbs of it all around.


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And of this measure you will measure a length of twenty-five thousand and a breadth of ten thousand. And the sanctuary will be in it, which is most holy.


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It is a holy portion of the land. It will be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Jehovah and it will be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.


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And twenty-five thousand in length and ten thousand in breadth, will be to the Levites, the ministers of the house, for a possession to themselves, for twenty chambers.


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<pb/>And you* will appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the oblation of the holy portion. It will be for the whole house of Israel.


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<pb/>And whatever is for the ruler will be on the one side and on the other side of the holy oblation and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy oblation and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side westward and on the east side eastward and in length answerable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.


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It will be to him for a possession in the land in Israel. And my rulers will no more oppress my people, but they will give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: Let it suffice you*, O rulers of Israel. Remove violence and spoil and execute justice and righteousness. Take away your* exactions from my people, says the lord Jehovah.


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The ephah and the 9-gallon container will be of one measure, that the 9-gallon container may contain the tenth part of a homer and the ephah the tenth part of a homer. The measure of it will be according to the homer.


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And the shekel will be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels, will be your* maneh   <n>{about 6 lbs}</n>.


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<pb/>This is the oblation that you* will offer: The sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat and you* will give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley,


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and the set portion of oil, of the 9-gallon container of oil, the tenth part of a 9-gallon container out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer, (for ten baths are a homer),


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and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel, for a meal offering and for a burnt offering and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them, says the lord Jehovah.


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And it will be the ruler's part to give the burnt offerings and the meal offerings and the drink offerings, in the feasts and on the new moons and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He will prepare the sin offering and the meal offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: In the first month, in the first day of the month, you will take a young bullock without blemish and you will cleanse the sanctuary.


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And the priest will take of the blood of the sin offering and put it upon the door-posts of the house and upon the four corners of the ledge of the altar and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.


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And so you will do on the seventh day of the month for each one who errs and for him who is simple. So will you* make atonement for the house.


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<pb/>In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you* will have the Passover, a feast of seven days. Unleavened bread will be eaten.


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And upon that day the ruler will prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.


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And the seven days of the feast he will prepare a burnt offering to Jehovah, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days and a male-goat daily for a sin offering.


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And he will prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bullock and an ephah for a ram and a hin of oil to an ephah.


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<pb/>In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, he will do the like the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering and according to the meal offering and according to the oil.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east will be shut the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it will be opened and on the day of the new moon it will be opened.


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And the ruler will enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside and will stand by the post of the gate. And the priests will prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings and he will worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he will go forth, but the gate will not be shut until the evening.


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And the people of the land will worship at the door of that gate before Jehovah on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.


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<pb/>And the burnt offering that the ruler will offer to Jehovah will be on the Sabbath day six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish,


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and the meal offering will be an ephah for the ram and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give and a hin of oil to an ephah.


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And on the day of the new moon it will be a young bullock without blemish and six lambs and a ram. They will be without blemish.


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And he will prepare a meal offering, an ephah for the bullock and an ephah for the ram and for the lambs just-as he is able and a hin of oil to an ephah.


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And when the ruler will enter, he will go in by the way of the porch of the gate and he will go forth by the way of it.


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<pb/>But when the people of the land will come before Jehovah in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship will go forth by the way of the south gate and he who enters by the way of the south gate will go forth by the way of the north gate. He will not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but will go forth straight before him.


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And the ruler, when they go in, they will go in, in the midst of them and when they go forth, they will go forth together.


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<pb/>And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering will be an ephah for a bullock and an ephah for a ram and for the lambs as he is able to give and a hin of oil to an ephah.


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And when the ruler will prepare a free-will offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a free-will offering to Jehovah, a man will open for him the gate that looks toward the east. And he will prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he will go forth and after his going forth a man will shut the gate.


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<pb/>And you will prepare a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to Jehovah daily. You will prepare it morning by morning.


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And you will prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour, a meal offering to Jehovah continually by a everlasting ordinance.


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Thus they will prepare the lamb and the meal offering and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: If the ruler gives a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance. It will belong to his sons. It is their possession by inheritance.


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But if he gives a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, it will be his to the year of liberty, then it will return to the ruler. But as for his inheritance, it will be for his sons.


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Moreover the ruler will not take of the people's inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession. He will give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people are not scattered each man from his possession.


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<pb/>Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which looked toward the north. And behold, there was a place on the rear part westward.


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And he said to me, This is the place where the priests will boil the trespass offering and the sin offering and where they will bake the meal offering, that they not bring them forth into the outer court, to sanctify the people.


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<pb/>Then he brought me forth into the outer court and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court. And behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.


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In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed, forty long and thirty broad. These four in the corners were of one measure.


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And there was a wall all around in them, all around the four. And boiling-places were made under the walls all around.


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Then said he to me, These are the boiling-houses, where the ministers of the house will boil the sacrifice of the people.


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<pb/>And he brought me back to the door of the house. And behold, waters went forth out from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the forefront of the house was toward the east. And the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar.


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<pb/>Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward and led me round by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of the gate that looks toward the east. And behold, waters ran out on the right side.


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<pb/>When the man went forth eastward with the line in his hand, he measured a thousand cubits and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles.


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Again he measured a thousand and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the loins.


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Afterward he measured a thousand and it was a river that I could not pass through, for the waters have risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.


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And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen this? Then he brought me and caused me to return to the bank of the river.


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<pb/>Now when I had returned, behold, upon the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.


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Then he said to me, These waters go forth toward the eastern region and will go down into the Arabah. And they will go toward the sea, into the sea which were made to go forth and the waters will be healed.


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And it will happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, will live. And there will be a very great multitude of fish (for these waters have come there) and will be healed. And everything will live wherever the river comes.


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And it will happen, that fishermen will stand by it. From En-gedi even to En-eglaim will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, very many.


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And every tree will grow for food by the river upon the bank of it, on this side and on that side, whose leaf will not wither, nor will the fruit of it fail. It will bring forth new fruit every month, because the waters of it goes forth out of the sanctuary. And the fruit of it will be for food and the leaf of it for healing.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah says thus: This will be the border by which you* will divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph will have two portions.


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And you* will inherit it, one as well as another, for I swore to give it to your* fathers. And this land will fall to you* for inheritance.


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<pb/>And this will be the border of the land: On the north side, from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad,


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Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath, Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.


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And the border from the sea, will be Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus and on the north northward is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.


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And the east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead and the land of Israel, will be the Jordan, from the north border to the east sea you* will measure. This is the east side.


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And the south side southward will be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, to the great sea. This is the south side southward.


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And the west side will be the great sea, from the south border as far as opposite the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.


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And it will happen, that you* will divide it by lot for an inheritance to you* and to the strangers who journey among you*, who will beget sons among you*. And they will be to you* as the home-born among the sons of Israel; they will have inheritance with you* among the tribes of Israel.


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And it will happen, that in what tribe the stranger travels, there you* will give him his inheritance, says the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>Now these are the names of the tribes: from the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and they will have their sides east and west), Dan, one portion.


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And by the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, will be the oblation which you* will offer: twenty-five thousand measures in breadth and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side. And the sanctuary will be in the midst of it.


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<pb/>The oblation that you* will offer to Jehovah will be twenty-five thousand measures in length and ten thousand in breadth.


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And for these, even for the priests, will be the holy oblation: toward the north twenty-five thousand in length and toward the west ten thousand in breadth and toward the east ten thousand in breadth and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length. And the sanctuary of Jehovah will be in the midst of it.


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It will be for the priests who are made holy of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my charge, who did not go-astray when the sons of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.


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And it will be to them an oblation from the oblation of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.


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<pb/>And answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites will have twenty-five thousand in length and ten thousand in breadth. All the length will be twenty-five thousand and the breadth ten thousand.


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And they will sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor will the first-fruits of the land be alienated, for it is holy to Jehovah.


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<pb/>And the five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the twenty-five thousand, will be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs. And the city will be in the midst of it.


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And these will be the measures of it: the north side four thousand and five hundred and the south side four thousand and five hundred and on the east side four thousand and five hundred and the west side four thousand and five hundred.


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And the city will have suburbs: toward the north two hundred and fifty and toward the south two hundred and fifty and toward the east two hundred and fifty and toward the west two hundred and fifty.


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<pb/>And the residue in the length, answerable to the holy oblation, will be ten thousand eastward and ten thousand westward. And it will be answerable to the holy oblation. And the increase of it will be for food to those who labor in the city.


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<pb/>All the oblation will be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand. You* will offer the holy oblation four-square, with the possession of the city.


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<pb/>And the residue will be for the ruler, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation and of the possession of the city, in front of the twenty-five thousand of the oblation toward the east border and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, answerable to the portions. It will be for the ruler. And the holy oblation and the sanctuary of the house will be in the midst of it.


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Moreover from the possession of the Levites and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of what is the ruler's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, it will be for the ruler.


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And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border will be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, to the great sea.


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<pb/>This is the land which you* will divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance and these are their several portions, says the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>And these are the exits of the city: On the north side four thousand and five hundred measures by measure.


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And the gates of the city will be according to the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one, the gate of Judah, one, the gate of Levi, one.


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And at the east side four thousand and five hundred measures and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one, the gate of Benjamin, one, the gate of Dan, one.


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And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures by measure and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one, the gate of Issachar, one, the gate of Zebulun, one.


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At the west side four thousand and five hundred measures, with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one, the gate of Asher, one, the gate of Naphtali, one.


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<pb/>It will be eighteen thousand measures all around. And the name of the city from that day will be, Jehovah is there.


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


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And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God. And he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god and he brought the vessels into the treasure-house of his god.


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<pb/>And the king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in certain of the sons of Israel, even of the seed royal and of the ranking men,


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youths in whom was no blemish, but fine-looking and skillful in all wisdom and endued with knowledge and understanding science and such as had ability to stand in the king's palace. And that he should teach them the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.


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<pb/>And the king appointed for them a daily portion of the king's food and of the wine which he drank. And that they should be nourished three years, that at the end of it they should stand before the king.


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And the ruler of the eunuchs gave names to them. To Daniel he gave the name of Belteshazzar and to Hananiah, of Shadrach and to Mishael, of Meshach and to Azariah, of Abed-nego.


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<pb/>But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's food, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the ruler of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.


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And the ruler of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your* food and your* drink. For why should he see your* faces worse looking than the youths that are of your* own age? So you* would endanger my head with the king.


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<pb/>Then Daniel said to the steward whom the ruler of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah,


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I beseech you, test your servants ten days and let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink.


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Then let our countenances be looked upon before you and the countenance of the youths that eat of the king's food. And as you see, deal with your servants.


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And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared finer and they were fuller in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king's dainties.


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<pb/>Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill 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 which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the ruler of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.


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<pb/>And the king spoke with them. And among them all none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. Therefore they stood before the king.


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And in every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.


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<pb/>And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams. And his spirit was troubled and his sleep went from him.


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Then the king commanded to call the magicians and the enchanters and the sorcerers and the Chaldeans, to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.


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Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, O king, live forever. Tell your servants the dream and we will show the interpretation.


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<pb/>The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing has gone from me. If you* do not make the dream and the interpretation of it known to me, you* will be cut in pieces and your* houses will be made a dunghill.


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But if you* show the dream and the interpretation of it, you* will receive gifts and rewards and great honor from me. Therefore show the dream and the interpretation of it to me.


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<pb/>They answered the second time and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream and we will show the interpretation.


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<pb/>The king answered and said, I know of a certainty that you* would gain time, because you* see the thing has gone from me.


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But if you* do not make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you*, for you* have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me till the time is changed. Therefore tell me the dream and I will know that you* can show me the interpretation of it.


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<pb/>The Chaldeans answered before the king and said, There is not a man upon the earth who can show the king's matter. Inasmuch as no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or Chaldean.


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And it is a rare thing that the king requires and there is no other who can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.


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<pb/>For this reason the king was angry and very angry and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.


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So the decree went forth and the wise men were to be slain. And they sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.


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<pb/>Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch, the captain of the king's guard, who went forth to kill the wise men of Babylon.


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He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so urgent from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.


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<pb/>And Daniel went in and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time and he would show the king the interpretation.


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<pb/>Then Daniel went to his house and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, his companions,


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that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret, that Daniel and his companions should nor perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.


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<pb/>Then the secret was shown to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.


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And he changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.


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He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness and the light dwells with him.


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<pb/>I thank you and praise you, O you, God of my fathers, who has given me wisdom and might and has now made known to me what we desired of you, for you have made known to us the king's matter.


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<pb/>Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said thus to him: Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon. Bring me in before the king and I will show to the king the interpretation.


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<pb/>Then Arioch brought Daniel in before the king in haste and said thus to him: I have found a man of the sons of the captivity of Judah, who will make known the interpretation to the king.


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<pb/>The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen and the interpretation of it?


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<pb/>Daniel answered before the king and said, The secret which the king has demanded, neither wise men, enchanters, magicians, nor soothsayers, can show to the king,


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but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets. And he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. <pb/>Your dream and the visions of your head upon your bed, are these:


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As for you, O king, your thoughts came upon your bed, what should happen hereafter. And he who reveals secrets has made known to you what will happen.


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<pb/>But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living man, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.


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<pb/>You, O king, saw, and behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you and the appearance of it was fearful.


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As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,


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<pb/>You looked until a stone was cut out without hands, which killed* the image upon its feet that were of iron and clay and broke them in pieces.


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Then the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver and the gold, was broken in pieces together and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. And the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. And the stone that killed* the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.


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You, O king, are a king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power and the strength and the glory.


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And wherever the sons of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens, he has given into your hand and has made you to rule over them all. You are the head of gold.


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<pb/>And after you will arise another kingdom inferior to you and another third kingdom of brass, which will bear rule over all the earth.


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<pb/>And the fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things. And as iron that crushes all these, it will break in pieces and crush.


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And in what you saw the feet and toes, part of potters' clay and part of iron, it will be a divided kingdom. But there will be of the strength of the iron in it, inasmuch as you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.


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And as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay, so the kingdom will be partly strong and partly broken.


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And in what you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they will mingle themselves with the seed of men, but they will not cling one to another, even as iron does not mix with clay.


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<pb/>And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will the sovereignty of it be left to another people, but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms and it will stand forever.


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<pb/>Inasmuch as you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. And the dream is certain and the interpretation of it sure.


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<pb/>Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face and worshiped Daniel and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odors to him.


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The king answered to Daniel and said, Of a truth your* God is the God of gods and Lord of kings and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.


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<pb/>Then the king made Daniel great and gave him many great gifts and made him to rule over the whole province of Babylon and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.


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<pb/>And Daniel requested of the king and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon, but Daniel was in the gate of the king.


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<pb/>Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and the breadth of it six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.


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<pb/>Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the satraps, the deputies and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.


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<pb/>Then the satraps, the deputies and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.


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that at what time you* hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, trigon, psaltery, dulcimer and all kinds of music, you* fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.


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<pb/>Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, trigon, psaltery and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.


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You, O king, have made a decree, that every man who will hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, trigon, psaltery and dulcimer and all kinds of music, will fall down and worship the golden image.


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<pb/>There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. These men, O king, have not regarded you. They do not serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.


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<pb/>Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. Then they brought these men before the king.


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Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, Is it of purpose, O Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, that you* do not serve my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?


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<pb/>Now if you* are ready that at what time you* hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, trigon, psaltery and dulcimer and all kinds of music, you* fall down and worship the image which I have made, well. But if you* do not worship, you* will be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. And who is that god who will deliver you* out of my hands?


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<pb/>Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.


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If it is so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.


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<pb/>But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.


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<pb/>Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. Therefore he spoke and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was accustomed to be heated.


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<pb/>Then these men were bound in their coats, their tunics and their head coverings and their other garments and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.


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<pb/>Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent and the furnace very hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego.


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And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.


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<pb/>Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished and rose up in haste. He spoke and said to his counselors, Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said to the king, True, O king.


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He answered and said, Behold, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire and they have no harm. And the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.


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<pb/>Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace. He spoke and said, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, you* servants of the Most High God, come out and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego came forth out of the midst of the fire.


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<pb/>And the satraps, the deputies and the governors and the king's counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power upon their bodies, nor was the hair of their head singed. Neither were their coats changed, nor had the smell of fire passed on them.


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<pb/>Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Praise the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, who has sent his messenger and delivered his servants who trusted in him and have changed the king's word and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.


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<pb/>Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation and language, which speaks anything negligent against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, will be cut in pieces and their houses will be made a dunghill, because there is no other god who is able to deliver after this sort.


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<pb/>Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you*.


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How great are his signs and how mighty are his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and his dominion is from generation to generation.


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I saw a dream which made me afraid and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.


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<pb/>Therefore I made a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.


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Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans and the soothsayers came in and I told the dream before them, but they did not make the interpretation of it known to me.


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<pb/>But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. And I told the dream before him, saying,


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O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen and the interpretation of it.


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<pb/>Thus were the visions of my head upon my bed: I saw, and behold, a tree in the midst of the earth and the height of it was great.


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The tree grew and was strong and the height of it reached to heaven and the sight of it to the end of all the earth.


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The leaves of it were fine and the fruit of it much and food was in it for all. The beasts of the field had shadow under it and the birds of the heavens dwelt in the branches of it. And all flesh was fed from it.


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<pb/>I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from heaven.


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He cried aloud and said thus, Hew down the tree and cut off its branches. Shake off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts get away from under it and the fowls from its branches.


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<pb/>Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field. And let it be wet with the dew of heaven and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth.


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<pb/>The sentence is by the decree of the watchers and the demand by the word of the holy ones, to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever he will and sets up over it the lowest of men.


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<pb/>This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen. And you, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, inasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation. But you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.


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<pb/>Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered and said, Belteshazzar, do not let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, may the dream be to those who hate you and the interpretation of it to your adversaries.


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<pb/>The tree that you saw, which grew and was strong, whose height reached to heaven and the sight of it to all the earth,


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whose leaves were fine and the fruit of it much and in it was food for all, under which the beasts of the field dwelt and upon whose branches the birds of the heavens had their habitation,


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it is you, O king, who have grown and become strong. For your greatness has grown and reaches to heaven and your dominion to the end of the earth.


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<pb/>And in what the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven and saying, Hew down the tree and destroy it. Nevertheless leave the stump of the roots of it in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field. And let it be wet with the dew of heaven and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him.


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<pb/>This is the interpretation, O king and it is the decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king:


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That you will be driven from men and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field. And you will be made to eat grass as oxen and will be wet with the dew of heaven. <pb/>And seven times will pass over you till you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever he will.


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<pb/>And in what they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree, your kingdom will be sure to you, after you will have known that the heavens do rule.


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<pb/>Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you and break off your sins by righteousness and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.


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The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?


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<pb/>While the word was in the king's mouth, a voice from heaven fell, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom is departed from you.


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And you will be driven from men and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field. You will be made to eat grass as oxen and seven times will pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever he will.


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<pb/>The same hour the thing was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar. And he was driven from men and ate grass as oxen. And his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair was grown like eagles' feathers and his nails like birds' claws.


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<pb/>And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven and my understanding returned to me. And I blessed the Most High and I praised and honored he who lives forever. For his dominion is an everlasting dominion and his kingdom from generation to generation.


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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 among the inhabitants of the earth. And none can stay his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?


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<pb/>At the same time my understanding returned to me and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned to me and my counselors and my lords sought to me. And I was established in my kingdom and excellent greatness was added to me.


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<pb/>Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are truth and his ways justice. And he is able to humble those who walk in pride.


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<pb/>Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine before the thousand.


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Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem, that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from there.


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<pb/>Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem. And the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.


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They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood and of stone.


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<pb/>In the same hour the fingers of a man's hand came out and wrote opposite the lamp-stand upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace. And the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.


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<pb/>Then the king's countenance was changed in him and his thoughts troubled him. And the joints of his loins were loosed and his knees killed* one against another.


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<pb/>The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever will read this writing and show me the interpretation of it, will be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold about his neck and will be the third ruler in the kingdom.


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<pb/>Then all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.


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Then king Belshazzar was greatly troubled and his countenance was changed in him and his lords were perplexed.


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<pb/>Now the queen came into the banquet house because of the words of the king and his lords. The queen spoke and said, O king, live forever. Do not let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your countenance be changed.


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<pb/>There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. And in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him. And the king Nebuchadnezzar your father, the king, I say, your father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans and soothsayers,


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inasmuch as an excellent spirit and knowledge and understanding, interpreting of dreams and showing of dark sentences and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called and he will show the interpretation.


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<pb/>Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, Are you that Daniel, who are of the sons of the captivity of Judah, whom my father the king brought out of Judah?


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I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.


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<pb/>And now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing and make known to me the interpretation of it, but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.


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<pb/>But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations and dissolve doubts. Now if you can read the writing and make known to me the interpretation of it, you will be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold about your neck and will be the third ruler in the kingdom.


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<pb/>Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless I will read the writing to the king and make known to him the interpretation.


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<pb/>O you king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom and greatness and glory and majesty.


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And because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations and languages trembled and feared before him. Whom he wanted, he killed and whom he wanted, he kept alive and whom he wanted, he raised up and whom he wanted, he put down.


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<pb/>But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne. And they took his glory from him,


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and he was driven from the sons of men. And his heart was made like the beasts and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men and that he sets up over it whomever he will.


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but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor know. And the God in whose hand your breath is and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.


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And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN   <n>{numbered, numbered, weighted, divided}</n>.


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<pb/>This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God has numbered your kingdom and brought it to an end.


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<pb/>Then Belshazzar commanded and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a chain of gold about his neck and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.


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and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one, that these satraps might give account to them and that the king should have no damage.


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<pb/>Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.


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<pb/>Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom, but they could find no occasion nor fault, inasmuch as he was faithful, nor was there any error or fault found in him.


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Then these men said, We will not find any occasion against this Daniel unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.


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<pb/>Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king and said thus to him: King Darius, live forever.


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All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute and to make a strong interdict, that whoever will ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he will be cast into the den of lions.


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<pb/>Now, O king, establish the interdict and sign the writing, that it is not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not alter.


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<pb/>And when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his chamber toward Jerusalem) and he knelt upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he did formerly.


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<pb/>Then these men assembled together and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.


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Then they came near and spoke before the king concerning the king's interdict. Have you not signed an interdict, that every man who will make petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, will be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not alter.


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<pb/>Then they answered and said before the king, That Daniel, who is of the sons of the captivity of Judah, does not regard you, O king, nor the interdict that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.


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<pb/>Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him. And he labored till the going down of the sun to rescue him.


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<pb/>Then these men assembled together to the king and said to the king, Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no interdict nor statute which the king establishes may be changed.


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<pb/>Then the king commanded and they brought Daniel and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spoke and said to Daniel, Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.


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<pb/>And a stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of the den. And the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords, that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.


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<pb/>Then the king went to his palace and passed the night fasting, nor were instruments of music brought before him. And his sleep fled from him.


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And when he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?


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My God has sent his messenger and has shut the lions' mouths and they have not hurt me, inasmuch as before him innocence was found in me. And also before you, O king, I have done no harm.


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<pb/>Then the king was exceedingly glad and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den and no manner of harm was found upon him, because he had trusted in his God.


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<pb/>And the king commanded and they brought those men who had accused Daniel and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their sons and their wives. And the lions had the mastery of them and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.


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<pb/>Then king Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you*.


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I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God and steadfast forever. And his kingdom is what will not be destroyed and his dominion will be even to the end.


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He delivers and rescues and he works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.


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<pb/>In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.


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<pb/>Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven broke forth upon the great sea.


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<pb/>The first was like a lion and had eagle's wings. I beheld till the wings of it were plucked and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand upon two feet as a man and a man's heart was given to it.


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And behold, another beast, a second, like a bear and it was raised up on one side and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. And they said thus to it: Arise, devour much flesh.


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After this I beheld, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had upon its back four wings of a bird. The beast also had four heads and dominion was given to it.


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<pb/>After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, fearful and powerful and exceedingly strong. And it had great iron teeth. It devoured and broke in pieces and stamped the residue with its feet. And it was different from all the beasts that were before it and it had ten horns.


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I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth speaking great things.


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<pb/>I beheld till thrones were placed and one who was ancient of days sat. His garments was white as snow and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames and the wheels of it burning fire.


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A fiery stream was streaming and came out from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set and the books were opened.


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<pb/>I beheld at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke. I beheld even till the beast was slain and its body destroyed and it was given to be burned with fire.


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And as for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away. Yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.


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<pb/>I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of heaven someone like a son of man. And he came even to the ancient of days and they brought him near before him.


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<pb/>And there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away and his kingdom <i>is one</i> that will not be destroyed.


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<pb/>As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved in the midst of my body and the visions of my head troubled me.


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I came near to one of those who stood by and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me and made me know the interpretation of the things.


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But the holy ones of the Most High will receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, even forever <i>and</i> forever.


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<pb/>Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth beast, which was different from all of them, exceedingly fearful, whose teeth were of iron and its nails of brass, which devoured, broke in pieces and stamped the residue with its feet,


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and concerning the ten horns that were on its head and the other horn which came up and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes and a mouth that spoke great things, whose look was greater than its fellows.


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until the ancient of days came. And judgment was given to the holy ones of the Most High and the time came that the holy ones possessed the kingdom.


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<pb/>Thus he said, The fourth beast will be a fourth kingdom upon earth, which will be different from all the kingdoms and will devour the whole earth and will tread it down and break it in pieces.


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<pb/>And as for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will arise. And another will arise after them and he will be different from the former. And he will put down three kings.


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And he will speak words against the Most High and will wear out the holy ones of the Most High. And he will think to change the times and the law and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.


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<pb/>But the judgment will be set and they will take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end.


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And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, will be given to the people of the holy ones of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and all dominions will serve and obey him.


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<pb/>Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts troubled me much and my countenance was changed in me, but I kept the matter in my heart.


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<pb/>In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, even to me, Daniel, after what appeared to me at the first.


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And I saw in the vision, now it was so, that when I saw, I was in Shushan the palace, which is in the province of Elam and I saw in the vision and I was by the river Ulai.


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<pb/>Then I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns. And the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other and the higher came up last.


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I saw the ram pushing westward and northward and southward and no beasts could stand before him, nor was there any that could deliver out of his hand, but he did according to his will and magnified himself.


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<pb/>And as I was considering, behold, a male-goat came from the west over the face of the whole earth and did not touch the ground. And the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.


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<pb/>And I saw him come close to the ram. And he was moved with anger against him and killed* the ram and broke his two horns. And there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled upon him. And there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.


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<pb/>And the male-goat magnified himself exceedingly. And when he was strong, the great horn was broken and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of heaven.


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<pb/>And out of one of them came out a little horn, which grew exceedingly great, toward the south and toward the east and toward the glorious land.


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And it grew great, even to the host of heaven. And it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground and trampled upon them.


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<pb/>Yes, it magnified itself, even to the Prince of the host. And it took away from him the continual burnt offering and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.


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And the host was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through transgression. And it cast down truth to the ground and it did its pleasure and prospered.


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<pb/>Then I heard a holy one speaking and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, How long will be the vision of the continual burnt offering and the transgression that make desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?


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<pb/>And it happened, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, that I sought to understand it, and behold, there stood before me someone as the appearance of a man.


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<pb/>So he came near where I stood. And when he came, I was frightened and fell upon my face. But he said to me, Understand, O son of man, for the vision belongs to the time of the end.


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<pb/>Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground, but he touched me and set me upright.


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And he said, Behold, I will make you know what will be in the latter time of the indignation, for it belongs to the appointed time of the end


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And the rough male-goat is the king of Greece. And the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.


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And as for what was broken, in the place of which four stood up, four kingdoms will stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.


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<pb/>And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce countenance and understanding hidden things, will stand up.


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And his power will be mighty, but not by his own power and he will destroy amazingly and will prosper and do his pleasure. And he will destroy the mighty ones and the holy people.


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<pb/>And through his policy he will cause deceit to prosper in his hand and he will magnify himself in his heart. And he will destroy many in their security. He will also stand up against the Prince of princes, but he will be broken without a hand.


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<pb/>And the vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true. But shut up the vision, for it belongs to many days to come.


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<pb/>And I, Daniel, fainted and was sick certain days. Then I rose up and did the king's business. And I wondered at the vision, but none understood it.


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in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years of which the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even <i>the</i> seventy years.


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<pb/>And I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.


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<pb/>And I prayed to Jehovah my God and made confession and said, Oh, Lord, the great and fearful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,


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we have sinned and have dealt perversely and have done wickedly and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances,


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nor have we listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our rulers and our fathers and to all the people of the land.


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<pb/>O Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us shame of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to all Israel, who are near and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.


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<pb/>O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, to our rulers and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.


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nor have we obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.


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Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, even turning aside, that they should not obey your voice. Therefore the curse has been poured out upon us and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God. For we have sinned against him.


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And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil, for under the whole heaven has not been done as has been done upon Jerusalem.


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<pb/>As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come upon us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Jehovah our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.


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<pb/>Therefore Jehovah has watched over the evil and brought it upon us, for Jehovah our God is righteous in all his works which he does and we have not obeyed his voice.


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<pb/>And now, O Lord our God, who has brought your people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and has gotten you renown, as at this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly.


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<pb/>O Lord, according to all your righteousness, I beseech you, let your anger and your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. Because for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are all around us.


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<pb/>Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his supplications and cause your face to shine upon your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.


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O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and behold our desolations and the city which is called by your name. For we do not present our supplications before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies' sake.


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<pb/>O Lord, hear. O Lord, forgive. O Lord, listen and do. Defer not, for your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.


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yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.


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<pb/>And he instructed me and talked with me and said, O Daniel, I have now come out to give you wisdom and understanding.


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At the beginning of your supplications the commandment went forth and I have come to tell you, for you are a great delight. Therefore consider the matter and understand the vision.


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<pb/>Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the anointed one, the Prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troublesome times.


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<pb/>And after the sixty-two weeks the anointed one will be cut off and will have nothing. And the people of the prince who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary and the end of it will be with a flood. And even to the end will be war; desolations are determined.


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And he will make a firm covenant with many for one week. And in the midst of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease. And upon the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate. And even to the full end and that determined, wrath will be poured out upon the desolate.


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<pb/>In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar and the thing was true, even a great warfare. And he understood the thing and had understanding of the vision.


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I ate no desirable bread. Neither flesh nor wine came into my mouth. Neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.


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I lifted up my eyes and looked. And behold, a man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with pure gold of Uphaz.


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Also his body was like the beryl and his face as the appearance of lightning and his eyes as flaming torches and his arms and his feet like burnished brass and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.


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<pb/>And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision, but a great quaking fell upon them and they fled to hide themselves.


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<pb/>So I was left alone and saw this great vision. And there remained no strength in me, for my fitness was turned in me into debility and I retained no strength.


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Yet I heard the voice of his words. And when I heard the voice of his words, then I fell into a deep sleep on my face, with my face toward the ground.


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And he said to me, O Daniel, you man <i>are</i> a great delight, understand the words that I speak to you and stand upright, for I am now sent to you. And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood, trembling.


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<pb/>Then he said to me, Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. And I have come for your words' sake.


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<pb/>But the ruler of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days, but behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me. And I remained there with the kings of Persia.


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I have come now to make you understand what will befall your people in the latter days, for the vision is yet for many days.


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<pb/>And when he had spoken to me according to these words, I set my face toward the ground and was mute.


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And behold, someone in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke and said to him who stood before me, O my lord, because of the vision my pains have turned upon me and I retain no strength.


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For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? For as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me, nor was there breath left in me.


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And he said, O man are a great delight, do not fear. Peace be to you. Be strong, yes, be strong. And when he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me.


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<pb/>Then he said, Do you know why I have come to you? And now I will return to fight with the ruler of Persia. And when I go forth behold, the ruler of Greece will come.


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<pb/>But I will tell you what is inscribed in the writing of truth. And there is none who holds with me against these, but Michael your* prince.


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<pb/>And now I will show you the truth. Behold, there will stand up yet three kings in Persia and the fourth will be far richer than them all. And when he has grown strong through his riches, he will stir up all against the realm of Greece.


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<pb/>And when he will stand up, his kingdom will be broken and will be divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled, for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others besides these.


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<pb/>And the king of the south will be strong and one of his rulers. And he will be powerful over him and have dominion. His dominion will be a great dominion.


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And at the end of years they will join themselves together. And the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make a smoothly <i>agreement</i>, but she will not retain the strength of her arm, nor will he stand, nor his arm. But she will be given up and also those who brought her and he who fathered her and he who strengthened her in those times.


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<pb/>But out of a shoot from her roots will a man stand up in his place, who will come to the army and will enter into the fortress of the king of the north and will deal against them and will prevail.


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And also their gods, with their molten images and with their desirable vessels of silver and of gold, he will carry captive into Egypt and he will refrain from the king of the north some years.


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<pb/>And he will come into the realm of the king of the south, but he will return into his own land.


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And his sons will war and will assemble a multitude of great forces, which will come on and overflow and pass through. And they will return and war, even to his fortress.


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<pb/>And the king of the south will be moved with anger and will come out and fight with him, even with the king of the north. And he will set forth a great multitude and the multitude will be given into his hand.


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And the multitude will be lifted up and his heart will be exalted. And he will cast down tens of thousands, but he will not prevail.


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<pb/>And the king of the north will return and will set forth a multitude greater than the former and he will come on at the end of the times, even of years, with a great army and with much substance.


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And in those times many will stand up against the king of the south. Also the sons of the violent among your people will lift themselves up to establish the vision, but they will fall.


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<pb/>So the king of the north will come and cast up a mound and take a well-fortified city. And the forces of the south will not stand, nor his chosen people. Neither will there be any strength to stand.


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But he who comes against him will do according to his own will and none will stand before him. And he will stand in the glorious land and in his hand will be destruction.


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<pb/>And he will set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom and with him equitable conditions and he will perform them. And he will give him the daughter of women, to corrupt her, but she will not stand, nor be for him.


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<pb/>After this he will turn his face to the isles and will take many. But a ruler will cause the reproach offered by him to cease. Yes, moreover, he will cause his reproach to turn upon him.


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Then he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and will not be found.


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<pb/>Then someone will stand up in his place, a <i>tax</i> oppressor to pass through, <i>for</i> the glory of the kingdom, but within a few days he will be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.


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<pb/>And in his place he who is contemptible will stand up, to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom. But he will come in time of security and will obtain the kingdom by flatteries.


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And the overwhelming forces will be overwhelmed from before him and will be broken, yes, also the ruler of the covenant.


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<pb/>And after the league made with him, he will work deceitfully, for he will come up and will become strong, with a small people.


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He will come in time of security even upon the fattest places of the province and he will do what his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers. He will scatter among them prey and spoil and substance. Yes, he will devise his devices against the strongholds, even for a time.


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<pb/>And he will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army. And the king of the south will war in battle with a very great and mighty army, but he will not stand, for they will devise devices against him.


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Yes, those who eat of his food will destroy him and his army will overflow and many will fall down slain.


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<pb/>And as for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief and they will speak lies at one table. But it will not prosper, for yet the end will be at the time appointed.


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Then he will return into his land with great substance. And his heart will be against the holy covenant and he will do his pleasure and return to his own land.


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<pb/>At the time appointed he will return and come into the south, but it will not be in the latter time as it was in the former.


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For ships of Kittim will come against him. Therefore he will be grieved and will return and have indignation against the holy covenant and will do his pleasure. He will even return and have regard to those who forsake the holy covenant.


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<pb/>And forces will stand on his part and they will profane the sanctuary, even the fortress and will take away the continual burnt offering and they will set up the abomination that makes desolate.


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And he will pervert by flatteries such as do wickedly against the covenant. But the people who know their God will be strong and do exploits.


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And those who are wise among the people will instruct many, yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by spoil, many days.


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<pb/>Now when they will fall, they will be helped with a little help, but many will join themselves to them with flatteries.


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And some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them and to purify and to make them white, even to the time of the end, because it is yet for the time appointed.


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<pb/>And the king will do according to his will. And he will exalt himself and magnify himself above every god and will speak marvelous things against the God of gods. And he will prosper till the indignation be accomplished, for what is determined will be done.


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Neither will he regard the gods of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god, for he will magnify himself above all.


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<pb/>But in his place he will honor the god of fortresses. And a god whom his fathers did not know, he will honor with gold and silver and with precious stones and desirable things.


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And he will deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a foreign god. Whoever acknowledges him he will increase with glory and he will cause them to rule over many and will divide the land for a price.


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<pb/>And at the time of the end, the king of the south will contend with him and the king of the north will come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships and he will enter into the countries and will overflow and pass through.


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<pb/>He will also enter into the glorious land and many countries will be overthrown. But these will be delivered out of his hand: Edom and Moab and the chief of the sons of Ammon.


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But he will have power over the treasures of gold and of silver and over all the desirable things of Egypt. And the Libyans and the Ethiopians will be at his steps.


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<pb/>But news out of the east and out of the north will trouble him and he will go forth with great fury to destroy and to utterly sweep away many.


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And he will plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy mountain, yet he will come to his end and none will help him.


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<pb/>And at that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who stands for the sons of your people. And there will be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time. And at that time your people will be delivered, everyone who will be found written in the book.


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<pb/>And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt.


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And those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars everlasting and forever.


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<pb/>But you, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Many will run to and fro and knowledge will be increased.


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<pb/>Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, another two stood, the one on the brink of the river on this side and the other on the brink of the river on that side.


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And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, How long will it be to the end of these wonders?


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<pb/>And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven and swore by him who lives everlasting that it will be for a time, times and a half. And when they have made an end of smashing the power of the holy people, all these things will be finished.


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<pb/>And I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, O my lord, what will be the outcome of these things?


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<pb/>Many will purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked will do wickedly. And none of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.


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<pb/>And from the time that the continual burnt offering will be taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there will be a thousand and two hundred and ninety days.


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<pb/>But go your way till the end is. For you will rest and will stand in your lot at the end of the days


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<pb/>The word of Jehovah that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, King of Israel.


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<pb/>When Jehovah spoke at the first by Hosea, Jehovah said to Hosea, Go, take to you a wife of prostitution and children of prostitution, for the land commits great prostitution, departing from Jehovah.


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And Jehovah said to him, Call his name Jezreel, for yet a little while and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.


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<pb/>And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And Jehovah said to him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah, for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.


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<pb/>But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah and will save them by Jehovah their God and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.


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<pb/>Yet the number of the sons of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And it will happen that, in the place where it was said to them, You* are not my people, it will be said to them, The sons of the living God.


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And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel will be gathered together and they will appoint themselves one head and will go up from the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.


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Contend with your* mother. Contend, for she is not my wife, nor am I her husband. And let her put away her prostitutions from her face and her adulteries from between her breasts,


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lest I strip her naked and set her as in the day that she was born and make her as a wilderness and set her like a dry land and kill her with thirst.


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for their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.


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Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns and I will build a wall against her, that she will not find her paths.


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<pb/>And she will follow after her lovers, but she will not overtake them. And she will seek them, but will not find them. Then she will say, I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better with me then than now.


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<pb/>For she did not know that I gave her the grain and the new wine and the oil and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.


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Therefore I will take back my grain in the time of it and my new wine in the season of it and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.


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<pb/>And now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers and none will deliver her out of my hand.


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I will also cause all her joy to cease, her feasts, her new moons and her Sabbaths and all her solemn assemblies.


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<pb/>And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, These are my hire that my lovers have given me. And I will make them a forest and the beasts of the field will eat them.


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And I will visit upon her the days of the Baals   <n>{Baalim}</n>, to which she burned incense when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels and went after her lovers and forgot me, says Jehovah.


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<pb/>Therefore, behold, I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak soothingly to her.


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And I will give her, her vineyards from there and the valley of Achor for a door of hope. And she will make answer there, as in the days of her youth and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.


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<pb/>And it will be at that day, says Jehovah, that you will call me Ishi and will no more call me Baali   <n>{My Lord}</n>.


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For I will take away the names of the Baals   <n>{Baalim}</n>   out of her mouth and they will no more be mentioned by their name.


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<pb/>And in that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the birds of the heavens and with the creeping things of the ground. And I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land and will make them to lie down safely.


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<pb/>And I will betroth you to me everlasting. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice and in loving kindness and in mercies.


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<pb/>And it will happen in that day, I will answer, says Jehovah. I will answer the heavens and they will answer the earth,


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And I will sow her to me in the earth. And I will have mercy upon her who had not obtained mercy. And I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people and they will say, My God.


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<pb/>And Jehovah said to me, Go again, love a woman beloved of her friend and an adulteress, even as Jehovah loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.


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<pb/>So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley and a half-homer of barley.


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And I said to her, You will abide for me many days. You will not play the prostitute and you will not be any man's wife. So I will also be toward you.


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<pb/>For the sons of Israel will abide many days without king and without ruler and without sacrifice and without pillar and without ephod or household-idol.


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Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek Jehovah their God and David their king and will come with fear to Jehovah and to his goodness in the latter days.


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<pb/>Hear the word of Jehovah, you* sons of Israel, for Jehovah has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.


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There is nothing but swearing and breaking faith and killing and stealing and committing adultery. They break out and blood touches blood.


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<pb/>Therefore the land will mourn and everyone who dwells in it will languish with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens. Yes, the fishes of the sea will also be taken away.


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Yet, let no man contend, nor let any man reprove, for your people are as those who contend with the priest.


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And you will stumble in the day and the prophet also will stumble with you in the night. And I will destroy your mother.


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<pb/>My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you, that you will be no priest to me. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your sons.


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And it will be, like people, like priest. And I will punish them for their ways and will requite them for their practices.


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And they will eat and not have enough. They will play the prostitute and will not increase, because they have left off taking heed to Jehovah.


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My people ask counsel at their stock and their staff declares to them, for the spirit of prostitution has made them go-astray and they have played the prostitute, departing from under their God.


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<pb/>They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinth <i>trees</i>, because the shadow of it is good. Therefore your* daughters play the prostitute and your* brides commit adultery.


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I will not punish your* daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your* brides when they commit adultery. For themselves go apart with prostitutes and they sacrifice with the temple-prostitutes. And the people who do not understand will fall.


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<pb/>Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet do not let Judah offend and do not come to Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, nor swear, As Jehovah lives.


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For Israel has behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Now Jehovah will feed them as a lamb in a large place.


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<pb/>Hear this, O you* priests and listen, O house of Israel and listen, O house of the king, for to you* <i>is</i> the judgment. For you* have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor.


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<pb/>I know Ephraim and Israel is not hid from me. For now, O Ephraim, you have played the prostitute; Israel is defiled.


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Their practices will not allow them to turn to their God, for the spirit of prostitution is within them and they do not know Jehovah.


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And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. <pb/>Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.


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They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah, but they will not find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.


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They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah, for they have borne strange sons. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.


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<pb/>Blow you* the cornet in Gibeah and the trumpet in Ramah. Shout an alarm at Beth-aven, behind you, O Benjamin.


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Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. I have made known what will surely be among the tribes of Israel.


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<pb/>The rulers of Judah are like those who remove the landmark. I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.


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Ephraim is oppressed. He is crushed in judgment, because he was content to walk after man's command.


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When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to King Jareb. But he is not able to heal you*, nor will he cure you* of your* wound.


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<pb/>For I will be to Ephraim as a lion and as a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away, I will carry off and there will be none to deliver.


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I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.


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<pb/>Come and let us return to Jehovah, for he has torn and he will heal us. He has struck and he will bind us up.


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And let us know, let us follow on to know Jehovah. His going forth is sure as the morning and he will come to us as the rain, as the latter rain that waters the earth.


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<pb/>O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? For your* goodness is as a morning cloud and as the dew that goes away early.


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Therefore I have hewed them by the prophets. I have slain them by the words of my mouth. And your judgments are as the light that goes forth.


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And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem. Yes, they have committed wickedness.


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I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel. Prostitution is there in Ephraim; Israel is defiled.


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<pb/>When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered and the wickedness of Samaria. For they commit falsehood and the thief enters in and the troop of robbers ravages outside.


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And they do not consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own practices have surrounded them; they are before my face.


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<pb/>They are all adulterers. They are as an oven heated by the baker. He ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.


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On the day of our king the rulers made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He draws out his hand with scoffers.


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For they have made their heart ready like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.


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They are all hot as an oven and devour their judges. All their kings are fallen. There is none among those who call to me.


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Strangers have devoured his strength and he does not know. Yes, gray hairs are here and there upon him and he does not know.


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And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. Yet they have not returned to Jehovah their God, nor sought him for all this.


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<pb/>And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.


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When they will go, I will spread my net upon them. I will bring them down as the birds of the heavens. I will discipline them, as their congregation has heard.


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<pb/>Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.


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And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They rebel against me.


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They return, but not to him on high. They are like a deceitful bow. Their rulers will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their scorning in the land of Egypt.


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<pb/>Set the trumpet to your mouth. As an eagle he comes against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my covenant and trespassed against my law.


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<pb/>They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made rulers and I knew it not. They have made themselves idols of their silver and their gold, that they may be cut off.


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He has cast off your calf, O Samaria. My anger is kindled against them. How long will it be ere they attain to innocence?


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For even this is from Israel: the workman made it and it is no God. Yes, the calf of Samaria will be broken in pieces.


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<pb/>For they sow the wind and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The blade will yield no meal. Perhaps it yields, strangers will swallow it up.


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<pb/>For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey alone by himself. Ephraim has hired lovers.


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Yes, though they hire among the nations, I will now gather them and they will begin to be diminished because of the burden of the king of rulers.


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As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it, but Jehovah does not accept them. He will now remember their iniquity and visit their sins. They will return to Egypt.


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For Israel has forgotten his maker and built palaces. And Judah has multiplied fortified cities. But I will send a fire upon his cities and it will devour the castles of it.


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<pb/>Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy like the peoples, for you have played the prostitute, departing from your God. You have loved hire upon every grain-floor.


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They will not dwell in Jehovah's land, but Ephraim will return to Egypt and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.


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<pb/>They will not pour out wine offerings to Jehovah, nor will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them as the bread of mourners. All who eat of it will be polluted, for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into the house of Jehovah.


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For behold, they have gone away from destruction, yet Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Their pleasant things of silver, nettles will possess them. Thorns will be in their tents.


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<pb/>The days of visitation have come. The days of recompense have come. Israel will know it. The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the abundance of your iniquity and because the enmity is great.


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<pb/>Ephraim was a watchman with my God. As for the prophet, a fowler's snare is in all his ways and enmity in the house of his God.


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They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will visit their sins.


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<pb/>I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your* fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing and became abominable like what they loved.


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<pb/>As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth and none with child and no conception.


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Though they bring up their sons, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man will be left. Yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!


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<pb/>Ephraim, just as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place, but Ephraim will bring out his sons to the slayer.


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<pb/>All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their practices I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more. All their rulers are rebels.


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<pb/>Ephraim is struck. Their root is dried up. They will bear no fruit. Yes, though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved fruit of their womb.


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My God will cast them away because they did not listen to him and they will be wanderers among the nations.


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<pb/>Israel is a luxuriant vine that puts forth his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. According to the goodness of their land they have made good pillars.


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Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will kill* their altars. He will destroy their pillars.


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<pb/>Surely now they will say, We have no king, for we do not fear Jehovah. And the king, what can he do for us?


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They speak vain words, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.


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<pb/>The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth-aven. For the people of it will mourn over it and the priests of it, who rejoiced over it for the glory of it, because it has departed from it.


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It will also be carried to Assyria for a present to King Jareb. Ephraim will receive shame and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.


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The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars and they will say to the mountains, Cover us and to the hills, Fall on us.


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<pb/>O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they stood. The battle against the sons of unrighteousness does not overtake them in Gibeah.


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When it is my desire, I will discipline them. And the peoples will be gathered against them, when they are bound to their two transgressions.


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<pb/>And Ephraim is a heifer that is taught, that loves to tread out the grain. But I have passed over upon her fair neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.


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<pb/>Sow to yourselves in righteousness. Reap according to kindness. Break up your* tillable ground, for it is time to seek Jehovah, till he comes and rains righteousness upon you*.


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<pb/>You* have plowed wickedness. You* have reaped unrighteousness. You* have eaten the fruit of lies. For you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.


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Therefore a tumult will arise among your people and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel in the day of battle; the mother was dashed in pieces with her sons.


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So will Bethel do to you* because of your* great wickedness. At daybreak the King of Israel will be utterly cut off.


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The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals   <n>{Baalim}</n>   and burned incense to graven images.


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I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love and I was to them as those who lift up the yoke on their jaws. And I laid food before them.


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<pb/>They will not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian will be their king, because they refused to return to me.


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And the sword will fall upon their cities and will consume their bars and devour them, because of their own counsels.


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And my people are bent on backsliding from me. Though they call them to him who is on high, none at all will exalt him.


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<pb/>How shall I give you up, Ephraim? How shall I cast you off, Israel? How shall I make you as Admah? How shall I set you as Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me. My compassions are kindled together.


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I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not man, the Holy One in the midst of you and I will not come in wrath.


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<pb/>They will walk after Jehovah, who will roar like a lion. For he will roar and the sons will come trembling from the west.


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They will come trembling as a bird out of Egypt and as a dove out of the land of Assyria. And I will make them to dwell in their houses, says Jehovah.


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<pb/>Ephraim encompasses me around with falsehood and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah yet rules with God and is faithful with the Holy One.


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<pb/>Ephraim feeds on wind and follows after the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. And they make a covenant with Assyria and oil is carried into Egypt.


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<pb/>Jehovah has also a controversy with Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways. He will recompense him according to his practices.


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Yes, he had strength over the messenger and prevailed, as he wept and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel and there he spoke with us.


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And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich. I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors they will find no iniquity in me that is sin.


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<pb/>But I am Jehovah your God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.


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I have also spoken to the prophets and I have multiplied visions. And I have used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.


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<pb/>Is Gilead wickedness? They are altogether false. In Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks. Yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.


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<pb/>Ephraim has provoked to anger most bitterly. Therefore his blood will be left upon him and his reproach his Lord will return to him.


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<pb/>When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he offended in Baal, he died.


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<pb/>And now they sin more and more and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves.


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<pb/>Therefore they will be as the morning cloud and as the dew that passes away early, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor and as the smoke out of the chimney.


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<pb/>Yet I am Jehovah your God from the land of Egypt and you will know no god but me and besides me there is no savior.


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According to their pasture, so they were filled. They were filled and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.


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I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her cubs and will tear the encasement of their heart. And there I will devour them like a lioness. The wild beast will tear them.


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<pb/>Where now is your king, that he may save you in all your cities and your judges, of whom you said, Give me a king and rulers?


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The sorrows of a travailing woman will come upon him. He is an unwise son, for it is time he should not abide in the place of the breaking forth of sons.


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<pb/>I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death. O death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Repentance will be hid from my eyes.


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<pb/>Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Jehovah coming up from the wilderness and his spring will become dry and his fountain will be dried up. He will make spoil of the treasure of all desirable vessels.


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<pb/>Samaria will bear her guilt, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces and their women with child will be ripped up.


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Take with you* words and return to Jehovah. Say to him, Take away all iniquity and accept what is good. So we will render as bullocks the offering of our lips.


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Assyria will not save us. We will not ride upon horses, nor will we say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods. For in you the fatherless finds mercy.


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<pb/>Those who dwell under his shadow will return. They will revive as the grain and blossom as the vine. The scent of it will be as the wine of Lebanon.


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Ephraim will say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered and will regard him. I am like a green fir tree. From me, your fruit is found.


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<pb/>Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right and the just will walk in them. But transgressors will fall in them.


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Hear this, you* old men and listen, all you* inhabitants of the land. Has this been in your* days, or in the days of your* fathers?


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What the palmer-worm has left the locust has eaten and what the locust has left the canker-worm has eaten and what the canker-worm has left the caterpillar has eaten.


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<pb/>Awake, you* drunkards and weep and wail, all you* drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your* mouth.


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For a nation has come up upon my land, strong and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion and he has the jaw-teeth of a lioness.


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He has laid my vine waste and barked my fig tree. He has made it clean bare and cast it away. The tendrils of it are made white.


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The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah. The priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.


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The field is laid waste; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.


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<pb/>Be confounded, O you* farmer. Wail, O you* vine-dressers, for the wheat and for the barley, for the harvest of the field has perished.


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The vine is withered and the fig tree languishes. The pomegranate tree, the palm tree also and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field are withered. For joy has withered away from the sons of men.


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<pb/>Gird yourselves with sackcloth and lament, you* priests. Wail, you* ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you* ministers of my God. For the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your* God.


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Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the old men and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Jehovah your* God and cry to Jehovah.


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<pb/>Alas for the day! For the day of Jehovah is at hand and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.


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The seeds rot under their clods. The garners are laid desolate. The barns are broken down. For the grain is withered.


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How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture, yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.


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<pb/>O Jehovah, I cry to you. For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.


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Yes, the beasts of the field pant to you, for the water brooks are dried up and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.


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<pb/>You* blow the trumpet in Zion and shout an alarm in my holy mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble. For the day of Jehovah comes, for it is near at hand,


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a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spreads upon the mountains, a great people and a strong, there has not been the like, everlasting, nor will be any more after them, even to the years of generations to generations.


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<pb/>A fire devours before them and behind them a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them and behind them a desolate wilderness. Yes and none has escaped them.


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They leap like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.


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<pb/>They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like men of war and they march each one on his ways. And they do not break their ranks.


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Neither does one push another. They march each one in his path and they burst through the weapons and do not break off.


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They leap upon the city. They run upon the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like a thief.


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The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened and the stars withdraw their shining.


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<pb/>And Jehovah utters his voice before his army, for his camp is very great. For he is strong who executes his word. For the day of Jehovah is great and very fearful and who can abide it?


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<pb/>Yet even now, says Jehovah, turn to me with all your* heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning.


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And tear your* heart and not your* garments and turn to Jehovah your* God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness and relents of the evil.


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Who knows whether he will not turn and relent and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Jehovah your* God?


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Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the old men. Gather the sons and those who suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber and the bride out of her closet.


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Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar and let them say, Spare your people, O Jehovah and do not give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?


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And Jehovah answered and said to his people, Behold, I will send you* grain and new wine and oil and you* will be satisfied with it. And I will no more make you* a reproach among the nations.


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<pb/>But I will remove the northern army far off from you* and will drive it into a land barren and desolate, its forepart into the eastern sea and its rear part into the western sea. And its stench will come up and its foul odor will come up, because it has done great things.


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Do not be afraid, you* beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness spring, for the tree bears its fruit, the fig tree and the vine yield their strength.


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Be glad then, you* sons of Zion and rejoice in Jehovah your* God, for he gives you* the former rain in just measure and he causes the rain to come down for you*, the former rain and the latter rain, in the first month.


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<pb/>And I will restore to you* the years that the locust, the canker-worm and the caterpillar and the palmer-worm has eaten — my great army which I sent among you*.


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And you* will eat in plenty and be satisfied. And will praise the name of Jehovah your* God, who has dealt wondrously with you*. And my people will never be put to shame.


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And you* will know that I am in the midst of Israel and that I am Jehovah your* God and there is none else. And my people will not be put to shame, everlasting.


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<pb/>And it will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh and your* sons and your* daughters will prophesy. Your* old men will dream dreams. Your* young men will see visions.


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The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and wonderful day of Jehovah comes.


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<pb/>And it will happen, that whoever will call on the name of Jehovah will be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Jehovah has said and among the remnant those whom Jehovah calls.


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<pb/>For, behold, in those days and in that time, when I will bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,


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I will gather all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will execute judgment upon them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. And they have parted my land,


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and have cast lots for my people and have given a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.


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<pb/>Yes and what are you* to me, O Tyre and Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Will you* render me a recompense? And if you* recompense me, I will return your* recompense swiftly and speedily upon your* own head.


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<pb/>Inasmuch as you* have taken my silver and my gold and have carried into your* temples my desirable precious things,


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and have sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem to the sons of the Grecians, that you* may remove them far from their border,


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behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you* have sold them and will return your* recompense upon your* own head.


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And I will sell your* sons and your* daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off. For Jehovah has spoken it.


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<pb/>Proclaim you* this among the nations: Prepare war. Stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near. Let them come up.


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Beat your* plowshares into swords and your* pruning-hooks into spears. Let the weak say, I am strong.


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<pb/>You* hasten and come, all you* nations all around and gather yourselves together. Cause your mighty ones to come down there, O Jehovah.


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Let the nations move themselves and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations all around.


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Put you* in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread you*, for the winepress is full, the vats overflow. For their wickedness is great.


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<pb/>Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision.


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And Jehovah will roar from Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem and the heavens and the earth will shake. But Jehovah will be a refuge to his people and a stronghold to the sons of Israel.


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<pb/>So you* will know that I am Jehovah your* God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy and no strangers will pass through her any more.


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<pb/>And it will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine and the hills will flow with milk and all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters. And a fountain will come out from the house of Jehovah and will water the valley of Shittim.


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<pb/>Egypt will be a desolation and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the sons of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.


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<pb/>The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash King of Israel, two years before the earthquake.


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<pb/>And he said, Jehovah will roar from Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn and the top of Carmel will wither.


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<pb/>Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.


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And I will break the bar of Damascus and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven and he who holds the scepter from the house of Eden and the people of Syria will go into captivity to Kir, says Jehovah.


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<pb/>Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they carried away captive the whole people, to deliver them up to Edom.


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And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod and he who holds the scepter from Ashkelon. And I will turn my hand against Ekron and the remnant of the Philistines will perish, says the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they delivered up the whole people to Edom and did not remember the brotherly covenant.


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<pb/>Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity. And his anger tore perpetually and he kept his wrath forever.


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<pb/>Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.


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But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah and it will devour the palaces of it, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind.


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<pb/>Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.


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But I will send a fire upon Moab and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.


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And I will cut off the judge from the midst of it and will kill all the rulers of it with him, says Jehovah.


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<pb/>Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have rejected the law of Jehovah and have not kept his statutes and their lies have made them go-astray, according to which their fathers walked.


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<pb/>Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have sold a righteous man for silver and a needy man for a pair of shoes–


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those who pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor and turn aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father go to the same maiden, to profane my holy name.


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And they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge. And in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.


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<pb/>Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars and he was strong as the oaks, yet I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from beneath.


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Also I brought you* up out of the land of Egypt and led you* forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.


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And I raised up of your* sons for prophets and of your* young men for Nazirites. <pb/>Is it not even thus, O you* sons of Israel? says Jehovah.


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And flight will perish from the swift and the strong will not strengthen his force, nor will the mighty deliver himself.


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Neither will he stand who handles the bow. And he who is swift of foot will not deliver himself, nor will he who rides the horse deliver himself.


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<pb/>Hear this word that Jehovah has spoken against you*, O sons of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying,


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You* only I have known of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will visit upon you* all your* iniquities.


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Will a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Will a young lion cry out of his den, if he has taken nothing?


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Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no net is set for him? Shall a snare spring up from the ground and have taken nothing at all?


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Shall the trumpet be blown in a city and the people not be afraid? Shall evil befall a city and Jehovah has not done it?


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<pb/>Surely the lord Jehovah will do nothing unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.


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<pb/>Proclaim you* in the palaces at Ashdod and in the palaces in the land of Egypt and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria and behold what great tumults are in it and what oppressions are in the midst of it.


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<pb/>Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: An adversary will be, even all around the land and he will bring down your strength from you and your palaces will be plundered.


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<pb/>Jehovah says thus: As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so will the sons of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria in the corner of a couch and on the silken cushions of a bed.


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For in the day that I will visit the transgressions of Israel upon him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel and the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.


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And I will kill* the winter house with the summer house and the houses of ivory will perish and the great houses will have an end, says Jehovah.


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<pb/>Hear this word, you* cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their lords, Bring and let us drink.


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The lord Jehovah has sworn by his holiness, that behold, the days will come upon you*, that they will take you* away with hooks and your* residue with fish-hooks.


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And you* will go out at the breaches, each one straight before her and you* will cast yourselves into Harmon, says Jehovah.


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<pb/>Come to Bethel and transgress, to Gilgal and multiply transgression. And bring your* sacrifices every morning and your* tithes every three days.


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And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of what is leavened and proclaim free-will offerings and proclaim them. For this pleases you*, O you* sons of Israel, says the lord Jehovah.


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<pb/>And I also have given you* cleanness of teeth in all your* cities and want of bread in all your* places. <pb/>Yet you* have not returned to me, says Jehovah.


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<pb/>And I also have withheld the rain from you*, when there were yet three months to the harvest. And I caused it to rain upon one city and caused it not to rain upon another city. One piece was rained upon and the piece upon which it did not rain withered.


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So two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water and were not satisfied. <pb/>Yet you* have not returned to me, says Jehovah.


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<pb/>I have struck you* with blasting and mildew. The multitude of your* gardens and your* vineyards and your* fig trees and your* olive trees the palmer-worm has devoured. <pb/>Yet you* have not returned to me, says Jehovah.


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<pb/>I have sent among you* the pestilence according to the manner of Egypt. I have slain your* young men with the sword and have carried away your* horses and I have made the stench of your* camp to come up even into your* nostrils. <pb/>Yet you* have not returned to me, says Jehovah.


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<pb/>I have overthrown cities among you*, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and you* were as a brand plucked out of the burning. <pb/>Yet you* have not returned to me, says Jehovah.


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<pb/>Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel and because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.


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For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness and treads upon the high places of the earth — Jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name.


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The virgin of Israel has fallen; she will no more rise. She is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.


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<pb/>For thus says the lord Jehovah: The city that went forth a thousand will have a hundred left and what went forth a hundred will have ten left, to the house of Israel.


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But do not seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal and pass not to Beer-sheba. For Gilgal will surely go into captivity and Bethel will come to nothing.


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<pb/>Seek Jehovah and you* will live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph and it devour and there is none to quench it in Bethel.


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seek he who makes the Pleiades and Orion and turns the shadow of death into the morning and makes the day dark with night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth (Jehovah is his name),


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Inasmuch therefore as you* trample upon the poor and take exactions of wheat from him. You* have built houses of hewn stone, but you* will not dwell in them. You* have planted pleasant vineyards, but you* will not drink the wine of it.


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<pb/>For I know how great are your* transgressions and how mighty are your* sins — you* who afflict the just man, who take a bribe and who turn aside the needy in the gate.


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<pb/>Seek good and not evil, that you* may live and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be with you*, as you* say.


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Hate the evil and love the good and establish justice in the gate. It may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.


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<pb/>Therefore Jehovah says thus, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing will be in all the broad ways. And they will say in all the streets, Alas! Alas! And they will call the farmer to mourning and such as are skillful in lamentation to wailing.


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<pb/>Woe to you* who desire the day of Jehovah! Why would you* have the day of Jehovah? It is darkness and not light.


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As if a man fled from a lion and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall and a serpent bit him.


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Yes, though you* offer me your* burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them, nor will I regard the peace offerings of your* fat beasts.


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<pb/>Did you* bring sacrifices and offerings to me in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?


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Yes, you* have borne the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your* god Remphan, your* images which you* made to yourselves.


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Therefore I will cause you* to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts.


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<pb/>Woe to those who are at ease in Zion and to those who are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!


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Pass to Calneh and see and from there go to Hamath the great, then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Or is their border greater than your* border?


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who lie upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves upon their couches and eat the lambs out of the flock and the calves out of the midst of the stall,


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who scatter-words to the mouth   <n>{i.e. sound}</n>   of the harp, who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David,


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who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the chief oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.


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<pb/>Therefore they will now go into exile with the first who go into exile and the banqueting of those who stretched themselves will pass away.


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<pb/>The lord Jehovah has sworn by himself, Jehovah, the God of hosts says: I abhor the excellency of Jacob and hate his palaces, therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.


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And when a man's uncle will take him up, even he who burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house and will say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any with you? and he will say, No, then he will say, Hold your peace, for we may not make mention of the name of Jehovah.


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For, behold, Jehovah commands and the great house will be struck with breaches and the little house with clefts.


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<pb/>Shall horses run upon the rock? Will a man plow there with oxen? That you* have turned justice into gall and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,


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For, behold, I will raise up against you* a nation, O house of Israel, says Jehovah, the God of hosts and they will afflict you* from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah.


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<pb/>Thus the lord Jehovah showed me: And behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.


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<pb/>And it happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O lord Jehovah, forgive, I beseech you. How will Jacob stand, for he is small?


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<pb/>Thus the lord Jehovah showed me: And behold, the lord Jehovah called to contend by fire and it devoured the great deep and would have eaten up the land.


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<pb/>Thus he showed me: And behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand.


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And Jehovah said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A plumb-line. Then the Lord said, Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.


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And the high places of Isaac will be desolate and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.


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<pb/>Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam King of Israel, saying, Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.


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For thus Amos says: Jeroboam will die by the sword and Israel will surely be led away captive out of his land.


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<pb/>Also Amaziah said to Amos, O you seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah and there eat bread and prophesy there.


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But do not prophesy again any more at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary and it is a royal house.


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<pb/>Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, nor was I a prophet's son, but I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore trees.


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And Jehovah took me from following the flock and Jehovah said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel.


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<pb/>Now therefore hear the word of Jehovah: You say, Do not prophesy against Israel and do not drop your word against the house of Isaac.


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Therefore Jehovah says thus: Your wife will be a prostitute in the city and your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword and your land will be divided by line and you yourself will die in a land that is unclean. And Israel will surely be led away captive out of his land.


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And he said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then Jehovah said to me, The end has come upon my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.


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And the songs of the temple will be wailings in that day, says the lord Jehovah. The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will cast them forth with silence.


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saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel great and dealing falsely with balances of deceit,


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that we may buy the poor for silver and a needy man for a pair of shoes and sell the refuse of the wheat?


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Shall the land not tremble for this and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up all of it like the River and it will be troubled and sink again like the River of Egypt.


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<pb/>And it will happen in that day, says the lord Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon and I will darken the earth in the clear day.


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And I will turn your* feasts into mourning and all your* songs into lamentation. And I will bring sackcloth upon all loins and baldness upon every head and I will make it as the mourning for an only son and the end of it as a bitter day.


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<pb/>Behold, the days come, says the lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Jehovah.


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And they will wander from sea to sea and from the north even to the east. They will run to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah and will not find it.


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<pb/>Those who swear by the sin of Samaria and say, As your god, O Dan, lives, and, As the way of Beer-sheba lives, they will fall and never rise up again.


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<pb/>I saw the Lord standing beside the altar. And he said, Strike the capitals, that the thresholds may shake and break them in pieces on the head of all of them and I will kill the last of them with the sword. There will not one of them flee away and there will not one of them escape.


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<pb/>Though they dig into Sheol, from there my hand will take them and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.


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And though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there. And though they are hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent and it will bite them.


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And though they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword and it will kill them. And I will set my eyes upon them for evil and not for good.


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<pb/>For the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, is he who touches the land and it melts and all who dwell in it will mourn. And it will rise up all of it like the River and will sink again like the River of Egypt.


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He who builds his chambers in the heavens and has founded his vault upon the earth, he who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth, Jehovah is his name.


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<pb/>Are you* not like the sons of the Ethiopians to me, O sons of Israel? says Jehovah. Have I not brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?


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<pb/>Behold, the eyes of the lord Jehovah are upon the sinful kingdom and I will destroy it from the face of the earth, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says Jehovah.


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<pb/>For behold, I will command and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, just as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet the least kernel will not fall upon the earth.


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All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, The evil will not overtake nor meet us.


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<pb/>In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that has fallen and close up the breaches of it. And I will raise up its ruins and I will build it as in the days of old,


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that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that are called by my name, says Jehovah who does this.


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<pb/>Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes he who draws seed and the mountains will drop sweet wine and all the hills will melt.


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<pb/>And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel and they will build the waste cities and inhabit them and they will plant vineyards and drink the wine of it. They will also make gardens and eat the fruit of them.


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And I will plant them upon their land and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them, says Jehovah your God.


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<pb/>The vision of Obadiah. The lord Jehovah says thus concerning Edom: We have heard news from Jehovah and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, Arise and let us rise up against her in battle.


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<pb/>The pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground?


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Though you mount on high as the eagle and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Jehovah.


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<pb/>If thieves came to you, if robbers by night (how you are cut off!), they would not steal only till they had enough? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?


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All the men of your confederacy have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you and prevailed against you. Those who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.


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<pb/>Jehovah says, Shall I not in that day, destroy the wise men out of Edom and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?


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And your mighty men, O Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.


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<pb/>Shame will cover you for the violence done to your brother Jacob and you will be cut off everlasting.


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In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance and foreigners entered into his gates and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even you were as one of them.


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<pb/>But do not look on the day of your brother in the day of his disaster and rejoice not over the sons of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor speak proudly in the day of distress.


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Do not enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. <pb/>Yes, do not look on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor lay you* hands on their substance in the day of their calamity.


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And stand not in the crossway, to cut off those of his who escape and do not deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.


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<pb/>For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you. Your dealing will return upon your own head.


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For as you* have drunk upon my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink and swallow down and will be as though they had not been.


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<pb/>But in Mount Zion there will be those who escape and it will be holy and the house of Jacob will possess their possessions.


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And the house of Jacob will be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame and the house of Esau for stubble. And they will burn among them and devour them and there will not be any remaining to the house of Esau, for Jehovah has spoken it.


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<pb/>And those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau and those of the lowland the Philistines. And they will possess the field of Ephraim and the field of Samaria and Benjamin will possess Gilead.


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<pb/>And the captives of this host of the sons of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath. And the captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the South.


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And saviors will come up on Mount Zion to judge the mountain of Esau and the kingdom will be Jehovah's.


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Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.


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<pb/>But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah. And he went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare of it and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah.


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<pb/>But Jehovah sent out a great wind upon the sea and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was about to be broken.


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<pb/>Then the mariners were afraid and cried every man to his god. And they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it to them. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship and he lay and was fast asleep.


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So the captain came to him and said to him, What do you mean, O sleeper? Arise, call upon your God, perhaps that God will think upon us, that we not perish.


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<pb/>And they said every one to his fellow, Come and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots and the lot fell upon Jonah.


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<pb/>Then they said to him, Please tell us for whose cause this evil is upon us. What is your occupation? And from where do you come? What is your country and of what people are you?


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And he said to them, I am a Hebrew and I fear Jehovah, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.


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<pb/>Then the men were exceedingly afraid and said to him, What is this that you have done? For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Jehovah, because he had told them.


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<pb/>Then they said to him, What will we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us? For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.


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And he said to them, Take me up and cast me forth into the sea, so will the sea be calm to you*. For I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you*.


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<pb/>Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get themselves back to the land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.


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<pb/>Therefore they cried to Jehovah and said, We beseech you, O Jehovah, we beseech you, let us not perish for this man's life and lay not upon us innocent blood. For you, O Jehovah, have done as it pleased you.


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<pb/>And Jehovah prepared a great sea creature to swallow up Jonah and Jonah was in the belly of the sea creature three days and three nights.


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And he said, I called because of my affliction to Jehovah and he answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried and you heard my voice.


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<pb/>For you cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas and the flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.


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<pb/>The waters encompassed me around, even to the soul. The deep was all around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.


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I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth with its bars closed upon me everlasting. Yet you have brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.


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<pb/>When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah. And my prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.


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But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of Jehovah.


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<pb/>So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, of three days' journey.


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And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey. And he cried out and said, Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown.


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<pb/>And the people of Nineveh believed God and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.


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<pb/>And the news reached the king of Nineveh and he arose from his throne and laid his robe from him and covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes.


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And he made proclamation and proclaimed through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Do not let them feed, nor drink water,


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but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn each one from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.


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<pb/>Who knows whether God will not turn and relent and turn away from his fierce anger, that we not perish?


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<pb/>And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. And God relented of the evil which he said he would do to them and he did not do it.


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And he prayed to Jehovah and said, I beseech you, O Jehovah, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hastened to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness and relent you of the evil.


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<pb/>Therefore now, O Jehovah, I beseech you, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.


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<pb/>Then Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city and there made himself a booth and sat under it in the shade, till he might see what would become of the city.


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<pb/>And Jehovah God prepared a gourd and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his misery. So Jonah was very glad because of the gourd.


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<pb/>But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day and it killed* the gourd, that it withered.


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And it happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted and requested for himself that he might die and said, It is better for me to die than to live.


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<pb/>And God said to Jonah, Do you well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even to death.


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And Jehovah said, You have had regard for the gourd, for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night.


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<pb/>And should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand men who cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand and also much cattle?


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<pb/>The word of Jehovah that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.


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<pb/>Hear, you* peoples, all of you*. Listen, O earth and all who are in it and let the Lord Jehovah be witness against you*, the Lord from his holy temple.


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For, behold, Jehovah comes forth out of his place and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.


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And the mountains will be melted under him and the valleys will be split, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.


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<pb/>All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Are they not Jerusalem?


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<pb/>Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field and as places for planting vineyards. And I will pour down the stones of it into the valley and I will uncover the foundations of it.


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And all her graven images will be beaten to pieces. And all her wages will be burned with fire and I will lay desolate all her idols. For she has gathered them from the wages of a prostitute and to the wage of a prostitute they will return.


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<pb/>For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will make a wailing like the jackals and a lamentation like the ostriches.


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For her wounds are incurable. For it has come even to Judah. it reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.


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Pass away, O inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan has not come forth. The wailing of Beth-ezel will take from you* the stay of it.


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For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.


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<pb/>Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.


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Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth-gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.


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<pb/>I will yet bring to you, O inhabitant of Mareshah, he who will possess you. The glory of Israel will come even to Adullam.


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You make <i>yourself</i> bald and cut off your hair for the sons of your delight. Enlarge your baldness as the vulture, for they have gone into captivity from you.


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<pb/>Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.


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And they desire fields and seize them and houses and take them away. And they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.


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<pb/>Therefore Jehovah says thus: Behold, I devise an evil against this family, from which you* will not remove your* necks, nor will you* walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.


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In that day they will take up a taunt against you* and lament with a lamenting lamentation. And say, We are utterly ruined. He changes the portion of my people. How he removes it from me! He divides our fields to the rebellious.


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<pb/>Prophesy you* not, they prophesy. They will not prophesy to these, so reproaches will not depart.


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Will it be said, O house of Jacob, Is the Spirit of Jehovah restricted? Are these his practices? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?


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<pb/>But of late my people have risen up as an enemy. You* strip off the robe with the garment from those who pass by securely as men turning back from war.


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You* cast out the women of my people from their pleasant houses. You* take away my glory from their young sons everlasting.


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<pb/>Arise and depart, for this is not your* resting-place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.


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If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies, saying, I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink, he will even be the prophet of this people.


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<pb/>I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of you. I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture. They will make great noise because of the multitude of men.


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The breaker has gone up before them. They have broken forth and passed on to the gate and have gone out there. And their king has passed on before them and Jehovah at the head of them.


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<pb/>And I said, Hear, I beseech you*, you* heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel. Is it not for you* to know justice?


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You* who hate the good and love the evil, who pluck off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones,


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who also eat the flesh of my people and flay their skin from them and break their bones and chop them in pieces, as for the pot and as flesh within the caldron.


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<pb/>Then they will cry to Jehovah, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, just-as they have worked evil in their practices.


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<pb/>Jehovah says thus concerning the prophets who make my people go-astray, who bite with their teeth and cry, Peace. And he who does not put into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.


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<pb/>Therefore it will be night to you*, that you* will have no vision. And it will be dark to you*, that you* will not divine. And the sun will go down upon the prophets and the day will be black over them.


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And the seers will be put to shame and diviners confounded. Yes, they will all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.


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<pb/>But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah and of judgment and of might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.


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<pb/>Hear this, I beseech you*, you* heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert all equity.


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The heads of it judge for a bribe and the priests of it teach for a wage and the prophets of it divine for money. <pb/>Yet they lean upon Jehovah and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? No evil will come upon us.


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Therefore for your* sake Zion will be plowed as a field and Jerusalem will become heaps and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.


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<pb/>But in the latter days it will happen, that the mountain of Jehovah's house will be established on the top of the mountains and it will be exalted above the hills and peoples will flow to it.


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<pb/>And many nations will go and say, Come and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah and to the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion will go forth the law and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.


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<pb/>And he will judge between many peoples and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. And they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, nor will they learn war any more.


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<pb/>But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree and none will make them afraid. For the mouth of Jehovah of hosts has spoken it.


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For all the peoples walk each one in the name of his god. And we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God everlasting and forever.


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<pb/>In that day, says Jehovah, I will assemble what is lame and I will gather what is driven away and what I have afflicted.


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And I will make what was lame a remnant and what was cast far off a strong nation. And Jehovah will reign over them in Mount Zion from now and until everlasting.


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<pb/>And you, O tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come. Yes, the former dominion will come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.


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<pb/>Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you. Has your counselor perished, that pangs have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail?


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Be in pain and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail. <pb/>For now you will go forth out of the city and will dwell in the field and will come even to Babylon. There you will be rescued. There Jehovah will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.


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<pb/>And now many nations are assembled against you, who say, Let her be defiled and let our eye see our desire upon Zion.


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But they do not know the thoughts of Jehovah, nor do they understand his counsel, for he has gathered them as the sheaves to the threshing-floor.


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<pb/>Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and I will make your hoofs brass and you will beat many peoples in pieces. And I will devote their gain to Jehovah and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.


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<pb/>Now you will gather yourself in troops, O daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will kill* the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.


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<pb/>But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, which are little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of you he will come out to me who is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from long-ago, from the days of everlasting.


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<pb/>Therefore he will give them up until the time that she who travails has brought forth. Then the residue of his brothers will return to the sons of Israel.


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And he will stand and will feed his flock in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah his God and they will abide. For now he will be great to the ends of the earth.


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And this man will be our peace. <pb/>When the Assyrian will come into our land and when he will tread in our palaces, then we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight principal men.


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And they will waste the land of Assyria with the sword and the land of Nimrod in the entrances of it. And he will deliver us from the Assyrian, when he comes into our land and when he treads within our border.


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<pb/>And the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples as dew from Jehovah, as showers upon the grass, that do not abide for man, nor wait for the sons of men.


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And the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep, who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces and there is none to deliver.


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And it will happen in that day, says Jehovah, that I will cut off your horses out of the midst of you and will destroy your chariots,


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And I will cut off your graven images and your pillars out of the midst of you and you will no more worship the work of your hands.


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And I will pluck up your Asherim   <n>{pole-images}</n>   out of the midst of you and I will destroy your cities.


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<pb/>Hear now what Jehovah says: Arise, contend before the mountains and let the hills hear your voice.


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Hear, O you* mountains, Jehovah's controversy and you* enduring foundations of the earth, for Jehovah has a controversy with his people and he will contend with Israel.


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For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. And I sent before you Moses, Aaron and Miriam.


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<pb/>O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him. Remember from Shittim to Gilgal, that you* may know the righteous acts of Jehovah.


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<pb/>With what shall I come before Jehovah and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?


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Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?


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<pb/>He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does Jehovah require of you, but to do justly and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God?


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<pb/>The voice of Jehovah cries to the city and the man of wisdom will see your name. Hear the rod and who has appointed it.


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Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and a scant measure <i>that is</i> indignant?


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For the rich men of it are full of violence and the inhabitants of it have spoken lies and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.


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<pb/>Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound, I have made you desolate because of your sins.


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You will eat, but not be satisfied and your humiliation will be in the midst of you. And you will put away, but will not save and what you save I will give up to the sword.


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You will sow, but will not reap, you will tread the olives, but will not anoint you with oil and the vintage, but will not drink the wine.


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<pb/>For the statutes of Omri are kept and all the works of the house of Ahab and you* walk in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation and the inhabitants of it a hissing. And you* will bear the reproach of my people.


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<pb/>Woe is me! For I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat. My soul desires the first ripe fig.


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<pb/>The devout man has perished out of the earth and there is none upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood. They hunt every man his brother with a net.


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Their hands are upon what is evil to do it diligently. The ruler asks and the judge asks for a bribe. And the great man, he utters the evil desire of his soul. Thus they weave it together.


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<pb/>The best of them is as a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come. Now will be their perplexity.


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<pb/>Trust you* not in a neighbor. Put you* not confidence in a friend. Keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.


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For the son dishonors the father. The daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies are the men of his own house.


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<pb/>But as for me, I will look to Jehovah. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.


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Rejoice not against me, O my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Jehovah will be a light to me.


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<pb/>I will bear the indignation of Jehovah, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light and I will behold his righteousness.


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<pb/>Then my enemy will see it and shame will cover her who said to me, Where is Jehovah your God? My eyes will see my desire upon her. Now she will be trodden down as the mud of the streets.


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In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt and from Egypt even to the River and from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.


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<pb/>Feed your people with your rod, the flock of your heritage, which dwell solitarily in the forest in the midst of Carmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.


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<pb/>The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand upon their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.


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They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they will come trembling out of their borders. They will come with fear to Jehovah our God and will be afraid because of you.


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<pb/>Who is a God like to you, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.


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<pb/>He will again have compassion upon us. He will tread our iniquities under foot and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.


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You will perform the truth to Jacob and the loving kindness to Abraham, which you have sworn to our fathers from the days of long-ago.


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<pb/>Jehovah is a jealous God and avenges. Jehovah avenges and is full of wrath. Jehovah takes vengeance on his adversaries and he reserves wrath for his enemies.


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Jehovah is slow to anger and great in power and will by no means clear the guilty. <pb/>Jehovah has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm and the clouds are the dust of his feet.


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He rebukes the sea and makes it dry and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes and Carmel and the flower of Lebanon languishes.


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The mountains quake at him and the hills melt and the earth is upheaved at his presence. Yes, the world and all who dwell in it.


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<pb/>Who can stand before his indignation? And who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire and the rocks are broken apart by him.


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But with an over running flood he will make a full end of her place and will pursue his enemies into darkness.


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<pb/>What do you* devise against Jehovah? He will make a full end. Affliction will not rise up the second time.


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For entangled like thorns and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.


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<pb/>Jehovah says thus: Though they are in full strength and likewise many, even so they will be cut down. And he will pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.


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<pb/>And Jehovah has given commandment concerning you, that no more of your name be sown. Out of the house of your gods I will cut off the graven image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.


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<pb/>Behold, upon the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah. Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.


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<pb/>He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress. Watch the way. Make your loins strong. Fortify your power mightily.


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For Jehovah restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel, for those emptying have emptied them out and destroyed their vine branches.


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<pb/>The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation and the cypress spears are brandished.


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The chariots rage in the streets; they rush to and fro in the broad ways. The appearance of them is like torches. They run like the lightnings.


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He remembers his nobles. They stumble in their traveling. They make haste to the wall of it and the mantelet is prepared.


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<pb/>And it is decreed. She is uncovered. She is carried away and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.


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<pb/>But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water. Yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry, but none looks back.


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You* take the spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold. For there is no end of the store, the glory of all desirable furniture.


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She is empty and void and waste. And the heart melts and the knees kill* together and anguish is in all loins and the faces of them all have grown pale.


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<pb/>Where is the den of the lions and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cub and none made them afraid?


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The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs and strangled for his lionesses and filled his caves with prey and his dens with prey.


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<pb/>Behold, I am against you, says Jehovah of hosts and I will burn her chariots in the smoke and the sword will devour your young lions. And I will cut off your prey from the earth and the voice of your messengers will no more be heard.


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The noise of the whip and the noise of the rattling of wheels and prancing horses and bounding chariots,


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the horseman mounting and the flashing sword and the glittering spear and a multitude of slain and a great heap of corpses and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble upon their bodies,


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because of the multitude of the prostitutions of the fine-looking prostitute, the mistress of witchcrafts, who sells nations through her prostitutions and families through her witchcrafts.


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<pb/>Behold, I am against you, says Jehovah of hosts and I will uncover your skirts upon your face and I will show the nations your nakedness and the kingdoms your shame.


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<pb/>And it will happen, that all those who look upon you will flee from you and say, Nineveh is laid waste. Who will sympathize with her? From where shall I seek comforters for you?


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<pb/>Are you better than No-amon, that was situated among the rivers, that had the waters all around her, whose rampart was the sea and her wall was of the sea?


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Yet she was carried away. She went into captivity. Her young sons also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets. And they cast lots for her honorable men and all her great men were bound in chains.


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<pb/>You also will be drunken. You will be hid. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.


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All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first ripe figs. If they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.


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<pb/>Behold, your people in the midst of you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.


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Draw you water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay and tread the mortar. Make strong the brick kiln.


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There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the canker-worm. Make yourself many as the canker-worm. Make yourself many as the locust.


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You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven. The canker-worm ravages and flees away.


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Your rulers are as the locusts and your marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which encamp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun arises they flee away and their place is not known where they are.


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Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria. Your nobles are at rest. Your people are scattered upon the mountains and there is none to gather them.


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<pb/>There is no alleviation of your hurt. Your wound is grievous. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you, for upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?


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<pb/>O Jehovah, how long shall I cry and you will not hear? I cry out to you of violence and you will not save.


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Why do you show me wickedness and look upon perverseness? For destruction and violence are before me and there is strife and contention rises up.


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Therefore the law is slacked and justice never goes forth. For the wicked man surrounds the righteous man, therefore justice goes forth perverted.


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<pb/>Behold you* scoffers and look and wonder marvelously. For I am working a work in your* days, which you* will not believe though it is told you*.


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For behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs.


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Their horses also are swifter than leopards and are more fierce than the evening wolves. And their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from far. They fly as an eagle that hastens to devour.


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They come all of them for violence. The set of their faces is forwards and they gather captives as the sand.


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<pb/>Yes, he scoffs at kings and rulers are a mocking to him. He derides every stronghold, for he heaps up dust and takes it.


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<pb/>Are not you from long-ago, O Jehovah my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O Jehovah, you have placed him for judgment and you, O Rock, have established him for correction.


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<pb/>You who are of purer eyes than to behold evil and who cannot look on perverseness, why do you look upon those who deal treacherously and hold your peace when the wicked man swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,


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<pb/>He takes all of them up with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his drag. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.


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Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his drag, because by them his portion is fat and his food plentiful.


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<pb/>I will stand upon my watch and set myself upon the tower and will look forth to see what he will speak with me and what I will answer concerning my complaint.


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<pb/>And Jehovah answered me and said, Write the vision and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run who reads it.


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For the vision is yet for the appointed time and it breathes-out toward the end and will not lie. Though it abide, wait for it, because it will surely come. It will not delay.


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<pb/>Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright in him. (But the righteous man will live by his faith.)


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Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. He is a haughty man, who does not keep at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol and he is as death and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to him all nations and heaps to him all peoples.


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<pb/>Shall not all these take up a parable against him and a taunting proverb against him and say, Woe to him who increases what is not his (how long?) and who loads himself with pledges!


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Shall they not rise up suddenly that will bite you and awake that will besiege you. And you will be for booty to them?


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<pb/>Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men's blood and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.


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<pb/>Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!


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You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples and have sinned against your soul.


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Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire and the nations weary themselves for vanity?


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For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.


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<pb/>Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, who adds your venom and also makes him drunken, that you may look on their nakedness!


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You are filled with shame and not glory. Drink you also and be as one uncircumcised. The cup of Jehovah's right hand will come around to you and foul shame will be upon your glory.


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<pb/>For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you and the plunder of the beasts (which made them afraid), because of men's blood and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.


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<pb/>What profits the graven image, that the maker of it has engraved it, the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make dumb idols?


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<pb/>Woe to him who says to the wood, Awake! To the dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.


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<pb/>O Jehovah, I have heard the report of you and am afraid. O Jehovah, revive your work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make it known. In wrath remember mercy.


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<pb/>God came from Teman and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens and the earth was full of his praise.


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And his brightness was as the light. He had rays from his hand and there was the hiding of his power.


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<pb/>He stood and measured the earth. He beheld and drove apart the nations. And the eternal mountains were scattered. The everlasting hills bowed. His traveling are everlasting.


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Was Jehovah displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that you rode upon your horses, upon your chariots of salvation?


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<pb/>Your bow was exposed. Naked <i>are</i> the oaths of the tribes to <i>your</i> word. Selah. You split the earth with rivers.


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The mountains saw you and were afraid. The tempest of waters passed by. The deep uttered its voice and lifted up its hands on high.


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The sun and moon stood still in their habitation, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.


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You went forth for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. <pb/>You wound the head out of the house of the wicked man, laying bare the foundation even to the neck. Selah.


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You pierced with his own staves the head of his warriors. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me. Their rejoicing was as to devour the poor man secretly.


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<pb/>I heard and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.


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<pb/>For though the fig tree will not flourish, nor will fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive will fail and the fields will yield no food; the flock will be cut off from the fold and there will be no herd in the stalls;


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<pb/>Jehovah, the Lord, is my strength. And he makes my feet like female-deers' feet and will make me to walk upon my high places


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<pb/>The word of Jehovah which came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.


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I will consume man and beast. I will consume the birds of the heavens and the fishes of the sea and the stumbling blocks with the wicked. And I will cut off man from the face of the ground, says Jehovah.


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<pb/>And I will stretch out my hand upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place <i>and</i> the names of the idolatrous priest with the <i>pagan</i> priests,


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and those who worship the host of heaven upon the housetops and those who worship, who swear to Jehovah and swear by Malcam,


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and those who are turned back from following Jehovah and those who have not sought Jehovah, nor inquired after him.


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<pb/>Hold your peace at the presence of the lord Jehovah, for the day of Jehovah is at hand. For Jehovah has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.


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And it will happen in the day of Jehovah's sacrifice, that I will punish the rulers and the king's sons and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.


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And in that day I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.


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<pb/>And in that day, says Jehovah, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate and a wailing from the second quarter and a great crashing from the hills.


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Wail, you* inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone. All those who were laden with silver are cut off.


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<pb/>And it will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps and I will punish the men who are settled on their lees, who say in their heart, Jehovah will not do good, nor will he do evil.


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And their wealth will become a spoil and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but will not inhabit them and they will plant vineyards, but will not drink the wine of it.


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<pb/>The great day of Jehovah is near. It is near and hastens greatly, the voice of the day of Jehovah. The mighty man cries there bitterly.


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That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of waste and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,


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<pb/>And I will bring distress upon men, that they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against Jehovah and their blood will be poured out as dust and their flesh as manure.


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Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah's wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy. For he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.


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before the decree bring forth, before the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Jehovah comes upon you*, before the day of Jehovah's anger comes upon you*.


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<pb/>Seek Jehovah, all you* meek of the earth who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness, seek meekness. It may be you* will be hid in the day of Jehovah's anger.


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<pb/>For Gaza will be forsaken and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday and Ekron will be rooted up.


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Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of Jehovah is against you*, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, that there will be no inhabitant.


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And the coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will feed their flocks upon it. In the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down in the evening. For Jehovah their God will visit them and bring back their captivity.


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<pb/>I have heard the reproach of Moab and the revilings of the sons of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people and magnified themselves against their border.


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Therefore as I live, says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab will be as Sodom and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles and salt pits and a everlasting desolation. The residue of my people will make a prey of them and the remnant of my nation will inherit them.


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<pb/>They will have this for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts.


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Jehovah will be terrible to them, for he will famish all the gods of the earth. And men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the isles of the nations.


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<pb/>And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria and will make Nineveh a desolation and dry like the wilderness.


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And herds will lie down in the midst of her. All the beasts of the nations, both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in the capitals of it. Their voice will sing in the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds. For he has laid bare the cedar work.


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<pb/>This is the joyous city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am and there is none besides me. How she has become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss and wag his hand.


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She obeyed not the voice. She received not correction. She trusted not in Jehovah. She did not draw near to her God.


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Her rulers in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing till the morrow.


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Her prophets are airy and treacherous men. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.


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<pb/>Jehovah in the midst of her is righteous. He will not do unrighteousness. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He does not fail, but the unjust man knows no shame.


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<pb/>I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that none passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.


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<pb/>I said, Only fear me. Receive correction, so her dwelling will not be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her. But they rose early and corrupted all their practices.


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<pb/>Therefore wait for me, says Jehovah, until the day that I rise up to the prey. For my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them my indignation, even all my fierce anger. For all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.


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<pb/>For then I will turn to the peoples of a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of Jehovah, to serve him with one consent.


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From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, will bring my offering.


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<pb/>In that day you will not be put to shame for all your practices, in which you have transgressed against me. For then I will take away out of the midst of you those who rejoice in your pride and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain.


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<pb/>But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people and they will take refuge in the name of Jehovah.


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The remnant of Israel will not do unrighteousness, nor speak lies, nor will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth. For they will feed and lie down and none will make them afraid.


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<pb/>Sing, O daughter of Zion. Shout, O Israel. Be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.


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Jehovah has taken away your judgments. He has cast out your enemy. The King of Israel, even Jehovah, is in the midst of you. You will not fear evil any more.


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Jehovah your God is in the midst of you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will rest in his love. He will joy over you with singing.


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I will gather those who sorrow for the solemn assembly, who were of you, to whom the burden upon her was a reproach.


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<pb/>Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you. And I will save what is lame and gather what was driven away and I will make them a praise and a name, whose shame has been in all the earth.


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At that time I will bring you* in and at that time I will gather you*. For I will make you* a name and a praise among all the peoples of the earth when I bring back your* captivity before your* eyes, says Jehovah.


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<pb/>In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the word of Jehovah came by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,


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Thus speaks Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people say, It is not the time for us to come, the time for Jehovah's house to be built.


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You* have sown much and bring in little. You* eat, but you* have not enough. You* drink, but you* are not filled with drink. You* clothe yourselves, but there is none warm. And he who earns wages earns wages to put into a bag with holes.


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Go up to the mountain and bring wood and build the house. And I will take pleasure in it and I will be glorified, says Jehovah.


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You* looked for much, and behold, it came to little and when you* brought it home, I blew upon it. <pb/>Why? says Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house that lays waste while you* run each man to his own house.


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And I called for a drought upon the land and upon the mountains and upon the grain and upon the new wine and upon the oil and upon what the ground brings forth and upon men and upon cattle and upon all the labor of the hands.


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<pb/>Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of Jehovah their God and the words of Haggai the prophet, as Jehovah their God had sent him. And the people feared before Jehovah.


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<pb/>Then Haggai, Jehovah's messenger, spoke in Jehovah's message to the people, saying, I am with you*, says Jehovah.


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<pb/>And Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and did work on the house of Jehovah of hosts, their God,


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<pb/>In the seventh month, in the twenty-first day of the month, the word of Jehovah came by Haggai the prophet, saying,


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Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest and to the remnant of the people, saying,


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Who is left among you* that saw this house in its former glory? And how do you* see it now? Is it not in your* eyes as nothing?


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<pb/>Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says Jehovah and be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest and be strong, all you* people of the land, says Jehovah and work. For I am with you*, says Jehovah of hosts,


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according to the word that I covenanted with you* when you* came out of Egypt and my Spirit abode among you*. Do not fear.


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<pb/>For Jehovah of hosts says thus: Yet once, it is a little while and I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.


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And I will shake all nations and the delight of all nations will come and I will fill this house with glory, says Jehovah of hosts.


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The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former, says Jehovah of hosts and in this place I will give peace, says Jehovah of hosts.


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<pb/>In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of Jehovah came by Haggai the prophet, saying,


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If a man bears holy flesh in the skirt of his garment and with his skirt touches bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, will it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No.


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<pb/>Then Haggai said, If a man who is unclean because of a dead body touches any of these, will it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It will be unclean.


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Then Haggai answered and said, So is this people and so is this nation before me, says Jehovah and so is every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.


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<pb/>And now, I beseech you*, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah.


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Through all that time, when a man came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When he came to the wine vat to draw out fifty vessels, there were but twenty.


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I killed* you* with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your* hands, yet you* turned not to me, says Jehovah.


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<pb/>Consider, I beseech you*, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Jehovah's temple was laid, consider it.


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Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine and the fig tree and the pomegranate and the olive tree have not brought forth. From this day I will bless you*.


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<pb/>And the word of Jehovah came the second time to Haggai in the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,


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And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. And I will overthrow the chariots and those who ride in them. And the horses and their riders will come down, each one by the sword of his brother.


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<pb/>In that day, says Jehovah of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, says Jehovah and will make you as a signet. For I have chosen you, says Jehovah of hosts.


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<pb/>In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of Jehovah came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,


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Therefore you say to them, Jehovah of hosts says thus: <pb/>Return to me, says Jehovah of hosts and I will return to you*, says Jehovah of hosts.


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Do not be as your* fathers, to whom the former prophets cried, saying, Jehovah of hosts says thus: Return now from your* evil ways and from your* evil practices, but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says Jehovah.


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But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your* fathers? And they turned and said, Like as Jehovah of hosts thought to do to us, according to our ways and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.


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<pb/>Upon the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of Jehovah came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,


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I saw in the night, and behold, a man riding upon a red horse and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom. And behind him there were horses, red, sorrel and white.


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<pb/>Then I said, O my lord, what are these? And the messenger who talked with me said to me, I will show you what these are.


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And the man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom Jehovah has sent to walk to and fro through the earth.


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And they answered the messenger of Jehovah who stood among the myrtle trees and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and behold, all the earth sits still and is at rest.


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<pb/>Then the messenger of Jehovah answered and said, O Jehovah of hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?


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<pb/>So the messenger who talked with me said to me, Cry, saying, Jehovah of hosts says thus: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.


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And I am very greatly displeased with the nations that are at ease. For I was but a little displeased and they helped forward the affliction.


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<pb/>Therefore Jehovah says thus: I have returned to Jerusalem with mercies. My house will be built in it, says Jehovah of hosts and a line will be stretched forth over Jerusalem.


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Cry yet again, saying, Jehovah of hosts says thus: My cities will yet overflow with prosperity and Jehovah will yet comfort Zion and will yet choose Jerusalem.


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And I said to the messenger who talked with me, What are these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem.


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Then I said, What are these coming to do? And he spoke, saying, These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head. But these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.


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Then I said, Where do you go? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem. To see what is the breadth of it and what is the length of it.


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<pb/>And behold, the messenger who talked with me went forth. And another messenger went out to meet him,


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and said to him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and cattle in it.


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For I, says Jehovah, will be to her a wall of fire all around and I will be the glory in the midst of her.


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<pb/>Ho, ho, flee from the land of the north, says Jehovah. For I have spread you* abroad as the four winds of the heavens, says Jehovah.


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<pb/>For Jehovah of hosts says thus: After glory he has sent me to the nations which plundered you*. For he who touches you* touches the apple of his eye.


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For, behold, I will shake my hand over them and they will be a spoil to those who served them. And you* will know that Jehovah of hosts has sent me.


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<pb/>Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for behold, I come and I will dwell in the midst of you, says Jehovah.


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And many nations will join themselves to Jehovah in that day and will be my people and I will dwell in the midst of you. And you will know that Jehovah of hosts has sent me to you.


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<pb/>And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the messenger of Jehovah and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.


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And Jehovah said to Satan, Jehovah rebuke you, O Satan. Yes, Jehovah who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you. Is this not a brand plucked out of the fire?


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And he answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, Take the filthy garments from him. And to him he said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you and I will clothe you with rich apparel.


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And I said, Let them set a clean miter upon his head. So they set a clean miter upon his head and clothed him with garments. And the messenger of Jehovah was standing by.


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Jehovah of hosts says thus: If you will walk in my ways and if you will keep my charge, then you also will judge my house and will also keep my courts and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.


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<pb/>Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign. For, behold, I will bring forth my servant the Branch.


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For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua. Upon one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave the graving of it, says Jehovah of hosts and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.


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In that day, says Jehovah of hosts, you* will invite each man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.


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<pb/>And the messenger who talked with me came again and awoke me, as a man who is awakened out of his sleep.


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And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I have seen, and behold, a lamp-stand all of gold, with its bowl upon the top of it and its seven lamps on it. There are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are upon the top of it,


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and two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl and the other upon the left side of it.


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Then the messenger who talked with me answered and said to me, Do you not know what these are? And I said, No, my lord.


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Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of Jehovah to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says Jehovah of hosts.


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Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain and he will bring forth the top stone with shouts of Favor, favor, to it.


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The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands will also finish it. And you will know that Jehovah of hosts has sent me to you*.


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For who has despised the day of small things? For these seven will rejoice and will see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel, the eyes of Jehovah, which run to and fro through the whole earth.


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<pb/>Then I answered and said to him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the lamp-stand and upon the left side of it?


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And I answered the second time and said to him, What are these two olive-branches, which are beside the two golden spouts that empty the golden oil out of themselves?


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And he said to me, What do you see? And I answered, I see a flying roll. The length of it is twenty cubits and the breadth of it ten cubits.


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<pb/>Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals will be cut off on the one side according to it and everyone who swears will be cut off on the other side according to it.


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I will cause it to go forth, says Jehovah of hosts and it will enter into the house of the thief and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it will abide in the midst of his house and will consume it, with the timber of it and the stones of it.


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<pb/>Then the messenger who talked with me went forth and said to me, Lift up now your eyes and see what this is that goes forth.


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And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goes forth. He said moreover, This is their appearance in all the land


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(and, behold, a talant of lead was lifted up) and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah.


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And he said, This is Wickedness. And he cast her down into the midst of the ephah and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth of it.


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<pb/>Then I lifted up my eyes and looked. And behold, there came out two women and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork and they lifted up the ephah between earth and heaven.


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And he said to me, To build her a house in the land of Shinar. And when it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place.


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<pb/>And again I lifted up my eyes and looked. And behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains and the mountains were mountains of brass.


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And the messenger answered and said to me, These are the four winds of heaven, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.


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The chariot in which are the black horses goes forth toward the north country and the white <i>horses</i> went forth after them and the grayed <i>horses</i> went forth toward the south country.


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<pb/>And the strong ones went forth and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth. And he said, You* get from here. Walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.


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Then he cried to me and spoke to me, saying, Behold, those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.


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Take from those captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah and of Jedaiah and come you the same day and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have come from Babylon.


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Yes, take silver and gold and make crowns and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.


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<pb/>And speak to him, saying, Thus speaks Jehovah of hosts, saying, Behold, the man whose name is the Branch. And he will grow up out of his place and he will build the temple of Jehovah,


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even he will build the temple of Jehovah. And he will bear the glory and will sit and rule upon his throne. And he will be a priest upon his throne and the counsel of peace will be between them both.


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And the crowns will be to Helem and to Tobijah and to Jedaiah and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of Jehovah.


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<pb/>And those who are far off will come and build in the temple of Jehovah. And you* will know that Jehovah of hosts has sent me to you*. And this will happen, if you* will diligently obey the voice of Jehovah your* God.


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<pb/>And it happened in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of Jehovah came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chislev.


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<pb/>Now those of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men, to entreat the favor of Jehovah,


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and to speak to the priests of the house of Jehovah of hosts and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?


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Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, When you* fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even these seventy years, did you* at all fast to me, even to me?


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<pb/>Should you* not hear the words which Jehovah cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity and the cities of it all around her and the South and the lowland were inhabited?


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Thus Jehovah of hosts has spoken, saying, Execute true justice and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.


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And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the traveler, nor the poor man. And let none of you* devise evil against his brother in your* heart.


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<pb/>But they refused to listen and pulled away the shoulder and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.


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Yes, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law and the words which Jehovah of hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Jehovah of hosts.


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<pb/>And it has happen that, as he cried and they would not hear, so they will cry and I will not hear, said Jehovah of hosts.


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But I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned. For they laid the desirable land desolate.


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Jehovah of hosts says thus: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy and I am jealous for her with great wrath.


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Jehovah says thus: I am returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And Jerusalem will be called The city of truth and the mountain of Jehovah of hosts, The holy mountain.


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<pb/>Jehovah of hosts says thus: There will yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.


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<pb/>Jehovah of hosts says thus: If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes? says Jehovah of hosts.


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Jehovah of hosts says thus: Behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west country.


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And I will bring them and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And they will be my people and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.


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<pb/>Jehovah of hosts says thus: Let your* hands be strong, you* who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of Jehovah of hosts was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.


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For before those days there was no wage for man, nor any wage for beast, nor was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men each one against his neighbor.


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<pb/>But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days, says Jehovah of hosts.


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For there will be the seed of peace. The vine will give its fruit and the ground will give its increase and the heavens will give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.


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<pb/>And it will happen that, as you* were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you* and you* will be a blessing. Do not fear. Let your* hands be strong.


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<pb/>For Jehovah of hosts says thus: As I thought to do evil to you*, when your* fathers provoked me to wrath, says Jehovah of hosts and I did not relent,


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so again I have thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Do not fear.


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<pb/>These are the things that you* will do: Speak to every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your* gates.


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And let none of you* devise evil in your* hearts against his neighbor and love no false oath. For all these are things that I hate, says Jehovah.


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Jehovah of hosts says thus: The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth, will be to the house of Judah, joy and gladness and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.


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And the inhabitants of one city will go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Jehovah and to seek Jehovah of hosts. I will go also.


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Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Jehovah of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of Jehovah.


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<pb/>Jehovah of hosts says thus: In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you*, for we have heard that God is with you*.


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<pb/>The burden of the word of Jehovah upon the land of Hadrach and Damascus its resting-place (for the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel is toward Jehovah),


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And Tyre built herself a stronghold and heaped up silver as the dust and fine gold as the mud of the streets.


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<pb/>Behold, the Lord will dispossess her and he will kill* her power in the sea and she will be devoured with fire.


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Ashkelon will see it and fear, Gaza also and will be greatly pained and Ekron, for her expectation will be put to shame. And the king will perish from Gaza and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.


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And I will take away his blood out of his mouth and his abominations from between his teeth. And he also will be a remnant for our God and he will be as a chieftain in Judah and Ekron as a Jebusite.


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<pb/>And I will encamp the army around my house, that none pass through or return and no oppressor will pass through them any more. For now I have seen with my eyes.


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<pb/>Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem. Behold, your king comes to you. He is just and having salvation, lowly and riding upon a donkey, even upon a colt the foal of a donkey.


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<pb/>And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem and the battle bow will be cut off. And he will speak peace to the nations. And his dominion will be from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth.


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<pb/>As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.


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<pb/>Turn back to the stronghold, you* prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will render double to you.


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For I have bent Judah for me. I have filled the bow with Ephraim. And I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece and will make you as the sword of a mighty man.


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And Jehovah will be seen over them. And his arrow will go forth as the lightning. And the lord Jehovah will blow the trumpet and will go with whirlwinds of the south.


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<pb/>Jehovah of hosts will defend them. And they will devour and will tread down the sling-stones. And they will drink and make a noise as through wine and they will be filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar.


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And Jehovah their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people, as for the stones of a crown, lifted on high over his land.


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For how great is his goodness and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish and new wine the virgins.


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<pb/>Ask you* of Jehovah rain in the time of the latter rain, even of Jehovah who makes lightnings and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone grass in the field.


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For the household-idol have spoken vanity and the diviners have seen a lie and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.


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<pb/>My anger is kindled against the shepherds and I will punish the male-goats. For Jehovah of hosts has visited his flock, the house of Judah and will make them as his majestic horse in the battle.


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From him will come out the cornerstone, from him the nail, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together.


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And they will be as mighty men, treading down their enemies in the mud of the streets in the battle. And they will fight, because Jehovah is with them and the riders on horses will be confounded.


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<pb/>And I will strengthen the house of Judah and I will save the house of Joseph and I will bring them back. For I have mercy upon them and they will be as though I had not cast them off. For I am Jehovah their God and I will hear them.


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And Ephraim will be like a mighty man and their heart will rejoice as through wine. Yes, their sons will see it and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Jehovah.


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<pb/>I will whistle for them and gather them. For I have redeemed them and they will increase as they have increased.


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And I will sow them among the peoples and they will remember me in far countries. And they will live with their sons and will return.


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<pb/>I will also bring them again out of the land of Egypt and gather them out of Assyria. And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon and until space will not be found for them.


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And he will pass through the sea of affliction and will kill* the waves in the sea and all the depths of the Nile will dry up. And the pride of Assyria will be brought down and the scepter of Egypt will depart.


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Wail, O fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the fine ones are destroyed. Wail, O you* oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.


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A voice of the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is destroyed. A voice of the roaring of young lions, for the pride of the Jordan is laid waste.


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whose possessors kill them and hold themselves not guilty. And those who sell them say, Praise Jehovah, for I am rich and their own shepherds pity them not.


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For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, says Jehovah. But behold, I will deliver the men each one into his neighbor's hand and into the hand of his king. And they will kill* the land and I will not deliver them out of their hand.


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<pb/>So I fed the flock of slaughter, truly the poor of the flock. And I took to me two staves, the one I called Beauty and the other I called Bands and I fed the flock.


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And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was weary of them and their soul also loathed me.


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Then I said, I will not feed you*. What dies, let it die and what is to be cut off, let it be cut off and let those who are left eat each one the flesh of another.


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<pb/>And I took my staff Beauty and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.


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And it was broken in that day and thus the poor of the flock who gave heed to me knew that it was the word of Jehovah.


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<pb/>And I said to them, If you* think good, give me my wage and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my wage thirty pieces of silver.


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And Jehovah said to me, Cast it to the potter, the good price that I was valued by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver and cast them to the potter in the house of Jehovah.


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<pb/>Then I cut apart my other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.


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For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, nor will he seek those who are scattered, nor heal what is broken, nor nourish what is standing, but he will eat the flesh of the fat and will tear their hoofs in pieces.


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<pb/>Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be upon his arm and upon his right eye. His arm will be dried up and his right eye will be utterly darkened.


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<pb/>The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. <pb/>Jehovah says thus, who stretches forth the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him:


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Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the peoples all around and upon Judah also it will be in the siege against Jerusalem.


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<pb/>And it will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.


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<pb/>In that day, says Jehovah, I will kill* every horse with terror and his rider with madness. And I will open my eyes upon the house of Judah and will kill* every horse of the peoples with blindness.


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<pb/>And the chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Jehovah of hosts their God.


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In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood and like a flaming torch among sheaves. And they will devour all the peoples all around, on the right hand and on the left and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.


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<pb/>Jehovah also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.


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<pb/>In that day Jehovah will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And he who is feeble among them at that day will be as David and the house of David will be as God, as the messenger of Jehovah before them.


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And it will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.


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<pb/>And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication. And they will look to me whom they have pierced. And they will mourn for him, as a man mourns for his only son and will be in bitterness for him, as a man who is in bitterness for his firstborn.


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<pb/>In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo   <n>{Megiddon}</n>.


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the family of the house of Levi apart and their wives apart, the Shimeite family apart and their wives apart,


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<pb/>In that day there will be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.


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And it will happen in that day, says Jehovah of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land and they will no more be remembered. And I will also cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.


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<pb/>And it will happen that, when any will yet prophesy, then his father and his mother who fathered him will say to him, You will not live, for you speak lies in the name of Jehovah. And his father and his mother who fathered him will thrust him through when he prophesies.


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<pb/>And it will happen in that day, that the prophets will be ashamed each one of his vision, when he prophesies, nor will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive.


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And a man will say to him, What are these wounds between your arms? Then he will answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.


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<pb/>Awake, O sword, against my shepherd and against the man who is my companion, says Jehovah of hosts. Strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered. And I will turn my hand upon the little ones.


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<pb/>And it will happen, that in all the land, says Jehovah, two parts in it will be cut off and die, but the third will be left in it.


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And I will bring the third part into the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried. They will call on my name and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people and they will say, Jehovah is my God.


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For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle. And the city will be taken and the houses rifled and the women ravished and half of the city will go forth into captivity. And the residue of the people will not be cut off from the city.


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<pb/>Then Jehovah will go forth and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.


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And his feet will stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives will be split in the midst of it toward the east and toward the west, a very great valley. And half of the mountain will remove toward the north and half of it toward the south.


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<pb/>And you* will flee by the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel. Yes, you* will flee, just as you* fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. And Jehovah my God will come and all the holy ones with you.


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<pb/>And it will happen in that day, that there will not be light; the bright ones will withdraw themselves.


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But it will be one day which is known to Jehovah, not day and not night. But it will happen, that at evening time there will be light.


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<pb/>And it will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and half of them toward the western sea. In summer and in winter it will be.


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<pb/>All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. And she will be lifted up and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate and from the tower of Hananel to the king's wine-presses.


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<pb/>And this will be the plague with which Jehovah will kill* all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand upon their feet and their eyes will consume away in their sockets and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.


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<pb/>And it will happen in that day, that a great tumult from Jehovah will be among them and they will lay hold each one on the hand of his neighbor and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor.


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And Judah also will fight at Jerusalem. <pb/>And the wealth of all the nations all around will be gathered together, gold and silver and apparel, in great abundance.


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<pb/>And it will happen, that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts and to keep the feast of tabernacles.


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And it will be, that of the families of the earth he who does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, upon them there will be no rain.


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<pb/>And if the family of Egypt does not go up and does not come, that there will be the plague with which Jehovah will kill* the nations that do not go up to keep the feast of tabernacles.


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This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to keep the feast of tabernacles.


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<pb/>In that day there will be upon the bells of the horses, HOLY TO JEHOVAH and the pots in Jehovah's house will be like the bowls before the altar.


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Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Jehovah of hosts. And all those who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in it. And in that day there will be no more a Canaanite in the house of Jehovah of hosts.


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<pb/>I have loved you*, says Jehovah. Yet you* say, How have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother, says Jehovah. Yet I loved Jacob,


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but Esau I hated and made his mountains a desolation and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.


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<pb/>If Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places, Jehovah of hosts says thus: They will build, but I will throw down and men will call them the border of wickedness and the people against whom Jehovah has indignation everlasting.


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<pb/>A son honors his father and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says Jehovah of hosts to you*, O priests, who despise my name. And you* say, How have we despised your name?


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You* offer polluted bread upon my altar. And you* say, How have we polluted you? In that you* say, The table of Jehovah is contemptible.


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<pb/>And when you* offer the blind for sacrifice, you* say, It is no evil! and when you* offer the lame and sick, It is no evil! Present it now to your governor. Will he be pleased with you, or will he accept your person? says Jehovah of hosts.


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<pb/>You* say, And now, I beseech you*, entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us; this has been by your* means. Will he accept any of your* persons? says Jehovah of hosts.


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<pb/>Oh that there was among you* who would shut the doors, that you* might not kindle my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you*, says Jehovah of hosts, nor will I accept an offering at your* hand.


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For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the Gentiles. And in every place incense is offered to my name and a pure offering. For my name is great among the Gentiles, says Jehovah of hosts.


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<pb/>But you* profane it, in that you* say, The table of Jehovah is polluted. And the fruit of it, even its food, is contemptible.


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You* also say, Behold, what a weariness it is! And you* have sniffed at it, says Jehovah of hosts. And you* have brought what was taken by violence and the lame and the sick. Thus you* bring the offering. <pb/>Should I accept this at your* hand? says Jehovah.


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But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male and vows and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing. For I am a great King, says Jehovah of hosts and my name is feared among the Gentiles.


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If you* will not hear and if you* will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, says Jehovah of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you* and I will curse your* blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already, because you* do not lay it to heart.


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Behold, I will rebuke your* seed and will spread manure upon your* faces, even the manure of your* feasts and you* will be taken away with it.


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<pb/>And you* will know that I have sent this commandment to you*, that my covenant may be with Levi, says Jehovah of hosts.


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My covenant of life and peace was with him. And I gave them to him that he might fear and he feared me and stood in awe of my name.


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The law of truth was in his mouth and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness and turned many away from iniquity.


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For the priest's lips should keep knowledge and they should seek the law at his mouth. For he is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts.


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<pb/>But you* are turned aside out of the way. You* have caused many to stumble in the law. You* have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says Jehovah of hosts.


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Therefore I also have made you* contemptible and base before all the people, just-as you* have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.


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<pb/>Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?


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Judah has dealt treacherously and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loves and has married the daughter of a foreign god.


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<pb/>Jehovah will cut off out of the tents of Jacob, the man who does this: he who wakes and he who answers and he who offers an offering to Jehovah of hosts.


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<pb/>And this again you* do: You* cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping and with sighing, insomuch that he does not regard the offering any more, nor receives it with good will at your* hand.


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Yet you* say, Why? <pb/>Because Jehovah has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt <i>with</i> treacherously, though she is your companion and the wife of your covenant.


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And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And why one? He sought a godly seed. <pb/>Therefore take heed to your* spirit and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.


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For I hate putting away, says Jehovah, the God of Israel and he who covers his garment with violence, says Jehovah of hosts. Therefore take heed to your* spirit, that you* deal not treacherously.


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<pb/>You* have wearied Jehovah with your* words. Yet you* say, How have we wearied him? In that you* say, Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Jehovah and he delights in them, or Where is the God of justice?


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<pb/>Behold, I send my messenger and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord, whom you* seek, will suddenly come to his temple. And the messenger of the covenant, whom you* desire, behold, he comes, says Jehovah of hosts.


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But who can abide the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like launder's soap.


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<pb/>And he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. And he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them as gold and silver. And they will offer to Jehovah offerings in righteousness.


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Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to Jehovah, as in the days of old and as in ancient years.


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<pb/>And I will come near to you* to judgment and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against the false swearers and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless and who turn aside the traveler and do not fear me, says Jehovah of hosts.


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From the days of your* fathers you* have turned aside from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me and I will return to you*, says Jehovah of hosts. But you* say, How will we return?


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<pb/>Will a man rob God? Yet you* rob me. But you* say, How have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings.


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Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house and prove me now with this, says Jehovah of hosts, if I will not open to you* the windows of heaven and pour you* out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for it.


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<pb/>And I will rebuke the devourer for your* sakes and he will not destroy the fruits of your* ground, nor will your* vine cast its fruit before the time in the field, says Jehovah of hosts.


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And all nations will call you* fortunate, for you* will be a delightful land, says Jehovah of hosts.


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<pb/>Your* words have been stout against me, says Jehovah. Yet you* say, What have we spoken against you?


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You* have said, It is vain to serve God and what profit is it that we have kept his charge and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?


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And now we call the proud fortunate. Yes, those who work wickedness are built up. Yes, they challenge God and escape.


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<pb/>Then those who feared Jehovah spoke one with another and Jehovah listened and heard and a book of remembrance was written before him, for those who feared Jehovah and who thought upon his name.


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And they will be mine, says Jehovah of hosts, my own possession, in the day that I make. And I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.


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Then you* will return and discern between the righteous man and the wicked man, between he who serves God and he who does not serve him.


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<pb/>For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace and all the proud and all who work wickedness, will be stubble. And the day that comes will burn them up, says Jehovah of hosts, that it will leave them neither root nor branch.


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<pb/>But to you* who fear my name the sun of righteousness will arise with healing in its wings and you* will go forth and frolic as calves of the stall.


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And you* will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your* feet in the day that I make, says Jehovah of hosts.


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<pb/>You* remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.


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And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the sons and the heart of the sons to their fathers, lest I come and strike-down the earth with a curse.


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<pb/><n>{NOTES: If your plans are to read the entire N.T., start in Mark. You should read the 'Definitions' Section and other non-bible sections. In this translation Old Testament names will be in their Old Testament form.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/><i>The</i> book of lineage of Jesus Christ, <i>the</i> son of David, <i>the</i> son of Abraham:


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and Jesse fathered David, the king. <pb/>And David, the king, fathered Solomon from the <i>widow</i> of Uriah;


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<pb/>And after the exile of Babylon, Jechoniah fathered Shealtiel; and Shealtiel fathered Zerubbabel;


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and Jacob fathered Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus, who is called* the Christ. <pb/><br/><n>{Mat 1:1-17 & Luk 3:23-28 Mary’s Genealogy.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Therefore, all the generations from Abraham until David <i>were</i> fourteen generations; and from David until the exile of Babylon, <i>were</i> fourteen generations; and from the exile of Babylon until the Christ, <i>were</i> fourteen generations. <pb/><br/><n>{Mat 1:18-25 Nazareth 5 BC; no parallel.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now the birth of Jesus Christ was thus: for* his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found holding <i>a child</i> in <i>her</i> womb <n>{i.e. pregnant}</n> from <i>the</i> Holy Spirit.


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Now Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man and not willing to disgrace her, planned to divorce her secretly.


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But <i>when</i> he was contemplating these things, behold, a messenger of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary to you, <i>as</i> your wife for* what was born <n>{Or: conceived}</n> in her is from <i>the</i> Holy Spirit.


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Now she will be bearing a son, and you will call his name Jesus, for* he will be saving his people from their sins.


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Now this whole thing has happened, in order that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled, saying,


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‘Behold, the virgin will be holding <i>a child</i> in <i>her</i> womb <n>{i.e. pregnant}</n> , and will be bearing a son, and they will call his name Immanuel'; which is, <i>after</i> being translated, ‘God with us.’ <n>{Isa 7:14, 8:8, 10}</n>


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Now having been awakened from his sleep, Joseph did as the messenger of the Lord commanded him and took his wife to him;


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and did not know her <i>intimately</i> until she bore her firstborn son, and he called his name Jesus.


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<pb/><n>{Mat 2:1-12 Jerusalem & Bethlehem 4 BC; no parallel.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Now <i>when</i> Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise-men <n>{Persian Magi; v7 & v16}</n> from the east came* into Jerusalem,


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saying, Where is he who was born <i>the</i> King of the Jews? For* we saw his star in the east and came to worship him.


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Now <i>after</i> Herod the king heard it, he was disturbed and everyone <i>in</i> Jerusalem with him.


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And having gathered together all the high-priests and scribes of the people, he inquired from them where the Christ should be born.


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<pb/>Now they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judea; for* thus it has been written through the prophet,


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‘And Bethlehem, a land of Judah, you are by no means least among the governors of Judah; for* a leader will be coming forth from you, who will be shepherding my people Israel.’ <n>{Mic 5:2, 2Sam 5:2}</n>


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<pb/>Then Herod, having called the wise-men secretly, ascertained accurately from them the time of the star’s appearing.


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And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, <i>While</i> you° <i>have</i> traveled <i>on</i>, probe° out accurately <i>the things</i> concerning the young child. And whenever you° find <i>him</i>, report° to me, *that <i>after</i> I <i>have</i> gone <i>there</i>, I also may worship him.


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Now having heard the king, they traveled <i>away</i>. And behold, the star, which they saw in the east, was preceding them until it came and stood above where the young child was.


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And they came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother. They fell <i>down</i> and worshiped him. Having opened their treasures, they brought gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh to him. <n>{Isa 60:6, Psa 72:10, 15}</n>


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And having been divinely-warned in a dream not to revisit Herod, they departed into their own region through another way. <pb/><br/><n>{Mat 2:13-18 Leaving for Egypt 4 BC; no parallel.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now <i>after</i> they departed, behold, a messenger of <i>the</i> Lord appears to Joseph in a dream, saying, <i>After</i> you <i>have</i> raised yourself <i>up</i>, take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there until I should speak to you <i>again</i>, for* Herod is about to seek the young child to destroy him.


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Now having raised himself <i>up</i>, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt;


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and they were there until the end of Herod; in order that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled, saying, ‘I called my son out of Egypt.’ <n>{Hos. 11:1}</n>


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Then Herod, having seen that he was mocked by the wise-men, was exceedingly furious, and sent forth <i>soldiers and</i> assassinated all the boys who <i>were</i> in Bethlehem, and in all her borders, from two years and downward, according to the time which he <i>had</i> ascertained accurately from the wise-men.


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‘A voice was heard in Ramah, mourning, and weeping, and much anguish, Rachel weeping <i>for</i> her children. And she did not wish to be comforted, because they are not <i>there</i>.’ <n>{Jer 31:15}</n> <pb/><br/><n>{Mat 2:19-23 & Luk 2:39b Egypt & Nazareth 4 BC.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>But <i>after</i> Herod died*, behold, a messenger of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,


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saying, <i>After</i> you <i>have</i> raised yourself <i>up</i>, take the young child and his mother, and travel into the land of Israel, for* those seeking the young child’s life have died.


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Now he raised himself <i>up</i> and took the young child and his mother and came into the land of Israel.


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But <i>after</i> he heard that Archelaus is reigning over Judea instead of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and having been divinely-warned in a dream, he departed into the parts of Galilee,


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and he came and dwelt in a city called* Nazareth; *that what was spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled, that he will be called a Nazarene.


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<pb/><n>{Mar 1:1-8 & Mat 3:1-12 & Luk 3:1-18. Judea near Jordan River 25 or 26 AD.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Now in those days John the Immerser* comes*, preaching in the wilderness of Judea,


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For* this one is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, ‘A voice <i>is</i> crying in the wilderness, prepare° the way of the Lord, make*° his paths straight.’ <n>{Isa 40:3}</n>


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Now John himself had his <i>outer</i> clothing <i>made</i> from camel’s hair and a leather belt around his loin, and his nourishment was locusts and wild honey.


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Then Jerusalem and everyone <i>in</i> Judea and everyone <i>from</i> the region around the Jordan were traveling out to him.


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But <i>after</i> he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion*, he said to them, Offspring of vipers, who warned you° to flee from the future wrath?


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Do° not think to say among yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; for* I say to you°, that God is able to lift up children out of these stones for Abraham.


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But even already, the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which is not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.


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<pb/>I indeed immerse* you° in water toward repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier <i>than</i> I, whose shoes I am not sufficient to bear. He will immerse* you° in <i>the</i> Holy Spirit;


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whose winnowing fan <i>is</i> in his hand, and he will be thoroughly cleansing his threshing floor, and he will be gathering his grain into the barn, but the chaff he will be burning up with unquenchable fire. <pb/><br/><n>{Mar 1:9-11, Mat 3:13-17, Luk 3:21-22, Joh 1:29-34? Jordan east of Jericho, Spring 27 AD.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>But Jesus answered and said to him, <J>Allow <i>it</i> now; for* thus it is suitable for us to fulfill every righteousness.</J> Then he allows him.


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<pb/>And Jesus, <i>after</i> he was immersed*, came-up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and coming upon him;


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and behold, a voice <i>came</i> out of the heavens, saying, <J>This is my beloved Son, in whom I am delighted.</J>


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<pb/><n>{Mar 1:12-13 & Mat 4:1-11 & Luk 4:1-13.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.


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And the Tempter came near and said to him, If you are the Son of God, speak, in order that these stones may become bread.


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<pb/>But he answered and said, <J>It has been written, ‘Man will not be living on bread alone, but upon every declaration that travels through the mouth of God!’</J> <n>{Deu 8:3}</n>


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<pb/>Then the devil takes him into the holy city. And he stands him upon the pinnacle of the temple,


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and says to him, If you are the Son of God, cast yourself downward; for* it has been written, ‘He will be commanding the messengers concerning you, and they will be lifting you up upon <i>their</i> hands, lest you hit your foot against a stone.' <n>{Psa 91:11-12}</n>


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<pb/>Jesus said to him, <J>Again it has been written, ‘Do not test the Lord, your God.’</J> <n>{Deu 6:16}</n>


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<pb/>Again, the devil takes him to an exceedingly high mountain, and shows him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;


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and I will be giving you all these things, if, <i>after</i> you <i>have</i> fallen <i>down</i>, you worship me.


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<pb/>Then Jesus says to him, <J>Go behind me, Adversary! For* it has been written, ‘You will worship the Lord your God and you will give-divine service to him only.’</J> <n>{Deu 6:13}</n>


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Then the devil leaves him, and behold, messengers came and were serving him. <pb/><br/><n>{Mar 1:14a & Mat 4:12 & Luk 3:19-20 & Joh 4:1-4 Judea to Galilee.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now Jesus, having heard that John was given up, departed into Galilee. <pb/><br/><n>{Mat 4:13-16 Capernaum.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>And having left Nazareth, he came and dwelt at Capernaum, the <i>area</i> by the sea, in the borders of Zebulun and Naphtali;


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‘The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond-that of the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,


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the people who sit in darkness saw a great light and to those who sit in the region and shadow of death, light rose <i>up</i> for them.’ <n>{Isa 9:1-2}</n> <pb/><br/><n>{Mar 1:14b-15 & Mat 4:17 & Luk 4:14b-15.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>From then <i>onward</i>, Jesus began to preach and to say, <J>Repent°; for* the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.</J> <pb/><br/><n>{Mar 1:16-20 & Mat 4:18-22 & Luk 5:1-11 Sea of Galilee near Capernaum.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now walking beside the sea of Galilee, he saw two brethren, Simon who is called* Peter and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for* they were fishermen.


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And having advanced from there, he saw two other brothers, James, the <i>son</i> of Zebedee and John, his brother, in the ship with Zebedee, their father, mending their nets. And he called them.


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Now immediately they followed him having left the ship and their father. <pb/><br/><n>{Mar 1:35-39 & Mat 4:23-25 & Luk 4:42-44 Preaching through Galilee.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>And Jesus was proceeding around the whole <i>of</i> Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the good-news of the kingdom and healing every disease and every illness among the people.


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And the report of him went forth into the whole <i>of</i> Syria and they brought to him all who were ill, held by various diseases and torments and demon-possessed and epileptic and paralytics, and he healed them.


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<pb/><n>{Mat 5:1 & Luk 6:17-20. Sermon on the mountain.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Now having seen the crowds, he went-up into the mountain. And having sat down, his disciples came to him. <pb/><br/><n>{Mat 5:2-12 & Luk 6:20-26.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<J>Those who hunger and are thirsty <i>for</i> righteousness <i>are</i> fortunate, because they will be fully-fed.</J>


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<J>Those who have been persecuted because of righteousness are fortunate, because theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.</J>


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<J>You° are fortunate whenever they reproach and persecute you° and say every evil word against you°– lying, because of me.</J>


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<J>Rejoice° and be° glad, because your° reward is much in the heavens; for* thus, they persecuted the prophets who <i>were</i> before you°.</J> <pb/><br/><n>{Mat 5:13-16; no parallel.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/><J>You° are the salt of the earth, but if the salt is flavorless, <i>then</i> with* what will it be salted? It is still not strong-enough <i>to be used</i> *for anything, except to be cast outside and trampled by men.</J>


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<J>Nor are they burning a lamp and placing it under a peck-container, but upon the lamp-stand, and it is shining to all who are in the house.</J>


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<J>So let your° light shine before men, *that they may see your° good works and may glorify your° Father, the <i>one</i> in the heavens.</J> <pb/><br/><n>{Mat 5:17-48 & Luk 6:27-36.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/><J>Do° not suppose that I came to tear-down the law or the prophets; I did not come to tear-down, but to fulfill.</J>


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<J>For* assuredly I am saying to you°, Until heaven and earth should pass away, one iota or one serif should never pass away from the law, until all things should become <i>fulfilled</i>.</J> <pb/>


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<J>Therefore, whoever loosens one of these least commandments and may teach men <i>to do</i> so, will be called least in the kingdom of the heavens, but whoever practices and should teach them, he will be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.</J>


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<J>For* I am saying to you°, that if your° righteousness is not abounding more-than <i>that</i> of the scribes and Pharisees, you° should never enter into the kingdom of the heavens.</J>


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<pb/><J>You° <i>have</i> heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not murder,' but ‘whoever murders will be liable to the judgment.’</J> <n>{Exo 20:13 & Deu 5:17}</n>


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<J>But I am saying to you°, that everyone who is vainly angry to<i>ward</i> his brother will be liable to the judgment, and whoever says to his brother, You, empty-head, will be liable to the council, but whoever says, You fool, will be liable to the hell of fire.</J> <pb/><br/><n>{Hell (Gehenna) is listed under Definitions section.}</n><br/><pb/><br/><n>{Vainly can be: with emptiness (without cause or reason; i.e. to further one's own vanity)}</n><br/><pb/><br/><n>{The words here in Mat 5:22 don't matter, but the way in which they are expressed or meant. Empty-head is an expression of contempt. The Greek here could be simply ‘fool’ said as an expression of condemnation or could be a transliteration of ‘Moreh’ which is a Hebrew expression of condemnation.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/><J>Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar, and <i>while you are</i> there, you should remember that your brother has something against you,</J>


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<J>Be agreeable with your opponent quickly, until which <i>time</i> you are with him on the road; lest the opponent should give you to the judge and the judge should give you to the attendant and you will be cast into prison.</J>


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<pb/><J>You° <i>have</i> heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’</J> <n>{Exo 20:14 & Deu 5:18}</n>


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<J>But I am saying to you°, that everyone who is looking <i>at</i> a woman</J> <n>{Or wife}</n> <J>in order to lust-after her already committed adultery with her in his heart.</J>


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<J>Now if your right eye is offending you, pluck it out and cast it from you°; for* it is advantageous for you, that* one of your members should perish and not <i>that*</i> your whole body should be cast into hell.</J>


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<J>And if your right hand is offending you, cut it off and cast <i>it</i> away from you°; for* it is advantageous for you, that* one of your members should perish and not <i>that*</i> your whole body should be cast into hell.</J> <pb/>


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<pb/><J>Again, you° <i>have</i> heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘You will not perjure yourself, but will be giving your oaths to the Lord.’</J> <n>{Lev 19:12, Num 30:2, Deu 23:21}</n>


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<J>But I am saying to you°, Not to swear in anyway; neither by the heaven, because it is the throne of God;</J>


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<J>nor by the earth, because it is the footstool of his feet; nor in Jerusalem, because it is the city of the Great King,</J>


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<J>But let your° word be, a Yes, yes; a No, no; and whatever is more-than these, is from the evil <i>one</i>.</J>


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<pb/><J>You° <i>have</i> heard that it was said, An eye in exchange-for an eye and a tooth in exchange-for a tooth.</J> <n>{Exo 21:24, Lev 24:20, Deu 19:21}</n>


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<J>But I am saying to you°, Not to stand against an evil <i>man</i>, but who<i>ever</i> slaps you upon your right jaw, turn also the other to him.</J>


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<J>And to him, who is willing to have a lawsuit against you and <i>wants</i> to take away your tunic, <i>then</i> also allow for him <i>to take your</i></J>° <J><i>outer</i> garment.</J>


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<J>Give to the one who asks you and do not turn away from the one who wishes to borrow from you.</J>


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<pb/><J>You° <i>have</i> heard that it was said, ‘You will love* your neighbor and hate your enemy.’</J> <n>{Lev 19:18}</n>


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<J>But I am saying to you°, Love*° your° enemies, speak° well of those who curse you°, do° good <i>things</i> to those who hate you° and pray° on behalf of those who are railing at you° and are persecuting you°.</J>


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<J><i>Do this</i> *that you° may become sons of your° Father <i>who is</i> in the heavens, because his sun rises upon the evil and the good and <i>it</i> rains upon the righteous and the unrighteous.</J>


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<J>For* if you° love* those who love* you°, what reward do you° have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?</J>


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<J>And if you° only greet your° friends, what are you° doing more-than <i>others</i>? Are not even the tax collectors doing so?</J>


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<J>Therefore you° will be complete, just-like your° Father is complete, the <i>one</i> in the heavens.</J>


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<pb/><n>{Mat 6:1-34; no parallel.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/><J>Take-heed° not to do your° charity before men, in order to be seen by them, otherwise you° have no reward from your° Father, the <i>one</i> in the heavens.</J>


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<pb/><J>Therefore, whenever you are doing charity, do not sound <i>a trumpet</i> before you just-like the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the lanes, *that they may be glorified by men. Assuredly I am saying to you°, They are fully having their reward.</J>


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<J>But <i>when</i> you are doing charity, do not let your left <i>hand</i> know what your right <i>hand</i> is doing,</J>


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<J>*that your charity may be in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will be repaying you openly.</J>


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<pb/><J>And whenever you° pray, do not be just-like the hypocrites, because they love to pray, standing in the synagogues and at the street corners, *that they may appear <i>devout</i> to men. Assuredly I am saying to you°, that they are fully having their reward.</J>


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<J>But you, whenever you pray, enter into your storeroom, and <i>after</i> you <i>have</i> locked your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will be repaying you openly.</J>


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<J>And <i>while</i> praying, do° not be repetitious just-like the Gentile; for* they think that they will be heard in their many words.</J>


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<J>Therefore, do° not be similar to them, for* your° Father knows what things you° have need of before you° ask him.</J>


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<J>And do not bring us into temptation, but rescue us from the evil <i>one</i>, because yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.</J>


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<J>For* if you° forgive men their trespasses, your° heavenly Father will also be forgiving you°.</J>


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<J>But if you° do° not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your° Father be forgiving your° trespasses.</J> <pb/><br/><n>{Footnotes: Mat 6:11, no one knows for sure what the original word means. It is only in the N.T. twice and no where else.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/><J>Now whenever you° fast, do° not become just-like the hypocrites, <i>with</i> a gloomy face; for* they disfigure their faces, *that they may appear to men <i>to be</i> fasting. Assuredly I am saying to you°, They are fully having their reward.</J>


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<J>*that you do not appear to be fasting to men, but to your Father <i>who is</i> in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will be repaying you.</J>


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<pb/><J>Do° not store up treasures for you upon the earth, where moth and rust ingest, and where thieves burrow through <i>your</i></J>° <J><i>wall</i> and steal.</J>


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<J>But store° up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust ingest, and where thieves do not burrow through nor steal.</J>


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<pb/><J>The lamp of the body is the eye, therefore if your eye is clear, your whole body will be radiant.</J>


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<J>But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. Therefore, if the light which is in you is darkness, how-much <i>greater</i> is the darkness!</J>


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<pb/><J>No one is able to serve* two lords, for* either he will hate the one and will love* the other; or he will hold to one and will despise the other. You° are not able to serve* God and</J> <n>{F}</n> <J>money.</J> <pb/><br/><n>{Mat 6:24, or: Money as in your ‘God of Money,’ or ‘The Almighty Dollar.’}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/><J>Because of this, I am saying to you°, Do° not be anxious for your° life, what you° may eat and what you° may drink; nor for what you° may clothe your° body with. Is not the life <i>worth</i> more-than the nourishment and the body <i>worth more-than</i> the clothing?</J>


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<J>Look° at the birds of the heaven, that they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and your° heavenly Father is nourishing them. Are you° not rather carrying much more-value-than them?</J>


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<J>And why are you° anxious concerning clothing? Learn° from the lilies of the field, somehow they are growing; they are not laboring, nor spinning.</J>


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<J>Yet I am saying to you°, that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.</J>


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<J>But if God so dresses-up the grass of the field, which is <i>here</i> today and the next-day is cast into the oven, <i>will he</i> not much more <i>clothe</i> you°? You° of small faith!</J>


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<pb/><J>Therefore do</J>° <J>not be anxious, saying, What should we eat? or, What should we drink? or, What should we dress ourselves with?</J>


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<J>For* the Gentiles are seeking after all these things; for* your° heavenly Father knows that you° have needs of all these things.</J>


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<J>But first seek° the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you°.</J>


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<J>Therefore do° not be anxious *for the next-day; for* the next-day will be anxious <i>enough</i> for the things of itself. Its evil is enough for the <i>one</i> day.</J>


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<pb/><n>{Mat 7:1-6 & Luk 6:37-42; similar Joh 5:30, 7:24; Lev 19:15.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/><J>Do° not judge, in order that you° might not be judged!</J>


