Ezekiel:31-33
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And it came to pass in the eleventh year ,
in the third month ,
in the first day of the month ,
that the word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt ,
and to his multitude ;
Whom art thou like in thy greatness ?
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Behold ,
the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches ,
and with a shadowing shroud ,
and of an high stature ;
and his top was among the thick boughs .
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The waters made him great ,
the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants ,
and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field .
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Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field ,
and his boughs were multiplied ,
and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters ,
when he shot forth .
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All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs ,
and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young ,
and under his shadow dwelt all great nations .
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Thus was he fair in his greatness ,
in the length of his branches :
for his root was by great waters .
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The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him :
the fir trees were not like his boughs ,
and the chesnut trees were not like his branches ;
nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty .
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I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches :
so that all the trees of Eden ,
that were in the garden of God ,
envied him .
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height ,
and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs ,
and his heart is lifted up in his height ;
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I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen ;
he shall surely deal with him :
I have driven him out for his wickedness .
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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 rivers of the land ;
and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow ,
and have left him .
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Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain ,
and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches :
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To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height ,
neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs ,
neither their trees stand up in their height ,
all that drink water :
for they are all delivered unto death ,
to the nether parts of the earth ,
in the midst of the children of men ,
with them that go down to the pit .
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Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning :
I covered the deep for him ,
and I restrained the floods thereof ,
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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I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall ,
when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit :
and all the trees of Eden ,
the choice and best of Lebanon ,
all that drink water ,
shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth .
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They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword ;
and they that were his arm ,
that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen .
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To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden ?
yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth :
thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword .
This is Pharaoh and all his multitude ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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And it came to pass in the twelfth year ,
in the twelfth month ,
in the first day of the month ,
that the word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt ,
and say unto him ,
Thou art like a young lion of the nations ,
and thou art as a whale in the seas :
and thou camest forth with thy rivers ,
and troubledst the waters with thy feet ,
and fouledst their rivers .
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Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people ;
and they shall bring thee up in my net .
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Then will I leave thee upon the land ,
I will cast thee forth upon the open field ,
and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee ,
and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee .
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And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains ,
and fill the valleys with thy height .
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I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest ,
even to the mountains ;
and the rivers shall be full of thee .
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And when I shall put thee out ,
I will cover the heaven ,
and make the stars thereof dark ;
I will cover the sun with a cloud ,
and the moon shall not give her light .
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All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee ,
and set darkness upon thy land ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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I will also vex the hearts of many people ,
when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations ,
into the countries which thou hast not known .
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Yea ,
I will make many people amazed at thee ,
and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee ,
when I shall brandish my sword before them ;
and they shall tremble at every moment ,
every man for his own life ,
in the day of thy fall .
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For thus saith the Lord GOD ;
The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee .
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By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall ,
the terrible of the nations ,
all of them :
and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt ,
and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed .
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I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters ;
neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more ,
nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them .
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Then will I make their waters deep ,
and cause their rivers to run like oil ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate ,
and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full ,
when I shall smite all them that dwell therein ,
then shall they know that I am the LORD .
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This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her :
the daughters of the nations shall lament her :
they shall lament for her ,
even for Egypt ,
and for all her multitude ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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It came to pass also in the twelfth year ,
in the fifteenth day of the month ,
that the word of the LORD came unto 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 ,
unto the nether parts of the earth ,
with them that go down into the pit .
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Whom dost thou pass in beauty ?
go down ,
and be thou laid with the uncircumcised .
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They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword :
she is delivered to the sword :
draw her and all her multitudes .
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The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him :
they are gone down ,
they lie uncircumcised ,
slain by the sword .
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Asshur is there and all her company :
his graves are about him :
all of them slain ,
fallen by the sword :
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Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit ,
and her company is round about her grave :
all of them slain ,
fallen by the sword ,
which caused terror in the land of the living .
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There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave ,
all of them slain ,
fallen by the sword ,
which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth ,
which caused their terror in the land of the living ;
yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit .
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They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude :
her graves are round about him :
all of them uncircumcised ,
slain by the sword :
though their terror was caused in the land of the living ,
yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit :
he is put in the midst of them that be slain .
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There is Meshech ,
Tubal ,
and all her multitude :
her graves are round about him :
all of them uncircumcised ,
slain by the sword ,
though they caused their terror in the land of the living .
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And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised ,
which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war :
and they have laid their swords under their heads ,
but their iniquities shall be upon their bones ,
though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living .
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Yea ,
thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised ,
and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword .
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There is Edom ,
her kings ,
and all her princes ,
which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword :
they shall lie with the uncircumcised ,
and with them that go down to the pit .
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There be the princes of the north ,
all of them ,
and all the Zidonians ,
which are gone down with the slain ;
with their terror they are ashamed of their might ;
and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword ,
and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit .
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Pharaoh shall see them ,
and shall be comforted over all his multitude ,
even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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For I have caused my terror in the land of the living :
and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword ,
even Pharaoh and all his multitude ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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Again the word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
speak to the children of thy people ,
and say unto them ,
When I bring the sword upon a land ,
if the people of the land take a man of their coasts ,
and set him for their watchman :
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If when he seeth the sword come upon the land ,
he blow the trumpet ,
and warn the people ;
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Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet ,
and taketh not warning ;
if the sword come ,
and take him away ,
his blood shall be upon his own head .
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He heard the sound of the trumpet ,
and took not warning ;
his blood shall be upon him .
But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul .
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But if the watchman see the sword come ,
and blow not the trumpet ,
and the people be not warned ;
if the sword come ,
and take any person from among them ,
he is taken away in his iniquity ;
but his blood will I require at the watchman '
s hand .
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So thou ,
O son of man ,
I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel ;
therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth ,
and warn them from me .
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When I say unto the wicked ,
O wicked man ,
thou shalt surely die ;
if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way ,
that wicked man shall die in his iniquity ;
but his blood will I require at thine hand .
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Nevertheless ,
if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it ;
if he do not turn from his way ,
he shall die in his iniquity ;
but thou hast delivered thy soul .
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Therefore ,
O thou son of man ,
speak unto the house of Israel ;
Thus ye speak ,
saying ,
If our transgressions and our sins be upon us ,
and we pine away in them ,
how should we then live ?
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Say unto them ,
As I live ,
saith the Lord GOD ,
I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked ;
but that the wicked turn from his way and live :
turn ye ,
turn ye from your evil ways ;
for why will ye die ,
O house of Israel ?
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Therefore ,
thou son of man ,
say unto the children of thy people ,
The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression :
as for the wickedness of the wicked ,
he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness ;
neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth .
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When I shall say to the righteous ,
that he shall surely live ;
if he trust to his own righteousness ,
and commit iniquity ,
all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered ;
but for his iniquity that he hath committed ,
he shall die for it .
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Again ,
when I say unto the wicked ,
Thou shalt surely die ;
if he turn from his sin ,
and do that which is lawful and right ;
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If the wicked restore the pledge ,
give again that he had robbed ,
walk in the statutes of life ,
without committing iniquity ;
he shall surely live ,
he shall not die .
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None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him :
he hath done that which is lawful and right ;
he shall surely live .
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Yet the children of thy people say ,
The way of the Lord is not equal :
but as for them ,
their way is not equal .
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When the righteous turneth from his righteousness ,
and committeth iniquity ,
he shall even die thereby .
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But if the wicked turn from his wickedness ,
and do that which is lawful and right ,
he shall live thereby .
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Yet ye say ,
The way of the Lord is not equal .
O ye house of Israel ,
I will judge you every one after his ways .
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And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity ,
in the tenth month ,
in the fifth day of the month ,
that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me ,
saying ,
The city is smitten .
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Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening ,
afore he that was escaped came ;
and had opened my mouth ,
until he came to me in the morning ;
and my mouth was opened ,
and I was no more dumb .
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Then the word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
they that inhabit those wastes of 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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Wherefore say unto them ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Ye eat with the blood ,
and lift up your eyes toward your idols ,
and shed blood :
and shall ye possess the land ?
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Ye stand upon your sword ,
ye work abomination ,
and ye defile every one his neighbour '
s wife :
and shall ye possess the land ?
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Say thou thus unto them ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
As I live ,
surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword ,
and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured ,
and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence .
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For I will lay the land most desolate ,
and the pomp of her strength shall cease ;
and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate ,
that none shall pass through .
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Then shall they know that I am the LORD ,
when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed .
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Also ,
thou son of man ,
the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses ,
and speak one to another ,
every one to his brother ,
saying ,
Come ,
I pray you ,
and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD .
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And they come unto thee as the people cometh ,
and they sit before thee as my people ,
and they hear thy words ,
but they will not do them :
for with their mouth they shew much love ,
but their heart goeth after their covetousness .
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And ,
lo ,
thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice ,
and can play well on an instrument :
for they hear thy words ,
but they do them not .
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And when this cometh to pass , (
lo ,
it will come ,)
then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them .
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And the word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying ,
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