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Both the moon and sun will be embarrassed and ashamed. The LORD All-Powerful will rule on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, where he will show its rulers his wonderful glory.


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You, LORD, are my God! I will praise you for doing the wonderful things you had planned and promised since ancient times.


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You have destroyed the fortress of our enemies, leaving their city in ruins. Nothing in that foreign city will ever be rebuilt.


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You have been a place of safety for the poor and needy in times of trouble. Brutal enemies pounded us like a heavy rain or the heat of the sun at noon, but you were our shelter.


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Those wild foreigners struck like scorching desert heat. But you were like a cloud, protecting us from the sun. You kept our enemies from singing songs of victory.


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On this mountain the LORD All-Powerful will prepare for all nations a feast of the finest foods. Choice wines and the best meats will be served.


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The LORD All-Powerful will destroy the power of death and wipe away all tears. No longer will his people be insulted everywhere. The LORD has spoken!


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At that time, people will say, “The LORD has saved us! Let's celebrate. We waited and hoped— now our God is here.”


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The powerful arm of the LORD will protect this mountain. The Moabites will be put down and trampled on like straw in a pit of manure.


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The time is coming when the people of Judah will sing this song: “Our city is protected. The LORD is our fortress, and he gives us victory.


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Throughout the night, my heart searches for you, because your decisions show everyone on this earth how to live right.


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Even when the wicked are treated with mercy in this land of justice, they do wrong and are blind to your glory, our LORD.


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Your hand is raised and ready to punish them, but they don't see it. Put them to shame! Show how much you care for us and throw them into the fire intended for your enemies.


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Those enemies are now dead and can never live again. You have punished them— they are destroyed, completely forgotten.


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But instead of having a child, our terrible pain produced only wind. We have won no victories, and we have no descendants to take over the earth.


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Your people will rise to life! Tell them to leave their graves and celebrate with shouts. You refresh the earth like morning dew; you give life to the dead.


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Go inside and lock the doors, my people. Hide there for a little while, until the LORD is no longer angry.


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The LORD will come out to punish everyone on earth for their sins. And when he does, those who did violent crimes will be known and punished.


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On that day, Leviathan, the sea monster, will squirm and try to escape, but the LORD will kill him with a cruel, sharp sword.


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I, the LORD, will protect it and always keep it watered. I will guard it day and night to keep it from harm.


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I am no longer angry. But if it produces thorns, I will go to war against it and burn it to the ground.


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I, the LORD, didn't punish and kill the people of Israel as fiercely as I punished and killed their enemies.


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There's only one way that Israel's sin and guilt can be completely forgiven: They must crush the stones of every pagan altar and place of worship.


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Fortress cities are left like a desert where no one lives. Cattle walk through the ruins, stripping the trees bare.


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When broken branches fall to the ground, women pick them up to feed the fire. But these people are so stupid that the God who created them will show them no mercy.


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The time is coming when the LORD will shake the land between the Euphrates River and the border of Egypt, and one by one he will bring all of his people together.


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A loud trumpet will be heard. Then the people of Israel who were dragged away to Assyria and Egypt will return to worship the LORD on his holy mountain in Jerusalem.


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The city of Samaria above a fertile valley is in for trouble! Its leaders are drunkards, who stuff themselves with food and wine. But they will be like flowers that dry up and wilt.


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Only the Lord is strong and powerful! His mighty hand will strike them down with the force of a hailstorm or a mighty whirlwind or an overwhelming flood.


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Samaria above a fertile valley will quickly lose its glory. It will be gobbled up like the first ripe fig at harvest season.


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Priests and prophets stumble because they are drunk. Their minds are too confused to receive God's messages or give honest decisions.


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Now his message to you will be senseless sound after senseless sound. Then you will fall backwards, injured and trapped.


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Do you think you have an agreement with death and the world of the dead? Why do you trust in your lies to keep you safe from danger and the mighty flood?


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And so the LORD says, “I'm laying a firm foundation for the city of Zion. It's a valuable cornerstone proven to be trustworthy; no one who trusts it will ever be disappointed.


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Justice and fairness will be the measuring lines that help me build.” Hailstones and floods will destroy and wash away your shelter of lies.


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Your agreement with death and the world of the dead will be broken. Then angry, roaring waves will sweep over you.


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Morning, noon, and night an overwhelming flood will wash you away. The terrible things that happen will teach you this lesson:


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The LORD will fiercely attack as he did at Mount Perazim and in Gibeon Valley. But this time the LORD will do something surprising, not what you expect.


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So you had better stop sneering or you will be in worse shape than ever before. I heard the LORD All-Powerful threaten the whole country with destruction.


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When a field is ready, they scatter the seeds of dill and cumin; they plant the seeds of wheat and barley in the proper places and sow other grains around the edges.


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Wheat and barley are pounded, but not beaten to pulp; they are run over with a wagon, but not ground to dust.


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Jerusalem, city of David, the place of my altar, you are in for trouble! Celebrate your festivals year after year.


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I, the LORD All-Powerful, will come to your rescue with a thundering earthquake and a fiery whirlwind.


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Every brutal nation that attacks Jerusalem and makes it suffer will disappear like a dream when night is over.


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Those nations that attack Mount Zion will suffer from hunger and thirst. They will dream of food and drink but wake up weary and hungry and thirsty as ever.


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Now his message is like a sealed letter to you. Some of you say, “We can't read it, because it's sealed.”


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The Lord has said: “These people praise me with their words, but they never really think about me. They worship me by repeating rules made up by humans.


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So once again I will do things that shock and amaze them, and I will destroy the wisdom of those who claim to know and understand.”


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You are in for trouble, if you try to hide your plans from the LORD! Or if you think what you do in the dark can't be seen.


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You have it all backwards. A clay dish doesn't say to the potter, “You didn't make me. You don't even know how.”


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The deaf will be able to hear whatever is read to them; the blind will be freed from a life of darkness.


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The LORD who rescued Abraham has this to say about Jacob's descendants: “They will no longer be ashamed and disgraced.


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When they see how great I have made their nation, they will praise and honor me, the holy God of Israel.


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This is the LORD's message for his rebellious people: “You follow your own plans instead of mine; you make treaties without asking me, and you keep on sinning.


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You trust Egypt for protection. So you refuse my advice and send messengers to Egypt to beg their king for help.


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This is a message about the animals of the Southern Desert: “You people carry treasures on donkeys and camels. You travel to a feeble nation through a troublesome desert filled with lions and flying fiery dragons.


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and have said to his messengers and prophets: Don't tell us what God has shown you and don't preach the truth. Just say what we want to hear, even if it's false.


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Now this is the answer of the holy One of Israel: “You rejected my message, and you trust in violence and lies.


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and shatter like a crushed bowl. There's not a piece left big enough to carry hot coals or to dip out water.”


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The holy LORD God of Israel had told all of you, “I will keep you safe if you turn back to me and calm down. I will make you strong if you quietly trust me.” Then you stubbornly


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As few as five of them, or even one, will be enough to chase a thousand of you. Finally, all that will be left will be a few survivors as lonely as a flag pole on a barren hill.


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The LORD God is waiting to show how kind he is and to have pity on you. The LORD always does right; he blesses those who trust him.


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People of Jerusalem, you don't need to cry anymore. The Lord is kind, and as soon as he hears your cries for help, he will come.


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The Lord has given you trouble and sorrow as your food and drink. But now you will again see the Lord, your teacher, and he will guide you.


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Whether you turn to the right or to the left, you will hear a voice saying, “This is the road! Now follow it.”


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Then you will treat your idols of silver and gold like garbage; you will throw them away like filthy rags.


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The Lord will send rain to water the seeds you have planted—your fields will produce more crops than you need, and your cattle will graze in open pastures.


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On that day people will be slaughtered and towers destroyed, but streams of water will flow from high hills and towering mountains.


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Then the LORD will bandage his people's injuries and heal the wounds he has caused. The moon will shine as bright as the sun, and the sun will shine seven times brighter than usual. It will be like the light of seven days all at once.


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The LORD is coming from far away with his fiery anger and thick clouds of smoke. His angry words flame up like a destructive fire;


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he breathes out a flood that comes up to the neck. He sifts the nations and destroys them. Then he puts a bridle in every foreigner's mouth and leads them to doom.


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The LORD's people will sing as they do when they celebrate a religious festival at night. The LORD is Israel's mighty rock, and his people will be as happy as they are when they follow the sound of flutes to the mountain where he is worshiped.


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The LORD will get furious. His fearsome voice will be heard, his arm will be seen ready to strike, and his anger will be like a destructive fire, followed by thunderstorms and hailstones.


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When the Assyrians hear the LORD's voice and see him striking with his iron rod, they will be terrified.


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He will attack them in battle, and each time he strikes them, it will be to the music of tambourines and harps.


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Long ago the LORD got a place ready for burning the body of the dead king. The place for the fire is deep and wide, the wood is piled high, and the LORD will start the fire by breathing out flaming sulfur.


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You are in for trouble if you go to Egypt for help, or if you depend on an army of chariots or a powerful cavalry. Instead you should depend on and trust the holy LORD God of Israel.


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The LORD isn't stupid! He does what he promises, and he can bring doom. If you are cruel yourself, or help those who are evil, you will be destroyed.


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The Egyptians are mere humans. They aren't God. Their horses are made of flesh; they can't live forever. When the LORD shows his power, he will destroy the Egyptians and all who depend on them. Together they will fall.


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The LORD All-Powerful said to me, “I will roar and attack like a fearless lion not frightened by the shouts of shepherds trying to protect their sheep. That's how I will come down and fight on Mount Zion.


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The time is coming when you will throw away your idols of silver and gold, made by your sinful hands.


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The Assyrians will be killed, but not by the swords of humans. Their young men will try to escape, but they will be captured and forced into slavery.


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Their fortress will fall when terror strikes; their army officers will be frightened and run from the battle. This is what the LORD has said, the LORD whose fiery furnace is built on Mount Zion.


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They will be a place of safety from stormy winds, a stream in the desert, and a rock that gives shade from the heat of the sun.


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Fools talk foolishness. They always make plans to do sinful things, to lie about the LORD, to let the hungry starve, and to keep water from those who are thirsty.


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Cruel people tell lies— they do evil things, and make cruel plans to destroy the poor and needy, even when they beg for justice.


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You may not have worries now, but in about a year, the grape harvest will fail, and you will tremble.


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The palace will be deserted, the crowded city empty. Fortresses and towers will forever become playgrounds for wild donkeys and pastures for sheep.


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You will have God's blessing, as you plant your crops beside streams, while your donkeys and cattle roam freely about.


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You defeated my people. Now you're in for trouble! You've never been destroyed, but you will be destroyed; you've never been betrayed, but you will be betrayed. When you have finished destroying and betraying, you will be destroyed and betrayed in return.


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Please, LORD, be kind to us! We depend on you. Make us strong each morning, and come to save us when we are in trouble.


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You, LORD, are above all others, and you live in the heavens. You have brought justice and fairness to Jerusalem;


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you are the foundation on which we stand today. You always save us and give true wisdom and knowledge. Nothing means more to us than obeying you.


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Listen! Our bravest soldiers are running through the streets, screaming for help. Our messengers hoped for peace, but came home crying.


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No one travels anymore; every road is empty. Treaties are broken, and no respect is shown to any who keep promises.


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Fields are dry and barren; Mount Lebanon wilts with shame. Sharon Valley is a desert; the forests of Bashan and Carmel have lost their leaves.


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Those terrible sinners on Mount Zion tremble as they ask in fear, “How can we possibly live where a raging fire never stops burning?”


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But there will be rewards for those who live right and tell the truth, for those who refuse to take money by force or accept bribes, for all who hate murder and violent crimes.


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Then you will ask yourself, “Where are those officials who terrified us and forced us to pay such heavy taxes?”


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You will never again have to see the proud people who spoke a strange and foreign language you could not understand.


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Look to Mount Zion where we celebrate our religious festivals. You will see Jerusalem, secure as a tent with pegs that cannot be pulled up and fastened with ropes that can never be broken.


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Our wonderful LORD will be with us! There will be deep rivers and wide streams safe from enemy ships.


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But your nation is a ship with its rigging loose, its mast shaky, and its sail not spread. Someday even you that are lame will take everything you want from your enemies.


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Each star will disappear— the sky will roll up like a scroll. Everything in the sky will dry up and wilt like leaves on a vine or fruit on a tree.


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After the sword of the LORD has done what it wants to the skies above, it will come down on Edom, the nation that the LORD has doomed for destruction.


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The sword of the LORD is covered with blood from lambs and goats, together with fat from kidneys of rams. This is because the LORD will slaughter many people and make a sacrifice of them in the city of Bozrah and everywhere else in Edom.


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Edom's leaders are wild oxen. They are powerful bulls, but they will die with the others. Their country will be soaked with their own blood, and its soil made fertile with their own fat.


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Edom's streams will turn into tar and its soil into sulfur— then the whole country will go up in flames.


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It will burn night and day and never stop smoking. Edom will be a desert, generation after generation; no one will ever travel through that land.


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Owls, hawks, and wild animals will make it their home. God will leave it in ruins, merely a pile of rocks.


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Its palaces and fortresses will be covered with thorns; only wolves and ostriches will make their home there.


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Wildcats and hyenas will hunt together, demons will scream to demons, and creatures of the night will live among the ruins.


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Owls will nest there to raise their young among its shadows, while families of vultures circle around.


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In The Book of the LORD you can search and find where it is written, “The LORD brought together all of his creatures by the power of his Spirit. Not one is missing.”


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The LORD has decided where they each should live; they will be there forever, generation after generation.


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Deserts will bloom everywhere and sing joyful songs. They will be as majestic as Mount Lebanon, as glorious as Mount Carmel or Sharon Valley. Everyone will see the wonderful splendor of the LORD our God. *


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“Cheer up! Don't be afraid. Your God is coming to punish your enemies. God will take revenge on them and rescue you.”


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Those who were lame will leap around like deer; tongues once silent will shout for joy. Water will rush through the desert.


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Scorching sand will turn into a lake, and thirsty ground will flow with fountains. Grass will grow in deserts, where packs of wild dogs once made their home.


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A good road will be there, and it will be named “God's Sacred Highway.” It will be for God's people; no one unfit to worship God will walk on that road. And no fools can travel on that highway.


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No lions or other wild animals will come near that road; only those the LORD has saved will travel there.


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The people the LORD has rescued will come back singing as they enter Zion. Happiness will be a crown everyone will always wear. They will celebrate and shout because all sorrows and worries will be gone far away.


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Hezekiah had been king of Judah for 14 years when King Sennacherib of Assyria invaded the country and captured every walled city


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except Jerusalem. The Assyrian king ordered his army commander to leave the city of Lachish and to take a large army to Jerusalem. The commander went there and stood on the road near the cloth makers' shops along the canal from the upper pool.


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Three of the king's highest officials came out of Jerusalem to meet him. One of them was Hilkiah's son Eliakim, who was the prime minister. The other two were Shebna, assistant to the prime minister, and Joah son of Asaph, keeper of the government records.


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The Assyrian commander told them: I have a message for Hezekiah from the great king of Assyria. Ask Hezekiah why he feels so sure of himself.


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Is Hezekiah now depending on the LORD, your God? Didn't Hezekiah tear down all except one of the LORD's altars and places of worship? Didn't he tell the people of Jerusalem and Judah to worship at that one place?


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The king of Assyria wants to make a bet with you people! He will give you 2,000 horses, if you have enough troops to ride them.


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The Assyrian army commander answered, “My king sent me to speak to everyone, not just to you leaders. These people will soon have to eat their own body waste and drink their own urine! And so will the three of you!”


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Then, in a voice loud enough for everyone to hear, he shouted out in Hebrew: Listen to what the great king of Assyria says!


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Stop listening to Hezekiah. Pay attention to my king. Surrender to him. He will let you keep your own vineyards, fig trees, and cisterns


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for a while. Then he will come and take you away to a country just like yours, where you can plant vineyards and raise your own grain.


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Hezekiah claims the LORD will save you. But don't be fooled by him. Were any other gods able to defend their land against the king of Assyria?


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What happened to the gods of Hamath, Arpad, and Sepharvaim? Were the gods of Samaria able to protect their land against the Assyrian forces?


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None of those gods kept their people safe from the king of Assyria. Do you think the LORD, your God, can do any better?


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He told Prime Minister Eliakim, Assistant Prime Minister Shebna, and the senior priests to dress in sackcloth and tell me:


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Isaiah, these are difficult and disgraceful times. Our nation is like a woman too weak to give birth, when it's time for her baby to be born.


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I told them that the LORD had this message for Hezekiah: I am the LORD. Don't worry about the insulting things that have been said about me by these messengers from the king of Assyria.


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Meanwhile the commander of the Assyrian forces heard that his king had left the town of Lachish and was now attacking Libnah. So he went there.


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About this same time, the king of Assyria learned that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was on his way to attack him. Then the king of Assyria sent some messengers with this note for Hezekiah:


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LORD God All-Powerful of Israel, your throne is above the winged creatures. You created the heavens and the earth, and you alone rule the kingdoms of this world.


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But you are our LORD and our God! We ask you to keep us safe from the Assyrian king. Then everyone in every kingdom on earth will know that you are the only LORD.


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I went to Hezekiah and told him that the LORD God of Israel had said: Hezekiah, you prayed to me about King Sennacherib of Assyria. Now this is what I say to that king: The people of Jerusalem hate and make fun of you; they laugh behind your back.


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You let your officials insult me, the Lord. And here is what you have said about yourself, “I led my chariots to the highest heights of Lebanon's mountains. I went deep into its forest, cutting down the best cedar and cypress trees.


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Sennacherib, now listen to me, the LORD. I planned all of this long ago. And you don't even know that I alone am the one who decided that you would do these things. I let you make ruins of fortified cities.


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Their people became weak, terribly confused. They were like wild flowers or like tender young grass growing on a flat roof or like a field of grain before it matures.


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Hezekiah, I will tell you what's going to happen. This year you will eat crops that grow on their own, and the next year you will eat whatever springs up where those crops grew. But the third year, you will plant grain and vineyards, and you will eat what you harvest.


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I will protect it for the sake of my own honor and because of the promise I made to my servant David.


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The LORD sent an angel to the camp of the Assyrians, and he killed 185,000 of them all in one night. The next morning, the camp was full of dead bodies.


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About this time, Hezekiah got sick and was almost dead. So I went in and told him, “The LORD says you won't ever get well. You are going to die, and so you had better start doing what needs to be done.”


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“Don't forget that I have been faithful to you, LORD. I have obeyed you with all my heart, and I do whatever you say is right.” After this, he cried hard.


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with this message for Hezekiah: I am the LORD God, who was worshiped by your ancestor David. I heard you pray, and I saw you cry. I will let you live 15 more years,


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Do you see the shadow made by the setting sun on the stairway built for King Ahaz? I will make the shadow go back ten steps. Then the shadow went back ten steps.


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My life was taken from me like the tent that a shepherd pulls up and moves. You cut me off like thread from a weaver's loom; you make a wreck of me day and night.


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Until morning came, I thought you would crush my bones just like a hungry lion; both night and day you make a wreck of me.


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I cry like a swallow; I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, LORD. I am in terrible trouble. Please come and help me.


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There's nothing I can say in answer to you, since you are the one who has done this to me. My life has turned sour; I will limp until I die.


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Your words and your deeds bring life to everyone, including me. Please make me healthy and strong again.


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It was for my own good that I had such hard times. But your love protected me from doom in the deep pit, and you turned your eyes away from my sins.


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No one in the world of the dead can thank you or praise you; none of those in the deep pit can hope for you to show them how faithful you are.


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Only the living can thank you, as I am doing today. Each generation tells the next about your faithfulness.


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You, LORD, will save me, and every day that we live we will sing in your temple to the music of stringed instruments.


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I had told King Hezekiah's servants to put some mashed figs on the king's open sore, and he would get well.


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Merodach Baladan, the son of Baladan, was now king of Babylonia. And when he learned that Hezekiah was well, he sent messengers with letters and a gift for him.


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I asked Hezekiah, “Where did these men come from? What did they want?” “They came all the way from Babylonia,” Hezekiah answered.


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Hezekiah thought, “At least our nation will be at peace for a while.” So he told me, “The message you brought from the LORD is good.”


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Speak kindly to Jerusalem and announce: Your slavery is past; your punishment is over. I, the LORD, made you pay double for your sins.”


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Someone told me to shout, and I asked, “What should I shout?” We humans are merely grass, and we last no longer than wild flowers.


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There is good news for the city of Zion. Shout it as loud as you can from the highest mountain. Don't be afraid to shout to the towns of Judah: “Your God is here!”


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Look! The powerful LORD God is coming to rule with his mighty arm. He brings with him what he has taken in war, and he rewards his people.


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The LORD cares for his nation, just as shepherds care for their flocks. He carries the lambs in his arms, while gently leading the mother sheep.


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Did any of you measure the ocean by yourself or stretch out the sky with your own hands? Did you put the soil of the earth in a bucket or weigh the hills and mountains on balance scales?


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To the LORD, all nations are merely a drop in a bucket or dust on balance scales; all of the islands are but a handful of sand.


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The cattle on the mountains of Lebanon would not be enough to offer as a sacrifice to God, and the trees would not be enough for the fire.


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Is an idol at all like God? It is made of bronze with a thin layer of gold, and decorated with silver.


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Or special wood may be chosen because it doesn't rot— then skilled hands take care to make an idol that won't fall on its face.


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God is the one who rules the whole earth, and we that live here are merely insects. He spread out the heavens like a curtain or an open tent.


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They are like flowers freshly sprung up and starting to grow. But when God blows on them, they wilt and are carried off like straw in a storm.


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Look at the evening sky! Who created the stars? Who gave them each a name? Who leads them like an army? The LORD is so powerful that none of the stars are ever missing.


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You people of Israel say, “God pays no attention to us! He doesn't care if we are treated unjustly.” But how can you say that?


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Don't you know? Haven't you heard? The LORD is the eternal God, Creator of the earth. He never gets weary or tired; his wisdom cannot be measured.


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But those who trust the LORD will find new strength. They will be strong like eagles soaring upward on wings; they will walk and run without getting tired.


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Be silent and listen, every island in the sea. Have courage and come near, every one of you nations. Let's settle this matter!


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Who appointed this ruler from the east? Who puts nations and kings in his power? His sword and his arrows turn them to dust blown by the wind.


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Who makes these things happen? Who controls human events? I do! I am the LORD. I was there at the beginning; I will be there at the end.


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Woodcarvers, goldsmiths, and other workers encourage one another and say, “We've done a great job!” Then they nail the idol down, so it won't fall over.


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From far across the earth I brought you here and said, “You are my chosen servant. I haven't forgotten you.”


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Don't be afraid. I am with you. Don't tremble with fear. I am your God. I will make you strong, as I protect you with my arm and give you victories.


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People of Israel, don't worry, though others may say, “Israel is only a worm!” I am the holy God of Israel, who saves and protects you.


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I will let you be like a log covered with sharp spikes. You will grind and crush every mountain and hill until they turn to dust.


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A strong wind will scatter them in all directions. Then you will celebrate and praise me, your LORD, the holy God of Israel.


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When the poor and needy are dying of thirst and cannot find water, I, the LORD God of Israel, will come to their rescue. I won't forget them.


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I will make rivers flow on mountain peaks. I will send streams to fill the valleys. Dry and barren land will flow with springs and become a lake.


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I will fill the desert with all kinds of trees— cedars, acacias, and myrtles; olive and cypress trees; fir trees and pines.


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Come near me, you idols. Tell us about the past, and we will think about it. Tell us about the future, so we will know what is going to happen.


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Prove that you are gods by making your predictions come true. Do something good or evil, so we can be amazed and terrified.


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I, the LORD, appointed a ruler in the north; now he comes from the east to honor my name. He tramples kings like mud, as potters trample clay.


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Did any of you idols predict what would happen? Did any of you get it right? None of you told about this or even spoke a word.


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I was the first to tell the people of Jerusalem, “Look, it's happening!” I was the one who announced this good news to Zion.


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Here is my servant! I have made him strong. He is my chosen one; I am pleased with him. I have given him my Spirit, and he will bring justice to the nations.


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He won't break off a bent reed or put out a dying flame, but he will make sure that justice is done.


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He won't quit or give up until he brings justice everywhere on earth, and people in foreign nations long for his teaching.


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I am the LORD God. I created the heavens like an open tent above. I made the earth and everything that grows on it. I am the source of life for all who live on this earth, so listen to what I say.


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I chose you to bring justice, and I am here at your side. I selected you and sent you to bring light and my promise of hope to the nations.


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Tell the whole world to sing a new song to the LORD! Tell those who sail the ocean and those who live far away to join in the praise.


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The LORD is marching out like an angry soldier, shouting with all his might while attacking his enemies.


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For a long time, I, the LORD, have held my temper; now I will cry out and groan like a woman giving birth.


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I will lead the blind on roads they have never known; I will guide them on paths they have never traveled. Their road is dark and rough, but I will give light to keep them from stumbling. This is my solemn promise.


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But his people were trapped and imprisoned in holes with no one to rescue them. All they owned had been taken, and no one was willing to give it back.


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Israel sinned and refused to obey the LORD or follow his instructions. So the LORD let us be robbed of everything we owned.


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He was furious with us and punished our nation with the fires of war. Still we paid no attention. We didn't even care when we were surrounded and scorched by flames.


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Descendants of Jacob, I, the LORD, created you and formed your nation. Israel, don't be afraid. I have rescued you. I have called you by name; now you belong to me.


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When you cross deep rivers, I will be with you, and you won't drown. When you walk through fire, you won't be burned or scorched by the flames.


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I am the LORD, your God, the Holy One of Israel, the God who saves you. I gave up Egypt, Ethiopia, and the region of Seba in exchange for you.


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I will say to the north and to the south, “Free my sons and daughters! Let them return from distant lands.


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Tell everyone of every nation to gather around. None of them can honestly say, “We told you so!” If someone heard them say this, then tell us about it now.


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My people, you are my witnesses and my chosen servant. I want you to know me, to trust me, and understand that I alone am God. I have always been God; there can be no others.


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I promised to save you, and I kept my promise. You are my witnesses that no other god did this. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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I, the LORD, will rescue you! I am Israel's holy God, and this is my promise: For your sake, I will send an army against Babylon to drag its people away, crying as they go.


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I sent an army to chase you with chariots and horses; now they lie dead, unable to move. They are like an oil lamp with the flame snuffed out.


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I am creating something new. There it is! Do you see it? I have put roads in deserts, streams in thirsty lands.


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Every wild animal honors me, even jackals and owls. I provide water in deserts— streams in thirsty lands for my chosen people.


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You have not honored me by sacrificing sheep or other animals. And I have not burdened you with demands for sacrifices or sweet-smelling incense.


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You have not brought delicious spices for me or given me the best part of your sacrificed animals. Instead, you burden me down with your terrible sins.


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That's why I don't allow your priests to serve me; I let Israel be destroyed and your people disgraced.


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I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you were born. Israel, don't be terrified! You are my chosen servant, my very favorite.


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I will bless the thirsty land by sending streams of water; I will bless your descendants by giving them my Spirit.


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I am the LORD All-Powerful, the first and the last, the one and only God. Israel, I have rescued you! I am your King.


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Can anyone compare with me? If so, let them speak up and tell me now. Let them say what has happened since I made my nation long ago, and let them tell what is going to happen.


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Don't tremble with fear! Didn't I tell you long ago? Didn't you hear me? I alone am God— no one else is a mighty rock.


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Those people who make idols are nothing themselves, and the idols they treasure are just as worthless. Worshipers of idols are blind, stupid, and foolish.


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Everyone who makes idols and all who worship them are mere humans, who will end up sadly disappointed. Let them face me in court and be terrified.


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A metalworker shapes an idol by using a hammer and heat from the fire. In his powerful hand he holds a hammer, as he pounds the metal into the proper shape. But he gets hungry and thirsty and loses his strength.


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Some woodcarver measures a piece of wood, then draws an outline. The idol is carefully carved with each detail exact. At last it looks like a person and is placed in a temple.


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Either cedar, cypress, oak, or any tree from the forest may be chosen. Or even a pine tree planted by the woodcarver and watered by the rain.


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Some of the wood is used to make a fire for heating or for cooking. One piece is made into an idol, then the woodcarver bows down and worships it.


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They don't have enough sense to say to themselves, “I made a fire with half of the wood and cooked my bread and meat on it. Then I made something worthless with the other half. Why worship a block of wood?”


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How can anyone be stupid enough to trust something that can be burned to ashes? No one can save themselves like that. Don't they realize that the idols they hold in their hands are not really gods?


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People of Israel, you are my servant, so remember all of this. Israel, I created you, and you are my servant. I won't forget you.


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Tell the heavens and the earth to start singing! Tell the mountains and every tree in the forest to join in the song! The LORD has rescued his people; now they will worship him.


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Israel, I am your LORD, the source of your life, and I have rescued you. I created everything from the sky above to the earth below.


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I make liars of false prophets and fools of fortunetellers. I take human wisdom and turn it into nonsense.


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I will make the message of my prophets come true. They are saying, “Jerusalem will be filled with people, and the LORD will rebuild the towns of Judah.”


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I am also the one who says, “Cyrus will lead my people and obey my orders. Jerusalem and the temple will be rebuilt.”


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The LORD said to Cyrus, his chosen one: I have taken hold of your right hand to help you capture nations and remove kings from power. City gates will open for you; not one will stay closed.


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I will give you treasures hidden in dark and secret places. Then you will know that I, the LORD God of Israel, have called you by name.


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Cyrus, you don't even know me! But I have called you by name and highly honored you because of Israel, my chosen servant.


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Tell the heavens to send down justice like showers of rain. Prepare the earth for my saving power to sprout and produce justice that I, the LORD, create.


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Israel, you have no right to argue with your Creator. You are merely a clay pot shaped by a potter. The clay doesn't ask, “Why did you make me this way? Where are the handles?”


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Children don't have the right to demand of their parents, “What have you done to make us what we are?”


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I am the LORD, the Creator, the holy God of Israel. Do you dare question me about my own nation or about what I have done?


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I have done the right thing by placing Cyrus in power, and I will make the roads easy for him to follow. I am the LORD All-Powerful! Cyrus will rebuild my city and set my people free without being paid a thing. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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My people, I, the LORD, promise that the riches of Egypt and the treasures of Ethiopia will belong to you. You will force into slavery those tall people of Seba. They will bow down and say, “The only true God is with you; there are no other gods.”


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The LORD alone is God! He created the heavens and made a world where people can live, instead of creating an empty desert. The LORD alone is God; there are no others.


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The LORD did not speak in a dark secret place or command Jacob's descendants to search for him in vain. The LORD speaks the truth, and this is what he says


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to every survivor from every nation: “Gather around me! Learn how senseless it is to worship wooden idols or pray to helpless gods.


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“Why don't you get together and meet me in court? Didn't I tell you long ago what would happen? I am the only God! There are no others. I bring about justice, and have the power to save.


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They will admit that I alone can bring about justice. Everyone who is angry with me will be terribly ashamed and will turn to me.


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The gods Bel and Nebo are down on their knees, as wooden images of them are carried away on weary animals.


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They are down on their knees to rescue the heavy load, but the images are still taken to a foreign country.


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You survivors in Israel, listen to me, the LORD. Since the day you were born, I have carried you along.


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I will still be the same when you are old and gray, and I will take care of you. I created you. I will carry you and always keep you safe.


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Some people hire a goldsmith and give silver and gold to be formed into an idol for them to worship.


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They carry the idol on their shoulders, then put it on a stand, but it cannot move. They call out to the idol when they are in trouble, but it doesn't answer, and it cannot help.


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I alone am God! There are no other gods; no one is like me. Think about what happened many years ago.


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and brought someone from a distant land to do what I wanted. He attacked from the east, like a hawk swooping down. Now I will keep my promise and do what I planned.


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I will soon come to save you. I am not far away and will waste no time; I take pride in Israel and will save Jerusalem.


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City of Babylon, You are delicate and untouched, but that will change. Surrender your royal power and sit in the dirt.


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I was angry with my people. So I let you take their land and bring disgrace on them. You showed them no mercy, but were especially cruel to those who were old.


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You thought that you would be queen forever. You didn't care what you did; it never entered your mind that you might get caught.


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You think that you alone are all-powerful, that you won't be a widow or lose your children. All you care about is pleasure, but listen to what I say.


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You hid behind evil like a shield and said, “No one can see me!” You were fooled by your wisdom and your knowledge; you felt sure that you alone were in full control.


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Keep using your magic powers and your charms as you have always done. Maybe—just maybe— you will frighten somebody!


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You have worn yourself out, asking for advice from those who study the stars and tell the future month after month. Go ask them how to be saved from what will happen.


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People who trust the stars are as helpless as straw in a flaming fire. No one can even keep warm, sitting by a fire that feeds only on straw.


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These are the fortunetellers you have done business with all of your life. But they don't know where they are going, and they can't save you.


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People of Israel, you come from Jacob's family and the tribe of Judah. You claim to worship me, the LORD God of Israel, but you are lying.


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And I told you these things, so that when they happened you would not say, “The idols we worship did this.”


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You heard what I said, and you have seen it happen. Now admit it's true! I will show you secrets you have never known.


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You have never been willing to listen to what I say; from the moment of your birth, I knew you would rebel.


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Gather around me, all of you! Listen to what I say. Did any of your idols predict this would happen? Did they say that my friend would do what I want done to Babylonia?


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Come closer and listen! I have never kept secret the things I have said, and I was here before time began. By the power of his Spirit the LORD God has sent me


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with this message: People of Israel, I am the holy LORD God, the one who rescues you. For your own good, I teach you, and I lead you along the right path.


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How I wish that you had obeyed my commands! Your success and good fortune would then have overflowed like a flooding river.


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Your nation would be blessed with more people than there are grains of sand along the seashore. And I would never have let your country be destroyed.


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Now leave Babylon! Celebrate as you go. Be happy and shout for everyone to hear, “The LORD has rescued his servant Israel!


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Everyone, listen, even you foreign nations across the sea. The LORD chose me and gave me a name before I was born.


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He made my words pierce like a sharp sword or a pointed arrow; he kept me safely hidden in the palm of his hand.


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I said to myself, “I'm completely worn out; my time has been wasted. But I did it for the LORD God, and he will reward me.”


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Even before I was born, the LORD God chose me to serve him and to lead back the people of Israel. So the LORD has honored me and made me strong.


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Now the LORD says to me, “It isn't enough for you to be merely my servant. You must do more than lead back survivors from the tribes of Israel. I have placed you here as a light for other nations; you must take my saving power to everyone on earth.”


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Israel, I am the holy LORD God, the one who rescues you. You are slaves of rulers and of a nation who despises you. Now this is what I promise: Kings and rulers will honor you by kneeling at your feet. You can trust me! I am your LORD, the holy God of Israel, and you are my chosen ones.


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This is what the LORD says: I will answer your prayers because I have set a time when I will help by coming to save you. I have chosen you to take my promise of hope to other nations. You will rebuild the country from its ruins, then people will come and settle there.


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You will set prisoners free from dark dungeons to see the light of day. On their way home, they will find plenty to eat, even on barren hills.


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They won't go hungry or get thirsty; they won't be bothered by the scorching sun or hot desert winds. I will be merciful while leading them along to streams of water.


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Tell the heavens and the earth to celebrate and sing; command every mountain to join in the song. The LORD's people have suffered, but he has shown mercy and given them comfort.


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The LORD answered, “Could a mother forget a child who nurses at her breast? Could she fail to love an infant who came from her own body? Even if a mother could forget, I will never forget you.


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“Your city will be built faster than it was destroyed— those who attacked it will retreat and leave.


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Look around! You will see your people coming home. As surely as I live, I, the LORD, promise that your city with its people will be as lovely as a bride wearing her jewelry.”


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Jerusalem is now in ruins! Nothing is left of the city. But it will be rebuilt and soon overcrowded; its cruel enemies will be gone far away.


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Jerusalem is a woman whose children were born while she was in deep sorrow over the loss of her husband. Now those children will come and seek room in the crowded city,


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and Jerusalem will ask, “Am I really their mother? How could I have given birth when I was still mourning in a foreign land? Who raised these children? Where have they come from?”


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The LORD God says: “I will soon give a signal for the nations to return your sons and your daughters to the arms of Jerusalem.


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The kings and queens of those nations where they were raised will come and bow down. They will take care of you just like a slave taking care of a child. Then you will know that I am the LORD. You won't be disappointed if you trust me.”


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But the LORD has promised to fight on our side and to rescue our children from those strong and violent enemies.


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He will make those cruel people dine on their own flesh and get drunk from drinking their own blood. Then everyone will know that the LORD is our Savior; the powerful God of Israel has rescued his people.


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The LORD says, “Children, I didn't divorce your mother or sell you to pay debts; I divorced her and sold you because of your sins.


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I came and called out, but you didn't answer. Have I lost my power to rescue and save? At my command oceans and rivers turn into deserts; fish rot and stink for lack of water.


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The LORD God gives me the right words to encourage the weary. Each morning he awakens me eager to learn his teaching;


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I let them beat my back and pull out my beard. I didn't turn aside when they insulted me and spit in my face.


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But the LORD God keeps me from being disgraced. So I refuse to give up, because I know God will never let me down.


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The LORD God will help me and prove I am innocent. My accusers will wear out like moth-eaten clothes.


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None of you respect the LORD or obey his servant. You walk in the dark instead of the light; you don't trust the name of the LORD your God.


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Go ahead and walk in the light of the fires you have set. But with his own hand, the LORD will punish you and make you suffer.


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If you want to do right and obey the LORD, follow Abraham's example. He was the rock from which you were chipped.


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God chose Abraham and Sarah to be your ancestors. The LORD blessed Abraham, and from that one man came many descendants.


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Though Zion is in ruins, the LORD will bring comfort, and the city will be as lovely as the garden of Eden that he provided. Then Zion will celebrate; it will be thankful and sing joyful songs.


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The LORD says: You are my people and nation! So pay attention to me. My teaching will cause justice to shine like a light for every nation.


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Those who live across the sea are eagerly waiting for me to rescue them. I am strong and ready; soon I will come to save and to rule all nations.


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Look closely at the sky! Stare at the earth. The sky will vanish like smoke; the earth will wear out like clothes. Everyone on this earth will die like flies. But my victory will last; my saving power never ends.


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If you want to do right and obey my teaching with all your heart, then pay close attention. Don't be discouraged when others insult you and say hurtful things.


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They will be eaten away like a moth-eaten coat. But my victory will last; my saving power will never end.


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Wake up! Do something, LORD. Be strong and ready. Wake up! Do what you did for our people long ago. Didn't you chop up Rahab the monster?


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Now those you have rescued will return to Jerusalem, singing on their way. They will be crowned with great happiness, never again to be burdened with sadness and sorrow.


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I am the LORD, the one who encourages you. Why are you afraid of mere humans? They dry up and die like grass.


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I spread out the heavens and laid foundations for the earth. But you have forgotten me, your LORD and Creator. All day long you were afraid of those who were angry and hoped to oppress you. Where are they now?


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Everyone crying out in pain will be quickly set free; they will be rescued from the power of death and never go hungry.


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I have told you what to say, and I will keep you safe in the palm of my hand. I spread out the heavens and laid foundations for the earth. Now I say, “Jerusalem, your people are mine.”


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Jerusalem, wake up! Stand up! You've drunk too much from the cup filled with the LORD's anger. You have swallowed every drop, and you can't walk straight.


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The LORD your God is angry, and on every street corner your children lie helpless, like deer trapped in nets.


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to the LORD your God, who defends you and says, “I have taken from your hands the cup filled with my anger that made you drunk. You will never be forced to drink it again.


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Jerusalem, wake up! Stand up and be strong. Holy city of Zion, dress in your best clothes. Those foreigners who ruined your sacred city won't bother you again.


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The LORD says: My people, you were sold, but not for money; now you will be set free, but not for a payment.


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and now another nation has taken you prisoner for no reason at all. Your leaders groan with pain, and day after day my own name is cursed.


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What a beautiful sight! On the mountains a messenger announces to Jerusalem, “Good news! You're saved. There will be peace. Your God is now King.”


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Jerusalem, rise from the ruins! Join in the singing. The LORD has given comfort to his people; he comes to your rescue.


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The LORD has shown all nations his mighty strength; now everyone will see the saving power of our God.


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Leave the city of Babylon! Don't touch anything filthy. Wash yourselves. Be ready to carry back everything sacred that belongs to the LORD.


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You won't need to run. No one is chasing you. The LORD God of Israel will lead and protect you from enemy attacks.


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Many were horrified at what happened to him. But everyone who saw him was even more horrified because he suffered until he no longer looked human.


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My servant will make nations worthy to worship me; kings will be silent as they bow in wonder. They will see and think about things they have never seen or thought about before.


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Like a young plant or a root that sprouts in dry ground, the servant grew up obeying the LORD. He wasn't some handsome king. Nothing about the way he looked made him attractive to us.


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He was hated and rejected; his life was filled with sorrow and terrible suffering. No one wanted to look at him. We despised him and said, “He is a nobody!”


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He was wounded and crushed because of our sins; by taking our punishment, he made us completely well.


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All of us were like sheep that had wandered off. We had each gone our own way, but the LORD gave him the punishment we deserved.


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He was painfully abused, but he did not complain. He was silent like a lamb being led to the butcher, as quiet as a sheep having its wool cut off.


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He was condemned to death without a fair trial. Who could have imagined what would happen to him? His life was taken away because of the sinful things my people had done.


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The LORD decided his servant would suffer as a sacrifice to take away the sin and guilt of others. Now the servant will live to see his own descendants. He did everything the LORD had planned.


book: Isa
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By suffering, the servant will learn the true meaning of obeying the LORD. Although he is innocent, he will take the punishment for the sins of others, so that many of them will no longer be guilty.


book: Isa
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The LORD will reward him with honor and power for sacrificing his life. Others thought he was a sinner, but he suffered for our sins and asked God to forgive us.


book: Isa
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Sing and shout, even though you have never had children! The LORD has promised that you will have more children than someone married for a long time.


book: Isa
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You and your descendants will take over the land of other nations. You will settle in towns that are now in ruins.


book: Isa
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Don't be afraid or ashamed and don't be discouraged. You won't be disappointed. Forget how sinful you were when you were young; stop feeling ashamed for being left a widow.


book: Isa
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The LORD All-Powerful, the Holy God of Israel, rules all the earth. He is your Creator and husband, and he will rescue you.


book: Isa
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You were like a young wife, brokenhearted and crying because her husband had divorced her. But the LORD your God says, “I am taking you back!


book: Isa
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For a while, I turned away in furious anger. Now I will have mercy and love you forever! I, your protector and LORD, make this promise.”


book: Isa
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I once promised Noah that I would never again destroy the earth by a flood. Now I have promised that I will never again get angry and punish you.


book: Isa
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Every mountain and hill may disappear. But I will always be kind and merciful to you; I won't break my agreement to give your nation peace.


book: Isa
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Jerusalem, you are sad and discouraged, tossed around in a storm. But I, the LORD, will rebuild your city with precious stones; for your foundation I will use blue sapphires.


book: Isa
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You will be built on fairness with no fears of injustice; every one of your worries will be taken far from you.


book: Isa
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Don't forget that I created metalworkers who make weapons over burning coals. I also created armies that can bring destruction.


book: Isa
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Weapons made to attack you won't be successful; words spoken against you won't hurt at all. My servants, Jerusalem is yours! I, the LORD, promise to bless you with victory.


book: Isa
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If you are thirsty, come and drink water! If you don't have any money, come, eat what you want! Drink wine and milk without paying a cent.


book: Isa
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Why waste your money on what really isn't food? Why work hard for something that doesn't satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and you will enjoy the very best foods.


book: Isa
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Pay close attention! Come to me and live. I will promise you the eternal love and loyalty that I promised David.


book: Isa
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You will call out to nations you have never known. And they have never known you, but they will come running because I am the LORD, the holy God of Israel, and I have honored you.


book: Isa
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Give up your evil ways and your evil thoughts. Return to the LORD our God. He will be merciful and forgive your sins.


book: Isa
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“Rain and snow fall from the sky. But they don't return without watering the earth that produces seeds to plant and grain to eat.


book: Isa
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That's how it is with my words. They don't return to me without doing everything I send them to do.”


book: Isa
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When you are set free, you will celebrate and travel home in peace. Mountains and hills will sing as you pass by, and trees will clap.


book: Isa
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Cypress and myrtle trees will grow in fields once covered by thorns. And then those trees will stand as a lasting witness to the glory of the LORD.


book: Isa
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The LORD said: Be honest and fair! Soon I will come to save you; my saving power will be seen everywhere on earth.


book: Isa
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Foreigners who worship me must not say, “The LORD won't let us be part of his people.” Men who are unable to become fathers must no longer say, “We are dried-up trees.”


book: Isa
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Then you will be like monuments in my temple with your names written on them. This will be much better than having children, because these monuments will stand there forever.


book: Isa
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Foreigners will follow me. They will love me and worship in my name; they will respect the Sabbath and keep our agreement.


book: Isa
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I will bring them to my holy mountain, where they will celebrate in my house of worship. Their sacrifices and offerings will always be welcome on my altar. Then my house will be known as a house of worship for all nations.


book: Isa
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You leaders of Israel should be watchdogs, protecting my people. But you can't see a thing, and you never warn them. Dozing and daydreaming are all you ever do.


book: Isa
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You stupid leaders are a pack of hungry and greedy dogs that never get enough. You are shepherds who mistreat your own sheep for selfish gain.


book: Isa
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You say to each other, “Let's drink till we're drunk! Tomorrow we'll do it again. We'll really enjoy ourselves.”


book: Isa
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You people are unfaithful! You go to fortunetellers, and you worship idols. Now pay close attention!


book: Isa
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All you think about is sex under those green trees where idols are worshiped. You sacrifice your children on altars built in valleys under rocky slopes.


book: Isa
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You have chosen to worship idols made of stone; you have given them offerings of wine and grain. Should I be pleased?


book: Isa
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Even in your homes you have placed pagan symbols all around your huge beds. Yes, you have rejected me, sold yourselves to your lovers, and gone to bed with them.


book: Isa
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You smear on olive oil and all kinds of perfume to worship the god Molech. You even seek advice from spirits of the dead.


book: Isa
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Though you tired yourself out by running after idols, you refused to stop. Your desires were so strong that they kept you going.


book: Isa
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Did you forget about me and become unfaithful because you were more afraid of someone else? Have I been silent so long that you no longer fear me?


book: Isa
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Ask your idols to save you when you are in trouble. Be careful though— it takes only a faint breath to blow them over. But if you come to me for protection, this land and my holy mountain will always belong to you.


book: Isa
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Our holy God lives forever in the highest heavens, and this is what he says: Though I live high above in the holy place, I am here to help those who are humble and depend only on me.


book: Isa
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My people, I won't stay angry and keep on accusing you. After all, I am your Creator. I don't want you to give up in complete despair.


book: Isa
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Your greed made me furious. That's why I punished you and refused to be found, while you kept returning to your old sinful ways.


book: Isa
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I know what you are like! But I will heal you, lead you, and give you comfort, until those who are mourning


book: Isa
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Shout the message! Don't hold back. Say to my people Israel: You've sinned! You've turned against the LORD.


book: Isa
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Day after day, you worship him and seem eager to learn his teachings. You act like a nation that wants to do right by obeying his laws. You ask him about justice, and say you enjoy worshiping the LORD.


book: Isa
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You wonder why the LORD pays no attention when you go without eating and act humble. But on those same days that you give up eating, you think only of yourselves and abuse your workers.


book: Isa
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Do you think the LORD wants you to give up eating and to act as humble as a bent-over bush? Or to dress in sackcloth and sit in ashes? Is this really what he wants on a day of worship?


book: Isa
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I'll tell you what it really means to worship the LORD. Remove the chains of prisoners who are bound unjustly. Free those who are abused!


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Share your food with everyone who is hungry; share your home with the poor and homeless. Give clothes to those in need; don't turn away your relatives.


book: Isa
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Then your light will shine like the dawning sun, and you will quickly be healed. Your honesty will protect you as you advance, and the glory of the LORD will defend you from behind.


book: Isa
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When you beg the LORD for help, he will answer, “Here I am!” Don't mistreat others or falsely accuse them or say something cruel.


book: Isa
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Give your food to the hungry and care for the homeless. Then your light will shine in the dark; your darkest hour will be like the noonday sun.


book: Isa
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The LORD will always guide you and provide good things to eat when you are in the desert. He will make you healthy. You will be like a garden that has plenty of water or like a stream that never runs dry.


book: Isa
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You will rebuild those houses left in ruins for years; you will be known as a builder and repairer of city walls and streets.


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But first, you must start respecting the Sabbath as a joyful day of worship. You must stop doing and saying whatever you please on this special day.


book: Isa
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Then you will truly enjoy knowing the LORD. He will let you rule from the highest mountains and bless you with the land of your ancestor Jacob. The LORD has spoken!


book: Isa
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Your sins are the roadblock between you and your God. That's why he doesn't answer your prayers or let you see his face.


book: Isa
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Your talk is filled with lies and plans for violence; every finger on your hands is covered with blood.


book: Isa
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You eat the deadly eggs of poisonous snakes, and more snakes crawl out from the eggs left to hatch. You weave spider webs,


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You hurry off to do wrong or murder innocent victims. All you think about is sin; you leave ruin and destruction wherever you go.


book: Isa
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You don't know how to live in peace or to be fair with others. The roads you make are crooked; your followers cannot find peace.


book: Isa
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No one has come to defend us or to bring about justice. We hoped for a day of sunshine, but all we found was a dark, gloomy night.


book: Isa
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We feel our way along, as if we were blind; we stumble at noon, as if it were night. We can see no better than someone dead.


book: Isa
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How often have we sinned and turned against you, the LORD God? Our sins condemn us! We have done wrong.


book: Isa
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We have rebelled and refused to follow you. Our hearts were deceitful, and so we lied; we planned to abuse others and turn our backs on you.


book: Isa
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Injustice is everywhere; justice seems far away. Truth is chased out of court; honesty is shoved aside.


book: Isa
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Everyone tells lies; those who turn from crime end up ruined. When the LORD noticed that justice had disappeared, he became very displeased.


book: Isa
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It disgusted him even more to learn that no one would do a thing about it. So with his own powerful arm, he won victories for truth.


book: Isa
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Now the LORD will get furious and do to his enemies, both near and far, what they did to his people.


book: Isa
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He will attack like a flood in a mighty windstorm. Nations in the west and the east will then honor and praise his wonderful name.


book: Isa
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The LORD says: “My people, I promise to give you my Spirit and my message. These will be my gifts to you and your families forever. I, the LORD, have spoken.”


book: Isa
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Open your eyes! Look around! Crowds are coming. Your sons are on their way from distant lands; your daughters are being carried like little children.


book: Isa
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When you see this, your faces will glow; your hearts will pound and swell with pride. Treasures from across the sea and the wealth of nations will be brought to you.


book: Isa
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Your country will be covered with caravans of young camels from Midian and Ephah. The people of Sheba will bring gold and spices in praise of me, the LORD.


book: Isa
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Every sheep of Kedar will come to you; rams from Nebaioth will be yours as well. I will accept them as offerings and bring honor to my temple.


book: Isa
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On those distant islands your people are waiting for me, the LORD. Seagoing ships lead the way to bring them home with their silver and gold. I, the holy LORD God of Israel, do this to honor your people, so they will honor me.


book: Isa
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Jerusalem, your city walls will be rebuilt by foreigners; their rulers will become your slaves. I punished you in my anger; now I will be kind and treat you with mercy.


book: Isa
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Your gates will be open day and night to let the rulers of nations lead their people to you with all their treasures.


book: Isa
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Wood from Lebanon's best trees will be brought to you— the pines, the firs, and the cypress trees. It will be used in my temple to make beautiful the place where I rest my feet.


book: Isa
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The descendants of enemies who hated and mistreated you will kneel at your feet. They will say, “You are Zion, the city of the LORD, the holy One of Israel.”


book: Isa
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You were hated and deserted, rejected by everyone. But I will make you beautiful, a city to be proud of for all time to come.


book: Isa
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You will drain the wealth of kings and foreign nations. You will know that I, the mighty LORD God of Israel, have saved and rescued you.


book: Isa
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I will bring bronze and iron in place of wood and stone; in place of bronze and iron, I will bring gold and silver. I will appoint peace and justice as your rulers and leaders.


book: Isa
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Violence, destruction, and ruin will never again be heard of within your borders. “Victory” will be the name you give to your walls; “Praise” will be the name you give to your gates.


book: Isa
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You won't need the light of the sun or the moon. I, the LORD your God, will be your eternal light and bring you honor.


book: Isa
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Your sun will never set or your moon go down. I, the LORD, will be your everlasting light, and your days of sorrow will come to an end.


book: Isa
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Your people will live right and always own the land; they are the trees I planted to bring praise to me.


book: Isa
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Even the smallest family will be a powerful nation. I am the LORD, and when the time comes, I will quickly do all this.


book: Isa
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The Spirit of the LORD God has taken control of me! The LORD has chosen and sent me to tell the oppressed the good news, to heal the brokenhearted, and to announce freedom for prisoners and captives.


book: Isa
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This is the year when the LORD God will show kindness to us and punish our enemies. The LORD has sent me to comfort those who mourn,


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especially in Jerusalem. He sent me to give them flowers in place of their sorrow, olive oil in place of tears, and joyous praise in place of broken hearts. They will be called “Trees of Justice,” planted by the LORD to honor his name.


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But they themselves will be priests and servants of the LORD our God. The treasures of the nations will belong to them, and they will be famous.


book: Isa
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They were terribly insulted and horribly mistreated; now they will be greatly blessed and joyful forever.


book: Isa
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I, the LORD, love justice! But I hate robbery and injustice. My people, I solemnly promise to reward you with an eternal agreement.


book: Isa
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Your descendants will be known in every nation. All who see them will realize that they have been blessed, by me, the LORD.


book: Isa
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I celebrate and shout because of my LORD God. His saving power and justice are the very clothes I wear. They are more beautiful than the jewelry worn by a bride or groom.


book: Isa
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The LORD will bring about justice and praise in every nation on earth, like flowers blooming in a garden.


book: Isa
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Jerusalem, I will speak up for your good. I will never be silent till you are safe and secure, sparkling like a flame.


book: Isa
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Your name will no longer be “Deserted and Childless,” but “Happily Married.” You will please the LORD; your country will be his bride.


book: Isa
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Your people will take the land, just as a young man takes a bride. The LORD will be pleased because of you, just as a husband is pleased with his bride.


book: Isa
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Jerusalem, on your walls I have stationed guards, whose duty it is to speak out day and night, without resting. They must remind the LORD


book: Isa
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The LORD has given his word and made this promise: “Never again will I give to your enemies the grain and grapes for which you struggled.


book: Isa
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As surely as you harvest your grain and grapes, you will eat your bread with thankful hearts, and you will drink your wine in my temple.”


book: Isa
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People of Jerusalem, open your gates! Repair the road to the city and clear it of stones; raise a banner to help the nations find their way.


book: Isa
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Here is what the LORD has said for all the earth to hear: “Soon I will come to save the city of Zion and to reward you.


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Then you will be called, ‘The LORD's Own People, The Ones He Rescued!’ Your city will be known as a good place to live and a city full of people.”


book: Isa
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Who is this coming from Bozrah in Edom with clothes stained red? Who is this hero marching in his glorious uniform? “It's me, the LORD! I have won the battle, and I can save you!”


book: Isa
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“I alone trampled the grapes! None of the nations helped. I trampled nations in my anger and stained my clothes with their blood.


book: Isa
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No one was there to help me or to give support; my mighty arm won the battle, strengthened by my anger.


book: Isa
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I will tell about the kind deeds the LORD has done. They deserve praise! The LORD has shown mercy to the people of Israel; he has been kind and good.


book: Isa
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It troubled the LORD to see them in trouble, and his angel saved them. The LORD was truly merciful, so he rescued his people. He took them in his arms and carried them all those years.


book: Isa
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Then the LORD's people turned against him and made his Holy Spirit sad. So he became their enemy and attacked them.


book: Isa
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But his people remembered what had happened during the time of Moses. Didn't the LORD bring them and their leaders safely through the sea? Didn't he give them his Holy Spirit?


book: Isa
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The glorious power of the LORD marched beside Moses. The LORD will be praised forever for dividing the sea.


book: Isa
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His Spirit gave them rest, just as cattle find rest when led into a valley. The name of the LORD was praised for doing these things.


book: Isa
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Please, LORD, look down from your holy and glorious home in the heavens and see what's going on. Have you lost interest? Where is your power? Show that you care about us and have mercy!


book: Isa
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Our ancestors Abraham and Jacob have both rejected us. But you are still our Father; you have been our protector since ancient times.


book: Isa
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Why did you make us turn away from you, our LORD? Why did you make us want to disobey you? Please change your mind! We are your servants, your very own people.


book: Isa
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Be a spark that starts a fire causing water to boil. Then your enemies will know who you are; all nations will tremble because you are nearby.


book: Isa
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You help all who gladly obey and do what you want, but sin makes you angry. Only by your help can we ever be saved.


book: Isa
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We are unfit to worship you; each of our good deeds is merely a filthy rag. We dry up like leaves; our sins are storm winds sweeping us away.


book: Isa
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No one worships in your name or remains faithful. You have turned your back on us and let our sins melt us away.


book: Isa
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Don't be so furious or keep our sins in your thoughts forever! Remember that all of us are your people.


book: Isa
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Zion's glorious and holy temple where our ancestors praised you has been destroyed by fire. Our beautiful buildings are now a pile of ruins.


book: Isa
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I, the LORD, was ready to answer even those who were not asking and to be found by those who were not searching. To a nation that refused to worship me, I said, “Here I am!”


book: Isa
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They keep making me angry by sneering at me, while offering sacrifices to idols in gardens and burning incense to them on bricks.


book: Isa
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They spend their nights hiding in burial caves; they eat the meat of pigs, cooked in sauces made of stuff unfit to eat.


book: Isa
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And then they say to others, “Don't come near us! We're dedicated to God.” Such people are like smoke, irritating my nose all day.


book: Isa
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I, the LORD, will make them pay for their sins and for those of their ancestors— they have disgraced me by burning incense on mountains.


book: Isa
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Here is what the LORD says: A cluster of grapes that produces wine is worth keeping! So, because of my servants, I won't destroy everyone.


book: Isa
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I have chosen the people of Israel and Judah, and I will bless them with many descendants. They will settle here in this land of mountains, and it will be theirs.


book: Isa
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My people will worship me. Then the coastlands of Sharon and the land as far as Achor Valley will turn into pastureland where cattle and sheep will feed and rest.


book: Isa
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What will I, the LORD, do if any of you reject me and my holy mountain? What will happen to you for offering food and wine to the gods you call “Good Luck” and “Fate”?


book: Isa
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Your luck will end! I will see to it that you are slaughtered with swords. You refused to answer when I called out; you paid no attention to my instructions. Instead, you did what I hated, knowing it was wrong.


book: Isa
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I, the LORD God, will give food and drink to my servants, and they will celebrate. But all of you sinners will go hungry and thirsty, overcome with disgrace.


book: Isa
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I, the LORD God, promise to see that you are killed and that my chosen servants use your names as curse words. But I will give new names to my servants.


book: Isa
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I am God! I can be trusted. Your past troubles are gone; I no longer think of them. When you pray for someone to receive a blessing, or when you make a promise, you must do it in my name. I alone am the God who can be trusted.


book: Isa
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I will celebrate with Jerusalem and all its people; there will be no more crying or sorrow in that city.


book: Isa
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No child will die in infancy; everyone will live a very long life. Anyone a hundred years old will be considered young, and to die younger than that will be considered a curse.


book: Isa
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No one will take away their homes or vineyards. My chosen people will live to be as old as trees, and they will enjoy what they have earned.


book: Isa
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Their work won't be wasted, and their children won't die of dreadful diseases. I will bless their children and their grandchildren.


book: Isa
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Wolves and lambs will graze together; lions and oxen will feed on straw. Snakes will eat only dirt! They won't bite or harm anyone on my holy mountain. I, the LORD, have spoken!


book: Isa
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The LORD said: Heaven is my throne; the earth is my footstool. What kind of house could you build for me? In what place will I rest?


book: Isa
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I have made everything; that's how it all came to be. I, the LORD, have spoken. The people I treasure most are the humble— they depend only on me and tremble when I speak.


book: Isa
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You sacrifice oxen to me, and you commit murder; you sacrifice lambs to me and dogs to other gods; you offer grain to me and pigs' blood to idols; you burn incense to me and praise your idols. You have made your own choice to do these disgusting things that you enjoy so much.


book: Isa
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You refused to answer when I called out; you paid no attention to my instructions. Instead, you did what I hated, knowing it was wrong. Now I will punish you in a way you dread the most.


book: Isa
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If you tremble when the LORD speaks, listen to what he says: “Some of your own people hate and reject you because of me. They make fun and say, ‘Let the LORD show his power! Let us see him make you truly happy.’ But those who say these things will be terribly ashamed.”


book: Isa
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Do you hear that noise in the city and those shouts coming from the temple? It is the LORD shouting as he punishes his enemies.


book: Isa
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Who ever heard of such a thing or imagined it could happen? Can a nation be born in a day or come to life in a second? Jerusalem is like a mother who gave birth to her children as soon as she was in labor.


book: Isa
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The LORD is the one who makes birth possible. And he will see that Zion has many more children. The LORD has spoken.


book: Isa
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If you love Jerusalem, celebrate and shout! If you were in sorrow because of the city, you can now be glad.


book: Isa
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She will nurse and comfort you, just like your own mother, until you are satisfied. You will fully enjoy her wonderful glory.


book: Isa
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The LORD has promised: “I will flood Jerusalem with the wealth of nations and make the city prosper. Zion will nurse you at her breast, carry you in her arms, and hold you in her lap.


book: Isa
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When you see this happen, you will celebrate; your strength will return faster than grass can sprout. Then everyone will know that the LORD provides help for his servants, but he is angry with his enemies.


book: Isa
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The LORD will come down like a whirlwind with his flaming chariots. He will be furiously angry and punish his enemies with fire.


book: Isa
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Some of you get yourselves ready and go to a garden to worship a foreign goddess. You eat the meat of pigs, lizards, and mice. But I, the LORD, will destroy you for this.


book: Isa
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I know everything you do and think! The time has now come to bring together the people of every language and nation and to show them my glory


book: Isa
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by proving what I can do. I will send the survivors to Tarshish, Pul, Lud, Meshech, Tubal, Javan, and to the distant islands. I will send them to announce my wonderful glory to nations that have never heard about me.


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They will bring your relatives from the nations as an offering to me, the LORD. They will come to Jerusalem, my holy mountain, on horses, chariots, wagons, mules, and camels. It will be like the people of Israel bringing the right offering to my temple.


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I promise that some of them will be priests and others will be helpers in my temple. I, the LORD, have spoken.


book: Isa
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I also promise that you will always have descendants and will never be forgotten, just as the new heavens and the new earth that I create will last forever.


book: Isa
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On the first day of each month and on each Sabbath, everyone will worship me. I, the LORD, have spoken.


book: Isa
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My people will go out and look at the dead bodies of those who turned against me. The worms there never die, the fire never stops burning, and the sight of those bodies will be disgusting to everyone.


book: Jer
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My name is Jeremiah. I am a priest, and my father Hilkiah and everyone else in my family are from Anathoth in the territory of the Benjamin tribe. This book contains the things that the LORD told me to say.


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and he continued to speak to me during the rule of Josiah's son Jehoiakim. The last time the LORD spoke to me was in the fifth month of the eleventh year that Josiah's son Zedekiah was king. That was also when the people of Jerusalem were taken away as prisoners.


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“Jeremiah, I am your Creator, and before you were born, I chose you to speak for me to the nations.”


book: Jer
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“Don't say you're too young,” the LORD answered. “If I tell you to go and speak to someone, then go! And when I tell you what to say, don't leave out a word!


book: Jer
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The LORD reached out his hand, then he touched my mouth and said, “I am giving you the words to say,


book: Jer
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and I am sending you with authority to speak to the nations for me. You will tell them of doom and destruction, and of rising and rebuilding again.”


book: Jer
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The LORD showed me something in a vision. Then he asked, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I answered, “A branch of almonds that ripen early.”


book: Jer
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Then the LORD showed me something else and asked, “What do you see now?” I answered, “I see a pot of boiling water in the north, and it's about to spill out toward us.”


book: Jer
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Just watch while I send for the kings of the north. They will attack and capture Jerusalem and other towns, then set up their thrones at the gates of Jerusalem.


book: Jer
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Jeremiah, get ready! Go and tell the people what I command you to say. Don't be frightened by them, or I will make you terrified while they watch.


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My power will make you strong like a fortress or a column of iron or a wall of bronze. You will oppose all of Judah, including its kings and leaders, its priests and people.


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to go to Jerusalem and tell everyone that he had said: When you were my young bride, you loved me and followed me through the barren desert.


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You belonged to me alone, like the first part of the harvest, and I severely punished those who mistreated you.


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and I, the LORD, will speak. I was never unfair to your ancestors, but they left me and became worthless by following worthless idols.


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Your ancestors refused to ask for my help, though I had rescued them from Egypt and led them through a treacherous, barren desert, where no one lives or dares to travel.


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The priests who teach my laws don't care to know me. Your leaders rebel against me; your prophets give messages from Baal and worship false gods.


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of a crime that no nation has ever committed before. Just ask anyone, anywhere, from the eastern deserts to the islands in the west.


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You will find that no nation has ever abandoned its gods even though they were false. I am the true and glorious God, but you have rejected me to worship idols.


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You, my people, have sinned in two ways— you have rejected me, the source of life-giving water, and you've tried to collect water in cracked and leaking pits dug in the ground.


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Your own sins will punish you, because it was a bitter mistake for you to reject me without fear of punishment. I, the LORD All-Powerful, have spoken.


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Long ago you left me and broke all ties between us, refusing to be my servant. Now you worship other gods by having sex on hilltops or in the shade of large trees.


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The LORD said: People of Israel, you are stained with guilt, and no soap or bleach can wash it away.


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You deny your sins and say, “We aren't unclean. We haven't worshiped Baal.” But think about what you do in Hinnom Valley. You run back and forth like young camels, as you rush to worship one idol after another.


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You are a female donkey sniffing the desert air, wanting to mate with just anyone. You are an easy catch!


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Your shoes are worn out, and your throat is parched from running here and there to worship foreign gods. “Stop!” I shouted, but you replied, “No! I love those gods too much.”


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You and your leaders are more disgraceful than thieves— you and your kings, your priests and prophets


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worship stone idols and sacred poles as if they had created you and had given you life. You have rejected me, but when you're in trouble, you cry to me for help.


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Go cry to the gods you made! There should be enough of them to save you, because Judah has as many gods as it has towns.


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I tried punishing you, but you refused to come back to me, and like fierce lions you killed my prophets.


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Now listen to what I say! Did I abandon you in the desert or surround you with darkness? You are my people, yet you have told me, “We'll do what we want, and we refuse to worship you!”


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A bride could not forget to wear her jewelry to her wedding, but you have forgotten me day after day.


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You killed innocent people for no reason at all. And even though their blood can be seen on your clothes,


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you claim to be innocent, and you want me to stop being angry with you. So I'll take you to court, and we'll see who is right.


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The LORD said to the people of Israel: If a divorced woman marries, can her first husband ever marry her again? No, because this would pollute the land. But you have more gods than a prostitute has lovers. Why should I take you back?


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Just try to find one hilltop where you haven't gone to worship other gods by having sex. You sat beside the road like a robber in ambush, except you offered yourself to every passerby. Your sins of unfaithfulness have polluted the land.


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So I, the LORD, refused to let the spring rains fall. But just like a prostitute, you still have no shame for what you have done.


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When Josiah was king, the LORD said: Jeremiah, the kingdom of Israel was like an unfaithful wife who became a prostitute on the hilltops and in the shade of large trees.


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I knew that the kingdom of Israel had been unfaithful and committed many sins, yet I still hoped she might come back to me. But she didn't, so I divorced her and sent her away. Her sister, the kingdom of Judah, saw what happened, but she wasn't worried in the least, and I watched her become unfaithful like her sister.


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The kingdom of Judah wasn't sorry for being a prostitute, and she didn't care that she had made both herself and the land unclean by worshiping idols of stone and wood.


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Jeremiah, shout toward the north: Israel, I am your LORD— come back to me! You were unfaithful and made me furious, but I am merciful, and so I will forgive you.


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You are unfaithful children, but you belong to me. Come home! I'll take one or two of you from each town and clan and bring you to Zion.


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You will increase in numbers, and there will be no need to remember the sacred chest or to make a new one.


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The whole city of Jerusalem will be my throne. All nations will come here to worship me, and they will no longer follow their stubborn, evil hearts.


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Then, in countries to the north, you people of Judah and Israel will be reunited, and you will return to the land I gave your ancestors.


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I have always wanted to treat you as my children and give you the best land, the most beautiful on earth. I wanted you to call me “Father” and not turn from me.


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But instead, you are like a wife who broke her wedding vows. You have been unfaithful to me. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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Listen to the noise on the hilltops! It's the people of Israel, weeping and begging me to answer their prayers. They forgot about me and chose the wrong path.


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I will tell them, “Come back, and I will cure you of your unfaithfulness.” They will answer, “We will come back, because you are the LORD our God.


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On hilltops, we worshiped idols and made loud noises, but it was all for nothing— only you can save us.


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Since the days of our ancestors when our nation was young, that shameful god Baal has taken our crops and livestock, our sons and daughters.


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Make promises only in my name, and do what you promise! Then all nations will praise me, and I will bless them.


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People of Jerusalem and Judah, don't be so stubborn! Your hearts have become hard, like unplowed ground where thornbushes grow.


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With all your hearts, keep the agreement I made with you. But if you are stubborn and keep on sinning, my anger will burn like a fire that cannot be put out. *


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Head for Jerusalem or another walled town!’ “Jeremiah, tell them I'm sending disaster from the north.


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An army will come out, like a lion from its den. It will destroy nations and leave your towns empty and in ruins.”


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Then I told the people of Israel, “Put on sackcloth! Mourn and cry out, ‘The LORD is still angry with us.’ ”


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The LORD said, “When all this happens, the king and his officials, the prophets and the priests will be shocked and terrified.”


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I said, “You are the LORD God. So why have you fooled everyone, especially the people of Jerusalem? Why did you promise peace, when a knife is at our throats?”


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When disaster comes, the LORD will tell you people of Jerusalem, “I am sending a windstorm from the desert— not a welcome breeze. And it will sweep you away as punishment for your sins.


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Look! The enemy army swoops down like an eagle; their cavalry and chariots race faster than storm clouds blown by the wind.” Then you will answer, “We are doomed!”


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But Jerusalem, there is still time for you to be saved. Wash the evil from your hearts and stop making sinful plans,


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The LORD said, “Tell the nations that my people have rebelled against me. And so an army will come from far away to surround Jerusalem and the towns of Judah. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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I can't stand the pain! My heart pounds, as I twist and turn in agony. I hear the signal trumpet and the battle cry of the enemy, and I cannot be silent.


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I see the enemy defeating us time after time, leaving everything in ruins. Even my own home is destroyed in a moment.


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I heard the LORD say, “My people ignore me. They are foolish children who do not understand that they will be punished. All they know is how to sin.”


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After this, I looked around. The earth was barren, with no form of life. The sun, moon, and stars had disappeared.


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Farmland had become a desert, and towns were in ruins. The LORD's fierce anger had done all of this.


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The LORD said: I have made my decision, and I won't change my mind. This land will be destroyed, although not completely. The sky will turn dark, and the earth will mourn.


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Enemy cavalry and archers shout their battle cry. People run for their lives and try to find safety among trees and rocks. Every town is empty.


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Jerusalem, your land has been wiped out. But you act like a prostitute and try to win back your lovers, who now hate you. You can put on a red dress, gold jewelry, and eye shadow, but it's no use— your lovers are out to kill you!


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I heard groaning and crying. Was it a woman giving birth to her first child? No, it was Jerusalem, gasping for breath and begging for help. “I'm dying!” she said. “They have murdered me.”


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“Search Jerusalem for honest people who try to be faithful. If you can find even one, I'll forgive the whole city.


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I answered, “I know that you look for truth. You punished your people for their lies, but in spite of the pain, they became more stubborn and refused to turn back to you.”


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Then I thought to myself, “These common people act like fools, and they have never learned what the LORD their God demands of them.


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So I'll go and talk to the leaders. They know what God demands.” But even they had decided not to obey the LORD.


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The people have rebelled and rejected the LORD too many times. So enemies will attack like lions from the forest or wolves from the desert. Those enemies will watch the towns of Judah, and like leopards they will tear to pieces whoever goes outside.


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People of Judah, how can I forgive you? I gave you everything, but you abandoned me and worshiped idols. You men go to prostitutes and are unfaithful to your wives.


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I will tell their enemies, “Go through my vineyard. Don't destroy the vines, but cut off the branches, because they are the people who don't belong to me.”


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I am the LORD God All-Powerful. Jeremiah, I will tell you exactly what to say. Your words will be a fire; Israel and Judah will be the fuel.


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People of Israel, I have made my decision. An army from a distant country will attack you. I've chosen an ancient nation, and you won't understand their language.


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This nation will eat your crops and livestock; they will leave no fruit on your vines or fig trees. And although you feel safe behind thick walls, your towns will be destroyed and your children killed.


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And the people who survive will ask, “Why did the LORD our God do such terrible things to us?” Then tell them: I am the LORD, but you abandoned me and worshiped other gods in your own land. Now you will be slaves in a foreign country.


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that you should worship me with fear and trembling? I'm the one who made the shore to hold back the ocean. Waves may crash on the beach, but they can come no farther.


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You refuse to say, “Let's worship the LORD! He's the one who sends rain in spring and autumn and gives us a good harvest.”


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A hunter traps birds and puts them in a cage, but some of you trap humans and make them your slaves.


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Prophets give their messages in the name of a false god, my priests don't want to serve me, and you—my own people— like it this way! But on the day of disaster, where will you turn for help?


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Run for your lives, people of Benjamin. Get out of Jerusalem. Sound a trumpet in Tekoa and light a signal fire in Beth-Haccherem. Soon you will be struck by disaster from the north.


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Kings will tell their troops, “If we reach Jerusalem in the morning, we'll attack at noon. But if we arrive later,


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I am the LORD All-Powerful, and I will command these armies to chop down trees and build a ramp up to the walls of Jerusalem. People of Jerusalem, I must punish you for your injustice.


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Evil pours from your city like water from a spring. Sounds of injustice and violence echo within your walls; victims are everywhere, wounded and dying.


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Listen to me, you people of Jerusalem and Judah. I will abandon you, and your land will become an empty desert.


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I will tell your enemies to leave your nation bare like a vine stripped of grapes. I, the LORD All-Powerful, have spoken.


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Your anger against Judah flames up inside me, and I can't hold it in much longer. Don't hold back my anger! Let it sweep away everyone— the children at play and all adults, young and old alike.


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I'll punish the people of Judah and give to others their houses and fields, as well as their wives. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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Everyone is greedy and dishonest, whether poor or rich. Even the prophets and priests cannot be trusted.


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They should be ashamed of their disgusting sins, but they don't even blush. And so, when I punish Judah, they will end up on the ground, dead like everyone else. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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The LORD said: My people, when you stood at the crossroads, I told you, “Follow the road your ancestors took, and you will find peace.” But you refused.


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My people ignored me and rejected my laws. They planned to do evil, and now the evil they planned will happen to them.”


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People of Judah, you bring me incense from Sheba and spices from distant lands. You offer sacrifices of all kinds. But why bother? I hate these gifts of yours!


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So I will put stumbling blocks in your path, and everyone will die, including parents and children, neighbors and friends.


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Its well-armed troops are cruel and never show mercy. Their galloping horses sound like ocean waves pounding on the shore. This army will attack you, lovely Jerusalem.”


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Then the people said, “Just hearing about them makes us tremble with fear, and we twist and turn in pain like a woman giving birth.”


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The LORD said, “Don't work in your fields or walk along the roads. It's too dangerous. The enemy is well armed


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and attacks without warning. So mourn, my people, as though your only child had died. Wear clothes made of sackcloth and roll in the ash pile.”


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And you'll find they are hard like bronze and iron. They are stubborn rebels, always spreading lies. *


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Silver can be purified in a fiery furnace, but my people are too wicked to be made pure, and so I have rejected them.


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The LORD told me to stand by the gate of the temple and tell the people who were going in that the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, had said: Pay attention, people of Judah! Change your ways and start living right, then I will let you keep on living in your own country.


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Stop taking advantage of foreigners, orphans, and widows. Don't kill innocent people. And stop worshiping other gods.


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You steal and murder; you lie in court and are unfaithful in marriage. You worship idols and offer incense to Baal, when these gods have never done anything for you.


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And then you come into my temple and worship me! Do you think I will protect you so that you can go on sinning?


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Go to Shiloh, where my sacred tent once stood. Take a look at what I did there. My people Israel sinned, and so I destroyed Shiloh!


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Don't think this temple will protect you. Long ago I told your ancestors to build it and worship me here, but now I have decided to tear it down, just as I destroyed Shiloh.


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And as for you, people of Judah, I'm going to send you away from my land, just as I sent away the people of Ephraim and the other northern tribes.


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Children gather firewood, their fathers build fires, and their mothers mix dough to bake bread for the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven. They even offer wine sacrifices to other gods, just to insult me.


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But they are not only insulting me; they are also harming themselves by doing these shameful things.


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And now, I, the LORD All-Powerful, will flood Judah with my fiery anger until nothing is left—no people or animals, no trees or crops.


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The LORD told me to say to the people of Judah: I am the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, but I won't accept sacrifices from you. So don't even bother bringing them to me. You might as well just cook the meat for yourselves.


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Instead, I told them, “If you listen to me and do what I tell you, I will be your God, you will be my people, and all will go well for you.”


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But your ancestors refused to listen. They were stubborn, and whenever I wanted them to go one way, they always went the other.


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So you must say to them: People of Judah, I am the LORD your God, but you have refused to obey me, and you didn't change when I punished you. And now, you no longer even pretend to be faithful to me.


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Shave your head bald and throw away the hair. Sing a funeral song on top of a barren hill. You people have made me angry, and I have abandoned you.


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You have disobeyed me by putting your disgusting idols in my temple, and now the temple itself is disgusting to me.


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At Topheth in Hinnom Valley you have built altars where you kill your children and burn them as sacrifices to other gods. I would never think of telling you to do this.


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So watch out! Someday that place will no longer be called Topheth or Hinnom Valley. It will be called Slaughter Valley, because you will bury your dead there until you run out of room,


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and then bodies will lie scattered on the ground. Birds and wild animals will come and eat, and no one will be around to scare them off.


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When I am finished with your land, there will be deathly silence in the empty ruins of Jerusalem and the towns of Judah—no happy voices, no sounds of parties or wedding celebrations.


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Then the bones of the dead kings of Judah and their officials will be dug up, along with the bones of the priests, the prophets, and everyone else in Jerusalem


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who loved and worshiped the sun, moon, and stars. These bones will be scattered and left lying on the ground like trash, where the sun and moon and stars can shine on them.


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Some of you people of Judah will be left alive, but I will force you to go to foreign countries, and you will wish you were dead. I, the LORD God All-Powerful, have spoken.


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The LORD said: People of Jerusalem, when you stumble and fall, you get back up, and if you take a wrong road, you turn around and go back.


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I listen carefully, but none of you admit that you've done wrong. Without a second thought, you run down the wrong road like horses running blindly into battle.


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Storks, doves, swallows, and thrushes all know when it's time to fly away for the winter and when to come back. But you, my people, don't know what I demand.


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You say, “We are wise because we have the teachings and laws of the LORD.” But I say that your teachers have turned my words into lies!


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Your wise men have rejected what I say, and so they have no wisdom. Now they will be trapped and put to shame; they won't know what to do.


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I'll give their wives and fields to strangers. Everyone is greedy and dishonest, whether poor or rich. Even the prophets and priests cannot be trusted.


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They should be ashamed of the way they live, but they don't even blush. And so, when I punish Judah, they will end up on the ground, dead like everyone else.


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I will wipe them out. They are vines without grapes; fig trees without figs or leaves. They have not done a thing that I told them! I, the LORD, have spoken.


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The people of Judah say to each other, “What are we waiting for? Let's run to a town with walls and die there. We rebelled against the LORD, and we were sentenced to die by drinking poison.


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Our enemies have reached the town of Dan in the north, and the snorting of their horses makes us tremble with fear. The enemy will destroy Jerusalem and our entire nation. No one will survive.”


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In a foreign land my people are crying. Listen! You'll hear them say, “Has the LORD deserted Zion? Is he no longer its king?” I hear the LORD reply, “Why did you make me angry by worshiping useless idols?”


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I wish that my eyes were fountains of tears, so I could cry day and night for my people who were killed.


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I wish I could go into the desert and find a hiding place from all who are treacherous and unfaithful to God.


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The LORD replied: Lies come from the mouths of my people, like arrows from a bow. With each dishonest deed their power increases, and not one of them will admit that I am God.


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And so I will purify the hearts of my people just as gold is purified in a furnace. I have no other choice.


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They say they want peace, but this lie is deadly, like an arrow that strikes when you least expect it.


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I weep for the pastureland in the hill country. It's so barren and scorched that no one travels there. No cattle can be found there, and birds and wild animals have all disappeared.


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I heard the LORD reply, “When I am finished, Jerusalem and the towns of Judah will be piles of ruins where only jackals live.”


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I said to the LORD, “None of us can understand why the land has become like an uncrossable desert. Won't you explain why?”


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The LORD said: I destroyed the land because the people disobeyed me and rejected my laws and teachings.


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I'll scatter them in foreign countries that they and their ancestors have never even heard of. Finally, I will send enemy soldiers to kill every last one of them.


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The LORD All-Powerful said, “Make arrangements now for the women who are paid to weep at funerals, especially the women who can cry the loudest.”


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The people answered, “Let them come quickly and cry for us, until our own eyes are flooded with tears.


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Now those of us on Zion cry, ‘We are ruined! We can't stand the shame. Our homes have been destroyed, and we must leave our land.’


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“We ask you women to pay attention to what the LORD says. We will teach you a funeral song that you can teach your daughters and friends:


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‘We were in our fortress, but death sneaked in through our windows. It even struck down children at play and our strongest young men.’


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“The LORD has told us the ground will be covered with dead bodies, like ungathered stalks of grain or manure in a field.”


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If you feel you must brag, then have enough sense to brag about worshiping me, the LORD. What I like best is showing kindness, justice, and mercy to everyone on earth.


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Someday I will punish the nations of Egypt, Edom, Ammon, and Moab, and the tribes of the desert. The men of these nations are circumcised, but they don't worship me. And it's the same with you people of Judah. Your bodies are circumcised, but your hearts are unchanged.


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The LORD said: Listen to me, you people of Israel. Don't follow the customs of those nations who become frightened when they see something strange happen in the sky.


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An idol is no better than a scarecrow. It can't speak, and it has to be carried, because it can't walk. Why worship an idol that can't help or harm you?


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You are King of the nations. Everyone should worship you. No human anywhere on earth is wiser than you.


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Idols are made by humans. A carver shapes the wood. A metalworker hammers out a covering of gold from Uphaz or of silver from Tarshish. Then the idol is dressed in blue and purple clothes.


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You, LORD, are the only true and living God. You will rule for all time. When you are angry the earth shakes, and nations are destroyed.


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You told me to say that idols did not create the heavens and the earth, and that you, the LORD, will destroy every idol.


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The waters in the heavens roar at your command. You make clouds appear— you send the winds from your storehouse and make lightning flash in the rain.


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People who make idols are so stupid! They will be disappointed, because their false gods are not alive.


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But you, Israel's God, created all things, and you chose Israel to be your very own. Your name is the LORD All-Powerful.


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The LORD said these troubles will lead to your capture, and he will throw you from this land like a rock from a sling.”


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But I told them, “Our leaders were stupid failures, because they refused to listen to the LORD. And so we've been scattered like sheep.


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“Sounds of destruction rumble from the north like distant thunder. Soon our towns will be ruins where only jackals live.”


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Our enemies refuse to admit that you are God or to worship you. They have wiped out our people and left our nation lying in ruins. So get angry and sweep them away!


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The LORD God told me to say to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: I, the LORD, am warning you that I will put a curse on anyone who doesn't keep the agreement I made with Israel. So pay attention to what it says.


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My commands haven't changed since I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, a nation that seemed like a blazing furnace where iron ore is melted. I told your ancestors that if they obeyed my commands, I would be their God, and they would be my people.


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Then I did what I had promised and gave them this wonderful land, where you now live. “Yes, LORD,” I replied, “that's true.”


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Then the LORD told me to say to everyone on the streets of Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah: Pay attention to the commands in my agreement with you.


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Ever since I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, I have been telling your people to obey me. But you and your ancestors


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have always been stubborn. You have refused to listen, and instead you have done whatever your sinful hearts have desired. You have not kept the agreement we made, so I will make you suffer every curse that goes with it.


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They have sinned in the same way their ancestors did, by turning from me and worshiping other gods. The northern kingdom of Israel broke the agreement I made with your ancestors, and now the southern kingdom of Judah has done the same.


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Here is what I've decided to do. I will bring suffering on the people of Judah and Jerusalem, and no one will escape. They will beg me to help, but I won't listen to their prayers.


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Then they will offer sacrifices to their other gods and ask them for help. After all, the people of Judah have more gods than towns, and more shameful altars for Baal than there are streets in Jerusalem. But those gods won't be able to rescue the people of Judah from disaster.


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Jeremiah, don't pray for these people or beg me to rescue them. If you do, I won't listen, and I certainly won't listen if they pray!


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Then the LORD told me to say to the people of Judah: You are my chosen people, but you have no right to be here in my temple, doing such evil things. The sacrifices you offer me won't protect you from disaster, so stop celebrating.


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Once you were like an olive tree covered with fruit. But soon I will send a noisy mob to break off your branches and set you on fire.


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I am the LORD All-Powerful. You people of Judah were like a tree that I had planted, but you have made me angry by offering sacrifices to Baal, just as the northern kingdom did. And now I'm going to pull you up by the roots. *


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Some people plotted to kill me. And like a lamb being led to the butcher, I knew nothing about their plans.


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But then the LORD told me that they had planned to chop me down like a tree— fruit and all— so that no one would ever remember me again.


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I prayed, “LORD All-Powerful, you always do what is right, and you know every thought. So I trust you to help me and to take revenge.”


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Then the LORD said: Jeremiah, some men from Anathoth say they will kill you, if you keep on speaking for me.


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But I will punish them. Their young men will die in battle, and their children will starve to death.


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Whenever I complain to you, LORD, you are always fair. But now I have questions about your justice. Why is life easy for sinners? Why are they successful?


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You plant them like trees; you let them prosper and produce fruit. Yet even when they praise you, they don't mean it.


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But you know, LORD, how faithful I've always been, even in my thoughts. So drag my enemies away and butcher them like sheep!


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How long will the ground be dry and the pasturelands parched? The birds and animals are dead and gone. And all of this happened because the people are so sinful. They even brag, “God can't see the sins we commit.”


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Jeremiah, if you get tired in a race against people, how can you possibly run against horses? If you fall in open fields, what will happen in the forest along the Jordan River?


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Even your own family has turned against you. They act friendly, but don't trust them. They're out to get you, and so is everyone else.


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I loved my people and chose them as my very own. But now I will reject them and hand them over to their enemies.


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My people are like a hawk surrounded and attacked by other hawks. Tell the wild animals to come and eat their fill.


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My beautiful land is ruined like a field or a vineyard trampled by shepherds and stripped bare by their flocks.


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A destroying army marches along desert roads and attacks everywhere. They are my deadly sword; no one is safe from them.


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My people, you planted wheat, but because I was furious, I let only weeds grow. You wore yourselves out and gained only shame!


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The LORD said: I gave this land to my people Israel, but enemies around it have attacked and robbed it. So I will uproot them from their own countries just as I will uproot Judah from its land.


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They once taught my people to worship Baal. But if they admit I am the only true God, and if they let my people teach them how to worship me, these nations will also become my people.


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However, if they don't listen to me, I will uproot them from their lands and completely destroy them. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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I went back and dug the shorts out of their hiding place, but the cloth had rotted, and the shorts were ruined.


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The people of Judah are evil and stubborn. So instead of listening to me, they do whatever they want and even worship other gods. When I am finished with these people, they will be good for nothing, just like this pair of shorts.


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These shorts were tight around your waist, and that's how tightly I held onto the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. I wanted them to be my people. I wanted to make them famous, so that other nations would praise and honor me, but they refused to obey me.


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Jeremiah, tell the people of Judah, “The LORD God of Israel orders you to fill your wine jars with wine.” They will answer, “Of course we fill our wine jars with wine! Why are you telling us something we already know?”


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Then say to them: I am the LORD, and what I'm going to do will make everyone in Judah and Jerusalem appear to be full of wine. And the worst ones will be the kings of David's family and the priests and the prophets.


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Then I will smash them against each other like jars. I will have no pity on the young or the old, and they will all be destroyed. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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You hope for light, but God is sending darkness. Evening shadows already deepen in the hills. So return to God and confess your sins to him before you trip and fall.


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If you are too proud to listen, I will weep alone. Tears will stream from my eyes when the LORD's people are taken away as prisoners.


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The LORD told me to tell you that your king and his mother must surrender their thrones and remove their crowns.


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The cities in the Southern Desert are surrounded; no one can get in or out. Everyone in Judah will be taken away.


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Jerusalem, you were so proud of ruling the people of Judah. But where are they now? Look north, and you will see your enemies approaching.


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You once trusted them to help, but now I'll let them rule you. What do you say about that? You will be in pain like a woman giving birth.


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Do you know why your clothes were torn off and you were abused? It was because of your terrible sins.


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Can you ever change and do what's right? Can people change the color of their skin, or can a leopard remove its spots? If so, then maybe you can change and learn to do right.


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You were married to me, but you were unfaithful. You even became a prostitute by worshiping disgusting gods on hilltops and in fields.


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So I'll rip off your clothes and leave you naked and ashamed for everyone to see. You are doomed! Will you ever be worthy to worship me again?


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Rulers send their servants to the storage pits for water. But there's none to be found; they return in despair with their jars still empty.


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Wild donkeys go blind from starvation. So they stand on barren hilltops and sniff the air, hoping to smell green grass.


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We rejected you and did evil, so we deserve to be punished. But if you rescue us, LORD, everyone will see how great you are.


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Did this disaster take you by surprise? Are you a warrior with your hands tied? You have chosen us, and your temple is here. Don't abandon us!


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My people, you love to wander away; you don't even try to stay close to me. So now I will reject you and punish you for your sins. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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They may even go without eating and offer sacrifices to please me and to give thanks. But when they cry out for my help, I won't listen, and I won't accept their sacrifices. Instead, I'll send war, starvation, and disease to wipe them out.”


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I replied, “The other prophets keep telling everyone that you won't send starvation or war, and that you're going to give us peace.”


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The LORD answered: They claim to speak for me, but they're lying! I didn't even speak to them, much less choose them to be my prophets. Their messages come from worthless dreams, useless fortunetelling, and their own imaginations.


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Those lying prophets say there will be peace and plenty of food. But I say that those same prophets will die from war and hunger.


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And everyone who listens to them will be killed, just as they deserve. Their dead bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, because their families will also be dead, and no one will be left to bury them.


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Jeremiah, go and tell the people how you feel about all this. So I told them: “Tears will flood my eyes both day and night, because my nation suffers from a deadly wound.


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In the fields I see the bodies of those killed in battle. And in the towns I see crowds dying of hunger. But the prophets and priests go about their business, without understanding what has happened.”


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Have you rejected Judah, LORD? Do you hate Jerusalem? Why did you strike down Judah with a fatal wound? We had hoped for peace and a time of healing, but all we got was terror.


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If you save us, it will show how great you are. Don't let our enemies disgrace your temple, your beautiful throne. Don't forget that you promised to rescue us.


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Idols can't send rain, and showers don't fall by themselves. Only you control the rain, so we put our trust in you, the LORD our God.


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The LORD said to me: Even if Moses and Samuel were here, praying with you, I wouldn't change my mind. So send the people of Judah away.


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And when they ask where they are going, tell them that I, the LORD, have said: Some of you are going to die of horrible diseases. Others are going to die in war or from starvation. The rest will be led away to a foreign country.


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I will punish you in four different ways: You will be killed in war and your bodies dragged off by dogs, your flesh will be eaten by birds, and your bones will be chewed on by wild animals.


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This punishment will happen because of the horrible things your King Manasseh did. And you will be disgusting to all nations on earth.


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My people, you abandoned me and walked away. I am tired of showing mercy; that's why I'll destroy you


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by scattering you like straw blown by the wind. I will punish you with sorrow and death, because you refuse to change your ways.


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There will be more widows in Judah than grains of sand on a beach. A surprise attack at noon! And the mothers in Jerusalem mourn for their children.


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A mother is in deep despair and struggles for breath. Her daylight has turned to darkness— she has suffered the loss of her seven sons. I will kill anyone who survives. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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I wish I had never been born! I'm always in trouble with everyone in Judah. I never lend or borrow money, but everyone curses me just the same.


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Then the LORD replied, “I promise to protect you, and when disaster comes, even your enemies will beg you for help.”


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People of Judah, just as you can't break iron mixed with bronze, you can't defeat the enemies that will attack from the north.


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My anger is a fire that cannot be put out, so I will make you slaves of your enemies in a foreign land.


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You can see how I suffer insult after insult, all because of you, LORD. Don't be so patient with my enemies; take revenge on them before they kill me.


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I don't go to parties and have a good time. Instead, I keep to myself, because you have filled me with your anger.


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I am badly injured and in constant pain. Are you going to disappoint me, like a stream that goes dry in the heat of summer?


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Then the LORD told me: Stop talking like a fool! If you turn back to me and speak my message, I will let you be my prophet once again. I hope the people of Judah will accept what you say. But you can ignore their threats, *


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because I am making you strong, like a bronze wall. They are evil and violent, but when they attack,


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They will die of horrible diseases and of war and starvation. No one will give them a funeral or bury them, and their bodies will be food for the birds and wild animals. And what's left will lie on the ground like manure.


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When someone dies, don't visit the family or show any sorrow. I will no longer love or bless or have any pity on the people of Judah.


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Rich and poor alike will die and be left unburied. No one will mourn and show their sorrow by cutting themselves or shaving their heads.


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No one will bring food and wine to help comfort those who are mourning the death of their father or mother.


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Warn the people of Judah that I, the LORD All-Powerful, will put an end to all their parties and wedding celebrations.


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They will ask, “Why has the LORD our God threatened us with so many disasters? Have we done something wrong or sinned against him?”


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Then tell them I have said: People of Judah, your ancestors turned away from me; they rejected my laws and teachings and started worshiping other gods.


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And you have done even worse! You are stubborn, and instead of obeying me, you do whatever evil comes to your mind.


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So I will throw you into a land that you and your ancestors know nothing about, a place where you will have to worship other gods both day and night. And I won't feel the least bit sorry for you.


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A time will come when you will again worship me. But you will no longer call me the Living LORD who rescued Israel from Egypt.


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Instead, you will call me the Living LORD who rescued you from that country in the north and from the other countries where I had forced you to go. Someday I will bring you back to this land that I gave your ancestors.


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But for now, I am sending enemies who will catch you like fish and hunt you down like wild animals in the hills and the caves.


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I will punish you double for your sins, because you have polluted my own land. You have filled it with lifeless idols that remind me of dead bodies.


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Our LORD, you are the one who gives me strength and protects me like a fortress when I am in trouble. People will come to you from distant nations and say, “Our ancestors worshiped false and useless gods,


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Then the LORD replied, “That's why I will teach them about my power, and they will know that I truly am the LORD.”


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People of Judah, your sins cannot be erased. They are written on your hearts like words chiseled in stone or carved on the corners of your altars. *


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One generation after another has set up pagan altars and worshiped the goddess Asherah everywhere in your country— on hills and mountains, and under large trees.


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You will lose the land that I gave you, and I will make you slaves in a foreign country, because you have made my anger blaze up like a fire that won't stop burning.


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They will be like trees growing beside a stream— trees with roots that reach down to the water, and with leaves that are always green. They bear fruit every year and are never worried by a lack of rain.


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You cheated others, but everything you gained will fly away, like birds hatched from stolen eggs. Then you will discover what fools you are.


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You are a spring of water giving Israel life and hope. But if the people reject what you have told me, they will be swept away like words written in dust.


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You, LORD, are the one I praise. So heal me and rescue me! Then I will be completely well and perfectly safe.


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The people of Judah say to me, “Jeremiah, you claimed to tell us what the LORD has said. So why hasn't it come true?”


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Our LORD, you chose me to care for your people, and that's what I have done. You know everything I have said, and I have never once asked you to punish them.


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Keep me from failure and disgrace, but make my enemies fail and be disgraced. Send destruction to make their worst fears come true.


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The LORD said: Jeremiah, stand at each city gate in Jerusalem, including the one the king uses, and speak to him and everyone else. Tell them I have said: I am the LORD, so pay attention.


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If you value your lives, don't do any work on the Sabbath. Don't carry anything through the city gates or through the door of your house, or anywhere else. Keep the Sabbath day sacred! I gave this command to your ancestors, but they were stubborn and refused to obey or to be corrected. But if you obey,


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then Judah and Jerusalem will always be ruled by kings from David's family. The king and his officials will ride through these gates on horses or in chariots, and the people of Judah and Jerusalem will be with them. There will always be people living in Jerusalem,


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and others will come here from the nearby villages, from the towns of Judah and Benjamin, from the hill country and the foothills to the west, and from the Southern Desert. They will bring sacrifices to please me and to give me thanks, as well as offerings of grain and incense.


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But if you keep on carrying things through the city gates on the Sabbath and keep treating it as any other day, I will set fire to these gates and burn down the whole city, including the fortresses.


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“Jeremiah, go to the pottery shop, and when you get there, I will tell you what to say to the people.”


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And whenever the clay would not take the shape he wanted, he would change his mind and form it into some other shape.


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but its people start disobeying me and doing evil, then I will change my mind and not help them at all.


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So listen to me, people of Judah and Jerusalem! I have decided to strike you with disaster, and I won't change my mind unless you stop sinning and start living right.


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But I know you won't listen. You might as well answer, “We don't care what you say. We have made plans to sin, and we are going to be stubborn and do as we please!”


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So I, the LORD, command you to ask the nations, and find out if they have ever heard of such a horrible sin as what you have done.


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But you, my people, have turned from me to burn incense to worthless idols. You have left the ancient road to follow an unknown path where you stumble over idols.


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Your land will be ruined, and every passerby will look at it with horror and make insulting remarks.


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When your enemies attack, I will scatter you like dust blown by an eastern wind. Then, on that day of disaster, I will turn my back on you.


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Some of the people said, “Let's get rid of Jeremiah! We will always have priests to teach us God's laws, as well as wise people to give us advice, and prophets to speak the LORD's messages. So, instead of listening to Jeremiah any longer, let's accuse him of a crime.”


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I tried to help them, but they are paying me back by digging a pit to trap me. I even begged you not to punish them.


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But now I am asking you to let their children starve or be killed in war. Let women lose their husbands and sons to disease and violence.


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These people have dug pits and set traps for me, LORD. Make them scream in fear when you send enemy troops to attack their homes.


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You know they plan to kill me. So get angry and punish them! Don't ever forgive their terrible crimes.


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The LORD said: Jeremiah, go to the pottery shop and buy a clay jar. Then take along some of the city officials and leading priests


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I am the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, and you kings of Judah and you people of Jerusalem had better pay attention. I am going to bring so much trouble on this valley that everyone who hears about it will be shocked.


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The people of Judah stopped worshiping me and made this valley into a place of worship for Baal and other gods that have never helped them or their ancestors or their kings. And they have committed murder here, burning their young, innocent children as sacrifices to Baal. I have never even thought of telling you to do that.


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So watch out! Someday this place will no longer be called Topheth or Hinnom Valley. It will be called Slaughter Valley!


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You people of Judah and Jerusalem may have big plans, but here in this valley I'll ruin those plans. I'll let your enemies kill you, and I'll tell the birds and wild animals to eat your dead bodies.


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I will turn Jerusalem into a pile of rubble, and every passerby will be shocked and horrified and will make insulting remarks.


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And while your enemies are trying to break through your city walls to kill you, the food supply will run out. You will become so hungry that you will eat the flesh of your friends and even of your own children.


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Then tell them that I have also said: I am the LORD All-Powerful, and I warn you that I will shatter Judah and Jerusalem just like this jar that is broken beyond repair. You will bury your dead here in Topheth, but so many of you will die that there won't be enough room.


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I will make Jerusalem as unclean as Topheth, by filling the city with your dead bodies. I will do this because you and your kings have gone up to the roofs of your houses and burned incense to the stars in the sky, as though they were gods. And you have given sacrifices of wine to foreign gods.


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I went to Topheth, where I told the people what the LORD had said. Then I went to the temple courtyard and shouted to the people,


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“Listen, everyone! Some time ago, the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, warned you that he would bring disaster on Jerusalem and all nearby villages. But you were stubborn and refused to listen. Now the LORD is going to bring the disaster he promised.”


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and so he hit me. Then he had me arrested and put in chains at the Benjamin Gate in the LORD's temple.


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The next day, when Pashhur let me go free, I told him that the LORD had said: No longer will I call you Pashhur. Instead, I will call you Afraid-of-Everything.


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You will be afraid, and you will bring fear to your friends as well. You will see enemies kill them in battle. Then I will let the king of Babylonia take everyone in Judah prisoner, killing some and dragging the rest away to Babylonia.


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Pashhur, you are guilty of telling lies and claiming they were messages from me. That's why I will let the Babylonians take you, your family, and your friends as prisoners to Babylonia, where you will all die and be buried.


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You tricked me, LORD, and I was really fooled. You are stronger than I am, and you have defeated me. People never stop sneering and insulting me.


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You have let me announce only injustice and death. Your message has brought me nothing but insults and trouble.


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Sometimes I tell myself not to think about you, LORD, or even mention your name. But your message burns in my heart and bones, and I cannot keep silent.


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I heard the crowds whisper, “Everyone is afraid. Now's our chance to accuse Jeremiah!” All of my so-called friends are just waiting for me to make a mistake. They say, “Maybe Jeremiah can be tricked. Then we can overpower him and get even at last.”


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But you, LORD, are a mighty soldier, standing at my side. Those troublemakers will fall down and fail— terribly embarrassed, forever ashamed.


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LORD All-Powerful, you test those who do right, and you know every heart and mind. I have told you my complaints, so let me watch you take revenge on my enemies.


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May that man be like the towns you destroyed without pity. Let him hear shouts of alarm in the morning and battle cries at noon.


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He deserves to die for not killing me before I was born. Then my mother's body would have been my grave.


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King Zedekiah of Judah sent for Pashhur son of Malchiah and for a priest named Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. Then he told them, “Talk with Jeremiah for me.” So they came to me and said,


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“King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia has attacked Judah. Please ask the LORD to work miracles for our people, as he has done in the past, so that Nebuchadnezzar will leave us alone.”


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I told them that the LORD God of Israel had told me to say to King Zedekiah: The Babylonians have surrounded Jerusalem and want to kill you and your people. You are asking me to save you, but you have made me furious. So I will stretch out my mighty arm and fight against you myself. Your army is using spears and swords to fight the Babylonians, but I will make your own weapons turn and attack you. I will send a horrible disease to kill many of the people and animals in Jerusalem, and there will be nothing left to eat. Finally, I will let King Nebuchadnezzar and his army fight their way to the center of Jerusalem and capture everyone who is left alive, including you and your officials. But Nebuchadnezzar won't be kind or show any mercy—he will have you killed! I, the LORD, have spoken.


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Then I told them that the LORD had said: People of Jerusalem, I, the LORD, give you the choice of life or death.


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The Babylonian army has surrounded Jerusalem, so if you want to live, you must go out and surrender to them. But if you want to die because of hunger, disease, or war, then stay here in the city.


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I have decided not to rescue Jerusalem. Instead, I am going to let the king of Babylonia burn it to the ground. I, the LORD, have spoken. *


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Each new day, make sure that justice is done, and rescue those who are being robbed. Or else my anger will flame up like a fire that never goes out.


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Jerusalem, from your mountaintop you look out over the valleys and think you are safe. But I, the LORD, am angry,


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and I will punish you as you deserve. I'll set your palace on fire, and everything around you will go up in smoke.


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The LORD sent me to the palace of the king of Judah to speak to the king, his officials, and everyone else who was there. The LORD told me to say: I am the LORD, so pay attention! You have been allowing people to cheat, rob, and take advantage of widows, orphans, and foreigners who live here. Innocent people have become victims of injustice, and some of them have even been killed. But now I command you to do what is right and see that justice is done. Rescue everyone who has suffered from injustice.


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If you obey me, the kings from David's family will continue to rule Judah from this palace. They and their officials will ride in and out on their horses or in their chariots.


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Listen to what I think about it: The palace of Judah's king is as glorious as Gilead or Lebanon's highest peaks. But it will be as empty as a ghost-town when I'm through with it.


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People from different nations will pass by and ask, “Why did the LORD do this to such a great city as Jerusalem?”


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Others will answer, “It's because the people worshiped foreign gods and broke the agreement that the LORD their God had made with them.”


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King Josiah is dead, so don't mourn for him. Instead, mourn for his son King Jehoahaz, dragged off to another country, never to return.


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Jehoahaz became king of Judah after his father King Josiah died. But Jehoahaz was taken as a prisoner to a foreign country. Now I, the LORD, promise that he will die there without ever seeing his own land again. *


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You put in big windows and used cedar paneling and red paint. But you were unfair and forced the builders to work without pay. *


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More cedar in your palace doesn't make you a better king than your father Josiah. He always did right— he gave justice to the poor and was honest.


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That's what it means to truly know me. So he lived a comfortable life and always had enough to eat and drink.


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Jehoiakim, no one will mourn at your funeral. They won't turn to each other and ask, “Why did our great king have to die?”


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You will be given a burial fit for a donkey; your body will be dragged outside the city gates and tossed in the dirt. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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People of Jerusalem, the nations you trusted have been crushed. Go to Lebanon and weep; cry in the land of Bashan and in Moab.


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When times were good, I warned you. But you ignored me, just as you have done since Israel was young.


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Now you will be disgraced because of your sins. Your leaders will be swept away by the wind, and the nations you trusted will be captured and dragged to a foreign country.


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King Jehoiachin, son of Jehoiakim, even if you were the ring I wear as the sign of my royal power, I would still pull you from my finger.


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I would hand you over to the enemy you fear, to King Nebuchadnezzar and his army, who want to kill you.


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You and your mother were born in Judah, but I will throw both of you into a foreign country, where you will die,


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Jehoiachin, you are unwanted like a broken clay pot. So you and your children will be thrown into a country you know nothing about.


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Erase the names of Jehoiachin's children from the royal records. He is a complete failure, and so none of them will ever be king. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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You were supposed to take care of my people, but instead you chased them away. So now I'll punish you severely and make you pay for your crimes!


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I will bring the rest of my people home from the lands where I have scattered them, and they will grow into a mighty nation.


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I promise to choose leaders who will care for them like real shepherds. All of my people will be there, and they will never again be frightened.


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Someday I will appoint an honest king from the family of David, a king who will be wise and rule with justice.


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As long as he is king, Israel will have peace, and Judah will be safe. The name of this king will be “The LORD Gives Justice.”


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A time will come when you will again worship me. But you will no longer call me the Living God who rescued Israel from Egypt.


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Instead, you will call me the Living God who rescued you from the land in the north and from all the other countries where I had forced you to go. And you will once again live in your own land.


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When I think of the prophets, I am shocked, and I tremble like someone drunk, because of the LORD and his sacred words.


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Those unfaithful prophets misuse their power all over the country. So God turned the pasturelands into scorching deserts.


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The LORD told me to say: You prophets and priests think so little of me, the LORD, that you even sin in my own temple!


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Now I will punish you with disaster, and you will slip and fall in the darkness. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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The prophets in Samaria were repulsive to me, because they preached in the name of Baal and led my people astray.


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And you prophets in Jerusalem are even worse. You're unfaithful in marriage and never tell the truth. You even lead others to sin instead of helping them turn back to me. You and the people of Jerusalem are evil like Sodom and Gomorrah.


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You prophets in Jerusalem have spread evil everywhere. That's why I, the LORD, promise to give you bitter poison to eat and drink.


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Don't listen to the lies of these false prophets, you people of Judah! The message they preach is something they imagined; it did not come from me, the LORD All-Powerful.


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These prophets go to people who refuse to respect me and who are stubborn and do whatever they please. The prophets tell them, “The LORD has promised everything will be fine.”


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But I, the LORD, tell you that these prophets have never attended a meeting of my council in heaven or heard me speak.


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I won't calm down, until I have finished what I have decided to do. Someday you will understand exactly what I mean.


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I did not send these prophets or speak to them, but they ran to find you and to preach their message.


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If they had been in a meeting of my council in heaven, they would have told you people of Judah to give up your sins and come back to me.


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These unfaithful prophets claim that I have given them a dream or a vision, and then they tell lies in my name.


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They tell each other their dreams and try to get my people to reject me, just as their ancestors left me and worshiped Baal.


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Their dreams and my truth are as different as straw and wheat. But when prophets speak for me, they must say only what I have told them.


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These unfaithful prophets claim I give them their dreams, but it isn't true. I didn't choose them to be my prophets, and yet they babble on and on, speaking in my name, while stealing words from each other. And when my people hear these liars, they are led astray instead of being helped. So I warn you that I am now the enemy of these prophets. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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Jeremiah, when a prophet or a priest or anyone else comes to you and asks, “Does the LORD have news for us?” tell them, “You people are a nuisance to the LORD, and he will get rid of you.”


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If any of you say, “Here is news from the LORD,” I will punish you and your families, even if you are a prophet or a priest.


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Instead, you must ask your friends and relatives, “What answer did the LORD give?” or “What has the LORD said?”


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It seems that you each have your own news! So if you say, “Here is news from the LORD,” you are twisting my words into a lie. Remember that I am your God, the LORD All-Powerful.


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If you go to a prophet, it's all right to ask, “What answer did the LORD give to my question?” or “What has the LORD said?”


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I will pick you up and throw you far away. And I will abandon this city of Jerusalem that I gave to your ancestors.


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The LORD spoke to me in a vision after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia had come to Judah and taken King Jehoiachin, his officials, and all the skilled workers back to Babylonia. In this vision I saw two baskets of figs in front of the LORD's temple.


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One basket was full of very good figs that ripened early, and the other was full of rotten figs that were not fit to eat.


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“Jeremiah,” the LORD asked, “what do you see?” “Figs,” I said. “Some are very good, but the others are too rotten to eat.”


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where I am watching over them. Then someday I will bring them back to this land. I will plant them, instead of uprooting them, and I will build them up, rather than tearing them down.


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I will give them a desire to know me and to be my people. They will want me to be their God, and they will turn back to me with all their heart.


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The rotten figs stand for King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and all the others who were not taken away to Babylonia, whether they stayed here in Judah or went to live in Egypt.


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I will punish them with a terrible disaster, and everyone on earth will tremble when they hear about it. I will force the people of Judah to go to foreign countries, where they will be cursed and insulted.


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War and hunger and disease will strike them, until they finally disappear from the land that I gave them and their ancestors.


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In the fourth year that Jehoiakim was king of Judah, which was the first year that Nebuchadnezzar was king of Babylonia, the LORD told me to speak to the people of Judah and Jerusalem. So I told them:


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For 23 years now, ever since the thirteenth year that Josiah was king, I have been telling you what the LORD has told me. But you have not listened.


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They told you that the LORD had said: Change your ways! If you stop doing evil, I will let you stay forever in this land that I gave your ancestors.


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But you refused to listen to my prophets. So I, the LORD, say that you have made me angry by worshiping idols, and you are the ones who were hurt by what you did.


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and now I will let you be attacked by nations from the north, and especially by my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. You and other nearby nations will be destroyed and left in ruins forever. Everyone who sees what has happened will be shocked, but they will still make fun of you.


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I will put an end to your parties and wedding celebrations; no one will grind grain or be here to light the lamps at night.


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This country will be as empty as a desert, because I will make all of you the slaves of the king of Babylonia for 70 years.


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When that time is up, I will punish the king of Babylonia and his people for everything they have done wrong, and I will turn that country into a wasteland forever.


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My servant Jeremiah has told you what I said I will do to Babylonia and to the other nations, and he wrote it all down in this book. I will do everything I threatened.


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I will pay back the Babylonians for every wrong they have done. Great kings from many other nations will conquer the Babylonians and force them to be slaves.


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The LORD God of Israel showed me a vision in which he said, “Jeremiah, here is a cup filled with the wine of my anger. Take it and make every nation drink some.


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I took the cup from the LORD's hand, and I went to the kings of the nations and made each of them drink some.


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I started with Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, and the king and his officials were removed from power in disgrace. Everyone still makes insulting jokes about them and uses their names as curse words.


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The second place I went was Egypt, where everyone had to drink from the cup, including the king and his officials, the other government workers, the rest of the Egyptians,


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and all the foreigners who lived in the country. Next I went to the king of Uz, and then to the four kings of Philistia, who ruled from Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and what was left of Ashdod.


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and the countries in the north, both near and far. I went to all the countries on earth, one after another, and finally to Babylonia.


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The LORD had said to tell each king, “The LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, commands you to drink from this cup that is full of the wine of his anger. It will make you so drunk that you will vomit. And when the LORD sends war against the nations, you will be completely defeated.”


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The LORD told me that if any of them refused to drink from the cup, I must tell them that he had said, “I, the LORD All-Powerful, command you to drink.


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Starting with my own city of Jerusalem, everyone on earth will suffer from war. So there is no way I will let you escape unharmed.”


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The LORD told me to say: From my sacred temple I will roar like thunder, while I trample my people and everyone else as though they were grapes.


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My voice will be heard everywhere on earth, accusing nations of their crimes and sentencing the guilty to death.


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The LORD All-Powerful says: You can see disaster spreading from far across the earth, from nation to nation like a horrible storm.


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When it strikes, I will kill so many people that their bodies will cover the ground like manure. No one will be left to bury them or to mourn.


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The LORD's people are his flock, and you leaders were the shepherds. But now it's your turn to be butchered like sheep. You'll shatter like fine pottery dropped on the floor. So roll on the ground, crying and mourning.


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Listen to the cries of the shepherds, as the LORD's burning anger turns peaceful meadows into barren deserts.


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Jeremiah, I have a message for everyone who comes from the towns of Judah to worship in my temple. Go to the temple courtyard and speak every word that I tell you.


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Maybe the people will listen this time. And if they stop doing wrong, I will change my mind and not punish them for their sins.


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Again and again I have sent my servants the prophets to preach to you, but you ignored them as well. Now I am warning you that if you don't start obeying me at once,


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I will destroy this temple, just as I destroyed the town of Shiloh. Then everyone on earth will use the name “Jerusalem” as a curse word.


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and as soon as I finished, they all crowded around me and started shouting, “Why did you preach that the LORD will destroy this temple, just as he destroyed Shiloh? Why did you say that Jerusalem will be empty and lie in ruins? You ought to be put to death for saying such things in the LORD's name!” Then they had me arrested.


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The royal officers heard what had happened, and they came from the palace to the new gate of the temple to be the judges at my trial.


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While they listened, the priests and the prophets said to the crowd, “All of you have heard Jeremiah prophesy that Jerusalem will be destroyed. He deserves the death penalty.”


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Then I told the judges and everyone else: The LORD himself sent me to tell you about the terrible things he will do to you, to Jerusalem, and to the temple. But if you change your ways and start obeying the LORD, he will change his mind.


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But if you put me to death, you and everyone else in Jerusalem will be guilty of murdering an innocent man, because everything I preached came from the LORD.


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The judges and the other people told the priests and prophets, “Since Jeremiah only told us what the LORD our God had said, we don't think he deserves to die.”


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years ago when Hezekiah was king of Judah, a prophet named Micah from the town of Moresheth had said: “I, the LORD All-Powerful, say Jerusalem will be plowed under and left in ruins. Thorns will cover the mountain where the temple now stands.”


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Then the leaders continued: No one put Micah to death for saying that. Instead, King Hezekiah prayed to the LORD with fear and trembling and asked him to have mercy. Then the LORD decided not to destroy Jerusalem, even though he had already said he would. People of Judah, if Jeremiah is killed, we will bring a terrible disaster on ourselves.


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After these leaders finished speaking, an important man named Ahikam son of Shaphan spoke up for me as well. And so, I wasn't handed over to the crowd to be killed. While Jehoiakim was still king of Judah, a man named Uriah son of Shemaiah left his hometown of Kiriath-Jearim and came to Jerusalem. Uriah was one of the LORD's prophets, and he was saying the same things about Judah and Jerusalem that I had been saying. And when Jehoiakim and his officials and military officers heard what Uriah said, they tried to arrest him, but he escaped to Egypt. So Jehoiakim sent Elnathan son of Achbor and some other men after Uriah, and they brought him back. Then Jehoiakim had Uriah killed and his body dumped in a common burial pit.


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Not long after Zedekiah became king of Judah, the LORD told me: Jeremiah, make a wooden yoke with leather straps, and place it on your neck.


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Then send a message to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon. Some officials from these countries are in Jerusalem, meeting with Zedekiah.


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and with my power I created the earth, its people, and all animals. I decide who will rule the earth,


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and I have chosen my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia to rule all nations, including yours. I will even let him rule the wild animals. All nations will be slaves of Nebuchadnezzar, his son, and his grandson. Then many nations will join together, and their kings will make slaves of the Babylonians.


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This yoke stands for the power of King Nebuchadnezzar, and I will destroy any nation that refuses to obey him. Nebuchadnezzar will attack, and many will die in battle or from hunger and disease.


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You might have people in your kingdom who claim they can tell the future by magic or by talking with the dead or by dreams or messages from a god. But don't pay attention if any of them tell you not to obey Nebuchadnezzar.


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But if you and your nation are willing to obey Nebuchadnezzar, I will let you stay in your country, and your people will continue to live and work on their farms.


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After I had spoken to the officials from the nearby kingdoms, I went to King Zedekiah and told him the same thing. Then I said: Zedekiah, if you and the people of Judah want to stay alive, you must obey Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians.


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But if you refuse, then you and your people will die from war, hunger, and disease, just as the LORD has warned.


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Your prophets have told you that you don't need to obey Nebuchadnezzar, but don't listen to their lies.


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Those prophets claim to be speaking for the LORD, but he didn't send them. They are lying! If you do what they say, he will have both you and them dragged off to another country and killed. The LORD has spoken.


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When I finished talking to the king, I told the priests and everyone else that the LORD had said: Don't listen to the prophets when they say that very soon the Babylonians will return the things they took from my temple. Those prophets are lying!


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If you choose to obey the king of Babylonia, you will live. But if you listen to those prophets, this whole city will be nothing but a pile of rubble.


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If I really had spoken to those prophets, they would know what I am going to do. Then they would be begging me not to let everything else be taken from the temple and the king's palace and the rest of Jerusalem.


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After all, when Nebuchadnezzar took King Jehoiachin to Babylonia as a prisoner, he didn't take everything of value from Jerusalem. He left the bronze pillars, the huge bronze bowl called the Sea, and the movable bronze stands in the temple, and he left a lot of other valuable things in the palace and in the rest of Jerusalem. But now I, the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, say that all these things


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will be taken to Babylonia, where they will remain until I decide to bring them back to Jerusalem. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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Later that same year, in the fifth month of the fourth year that Zedekiah was king, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur from Gibeon came up to me in the temple. And while the priests and others in the temple were listening,


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he told me that the LORD had said: I am the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, and I will smash the yoke that Nebuchadnezzar put on the necks of the nations to make them his slaves.


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And within two years, I will bring back to Jerusalem everything that he took from my temple and carried off to Babylonia.


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King Jehoiachin and the other people who were taken from Judah to Babylonia will be allowed to come back here as well. All this will happen because I will smash the power of the king of Babylonia!


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Hananiah, I hope the LORD will do exactly what you said. I hope he does bring back everything the Babylonians took from the temple, and that our people who were taken to Babylonia will be allowed to return home.


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that long before we were born, prophets were saying powerful kingdoms would be struck by war, disaster, and disease.


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Now you are saying we will have peace. We will just have to wait and see if that is really what the LORD has said.


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Then he said, “The LORD says this is the way he will smash the power Nebuchadnezzar has over the nations, and it will happen in less than two years.” I left the temple,


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to go back and say to Hananiah: I am the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel. You smashed a wooden yoke, but I will replace it with one made of iron. I will put iron yokes on all the nations, and they will have to do what King Nebuchadnezzar commands. I will even let him rule the wild animals.


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Hananiah, I have never sent you to speak for me. And yet you have talked my people into believing your lies and rebelling against me. So now I will send you—I'll send you right off the face of the earth! You will die before this year is over.


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I had been left in Jerusalem when King Nebuchadnezzar took many of the people of Jerusalem and Judah to Babylonia as prisoners, including King Jehoiachin, his mother, his officials, and the metal workers and others in Jerusalem who were skilled in making things. So I wrote a letter to the priests, the prophets, the leaders, and the rest of our people in Babylonia.


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I gave the letter to Elasah and Gemariah, two men that King Zedekiah of Judah was sending to Babylon to talk with Nebuchadnezzar. In the letter, I wrote


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that the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, had said: I had you taken from Jerusalem to Babylonia. Now I tell you


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Get married and have children, then help your sons find wives and help your daughters find husbands, so they can have children as well. I want your numbers to grow, not to get smaller.


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Pray for peace in Babylonia and work hard to make it prosperous. The more successful that nation is, the better off you will be.


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Some of your people there in Babylonia are fortunetellers, and you have asked them to tell you what will happen in the future. But they will only lead you astray with their dreams. And don't let the prophets fool you, either. They speak in my name, but they are liars. I have not spoken to them.


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After Babylonia has been the strongest nation for 70 years, I will be kind and bring you back to Jerusalem, just as I have promised.


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and accept your worship. Then I will gather you from all the nations where I scattered you, and you will return to Jerusalem.


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But I have been sending prophets to the people of Judah for a long time, and the king from David's family and the people who are left in Jerusalem and Judah still don't obey me. So I, the LORD All-Powerful, will keep attacking them with war and hunger and disease, until they are as useless as rotten figs. I will force them to leave the land, and all nations will be disgusted and shocked at what happens to them. The nations will sneer and make fun of them and use the names “Judah” and “Jerusalem” as curse words. And you have not obeyed me, even though


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You think Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah are prophets because they claim to speak for me. But they are lying! I haven't told them anything. They are also committing other horrible sins in your community, such as sleeping with the wives of their friends. So I will hand them over to King Nebuchadnezzar, who will put them to death while the rest of you watch. And in the future, when you want to put a curse on someone, you will say, “I pray that the LORD will kill you in the same way the king of Babylonia burned Zedekiah and Ahab to death!”


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The LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, told me what would happen to Shemaiah, who was one of our people in Babylonia. After my letter reached Babylonia, Shemaiah wrote letters to the people of Jerusalem, including the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and the other priests. The letter to Zephaniah said:


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After the death of Jehoiada the priest, the LORD chose you to be the priest in charge of the temple security force. You know that anyone who acts crazy and pretends to be a prophet should be arrested and put in chains and iron collars.


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Jeremiah from the town of Anathoth is pretending to be a prophet there in Jerusalem, so why haven't you punished him?


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He even wrote a letter to the people here in Babylonia, saying we would be here a long time. He told us to build homes and to plant gardens and grow our own food.


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to the people of Judah who had been taken to Babylonia. In this letter, I wrote that the LORD had said: I, the LORD, have not chosen Shemaiah to be one of my prophets, and he has misled you by telling lies in my name.


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He has even talked you into disobeying me. So I will punish Shemaiah. He and his descendants won't live to see the good things I will do for my people. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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Then the LORD told me to say to Israel and Judah: Screams of terror are heard, with no word of peace.


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Can men give birth? Then why do I see them looking so pale and clutching their stomachs like women in labor?


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Now you are slaves of other nations, but I will break the chains and smash the yokes that keep you in slavery.


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Israel, you belong to me, so don't be afraid. You deserved to be punished; that's why I scattered you in distant nations. But I am with you, and someday I will destroy those nations.


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Then I will bring you and your descendants back to your land, where I will protect you and give you peace. Then your fears will be gone. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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You are accused of a crime with no one to defend you, and you are covered with sores that no medicine can cure. *


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Your friends have forgotten you; they don't care anymore. Even I have acted like an enemy. And because your sins are horrible and countless, I will be cruel as I punish you.


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But if your enemies try to rob or destroy you, I will rob and destroy them, and they will be led as captives to foreign lands.


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No one wants you as a friend or cares what happens to you. But I will heal your injuries, and you will get well.


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The LORD said: Israel, I will be kind to you and let you come home. Jerusalem now lies in ruins, but you will rebuild it, complete with a new palace.


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Other nations will respect and honor you. Your homes will be filled with children, and you will celebrate, singing praises to me.


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It will be just like old times. Your nation will worship me, and I will punish anyone who abuses you.


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One of your own people will become your ruler. And when I invite him to come near me at the place of worship, he will do so. No one would dare to come near without being invited.


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I won't calm down until I have finished what I have decided to do. Someday, you will understand what I mean.


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The LORD said: Israel, I promise that someday all your tribes will again be my people, and I will be your God.


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In the desert I was kind to those who escaped death. I gave them peace, and when the time is right, I'll do the same for you. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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Some time ago, the LORD appeared to me and told me to say: Israel, I will always love you; that's why I've been so patient and kind.


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You are precious to me, and so I will rebuild your nation. Once again you will dance for joy and play your tambourines.


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Someday those who guard the hill country of Ephraim will shout, “Let's go to Zion and worship the LORD our God.”


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The LORD says: Celebrate and sing for Israel, the greatest of nations. Offer praises and shout, “Come and rescue your people, LORD! Save what's left of Israel.”


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I, the LORD, will bring my people back from Babylonia and everywhere else on earth. The blind and the lame will be there. Expectant mothers and women about to give birth will come and be part of that great crowd.


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They will weep and pray as I bring them home. I will lead them to streams of water. They will walk on a level road and not stumble. I am a father to Israel, my favorite children.


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Listen to me, you nations nearby or across the sea. I scattered the people of Israel, but I will gather them again. I will protect them like a shepherd guarding a flock;


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My people will come to Mount Zion and celebrate; their faces will glow because of my blessings. I'll give them grain, grapes, and olive oil, as well as sheep and cattle. Israel will be prosperous and grow like a garden with plenty of water.


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Young women and young men, together with the elderly, will celebrate and dance, because I will comfort them and turn their sorrow into happiness.


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I will bless my people with more food than they need, and the priests will enjoy the choice cuts of meat. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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In Ramah a voice is heard, crying and weeping loudly. Rachel mourns for her children and refuses to be comforted, because they are dead. *


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But I, the LORD, say to dry your tears. Someday your children will come home from the enemy's land. Then all you have done for them will be greatly rewarded.


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The people of Israel moan and say to me, “We were like wild bulls, but you, LORD, broke us, and we learned to obey. You are our God— please let us come home.


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When we were young, we strayed and sinned, but then we realized what we had done. We are ashamed and disgraced and want to return to you.”


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People of Israel, you are my own dear children. Don't I love you best of all? Though I often make threats, I want you to be near me, so I will have mercy on you. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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With rock piles and signposts, mark the road well, my dear people. The road by which you left by will now lead you home.


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Will you ever decide to be faithful? I will make sure that someday things will be different, as different as a woman protecting a man.


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The LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, said: I promise to set the people of Judah free and to lead them back to their hometowns. And when I do, they will once again say, “We pray that the LORD will bless his home, the sacred hill in Jerusalem where his temple stands.”


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The people will live in Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah. Some will be farmers, and others will be shepherds.


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In the past, I took care to uproot them, to tear them down, and to destroy them. But when that day comes, I will take care to plant them and help them grow.


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No longer will anyone go around saying, “Sour grapes eaten by parents leave a sour taste in the mouths of their children.”


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When that day comes, only those who eat sour grapes will get the sour taste, and only those who sin will be put to death.


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The LORD said: The time will surely come when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and Judah.


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It will be different from the agreement I made with their ancestors when I led them out of Egypt. Although I was their God, they broke that agreement.


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Here is the new agreement that I, the LORD, will make with the people of Israel: “I will write my laws on their hearts and minds. I will be their God, and they will be my people.


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“No longer will they have to teach one another to obey me. I, the LORD, promise that all of them will obey me, ordinary people and rulers alike. I will forgive their sins and forget the evil things they have done.”


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I am the LORD All-Powerful. I command the sun to give light each day, the moon and stars to shine at night, and ocean waves to roar.


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I will never forget to give those commands, and I will never let Israel stop being a nation. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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Can you measure the heavens? Can you explore the depths of the earth? That's how hard it would be for me to reject Israel forever, even though they have sinned. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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The LORD said: Someday, Jerusalem will truly belong to me. It will be rebuilt with a boundary line running from Hananel Tower to Corner Gate.


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Even that disgusting Hinnom Valley will be sacred to me, and so will the eastern slopes that go down from Horse Gate into Kidron Valley. Jerusalem will never again be destroyed.


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The LORD spoke to me in the tenth year that Zedekiah was king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year that Nebuchadnezzar was king of Babylonia.


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At that time, the Babylonian army had surrounded Jerusalem, and I was in the prison at the courtyard of the palace guards.


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Zedekiah had ordered me to be held there because I told everyone that the LORD had said: I am the LORD, and I am about to let the king of Babylonia conquer Jerusalem.


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King Zedekiah will be captured and taken to King Nebuchadnezzar, who will speak with him face to face.


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Then Zedekiah will be led away to Babylonia, where he will stay until I am finished with him. So, if you people of Judah fight against the Babylonians, you will lose. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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Jeremiah, your cousin Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, will visit you. He must sell his field near the town of Anathoth, and because you are his nearest relative, you have the right and the responsibility to buy it and keep it in the family.


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Hanamel came, just as the LORD had promised. And he said, “Please buy my field near Anathoth in the territory of the Benjamin tribe. You have the right to buy it, and if you do, it will stay in our family.” The LORD had told me to buy it


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from Hanamel, and so I did. The price was 17 pieces of silver, and I weighed out the full amount on a scale.


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I had two copies of the bill of sale written out: an official copy containing the details of our agreement and another copy, without the details. Some witnesses and I signed the official copy, which was folded and tied, before being sealed shut with hot wax. Then I gave Hanamel the silver.


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And while he, the witnesses, and all the other Jews sitting in the courtyard were still watching, I gave both copies to Baruch son of Neriah.


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I told Baruch that the LORD had said: Take both copies of this bill of sale, one sealed shut and the other open, and put them in a clay jar so they will last a long time.


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I am the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, and I promise you that people will once again buy and sell houses, farms, and vineyards in this country.


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You show kindness for a thousand generations, but you also punish people for the sins of their parents. You are the LORD All-Powerful.


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With great wisdom you make plans, and with your great power you do all the mighty things you planned. Nothing we do is hidden from your eyes, and you reward or punish us as we deserve.


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You are famous because you worked miracles in Egypt, and you are still working them in Israel and in the rest of the world as well.


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You terrified the Egyptians with your miracles, and you reached out your mighty arm and rescued your people Israel from Egypt.


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But when our ancestors took over the land, they did not obey you. And now you have punished Israel with disaster.


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Jerusalem is under attack, and we suffer from hunger and disease. The Babylonians have already built dirt ramps up to the walls of our city, and you can see that Jerusalem will be captured just as you said.


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So why did you tell me to get some witnesses and buy a field with my silver, when Jerusalem is about to be captured by the Babylonians?


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The Babylonian army is already attacking, and they will capture the city and set it on fire. The people of Jerusalem have made me angry by going up to the flat roofs of their houses and burning incense to Baal and offering wine sacrifices to other gods. Now these houses will be burned to the ground!


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The kings and the officials, the priests and the prophets, and everyone else in Israel and Judah have turned from me and made me angry by worshiping idols. Again and again I have tried to teach my people to obey me, but they refuse to be corrected. I am going to get rid of Jerusalem, because its people have done nothing but evil.


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And they led Judah into sin by building places to worship Baal in Hinnom Valley, where they also sacrificed their sons and daughters to the god Molech. I have never even imagined they would commit such disgusting sins.


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Jeremiah, what you said is true. The people of Jerusalem are suffering from hunger and disease, and so the king of Babylonia will be able to capture Jerusalem.


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I am angry with the people of Jerusalem, and I will scatter them in foreign countries. But someday I will bring them back here and let them live in safety.


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I will make their thoughts and desires pure. Then they will realize that, for their own good and the good of their children, they must worship only me. They will even be afraid to turn away from me. I will make an agreement with them that will never end, and I won't ever stop doing good things for them. With all my heart I promise that they will be planted in this land once again.


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Even though I have brought disaster on the people, I will someday do all these good things for them.


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Jeremiah, when you bought the field, you showed that fields will someday be bought and sold again. You say that this land has been conquered by the Babylonians and has become a desert, emptied of people and animals.


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But someday, people will again spend their silver to buy fields everywhere—in the territory of Benjamin, the region around Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, and in the hill country, the foothills to the west, and the Southern Desert. Buyers and sellers and witnesses will sign and seal the bills of sale for the fields. It will happen, because I will give this land back to my people. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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I was still being held prisoner in the courtyard of the palace guards when the LORD told me: I am the LORD, and I created the whole world.


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Many of the houses in Jerusalem and some of the buildings at the royal palace have been torn down to be used in repairing the walls to keep out the Babylonian attackers. Now there are empty spaces where the buildings once stood. But I am furious, and these spaces will be filled with the bodies of the people I kill. The people of Jerusalem will cry out to me for help, but they are evil, and I will ignore their prayers.


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I will give this land to Israel and Judah once again, and I will make them as strong as they were before.


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When that happens, all nations on earth will see the good things I have done for Jerusalem, and how I have given it complete peace. The nations will celebrate and praise and honor me, but they will also tremble with fear because of the powerful things I have done.


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Jeremiah, you say that this land is a desert without people or animals, and for now, you are right. The towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem are deserted, and people and animals are nowhere to be seen. But someday you will hear


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happy voices and the sounds of parties and wedding celebrations. And when people come to my temple to offer sacrifices to thank me, you will hear them say: “We praise you, LORD All-Powerful! You are good to us, and your love never fails.” The land will once again be productive.


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Now it is empty, without people or animals. But when that time comes, shepherds will take care of their flocks in pastures near every town in the hill country, in the foothills to the west, in the Southern Desert, in the land of the Benjamin tribe, and around Jerusalem and the towns of Judah. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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The LORD said: I made a wonderful promise to Israel and Judah, and the days are coming when I will keep it.


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I promise that the time will come when I will appoint a king from the family of David, a king who will be honest and rule with justice.


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In those days, Judah will be safe; Jerusalem will have peace and will be named, “The LORD Gives Justice.”


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and there will always be priests from the Levi tribe serving at my altar and offering sacrifices to please me and to give thanks.


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I, the LORD, have an agreement with day and night, so they always come at the right time. You can't break the agreement I made with them,


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and you can't break the agreements I have made with David's family and with the priests from the Levi tribe who serve at my altar. A descendant of David will always rule as king of Israel,


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and there will be more descendants of David and of the priests from the Levi tribe than stars in the sky or grains of sand on the beach.


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You've heard foreigners insult my people by saying, “The LORD chose Israel and Judah, but now he has rejected them, and they are no longer a nation.”


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Jeremiah, I will never break my agreement with the day and the night or let the sky and the earth stop obeying my commands.


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In the same way, I will never reject the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob or break my promise that they will always have a descendant of David as their king. I will be kind to my people Israel, and they will be successful again.


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King Nebuchadnezzar had a large army made up of people from every kingdom in his empire. He and his army were attacking Jerusalem and all the nearby towns, when the LORD told me


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to say to King Zedekiah: I am the LORD, and I am going to let Nebuchadnezzar capture this city and burn it down.


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You will be taken prisoner and brought to Nebuchadnezzar, and he will speak with you face to face. Then you will be led away to Babylonia.


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You will die a peaceful death. People will mourn when you die, and they will light bonfires in your honor, just as they did for your ancestors, the kings who ruled before you.


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Meanwhile, the king of Babylonia was trying to break through the walls of Lachish, Azekah, and Jerusalem, the only three towns of Judah that had not been captured.


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King Zedekiah, his officials, and everyone else in Jerusalem made an agreement to free all Hebrew men and women who were slaves. No Jew would keep another as a slave. And so, all the Jewish slaves were given their freedom.


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I am the LORD God of Israel, and I made an agreement with your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, where they had been slaves.


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As part of this agreement, you must let a Hebrew slave go free after six years of service. Your ancestors did not obey me,


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but you decided to obey me and do the right thing by setting your Hebrew slaves completely free. You even went to my temple, and in my name you made an agreement to set them free. But you have abused my name, because you broke that agreement and forced your former slaves back into slavery.


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You have disobeyed me by not giving your slaves their freedom. So I will give you freedom—the freedom to die in battle or from disease or hunger. I will make you disgusting to all other nations on earth.


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You asked me to be a witness when you made the agreement to set your slaves free. And as part of the ceremony you cut a calf into two parts, then walked between the parts. But you people of Jerusalem have broken that agreement as well as my agreement with Israel. So I will do to you what you did to that calf.


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I will let your enemies take all of you prisoner, including the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the royal officials, the priests, and everyone else who walked between the two parts of the calf. These enemies will kill you and leave your bodies lying on the ground as food for birds and wild animals.


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These enemies are King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia and his army. They have stopped attacking Jerusalem, but they want to kill King Zedekiah and his high officials. So I will command them to return and attack again. This time they will conquer the city and burn it down, and they will capture Zedekiah and his officials. I will also let them destroy the towns of Judah, so that no one can live there any longer.


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“Go to the Rechabite clan and invite them to meet you in one of the side rooms of the temple. When they arrive, offer them a drink of wine.”


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I brought them into the temple courtyard and took them upstairs to a room belonging to the prophets who were followers of Hanan son of Igdaliah. It was next to a room belonging to some of the officials, and that room was over the one belonging to Maaseiah, a priest who was one of the high officials in the temple.


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I set out some large bowls full of wine together with some cups, and then I said to the Rechabites, “Have some wine!”


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But they answered: No! The ancestor of our clan, Jonadab son of Rechab, made a rule that we must obey. He said, “Don't ever drink wine


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or build houses or plant crops and vineyards. Instead, you must always live in tents and move from place to place. If you obey this command, you will live a long time.”


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Our clan has always obeyed Jonadab's command. To this very day, we and our wives and sons and daughters don't drink wine or build houses or plant vineyards or crops. And we have lived in tents,


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except now we have to live inside Jerusalem because Nebuchadnezzar has taken over the countryside with his army from Babylonia and Syria.


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Then the LORD told me to say to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: I, the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, want you to learn a lesson


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from the Rechabite clan. Their ancestor Jonadab told his descendants never to drink wine, and to this very day they have obeyed him. But I have spoken to you over and over, and you haven't obeyed me!


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You refused to listen to my prophets, who kept telling you, “Stop doing evil and worshiping other gods! Start obeying the LORD, and he will let you live in this land he gave your ancestors.”


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your God. I am the LORD All-Powerful, and I warned you about the terrible things that would happen to you if you did not listen to me. But you have ignored me, so now disaster will strike you. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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Then the LORD told me to say to the Rechabite clan: “I am the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel. You have obeyed your ancestor Jonadab,


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During the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king of Judah, the LORD said to me, “Jeremiah,


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since the time Josiah was king, I have been speaking to you about Israel, Judah, and the other nations. Now, get a scroll and write down everything I have told you,


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then read it to the people of Judah. Maybe they will stop sinning when they hear what terrible things I plan for them. And if they turn back to me, I will forgive them.”


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I sent for Baruch son of Neriah and asked him to help me. I repeated everything the LORD had told me, and Baruch wrote it all down on a scroll.


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so you must go instead. Wait for the next holy day when the people of Judah come to the temple to pray and to go without eating. Then take this scroll to the temple and read it aloud.


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The LORD is furious, and if the people hear how he is going to punish them, maybe they will ask to be forgiven.


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In the ninth month of the fifth year that Jehoiakim was king, the leaders set a day when everyone who lived in Jerusalem or who was visiting there had to pray and go without eating. So Baruch took the scroll to the upper courtyard of the temple. He went over to the side of the courtyard and stood in a covered area near New Gate, where he read the scroll aloud. This covered area belonged to Gemariah, one of the king's highest officials.


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When Baruch finished reading, Micaiah went down to the palace. His father Gemariah was in the officials' room, meeting with the rest of the king's officials, including Elishama, Delaiah, Elnathan, and Zedekiah.


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Then the officials sent Jehudi and Shelemiah to tell Baruch, “Bring us that scroll.” When Baruch arrived with the scroll,


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After they heard what was written on the scroll, they were worried and said to each other, “The king needs to hear this!” Turning to Baruch, they asked,


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The officials said, “You and Jeremiah must go into hiding, and don't tell anyone where you are going.”


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The officials put the scroll in Elishama's room and went to see the king, who was in one of the rooms where he lived and worked during the winter. It was the ninth month of the year, so there was a fire burning in the fireplace, and the king was sitting nearby. After the officials told the king about the scroll, he sent Jehudi to get it. Then Jehudi started reading the scroll to the king and his officials.


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But every time Jehudi finished reading three or four columns, the king would tell him to cut them off with his penknife and throw them in the fire. Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah begged the king not to burn the scroll, but he ignored them, and soon there was nothing left of it. The king and his servants listened to what was written on the scroll, but they were not the least bit afraid, and they did not tear their clothes in sorrow.


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The king told his son Jerahmeel to take Seraiah and Shelemiah and to go arrest Baruch and me. But the LORD kept them from finding us.


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I had told Baruch what to write on that first scroll, but King Jehoiakim had burned it. So the LORD told me


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Then he told me to say to King Jehoiakim: Not only did you burn Jeremiah's scroll, you had the nerve to ask why he had written that the king of Babylonia would attack and ruin the land, killing all the people and even the animals.


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So I, the LORD, promise that you will be killed and your body thrown out on the ground. The sun will beat down on it during the day, and the frost will settle on it at night. And none of your descendants will ever be king of Judah.


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You, your children, and your servants are evil, and I will punish everyone of you. I warned you and the people of Judah and Jerusalem that I would bring disaster, but none of you have listened. So now you are doomed!


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After the LORD finished speaking to me, I got another scroll and gave it to Baruch. Then I told him what to write, so this second scroll would contain even more than was on the scroll Jehoiakim had burned.


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King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia had removed Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim from being the king of Judah and had made Josiah's son Zedekiah king instead.


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Later, the Babylonian army attacked Jerusalem, but they left after learning that the Egyptian army was headed in this direction. One day, Zedekiah sent Jehucal and the priest Zephaniah to talk with me. At that time, I was free to go wherever I wanted, because I had not yet been put in prison. Jehucal and Zephaniah said, “Jeremiah, please pray to the LORD our God for us.”


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Then the LORD told me to send them back to Zedekiah with this message: Zedekiah, you wanted Jeremiah to ask me, the LORD God of Israel, what is going to happen. So I will tell you. The king of Egypt and his army came to your rescue, but soon they will go back to Egypt.


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Then the Babylonians will return and attack Jerusalem, and this time they will capture the city and set it on fire.


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Even if you could defeat their entire army, their wounded survivors would still be able to leave their tents and set Jerusalem on fire.


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So I decided to leave Jerusalem and go to the territory of the Benjamin tribe to claim my share of my family's land.


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I was leaving Jerusalem through Benjamin Gate, when I was stopped by Irijah, the officer in charge of the soldiers at the gate. He said, “Jeremiah, you're under arrest for trying to join the Babylonians.”


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“I'm not trying to join them!” I answered. But Irijah wouldn't listen, and he took me to the king's officials.


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They were angry and ordered the soldiers to beat me. Then I was taken to the house that belonged to Jonathan, one of the king's officials. It had been turned into a prison, and I was kept in a basement room. After I had spent a long time there,


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King Zedekiah secretly had me brought to his palace, where he asked, “Is there any message for us from the LORD?” “Yes, there is, Your Majesty,” I replied. “The LORD is going to let the king of Babylonia capture you.”


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Then I continued, “Your Majesty, why have you put me in prison? Have I committed a crime against you or your officials or the nation?


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Have you locked up the prophets who lied to you and said that the king of Babylonia would never attack Jerusalem?


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King Zedekiah had me taken to the prison cells in the courtyard of the palace guards. He told the soldiers to give me a loaf of bread from one of the bakeries every day until the city ran out of grain.


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that the LORD had said, “If you stay here in Jerusalem, you will die in battle or from disease or hunger, and the Babylonian army will capture the city anyway. But if you surrender to the Babylonians, they will let you live.”


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So the four of them went to the king and said, “You should put Jeremiah to death, because he is making the soldiers and everyone else lose hope. He isn't trying to help our people; he's trying to harm them.”


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Then they took me back to the courtyard of the palace guards and let me down with ropes into the well that belonged to Malchiah, the king's son. There was no water in the well, but I sank down in the mud.


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Ebedmelech from Ethiopia was an official at the palace, and he heard what they had done to me. So he went to speak with King Zedekiah, who was holding court at Benjamin Gate.


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Ebedmelech said, “Your Majesty, Jeremiah is a prophet, and those men were wrong to throw him into a well. And when Jerusalem runs out of food, Jeremiah will starve to death down there.”


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Ebedmelech and the soldiers went to the palace and got some rags from the room under the treasury. He used ropes to lower them into the well.


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King Zedekiah had me brought to his private entrance to the temple, and he said, “I'm going to ask you something, and I want to know the truth.”


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He said, “I swear in the name of the living LORD our Creator that I won't have you killed. No one else can hear what we say, and I won't let anyone kill you.”


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Then I told him that the LORD had said: “Zedekiah, I am the LORD God All-Powerful, the God of Israel. I promise that if you surrender to King Nebuchadnezzar's officers, you and your family won't be killed, and Jerusalem won't be burned down.


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But if you don't surrender, I will let the Babylonian army capture Jerusalem and burn it down, and you will be taken prisoner.”


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Zedekiah answered, “I can't surrender to the Babylonians. I'm too afraid of the people of Judah who have already joined them. The Babylonians might hand me over to them, and they would torture me.”


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I said, “If you will just obey the LORD, the Babylonians won't hand you over to those Jews. You will be allowed to live, and all will go well for you.


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then the women of your palace will be taken prisoner by Nebuchadnezzar's officials. And those women will say to you: Friends you trusted led you astray. Now you're trapped in mud, and those friends you trusted have all turned away.


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The Babylonian army will take your wives and children captive, you will be taken as a prisoner to the King of Babylonia, and Jerusalem will be burned down.”


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And I'm sure that if my officials hear about our meeting, they will ask you what we said to each other. They might even threaten to kill you if you don't tell them.


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So if they question you, tell them you were begging me not to send you back to the prison at Jonathan's house, because going back there would kill you.”


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The officials did come and question me about my meeting with the king, and I told them exactly what he had ordered me to say. They never spoke to me about the meeting again, since no one had heard us talking.


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In the tenth month of the ninth year that Zedekiah was king of Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonian army began their attack on Jerusalem. They kept the city surrounded for a year and a half. Then, on the ninth day of the fourth month of the eleventh year that Zedekiah was king, they broke through the city walls. After Jerusalem was captured, Nebuchadnezzar's highest officials, including Nebo Sarsechim and Nergal Sharezer from Simmagir, took their places at Middle Gate to show they were in control of the city.


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When King Zedekiah and his troops saw that Jerusalem had been captured, they tried to escape from the city that same night. They went to the king's garden, where they slipped through the gate between the two city walls and headed toward the Jordan River valley.


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But the Babylonian troops caught up with them near Jericho. They arrested Zedekiah and took him to the town of Riblah in the land of Hamath, where Nebuchadnezzar put him on trial, then found him guilty,


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and gave orders for him to be punished. Zedekiah's sons were killed there in front of him, and so were the leaders of Judah's ruling families.


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Meanwhile, the Babylonian army had burned the houses in Jerusalem, including the royal palace, and they had broken down the city walls.


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Nebuzaradan, the Babylonian officer in charge of the guards, led away everyone from the city as prisoners, even those who had deserted to Nebuchadnezzar.


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Only the poorest people who owned no land were left behind in Judah, and Nebuzaradan gave them fields and vineyards.


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sent some of their troops to bring me from the courtyard of the royal palace guards. They put me in the care of Gedaliah son of Ahikam and told him to take me to my home. And so I was allowed to stay with the people who remained in Judah.


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to Ebedmelech from Ethiopia: I am the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel. I warned everyone that I would bring disaster, not prosperity, to this city. Now very soon I will do what I said, and you will see it happen.


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But because you trusted me, I will protect you from the officials of Judah, and when Judah is struck by disaster, I will rescue you and keep you alive. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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I was led away in chains along with the people of Judah and Jerusalem who were being taken to Babylonia. Nebuzaradan was the officer in charge of the guard, and while we were stopped at Ramah, the LORD caused him to set me free.


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Nebuzaradan said: Jeremiah, the LORD your God warned your people that he would bring disaster on this land.


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Today I am taking the chains off your wrists and setting you free! If you want to, you can come with me to Babylonia, and I will see that you are taken care of. Or if you decide to stay here, you can go wherever you wish.


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King Nebuchadnezzar has chosen Gedaliah to rule Judah. You can live near Gedaliah, and he will provide for you, or you can live anywhere else you choose. Nebuzaradan gave me a supply of food, then let me leave.


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Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, together with Johanan and Jonathan, the two sons of Kareah, had been officers in Judah's army. And so had Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah from Maacah. They and their troops had been stationed outside Jerusalem and had not been captured. They heard that Gedaliah had been chosen to rule Judah, and that the poorest men, women, and children had not been taken away to Babylonia. So they went to Mizpah and met with their new ruler.


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Gedaliah told them, “There's no need to be afraid of the Babylonians. Everything will be fine, if we live peacefully and obey King Nebuchadnezzar.


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I will stay here at Mizpah and meet with the Babylonian officials on each of their visits. But you must go back to your towns and bring in the harvest, then store the wine, olive oil, and dried fruit.”


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Earlier, when the Babylonians had invaded Judah, many of the Jews escaped to Moab, Ammon, Edom, and several other countries. But these Jews heard that the king of Babylonia had appointed Gedaliah as ruler of Judah, and that only a few people were left there. So the Jews in these other countries came back to Judah and helped with the grape and fruit harvest, which was especially large that year.


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One day, Johanan got together with some of the other men who had been army officers, and they came to Mizpah and met with Gedaliah.


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They said, “Gedaliah, we came to warn you that King Baalis of Ammon hired Ishmael to murder you!” Gedaliah refused to believe them,


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so Johanan went to Gedaliah privately and said, “Let me kill Ishmael. No one will find out who did it. There are only a few people left in Judah, but they are depending on you. And if you are murdered, they will be scattered or killed.”


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But in the seventh month, Ishmael came to Mizpah with ten of his soldiers. He had been one of the king's officials and was a member of the royal family. Ishmael and his men were invited to eat with Gedaliah.


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During the meal, Ishmael and his soldiers killed Gedaliah, the man chosen as ruler of Judah by the king of Babylonia.


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Then they killed the Jews who were with Gedaliah, and they also killed the Babylonian soldiers who were there.


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when 80 men came down the road toward Mizpah from the towns of Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria. They were on their way to the temple to offer gifts of grain and incense to the LORD. They had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes, and cut themselves, because they were mourning.


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Ishmael went out the town gate to meet them. He pretended to be weeping, and he asked them to come into Mizpah to meet with Gedaliah, the ruler of Judah.


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But after they were inside the town, Ishmael ordered his soldiers to kill them and throw their bodies into a well.


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He let ten of the men live, because they offered to give him supplies of wheat, barley, olive oil, and honey they had hidden in a field.


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The well that he filled with bodies had been dug by King Asa of Judah to store rainwater, because he was afraid that King Baasha of Israel might surround Mizpah and keep the people from getting to their water supply.


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Nebuzaradan, King Nebuchadnezzar's officer in charge of the guard, had left King Zedekiah's daughters and many other people at Mizpah, and he had put Gedaliah in charge of them. But now Ishmael took them all prisoner and led them toward Ammon, on the other side of the Jordan River.


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Johanan and the officers had rescued the women, children, and royal officials that Ishmael had taken prisoner after killing Gedaliah. Johanan led the people from Gibeon


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toward Egypt. They wanted to go there, because they were afraid of what the Babylonians would do when they found out that Ishmael had killed Gedaliah, the ruler appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar. On the way to Egypt, we stopped at the town of Geruth Chimham near Bethlehem.


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and said, “Please, Jeremiah, pray to the LORD your God for us. Judah used to have many people, but as you can see, only a few of us are left.


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“All right,” I answered, “I will pray to the LORD your God, and I will tell you everything he says.”


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and told them that the LORD God of Israel had said: You asked Jeremiah to pray and find out what you should do.


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I am sorry that I had to punish you, and so I now tell you to stay here in Judah, where I will plant you and build you up, instead of tearing you down and uprooting you.


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People of Judah, you survived when the Babylonian army attacked. Now you are planning to move to Egypt, and if you do go, this is what will happen.


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You are afraid of war, starvation, and disease here in Judah, but they will follow you to Egypt and kill you there. None of you will survive the disasters I will send.


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I, the LORD, was angry with the people of Jerusalem and punished them. And if you go to Egypt, I will be angry and punish you the same way. You will never again see your homeland. People will be horrified at what I do to you, and they will use the name of your city as a curse word.


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I told the people: You escaped the disaster that struck Judah, but now the LORD warns you to stay away from Egypt.


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You asked me to pray and find out what the LORD our God wants you to do, and you promised to obey him. But that was a terrible mistake,


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But Azariah, Johanan and some other arrogant men said to me, “You're lying! The LORD didn't tell you to say that we shouldn't go to Egypt.


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Baruch son of Neriah must have told you to say that. He wants the Babylonians to capture us, so they can take us away to Babylonia or even kill us.”


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Johanan, the other army officers, and everyone else refused to stay in Judah in spite of the LORD's command.


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So Johanan and the officers led us away toward Egypt. The group that left Judah included those who had been scattered in other countries and who had then come back to live in Judah.


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Baruch and I and others in the group had been staying with Gedaliah, because Nebuzaradan, the Babylonian officer in charge of the guard, had ordered him to take care of the king's daughters and quite a few men, women, and children.


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Jeremiah, carry some large stones to the entrance of the government building in Tahpanhes. Bury the stones underneath the brick pavement and be sure the Jews are watching.


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Then tell them that I, the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, have sent for my servant, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. I will bring him here and have him set up his throne and his royal tent over these stones that I told you to bury.


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He will attack Egypt and kill many of its people; others will die of disease or be dragged away as prisoners.


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I will let him set Egypt's temples on fire, and he will either burn or carry off their idols. He will destroy the sacred monuments at the temple of the sun-god. Then Nebuchadnezzar will pick the land clean, just like a shepherd picking the lice off his clothes. And he will return safely home.


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The LORD told me to speak with the Jews who were living in the towns of Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis in northern Egypt, and also to those living in southern Egypt. He told me to tell them:


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I am the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel. You saw how I destroyed Jerusalem and the towns of Judah. They lie empty and in ruins today,


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because the people of Judah made me angry by worshiping gods that had never helped them or their ancestors.


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Time after time I sent my servants the prophets to tell the people of Judah how much I hated their disgusting sins. The prophets warned them to stop sinning,


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Finally, my anger struck like a raging flood, and today Jerusalem and the towns of Judah are nothing but empty ruins.


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Why do you now insist on heading for another disaster? A disaster that will destroy not only you, but also your children and babies.


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You have made me angry by worshiping idols and burning incense to other gods after you came here to Egypt. You will die such a disgusting death, that other nations will use the name of Judah as a curse word.


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When you were living in Jerusalem and Judah, you followed the example of your ancestors in doing evil things, just like your kings and queens.


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Even now, your pride keeps you from respecting me and obeying the laws and teachings I gave you and your ancestors.


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There were only a few of you left in Judah, and you decided to go to Egypt. But you will die such horrible deaths in war or from starvation, that people of other countries will use the name of Judah as a curse word.


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None of you will survive. You may hope to return to Judah someday, but only a very few of you will escape death and be able to go back.


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A large number of Jews from both northern and southern Egypt listened to me as I told them what the LORD had said. Most of the men in the crowd knew that their wives often burned incense to other gods. So they and their wives shouted:


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We have promised to worship the goddess Astarte, the Queen of Heaven, and that is exactly what we are going to do. We will burn incense and offer sacrifices of wine to her, just as we, our ancestors, our kings, and our leaders did when we lived in Jerusalem and the other towns of Judah. We had plenty of food back then. We were well off, and nothing bad ever happened to us.


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But since the time we stopped burning incense and offering wine sacrifices to her, we have been dying from war and hunger.


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Then the women said, “When we lived in Judah, we worshiped the Queen of Heaven and offered sacrifices of wine and special loaves of bread shaped like her. Our husbands knew what we were doing, and they approved of it.”


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Don't you think the LORD knew that you and your ancestors, your leaders and kings, and the rest of the people were burning incense to other gods in Jerusalem and everywhere else in Judah?


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And when he could no longer put up with your disgusting sins, he placed a curse on your land and turned it into a desert, as it is today.


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This disaster happened because you worshiped other gods and rebelled against the LORD by refusing to obey him or follow his laws and teachings.


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Then I told the men and their wives, that the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, had said: Here in Egypt you still keep your promises to burn incense and offer sacrifices of wine to the so-called Queen of Heaven.


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Keep these promises! But let me tell you what will happen. As surely as I am the LORD God, I swear that I will never again accept any promises you make in my name.


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Instead of watching over you, I will watch for chances to harm you. Some of you will die in war, and others will starve to death.


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Only a few will escape and return to Judah. Then everyone who went to live in Egypt will know that when I say something will happen, it will—no matter what you say.


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I will hand over King Hophra of Egypt to those who want to kill him, just as I handed Zedekiah over to Nebuchadnezzar, who wanted to kill him.


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You are moaning and blaming me, the LORD, for your troubles and sorrow, and for being so tired that you can't even rest.


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I am bringing disaster everywhere, so don't even think about making any big plans for yourself. However, I promise that wherever you go, I will at least protect you from death. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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In the fourth year that Jehoiakim was king of Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia defeated King Neco of Egypt in a battle at the city of Carchemish near the Euphrates River. And here is what the LORD told me to say about the Egyptian army:


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saddle your horses, and polish your spears. Put on your helmets and armor, then take your positions.


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I can see the battle now— you are defeated and running away, never once looking back. Terror is all around.


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It is Egypt, rising with a roar like a raging river and saying, “I'll flood the earth, destroying cities, and killing everyone in them.”


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Go ahead, Egypt. Tell your chariots and cavalry to attack and fight hard. Order your troops to march out, with Ethiopians and Libyans carrying shields, and the Lydians armed with bows and arrows.


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But the LORD All-Powerful will win this battle and take revenge on his enemies. His sword will eat them and drink their blood until it is full. They will be killed in the north near the Euphrates River, as a sacrifice to the LORD.


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All nations have heard you weep; you are disgraced, and they know it. Your troops fall to the ground, stumbling over each other.


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When King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia was on his way to attack Egypt, the LORD sent me with a warning for every Egyptian town, but especially for Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpanhes. He said to tell them: Prepare to defend yourselves! Everywhere in your nation, people are dying in war.


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Your soldiers stumble over each other and say, “Get up! The enemy will kill us, unless we can escape to our own land.”


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Egypt, I am the true king, the LORD All-Powerful, and as surely as I live, those enemies who attack will tower over you like Mount Tabor among the hills or Mount Carmel by the sea.


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You will be led away captive, so pack a few things to bring with you. Your capital, Memphis, will lie empty and in ruins.


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The foreign soldiers you hired will turn and run. But they are doomed, like well-fed calves being led to the butcher. *


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The enemy army will go forward like a swarm of locusts. Your troops will feel helpless, like a snake in a forest


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I am the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel. Soon I will punish the god Amon of Thebes and the other Egyptian gods, the Egyptian kings, the people of Egypt, and everyone who trusts in the Egyptian power.


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I will hand them over to King Nebuchadnezzar and his army. But I also promise that Egypt will someday have people living here again, just as it had before. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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Israel, don't be afraid. Someday I will bring you home from foreign lands. You and your descendants will live in peace and safety, with nothing to fear.


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So don't be afraid, even though now you deserve to be punished and have been scattered among other nations. But when I destroy them, I will protect you. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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I, the LORD, tell you that your land will be flooded with an army from the north. It will destroy your towns and sweep you away, moaning and screaming.


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When you hear the thunder of horses and chariots, your courage will vanish, and parents will even abandon their own children.


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You refugees from Crete, your time has now come, and I will destroy you. None of you will be left to help the cities of Tyre and Sidon.


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The Anakim who survive in Gaza and Ashkelon will mourn for you by shaving their heads and sitting in silence.


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You ask how long will I continue to attack you with my sword, then you tell me to put it away and leave you alone.


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The LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, told me to say to the nation of Moab: The town of Nebo is doomed; Kiriathaim will be captured and disgraced, and even its fortress will be left in ruins.


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No one honors you, Moab. In Heshbon, enemies make plans to end your life. My sword will leave only silence in your town named “Quiet.”


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You thought you could be saved by your power and wealth, but you will be captured along with your god Chemosh, his priests, and officials.


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Not one of your towns will escape destruction. I have told your enemies, “Wipe out the valley and the flatlands of Moab.


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Moab, you are like wine left to settle undisturbed, never poured from jar to jar. And so, your nation continues to prosper and improve.


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Then you will be ashamed, because your god Chemosh cannot save you, just as Bethel could not help the Israelites.


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But I am the LORD, the all-powerful King, and I promise that enemies will overpower your towns. Even your best warriors will die in the battle.


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I will order the nearby nations to mourn for you and say, “Isn't it sad? Moab ruled others, but now its glorious power has been shattered.”


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People in the town of Dibon, you will be honored no more, so have a seat in the dust. Your walls will be torn down when the enemies attack.


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They will answer, “Moab has been defeated! Weep with us in shame. Tell everyone at the Arnon River that Moab is destroyed.”


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People of Moab, you claim to be stronger than I am. Now I will tell other nations to make you drunk and to laugh while you collapse in your own vomit.


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People of Sibmah, you were like a vineyard heavy with grapes, and with branches reaching north to the town of Jazer and west to the Dead Sea. But you have been destroyed, and so I will weep for you, as the people of Jazer weep for the vineyards.


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Harvest celebrations are gone from the orchards and farms of Moab. I have silenced the shouts of people making wine.


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Weeping from Heshbon can be heard as far as Elealeh and Jahaz; cries from Zoar are heard in Horonaim and Eglath-Shelishiyah. And Nimrim Creek has run dry.


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I will get rid of anyone who burns incense to the gods of Moab or offers sacrifices at their shrines. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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In my heart I moan for Moab, like a funeral song played on a flute. I mourn for the people of the town of Kir-Heres, because their wealth is gone. *


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The people of Moab mourn on the rooftops and in the streets. Men cut off their beards, people shave their heads; they make cuts on their hands and wear sackcloth. And it's all because I, the LORD, have shattered Moab like a jar that no one wants.


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Moab lies broken! Listen to its people cry as they turn away in shame. Other nations are horrified at what happened, but still they mock her.


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If you are terrified and run, you will fall into a pit; and if you crawl out of the pit, you'll get caught in a trap. The time has come for you to be punished. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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Near the city of Heshbon, where Sihon once ruled, tired refugees stand in shadows cast by the flames of their burning city. Soon, the towns on other hilltops, where those warlike people live, will also go up in smoke.


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People of Moab, you worshiped Chemosh, your god, but now you are done for, and your children are prisoners in a foreign country.


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The LORD has this to say about the nation of Ammon: The people of Israel have plenty of children to inherit their lands. So why have you worshipers of the god Milcom taken over towns and land belonging to the tribe of Gad?


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Someday I will send an army to attack you in Rabbah, your capital city. It will be left in ruins, and the surrounding villages will lie in ashes. You took some of Israel's land, but on that day Israel will take yours!


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Cry, people of Heshbon; your town will become a pile of rubble. You will turn here and there, but your path will be blocked. Put on sackcloth and mourn, you citizens of Rabbah, because the idol you worship will be taken to a foreign country, along with its priests and temple officials.


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You rebellious Ammonites trust your wealth and ask, “Who could attack us?” But I warn you not to boast when your strength is fading.


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I, the LORD All-Powerful, will send neighboring nations to strike you with terror. You will be scattered, with no one to care for your refugees.


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I will send disaster to punish you descendants of Esau, so anyone from Dedan had better turn around and run back home.


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People who harvest grapes leave some for the poor. Thieves who break in at night take only what they want.


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But I will take everything that belongs to you, people of Edom, and I will uncover every place where you try to hide. Then you will die, and so will your children, relatives, and neighbors.


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Even those nations that don't deserve to be punished will have to drink from the cup of my anger. So how can you possibly hope to escape?


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I, the LORD, swear in my own name that your city of Bozrah and all your towns will suffer a horrible fate. They will lie in ruins forever, and people will use the name “Bozrah” as a curse word.


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Pride tricks you into thinking that other nations look at you with fear. You live along the cliffs and high in the mountains like the eagles, but I am the LORD, and I will bring you down.


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I, the LORD, will attack you like a lion from the forest, attacking sheep in a meadow along the Jordan. In a moment the flock runs, and the land is empty. Who will I choose to attack you? I will do it myself! No one can force me to fight or chase me away.


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Listen to my plans for you, people of Edom. Your children will be dragged off and your country destroyed.


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An enemy will swoop down to attack you, like an eagle spreading its wings and circling over Bozrah. Your warriors will be as fearful as women giving birth.


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The LORD says about Damascus: The towns of Hamath and Arpad have heard your bad news. They have lost hope, and worries roll over them like ocean waves.


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You people of Damascus have lost your courage, and in panic you turn to run, gripped by fear and pain.


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Here is what the LORD says about the Kedar tribe and the desert villages that were conquered by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia: Listen, you people of Kedar and the other tribes of the eastern desert. I have told Nebuchadnezzar to attack and destroy you.


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You have no city walls and no neighbors to help, yet you think you're safe— so I told him to attack.


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Then your camels and large herds will be yours no longer. People of the Arabian Desert, disaster will strike you from every side, and you will be scattered everywhere on earth.


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Not long after Zedekiah became king of Judah, the LORD told me to say: People of Elam, I, the LORD All-Powerful, will kill the archers who make your army strong.


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Raise the signal flags; shout so all nations can hear— Babylon will be captured! Marduk, Babylon's god, will be ashamed and terrified, and his idols broken.


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The attack on the Babylonians will come from the north; they and their animals will run, leaving the land empty.


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The LORD said: People of Israel and Judah, when these things happen you will weep, and together you will return to your land and worship me, the LORD your God.


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You will ask the way to Zion and then come and join with me in making an agreement you won't break or forget.


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My people, you are lost sheep abandoned in the mountains by their shepherds. You don't even remember your resting place.


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I am your true pastureland, the one who gave hope to your ancestors. But you abandoned me, so when your enemies found you, they felt no guilt as they gobbled you up.


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In the north I am bringing great nations together. They will attack Babylon and capture it. The arrows they shoot are like the best soldiers, always finding their target.


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People of Babylonia, you were glad to rob my people. You had a good time, making more noise than horses and jumping around like calves threshing grain.


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The city of Babylon was like a mother to you. But it will be disgraced and become nothing but a barren desert.


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My anger will destroy Babylon, and no one will live there. Everyone who passes by will be shocked to see what has happened.


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Attack from every side! Babylon surrenders! The enemy tears down its walls and towers. I am taking my revenge by doing to Babylon what it did to other cities.


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There is no one in Babylonia to plant or harvest crops. Even foreigners who lived there have left for their homelands, afraid of the enemy armies.


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Israel is a flock of sheep scattered by hungry lions. The king of Assyria first gobbled Israel up. Then Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylonia, crunched on Israel's bones.


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I, the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, punished the king of Assyria, and I will also punish the king of Babylonia.


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But I will bring Israel back to its own land. The people will be like sheep eating their fill on Mount Carmel and in Bashan, in the hill country of Ephraim and in Gilead.


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I will rescue a few people from Israel and Judah. I will forgive them so completely that their sin and guilt will disappear, never to be found.


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The LORD said: I have told the enemies of Babylonia, “Attack the people of Merathaim and Pekod. Kill them all! Destroy their possessions!”


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Babylonia was a hammer pounding every country, but now it lies broken. What a shock to the nations of the world!


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Babylonia challenged me, the LORD God All-Powerful, but that nation doesn't know it is caught in a trap that I set.


book: Jer
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Come from far away, you enemies of Babylon! Pile up the grain from its storehouses, and destroy it completely, along with everything else.


book: Jer
contenido:
The Babylonian army destroyed my temple, but soon I will take revenge. Then refugees from Babylon will tell about it in Zion.


book: Jer
contenido:
Attack Babylon, enemy archers; set up camp around the city, and don't let anyone escape. It challenged me, the holy God, so do to it what it did to other cities.


book: Jer
contenido:
Babylon, you should be named, “The Proud One.” But the time has come when I, the LORD All-Powerful, will punish you.


book: Jer
contenido:
You are proud, but you will stumble and fall, and no one will help you up. I will set your villages on fire, and everything around you will go up in flames.


book: Jer
contenido:
You Babylonians were cruel to Israel and Judah. You took them captive, and now you refuse to let them go.


book: Jer
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But I, the LORD All-Powerful, will rescue and protect them. I will bring peace to their land and trouble to yours.


book: Jer
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Then your chariot horses and the foreigners in your army will refuse to go into battle, and the enemy will carry away everything you treasure.


book: Jer
contenido:
Your rivers and canals will dry up. All of this will happen, because your land is full of idols, and they have made fools of you.


book: Jer
contenido:
I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and the nearby towns, and I will destroy Babylon just as completely. No one will live there again.


book: Jer
contenido:
Bows and arrows and swords are in their hands. The soldiers are cruel and show no pity. The hoofbeats of their horses echo like ocean waves crashing against the shore. The army has lined up for battle and is coming to attack you, people of Babylonia!


book: Jer
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Ever since your king heard about this army, he has been weak with fear; he twists and turns in pain like a woman giving birth.


book: Jer
contenido:
Babylonia, I will attack you like a lion from the forest, attacking sheep in a meadow along the Jordan. In a moment the flock runs, and the land is empty. Who will I choose to attack you? I will do it myself! No one can force me to fight or chase me away.


book: Jer
contenido:
Listen to my plans for you, people of Babylonia. Your children will be dragged off, and your country destroyed.


book: Jer
contenido:
Foreign soldiers will come from every direction, and when the disaster is over, Babylonia will be empty and worthless.


book: Jer
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I will tell these soldiers, “Attack quickly, before the Babylonians can string their bows or put on their armor. Kill their best soldiers and destroy their army!”


book: Jer
contenido:
Everyone in Israel and Judah is guilty. But I, the LORD All-Powerful, their holy God, have not abandoned them.


book: Jer
contenido:
Get out of Babylon! Run for your lives! If you stay, you will be killed when I take revenge on the city and punish it for its sins.


book: Jer
contenido:
Babylon was my golden cup, filled with the wine of my anger. The nations of the world got drunk on this wine and went insane.


book: Jer
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But suddenly, Babylon will fall and be destroyed. I, the LORD, told the foreigners who lived there, “Weep for the city! Get medicine for its wounds; maybe they will heal.”


book: Jer
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The foreigners answered, “We have already tried to treat Babylon's wounds, but they would not heal. Come on, let's all go home to our own countries. Nothing is left in Babylonia; everything is destroyed.”


book: Jer
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The people of Israel said, “Tell everyone in Zion! The LORD has taken revenge for what Babylon did to us.”


book: Jer
contenido:
I, the LORD, want Babylon destroyed, because its army destroyed my temple. So, you kings of Media, sharpen your arrows and pick up your shields.


book: Jer
contenido:
Raise the signal flag and attack the city walls. Post more guards. Have soldiers watch the city and set up ambushes. I have made plans to destroy Babylon, and nothing will stop me.


book: Jer
contenido:
People of Babylon, you live along the Euphrates River and are surrounded by canals. You are rich, but now the time has come for you to die.


book: Jer
contenido:
I, the LORD All-Powerful, swear by my own life that enemy soldiers will fill your streets like a swarm of locusts. They will shout and celebrate their victory.


book: Jer
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The waters in the heavens roar at his command. He makes clouds appear; he sends the wind from his storehouse and makes lightning flash in the rain.


book: Jer
contenido:
People who make idols are stupid! They will be disappointed, because their false gods cannot breathe.


book: Jer
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But the LORD, Israel's God, is all-powerful. He created everything, and he chose Israel to be his very own.


book: Jer
contenido:
You destroyed the nations and seem strong as a mountain, but I am your enemy. I might even grab you and roll you off a cliff. When I am finished, you'll only be a pile of scorched bricks.


book: Jer
contenido:
Your stone blocks won't be reused for cornerstones or foundations, and I promise that forever you will be a desert. I, the LORD, have spoken.


book: Jer
contenido:
Signal the nations to get ready to attack. Raise a flag and blow a trumpet. Send for the armies of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Choose a commander; let the cavalry attack like a swarm of locusts.


book: Jer
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Tell the kings and governors, the leaders and the people of the kingdoms of the Medes to prepare for war!


book: Jer
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The earth twists and turns in torment, because I have decided to make Babylonia a desert where no one can live, and I won't change my mind.


book: Jer
contenido:
The Babylonian soldiers have lost their strength and courage. They stay in their fortresses, unable to fight, while the enemy breaks through the city gates, then sets their homes on fire.


book: Jer
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I am the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, and I make this promise— “Soon Babylon will be leveled and packed down like a threshing place at harvest time.”


book: Jer
contenido:
The people of Jerusalem say, “King Nebuchadnezzar made us panic. That monster stuffed himself with us and our treasures, leaving us empty— he gobbled up what he wanted and spit out the rest.


book: Jer
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My people, I am on your side, and I will take revenge on Babylon. I will cut off its water supply, and its stream will dry up.


book: Jer
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Babylon will be a pile of rubble where only jackals live, and everyone will be afraid to walk among the ruins.


book: Jer
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And since they are hungry, I will give them a banquet. They will celebrate, get drunk, then fall asleep, never to wake up!


book: Jer
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Horrible destruction will strike the nearby towns. The land will become a barren desert, where no one can live or even travel.


book: Jer
contenido:
I will punish Marduk, the god of Babylon, and make him vomit out everything he gobbled up. Then nations will no longer bring him gifts, and Babylon's walls will crumble.


book: Jer
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Don't be afraid or lose hope, though year after year there are rumors of leaders fighting for control in the city of Babylon.


book: Jer
contenido:
The time will come when I will punish Babylon's false gods. Everyone there will die, and the whole nation will be disgraced,


book: Jer
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when an army attacks from the north and brings destruction. Then the earth and the heavens and everything in them will celebrate.


book: Jer
contenido:
My people, you escaped death when Jerusalem fell. Now you live far from home, but you should trust me and think about Jerusalem. Leave Babylon! Don't stay!


book: Jer
contenido:
Although Babylon's walls reach to the sky, the army I send will destroy that city. I, the LORD, have spoken.


book: Jer
contenido:
Listen to the cries for help coming from Babylon. Everywhere in the country the sounds of destruction can be heard.


book: Jer
contenido:
The shouts of the enemy, like crashing ocean waves, will drown out Babylon's cries as I level the city.


book: Jer
contenido:
An enemy will attack and destroy Babylon. Its soldiers will be captured and their weapons broken, because I am a God who takes revenge against nations for what they do.


book: Jer
contenido:
I, the LORD All-Powerful, the true King, promise that the officials and advisors, the governors and leaders, and the soldiers of Babylon will get drunk, fall asleep, and never wake up.


book: Jer
contenido:
The thick walls of that city will be torn down, and its huge gates burned. Everything that nation worked so hard to gain will go up in smoke.


book: Jer
contenido:
During Zedekiah's fourth year as king of Judah, he went to Babylon. And Baruch's brother Seraiah went along as the officer in charge of arranging for places to stay overnight.


book: Jer
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then pray, “Our LORD, you promised to destroy this place and make it into a desert where no people or animals will ever live.”


book: Jer
contenido:
“This is how Babylon will sink when the LORD destroys it. Everyone in the city will die, and it won't have the strength to rise again.” Jeremiah's writing ends here.


book: Jer
contenido:
Zedekiah was 21 years old when he was appointed king of Judah, and he ruled from Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother Hamutal was the daughter of Jeremiah from the town of Libnah.


book: Jer
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and it was Zedekiah who finally rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar. The people of Judah and Jerusalem had made the LORD so angry that he finally turned his back on them. That's why horrible things were happening there.


book: Jer
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the Babylonian troops broke through the city wall. That same night, Zedekiah and his soldiers tried to escape through the gate near the royal garden, even though they knew the enemy had the city surrounded. They headed toward the Jordan River valley,


book: Jer
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but the Babylonian troops caught up with them near Jericho. The Babylonians arrested Zedekiah, but his soldiers scattered in every direction.


book: Jer
contenido:
Zedekiah was taken to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where Nebuchadnezzar put him on trial and found him guilty.


book: Jer
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then his eyes were poked out. He was put in chains, then dragged off to Babylon and kept in prison until he died.


book: Jer
contenido:
Jerusalem was captured during Nebuchadnezzar's nineteenth year as king of Babylonia. About a month later, Nebuchadnezzar's officer in charge of the guards arrived in Jerusalem. His name was Nebuzaradan,


book: Jer
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and he burned down the LORD's temple, the king's palace, and every important building in the city, as well as all the houses.


book: Jer
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He led away the people left in the city, including everyone who had become loyal to Nebuchadnezzar, the rest of the skilled workers, and even some of the poor people of Judah.


book: Jer
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Nebuzaradan ordered his soldiers to go to the temple and take everything made of gold or silver, including bowls, fire pans, sprinkling bowls, pans, lampstands, dishes for incense, and the cups for wine offerings. The Babylonian soldiers took all the bronze things used for worship at the temple, including the pans for hot ashes, and the shovels, lamp snuffers, sprinkling bowls, and dishes for incense. The soldiers also took everything else made of bronze, including the two columns that stood in front of the temple, the large bowl called the Sea, the twelve bulls that held it up, and the movable stands. The soldiers broke these things into pieces so they could take them to Babylonia. There was so much bronze that it could not be weighed.


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For example, the columns were about 8 meters high and 5.5 meters around. They were hollow, but the bronze was about 75 millimeters thick.


book: Jer
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Each column had a bronze cap over 2 meters high that was decorated with bronze designs. Some of these designs were like chains and others were like pomegranates.


book: Jer
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There were 96 pomegranates evenly spaced around each column, and a total of 100 pomegranates were located above the chains.


book: Jer
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Then he arrested one of the army commanders, seven of King Zedekiah's personal advisors, and the officer in charge of gathering the troops for battle. He also found 60 more soldiers who were still in Jerusalem.


book: Jer
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Nebuzaradan led them to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where Nebuchadnezzar had them killed. The people of Judah no longer lived in their own country.


book: Jer
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Here is a list of the number of the people of Judah that Nebuchadnezzar took to Babylonia as prisoners: In his seventh year as king, he took 3,023 people. In his eighteenth year as king, he took 832 from Jerusalem. In his twenty-third year as king, his officer Nebuzaradan took 745 people. So, Nebuchadnezzar took a total of 4,600 people from Judah to Babylonia.


book: Jer
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Jehoiachin was a prisoner in Babylon for 37 years. Then Evil Merodach became king of Babylonia, and in the first year of his rule, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, he let Jehoiachin out of prison.


book: Jer
contenido:
Evil Merodach was kind to Jehoiachin and honored him more than any of the other kings held prisoner there.


book: Jer
contenido:
Jehoiachin was allowed to wear regular clothes instead of a prison uniform, and he even ate at the king's table every day.


book: Lam
contenido:
Jerusalem, once so crowded, lies deserted and lonely. This city that was known all over the world is now like a widow. This queen of the nations has been made a slave.


book: Lam
contenido:
Each night, bitter tears flood her cheeks. None of her former lovers are there to offer comfort; her friends have betrayed her and are now her enemies.


book: Lam
contenido:
The people of Judah are slaves, suffering in a foreign land, with no rest from sorrow. Their enemies captured them and were terribly cruel.


book: Lam
contenido:
The roads to Zion mourn because no one travels there to celebrate the festivals. The city gates are deserted; priests are weeping. Young women are raped; Zion is in sorrow!


book: Lam
contenido:
Enemies now rule the city and live as they please. The LORD has punished Jerusalem because of her awful sins; he has let her people be dragged away.


book: Lam
contenido:
Zion's glory has disappeared. Her leaders are like deer that cannot find pasture; they are hunted down till their strength is gone.


book: Lam
contenido:
Her people recall the good life that once was theirs; now they suffer and are scattered. No one was there to protect them from their enemies who sneered when their city was taken.


book: Lam
contenido:
Jerusalem's horrible sins have made the city a joke. Those who once admired her now hate her instead— she has been disgraced; she groans and turns away.


book: Lam
contenido:
Her sins had made her filthy, but she wasn't worried about what could happen. And when Jerusalem fell, it was so tragic. No one gave her comfort when she cried out, “Help! I'm in trouble, LORD! The enemy has won.”


book: Lam
contenido:
Zion's treasures were stolen. Jerusalem saw foreigners enter her place of worship, though the LORD had forbidden them to belong to his people.


book: Lam
contenido:
Everyone in the city groans while searching for food; they trade their valuables for barely enough scraps to stay alive. Jerusalem shouts to the LORD, “Please look and see how miserable I am!”


book: Lam
contenido:
No passerby even cares. Why doesn't someone notice my terrible sufferings? You were fiercely angry, LORD, and you punished me worst of all.


book: Lam
contenido:
From heaven you sent a fire that burned in my bones; you set a trap for my feet and made me turn back. All day long you leave me in shock from constant pain.


book: Lam
contenido:
You have tied my sins around my neck, and they weigh so heavily that my strength is gone. You have put me in the power of enemies too strong for me.


book: Lam
contenido:
You, LORD, have turned back my warriors and crushed my young heroes. Judah was a woman untouched, but you let her be trampled like grapes in a wine pit.


book: Lam
contenido:
Because of this, I mourn, and tears flood my eyes. No one is here to comfort or to encourage me; we have lost the war— my people are suffering.


book: Lam
contenido:
Zion reaches out her hands, but no one offers comfort. The LORD has turned the neighboring nations against Jacob's descendants. Jerusalem is merely a filthy rag to her neighbors.


book: Lam
contenido:
The LORD was right, but I refused to obey him. Now I ask all of you to look at my sufferings— even my young people have been dragged away.


book: Lam
contenido:
I called out to my lovers, but they betrayed me. My priests and my leaders died while searching the city for scraps of food.


book: Lam
contenido:
Won't you look and see how upset I am, our LORD? My stomach is in knots, and my heart is broken because I betrayed you. In the streets and at home, my people are slaughtered.


book: Lam
contenido:
Everyone heard my groaning, but no one offered comfort. My enemies know of the trouble that you have brought on me, and it makes them glad. Hurry and punish them, as you have promised.


book: Lam
contenido:
Don't let their evil deeds escape your sight. Punish them as much as you have punished me because of my sins. I never stop groaning— I've lost all hope!


book: Lam
contenido:
The Lord was angry! So he disgraced Zion though it was Israel's pride and his own place of rest. In his anger he threw Zion down from heaven to earth.


book: Lam
contenido:
The LORD had no mercy! He destroyed the homes of Jacob's descendants. In his anger he tore down every walled city in Judah; he toppled the nation together with its leaders, leaving them in shame.


book: Lam
contenido:
The Lord was so furiously angry that he wiped out the whole army of Israel by not supporting them when the enemy attacked. He was like a raging fire that swallowed up the descendants of Jacob.


book: Lam
contenido:
He attacked like an enemy with a bow and arrows, killing our loved ones. He has burned to the ground the homes on Mount Zion.


book: Lam
contenido:
The Lord was like an enemy! He left Israel in ruins with its palaces and fortresses destroyed, and with everyone in Judah moaning and weeping.


book: Lam
contenido:
He shattered his temple like a hut in a garden; he completely wiped out his meeting place, and did away with festivals and Sabbaths in the city of Zion. In his fierce anger he rejected our king and priests.


book: Lam
contenido:
The Lord abandoned his altar and his temple; he let Zion's enemies capture her fortresses. Noisy shouts were heard from the temple, as if it were a time of celebration.


book: Lam
contenido:
The LORD had decided to tear down the walls of Zion stone by stone. So he started destroying and did not stop until walls and fortresses mourned and trembled.


book: Lam
contenido:
Zion's gates have fallen facedown on the ground; the bars that locked the gates are smashed to pieces. Her king and royal family are prisoners in foreign lands. Her priests don't teach, and her prophets don't have a message from the LORD.


book: Lam
contenido:
Zion's leaders are silent. They just sit on the ground, tossing dirt on their heads and wearing sackcloth. Her young women can do nothing but stare at the ground.


book: Lam
contenido:
My eyes are red from crying, my stomach is in knots, and I feel sick all over. My people are being wiped out, and children lie helpless in the streets of the city.


book: Lam
contenido:
A child begs its mother for food and drink, then blacks out like a wounded soldier lying in the street. The child slowly dies in its mother's arms.


book: Lam
contenido:
Zion, how can I comfort you? How great is your pain? Lovely city of Jerusalem, how can I heal your wounds, gaping as wide as the sea?


book: Lam
contenido:
Your prophets deceived you with false visions and lying messages— they should have warned you to leave your sins and be saved from disaster.


book: Lam
contenido:
Those who pass by shake their heads and sneer as they make fun and shout, “What a lovely city you were, the happiest on earth, but look at you now!”


book: Lam
contenido:
Zion, your enemies curse you and snarl like wild animals, while shouting, “This is the day we've waited for! At last, we've got you!”


book: Lam
contenido:
The LORD has done everything that he had planned and threatened long ago. He destroyed you without mercy and let your enemies boast about their powerful forces.


book: Lam
contenido:
Zion, deep in your heart you cried out to the Lord. Now let your tears overflow your walls day and night. Don't ever lose hope or let your tears stop.


book: Lam
contenido:
Get up and pray for help all through the night. Pour out your feelings to the Lord, as you would pour water out of a jug. Beg him to save your people, who are starving to death at every street crossing.


book: Lam
contenido:
Think about it, LORD! Have you ever been this cruel to anyone before? Is it right for mothers to eat their children, or for priests and prophets to be killed in your temple?


book: Lam
contenido:
My people, both young and old, lie dead in the streets. Because you were angry, my young men and women were brutally slaughtered.


book: Lam
contenido:
When you were angry, LORD, you invited my enemies like guests for a party. No one survived that day; enemies killed my children, my own little ones.


book: Lam
contenido:
The purest gold is ruined and has lost its shine; jewels from the temple lie scattered in the streets.


book: Lam
contenido:
These are Zion's people, worth more than purest gold; yet they are counted worthless like dishes of clay.


book: Lam
contenido:
Babies are so thirsty that their tongues are stuck to the roof of the mouth. Children go begging for food, but no one gives them any.


book: Lam
contenido:
All who ate expensive foods lie starving in the streets; those who grew up in luxury now sit on trash heaps.


book: Lam
contenido:
My nation was punished worse than the people of Sodom, whose city was destroyed in a flash without the help of human hands.


book: Lam
contenido:
The leaders of Jerusalem were purer than snow and whiter than milk; their bodies were healthy and glowed like jewels.


book: Lam
contenido:
Now they are blacker than tar, and no one recognizes them; their skin clings to their bones and is drier than firewood.


book: Lam
contenido:
Not a king on this earth or the people of any nation believed enemies could break through her gates.


book: Lam
contenido:
Jerusalem was punished because her prophets and her priests had sinned and caused the death of innocent victims.


book: Lam
contenido:
Yes, her prophets and priests were covered with blood; no one would come near them, as they wandered from street to street.


book: Lam
contenido:
Instead, everyone shouted, “Go away! Don't touch us! You're filthy and unfit to belong to God's people!” So they had to leave and become refugees. But foreign nations told them, “You can't stay here!”


book: Lam
contenido:
The LORD is the one who sent them scattering, and he has forgotten them. No respect or kindness will be shown to the priests or leaders.


book: Lam
contenido:
They swooped down faster than eagles from the sky. They hunted for us in the hills and set traps to catch us out in the desert.


book: Lam
contenido:
The LORD's chosen leader was our hope for survival! We thought he would keep us safe somewhere among the nations, but even he was caught in one of their traps.


book: Lam
contenido:
The people of Zion have paid for their sins, and the Lord will soon let them return home. But, people of Edom, you will be punished, and your sins exposed.


book: Ezek
contenido:
I am Ezekiel—a priest and the son of Buzi. Five years after King Jehoiachin of Judah had been led away as a prisoner to Babylonia, I was living near the Chebar River among those who had been taken there with him. Then on the fifth day of the fourth month of the thirtieth year, the heavens suddenly opened. The LORD placed his hand upon me and showed me some visions.


book: Ezek
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I saw a windstorm blowing in from the north. Lightning flashed from a huge cloud and lit up the whole sky with a dazzling brightness. The fiery center of the cloud was as shiny as polished metal,


book: Ezek
contenido:
The four creatures were standing back to back with the tips of their wings touching. They moved together in every direction, without turning their bodies.


book: Ezek
contenido:
Each creature had the face of a human in front, the face of a lion on the right side, the face of a bull on the left, and the face of an eagle in back.


book: Ezek
contenido:
Two wings of each creature were spread out and touched the wings of the creatures on either side. The other two wings of each creature were folded against its body.


book: Ezek
contenido:
The four living creatures went wherever the Spirit led them, and they moved together without turning their bodies, because each creature faced straight ahead.


book: Ezek
contenido:
The creatures were glowing like hot coals, and I saw something like a flaming torch moving back and forth among them. Lightning flashed from the torch every time its flame blazed up.


book: Ezek
contenido:
shining like chrysolite. Each wheel was exactly the same and had a second wheel that cut through the middle of it,


book: Ezek
contenido:
The creatures controlled when and where the wheels moved—the wheels went wherever the four creatures went and stopped whenever they stopped. Even when the creatures flew in the air, the wheels were beside them.


book: Ezek
contenido:
Above the living creatures, I saw something that was sparkling like ice, and it reminded me of a dome. Each creature had two of its wings stretched out toward the creatures on either side, with the other two wings folded against its body.


book: Ezek
contenido:
Whenever the creatures flew, their wings roared like an ocean or a large army or even the voice of God All-Powerful. And whenever the creatures stopped, they folded their wings against their bodies.


book: Ezek
contenido:
I then saw what looked like a throne made of sapphire, and sitting on the throne was a figure in the shape of a human.


book: Ezek
contenido:
From the waist up, it was glowing like metal in a hot furnace, and from the waist down it looked like the flames of a fire. The figure was surrounded by a bright light,


book: Ezek
contenido:
as colorful as a rainbow that appears after a storm. I realized I was seeing the brightness of the LORD's glory! So I bowed with my face to the ground, and just then I heard a voice speaking to me.


book: Ezek
contenido:
Ezekiel, I am sending you to the people of Israel. They are just like their ancestors who rebelled against me and refused to stop.


book: Ezek
contenido:
Don't be afraid of them or of anything they say. You may think you're in the middle of a thorn patch or a bunch of scorpions. But be brave


book: Ezek
contenido:
Ezekiel, don't rebel against me, as they have done. Instead, listen to everything I tell you. And now, Ezekiel, open your mouth and eat what I am going to give you.


book: Ezek
contenido:
The hand opened the scroll, and both sides of it were filled with words of sadness, mourning, and grief.


book: Ezek
contenido:
He handed me the scroll and said, “Eat this and fill up on it.” So I ate the scroll, and it tasted sweet as honey.


book: Ezek
contenido:
They are Israelites, not some strangers who speak a foreign language you can't understand. If I were to send you to foreign nations, they would listen to you.


book: Ezek
contenido:
But the people of Israel will refuse to listen, because they have refused to listen to me. All of them are stubborn and hardheaded,


book: Ezek
contenido:
You will be so determined to speak my message that nothing will stop you. I will make you hard like a diamond, and you'll have no reason to be afraid of those arrogant rebels.


book: Ezek
contenido:
Then go to the people who were brought here to Babylonia with you and tell them you have a message from me, the LORD God. Do this, whether they listen to you or not.


book: Ezek
contenido:
The Spirit lifted me up, and as the glory of the LORD started to leave, I heard a loud, thundering noise behind me.


book: Ezek
contenido:
It was the sound made by the creatures' wings as they brushed against each other, and by the rumble of the wheels beside them.


book: Ezek
contenido:
Then the Spirit carried me away. The LORD's power had taken complete control of me, and I was both annoyed and angry.


book: Ezek
contenido:
When I was back with the others living at Abib Hill near the Chebar River, I sat among them for seven days, shocked at what had happened to me.


book: Ezek
contenido:
Ezekiel, son of man, I have appointed you to stand watch for the people of Israel. So listen to what I say, then warn them for me.


book: Ezek
contenido:
When I tell wicked people they will die because of their sins, you must warn them to turn from their sinful ways so they won't be punished. If you refuse, you are responsible for their death.


book: Ezek
contenido:
However, if you do warn them, and they keep on sinning, they will die because of their sins, and you will be innocent.


book: Ezek
contenido:
Now suppose faithful people start sinning, and I decide to put stumbling blocks in their paths to make them fall. They deserve to die because of their sins. So if you refuse to warn them, I will forget about the times they were faithful, and I will hold you responsible for their death.


book: Ezek
contenido:
But if you do warn them, and they listen to you and stop sinning, I will let them live. And you will be innocent.


book: Ezek
contenido:
The LORD took control of me and said, “Stand up! Go into the valley, and I will talk with you there.”


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I immediately went to the valley, where I saw the brightness of the LORD's glory, just as I had seen it near the Chebar River, and I bowed with my face to the ground.


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His Spirit took control of me and lifted me to my feet. Then the LORD said: Go back and lock yourself in your house!


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But the time will come, when I will tell you what to say, and you will again be able to speak my message. Some of them will listen; others will be stubborn and refuse to listen.


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Then prepare to attack the brick as if it were a real city. Build a dirt mound and a ramp up to the top and surround the brick with enemy camps. On every side put large wooden poles as though you were going to break down the gate to the city.


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Set up an iron pan like a wall between you and the brick. All this will be a warning for the people of Israel.


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After that, lie down on your left side and stay there for 390 days as a sign of Israel's punishment—one day for each year of its suffering.


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Then turn over and lie on your right side 40 more days. That will be a sign of Judah's punishment—one day for each year of its suffering.


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Get a large bowl. Then mix together wheat, barley, beans, lentils, and millet, and make some bread. This is what you will eat for the 390 days you are lying down.


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Use dried human waste to start a fire, then bake the bread on the coals where everyone can watch you.


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When I scatter the people of Israel among the nations, they will also have to eat food that is unclean, just as you must do.


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I said, “LORD God, please don't make me do that! Never in my life have I eaten food that would make me unacceptable to you. I've never eaten anything that died a natural death or was killed by a wild animal or that you said was unclean.”


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The LORD replied, “Instead of human waste, I will let you bake your bread on a fire made from cow manure.


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Ezekiel, the people of Jerusalem will starve. They will have so little food and water that they will be afraid and hopeless.


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Everyone will be shocked at what is happening, and, because of their sins, they will die a slow death.”


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Ezekiel, son of man, get a sharp sword and use it to cut off your hair and beard. Weigh the hair and divide it into three equal piles.


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After you attack the brick that stands for Jerusalem, burn one pile of your hair on the brick. Chop up the second pile and let the small pieces of hair fall around the brick. Throw the third pile into the wind, and I will strike it with my own sword.


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Then pull out a few of those hairs and throw them in the fire, so they will also burn. This fire will spread, destroying everyone in Israel.


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I am the LORD God, and I have made Jerusalem the most important place in the world, and all other nations admire it.


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But the people of Jerusalem rebelled and refuse to obey me. They ignored my laws and have become even more sinful than the nations around them.


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So tell the people of Jerusalem: I am the LORD God! You have refused to obey my laws and teachings, and instead you have obeyed the laws of the surrounding nations. You have become more rebellious than any of them!


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for your sins. Your punishment will be more horrible than anything I've ever done or will ever do again.


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Parents will be so desperate for food that they will eat their own children, and children will eat their parents. Those who survive this horror will be scattered in every direction.


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Your sins have disgusted me and made my temple unfit as a place to worship me. So I swear by my own life that I will cut you down and show you no pity.


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A third of you will die here in Jerusalem from disease or starvation. Another third will be killed in war. And I will scatter the last third of you in every direction, then track you down and kill you.


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You will feel my fierce anger until I have finished taking revenge. Then you will know that I, the LORD, was furious because of your disobedience.


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will insult you and make fun of you, but they will also be shocked and terrified at what I did in my anger.


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Starvation and wild animals will kill your children. I'll punish you with horrible diseases, and your enemies will strike you down with their swords. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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Listen, you mountains and hills, and every valley and gorge! I, the LORD, am about to turn against you and crush all the places where foreign gods are worshiped.


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Every altar will be smashed, and in front of the idols I will put to death the people who worship them.


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Every town in Israel will be destroyed to make sure that each shrine, idol, and altar is smashed—everything the Israelites made will be a pile of ruins.


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All over the country, your people will die. And those who survive will know that I, the LORD, did these things.


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I will let some of the people live through this punishment, but I will scatter them among the nations,


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where they will be prisoners. And when they think of me, they will realize that they disgraced me by rebelling and by worshiping idols. They will hate themselves for the evil things they did,


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The LORD God then said: Ezekiel, beat your fists together and stomp your feet in despair! Moan in sorrow, because the people of Israel have done disgusting things and now will be killed by enemy troops, or they will die from starvation and disease.


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Those who live far away will be struck with deadly diseases. Those who live nearby will be killed in war. And the ones who are left will starve to death. I will let loose my anger on them!


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These people used to offer incense to idols at altars built on hills and mountaintops and in the shade of large oak trees. But when they see dead bodies lying around those altars, they will know that I am the LORD.


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I will make their country a barren wasteland, from the Southern Desert to the town of Diblah in the north. Then they will know that I, the LORD, have done these things.


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Ezekiel, son of man, tell the people of Israel that I am saying: Israel will soon come to an end! Your whole country is about to be destroyed


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that I will show no pity. I will punish you for the evil you've done, and you will know that I am the LORD.


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You people of Israel are doomed! Soon there will be panic on the mountaintops instead of celebration.


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I will let loose my anger and punish you for the evil things you've done. You'll get what you deserve.


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Your sins are so terrible, that you'll get no mercy from me. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have punished you.


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and violent criminals run free. None of you will survive the disaster, and everything you own and value will be shattered.


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and people who sell property will never get it back, because all of you must be punished for your sins. And I won't change my mind!


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A signal has been blown on the trumpet, and weapons are prepared for battle. But no one goes to war, because in my anger I will strike down everyone in Israel.


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War, disease, and starvation are everywhere! People who live in the countryside will be killed in battle, and those who live in towns will die from starvation or deadly diseases.


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Anyone who survives will escape into the hills, like doves who leave the valleys to find safety. All of you will moan because of your sins.


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You will put on sackcloth to show your sorrow, but terror will overpower you. Shame will be written all over your faces, and you will shave your heads in despair.


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Your silver and gold will be thrown into the streets like garbage, because those are the two things that led you into sin, and now they cannot save you from my anger. They are not even worth enough to buy food.


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You took great pride in using your beautiful jewelry to make disgusting idols of foreign gods. So I will make your jewelry worthless.


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They will break into my temple and leave it unfit as a place to worship me, but I will look away and let it happen.


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so I will tell the most wicked nations to come and take over your homes. They will put an end to the pride you have in your strong army, and they will make your places of worship unfit to use.


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One tragedy will follow another, and you'll hear only bad news. People will beg prophets to give them a message from me. Priests will stop teaching my Law, and wise leaders won't be able to give advice.


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Even your king and his officials will lose hope and cry in despair. Your hands will tremble with fear. I will punish you for your sins and treat you the same way you have treated others. Then you will know that I am the LORD.


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Six years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, the leaders of Judah were meeting with me in my house. On the fifth day of the sixth month, the LORD God suddenly took control of me,


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and I saw something in the shape of a human. This figure was like fire from the waist down, and it was bright as polished metal from the waist up.


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It reached out what seemed to be a hand and grabbed my hair. Then in my vision the LORD's Spirit lifted me into the sky and carried me to Jerusalem. The Spirit took me to the north gate of the temple's inner courtyard, where there was an idol that disgusted the LORD and made him furious.


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Then I saw the brightness of the glory of the God of Israel, just as I had seen it near the Chebar River.


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God said to me, “Ezekiel, son of man, look north.” And when I did, I saw that repulsive idol by the altar near the gate.


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God then said, “Do you see the terrible sins of the people of Israel? Their sins are making my holy temple unfit as a place to worship me. Yet you will see even worse things than this.”


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Inside, I saw that the walls were covered with pictures of reptiles and disgusting, unclean animals, as well as with idols that the Israelites were worshiping.


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Seventy Israelite leaders were standing there, including Jaazaniah son of Shaphan. Each of these leaders was holding an incense burner, and the smell of incense filled the room.


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God said, “Ezekiel, do you see what horrible things Israel's leaders are doing in secret? They have filled their rooms with idols. And they say I can't see them, because they think I have already deserted Israel.


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God asked me, “Can you believe what these women are doing? But now I want to show you something even worse.”


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I was then led into the temple's inner courtyard, where I saw about 25 men standing near the entrance, between the porch and the altar. Their backs were to the LORD's temple, and they were bowing down to the rising sun.


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God said, “Ezekiel, it's bad enough that the people of Judah are doing these disgusting things. But they have also spread violence and injustice everywhere in Israel and have made me very angry. They have disgraced and insulted me in the worst possible way.


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So in my fierce anger, I will punish them without mercy and refuse to help them when they cry out to me.”


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After that, I heard the LORD shout, “Come to Jerusalem, you men chosen to destroy the city. And bring your weapons!”


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I saw six men come through the north gate of the temple, each one holding a deadly weapon. A seventh man dressed in a linen robe was with them, and he was carrying things to write with. The men went into the temple and stood by the bronze altar.


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The brightness of God's glory then left its place above the statues of the winged creatures inside the temple and moved to the entrance. The LORD said to the man in the linen robe,


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“Walk through the city of Jerusalem and mark the forehead of anyone who is truly upset and sad about the terrible things that are being done here.”


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He turned to the other six men and said, “Follow him and put to death everyone who doesn't have a mark on their forehead. Show no mercy or pity! Kill men and women, parents and children. Begin here at my temple, but be sure not to harm those who are marked.” The men immediately killed the leaders who were standing there.


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Then the LORD said, “Pollute the temple by piling the dead bodies in the courtyards. Now get busy!” They left and started killing the people of Jerusalem.


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I was then alone, so I bowed down and cried out to the LORD, “Why are you doing this? Are you so angry with the people of Jerusalem that everyone must die?”


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The LORD answered, “The people of Israel and Judah have done horrible things. Their country is filled with murderers, and Jerusalem itself is filled with violence. They think that I have deserted them, and that I can't see what they are doing.


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And so I will not have pity on them or forgive them. They will be punished for what they have done.”


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The LORD said to the man in the linen robe, “Walk among the four wheels beside the creatures and pick up as many hot coals as you can carry. Then scatter them over the city of Jerusalem.” I watched him as he followed the LORD's instructions.


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The winged creatures were standing south of the temple when the man walked among them. A cloud filled the inner courtyard,


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and the brightness of the LORD's glory moved from above the creatures and stopped at the entrance of the temple. The entire temple was filled with his glory, and the courtyard was dazzling bright.


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The sound of the creatures' wings was as loud as the voice of God All-Powerful and could even be heard in the outer courtyard.


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One of the four creatures reached its hand into the fire among them and gave him some of the hot coals. The man took the coals and left.


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I noticed again that each of the four winged creatures had what looked like human hands under their wings,


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so that they could move in any direction without turning. The wheels moved together whenever the creatures moved.


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I also noticed that the wheels and the creatures' bodies, including their backs, their hands, and their wings, were covered with eyes.


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Each of the winged creatures had four faces: the face of a bull, the face of a human, the face of a lion, and the face of an eagle.


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These were the same creatures I had seen near the Chebar River. They controlled when and where the wheels moved—the wheels went wherever the creatures went and stopped whenever they stopped. Even when the creatures flew in the air, the wheels stayed beside them.


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Then I watched the brightness of the LORD's glory move from the entrance of the temple and stop above the winged creatures.


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They spread their wings and flew into the air with the wheels at their side. They stopped at the east gate of the temple, and the LORD's glory was above them.


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I knew for sure that these were the same creatures I had seen beneath the LORD's glory near the Chebar River.


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They had four wings with hands beneath them, and they had the same four faces as those near the River. Each creature moved straight ahead without turning.


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The LORD's Spirit lifted me up and took me to the east gate of the temple, where I saw 25 men, including the two leaders, Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah.


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The LORD said, “Ezekiel, son of man, these men are making evil plans and giving dangerous advice to the people of Jerusalem.


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They say things like, ‘Let's build more houses. This city is like a cooking pot over a fire, and we are the meat, but at least the pot keeps us from being burned in the fire.’


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The LORD's Spirit took control of me and told me to tell these leaders: I, the LORD God, know what you leaders are saying.


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This city is indeed a cooking pot, but the bodies of those you killed are the meat. And so I will force you to leave Jerusalem,


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You will be killed in your own country, but not before you realize that I, the LORD, have done these things.


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You leaders claim to be meat in a cooking pot, but you won't be protected by this city. No, you will die at the border of Israel.


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You will realize that while you were following the laws of nearby nations, you were disobeying my laws and teachings. And I am the LORD!


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Before I finished speaking, Pelatiah dropped dead. I bowed down and cried out, “Please, LORD God, don't kill everyone left in Israel.”


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Ezekiel, son of man, the people living in Jerusalem claim that you and the other Israelites who were taken to Babylonia are too far away to worship me. They also claim that the land of Israel now belongs only to them.


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But here is what I want you to tell the Israelites in Babylonia: It's true that I, the LORD God, have forced you out of your own country and made you live among foreign nations. But for now, I will be with you wherever you are, so that you can worship me.


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And someday, I will gather you from the nations where you are scattered and let you live in Israel again.


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Then I will take away your stubbornness and make you eager to be completely faithful to me. You will want to obey me


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But those who worship idols will be punished and get what they deserve. I, the LORD God, have spoken.


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After the LORD had finished speaking, the winged creatures spread their wings and flew into the air, and the wheels were beside them. The brightness of the LORD's glory above them


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Then in my vision, the LORD's Spirit lifted me up and carried me back to the other exiles in Babylonia. The vision faded away,


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Ezekiel, son of man, you are living among rebellious people. They have eyes, but refuse to see; they have ears, but refuse to listen.


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So before it gets dark, here is what I want you to do. Pack a few things as though you were going to be taken away as a prisoner. Then go outside where everyone can see you and walk around from place to place. Maybe as they watch, they will realize what rebels they are.


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After you have done this, return to your house. Later that evening leave your house as if you were going into exile.


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Dig through the wall of your house and crawl out, carrying the bag with you. Make sure everyone is watching.


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Lift the bag to your shoulders, and with your face covered, take it into the darkness, so that you cannot see the land you are leaving. All this will be a warning for the people of Israel.


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I did everything the LORD had said. I packed a few things. Then as the sun was going down, and while everyone was watching, I dug a hole through one of the walls of my house. I pulled out my bag, then lifted it to my shoulders and left in the darkness.


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So he sent me back to tell them: The LORD God has a message for the leader of Jerusalem and everyone living there!


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The leader of Jerusalem will lift his own bag to his shoulders at sunset and leave through a hole that the others have dug in the wall of his house. He will cover his face, so he can't see the land he is leaving.


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The LORD will spread out a net and trap him as he leaves Jerusalem. He will then be led away to the city of Babylon, but will never see that place, even though he will die there.


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His own officials and troops will scatter in every direction, and the LORD will track them down and put them to death.


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The LORD will force the rest of the people in Jerusalem to live in foreign nations, where they will realize that he has done all these things.


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Some of them will survive the war, the starvation, and the deadly diseases. That way, they will be able to tell foreigners how disgusting their sins were, and that it was the LORD who punished them in this way.


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Tell the people of Israel that I, the LORD, say that someday everyone in Jerusalem will shake when they eat and tremble when they drink. Their country will be destroyed and left empty, because they have been cruel and violent.


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Every town will lie in ruins, and the land will be a barren desert. Then they will know that I am the LORD.


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Ezekiel, son of man, you've heard people in Israel use the saying, “Time passes, and prophets are proved wrong.”


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Now tell the people that I, the LORD, am going to prove that saying wrong. No one will ever be able to use it again in Israel, because very soon everything I have said will come true!


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I will give them my message, and what I say will certainly happen. Warn those rebels that the time has come for them to be punished. I, the LORD, make this promise.


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Ezekiel, the people of Israel are also saying that your visions and messages are only about things in the future.


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Ezekiel, son of man, condemn the prophets of Israel who say they speak in my name, but who preach messages that come from their own imagination. Tell them it's time to hear my message.


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I, the LORD God, say those lying prophets are doomed! They don't see visions—they make up their own messages!


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Those prophets lie by claiming they speak for me, but I have not even chosen them to be my prophets. And they still think their words will come true.


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So I am going to punish those lying prophets for deceiving the people of Israel with false messages.


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I will turn against them and no longer let them belong to my people. They will not be allowed to call themselves Israelites or even to set foot in Israel. Then they will realize that I am the LORD God.


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Those prophets refuse to be honest. They tell my people there will be peace, even though there's no peace to be found. They are like workers who think they can fix a shaky wall by covering it with paint.


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That wall is the city of Jerusalem. And I, the LORD God, am so angry that I will send strong winds, rainstorms, and hailstones to destroy it.


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The lying prophets have tried to cover up the evil in Jerusalem, but I will tear down the city, all the way to its foundations. And when it collapses, those prophets will be killed, and everyone will know that I have done these things.


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The city of Jerusalem and its lying prophets will feel my fierce anger. Then I will announce that the city has fallen and that the lying prophets are dead,


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Ezekiel, son of man, now condemn the women of Israel who preach messages that come from their own imagination.


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Tell them they're doomed! They wear magic charms on their wrists and scarves on their heads, then trick others into believing they can predict the future. They won't get away with telling those lies.


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They charge my people a few handfuls of barley and a couple pieces of bread, and then give messages that are insulting to me. They use lies to sentence the innocent to death and to help the guilty go free. And my people believe them!


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I hate the magic charms they use to trick people into believing their lies. I will rip those charms from their wrists and set free the people they have trapped like birds.


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I will tear the scarves from their heads and rescue my people from their power once and for all. Then they will know that I am the LORD God.


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They do things I would never do. They lie to good people and encourage them to do wrong, and they convince the wicked to ruin their own lives by not turning from sin.


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I will no longer let these women give false messages and use magic, and I will free my people from their control. Then they will know that I, the LORD, have done these things.


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Ezekiel, son of man, these men have started worshiping idols, though they know it will cause them to sin even more. So I refuse to give them a message!


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Tell the people of Israel that if they sin by worshiping idols and then go to a prophet to find out what I say, I will give them the answer their sins deserve.


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When they hear my message, maybe they will see that they need to turn back to me and stop worshiping those idols.


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Now, Ezekiel, tell everyone in Israel: I am the LORD God. Stop worshiping those idols I hate so much and come back to me.


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Suppose one of you Israelites or a foreigner living in Israel rejects me and starts worshiping idols. If you then go to a prophet to find out what I say, I will answer


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by turning against you. I will make you a warning to anyone who might think of doing the same thing, and you will no longer belong to my people. Then you will know that I am the LORD and that you have sinned against me.


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If a prophet gives a false message, I am the one who caused that prophet to lie. But I will still reject him and cut him off from my people,


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I will do this, so that you will come back to me and stop destroying yourselves with these disgusting sins. So turn back to me! Then I will be your God, and you will be my people. I, the LORD God, make this promise.


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Ezekiel, son of man, suppose an entire nation sins against me, and I punish it by destroying the crops and letting its people and livestock starve to death.


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Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were living in that nation, their faithfulness would not save anyone but themselves.


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Or suppose I punish a nation by sending wild animals to eat people and scare away every passerby, so that the land becomes a barren desert.


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As surely as I live, I promise that even if these three men lived in that nation, their own children would not be spared. The three men would live, but the land would be an empty desert.


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If these three men were in that nation when I punished it, not even their children would be spared. Only the three men would live.


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And suppose I am so angry that I send a deadly disease to wipe out the people and livestock of a sinful nation.


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Again, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were living there, I, the LORD, promise that the children of these faithful men would also die. Only the three of them would be spared.


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I am the LORD God, and I promise to punish Jerusalem severely. I will send war, starvation, wild animals, and deadly disease to slaughter its people and livestock.


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And those who survive will be taken from their country and led here to Babylonia. Ezekiel, when you see how sinful they are, you will know why I did all these things to Jerusalem.


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Ezekiel, son of man, what happens to the wood of a grapevine after the grapes have been picked? It isn't like other trees in the forest,


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because the wood of a grapevine can't be used to make anything, not even a small peg to hang things on.


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It can only be used as firewood. But after its ends are burnt and its middle is charred, it can't be used for anything.


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I will punish the people of Jerusalem with fire. Some of them have escaped one destruction, but soon they will be completely burned. And when that happens, you, Ezekiel, will know that I am the LORD.


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I will make their country an empty wasteland, because they have not been loyal to me. I, the LORD God, have spoken.


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and tell them that I, the LORD God, am saying: Jerusalem, you were born in the country where Canaanites lived. Your father was an Amorite, and your mother was a Hittite.


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When you were born, no one cut you loose from your mother or washed your body. No one rubbed your skin with salt and olive oil, and wrapped you in warm blankets.


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Not one person loved you enough to do any of these things, and no one even felt sorry for you. You were despised, thrown into a field, and forgotten.


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I took care of you, like someone caring for a tender, young plant. You grew up to be a beautiful young woman with mature breasts and hair, but you were still naked.


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When I saw you again, you were old enough to have sex. So I covered your naked body with my own robe. Then I solemnly promised that you would belong to me and that I, the LORD God, would take care of you.


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I gave you the finest clothes and the most expensive robes, as well as sandals made from the best leather.


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Your jewelry was gold and silver, and your clothes were made of only the finest material and embroidered linen. Your bread was baked from fine flour, and you ate honey and olive oil. You were as beautiful as a queen,


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You learned that you were attractive enough to have any man you wanted, so you offered yourself to every passerby.


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You made shrines for yourself and decorated them with some of your clothes. That's where you took your visitors to have sex with them. These things should never have happened!


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You made idols out of the gold and silver jewelry I gave you, then you sinned by worshiping those idols.


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You dressed them in the clothes you got from me, and you offered them the olive oil and incense I gave you.


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I supplied you with fine flour, olive oil, and honey, but you sacrificed it all as offerings to please those idols. I, the LORD God, watched this happen.


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You were so busy sinning and being a prostitute that you refused to think about the days when you were young and were rolling around naked in your own blood.


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where you disgraced yourself by having sex with anyone who walked by. And you did that more and more every day!


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So I punished you by letting those greedy Philistine enemies take over some of your territory. But even they were offended by your repulsive behavior.


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You couldn't get enough sex, so you chased after Assyrians and slept with them. You still weren't satisfied,


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I, the LORD God, say that you were so disgusting that you would have done anything to get what you wanted.


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You had sex on every street corner, and when you finished, you refused to accept money. That's worse than being a prostitute!


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You are nothing but an unfaithful wife who would rather have sex with strangers than with your own husband.


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You chased after lovers, then took off your clothes and had sex. You even worshiped disgusting idols and sacrificed your own children as offerings to them.


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So I, the LORD God, will gather every one of your lovers, those you liked and those you hated. They will stand around you, and I will rip off your clothes and let all of those lovers stare at your nakedness.


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I will find you guilty of being an unfaithful wife and a murderer, and in my fierce anger I will sentence you to a violent death!


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Then I will hand you over to your lovers, who will tear down the places where you had sex. They will take your clothes and jewelry, leaving you naked and empty-handed.


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and burn down your houses. Other women will watch these terrible things happen to you. I promise to stop you from being a prostitute and paying your lovers for sex.


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You made me furious by doing all these disgusting things and by forgetting how I took care of you when you were young. Then you made things worse by acting like a prostitute. You must be punished! I, the LORD God, have spoken.


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You are just like your mother, who hated her husband and her own children. You are also like your sisters, who hated their husbands and children. Your father was an Amorite, and your mother was a Hittite.


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Your older sister was Samaria, that city to your north with her nearby villages. Your younger sister was Sodom, that city to your south with her nearby villages.


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You followed their way of life and their wicked customs, and soon you were more repulsive than they were.


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As surely as I am the living LORD God, the people of Sodom and its nearby villages were never as sinful as you.


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They were arrogant and spoiled; they had everything they needed and still refused to help the poor and needy.


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They thought they were better than everyone else, and they did things I hate. And so I destroyed them.


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You people of Jerusalem have sinned twice as much as the people of Samaria. In fact, your evil ways have made both Sodom and Samaria look innocent.


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So their punishment will seem light compared to yours. You will be disgraced and put to shame because of your disgusting sins.


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Then you will be ashamed of how you've acted, and Sodom and Samaria will be relieved that they weren't as sinful as you.


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When that day comes, you and Sodom and Samaria will once again be well-off, and all nearby villages will be restored.


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But now everyone has learned how wicked you really are. The countries of Syria and Philistia, as well as your other neighbors, hate you and make insulting remarks.


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But I remember the agreement I made with you when you were young, and so I will make you a promise that will last forever.


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When you think about how you acted, you will be ashamed, especially when I return your sisters to you as daughters, even though this was not part of our agreement.


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I will forgive you, but you will think about your sins and be too ashamed to say a word. I, the LORD God, have spoken.


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so they will understand what I am saying to them: A large eagle with strong wings and beautiful feathers once flew to Lebanon. It broke the top branch off a cedar tree,


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The eagle also took a seed from Israel and planted it in a fertile field with plenty of water, like a willow tree beside a stream.


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The seed sprouted and grew into a grapevine that spread over the ground. It had lots of leaves and strong, deep roots, and its branches grew upward toward the eagle.


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There was another eagle with strong wings and thick feathers. The roots and branches of the grapevine soon turned toward this eagle, hoping it would bring water for the soil.


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But the vine was already growing in fertile soil, where there was plenty of water to produce healthy leaves and large grapes.


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Now tell me, Ezekiel, do you think this grapevine will live? Or will the first eagle pull it up by its roots and pluck off the grapes and let its new leaves die? The eagle could easily kill it without the help of a large and powerful army.


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The grapevine is strong and healthy, but as soon as the scorching desert wind blows, it will quickly wither.


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Ezekiel, ask the rebellious people of Israel if they know what this story means. Tell them that the king of Babylonia came to Jerusalem, then he captured the king of Judah and his officials, and took them back to Babylon as prisoners.


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He chose someone from the family of Judah's king and signed a treaty with him, then made him swear to be loyal. He also led away other important citizens,


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so that the rest of the people of Judah would obey only him and never gain control of their own country again.


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But this new king of Judah later rebelled against Babylonia and sent officials to Egypt to get horses and troops. Will this king be successful in breaking the treaty with Babylonia? Or will he be punished for what he's done?


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As surely as I am the living LORD God, I swear that the king of Judah will die in Babylon, because he broke the treaty with the king of Babylonia, who appointed him king.


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Even the king of Egypt and his powerful army will be useless to Judah when the Babylonians attack and build towers and dirt ramps to destroy the cities of Judah and its people.


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The king of Judah broke his own promises and ignored the treaty with Babylonia. And so he will be punished!


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He made a promise in my name and swore to honor the treaty. And now that he has broken that promise, my name is disgraced. He must pay for what he's done.


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I will spread out a net to trap him. Then I will drag him to Babylon and see that he is punished for his unfaithfulness to me.


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His best troops will be killed in battle, and the survivors will be scattered in every direction. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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Someday, I, the LORD, will cut a tender twig from the top of a cedar tree, then plant it on the peak of Israel's tallest mountain,


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where it will grow strong branches and produce large fruit. All kinds of birds will find shelter under the tree, and they will rest in the shade of its branches.


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Every tree in the forest will know that I, the LORD, can bring down tall trees and help short ones grow. I dry up green trees and make dry ones green. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will keep my word.


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Ezekiel, I hear the people of Israel using the old saying, “Sour grapes eaten by parents leave a sour taste in the mouths of their children.”


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Now tell them that I am the LORD God, and as surely as I live, that saying will no longer be used in Israel.


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The lives of all people belong to me—parents as well as children. However, only those who sin will be put to death.


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He refuses to eat meat sacrificed to foreign gods at local shrines or to worship Israel's idols. He doesn't have sex with someone else's wife or with a woman having her monthly period.


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He never cheats or robs anyone and always returns anything taken as security for a loan; he gives food and clothes to the poor


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and doesn't charge interest when lending money. He refuses to do anything evil; he is fair to everyone


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cheats the poor, and robs people. He keeps what is given to him as security for a loan. He worships idols, does disgusting things,


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and charges high interest when lending money. An evil man like that will certainly not live. He is the one who has done these horrible sins, so it's his own fault that he will be put to death.


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But suppose this evil man has a son who sees his father do these things and refuses to act like him.


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He doesn't eat meat at local shrines or worship Israel's idols, and he doesn't have sex with someone else's wife.


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He never cheats or robs anyone and doesn't even demand security for a loan. He gives food and clothes to the poor


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and refuses to do anything evil or to charge interest. And he obeys all my laws and teachings. Such a man will live. His own father sinned, but this good man will not be put to death for the sins of his father.


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You may wonder why a son isn't punished for the sins of his father. It is because the son does what is right and obeys my laws.


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Only those who sin will be put to death. Children won't suffer for the sins of their parents, and parents won't suffer for the sins of their children. Good people will be rewarded for what they do, and evil people will be punished for what they do.


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Suppose wicked people stop sinning and start obeying my laws and doing right. They won't be put to death.


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I, the LORD God, don't like to see wicked people die. I had much rather see them turn back from their sins and live.


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But when good people start sinning and doing disgusting things, will they live? No! All their good deeds will be forgotten, and they will be put to death because of their sins.


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I will judge each of you for what you've done. So stop sinning, or else you will certainly be punished.


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Give up your evil ways and start thinking pure thoughts. And be faithful to me! Do you really want to be put to death for your sins?


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When the nations heard of him, they trapped him in a pit, then they used hooks to drag him to Egypt.


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His mother waited for him to return. But soon she lost all hope and raised another cub, who also became fierce.


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Nations plotted to kill him, and people came from all over to spread out a net and catch him in a trap.


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They put him in a cage and took him to Babylonia. The lion was locked away, so that his mighty roar would never again be heard on Israel's hills.


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Your mother was a vine like you, growing near a stream. There was plenty of water, so she was filled with branches and with lots of fruit.


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Her strong branches became symbols of authority, and she was taller than all other trees— everyone could see how strong and healthy she was.


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But in anger, I pulled her up by the roots and threw her to the ground, where the scorching desert wind dried out her fruit. Her strong branches wilted and burned up.


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where her stem caught fire, and flames burned her branches and fruit. Not one strong branch is left; she is stripped bare. This funeral song must be sung with sorrow.


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Seven years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, some of Israel's leaders came to me on the tenth day of the fifth month. They sat down and asked for a message from the LORD.


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Ezekiel, son of man, these leaders have come to find out what I want them to do. As surely as I live, I will not give them an answer of any kind.


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Tell them that long ago I, the LORD God, chose Israel to be my own. I appeared to their ancestors in Egypt and made a solemn promise that I would be their God and the God of their descendants.


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I swore that I would rescue them from Egypt and lead them to a land I had already chosen. This land was rich with milk and honey and was the most splendid land of all.


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I told them to get rid of their disgusting idols and not to sin by worshiping the gods of Egypt. I reminded them that I was the LORD their God,


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but they still rebelled against me. They refused to listen and kept on worshiping their idols and foreign gods. In my anger, I decided to punish the Israelites in Egypt.


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But that would have made me look like a liar, because I had already promised in front of everyone that I would lead them out of Egypt.


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And I commanded them to respect the Sabbath as a way of showing that they were holy and belonged to me.


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But the Israelites rebelled against me in the desert. They refused to obey my laws and teachings, and they treated the Sabbath like any other day. Then in my anger, I decided to destroy the Israelites in the desert once and for all.


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But that would have disgraced me, because many other nations had seen me bring the Israelites out of Egypt.


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Instead, I told them in the desert that I would not lead them into the beautiful, fertile land I had promised.


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I said this because they had not only ignored my laws and teachings, but had disgraced my Sabbath and worshiped idols.


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So I warned the children not to act like their parents or follow their evil ways or worship their idols.


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I told them to respect my Sabbath to show that they were my people and that I was the LORD their God.


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But the children also rebelled against me. They refused to obey my laws and teachings, and they treated the Sabbath as any other day. I became angry and decided to punish them in the desert.


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But I did not. That would have disgraced me in front of the nations that had seen me bring the Israelites out of Egypt.


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because they had disobeyed my laws and ignored my teachings; they had disgraced my Sabbath and worshiped the idols their ancestors had made.


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and I let them offer me unacceptable sacrifices, including their first-born sons. I did this to horrify them and to let them know that I, the LORD, was punishing them.


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by offering sacrifices, incense, and wine to gods on every hill and under every large tree. I was very angry, because they did these things in the land I had given them!


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I asked them where they went to worship those gods, and they answered, “At the local shrines.” And those places of worship are still called shrines.


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by worshiping idols and by sacrificing their own children as offerings. They commit these sins and still think they can ask me for a message. As surely as I am the living LORD God, I will give them no answer.


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They may think they can be like other nations and get away with worshiping idols made of wood and stone. But that will never happen!


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As surely as I am the living LORD God, I will rule over you with my powerful arm. You will feel my fierce anger


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and lead you into a desert surrounded by nations. I will meet you there face to face. Then I will pass judgment on you


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I will separate the sinful rebels from the rest of you, and even though I will bring them from the nations where they live in exile, they won't be allowed to return to Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.


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Go ahead and worship your idols for now, you Israelites, because soon I will no longer let you dishonor me by offering gifts to them. You will have no choice but to obey me!


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When that day comes, everyone in Israel will worship me on Mount Zion, my holy mountain in Jerusalem. I will once again call you my own, and I will accept your sacred offerings and sacrifices.


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When I bring you home from the places where you are now scattered, I will be pleased with you, just as I am pleased with the smell of the smoke from your sacrifices. Every nation on earth will see that I am holy,


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and you will know that I, the LORD, am the one who brought you back to Israel, the land I promised your ancestors.


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Then you will remember your wicked sins, and you will hate yourselves for doing such horrible things. They have made you unacceptable to me,


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so you deserve to be punished. But I will treat you in a way that will bring honor to my name, and you will know that I am the LORD God.


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that I, the LORD God, will start a fire that will burn up every tree, whether green or dry. Nothing will be able to put out the blaze of that fire as it spreads to the north and burns everything in its path.


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But I complained, “LORD God, I don't want to do that! People already say I confuse them with my messages.”


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that I am about to punish them. I will pull out my sword and have it ready to kill everyone, whether good or evil.


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When they ask why you are groaning, tell them you have terrifying news that will make them faint and tremble in fear and lose all courage. These things will happen soon. I, the LORD God, make this promise!


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Ezekiel, son of man, tell the people of Jerusalem: I have sharpened my sword to slaughter you; it is shiny and will flash like lightning! Don't celebrate— punishment is coming, because everyone has ignored my warnings.


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Groan in sorrow, Ezekiel; the sword is drawn against my people and their leaders. They will die! So give up all hope.


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Ezekiel, warn my people, then celebrate my victory by clapping your hands. My vicious sword will attack again and again, killing my people with every stroke.


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They will lose all courage and stumble with fear. My slaughtering sword is waiting at every gate, flashing and ready to kill.


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Ezekiel, son of man, mark two roads for the king of Babylonia to follow when he comes with his sword. The roads will begin at the same place, but be sure to put up a signpost where the two roads separate and go in different directions.


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Clearly mark where the two roads lead. One goes to Rabbah, the capital of Ammon, and the other goes to Jerusalem, the fortified capital of Judah.


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When the Babylonian king stands at that signpost, he will decide which way to go by shaking his arrows, by asking his idols, and by carefully looking at the liver of a sacrificed animal.


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His right hand will pull out the arrow marked “Jerusalem.” Then he will immediately give the signal to shout the battle cry, to build dirt ramps up to the top of the city walls, to break down its walls and gates with large wooden poles, and to kill the people.


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Everyone in Jerusalem had promised to be loyal to Babylonia, and so none of them will believe that this could happen to them. But Babylonia's king will remind them of their sinful ways and warn them of their coming captivity.


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Ezekiel, tell the people of Jerusalem and their ruler that I, the LORD God, am saying: Everything you do is wicked and shows how sinful you are. You are guilty and will be taken away as prisoners.


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I, the LORD God, command you to take off your royal turban and your crown, because everything will be different. Those who had no power will be put in charge, and those who now rule will become nobodies.


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I will leave Jerusalem in complete ruins like no one has ever seen until my chosen one comes to punish this city.


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The LORD God said: Ezekiel, son of man, the Ammonites have insulted Israel, so condemn them and tell them I am saying: A sword is drawn, ready to slaughter; it is polished and prepared to kill as fast as lightning.


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You wicked Ammonites see false visions and believe untrue messages. But your day of punishment is coming soon, and my sword will slaughter you!


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Your days to punish others are over, so put your swords away. You will be punished in the land of your birth.


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My furious anger will scorch you like fire, and I will hand you over to cruel men who are experts in killing.


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You will be burned and will die in your own land. Then you will be forgotten forever. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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Ezekiel, son of man, are you ready to condemn Jerusalem? That city is filled with murderers, so remind the people of their sins


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and tell them I am saying: Jerusalem, you have murdered many of your own people and have worshiped idols. You will soon be punished!


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Those crimes have made you guilty, and the idols have made you unacceptable to me. So your final punishment is near. Other nations will laugh at you and make insulting remarks,


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Some of your own people tell lies, so that others will be put to death. Some of you eat meat sacrificed to idols at local shrines, and others never stop doing vulgar things.


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Others of you accept money to murder someone. Your own people charge high interest when making a loan to other Israelites, and they get rich by cheating. Worst of all, you have forgotten me, the LORD God.


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When I'm finished with you, your courage will disappear, and you will be so weak that you won't be able to lift your hands. I, the LORD, have spoken and will not change my mind.


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You will be humiliated in the eyes of other nations. Then you will know that I, the LORD God, have done these things.


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Ezekiel, son of man, I consider the people of Israel as worthless as the leftover metal in a furnace after silver has been purified.


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I will be like a metalworker who collects that metal from the furnace and melts it down. I will collect the Israelites and blow on them with my fiery anger. They will melt inside the city of Jerusalem


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Ezekiel, son of man, tell the people of Israel that their country is full of sin, and that I, the LORD, am furious!


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Their leaders are like roaring lions, tearing apart their victims. They put people to death, then steal everything of value. Husbands are killed, and many women are left as widows.


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The priests of Israel ignore my Law! Not only do they refuse to respect any of my sacred things, but they don't even teach the difference between what is sacred and what is ordinary or between what is clean and what is unclean. They treat my Sabbath like any other day, and so my own people no longer honor me.


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Israel's officials are like ferocious wolves, ripping their victims apart. They make a dishonest living by injuring and killing people.


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And then the prophets in Israel cover up these sins by giving false visions. I have never spoken to them, but they lie and say they have a message from me.


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I looked for someone to defend the city and to protect it from my anger, as well as to stop me from destroying it. But I found no one.


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So in my fierce anger, I will punish the Israelites for what they have done, and they will know that I am furious. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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The older one was named Oholah, which stands for Samaria; the younger one was Oholibah, which stands for Jerusalem. They became my wives and gave birth to my children.


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She offered herself to soldiers in purple uniforms: handsome, high-ranking officers and cavalry troops.


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Once she started doing these things in Egypt, she never stopped. Men slept with her, and she was always ready for sex.


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They ripped off her clothes, then captured her children and killed her. Women everywhere talked about what had happened to Oholah.


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But Oholibah behaved worse than her sister. Oholibah saw images of Babylonian men carved into walls and painted red.


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They had belts around their waists and large turbans on their heads, and they reminded her of Babylonian cavalry officers.


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As soon as she looked at them, she wanted to have sex with them. And so, she sent messengers to bring them to her.


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She let everyone see her naked body and didn't care if they knew she was a prostitute. That's why I turned my back on her, just as I had done with her older sister.


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The LORD God said: Oholibah, though you no longer want to be around your lovers, they will surround you like enemies, when I turn them against you.


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I will gather all the handsome young officials and the high-ranking cavalry officers from Babylonia and Assyria, as well as from the Chaldean tribes of Pekod, Shoa, and Koa.


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Their large armies will come from the north with chariots and wagons carrying weapons. They will wear shields and helmets and will surround you, and I will let them judge and sentence you according to their own laws.


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I am angry with you, so I will let them be very cruel. They will cut off your nose and ears; they will kill your children and burn alive anyone in your family who survives.


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I will stop your wickedness and the prostitution you started back in Egypt. You will never want to think about those days again.


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They will cruelly take away everything you have worked for and strip you naked. Then everyone will see you for the prostitute you really are. Your own vulgar sins


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have led to this. You were the one determined to have sex with men from other nations and to worship their idols.


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You have turned out no better than your older sister, and now you must drink from the cup filled with my anger.


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I, the LORD God, gave your sister a large, deep cup filled with my anger. And when you drink from that cup, you will be mocked and insulted.


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But you must drink every drop! Then smash the cup and chew on its broken pieces. Use them to cut your breasts in sorrow. I, the LORD God, have spoken.


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You have completely rejected me, and so I promise that you will be punished for the disgusting things you did as a prostitute.


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The LORD said: Ezekiel, son of man, it's time for you to tell Oholah and Oholibah that they are guilty. Remind them of their evil ways!


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They have been unfaithful by worshiping idols, and they have committed murder by sacrificing my own children as offerings to idols.


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They came into my temple that same day, and that made it unfit as a place to worship me. They have even stopped respecting the Sabbath.


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They sent messengers to attract men from far away. When those men arrived, the two sisters bathed themselves and put on eye shadow and jewelry.


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They sat on a fancy couch, and in front of them was a table for the olive oil and incense that had belonged to me.


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Their room was always filled with a noisy crowd of drunkards brought in from the desert. These men gave the women bracelets and beautiful crowns,


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and I noticed that the men were eager to have sex with these women, though they were exhausted from being prostitutes.


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But honest judges will someday accuse those two of murder and of being unfaithful, because they are certainly guilty.


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So I, the LORD God, now say to these sisters: I will call together an angry mob that will abuse and rob you.


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They will stone you to death and cut you to pieces; they will kill your children and burn down your houses.


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I will get rid of sinful prostitution in this country, so that women everywhere will be warned not to act as you have.


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You will be punished for becoming prostitutes and for worshiping idols. Then you will know that I am the LORD God.


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Nine years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, the LORD spoke to me on the tenth day of the tenth month. He said:


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Ezekiel, son of man, write down today's date, because the king of Babylonia has just begun attacking the city of Jerusalem.


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These words mean that Jerusalem is doomed! The city is filled with murderers and is like an old, rusty pot. The meat is taken out piece by piece, and no one cares what happens to it.


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The people of Jerusalem murdered innocent people in the city and didn't even try to cover up the blood that flowed out on the hard ground.


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Then set the empty pot over the hot coals until it is red-hot. That will clean the pot and burn off the rust.


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Jerusalem is so full of sin and evil that I can't get it clean, even though I have tried. It will stay filthy until I let loose my fierce anger against it.


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That time will certainly come! And when it does, I won't show the people of Jerusalem any pity or change my mind. They must be punished for the evil they have done. I, the LORD God, have spoken.


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“Ezekiel, son of man, I will suddenly take the life of the person you love most. But I don't want you to complain or cry.


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Mourn in silence and don't show that you are grieving. Don't remove your turban or take off your sandals; don't cover your face to show your sorrow, or eat the food that mourners eat.”


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One morning, I was talking with the people as usual, and by sunset my wife was dead. The next day I did what the LORD had told me,


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he is ready to destroy the temple in which you take such pride and which makes you feel so safe. Your children who now live in Jerusalem will be killed.


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Then you will do the same things I have done. You will leave your face uncovered and refuse to eat the food that mourners usually eat.


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You won't take off your turbans and your sandals. You won't cry or mourn, but all day long you will go around groaning because of your sins.


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I am a warning sign—everything I have done, you will also do. And then you will know the LORD God has made these things happen.


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The LORD said, “Ezekiel, I will soon destroy the temple that makes everyone feel proud and safe, and I will take away their children as well.


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Then you will be able to speak again, and the two of you will talk. You will be a warning sign to the people, and they will know that I am the LORD.”


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and tell them: You celebrated when my temple was destroyed, when Israel was defeated, and when my people were taken away as prisoners.


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Now I am going to let you be conquered by tribes from the eastern desert. They will set up their camps in your land and eat your fruit and drink your milk.


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Your capital city of Rabbah will be nothing but pastureland for camels, and the rest of the country will be pastures for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD God.


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And so I will hand you over to enemies who will rob you. I will completely destroy you. There won't be enough of your people left to be a nation ever again, and you will know that I, the LORD, have done these things.


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So I will let Moab's fortress towns along its border be attacked, including Beth-Jeshimoth, Baal-Meon, and Kiriathaim.


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The same eastern desert tribes that invade Ammon will invade Moab, and just as Ammon will be forgotten forever,


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So I will punish Edom by killing all its people and livestock. It will be an empty wasteland all the way from Teman to Dedan.


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I will send my own people to take revenge on the Edomites by making them feel my fierce anger. And when I punish them, they will know that I am the LORD God.”


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The LORD God said, “The cruel Philistines have taken revenge on their enemies over and over and have tried to destroy them.


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Now it's my turn to treat the Philistines as my enemies and to kill everyone living in their towns along the seacoast.


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In my fierce anger, I will take revenge on them. And when I punish them, they will know that I am the LORD.”


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Eleven years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, the LORD spoke to me on the first day of the month. He said:


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Ezekiel, son of man, the people of the city of Tyre have celebrated Jerusalem's defeat by singing, “Jerusalem has fallen! It used to be powerful, a center of trade. Now the city is shattered, and we will take its place.”


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Because the people of Tyre have sung that song, I have the following warning for them: I am the LORD God, and I am now your enemy! I will send nations to attack you, like waves crashing against the shore.


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They will tear down your city walls and defense towers. I will sweep away the ruins until all that's left of you is a bare rock,


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and that the people who live in your towns along the coast will be killed. Then you will know that I am the LORD.


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King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia is the world's most powerful king, and I will send him to attack you. He will march from the north with a powerful army, including horses and chariots and cavalry troops.


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First, he will attack your towns along the coast and kill the people who live there. Then he will build dirt ramps up to the top of your city walls and set up rows of shields around you.


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He will command some of his troops to use large wooden poles to beat down your walls, while others use iron rods to knock down your watchtowers.


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He will have so many horses that the dust they stir up will seem like a thick fog. And as his chariots and cavalry approach, even the walls will shake, especially when he proudly enters your ruined city.


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His troops will ride through your streets, killing people left and right, and your strong columns will crumble to the ground.


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The troops will steal your valuable possessions; they will break down your walls, and crush your expensive houses. Then the stones and wood and all the remains will be dumped into the sea.


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because I will turn you into a bare rock where fishermen can dry their nets. And you will never rebuild your city. I, the LORD God, make this promise.


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The people of the nations up and down the coast will shudder when they hear your screams and moans of death.


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The kings will step down from their thrones, then take off their royal robes and fancy clothes, and sit on the ground, trembling. They will be so shocked at the news of your defeat that they will shake in fear


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and sing this funeral song: “The great city beside the sea is destroyed! Its people once ruled the coast and terrified everyone there.


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and carry you down to the world of the dead, where you will join people of ancient times and towns ruined long ago. You will stay there and never again be a city filled with people.


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You will die a horrible death! People will come looking for your city, but it will never be found. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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the city that is built along the sea and that trades with nations along the coast. Tell the people of Tyre that the following message is from me: Tyre, you brag about your perfect beauty,


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Builders used cypress trees from Mount Hermon to make your planks and a cedar tree from Lebanon for your tall mast.


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Oak trees from Bashan were shaped into oars; pine trees from Cyprus were cut for your deck, which was then decorated with strips of ivory.


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The builders used fancy linen from Egypt for your sails, so everyone could see you. Blue and purple cloth from Cyprus was used to shade your deck.


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Experienced men from Byblos repaired any damages. Sailors from all over shopped at the stores in your port.


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Brave soldiers from Persia, Lydia, and Libya served in your navy, protecting you with shields and helmets, and making you famous.


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Your guards came from Arvad and Cilicia, and men from Gamad stood watch in your towers. With their weapons hung on your walls, your beauty was complete.


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You also did business with people from Rhodes, and people from nations along the coast gave you ivory and ebony in exchange for your goods.


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Judah and Israel gave you their finest wheat, fancy figs, honey, olive oil, and spices in exchange for your merchandise.


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The people of Damascus saw what you had to offer and brought you wine from Helbon and wool from Zahar.


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Merchants from Sheba and Raamah gave you excellent spices, precious stones, and gold in exchange for your products.


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You also did business with merchants from the cities of Haran, Canneh, Eden, Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad,


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and they gave you expensive clothing, purple and embroidered cloth, brightly colored rugs, and strong rope.


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Large, seagoing ships carried your goods wherever they needed to go. You were like a ship loaded with heavy cargo


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Everything on board was lost— your valuable cargo, your sailors and carpenters, merchants and soldiers.


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In their grief they sing a funeral song for you: “Tyre, you were greater than all other cities. But now you lie in silence at the bottom of the sea.


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“Nations that received your merchandise were always pleased; kings everywhere got rich from your costly goods.


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People living along the coast are shocked at the news. Their rulers are horrified, and terror is written across their faces.


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The merchants of the world can't believe what happened. Your death was gruesome, and you are gone forever.”


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Ezekiel, son of man, tell the king of Tyre that I am saying: You are so arrogant that you think you're a god and that the city of Tyre is your throne. You may claim to be a god, though you're nothing but a mere human.


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will make you the victim of cruel enemies. They will destroy all the possessions you've worked so hard to get.


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When you face your enemies, will you still claim to be a god? They will attack, and you will suffer like any other human.


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Foreigners will kill you, and you will die the death of those who don't worship me. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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Ezekiel, son of man, sing a funeral song for the king of Tyre and tell him I am saying: At one time, you were perfect, intelligent, and good-looking.


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You lived in the garden of Eden and wore jewelry made of brightly colored gems and precious stones. They were all set in gold and were ready for you on the day you were born.


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I appointed a winged creature to guard your home on my holy mountain, where you walked among gems that dazzled like fire.


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You traded with other nations and became more and more cruel and evil. So I forced you to leave my mountain, and the creature that had been your protector now chased you away from the jewels.


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It was your good looks that made you arrogant, and you were so famous that you started acting like a fool. That's why I threw you to the ground and let other kings sneer at you.


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You have cheated so many other merchants that your places of worship are corrupt. So I set your city on fire and burned it down. Now everyone sees only ashes where your city once stood,


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and the people of other nations are shocked. Your punishment was horrible, and you are gone forever.


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and tell its people: I, the LORD God, am your enemy! People will praise me when I punish you, and they will see that I am holy.


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I will send deadly diseases to wipe you out, and I will send enemies to invade and surround you. Your people will be killed, and you will know that I am the LORD.


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When that happens, the people of Israel will no longer have cruel neighbors that abuse them and make them feel as though they are in a field of thorns and briers. And the Israelites will know that I, the LORD God, have done these things.


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The LORD God said: Someday I will gather the people of Israel from the nations where they are now scattered, and every nation will see that I am holy. The Israelites will once again live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob.


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They will be safe and will build houses and plant vineyards. They will no longer be in danger, because I will punish their hateful neighbors. Israel will know that I am the LORD their God.


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Ten years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, the LORD spoke to me on the twelfth day of the tenth month. He said:


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that I am saying: King of Egypt, you were like a giant crocodile lying in a river. You acted as though you owned the Nile and made it for yourself. But now I, the LORD God, am your enemy!


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I will put a hook in your jaw and pull you out of the water, and all the fish in your river will stick to your scaly body.


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I'll throw you and the fish into the desert, and your body will fall on the hard ground. You will be left unburied, and wild animals and birds will eat your flesh.


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Then everyone in Egypt will know that I am the LORD. You and your nation refused to help the people of Israel and were nothing more than a broken stick.


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When they reached out to you for support, you broke in half, cutting their arms and making them fall.


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So I, the LORD God, will send troops to attack you, king of Egypt. They will kill your people and livestock,


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until your land is a barren desert. Then you will know that I have done these things. You claimed that you made the Nile River and control it.


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Now I am turning against you and your river. Your nation will be nothing but an empty wasteland all the way from the town of Migdol in the north to Aswan in the south, and as far as the border of Ethiopia.


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No human or animal will even dare travel through Egypt, because no sign of life will be found there for 40 years.


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It will be the most barren place on earth. Every city in Egypt will lie in ruins during those 40 years, and I will scatter your people throughout the nations of the world.


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Then after those 40 years have passed, I will bring your people back from the places where I scattered them.


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My own people Israel will never again depend on your nation. In fact, when the Israelites remember what happened to you Egyptians, they will realize how wrong they were to turn to you for help. Then the Israelites will know that I, the LORD God, did these things.


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Twenty-seven years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, the LORD spoke to me on the first day of the first month. He said:


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King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia has attacked the city of Tyre. He forced his soldiers to carry so many heavy loads that their heads were rubbed bald, and their shoulders were red and sore. Nebuchadnezzar and his army still could not capture the city.


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So now I will hand over the nation of Egypt to him. He will take Egypt's valuable treasures and give them to his own troops.


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Egypt will be his reward, because he and his army have been following my orders. I, the LORD God, have spoken.


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Ezekiel, when Egypt is defeated, I will make the people of Israel strong, and I will give you the power to speak to them. Then they will know that I, the LORD, have done these things.


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Your own nation of Egypt will be attacked, and Ethiopia will suffer. You will be killed in battle, and your land will be robbed and left in ruins.


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Soldiers hired from Ethiopia, Libya, Lydia, Arabia, Kub, as well as from Israel, will die in that battle.


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All of your allies will be killed, and your proud strength will crumble. People will die from Migdol in the north to Aswan in the south. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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Your nation of Egypt will be the most deserted place on earth, and its cities will lie in complete ruin.


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I will set fire to your land, and anyone who defended your nation will die. Then you will know that I am the LORD.


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On the same day I destroy Egypt, I will send messengers to the Ethiopians to announce their coming destruction. They think they are safe, but they will be terrified.


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Your Egyptian army is very strong, but I will send King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia to completely defeat that army.


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He and his cruel troops will invade and destroy your land and leave your dead bodies piled everywhere.


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I will dry up the Nile River, then sell the land to evil buyers. I will send foreigners to turn your entire nation into a barren desert. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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All the idols and images you Egyptians worship in the city of Memphis will be smashed. No one will be left to rule your nation, and terror will fill the land.


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The city of Pathros will be left in ruins, and Zoan will be burned to the ground. Thebes, your capital city, will also be destroyed!


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The fortress city of Pelusium will feel my fierce anger, and all the troops stationed at Thebes will be slaughtered.


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I will set fire to your nation of Egypt! The city of Pelusium will be in anguish. Thebes will fall, and the people of Memphis will live in constant fear.


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The young soldiers in the cities of Heliopolis and Bubastis will die in battle, and the rest of the people will be taken prisoner.


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You were so proud of your nation's power, but when I crush that power and kill that pride, darkness will fall over the city of Tahpanhes. A dark, gloomy cloud will cover the land as you are being led away into captivity.


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Eleven years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, the LORD spoke to me on the seventh day of the first month. He said:


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Ezekiel, son of man, I, the LORD, have defeated the king of Egypt! I broke his arm, and no one has wrapped it or put it in a sling, so that it could heal and get strong enough to hold a sword.


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So tell him that I am now his worst enemy. I will break both his arms—the good one and the broken one! His sword will drop from his hand forever,


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I will strengthen the power of Babylonia's king and give him my sword to use against Egypt. I will also make the wounded king of Egypt powerless, and he will moan in pain and die in front of the Babylonian king. Then everyone on earth will know that I am the LORD.


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I will force the Egyptians to live as prisoners in foreign nations, and they will know that I, the LORD, have punished them.


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Eleven years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, the LORD spoke to me on the first day of the third month. He said:


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Ezekiel, son of man, tell the king of Egypt and his people that I am saying: You are more powerful than anyone on earth. Now listen to this.


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This tree had plenty of water to help it grow tall, and nearby streams watered the other trees in the forest.


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Birds built nests in its branches, and animals were born beneath it. People from all nations lived in the shade of this strong tree.


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None of the cedar trees in my garden of Eden were as beautiful as this tree; no tree of any kind had such long branches.


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I, the LORD, gave this tree its beauty, and I helped the branches grow strong. All other trees in Eden wanted to be just like it.


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King of Egypt, now listen to what I, the LORD God, am saying about that tree: The tree grew so tall that it reached the sky and became very proud and arrogant.


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So I, the LORD God, will reject the tree and hand it over to a foreign ruler, who will punish it for its wickedness.


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Cruel foreigners will chop it down and leave it wherever it falls. Branches and broken limbs will be scattered over the mountains and in the valleys. The people living in the shade of those branches will go somewhere else.


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Never again will any tree dare to grow as tall as this tree, no matter how much water it has. Every tree must die, just as humans die and go down to the world of the dead.


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On the day this tree dies and goes to the world below, I, the LORD God, will command rivers and streams to mourn its death. Every underground spring of water and every river will stop flowing. The mountains in Lebanon will be covered with darkness as a sign of their sorrow, and all the trees in the forest will wither.


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This tree will crash to the ground, and I will send it to the world below. Then the nations of the earth will tremble. The trees from Eden and the choice trees from Lebanon are now in the world of the dead, and they will be comforted when this tree falls.


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Those people who found protection in its shade will also be sent to the world below, where they will join the dead.


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King of Egypt, all these things will happen to you and your people! You were like this tree at one time—taller and stronger than anyone on earth. But now you will be chopped down, just as every tree in the garden of Eden must die. You will be sent down to the world of the dead, where you will join the godless and the other victims of violent death. I, the LORD God, have spoken.


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Twelve years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, the LORD spoke to me on the first day of the twelfth month. He said:


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Ezekiel, son of man, condemn the king of Egypt and tell him I am saying: You act like a lion roaming the earth; but you are nothing more than a crocodile in a river, churning up muddy water with your feet.


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King of Egypt, listen to me. I, the LORD God, will catch you in my net and let a crowd of foreigners drag you to shore.


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I will cover the whole sky and every star with thick clouds, so that the sun and moon will stop shining.


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The heavens will become black, leaving your country in total darkness. I, the LORD God, have spoken.


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They will be horrified, and when I flash my sword in victory on the day of your death, their kings will tremble in the fear of what could happen to them.


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Your soldiers will be killed by the cruelest army in the world, and everything you take pride in will be crushed.


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I will slaughter your cattle that graze by the river, and no people or livestock will be left to muddy its water.


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Egypt will become a barren wasteland, and no living thing will ever survive there. Then you and your people will know that I am the LORD.


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This is your warning, and it will be used as a funeral song by foreign women to mourn the death of your people. I, the LORD God, have spoken.


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Ezekiel, son of man, mourn for the Egyptians and condemn them to the world of the dead, where they will be buried alongside the people of other powerful nations.


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Say to them: You may be more beautiful than the people of other nations, but you will also die and join the godless in the world below.


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Brave military leaders killed in battle will gladly welcome you and your allies into the world of the dead.


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The graves of soldiers from Assyria are there. They once terrified people, but they were killed in battle and now lie deep in the world of the dead.


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The graves of soldiers from Elam are there. The very sight of those godless soldiers once terrified their enemies and made them panic. But now they are disgraced and ashamed as they lie in the world of the dead, alongside others who were killed in battle.


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The graves of soldiers from Meshech and Tubal are there. These godless soldiers who terrified people were all killed in battle.


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They were not given a proper burial like the heroes of long ago, who were buried with their swords under their heads and with their shields over their bodies. These were the heroes who made their enemies panic.


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You Egyptians will be cruelly defeated, and you will be buried alongside these other godless soldiers who died in battle.


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The graves of kings and leaders from Edom are there. They were powerful at one time. Now they are buried in the world of the dead with other godless soldiers killed in battle.


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The graves of the rulers of the north are there, as well as those of the Sidonians. Their powerful armies once terrified enemies. Now they lie buried in the world of the dead, where they are disgraced like other soldiers killed in battle.


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The LORD God says: When your king of Egypt sees all of these graves, he and his soldiers will be glad they are not the only ones suffering.


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I sent him to terrify people all over the earth. But he and his army will be killed and buried alongside other godless soldiers in the world of the dead. I, the LORD God, have spoken.


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Ezekiel, son of man, warn your people by saying: Someday, I, the LORD, may send an enemy to invade a country. And suppose its people choose someone to stand watch


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If any of these people hear the signal and ignore it, they will be killed in battle. But it will be their own fault, because they could have escaped if they had paid attention.


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But suppose the person watching fails to sound the warning signal. The enemy will attack and kill some of the sinful people in that country, and I, the LORD, will hold that person responsible for their death.


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Ezekiel, I have appointed you to stand watch for the people of Israel. So listen to what I say, then warn them for me.


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When I tell wicked people they will die because of their sins, you must warn them to turn from their sinful ways. But if you refuse to warn them, you are responsible for their death.


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If you do warn them, and they keep sinning, they will die because of their sins, and you will be innocent.


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The LORD said: Ezekiel, son of man, the people of Israel are complaining that the punishment for their sins is more than they can stand. They have lost all hope for survival, and they blame me.


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Tell them that as surely as I am the living LORD God, I don't like to see wicked people die. I enjoy seeing them turn from their sins and live. So if the Israelites want to live, they must stop sinning and turn back to me.


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Tell them that when good people start sinning, all the good they did in the past cannot save them from being punished. And remind them that when wicked people stop sinning, their past sins will be completely forgiven, and they won't be punished.


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Suppose I promise good people that they will live, then later they start sinning and believe they will be saved by the good they did in the past. These people will certainly be put to death because of their sins. Their good deeds will be forgotten.


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Suppose I warn wicked people that they will die because of their sins, and they stop sinning and start doing right.


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For example, they need to return anything they have taken as security for a loan and anything they have stolen. Then if they stop doing evil and start obeying my Law, they will live.


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But the Israelites still think I am unfair. So warn them that they will be punished for what they have done.


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Twelve years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, a refugee who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me on the fifth day of the tenth month. He told me that the city had fallen.


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The evening before this man arrived at my house, the LORD had taken control of me. So when the man came to me the next morning, I could once again speak.


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Ezekiel, son of man, the people living in the ruined cities of Israel are saying, “Abraham was just one man, and the LORD gave him this whole land of Israel. There are many of us, and so this land must be ours.”


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So, Ezekiel, tell them I am saying: How can you think the land is still yours? You eat meat with blood in it and worship idols. You commit murder


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and spread violence throughout the land. Everything you do is wicked; you are even unfaithful in marriage. And you claim the land is yours!


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As surely as I am the living LORD God, you people in the ruined cities will be killed in battle. Those of you living in the countryside will be eaten by wild animals, and those hiding in caves and on rocky cliffs will die from deadly diseases.


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I will make the whole country an empty wasteland and crush the power in which you take such pride. Even the mountains will be bare, and no one will try to cross them.


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I will punish you because of your sins, and I will turn your nation into a barren desert. Then you will know that I am the LORD.


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Ezekiel, son of man, the people with you in Babylonia talk about you when they meet by the city walls or in the doorways of their houses. They say, “Let's ask Ezekiel what the LORD has said today.”


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So they all come and listen to you, but they refuse to do what you tell them. They claim to be faithful, but they are forever trying to cheat others out of their money.


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They treat you as though you were merely singing love songs or playing music. They listen, but don't do anything you say.


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Soon they will be punished, just as you warned, and they will know that a prophet has been among them.


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Ezekiel, son of man, Israel's leaders are like shepherds taking care of my sheep, the people of Israel. But I want you to condemn these leaders and tell them: I, the LORD God, say you shepherds of Israel are doomed! You take care of yourselves while ignoring my sheep.


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You drink their milk and use their wool to make your clothes. Then you butcher the best ones for food. But you don't take care of the flock!


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You have never protected the weak ones or healed the sick ones or bandaged those that get hurt. You let them wander off and never look for those that get lost. You are cruel and mean to my sheep.


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They strayed in every direction, and because there was no shepherd to watch them, they were attacked and eaten by wild animals.


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So my sheep were scattered across the earth. They roamed on hills and mountains, without anyone even bothering to look for them.


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Now listen to what I, the living LORD God, am saying to you shepherds. My sheep have been attacked and eaten by wild animals, because you refused to watch them. You never went looking for the lost ones, and you fed yourselves without feeding my sheep.


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So I, the LORD, will punish you! I will rescue my sheep from you and never let you be their shepherd again or butcher them for food. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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just as a shepherd looks for lost sheep. My sheep have been lost since that dark and miserable day when they were scattered throughout the nations. But I will rescue them


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and bring them back from the foreign nations where they now live. I will be their shepherd and will let them graze on Israel's mountains and in the valleys and fertile fields.


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to look for those that are lost and bring back the ones that wander off, to bandage those that are hurt and protect the ones that are weak. I will also slaughter those that are fat and strong, because I always do right.


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The LORD God said to his sheep, the people of Israel: I will carefully watch each one of you to decide which ones are the strong sheep and which ones are weak.


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Some of you eat the greenest grass, then trample down what's left when you finish. Others drink clean water, then step in the water to make the rest of it muddy.


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After that, I will give you a shepherd from the family of my servant King David. All of you, both strong and weak, will have the same shepherd, and he will take good care of you.


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The people of Israel are my sheep, and I solemnly promise that they will live in peace. I will chase away every wild animal from the desert and the forest, so my sheep will not be afraid.


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to make their trees produce fruit and their crops to grow. I will set them free from slavery and let them live safely in their own land. Then they will know that I am the LORD.


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Foreign nations will never again rob them, and wild animals will no longer kill and eat them. They will have nothing to fear.


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I will make their fields produce large amounts of crops, so they will never again go hungry or be laughed at by foreigners.


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and say to them: I, the LORD God, am now your enemy! And I will turn your nation into an empty wasteland,


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People of Edom, not only have you been Israel's longtime enemy, you simply watched when disaster wiped out its people as punishment for their sins.


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and your land will lie in ruins forever. No one will live in your towns ever again. You will know that I am the LORD.


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You thought the nations of Judah and Israel belonged to you, and that you could take over their territory. But I am their God,


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and as surely as I live, I will punish you for treating my people with anger and hatred. Then they will know that I, the LORD, am punishing you!


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And you will finally realize that I heard you laugh at their destruction and say their land was yours to take.


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just as you celebrated when Israel was destroyed. Your nation of Edom will be nothing but a wasteland. Then everyone will know that I am the LORD.


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So all you mountains and hills, streams and valleys, listen to what I will do. Your towns may now lie in ruins, and nations may laugh and insult you.


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But in my fierce anger, I will turn against those nations, and especially the Edomites, because they laughed at you the loudest and took over your pasturelands.


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Trees will grow on you mountains of Israel and produce fruit for my people, because they will soon come home.


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Children will be born, and animals will give birth to their young. You will no longer be deserted as you are now, but you will be covered with people and treated better than ever. Then you will know that I am the LORD.


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I will bring my people Israel home, and they will live on you mountains, because you belong to them, and your fertile slopes will never again let them starve.


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It's true that you have been accused of not producing enough food and of letting your people starve.


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But I, the LORD, promise that you won't hear other nations laugh and sneer at you ever again. From now on, you will always produce plenty of food for your people. I, the LORD God, have spoken.


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Ezekiel, son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own country, they made the land unclean by the way they behaved, just as a woman's monthly period makes her unclean.


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They committed murders and worshiped idols, which made the land even worse. So in my anger, I punished my people


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Wherever they went, my name was disgraced, because foreigners insulted my people by saying I had forced them out of their own land.


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so tell the Israelites that I am saying: You have disgraced my holy name among the nations where you now live. So you don't deserve what I'm going to do for you. I will lead you home to bring honor to my name


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and to show foreign nations that I am holy. Then they will know that I am the LORD God. I have spoken.


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I will sprinkle you with clean water, and you will be clean and acceptable to me. I will wash away everything that makes you unclean, and I will remove your disgusting idols.


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I will take away your stubborn heart and give you a new heart and a desire to be faithful. You will have only pure thoughts,


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You will once again live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God.


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I will protect you from anything that makes you unclean. Your fields will overflow with grain, and no one will starve.


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Your trees will be filled with fruit, and crops will grow in your fields, so that you will never again feel ashamed for not having enough food.


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People of Israel, I'm not doing these things for your sake. You sinned against me, and you must suffer shame and disgrace for what you have done. I, the LORD God, have spoken.


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Instead, they will say that it looks as beautiful as the garden of Eden. They won't see towns lying in ruins, but they will see your strong cities filled with people.


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Then the nearby nations that survive will know that I am the one who rebuilt the ruined places and replanted the barren fields. I, the LORD, make this promise.


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I will once again answer your prayers, and I will let your nation grow until you are like a large flock of sheep.


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The towns that now lie in ruins will be filled with people, just as Jerusalem was once filled with sheep to be offered as sacrifices during a festival. Then you will know that I am the LORD.


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Some time later, I felt the LORD's power take control of me, and his Spirit carried me to a valley full of bones.


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He said, “Ezekiel, son of man, can these bones come back to life?” I replied, “LORD God, only you can answer that.”


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I will wrap you with muscles and skin and breathe life into you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”


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I did what the LORD said, but before I finished speaking, I heard a rattling noise. The bones were coming together!


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The LORD said: Ezekiel, now say to the wind, “The LORD God commands you to blow from every direction and to breathe life into these dead bodies, so they can live again.”


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As soon as I said this, the wind blew among the bodies, and they came back to life! They all stood up, and there were enough to make a large army.


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The LORD said: Ezekiel, the people of Israel are like dead bones. They complain that they are dried up and that they have no hope for the future.


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So tell them, “I, the LORD God, promise to open your graves and set you free. I will bring you back to Israel,


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My Spirit will give you breath, and you will live again. I will bring you home, and you will know that I have kept my promise. I, the LORD, have spoken.”


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Ezekiel, son of man, get a stick and write on it, “The kingdom of Judah.” Then get another stick and write on it, “The kingdom of Israel.”


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tell them that I, the LORD, will join together the stick of Israel and the stick of Judah. I will hold them in my hand, and they will become one.


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and then say: I, the LORD God, will gather the people of Israel and bring them home from the foreign nations where they now live.


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I will make them into one nation and let them once again live in the land of Israel. Only one king will rule them, and they will never again be divided into two nations.


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They will no longer worship idols and do things that make them unacceptable to me. I will wash away their sin and make them clean, and I will protect them from everything that makes them unclean. They will be my people, and I will be their God.


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Their king will always come from the family of my servant King David and will care for them like a shepherd. The people of Israel will faithfully obey my laws. They and their descendants will live in the land I gave my servant Jacob, just as their ancestors did.


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I solemnly promise to bless the people of Israel with unending peace. I will protect them and let them become a powerful nation. My temple will stand in Israel for all time,


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Every nation on earth will know that my temple is in Israel and that I have chosen the Israelites to be my people.


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Ezekiel, son of man, condemn Gog, that wicked ruler of the kingdoms of Meshech and Tubal in the land of Magog. Tell him:


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and I will make you powerless! I will put a hook in your jaw and drag away both you and your large army. You command cavalry troops that wear heavy armor and carry shields and swords.


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because in a few years, I will command you to invade Israel, a country that was ruined by war. It was deserted for a long time, but its people have returned from the foreign nations where they once lived. The Israelites now live in peace in the mountains of their own land.


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to take advantage of Israel, that weak and peaceful country where people live safely inside towns that have no walls or gates or locks.


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You will rob the people in towns that were once a pile of rubble. These people lived as prisoners in foreign nations, but they have returned to Israel, the most important place in the world, and they own livestock and property.


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The people of Sheba and Dedan, along with merchants from villages in southern Spain, will be your allies. They will want some of the silver and gold, as well as the livestock and property that your army takes from Israel.


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You will attack my people like a storm-cloud that covers their land. I will let you invade my country Israel, so that every nation on earth will know that I, the LORD, am holy.


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The LORD said to Gog: Long ago, I ordered my prophets to warn the people of Israel that someday I would send an enemy to attack them. You, Gog, are that enemy, and that day is coming.


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Every living thing on earth will tremble in fear of me—every fish and bird, every wild animal and reptile, and every human. Mountains will crumble, cliffs will fall, and cities will collapse.


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I, the LORD, will make the mountains of Israel turn against you. Your troops will be so terrified that they will attack each other.


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I will strike you with diseases and punish you with death. You and your army will be pounded with rainstorms, hailstones, and burning sulfur.


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Ezekiel, son of man, condemn Gog and tell him: You are the ruler of Meshech and Tubal, but I, the LORD, am your enemy!


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I will set fire to the land of Magog and to those nations along the seacoast that think they are so secure, and they will know that I am the LORD.


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My people Israel will know me, and they will no longer disgrace my holy name. Everyone on earth will know that I am the holy LORD God of Israel.


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When that day comes, the people in the towns of Israel will collect the weapons of their dead enemies. They will use these shields, bows and arrows, spears, and clubs as firewood, and there will be enough to last for seven years.


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They will burn these weapons instead of gathering sticks or chopping down trees. That's how the Israelites will take revenge on those who robbed and abused them. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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After Gog has been destroyed, I will bury him and his army in Israel, in Travelers' Valley, east of the Dead Sea. That graveyard will be so large that it will block the way of anyone who tries to walk through the valley, which will then be known as “The Valley of Gog's Army.”


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Everyone will help with the burial, and they will be honored for this on the day the brightness of my glory is seen.


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After those seven months, the people will appoint a group of men to look for any dead bodies left unburied. This must be done for seven months to make sure that the land is no longer unclean.


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Whenever they find a human bone, they will set up a marker next to it. Then the gravediggers will bury it in “The Valley of Gog's Army”


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Ezekiel, son of man, I am going to hold a feast on Israel's mountains and offer sacrifices there. So invite all the birds and wild animals to come from every direction and eat the meat of sacrifices and drink the blood. The birds and animals


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will feast on the bodies of warriors and foreign rulers that I will sacrifice like sheep, goats, and bulls.


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They will come to my table and stuff themselves with the flesh of horses and warriors of every kind. I, the LORD God, have spoken.


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Foreign nations will realize that the Israelites were forced to leave their own land because they sinned against me. I turned my back on my people and let enemies attack and kill them.


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Now I will show mercy to the people of Israel and bring them back from the nations where they are living. They are Jacob's descendants, so I will bless them and show that I am holy.


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They will live safely in their own land, but will be ashamed when they remember their evil ways and how they disgraced me.


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Foreign nations will watch as I take the Israelites from enemy lands and bring them back home, and those nations will see that I am holy.


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My people will realize that I, the LORD their God, sent them away as prisoners and now will bring them back to their own land.


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Never again will I turn my back on the people of Israel, and my Spirit will live in them. I, the LORD, have spoken.


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Twenty-five years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, and 14 years after the Babylonians had captured Jerusalem, the LORD's power took control of me on the tenth day of the first month. The LORD showed me some visions in which I was carried to the top of a high mountain in Jerusalem. I looked to the south and saw what looked like a city full of buildings.


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In my vision the LORD took me closer, and I saw a man who was sparkling like polished bronze. He was standing near one of the gates and was holding a tape measure in one hand and a measuring stick in the other.


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The man said, “Ezekiel, son of man, pay close attention to everything I'm going to show you—that's why you've been brought here. Listen carefully, because you must tell the people of Israel what you see.”


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The first thing I saw was an outer wall that completely surrounded the temple area. The man took his measuring stick, which was three meters long, and measured the wall; it was three meters high and three meters thick.


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Then he went to the east gate, where he walked up steps that led to a long passageway. On each side of this passageway were three guardrooms, which were three meters square, and they were separated by walls two and a half meters thick. The man measured the distance between the opening of the gate and the first guardroom, and it was three meters, the thickness of the outer wall. At the far end of this passageway, I saw an entrance room that faced the courtyard of the temple itself. There was also a distance of three meters between the last guardroom and the entrance room


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at the end of the passageway. The man measured this room: It was four meters from the doorway to the opposite wall, and the distance from the doorway to the wall on either side was one meter.


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The three guardrooms on each side of the passageway were the same size, and the walls that separated them were the same thickness.


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Next, the man measured the width of the passageway, and it was six and a half meters, but the two doors of the gate were only five meters wide.


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In front of the guardrooms, which were three meters square, was a railing about 50 centimeters high and 50 centimeters thick.


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The man measured the distance from the back wall of one of these rooms to the same spot in the room directly across the passageway, and it was twelve and a half meters.


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Finally, he measured the total length of the passageway, from the outer wall to the entrance room, and it was 25 meters.


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The three walls in the guardrooms had small windows in them, just like the ones in the entrance room. The walls along the passageway were decorated with carvings of palm trees.


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The man then led me through the passageway and into the outer courtyard of the temple, where I saw 30 rooms built around the outside of the courtyard. These side rooms were built against the outer wall, and in front of them was a sidewalk that circled the courtyard.


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I saw the gates that led to the inner courtyard of the temple and noticed that they were higher than those leading to the outer courtyard. The man measured the distance between the outer and inner gates, and it was 50 meters.


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This gate also had three guardrooms on each side of a passageway. The measurements of these rooms, the walls between them, and the entrance room at the far end of the passageway were exactly the same as those of the east gate. The north gate was also 25 meters long and 12.5 meters wide,


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and the windows, the entrance room, and the carvings of palm trees were just like those in the east gate. The entrance room also faced the courtyard of the temple and had seven steps leading up to it.


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Directly across the outer courtyard was a gate that led to the inner courtyard, just as there was for the east gate. The man measured the distance between the outer and inner gate, and it was 50 meters.


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The man then took me to the south gate. He measured the walls and the entrance room of this gate, and the measurements were exactly the same as those of the other two gates.


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There were windows in the guardrooms of this gate and in the entrance room, just like the others, and this gate was also 25 meters long and 12.5 meters wide.


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Seven steps led up to the gate; the entrance room was at the far end of the passageway and faced the courtyard of the temple. Carvings of palm trees decorated the walls along the passageway.


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And directly across the outer courtyard was a gate on the south side of the inner courtyard. The man measured the distance between the outer and inner gate, and it was also 50 meters.


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We then went into the inner courtyard, through the gate on the south side of the temple. The man measured the gate, and it was the same size as the gates in the outer wall.


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In fact, everything along the passageway was also the same size, including the guardrooms, the walls separating them, the entrance room at the far end, and the windows. This gate, like the others, was 25 meters long and 12.5 meters wide.


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The entrance room of this gate faced the outer courtyard, and carvings of palm trees decorated the walls of the passageway. Eight steps led up to this gate.


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Next, we went through the east gate to the inner courtyard. The man measured this gate, and it was the same size as the others.


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The guardrooms, the walls separating them, and its entrance room had the same measurements as the other gates. The guardrooms and the entrance room had windows, and the gate was 25 meters long and 12.5 meters wide.


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The entrance room faced the outer courtyard, and the walls in the passageway were decorated with carvings of palm trees. Eight steps also led up to this gate.


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including the guardrooms, the walls separating them, and the entrance room. There were also windows in this gate. It was 25 meters long and 12.5 meters wide,


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and like the other inner gates, its entrance room faced the outer courtyard, and its walls were decorated with carvings of palm trees. Eight steps also led up to this gate.


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Inside the entrance room of the north gate, I saw four tables, two on each side of the room, where the animals to be sacrificed were killed. Just outside this room was a small building used for washing the animals before they were offered as sacrifices to please the LORD or sacrifices for sin or sacrifices to make things right.


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Four more tables were in the outer courtyard, two on each side of the steps leading into the entrance room.


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and where the meat was placed until it was sacrificed on the altar. Next to the tables in the entrance room were four stone tables 50 centimeters high and 75 centimeters square; the equipment used for killing the animals was kept on top of these tables. All around the walls of this room was a 75-millimeter shelf.


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The man then took me to the inner courtyard, where I saw two buildings, one beside the inner gate on the north and the other beside the inner gate on the south.


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and the building beside the south gate belongs to those who serve at the altar. All of them are descendants of Zadok and are the only Levites allowed to serve as the LORD's priests.”


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Now the man measured the inner courtyard; it was 50 meters square. I also saw an altar in front of the temple.


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We walked to the porch of the temple, and the man measured the doorway of the porch: It was seven meters long, two and a half meters wide, and the distance from the doorway to the wall on either side was one and a half meters.


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The porch itself was ten meters by six meters, with steps leading up to it. There was a column on each side of these steps.


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Next we went into the main room of the temple. The man measured the doorway of this room: It was 3 meters wide,


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five meters long, and the distance from the doorway to the wall on either side was two and a half meters. The main room itself was 20 meters by 10 meters.


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Then the man walked to the far end of the temple's main room and said, “Beyond this doorway is the most holy place.” He first measured the doorway: It was one meter wide, 3 meters long, and the distance from the doorway to the wall on either side was 3.5 meters. Then he measured the most holy place, and it was 10 meters square.


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The man measured the wall of the temple, and it was three meters thick. Storage rooms two meters wide were built against the outside of the wall.


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There were three levels of rooms, with 30 rooms on each level, and they rested on ledges that were attached to the temple walls, so that nothing was built into the walls.


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The walls of the temple were thicker at the bottom than at the top, which meant that the storage rooms on the top level were wider than those on the bottom level. Steps led from the bottom level, through the middle level, and into the top level.


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The temple rested on a stone base three meters high, which also served as the foundation for the storage rooms.


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The outside walls of the storage rooms were two and a half meters thick; there was nothing between these walls


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One door led into the storage rooms on the north side of the temple, and another door led to those on the south side. The stone base extended two and a half meters beyond the outside wall of the storage rooms.


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I noticed another building: It faced the west end of the temple and was 35 meters wide, 45 meters long, and had walls over 2.5 meters thick.


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The man measured the length of the temple, and it was 50 meters. He then measured from the back wall of the temple, across the open space behind the temple, to the back wall of the west building; it was 50 meters.


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The distance across the front of the temple, including the open space on either side, was also 50 meters.


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Finally, the man measured the length of the west building, including the side rooms on each end, and it was also 50 meters. The inside walls of the temple's porch and main room


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were paneled with wood all the way from the floor to the windows, while the doorways, the small windows, and the three side rooms were trimmed in wood.


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with carvings of winged creatures and had a carving of a palm tree between the creatures. Each winged creature had two faces: A human face looking at the palm tree on one side, and a lion's face looking at the palm tree on the other side. These designs were carved into the paneling all the way around the two rooms.


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The doorframe to the temple's main room was in the shape of a rectangle. In front of the doorway to the most holy place was something that looked like


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a wooden altar. It was one and a half meters high and one meter square, and its corners, its base, and its sides were made of wood. The man said, “This is a reminder that the LORD is constantly watching over his temple.”


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Both the doorway to the main room of the temple and the doorway to the most holy place had two doors,


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The doors to the main room were decorated with carvings of winged creatures and palm trees just like those on the walls, and there was a wooden covering over the porch just outside these doors.


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The walls on each side of this porch had small windows and were also decorated with carvings of palm trees.


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After the man and I left the temple and walked back to the outer courtyard, he showed me a set of rooms on the north side of the west building. This set of rooms was 50 meters long and 25 meters wide.


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On one side of them was the 10 meters of open space that ran alongside the temple, and on the other side was the sidewalk that circled the outer courtyard. The rooms were arranged in three levels


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with doors that opened toward the north, and in front of them was a walkway five meters wide and 50 meters long.


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The rooms on the top level were narrower than those on the middle level, and the rooms on the middle level were narrower than those on the bottom level.


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The rooms on the bottom level supported those on the two upper levels, and so these rooms did not have columns like other buildings in the courtyard.


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and at the east end of this wall was the door leading from the courtyard to these rooms. There was also a set of rooms on the south side of the west building.


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These rooms were exactly like those on the north side, and they also had a walkway in front of them.


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The man then said to me: These rooms on the north and south sides of the temple are the sacred rooms where the LORD's priests will eat the most holy offerings. These offerings include the grain sacrifices, the sacrifices for sin, and the sacrifices to make things right.


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When the priests are ready to leave the temple, they must go through these rooms before they return to the outer courtyard. They must leave their sacred clothes in these rooms and put on regular clothes before going anywhere near other people.


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After the man had finished measuring the buildings inside the temple area, he took me back through the east gate and measured the wall around this area.


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Then he measured the north side, the south side, and the west side of the wall, and they were each 250 meters long,


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and so the temple area was a perfect square. The wall around this area separated what was sacred from what was ordinary.


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where I saw the brightness of the glory of Israel's God coming from the east. The sound I heard was as loud as ocean waves, and everything around was shining with the dazzling brightness of his glory.


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This vision was like the one I had seen when God came to destroy Jerusalem and like the one I had seen near the Chebar River. I immediately bowed with my face to the ground,


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The LORD's Spirit lifted me to my feet and carried me to the inner courtyard, where I saw that the LORD's glory had filled the temple.


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Ezekiel, son of man, this temple is my throne on earth. I will live here among the people of Israel forever. They and their kings will never again disgrace me by worshiping idols at local shrines or by setting up memorials to their dead kings.


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Israel's kings built their palaces so close to my holy temple that only a wall separated them from me. Then these kings disgraced me with their evil ways, and in my fierce anger I destroyed them.


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But if the people and their kings stop worshiping other gods and tear down those memorials, I will live among them forever.


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The people of Israel must suffer shame for sinning against me, so tell them about my holy temple. Let them think about it,


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then if they are truly sorry, describe for them the design and shape of the temple, the gates, the measurements, and how the buildings are arranged. Explain the regulations about worshiping there, then write down these things, so they can study and obey them.


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The temple area on my holy mountain must be kept sacred! This is the most important law about the temple.


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According to the official standards, the altar in the temple had the following measurements: Around the bottom of the altar was a gutter 50 centimeters wide and 50 centimeters deep, with a 25-centimeter ledge on the outer rim.


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The altar rested on a base and had three sections, each one of them square. The bottom section was 8 meters on each side and one meter high. The middle section was 7 meters on each side and 2 meters high, and it had a 25-centimeter rim around its outer edge. The top section, which was 6 meters on each side and 2 meters high, was the place where sacrifices were burned, and the four corners of the top section looked like the horns of a bull. The steps leading up to the altar were on the east side.


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The LORD God said: Ezekiel, son of man, after the altar is built, it must be dedicated by offering sacrifices on it and by splattering it with blood. Here is what you must do:


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The priests of the Levi tribe from the family of Zadok the priest are the only ones who may serve in my temple—this is my law. So give them a young bull to slaughter as a sacrifice for sin.


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Take some of the animal's blood and smear it on the four corners of the altar, some on the corners of the middle section, and some more on the rim around its edge. That will purify the altar and make it fit for offering sacrifices to me.


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The next day, a goat that has nothing wrong with it must be offered as a sacrifice for sin. Purify the altar with its blood, just as you did with the blood of the bull.


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and bring them to my temple. The priests will sprinkle salt on them and offer them as sacrifices to please me.


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Each day for the next seven days, you must offer a goat and a bull and a ram as sacrifices for sin. These animals must have nothing wrong with them.


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The priests will purify the altar during those days, so that it will be acceptable to me and ready to use.


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From then on, the priests will use this altar to offer sacrifices to please me and sacrifices to ask my blessing. Then I will be pleased with the people of Israel. I, the LORD God, have spoken.


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The man took me back to the outer courtyard, near the east gate of the temple area. I saw that the doors to this gate were closed.


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The LORD said: I, the LORD God of Israel, came through this gate, so it must remain closed forever! No one must ever use it.


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The ruler of Israel may come here to eat a sacrificial meal that has been offered to me, but he must use only the entrance room of this gate.


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Then the man took me through the north gate to the front of the temple. I saw that the brightness of the LORD's glory had filled the temple, and I immediately bowed with my face to the ground.


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The LORD said: Ezekiel, son of man, I am going to give you the laws for my temple. So pay attention and listen carefully to what kind of people are allowed to come in the temple, and what kind are not.


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My temple has been disgraced, because you have let godless, stubborn foreigners come here when sacrifices are being offered to me. You have sinned and have broken our solemn agreement.


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Instead of following the proper ways to worship me, you have put foreigners in charge of worship at my temple.


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And so I, the LORD God, say that no godless foreigner who disobeys me will be allowed in my temple. This includes any foreigner living in Israel.


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Some of the Levites turned their backs on me and joined the other people of Israel in worshiping idols. So these Levites must be punished!


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They will still be allowed to serve me as temple workers by guarding the gates and by killing the animals to be sacrificed and by helping the worshipers.


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But because these Levites served the people of Israel when they worshiped idols, I, the LORD God, promise that the Levites will be punished. They did not stop the Israelites from sinning,


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and now I will no longer let the Levites serve as my priests or come near anything sacred to me. They must suffer shame and disgrace for their disgusting sins.


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The priests of the Levi tribe who are descendants of Zadok the priest were faithful to me, even when the rest of the Israelites turned away. And so, these priests will continue to serve as my priests and to offer the fat and the blood of sacrifices.


