Ezekiel:11-15
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Moreover the spirit lifted me up ,
and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD '
S house ,
which looketh eastward :
and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men ;
among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur ,
and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah ,
princes of the people .
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Then said he unto me ,
Son of man ,
these are the men that devise mischief ,
and give wicked counsel in this city :
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Which say ,
It is not near ;
let us build houses :
this city is the caldron ,
and we be the flesh .
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Therefore prophesy against them ,
prophesy ,
O son of man .
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And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me ,
and said unto me ,
Speak ;
Thus saith the LORD ;
Thus have ye said ,
O house of Israel :
for I know the things that come into your mind ,
every one of them .
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Ye have multiplied your slain in this city ,
and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain .
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it ,
they are the flesh ,
and this city is the caldron :
but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it .
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Ye have feared the sword ;
and I will bring a sword upon you ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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And I will bring you out of the midst thereof ,
and deliver you into the hands of strangers ,
and will execute judgments among you .
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Ye shall fall by the sword ;
I will judge you in the border of Israel ;
and ye shall know that I am the LORD .
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This city shall not be your caldron ,
neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof ;
but I will judge you in the border of Israel :
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And ye shall know that I am the LORD :
for ye have not walked in my statutes ,
neither executed my judgments ,
but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you .
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And it came to pass ,
when I prophesied ,
that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died .
Then fell I down upon my face ,
and cried with a loud voice ,
and said ,
Ah Lord GOD !
wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel ?
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Again the word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
thy brethren ,
even thy brethren ,
the men of thy kindred ,
and all the house of Israel wholly ,
are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said ,
Get you far from the LORD :
unto us is this land given in possession .
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Therefore say ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Although I have cast them far off among the heathen ,
and although I have scattered them among the countries ,
yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come .
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Therefore say ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
I will even gather you from the people ,
and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered ,
and I will give you the land of Israel .
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And they shall come thither ,
and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence .
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And I will give them one heart ,
and I will put a new spirit within you ;
and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh ,
and will give them an heart of flesh :
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That they may walk in my statutes ,
and keep mine ordinances ,
and do them :
and they shall be my people ,
and I will be their God .
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But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations ,
I will recompense their way upon their own heads ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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Then did the cherubims lift up their wings ,
and the wheels beside them ;
and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above .
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And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city ,
and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city .
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Afterwards the spirit took me up ,
and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea ,
to them of the captivity .
So the vision that I had seen went up from me .
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Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shewed me .
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The word of the LORD also came unto me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house ,
which have eyes to see ,
and see not ;
they have ears to hear ,
and hear not :
for they are a rebellious house .
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Therefore ,
thou son of man ,
prepare thee stuff for removing ,
and remove by day in their sight ;
and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight :
it may be they will consider ,
though they be a rebellious house .
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Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight ,
as stuff for removing :
and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight ,
as they that go forth into captivity .
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Dig thou through the wall in their sight ,
and carry out thereby .
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In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders ,
and carry it forth in the twilight :
thou shalt cover thy face ,
that thou see not the ground :
for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel .
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And I did so as I was commanded :
I brought forth my stuff by day ,
as stuff for captivity ,
and in the even I digged through the wall with mine hand ;
I brought it forth in the twilight ,
and I bare it upon my shoulder in their sight .
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And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
hath not the house of Israel ,
the rebellious house ,
said unto thee ,
What doest thou ?
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Say thou unto them ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem ,
and all the house of Israel that are among them .
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Say ,
I am your sign :
like as I have done ,
so shall it be done unto them :
they shall remove and go into captivity .
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And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight ,
and shall go forth :
they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby :
he shall cover his face ,
that he see not the ground with his eyes .
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My net also will I spread upon him ,
and he shall be taken in my snare :
and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans ;
yet shall he not see it ,
though he shall die there .
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And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him ,
and all his bands ;
and I will draw out the sword after them .
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And they shall know that I am the LORD ,
when I shall scatter them among the nations ,
and disperse them in the countries .
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But I will leave a few men of them from the sword ,
from the famine ,
and from the pestilence ;
that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come ;
and they shall know that I am the LORD .
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Moreover the word of the LORD came to me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
eat thy bread with quaking ,
and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness ;
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And say unto the people of the land ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem ,
and of the land of Israel ;
They shall eat their bread with carefulness ,
and drink their water with astonishment ,
that her land may be desolate from all that is therein ,
because of the violence of all them that dwell therein .
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And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste ,
and the land shall be desolate ;
and ye shall know that I am the LORD .
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And the word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel ,
saying ,
The days are prolonged ,
and every vision faileth ?
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Tell them therefore ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
I will make this proverb to cease ,
and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel ;
but say unto them ,
The days are at hand ,
and the effect of every vision .
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For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel .
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For I am the LORD :
I will speak ,
and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass ;
it shall be no more prolonged :
for in your days ,
O rebellious house ,
will I say the word ,
and will perform it ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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Again the word of the LORD came to me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
behold ,
they of the house of Israel say ,
The vision that he seeth is for many days to come ,
and he prophesieth of the times that are far off .
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Therefore say unto them ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
There shall none of my words be prolonged any more ,
but the word which I have spoken shall be done ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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And the word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy ,
and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts ,
Hear ye the word of the LORD ;
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Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Woe unto the foolish prophets ,
that follow their own spirit ,
and have seen nothing !
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O Israel ,
thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts .
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Ye have not gone up into the gaps ,
neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD .
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They have seen vanity and lying divination ,
saying ,
The LORD saith :
and the LORD hath not sent them :
and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word .
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Have ye not seen a vain vision ,
and have ye not spoken a lying divination ,
whereas ye say ,
The LORD saith it ;
albeit I have not spoken ?
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Because ye have spoken vanity ,
and seen lies ,
therefore ,
behold ,
I am against you ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity ,
and that divine lies :
they shall not be in the assembly of my people ,
neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel ,
neither shall they enter into the land of Israel ;
and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD .
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Because ,
even because they have seduced my people ,
saying ,
Peace ;
and there was no peace ;
and one built up a wall ,
and ,
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others daubed it with untempered morter :
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Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter ,
that it shall fall :
there shall be an overflowing shower ;
and ye ,
O great hailstones ,
shall fall ;
and a stormy wind shall rend it .
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Lo ,
when the wall is fallen ,
shall it not be said unto you ,
Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it ?
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ;
I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury ;
and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger ,
and great hailstones in my fury to consume it .
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So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter ,
and bring it down to the ground ,
so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered ,
and it shall fall ,
and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof :
and ye shall know that I am the LORD .
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Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall ,
and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter ,
and will say unto you ,
The wall is no more ,
neither they that daubed it ;
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To wit ,
the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem ,
and which see visions of peace for her ,
and there is no peace ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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Likewise ,
thou son of man ,
set thy face against the daughters of thy people ,
which prophesy out of their own heart ;
and prophesy thou against them ,
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And say ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes ,
and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls !
Will ye hunt the souls of my people ,
and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you ?
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And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread ,
to slay the souls that should not die ,
and to save the souls alive that should not live ,
by your lying to my people that hear your lies ?
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Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Behold ,
I am against your pillows ,
wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly ,
and I will tear them from your arms ,
and will let the souls go ,
even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly .
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Your kerchiefs also will I tear ,
and deliver my people out of your hand ,
and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted ;
and ye shall know that I am the LORD .
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Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad ,
whom I have not made sad ;
and strengthened the hands of the wicked ,
that he should not return from his wicked way ,
by promising him life :
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Therefore ye shall see no more vanity ,
nor divine divinations :
for I will deliver my people out of your hand :
and ye shall know that I am the LORD .
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Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me ,
and sat before me .
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And the word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
these men have set up their idols in their heart ,
and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face :
should I be enquired of at all by them ?
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Therefore speak unto them ,
and say unto them ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart ,
and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face ,
and cometh to the prophet ;
I the LORD will answer him that cometh 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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Therefore say unto the house of Israel ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Repent ,
and turn yourselves from your idols ;
and turn away your faces from all your abominations .
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For every one of the house of Israel ,
or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel ,
which separateth himself from me ,
and setteth up his idols in his heart ,
and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face ,
and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me ;
I the LORD will answer him by myself :
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And I will set my face against that man ,
and will make him a sign and a proverb ,
and I will cut him off from the midst of my people ;
and ye shall know that I am the LORD .
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And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing ,
I the LORD 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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And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity :
the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him ;
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That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me ,
neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions ;
but that they may be my people ,
and I may be their God ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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The word of the LORD came again to me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously ,
then will I stretch out mine hand upon it ,
and will break the staff of the bread thereof ,
and will send famine upon it ,
and will cut off man and beast from it :
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Though these three men ,
Noah ,
Daniel ,
and Job ,
were in it ,
they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land ,
and they spoil it ,
so that it be desolate ,
that no man may pass through because of the beasts :
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Though these three men were in it ,
as I live ,
saith the Lord GOD ,
they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters ;
they only shall be delivered ,
but the land shall be desolate .
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Or if I bring a sword upon that land ,
and say ,
Sword ,
go through the land ;
so that I cut off man and beast from it :
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Though these three men were in it ,
as I live ,
saith the Lord GOD ,
they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters ,
but they only shall be delivered themselves .
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Or if I send a pestilence into that land ,
and pour out my fury upon 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 ,
saith the Lord GOD ,
they shall deliver neither son nor daughter ;
they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness .
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For thus saith the Lord GOD ;
How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem ,
the sword ,
and the famine ,
and the noisome beast ,
and the pestilence ,
to cut off from it man and beast ?
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Yet ,
behold ,
therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth ,
both sons and daughters :
behold ,
they shall come forth unto you ,
and ye shall see their way and their doings :
and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem ,
even concerning all that I have brought upon it .
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And they shall comfort you ,
when ye see their ways and their doings :
and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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And the word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
What is the vine tree more than any tree ,
or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest ?
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Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work ?
or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon ?
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Behold ,
it is cast into the fire for fuel ;
the fire devoureth both the ends of it ,
and the midst of it is burned .
Is it meet for any work ?
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Behold ,
when it was whole ,
it was meet for no work :
how much less shall it be meet yet for any work ,
when the fire hath devoured it ,
and it is burned ?
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ;
As the vine tree among the trees of the forest ,
which I have given to the fire for fuel ,
so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem .
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And I will set my face against them ;
they shall go out from one fire ,
and another fire shall devour them ;
and ye shall know that I am the LORD ,
when I set my face against them .
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And I will make the land desolate ,
because they have committed a trespass ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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Again the word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying ,
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