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But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth, and you will tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says.’ He who hears, let him hear. And he who is not willing to hear, let him not be willing. For they are a sinful people.


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Ezekiel Shows How Jerusalem Will Be Taken
“Now, son of man, get a hard clay block. Set it down in front of you and draw the city of Jerusalem on it.


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Then build a battle-wall around it to shut it in, and build a hill of dirt against the wall. Cut down trees and lay them on wheels all around the city, to use for breaking down the walls.


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Then get an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city, and turn your face toward it. It will be shut in, and you will fight a battle against it. This will be something special for the people of Israel to see.


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“Then lie on your left side, and I will lay the sin of the people of Israel upon you. You will be under the weight of their sin for the number of days that you lie on your side.


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I have set a number of days for you which is the same as the number of years of their sin, 390 days. This is how long you must be under the weight of the sin of the people of Israel.


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When you have completed these, you must lie down a second time, but on your right side. And you must be under the weight of the sin of the people of Judah. I have set a time of forty days for you to do this, one day for each year.


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Then you must turn your face toward the battle against Jerusalem with no covering on your arm, and tell what will happen against the city.


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I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, until you have completed the days of your battle.


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“Take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt and put them in one pot, and make them into bread for yourself. Eat it during the 390 days that you lie on your side.


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The food you eat each day will weigh as much as twenty pieces of silver, and will have to last until the next day.


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And the water you drink each day will be enough to fill a bottle. You will drink it from time to time.


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Eat your food as you would barley cakes, making it ready in front of their eyes over a fire burning human waste.”


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The Lord said, “In this way the people of Israel will eat unclean food among the nations where I will drive them.”


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But I said, “O Lord God! See, I have never been unclean. Since I was young until now, I have never eaten what died of itself or what was torn by wild animals. No unclean meat has ever come into my mouth.”


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And He said to me, “Son of man, I am going to take away the bread that is needed in Jerusalem. They will weigh the bread they eat and they will drink water from small cups, and be afraid


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because there will not be enough bread and water. They will look at one another in fear, and waste away in their sin.


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Ezekiel Cuts His Hair with a Sword
“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it to cut the hair from your head and face. Then weigh and divide the hair.


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A third part you must burn in the fire in the center of the city, when the days of the battle are completed. Then take a third part and cut it up with your sword as you move around the city. And a third part you must throw to the wind. For I will pull out a sword behind them.


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Take some more of them and throw them into the fire, and burn them up. A fire will spread from there to all the people of Israel.


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The Lord God says, ‘This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with lands around her.


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But she has turned against My Laws worse than the nations and the lands around her. The people of Jerusalem have turned away from My Laws and have not obeyed them.’


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So the Lord God says, ‘You have been more sinful than the nations around you. You have not walked in My Laws or kept them. You have not even kept Laws like the nations around you have. Because you have acted this way,’


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Because of all the things you have done which I hate, I will do with you what I have never done before, and what I will never do again.


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Fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers. I will punish you and divide you, and spread to every wind those of you who are left.


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You have made My holy place unclean with all your hated objects of worship and sinful ways. So as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘for sure I will turn away from you. My eye will have no pity and I will punish all of you.


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One third of you will die by disease or be destroyed by hunger among you. A third will be killed by the sword around you. And a third I will spread to every wind, and go after them with a sword.


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‘This is how My anger will stop. I will cause My anger to be upon them, and I will be comforted. Then they will know that I, the Lord, have spoken in My jealousy when I have sent My anger upon them.


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You will be a shame, and people will speak against you. You will show people the danger of sinning and fill the nations around you with fear, when I punish you in anger and with angry words. I, the Lord, have spoken.


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I will send hunger and wild animals against you, and they will take away your children. Disease and death will pass through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken.’”


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“Son of man, turn your face toward the mountains of Israel, and tell what is going to happen against them.


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Say, ‘Mountains of Israel, listen to the Word of the Lord God! This is what the Lord God says to the mountains, the hills, the deep and wide valleys: “I Myself am going to bring a sword against you. And I will destroy your high places.


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So your altars will be laid waste. Your altars for special perfume will be broken. And I will kill your people in front of your false gods.


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I will lay the dead bodies of the sons of Israel in front of their false gods, and spread your bones around your altars.


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In every place you live, cities will be laid waste and the high places will be destroyed. Your altars will be laid waste and destroyed. Your false gods will be broken and destroyed. Your altars for special perfume will come to an end.


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“But I will leave some of you alive. For some of you will get away from the sword when you are spread among the lands and nations.


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Then those who get away will remember Me in the nations where they have been taken. They will remember how I have been hurt by their sinful hearts which turned away from Me, and by their sinful eyes which followed after their false gods. And they will hate themselves in their own eyes for the sins they have done, for all their sinful ways.


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Then they will know that I am the Lord. I have not spoken with empty words that I would bring this trouble upon them.”’


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“The Lord God says, ‘Clap your hands, and step hard with your feet, and say, “It is bad because of all the hated sins of the people of Israel! They will fall by the sword, hunger, and disease.


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He who is far away will die by disease. And he who is near will be killed by the sword. He who stays and is shut in by armies will die by hunger. This is how I will send My anger upon them.


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Then you will know that I am the Lord, when their dead lie among their false gods around their altars. They will lie on every high hill, on all the mountain tops, under every green tree, and under every oak tree with many leaves. Their dead will be in all the places where they burned special perfume to all their false gods.


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I will put out My hand against them in every place they live. I will make the land more of a waste than the desert toward Diblah. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”’”


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“Son of man, this is what the Lord God says to the land of Israel: ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.


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Now the end is upon you. I will send My anger against you and punish you because of your ways. I will make you pay for all your sinful actions.


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My eye will have no pity on you. And I will not let you go without punishment. I will punish you for your ways, and for the hated sins that are among you. Then you will know that I am the Lord!’


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Your punishment has come upon you, O you who live in the land. The time has come. The day is near. The sound of trouble and not of joy is upon the mountains.


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Now I will soon pour out My anger upon you. I will send My anger against you. I will punish you for your ways and for the hated sins that are among you.


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My eye will show no pity, and I will not let you go without punishment. I will make you pay for your ways, and for the hated sins that are among you. Then you will know that it is I, the Lord, Who punishes you.


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‘See, the day! See, it is coming! The time for your punishment has come. The power against you has started to grow. Pride has begun to grow.


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Angry action has grown into a power of sin. None of them will be left. None of their people, none of their riches, or anything of honor, will be left among them.


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The time has come. The day has come. Let not the one who buys have joy, or the one who sells have sorrow. For anger is against all their people.


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For the one who sells will not get back what he has sold as long as both of them live. For the punishment of all their people will not be turned back. Because of their sins, not one of them will keep his life.


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‘They have sounded the horn and made everything ready, but no one is going to the battle. For My anger is against all their people.


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The sword is outside, and disease and hunger are inside. He who is in the field will die by the sword. And he who is in the city will be destroyed by disease and hunger.


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Whoever gets away alive will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys. Each of them will be crying in sorrow because of his sin.


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They will dress themselves in cloth made from hair. Much fear will cover them. Shame will be upon all faces, and the hair will be cut from all their heads.


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They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will become an unclean thing. Their silver and gold will not be able to help them in the day of the Lord’s anger. They cannot stop their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For riches have been the cause of their falling into sin.


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They turned the beauty of gold into objects of pride, and made their hated objects of worship with it. So I will make it an unclean thing to them.


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I will give it to the strangers and to the sinful people of the earth as a prize of war, and they will make it sinful.


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I will turn My face from them, and they will make My secret place sinful. Robbers will go into it and make it sinful.


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So I will bring the worst of the nations to take their houses for their own. I will put an end to the pride of the strong ones, and their holy places will become unclean.


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Trouble will come upon trouble, and one story will come after another. They will look for a special dream from a man of God, but the Law will be lost from the religious leader. And wisdom will be lost from the leaders.


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The king will be full of sorrow. The king’s son will be covered with fear. And the hands of the people of the land will shake in fear. I will punish them for their ways. I will give them the punishment they have earned. And they will know that I am the Lord.’”


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False Gods in the House of God
On the fifth day of the sixth month in the sixth year, I was sitting in my house with the leaders of Judah sitting in front of me. And the hand of the Lord God came upon me there.


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Then I saw what looked like a man. From the center of His body and down to his feet, there was what looked like fire. And from the center of His body and up to his head, there was a bright light which looked like shining brass.


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He put out what looked like a hand and caught me by the hair on my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me to see Jerusalem in a special way. He brought me to the north gate of the open space within its walls, and there was the seat of the false god which causes jealousy.


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And I saw that the shining-greatness of the God of Israel was there, like what I had seen in the plain.


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He said to me, “Son of man, look toward the north.” So I looked toward the north, and saw that to the north of the altar gate was this false god of jealousy in the doorway.


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And the Spirit said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the people of Israel are doing? Do you see the hated sins that they are doing here to drive Me far from My holy place? But you will see even worse sins.”


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And He said to me, “Son of man, now dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall and saw a door.


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So I went in and looked. And I saw that on the wall all around were pictures of every kind of thing which moves along the ground, and wild animals, and hated things, and all the false gods of the people of Israel.


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Standing in front of these pictures were seventy leaders of the people of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them. Each man held a dish in his hand from which the smell of special perfume rose up in a cloud.


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Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the leaders of the people of Israel are doing without anyone seeing them? They are worshiping in a room full of false gods. For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us. The Lord has left the land.’”


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Then He brought me to the north gate of the Lord’s house. And I saw women sitting there crying for the false god Tammuz.


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He brought me into the open space of the Lord’s house. And I saw about twenty-five men at the gate to the house of the Lord, between the porch and the altar. Their backs were toward the Lord’s house, and their faces were toward the east. They were bowing toward the east worshiping the sun.


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And He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Is it a little thing for the people of Judah to do the hated sins which they have done here? They have filled the land with sinful actions and have made Me angry again and again. See, they are doing what I hate.


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So I will act in My anger. My eye will have no pity, and I will not let any go without punishment. Even if they cry in My ears with a loud voice, I will not listen to them.”


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The Sinful Are Killed
Then I heard Him call out in a loud voice, “Come near, you who punish the city, each with a destroying ax in his hand.”


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And I saw six men coming from the upper gate on the north side. Each man had his battle-ax in his hand. Among them was a certain man dressed in linen, with things for writing at his side. And the men went in and stood by the brass altar.


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Then the shining-greatness of the God of Israel went up from the cherub where it had been, to the door of the Lord’s house. And He called to the man dressed in linen with the things for writing at his side.


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The Lord said to him, “Go through the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who cry inside themselves over all the hated sins which are being done among them.”


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But to the others I heard Him say, “Go through the city after him, and destroy. Do not let your eye have pity. And do not let any sinner go without punishment.


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Kill and destroy old men, young men, young women, little children, and women. But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at My holy house.” So they started with the leaders who were in front of the Lord’s house.


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He said to them, “Make the house of worship unclean and fill the open spaces with the dead. Go out!” So they went out and killed the people in the city.


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As they were killing, I alone was left, and I fell on my face and cried out, “It is bad, O Lord God! Are You destroying all the people of Israel who are left, by pouring out Your anger on Jerusalem?”


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Then He said to me, “The sin of the people of Israel and Judah is very, very bad. The land is filled with blood, and the city is full of wrong-doing. For they say, ‘The Lord has left the land, and the Lord does not see.’


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But as for Me, My eye will have no pity, and I will not leave any sinner without punishment. I will bring their wrong-doing upon their own heads.”


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Then I saw the man dressed in linen, who had the things for writing at his side, come and say, “I have done just as You have told me.”


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God’s Shining-Greatness Leaves the House of God
Then I looked and saw something like a sapphire stone in the open space that was over the cherubim’s heads. It looked like a throne above them.


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And the Lord said to the man dressed in linen, “Go in between the wheels under the cherubim. Fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim and throw them over the city.” And as I watched, he went in.


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Now the cherubim were standing on the right side of the house of the Lord when the man went in. And the cloud filled the open space inside.


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Then the shining-greatness of the Lord went up from above the cherubim to the door of the Lord’s house. The house of the Lord was filled with the cloud. And the open space was filled with the bright and shining-greatness of the Lord.


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The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outside open space. It was like the voice of God All-powerful when He speaks.


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When He told the man dressed in linen, “Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubim,” the man went in and stood beside a wheel.


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Then one of the cherubim put out his hand to the fire which was among them. He took some and put it into the hands of the one dressed in linen, who took it and went out.


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Then I looked and saw four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub. The wheels looked like they were made of shining chrysolite stone.


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When they moved, they went in any of their four ways without turning as they went, but followed the way the head was facing without turning as they went.


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And their whole body, their backs, their hands, their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes all around, the wheels belonging to all four of them.


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Each one of the cherubim had four faces. The first face was the face of a cherub. The second face was the face of a man. The third was the face of a lion. And the fourth was the face of an eagle.


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Now when the cherubim moved, the wheels went beside them. And when the cherubim lifted up their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not leave their side.


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When the cherubim stood still, the wheels stood still. When they rose up, the wheels rose with them. For the spirit of the living beings was in them.


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Then the shining-greatness of the Lord left the door of the Lord’s house and stood over the cherubim.


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When the cherubim left, they lifted their wings and rose up from the earth in front of my eyes, with the wheels beside them. And they stood still at the door of the east gate of the Lord’s house. The shining-greatness of the God of Israel was over them.


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These are the living beings that I saw under the God of Israel by the Chebar River, so I knew that they were cherubim.


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Israel’s Leaders Are Judged
The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the Lord’s house which faces eastward. There I saw twenty-five men at the door of the gate. Among them I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, leaders of the people.


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Then He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who make sinful plans and tell others in this city to do what is wrong.


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Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon me, and He said to me, “Tell them, ‘This is what the Lord says: “This is what you thought, O people of Israel. For I know the things that come into your mind.


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So the Lord God says, “Your dead whom you have laid in the city are the meat, and this city is the pot. But I will bring you out of it.


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You will be killed by the sword all the way to the land of Israel, so you will know that I am the Lord.


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This city will not be a pot for you, and you will not be the meat inside it. But I will punish you all the way to the land of Israel.


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And you will know that I am the Lord. For you have not walked in my Laws or obeyed them, but have followed the ways of the nations around you.”’”


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While I was saying what was going to happen, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice, “It is bad, Lord God! Will You bring a complete end to those of Israel who are left?”


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“Son of man, your brothers, your family, those who were driven out of the land, and all the people of Israel are those of whom the people of Jerusalem have said, ‘They have gone far away from the Lord. This land has been given to us for our own.’


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So tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “I sent them far away among the nations. I divided them among the countries. But still I was a holy place for them a little while in the countries where they had gone.”’


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So tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “I will gather you from the nations. I will gather you together out of the countries where you have been divided. And I will give you the land of Israel.”’


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I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them. I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh.


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Then they will walk in My Laws and keep them, and obey them. They will be My people, and I will be their God.


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But as for those whose hearts go after their hated and sinful things, I will bring their actions upon their own heads,” says the Lord God.


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Then the cherubim lifted up their wings with the wheels beside them. And the shining-greatness of the God of Israel was over them.


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The Spirit lifted me up and brought me in a special dream by the Spirit of God to the Jews who had been taken to Babylon. Then the special dream that I had seen left me.


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“Son of man, you live among sinful people. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear. For they are sinful people.


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So, son of man, get your things ready to take with you to another land, and let them see you leave during the day. Let them see you leave to go to another place. It may be that they will understand even if they are sinful people.


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Take your things with you during the day, with them watching you. Take the things you will need for going to another land. Then let them see you go out at evening, like those who go to another land.


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Load your things on your shoulder while they watch, and carry the load out in the dark. Cover your face so that you cannot see the land. For I have made you as something special for the people of Israel to see.”


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I did as I was told. During the day I brought out my things that I would need to go to another land. Then in the evening I dug through the wall with my hands. I went out in the dark and carried the load on my shoulder while they watched.


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Tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “This word is about the leader in Jerusalem, as well as all the people of Israel who are in it.”’


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Tell them, ‘I am something special for you to see. As I have done, so it will be done to them. They will be taken to another land and held there.’


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The leader among them will load his things on his shoulder in the dark and go out. A hole will be dug through the wall for him to go through. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land with his eyes.


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I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My trap. I will bring him to Babylon in the land of the Babylonians, yet he will not see it. And he will die there.


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I will divide all his helpers and all his army who are around him to the four winds and have the sword follow them.


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Then they will know that I am the Lord when I divide them among the nations, and spread them among the countries.


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But I will let a few of them get away from the sword, hunger and disease. They will tell about all their sinful ways to the nations where they go. And they will know that I am the Lord.”


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Then tell the people of the land, ‘This is what the Lord God says about the people of Jerusalem in the land of Israel: “They will be afraid as they eat their bread, and drink their water in fear. For their land will lay waste because of the fighting of all who live in it.


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The cities where people live will be laid waste, and the land will be destroyed. Then you will know that I am the Lord.”’”


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“Son of man, what is this saying you people have about the land of Israel, which says, ‘The days are long and every special dream comes to nothing’?


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Tell them, ‘The Lord God says, “I will make this saying come to an end, so that they will no longer use it as a saying in Israel.’” But tell them, ‘The days are near when all the special dreams from God will come true.


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For I the Lord will speak, and whatever I say will be done. It will no longer be held back. For in your days, O sinful people, I will speak the word and do it,’ says the Lord God.”


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“Son of man, the people of Israel are saying, ‘The special dream he sees will not come to pass for many years. He is speaking of times far in the future.’


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So tell them, ‘The Lord God says, “None of My words will be held back any longer. Whatever I say will be done,’” says the Lord God.”


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“Son of man, speak against those of Israel who speak false words in My name. Say to those who tell what is going to happen in the future out of their own minds, ‘Listen to the Word of the Lord!


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The Lord God says, “It is bad for the foolish people who tell what is going to happen by following their own spirit and have seen nothing.


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You have not gone up to the broken places to build the wall around the people of Israel so that it will stand in the battle on the day of the Lord.


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They have lied and have spoken false words using their secret ways, saying, ‘This is what the Lord says,’ when the Lord has not sent them. Yet they hope that what they say will come true.


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Did you not see a false dream and tell a lie using your secret ways when you said, ‘This is what the Lord says,’ when I have not spoken?”’”


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So the Lord God says: “Because you have spoken false words and seen a lie, I am against you,” says the Lord God.


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“My hand will be against those who see false dreams and speak false words. They will have no place in the gathering of My wise people. Their names will not be written down with the people of Israel. And they will not go into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord God.


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Because they have led My people the wrong way by saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and because, when anyone builds a bad wall, they cover it with whitewash,


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tell those who cover it with whitewash that it will fall! A flood of rain will come, and large hailstones will fall. And a strong wind will break out.


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When the wall has fallen, will you not be asked, ‘Where is the covering you used to cover the wall?’”


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So the Lord God says, “I will make a strong wind break out in My anger. There will also be a flood of rain in My anger, and large hailstones to destroy that wall.


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I will break down the wall that you covered with whitewash. I will bring it down to the ground so that its base will be showing. And when it falls, you will be destroyed with it. Then you will know that I am the Lord.


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I will send My anger upon the wall and upon those who have covered it with whitewash. And I will say to you, ‘The wall is gone and the ones who covered it are gone.


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There are no more people of Israel who speak false words to Jerusalem in My name, and who see dreams of peace for her when there is no peace,’ says the Lord God.


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“Now, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who are telling what will happen from their own minds. Speak against them,


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and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “It is bad for the women who sew objects with secret powers to wear on their arms, and make coverings for the heads to trap people. Will you go after the lives of My people, but save the lives of others for yourselves?


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You have used Me in a sinful way among My people for hands full of barley and for pieces of bread. You have killed people who should not die, and have kept others alive who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies.”’”


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So the Lord God says, “I am against your objects with secret powers that you wear on your arms with which you trap people like birds. I will tear them from your arms. And I will let the people go that you trap like birds.


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I will also tear off your head-coverings and save My people from you. They will no longer be trapped by your hands. Then you will know that I am the Lord.


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You have made My good people sad because of your lies whom I did not want to hurt. But you have helped the sinful man, so that he does not turn from his sinful way and save his life.


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So you women will no longer see false dreams or use your secret ways to learn the future. I will save My people from your hands. And then you will know that I am the Lord.”


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“Son of man, these men have taken false gods into their hearts. They have put in front of their faces the sin which is the cause of their fall. Should I let Myself be asked questions by them at all?


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So speak to them and tell them, ‘The Lord God says, “Every man of Israel who has given his heart to false gods and lets them lead him into sin and then comes to the man of God, I the Lord will answer him, the answer that his many false gods should get,


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“So tell the people of Israel, ‘The Lord God says, “Be sorry for your sins and turn away from your false gods. Turn your faces away from all your sinful ways.


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If a man of Israel or a stranger living in Israel who turns away from Me and gives his heart to false gods, and worships them, and if he then comes to the man of God to get answers from Me, I the Lord will answer him Myself.


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I will set My face against that man and make him something special to see and to speak against. I will cut him off from among My people. And you will know that I am the Lord.


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But if the man who speaks in My name is given a false answer, it is I, the Lord, Who has caused him to speak. And I will put out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.


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They will suffer the punishment of their sin. The man who asks the question and the man who speaks to him in My name will both be punished in the same way.


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This is so that the people of Israel may no longer turn away from Me, and no longer make themselves sinful with all their wrong-doing. They will be My people and I will be their God,”’ says the Lord God.”


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“Son of man, if a country sins against Me by not being faithful, I will put out My hand against it. I will destroy its store of bread, and send hunger against it, and take away both man and animal from it.


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For even if these three men, Noah, Daniel and Job, were in this country, they would save only their own lives by being right and good,” says the Lord God.


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“If I sent wild animals to pass through the land to kill its people and destroy it so that no one would go through it because of the wild animals,


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even if these three men were in the land, as I live,” says the Lord God, “they could not save their sons or their daughters. They alone would be saved, but the country would be laid waste.


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If I bring a sword against that country and say, ‘Let the sword pass through the country and cut off man and animal from it,’


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even if these three men were in the land, as I live,” says the Lord God, “they could not save their sons or their daughters. They alone would be saved.


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Or if I send a disease against that country and show My anger by killing, to take away man and animal from it,


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even if Noah, Daniel and Job were in the land, as I live,” says the Lord God, “they could not save their son or daughter. They would save only themselves by being right and good.


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“For the Lord God says, ‘How much worse will it be when I send my four worst punishments against Jerusalem! I will send the sword, hunger, wild animals, and disease, to take away man and animal from it!


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Yet there will be some people and their children left alive in it who will be brought out. When they come to you, see how sinful they are. Then you will know that all the trouble I brought upon Jerusalem was right.


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It will help you when you see how they act. Then you will know that there was a good reason for everything I did,’ says the Lord God.”


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Can wood be taken from it to make anything? Or can men take a piece of wood from it on which to hang a pot?


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If it has been put into the fire to burn, and the fire has burned up both of its ends, and the center of it is black from the fire, can it then be used for anything?


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See, if it is not used for anything while it is whole, how much less can it ever be used for anything when the fire has burned it up and it has turned black!


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So the Lord God says, ‘Like the wood of the vine among the trees, which I have given to be burned in the fire, so will I give up the people of Jerusalem.


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I will set My face against them. Even if they get away from the fire, the fire will yet destroy them. Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I set My face against them.


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Tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says to Jerusalem: “Your beginning and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite. Your father was an Amorite and your mother was a Hittite.


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On the day you were born the cord between you and your mother was not cut. You were not washed with water to make you clean. You were not rubbed with salt or even covered with cloth.


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No one looked with pity on you or did any of these things for you out of loving-kindness. Instead you were thrown out into the open field, for you were hated on the day you were born.


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“When I passed by you and saw you rolling about in your blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’


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I made you become many, like plants of the field. Then you grew up and became tall. You grew into a beautiful woman. You had breasts and your hair had grown. Yet you were not covered and your body could be seen.


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Then I passed by you and saw that you were old enough for love. So I spread my clothing over you and covered your body. I gave you my promise and made an agreement with you so that you became Mine,” says the Lord God.


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I dressed you with beautiful cloth, and put leather shoes on your feet. I dressed you with fine linen and covered you with silk.


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So you were dressed with gold and silver. Your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and beautiful cloth. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. So you were very beautiful, and you became a queen.


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Your name became known among the nations because of your beauty. For it was perfect because of My shining-greatness which I had given to you,” says the Lord God.


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“But you trusted in your beauty. Because your name was well-known, you acted like a woman who sells the use of her body. And you did sex sins with anyone who passed by.


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You took some of your clothes of many colors and made for yourself places of worship. There you acted like a woman who sells the use of her body. Such things should never happen or come to pass.


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You also took your objects of beauty made of My gold and silver, which I had given you. And you used them to make things that looked like men, that you might play with them as a woman who sells the use of her body.


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Then you took your beautiful cloth and covered them, and set My oil and My special perfume in front of them.


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You also set in front of them My bread which I gave you, the fine flour, oil and honey I gave you to eat. You gave it all to them as a special perfume. So it was,” says the Lord God.


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“You even took your sons and daughters whom you had given birth for Me, and gave them to the false gods to be destroyed. Were your sex sins too little?


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And in all your hated acts and sex sins you did not remember the days when you were young. You did not remember when you were without clothing or covering, and when you rolled about in your blood.


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You built yourself a high place at the beginning of every street and made your beauty a hated thing. You gave yourself to anyone who passed by, to make your sex sins many.


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You also gave the use of your body to the Egyptians, your neighbors who have much desire for sex sins. And you sinned many times to make Me angry.


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So I have raised My hand to punish you and have made your share smaller. I have given you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your sinful actions.


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You also gave the use of your body to the Assyrians because you had not had enough. Yes, you even gave the use of your body to them and still thought you had not had enough.


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You did many sex sins with Babylon, the land of those who trade. Yet even this was not enough for you.


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“How sinful your heart is,” says the Lord God, “that you do all these things, the actions of a sinful woman, and show no shame.


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You built your places of worship at the beginning of every street and made your high place at every crossing. But you were not like a woman who sells the use of her body, because you did not want pay.


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Men give gifts to all women who sell the use of their body. But you give your gifts to all your lovers. You pay them to come to you from everywhere for your sex sins.


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You are different from other women in your sex sins. You go after men; they do not come to you. You pay men instead of them giving pay to you. Yes, you are different.”


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The Lord God says, “Your shame was poured out and your clothing was taken off because of your sex sins with your lovers and with all your hated false gods. And you killed your children and gave them to false gods. Because of these things,


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I will gather all your lovers who pleased you. I will gather all those whom you loved and all those whom you hated. I will gather them against you from every side, and take off your covering so that they may see all your shame.


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I will punish you as I punish women who are not faithful in marriage, or women who kill. I will do it in My anger and jealousy.


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And I will give you over to your lovers. They will tear down your places of worship and destroy your high places. They will take all of your clothes and your beautiful objects, and will leave you without any covering.


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They will bring up a group of people against you, and they will kill you with stones and cut you to pieces with their swords.


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They will burn your houses with fire and punish you as many women watch. Then I will stop you from acting like a woman who sells the use of her body, and you will no longer pay your lovers.


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Then I will take away My anger from you, and My jealousy will leave you. I will be at peace, and will not be angry any more.


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You have not remembered the days when you were young, but have made Me angry with all these things. So I will punish you for what you have done,” says the Lord God. “Did you not add these sex sins to all your other hated sins?


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More Sinful Than Samaria and Sodom
“Every one who uses sayings will use this saying about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’


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You are the daughter of your mother, who hated her husband and her children. You are also a sister of your sisters who hated their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father was an Amorite.


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Your older sister is Samaria, who lives north of you with her daughters. And your younger sister is Sodom, who lives south of you with her daughters.


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Yet you have walked in their ways and done their hated acts. As if that were too little, you acted worse in all your ways than they.


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As I live,” says the Lord God, “your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.


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Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had pride, much food, and too much rest, but she did not help those who were poor and in need.


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Samaria has not done half of your sins. You have done more sins than they. So you have made your sisters look right and good by all the hated sins which you have done.


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Take your shame upon you, for you have made Me show favor to them in their punishment. Because of your sins in which you acted worse than they, they are more in the right than you. So then be ashamed and take your shame upon you, for you have made your sisters look right and good.


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“I will return them to their land, both Sodom and her daughters, and Samaria and her daughters. With them I will return you to your land.


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This is so you will take your shame upon you, and feel ashamed for all that you have done in becoming a comfort to them.


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Your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to the land they had before. And you with your daughters will return to your land also.


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before your sinful acts were seen. Now you have become like her, an object of shame for the daughters of Edom and all her neighbors, and for the daughters of the Philistines. All those around you who hate you now look on you with shame.


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For the Lord God says, “I will do with you as you have done, because you have hated your promise by breaking the agreement.


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An Agreement That Lasts Forever
“But I will remember My agreement which I made with you when you were young. And I will make an agreement with you that lasts forever.


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Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both your older one and younger one. I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your agreement with Me.


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Then you will remember and be ashamed. You will never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done,” says the Lord God.


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Tell them, ‘The Lord God says, “A large eagle with big wings and long feathers of many colors came to Lebanon and took away the top of the cedar tree.


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He broke off the very top of its young branches and brought it to a land of traders. He placed it in a city of people who buy and sell.


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Then he took some of the seed of the land and planted it in good ground for growing. He planted it like a willow tree where there was much water to make it grow.


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And it grew and became a low spreading vine. Its branches grew toward him, but its roots stayed under it. So it became a vine, and branches and leaves grew out from it.


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“But there was another large eagle with big wings and many feathers. And the vine turned its roots and branches toward him from where it was planted, that he might water it.


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It had been planted in good ground beside much water, that it might grow branches and give fruit and become a beautiful vine.”’


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Tell them, ‘The Lord God says, “Will it live and grow? Will not its roots be pulled up and its fruit be cut off so that its leaves that started to grow dry up? It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it up by the roots.


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Even if it is planted again, will it live and grow? Will it not dry up when the east wind hits it? Will it not dry up in the place where it grew?”’”


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“Now tell these sinful people, ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘See, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem. He took its king and the king’s sons, and brought them back with him to Babylon.


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He took one of the king’s family and made an agreement with him. And he made him promise to keep it. He also took away the strong leaders of the land,


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so that the nation would be under his power and not become strong again. It could only last by keeping his agreement.


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But the king of Judah turned against him by sending his men to Egypt to get horses and a large army for him. Will it go well for him? Can he get away with that? Can he break the agreement and not be punished?


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As I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘he will die in the land of the king who put him on the throne, whose promise he hated, and whose agreement he broke. He will die in Babylon.


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Pharaoh with his powerful army of many men will not help him in the war, when battle-walls are put up so that many people are killed.


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He hated the promise and broke the agreement. Because he had given his promise and then did all these things, he will not get away from being punished.’”


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So the Lord God says, “As I live, I will punish him for hating My promise and for breaking My agreement.


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I will spread My net over him and he will be caught in My trap. Then I will bring him to Babylon and punish him there for not being faithful to Me.


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And all the best of his soldiers will be killed by the sword, and those left alive will be thrown to the wind. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken.”


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God’s Promise of Hope
The Lord God says, “I will also take a young branch from the very top of the cedar tree and plant it. I will break a soft new one from the very top of its young branches, and plant it on a high mountain.


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I will plant it on the high mountain of Israel. It will grow branches and give fruit and become a beautiful cedar. Birds of every kind will nest in it. They will nest in the shadow of its branches.


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Then all the trees of the field will know that I am the Lord. I bring down the high tree and make the low tree grow tall. I dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree become green. I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do what I say.”


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“What do you mean by using this saying about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers eat the sour grapes, but the children get the sour taste’?


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For all souls belong to Me. Both the soul of the father and the soul of the son are Mine. The soul who sins will die.


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he does not eat at the altars on the mountains or look up to the false gods of Israel. He does not sin with his neighbor’s wife or go near a woman during the time she is unclean.


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He does not make it hard for anyone. He keeps his promise to pay back what he owes. He does not steal, but gives his bread to the hungry, and gives clothing to those who have none.


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He does not make others pay back more than they owe him. He keeps away from sin, and is an honest judge when men argue.


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He walks in My Laws and is careful to obey them. This man is right and good, and will live for sure,” says the Lord God.


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that the father never did. He eats at the altars on the mountains, and sins with his neighbor’s wife.


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He makes it hard for the poor and those in need, and he steals. He does not keep his promise to pay back what he owes. He looks up to false gods, and does sinful acts.


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And he makes people pay back more than they owe him. Will this man live? He will not live! He has done all these sinful acts, and for sure he will die. He will be guilty for his own death.


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“Now this man may have a son who has seen all the sins his father has done, but does not do the same.


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He does not eat at the altars on the mountains or look to the false gods of Israel. He does not sin with his neighbor’s wife,


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or make it hard for anyone. He does not keep what another man has given him in trust for a promise. He does not steal, but he gives his bread to the hungry and clothing to those who have none.


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He keeps away from sin. He does not make a person pay back more than he owes him. But he walks in My Laws and obeys them. This man will not die for his father’s sin. He will live for sure.


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As for his father, because he used his power to rob his brother, and did what was wrong among his people, he will die for his sin.


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“Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not suffer for the father’s sin?’ Since the son has done what is right and good, and has kept and obeyed all My Laws, he will live for sure.


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The person who sins will die. The son will not be punished for the father’s sin. And the father will not be punished for the son’s sin. The right and good man will receive good, and the sinful man will suffer for his sin.


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“But if the sinful man turns from all the sins he has done and obeys all My Laws and does what is right and good, he will live for sure. He will not die.


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None of the sins he has done will be remembered against him. Because of the right and good things he has done, he will live.


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Am I pleased with the death of a sinful man?” says the Lord God. “No, instead I would like him to turn from his sinful ways and live.


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“But when a right and good man turns away from doing what is right and good, and sins, doing all the bad things that a sinful man does, will he live? None of the right and good things he has done will be remembered. Because he has not been faithful and has sinned, he will die.


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Yet you say, ‘The Lord is not doing what is right.’ Listen, O people of Israel! Is My way not right? Is it not your ways that are not right?


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When a right and good man turns away from doing what is right and good, and sins, and dies because of it, he dies because of the sin he has done.


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But when a sinful man turns away from his sin and does what is right and good, he will save his life.


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Because he thought about it and turned away from all the sins he had done, he will live for sure. He will not die.


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But the people of Israel say, ‘The Lord is not doing what is right.’ Are My ways not right, O people of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not right?


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“So I will judge you, O people of Israel, each of you by what he has done,” says the Lord God. “Be sorry for all your sins and turn away from them, so sin will not destroy you.


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Turn away from all the sins you have done, and get a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O people of Israel?


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For I am not pleased with the death of anyone who dies,” says the Lord God. “So be sorry for your sins and turn away from them, and live.”


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and say: ‘What was your mother? A female lion among lions! She lay down with young lions. She raised her young ones.


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She brought up one of her little ones, and he became a lion. He learned to catch his food. He ate men.


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The nations heard about him, and he was caught in their trap. And they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.


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Your mother waited until she saw that her hope was lost. Then she took another of her little ones and made him a young lion.


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He walked up and down among the lions. He became a young lion and learned to catch his food. He ate men.


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He wrecked their strong towers and destroyed their cities. The land and all who were in it were filled with fear because of the loud noise he made.


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Then the nations came against him from their lands all around. They spread their net over him, and he was caught in their trap.


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They put him in a prison with chains and brought him to the king of Babylon. They put him in prison so that his voice would never be heard again on the mountains of Israel.


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Your mother was like a vine in your grape-field, planted by the water. It gave much fruit and was full of branches because there was much water.


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Its branches were strong enough to be made into sticks held by rulers to show their power. It grew as high as the clouds. Everyone saw how high it was and that it had many branches.


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But it was pulled up by the roots in anger and thrown down to the ground. The east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branch was torn off so that it dried up. And fire destroyed it.


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Fire has spread from its largest branch and has destroyed its young branches and its fruit. No strong branch is left on it to be made into a stick for a ruler.’ This is a song of sorrow, and is to be used as a death song.”


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Israel Fights against God
On the tenth day of the fifth month in the seventh year, some of the leaders of Israel came to ask the Lord’s will, and they sat down in front of me.


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“Son of man, speak to the leaders of Israel. Tell them, ‘The Lord God says, “Have you come to ask My will? As I live,” says the Lord God, “I will not let you ask me anything.”’


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Will you judge them, son of man? Will you judge them? Make known to them the sinful things their fathers did.


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Tell them, ‘The Lord God says, “On the day I chose Israel, I raised My hand and made a promise to the children of the family of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I made a promise to them, saying, ‘I am the Lord your God.’


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On that day I promised to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land I had chosen for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.


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I said to them, ‘Each of you get rid of the sinful things you have looked upon. Do not make yourselves sinful with the false gods of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’


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But they turned against Me and would not listen to Me. They did not get rid of the sinful things they had looked upon. And they did not turn away from the false gods of Egypt.
“Then I said that I would be angry with them. I would send My anger against them in the land of Egypt.


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But I acted for the good of My name. I did what would keep My name clean in the eyes of the nations they lived among, in whose eyes I made Myself known to them by bringing My people out of Egypt.


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I gave them My Days of Rest to be something special to see between Me and them, so they would know that I am the Lord Who makes them holy.


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But the people of Israel turned against Me in the desert. They did not obey My Laws, and they turned away from My Words which bring life to anyone who obeys them. They made My Days of Rest very sinful. Then I said that I would be angry with them in the desert and destroy them.


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But I acted for the good of My name. I did what would keep My name clean in the eyes of the nations who saw Me bring them out of Egypt.


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So I promised them in the desert that I would not bring them into the land I had given them, the land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.


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This was because they turned away from My Laws and did not obey My Words. They did not keep My Days of Rest holy, for they followed after their false gods with all their heart.


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Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them. I did not make an end of them in the desert.


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“And I said to their children in the desert, ‘Do not keep the laws of your fathers, or follow their ways, or make yourselves sinful with their false gods.


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Keep My Days of Rest holy, and they will be something special to see between Me and you. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.’


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But the children turned against Me. They did not keep My Laws or obey My Words which bring life to anyone who obeys them. They did not keep My Days of Rest holy. So I said I would be angry with them. I would send My anger against them in the desert.


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But I held My hand back, and acted for the good of My name, to keep it clean in the eyes of the nations who saw Me bring them out of Egypt.


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And I promised them in the desert that I would send them everywhere among the nations and spread them out among the lands.


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This is because they had not obeyed My Words. They had turned away from My Laws and did not keep My Days of Rest holy. And they worshiped the false gods of their fathers.


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And I let them become sinful because of their gifts. I let them give all their first-born sons as burnt gifts. This was to punish them and show them that I am the Lord.”’


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“So, son of man, speak to the people of Israel. Tell them, ‘The Lord God says, “This is another way that your fathers have brought shame to My name by not being faithful to Me.


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I brought them into the land I promised to give them. And when they saw all the high hills and trees with many leaves, they gave their gifts on all of them and made Me angry. They also burned special perfume there, and poured out their drink gifts.


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So tell the people of Israel, ‘The Lord God says, “Will you make yourselves sinful in the same way your fathers did, and go after their sinful things?


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When you give your gifts and make your sons go through the fire, you are making yourselves sinful with all your false gods to this day. Am I to let you question Me, O people of Israel? As I live,” says the Lord God, “I will not let you ask Me anything.


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You say, ‘We will be like the nations, like the people of the lands, who serve wood and stone.’ But what you have in mind will never happen.


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Israel Will Come Back to God
“As I live,” says the Lord God, “I will be King over you, and will rule with a powerful hand, a strong arm, and with anger.


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I will bring you out of the nations and countries where you have been divided. I will gather you together with a powerful hand, a strong arm, and with anger.


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I will take away from among you all those who sin or who turn against Me. I will bring them out of the land where they are living, but they will not go into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.


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As for you, O people of Israel,” the Lord God says, “Go and serve your false gods, every one of you, now and later if you will not listen to Me. Do not ever again bring shame to My holy name with your gifts and your false gods.


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For on My holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel,” says the Lord God, “all the people of Israel will serve Me in the land. There I will receive them. And there I will ask for the best of your gifts, with all your holy things.


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I will receive you as the pleasing smell of special perfume, when I bring you out of the nations and gather you from the different lands where you have been sent. And I will prove Myself holy among you in the eyes of the nations.


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Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the land I promised to give to your fathers.


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There you will remember your ways and all the bad things you did to make yourselves sinful. And you will hate yourselves in your own eyes for all the sinful things you have done.


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You will know that I am the Lord when I honor My name by being good to you even though your ways have been sinful and you have done many sinful things, O people of Israel,” says the Lord God.’”


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“Son of man, look toward the south. And speak out against the south and against the land of many trees in the Negev.


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Say to the land of trees in the Negev, ‘Hear the Word of the Lord. The Lord God says, “See, I am about to start a fire that will destroy all of your green trees and all of your dry trees. The hot fire will not be put out, and every face from south to north will be burned by it.


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“Son of man, look toward Jerusalem and speak against the holy places. Speak against the land of Israel.


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Tell the land of Israel, ‘The Lord says, “See, I am against you. I will take My sword out of its holder and destroy from you both the good and the sinful.


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Because I will destroy from you both the good and the sinful, My sword will go out against everyone from south to north.


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Then all people will know that I, the Lord, have taken out My sword. It will not be put back into its holder again.”’


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And when they ask you, ‘Why are you crying?’ tell them, ‘Because of the news that is coming, every heart will melt and all hands will be weak. Every spirit will lose its strength, and all knees will be as weak as water. It is coming, and it will happen,’ says the Lord God.”


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It is made sharp to kill, and shined to look like lightning! Shall we have joy? It hates the special stick of My son, as it does all wood.


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The sword is being shined to make it ready to use. It is made sharp and shiny, to be put into the hand of the killer.


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Cry out in a loud voice, son of man, for the sword is against My people. It is against all the leaders of Israel. They are going to be killed with My people, so beat your upper leg in sorrow.


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They will be put to the test. If they do not turn from their sinful ways, these things will happen,” says the Lord God.’


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“So speak in My name, son of man, and clap your hands together. Let the sword that kills hit two, even three times. It is the sword that kills and is all around them,


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so that they will lose their strength of heart, and many will be killed at all their gates. I have sent the shining sword. It is made to shine like lightning, and is ready to kill.


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“Son of man, make two ways for the king of Babylon to come with his sword. Both of them will come from the same land. Mark the way where the road divides and goes to the city.


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Mark a way for the sword to go to Rabbah of the Ammonites, and to Judah into the strong city of Jerusalem.


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For the king of Babylon stands where the road divides in two to use strange secret powers. He shakes the arrows and speaks with false gods, and looks at the liver.


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In his right hand is the arrow marked for Jerusalem. It tells him to set up objects to knock down the city walls, to call out the battle cry, to set up objects to break down the gates, and to build a wall of dirt and battle towers.


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The people who promised to obey him will not believe this. But he will make them remember their guilt so that they may be taken.


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So the Lord God says, ‘You have made your guilt to be remembered. Your sins are no longer covered, and everyone has seen the bad things you have done and remembers them. So you will be taken in battle.


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And you, O bad and sinful one, the leader of Israel, the day of your punishment has come. Your sin will end.’


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The Lord God says, ‘Take off the head-covering. Take off the crown. Things will not stay as they are. Honor that which is low. And bring down that which is honored.


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A waste, a waste. I will lay the city waste. It will be no more, until He comes whose right it is, and I will give it to Him.’


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“And you, son of man, speak in My name and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says about the sons of Ammon and about their shame.’ Tell them, ‘A sword is pulled out ready to kill! It is made to shine like lightning!


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Even with the false dreams about you, and the lies spoken about you by using secret ways, you will be laid on the necks of the sinful who are killed, whose day has come for their last punishment.


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Put your sword back into its holder. I will punish you in the place where you were made, in the land of your birth.


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I will be angry with you. I will blow on you with the fire of My anger. And I will give you over to men who show no pity, who have been taught to destroy.


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You will be destroyed by fire. You will be killed in your land, and you will not be remembered. For I, the Lord, have spoken.’”


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“Son of man, will you judge? Will you judge this city of blood? Then tell the people about all their sinful acts.


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Tell them, ‘The Lord God says, “O city, because you have killed your own people and have made yourselves false gods to add to your sins, your time will come!


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You have become guilty by killing your people, and sinful by the false gods you have made. You have brought the day of your punishment near. The end of your years has come. So I have made you a shame to the nations. All the countries laugh at you.


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They have not honored father and mother within you. They have made it hard for the stranger living among you. They have done wrong to those in you who have lost their father or husband.


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There are men in you who have lied about others to cause them to be put to death. Some have eaten at the altars on the mountains, and have done sex sins there.


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Men have done sex sins with their fathers’ wives. Men have put women to shame during their time of the month when they are unclean.


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One has done sex sins with his neighbor’s wife. Another has done sex sins with his daughter-in-law. And another has put his own sister to shame, his father’s daughter.


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In you they have taken pay to kill people. You have made others pay back more than they owe you. You have hurt your neighbors by making it hard for them to pay you. And you have forgotten Me,” says the Lord God.


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“I will bring My hand down hard upon the money you have made by your sinful ways, and for the blood of those you have killed among you.


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Can your strength of heart last? Or can your hands be strong, in the days that I punish you? I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do what I say.


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I will divide you among the nations and spread you out through the lands. I will take away from you all that is unclean.


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“Son of man, the people of Israel have become waste to Me. They are like brass, tin, iron, and lead in the fire and have become waste that is left after silver has gone through the fire.


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So the Lord God says, ‘Because you have all become waste, I am going to gather you together in Jerusalem.


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As men gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the stove to blow fire on it and melt it, so I will gather you in My anger. I will put you in the city and melt you.


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As silver is melted in the hot stove, so you will be melted in Jerusalem. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have poured out My anger upon you.’”


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Israel’s false religious leaders are making plans within her. They are like a lion making noise over the food it has killed. They have taken human lives and also riches and things of much worth. They have made many women in Israel lose their husbands.


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Her religious leaders have broken My Law, and have made My holy things unclean. It makes no difference to them if something is holy or unclean. They have not taught the difference between what is clean and unclean. They hide their eyes from My Days of Rest, and I am not honored among them.


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Her leaders are like wolves tearing apart the animals they have killed. They kill and destroy lives to get things by doing wrong.


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Her men who speak in My name have covered these sins with whitewash for the people. They see false dreams and lie to them using their secret ways, saying, ‘This is what the Lord God says,’ when the Lord has not spoken.


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The people of the land have made it hard for others and have stolen. They have done wrong to the poor and those in need. And they have made it hard for the stranger who lives among them, taking away his rights.


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I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before Me in the place where it is broken, to stop Me from destroying the land, but I found no one.


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So I have become angry with them. I have destroyed them with the fire of My anger. I am punishing them for what they have done,” says the Lord God.


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They sold the use of their bodies in Egypt, and did so when they were young. Their breasts were lain upon in that land. Their breasts, which had never before been held by a man, were held.


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The name of the older sister was Oholah, and her younger sister was Oholibah. They became Mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.


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The Older Sister—Samaria
“Oholah sold the use of her body while she was Mine. She was full of desire for her lovers, the Assyrians who lived near her


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who were dressed in purple. They were rulers and leaders, all of them good-looking young men who rode on horses.


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She gave her body to them for sex. They were all the best men of Assyria. And she also sinned by worshiping the false gods of all the men she desired.


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She did not turn away from her sex sins she had begun in Egypt. Men had lain with her since she was young. They had held her young breasts and used her to fill their desire.


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They took off her clothes. They took her sons and daughters. But they killed her with the sword. So she became a saying among women, because she was punished.


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The Younger Sister—Jerusalem
“Her sister Oholibah saw this, but she was more sinful in her desire for sex than Oholah. Her sex sins were worse than those of her sister.


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She wanted to have the Assyrians, rulers and leaders, men who were well dressed, those who rode on horses, all those good looking young men.


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But she did even more sex sins. She saw pictures of men on the wall, pictures of Babylonians drawn in bright red.


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They had belts around them, and flowing head-coverings. All of them looked like Babylonian captains who were born in Chaldea.


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The Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love. They made her sinful with their desire. And after she had had sex with them, she became sick of them.


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When she let her sins and her body be seen, I turned away from her in anger, as I had turned from her sister.


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Yet she did even more sex sins. She remembered when she was young, when she sold the use of her body in the land of Egypt.


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She was full of desire for lovers whose flesh was like those of donkeys, and whose flow was like that of horses.


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Oholibah, you were filled with desire for the sex sins you did when you were young, when the Egyptians held your breasts.


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Jerusalem Is Judged
“So, Oholibah, the Lord God says, ‘I will bring your lovers against you, those you turned away from. I will bring them against you from every side:


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Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, good looking young men, all of them rulers, leaders, captains, and men who are well-known, all of them riding on horses.


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They will come against you from the north, with war-wagons and an army of people. They will come against you on every side with battlecoverings and head-coverings. And I will let them punish you. They will punish you in their own way.


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Because of My jealous anger, I will let them act toward you in anger. They will cut off your nose and ears, and any people who are left will be killed by the sword. They will take your sons and daughters, and any yet left will be burned in the fire.


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So I will put an end to the sex sins you brought from the land of Egypt. You will never again look at these things with desire or remember Egypt.’


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And because they hate you, they will take away everything you own and leave you without clothing. Then your body without clothes will be seen as a sinful woman.


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These things will be done to you because you have sold the use of your body to the nations, and because you have made yourself sinful with their false gods.


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The Lord God says, ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, which is deep and wide. You will be laughed at and made fun of, for it holds much.


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You will become drunk and filled with sorrow, with the cup of fear and waste, with the cup of your sister Samaria.


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You will drink it until it is empty. Then you will chew its pieces and tear your breasts, for I have spoken,’ says the Lord God.


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So the Lord God says, ‘Because you have forgotten Me and put Me behind your back, now suffer the punishment of your sex sins.’”


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Both Sisters Are Judged
The Lord said to me, “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Make them know their sinful acts.


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For they have not been faithful to Me, and blood is on their hands. They have left Me for their false gods. And they gave their sons to these false gods as burnt gifts, the sons they had given to Me at birth.


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That is not all they did. At that same time they have not kept My holy place and My Days of Rest holy.


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When they had killed their children for their false gods, they went into My holy place on the same day to make it unclean. This is what they did within My house.


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They even sent for men who came from far away. And when they came, you washed yourselves, colored your eyes, and put on beautiful objects for them.


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You sat on a beautiful seat with a table made ready in front of it on which you had set My special perfume and My oil.


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The sound of a group free of care was around you. Men who drank too much were brought from the desert with men who were not important. They put beautiful objects on the women’s hands and beautiful crowns on their heads.


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Then I said about the one who was worn out by sex sins, ‘Will they now lie with her when she is this way?’


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But they went in to her as they would go in to a woman who sells the use of her body. So they went in to Oholah and Oholibah, the sinful women.


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But men who are right and good will punish them as women are punished who do sex sins and kill, because they are sinful women and blood is on their hands.


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The group will kill them with stones and with swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.


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So I will put an end to sex sins in the land, that all women will learn of the danger and not sin as you have done.


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You will suffer the penalty for your sex sins and for worshiping your false gods. Then you will know that I am the Lord God.’”


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The Boiling Pot
The Word of the Lord came to me on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year, saying,


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“Son of man, put down in writing this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has shut Jerusalem in with his army this very day.


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And tell a picture-story to these sinful people of Israel. Tell them, ‘The Lord God says, “Put the pot on the fire. Put it on, and pour water in it.


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Take the best of the flock. Put more and more wood under the pot to make it boil, and boil the bones in it.”


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’For the Lord God says, “It is bad for the city of blood, for the rusted pot whose rust has not been cleaned out of it! Take the pieces of meat out of it without choosing them.


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For the blood of the city has been poured on the rock. It was not poured on the ground where the dust would cover it.


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I have put the blood on the rock where it could not be covered, so that it would cause anger and punishment.”


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Put on more and more wood, and make the fire burn. Boil the meat well. Mix in the spices, and let the bones be burned up.


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Now set the empty pot on the coals until it becomes hot and its brass becomes bright with the heat. Then what is not clean in it will melt away. Its rust will be destroyed.


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It is sin that makes you unclean. I have tried to make you clean, but you would not be made clean from your sins. So you will not be clean again until My anger against you is finished.


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I, the Lord, have spoken. The time has come for Me to act. I will not hold back, I will not pity, and I will not be sorry. I will punish you for your ways and for what you have done,” says the Lord God.’”


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“Son of man, with one blow I am about to take away from you the desire of your eyes. But do not have sorrow or loud crying or any tears.


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Cry inside yourself. Do not show sorrow for the dead. Put your head-covering on. Put your shoes on your feet. Do not cover your face or eat the bread of those in sorrow.”


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So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. The next morning I did as I was told.


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’Tell the people of Israel, “The Lord God says, ‘I am about to let sin fill My holy place, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the happiness of your soul. And your sons and daughters you have left behind will be killed by the sword.


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Your heads will be covered and your shoes will be on your feet. You will not have sorrow or cry. But you will waste away in your sins and cry in pain to one another.


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So Ezekiel will be something special for you to see. You will do just as he has done. When this happens, you will know that I am the Lord God.’”


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‘Son of man, I will take away their strong-place that was their joy and pride, the desire of their eyes and the things their hearts wanted most. And I will take away their sons and their daughters.


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That same day your mouth will be opened. You will speak with him and no longer be quiet. So you will be something special for them to see, and they will know that I am the Lord.’”


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Tell them, ‘Hear the Word of the Lord God! The Lord God says, “Because you were happy when My holy place was made unclean, and when the land of Israel was made waste, and when the people of Judah were taken away,


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I am going to give you to the people of the east. They will put up their tents among you and live among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.


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I will turn the city of Rabbah into a field for camels, and Ammon into a resting place for flocks. Then you will know that I am the Lord.”


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For the Lord God says, “Because you have clapped your hands and crushed under your feet and showed your joy because of your hate for Israel,


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I have put out My hand against you. I will give you away to the nations. And I will destroy you from the nations and from the lands. Then you will know that I am the Lord.”


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Word against Moab
‘The Lord God says, “Because Moab and Seir say, ‘See, Judah is like all the nations,’


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I will lay waste the side of Moab, beginning with these cities there, Beth-jeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim, the best of the country.


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I will give it to the people of the east, as I did with Ammon, so that the Ammonites will not be remembered among the nations.


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Word against Edom
‘The Lord God says, “Because Edom has fought against Judah in its anger, and has become very guilty by doing so,”


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the Lord God says, “I will put out My hand against Edom and kill its men and their animals. I will destroy it and they will fall by the sword from Teman to Dedan.


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I will punish Edom by the hand of My people Israel. They will act in My anger against Edom, and Edom will know My anger,” says the Lord God.


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Word against Philistia
‘The Lord God says, “Because the Philistines have fought to destroy Judah with the lasting anger that is in their hearts,”


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the Lord God says, “I will put out My hand against the Philistines. And I will destroy the Cherethites and those left beside the sea.


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Word against Tyre
In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the Word of the Lord came to me saying,


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“Son of man, Tyre has said this about Jerusalem, ‘O, the gate to the nations is broken. It has opened to me. I will do well, now that she is laid waste.’


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So the Lord God says, ‘I am against you, O Tyre. And I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.


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They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. Then I will clean away what is left from her and make her nothing but rock.


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She will be a place to spread fish nets out in the sea, for I have spoken,’ says the Lord God. ‘The nations will take her riches.


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And her villages on the land across the sea from her will be destroyed by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’


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For the Lord God says, “I will bring Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, against Tyre from the north. He will come with horses, war-wagons, horsemen, and a large army.


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And he will kill with the sword those in your villages. He will build battle-walls around you. He will build up earth so they can go over your walls. He will build walls and make battle-coverings around you.


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He will roll down large objects to knock down your walls, and will break down your towers with axes.


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There will be so many horses that you will be covered by their dust. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wheels and war-wagons, when he comes through your gates as men come into a city that has been broken open.


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The feet of his horses will run all over your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars will fall to the ground.


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They will take your riches and good things as prizes of war. They will break down your walls and destroy your beautiful houses. And they will throw your stones and wood into the sea.


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I will make you nothing but rock. You will be a place for nets to be spread. You will never be built again, for I the Lord have spoken,” says the Lord God.


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The Lord God says to Tyre, “Will not the lands beside the sea shake at the sound of your fall, when those who have been hurt cry in pain, when your people are killed?


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Then all the leaders of the sea will step down from their thrones and take off their beautiful clothing. They will clothe themselves with fear. They will sit on the ground and not be able to stop shaking, full of fear and wonder because of you.


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They will cry in sorrow for you and say, ‘How you have been destroyed from the seas, O well-known city where many people once lived! You were powerful on the sea. You and all your people who lived here were filled with fear.


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Now the islands shake in fear on the day of your fall. Yes, the lands which are by the sea are afraid because of how you are destroyed.’”


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The Lord God says, “I will lay waste your city and make you like a destroyed city where no one lives. I will bring up the deep sea over you, and the many waters will cover you.


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Then I will send you down with those who go down to the grave, to the people of long ago. I will make you stay in the lower parts of the earth, like in waste places of long ago, with those who go down to the grave. So you will not have people living in you, and you will not have a place in the land of the living.


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I will fill you with fear and destroy you. People will look for you, but you will never be found again,” says the Lord God.


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Say to Tyre, whose people live at the gateway to the sea and trade with people from many lands, ‘The Lord God says, “O Tyre, you have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’


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They made your pieces of wood from the fir trees from Senir. They made the wood that holds your sail out of a cedar from Lebanon.


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They made your oars out of oak trees from Bashan. They made your floor of ivory and boxwood from the land of Cyprus.


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Your sail was made of fine and beautiful linen from Egypt, to show all people who you are. Your covering was made of blue and purple cloth from the land of Elishah.


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The leaders and wise men of Gebal were with you, putting tar where it was needed to keep the water out. All the ships of the sea and their sailors were with you to trade for your good things.


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“Soldiers from Persia and Lud and Put were in your army. They hung battle-coverings and head-coverings in you, and made you beautiful.


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The men of Arvad and Helech were on your walls all around. And men of Gammad were in your towers. They hung their battle-coverings all around your walls, and made you perfect in beauty.


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“Tarshish traded with you because of all your riches of every kind. They paid for your good things with silver, iron, tin, and lead.


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Javan, Tubal, and Meshech traded with you. They paid for your good things with servants and objects of brass.


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The men of Dedan traded with you. Many lands beside the sea traded with you, paying you with ivory horns and beautiful dark wood.


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Syria traded with you because of all your good things. They bought them with stones of great worth, purple cloth, cloth with beautiful sewing, fine linen, and coral.


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Judah and the land of Israel traded with you. They paid for your good things with the grain of Minnith, cakes, honey, oil, and medicine.


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Damascus traded with you because of all your good things and riches of all kinds. They paid for them with the wine of Helbon and white wool.


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Sheba and Raamah traded with you. They paid for your good things with the best of all kinds of spices, stones of great worth, and gold.


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They paid you with the best clothing, clothes of blue cloth and beautiful sewing, floor coverings of many colors, and strong ropes.


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The ships of Tarshish carried your good things for you. You were filled and honored in the middle of the seas.


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Your riches, your good things, the things you trade, your sailors, your pilots, your builders, your traders, all your soldiers, and all your people will fall into the sea on the day you are destroyed.


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They will cut off their hair because of you, and dress themselves in cloth made from hair. They will cry over you with much sorrow in their soul.


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In their crying they will sing a song of sorrow for you, saying, ‘Who is like Tyre, destroyed and quiet in the sea?


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When your good things went out on the sea, you pleased many nations. With all your riches and good things you made the kings of the earth rich.


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Now you are wrecked by the sea, in the deep waters. Your good things and all your people have gone down with you.


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All the people who live on the islands are full of fear and wonder because of you. Their kings are very afraid. Their faces are troubled.


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The traders among the nations make sounds of surprise at you. You have come to an end and you will be no more.’”


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“Son of man, tell the leader of Tyre, ‘The Lord God says, “Because your heart is proud, you have said, ‘I am a god. I sit in the seat of gods, with the seas around me.’ Yet you are a man and not God, even if you think you are as wise as God.


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By your wisdom and understanding you have gathered riches for yourself. You have gathered gold and silver for your store-houses.


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By all your wisdom in trade you have added to your riches, and your heart has become proud because of them.


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I will bring strangers against you, those who have the hardest hearts of all the nations. With their swords they will destroy the beauty of your wisdom and your greatness.


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Will you still say, “I am a god,” in front of those who kill you? You will be only a man and not a god in the hands of those who kill you.


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You will be killed by strangers, and will die the death of one who has not gone through the religious act of My people. For I have spoken,’ says the Lord God.”’”


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“Son of man, sing a song of sorrow for the king of Tyre, and tell him, ‘The Lord God says, “You were once the mark of what is perfect, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.


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You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every stone of great worth covered you: ruby, topaz, diamond, beryl, onyx, jasper, chrysolite, turquoise, and emerald. And you had beautiful objects of gold. They were made for you when you were made.


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You were the cherub who kept watch, and I placed you there. You were on the holy mountain of God. You walked among the stones of fire.


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Through all your trading you were filled with bad ways, and you sinned. So I have sent you away in shame from the mountain of God and I have destroyed you and driven you out from the stones of fire, O cherub who kept watch.


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Your heart was proud because of your beauty. You made your wisdom sinful because of your beauty. So I threw you to the ground. I laid you in front of kings for them to see you.


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By all your wrong-doing and sinful trading you made your holy places sinful. So I made a fire come out from you, and it has destroyed you. I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the eyes of all who see you.


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All the nations who know you are filled with wonder and fear because of you. You have come to a bad end, and you will be no more forever.”’”


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Tell her, ‘The Lord God says, “I am against you, O Sidon, and My greatness will be honored among you. They will know that I am the Lord when I punish Sidon. I will show Myself holy within her.


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For I will send disease upon her, and blood into her streets. People will be killed by the sword from every side. Then they will know that I am the Lord.


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No longer will the people of Israel have neighbors like a sharp thistle or thorn who hate them. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.


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“The Lord God says, ‘I will gather the people of Israel from the different nations where they have been sent. And I will show Myself holy among them in the eyes of the nations. Then they will live in their own land which I gave to My servant Jacob.


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They will live there and be safe. They will build houses, plant grape-fields, and be safe, when I punish all those around them who speak against them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.”’”


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Word against Egypt
On the twelfth day of the tenth month in the tenth year, the Word of the Lord came to me saying,


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Tell them, ‘The Lord God says, “I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt. You are the big animal that lies in his rivers and says, ‘The Nile is mine. I made it.’


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I will put hooks in your mouth. I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your hard skin. And I will pull you up out of your rivers, with the fish that stick to your hard skin.


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Then I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your rivers. You will fall on the open field, and not be gathered or buried. I will feed you to the wild animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky.


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Then all the people of Egypt will know that I am the Lord. They have been only a weak piece of river grass to the people of Israel.


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When they took hold of you with their hands, you broke and tore all their shoulders. When they rested on you, you broke and hurt their backs.”


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And the land of Egypt will be destroyed and laid waste. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
“Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I made it,’


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I am against you and against your rivers. I will destroy Egypt and make it nothing but waste from Migdol to Syene and even to the land of Ethiopia.


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I will make the land of Egypt a waste among the lands which are laid waste. Her cities will be a waste for forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will divide the Egyptians among the nations and spread them out among the lands.”


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’For the Lord God says, “At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations where they were divided.


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I will bring them back to Egypt and let them live in Pathros, the land they came from. And there they will be a small nation.


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It will be the least of the nations, and will never lift itself up above other nations again. I will make them so small that they will never rule over the nations.


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It will never again be a hope for the people of Israel. They will remember their sin in turning to Egypt for help in the past. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.”’”


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King Nebuchadnezzar Will Take Egypt
On the first day of the first month in the twenty-seventh year, the Word of the Lord came to me saying,


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“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army work hard against Tyre. Every head lost its hair, and skin was rubbed off every shoulder. But he and his army did not receive anything from Tyre to pay for the work he had done against it.”


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So the Lord God says, “I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he will carry away her riches. He will take all her good things, and they will be pay for his army.


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I have given him the land of Egypt for the work he has done, because he and his army worked for Me,” says the Lord God.


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“On that day I will make the people of Israel strong, and give you the power to speak among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”


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“Son of man, speak in My name and say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “Cry in a loud voice, ‘It is bad for that day!’


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For the day is near. The day of the Lord is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of trouble for the nations.


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A sword will come against Egypt, and Ethiopia will be very troubled. When the people are killed in Egypt, her riches will be taken away, and her country destroyed.


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Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all of Arabia, Libya, and the people of Israel living there, all who have an agreement with Egypt will be killed by the sword.”’”


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‘The Lord says, “Those who help Egypt will be killed in battle. The pride of her power will come down. From Migdol to Syene they will be killed by the sword,” says the Lord God.


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“They will be a waste among the lands that are laid waste. And her cities will be among the destroyed cities.


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Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I start a fire in Egypt and all those who help her are destroyed.


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On that day I will send men in ships to bring fear to Ethiopians who think they are safe. They will be troubled and afraid as when Egypt is destroyed, for their day is coming!”


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The Lord God says, “I will put an end to Egypt’s riches by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.


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He and his people show the least pity of all the nations, and they will be brought in to destroy the land. They will use their swords against Egypt and fill the land with dead bodies.


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And I will dry up the Nile River and sell the land to sinful men. I will destroy the land and everything in it, by the hand of strangers. I, the Lord, have spoken.”


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‘The Lord God says, “I will also destroy the false gods and put an end to the objects of worship in Memphis. There will no longer be a leader in the land of Egypt, so I will put fear in the land.


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I will start a fire in Egypt. Pelusium will suffer much. Thebes will be broken open. And Memphis will not have rest from troubles and fear.


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At Tehaphnehes the day will be dark when I break the power of Egypt. The pride of her strength will come to an end. A cloud will cover her, and her daughters will be taken away.


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Word against Pharaoh
On the seventh day of the first month in the eleventh year, the Word of the Lord came to me saying,


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“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And it has not been wrapped so that it could heal and be strong enough to hold the sword.


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So the Lord God says, ‘I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and will break his arms, both the strong one and the one already broken. And I will make the sword fall from his hand.


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For I will give strength to the arms of the king of Babylon and put My sword in his hand, and I will break the arms of Pharaoh, so that he will cry in pain in front of him like a dying man in battle.


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I will give strength to the arms of the king of Babylon, but Pharaoh’s arms will fall. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I give My sword to the king of Babylon and he uses it against the land of Egypt.


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I will make the Egyptians go to the different nations and spread them out among the lands. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”


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Egypt Is Like a Cedar Tree
On the first day of the third month in the eleventh year, the Word of the Lord came to me saying,


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“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his people, ‘Who can be compared with you in greatness?


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Look at Assyria, once a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches and many leaves. It was very high, and its top was among the heavy branches.


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The waters made it grow, and the water under the ground made it grow high. Its rivers flowed all around its base, and spread water to all the trees of the field.


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So it was higher than all the trees of the field. And it grew many long and spreading branches because it had so much water.


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All the birds of the air made their nests in its branches. And under its branches all the animals of the field gave birth. All great nations lived in its shadow.


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It was beautiful in its greatness with its spreading branches, for its roots went down to much water.


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The cedars in God’s garden could not compare with it. The fir trees and the chestnut trees could not compare with its branches. No tree in God’s garden was like it in beauty.


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‘So the Lord God says, “Because it has grown high with its top among the heavy branches, its heart has become proud,


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I will give it over to a powerful ruler of the nations, and he will punish it. Because of its sin, I will drive it out.


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Rulers from other nations will cut it down and leave it. Its branches will fall on the mountains and in all the valleys. Its spreading branches will be broken in all the deep valleys of the land. All the people of the earth will go away from its shadow and leave it.


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All the birds of the air will live on its broken pieces. And all the animals of the field will be on its fallen branches.


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This will be so that no trees by the water will grow high with their tops among the heavy branches. No trees that drink water will ever grow so high. For they have all been given over to death. They will go to the earth below, among men who die and go down to the grave.”


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‘The Lord God says, “When it goes down to the place of the dead, I will make the waters under the ground cover it in sorrow. I will stop its rivers of water and fill Lebanon with sorrow over it. All the trees of the field will waste away because of it.


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I will make the nations shake in fear at the sound of its fall when I send it to the place of the dead with those who go down to the grave. Then all the well-watered trees of Eden, the best of Lebanon, will be comforted in the earth below.


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And those who lived under its shadow among the nations will go down to the place of the dead with it, to those who were killed by the sword.


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“Which of the trees of Eden can be compared with you in beauty and greatness? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth below. You will lie among the sinful, with those who were killed by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his people!”’ says the Lord God.”


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King of Egypt Is Like a Dragon
On the first day of the twelfth month in the twelfth year, the Word of the Lord came to me saying,


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“Son of man, sing a song of sorrow for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, ‘You compared yourself to a young lion among the nations, yet you are like the big dragon in the seas. You go through your rivers, troubling the water with your feet and making the rivers muddy.’”


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The Lord God says, “Now I will throw My net over you with an army of many nations. They will lift you up in My net.


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And I will leave you on the land. I will throw you on the open field. I will have all the birds of the air live on you. And I will feed you to the wild animals of the earth.


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I will make the land drink your flowing blood as far as the mountains, and the deep valleys will be full of you.


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When I destroy you, I will cover the heavens and make the stars dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.


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I will make all the shining lights in the heavens dark over you, and bring darkness upon your land,” says the Lord God.


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“I will trouble the hearts of many people when I destroy you among the nations, among lands you have not known.


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I will fill many nations with fear and wonder because of you. Their kings will shake in fear for you when I wave My sword in front of them. Every man will keep shaking in fear for his own life, on the day you are destroyed.”


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I will cause your people to be killed by the swords of powerful men who will have no pity, all of them strong rulers of the nations. They will destroy the pride of Egypt and kill all its people.


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I will also destroy all its cattle from beside many waters. No foot of man or animal will fill them with mud any more.


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“When I destroy the land of Egypt and take from the land everything that was in it, and when I punish all who live there, then they will know that I am the Lord.


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This is the song of sorrow they will sing. The women of the nations will sing it. They will sing it over Egypt and all her people,” says the Lord God.


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The Place of the Dead
In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth of the month, the Word of the Lord came to me saying,


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“Son of man, cry in a loud voice for the people of Egypt. Send them down with the powerful nations to the place of the dead, with those who go down to the grave.


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Say to them, ‘Do you think you are more favored than anyone else? Go down and make your bed with the sinful.’


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They will fall among those who are killed by the sword. The sword is ready to kill all of Egypt’s people.


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From the place of the dead the powerful leaders will say of Egypt and her helpers, ‘They have come down. They lie with the sinful, with those killed by the sword.’


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“Assyria is there, with all of her army. All around her are the graves of her dead, who have been killed by the sword.


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Their graves lie in the farthest parts of the place of the dead. Her army is around her grave. All who had spread fear in the land of the living are dead, killed by the sword.


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“Elam is there, with all of her people around her grave. All of them are dead, killed by the sword. They have gone to the lower parts of the earth having not gone through the religious act of the Jews. They filled the land of the living with fear, and carried their shame with those who went down to the place of the dead.


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A bed is made for her among the dead with all her people. Their graves are around her. They are all sinful people, killed by the sword. They spread fear in the land of the living, and were put to shame with those who go down to the place of the dead and are among the dead.


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“Meshech and Tubal are there, with all their people. Their graves are around them. All of them are sinful, killed by the sword, for they had spread fear in the land of the living.


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They do not lie beside the graves of the powerful men of long ago, who went down to the place of the dead with their swords of war, whose swords were laid under their heads. But the punishment for their sin rested on their bones. For the fear of these powerful men was once in the land of the living.


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“Edom is there, with its kings and all its leaders. Even with all their power they are laid with those killed by the sword. They lie with the sinful, with those who go down to the place of the dead.


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“All the leaders of the north and all the Sidonians are there. Even with the fear they caused by their power, they went down with the dead in shame. They lie as sinful people with those killed by the sword. They carried their shame with those who go down to the place of the dead.


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“When Pharaoh and his army see them, they will be comforted for all his people who were killed by the sword,” says the Lord God.


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“I spread fear of him in the land of the living, yet Pharaoh and all his people will be laid among the sinful, with those killed by the sword,” says the Lord God.


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“Son of man, speak to the children of your people. Say to them, ‘If I bring a sword upon a land, and the people of the land choose one of their men to keep watch for them,


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then if anyone hears the horn and does not take care, and a sword comes and kills him, he will be to blame for his own death.


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He heard the sound of the horn, but did not worry about the danger. He will be to blame for his own death. If he had been careful, he would have saved his life.


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But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the horn, and the people are not told of the danger, and a sword comes and kills one of them, that man will be taken away because of his sin. But the blood of the watchman must be given.’


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“Son of man, I have chosen you as a watchman for the people of Israel. So when I give you the word, you must tell them of the danger.


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When I tell a sinful man that he will die for sure, and you do not speak to him about the danger of his way, that sinful man will die in his sin. But your blood must be given.


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But if you tell a sinful man to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, he will die in his sin. But you have saved your life.


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God Judges Well
“Son of man, say to the people of Israel, ‘You have said, “Our sins are upon us, and we are wasting away in them. How then can we live?”’


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Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘I am not pleased when sinful people die. But I am pleased when the sinful turn from their way and live. Turn! Turn from your sinful ways! Why will you die, O people of Israel?’


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Now, son of man, tell the children of your people, ‘If a man does what is right and good, it will not save him when he sins.’ And the sins of a sinful man will not make him fall when he turns from his sinful way. But the man who is right and good will not be able to live by his good ways when he sins.


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When I tell the man who is right and good that he will live, and he trusts in his good ways so much that he sins, none of his good works will be remembered. He will die for the sin he has done.


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But when I tell the sinful man that he will die, and he turns from his sin and does what is right and good,


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if he gives back what a person gave him as trust for a promise, pays back what he had stolen, follows the Laws that give life and does not sin, he will live for sure. He will not die.


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None of the sins he has done will be remembered against him. He has done what is right and good, and he will live for sure.


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“Yet the children of your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ But it is their way that is not right.


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But when the sinful man turns from his sin and does what is right and good, he will live because of it.


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Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ O people of Israel, I will judge each of you by his ways.”


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Jerusalem Is Taken
On the fifth day of the tenth month in the twelfth year since we had been taken to a strange land, a man who got away from Jerusalem came and said to me, “The city has been taken.”


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Now the hand of the Lord had been upon me in the evening before the man came. And He opened my mouth so that when the man came to me in the morning, I was able to speak.


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“Son of man, the people who live in these waste places in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he owned the land. But we are many, and for sure the land has been given to us.’


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So tell them, ‘The Lord God says, “You eat meat with the blood in it, and worship your false gods as you kill. Should the land belong to you?


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You trust in your sword, and keep on sinning. Each of you does sex sins with his neighbor’s wife. Should the land belong to you?”’


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Tell them, ‘The Lord God says, “As I live, those who are in the waste places will be killed by the sword. Whoever is in the open field, I will feed to the wild animals. And those who are in the strong-places and in the caves will die of disease.


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I will destroy the land and make it a waste. The pride of her power will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will be laid waste, so that no one will pass through.


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Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I destroy the land and make it a waste because of all the hated sins they have done.”’


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“As for you, son of man, your people are talking to each other about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses. They are saying, ‘Come and hear the word that has come from the Lord.’


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They come and sit in front of you as My people, and listen to the words you say. But they do not do them. With their mouth they speak of love, but their hearts are full of sinful desire.


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They think of you as nothing more than one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice and plays music well. For they hear what you say, but they will not do it.


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“Son of man, speak against the shepherds of Israel. Speak in My name and tell those shepherds, ‘The Lord God says, “It is bad for the shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock?


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You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool. You kill the fat sheep without feeding the flock.


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You have not given strength to the weak ones. You have not healed the sick. You have not helped the ones that are hurt. You have not brought back those that have gone away. And you have not looked for the lost. But you have ruled them with power and without pity.


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They went everywhere because they had no shepherd. And they became food for every animal of the field.


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My flock went many different ways through all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were spread over all the earth, and there was no one looking for them.”’”


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“As I live,” says the Lord God, “My flock has been killed and become food for wild animals because they had no shepherd. My shepherds did not look for My flock. They fed themselves, but have not fed My flock.”


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The Lord God says, “I am against the shepherds, and I will ask them for My sheep. I will stop them from feeding the sheep, so they will no longer be able to feed themselves. I will save my sheep from their mouths, so that they will no longer be food for them.”


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As a shepherd looks for his sheep when they are not together, so I will look for My sheep. And I will save them from all the places where they were spread out on a day of clouds and darkness.


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I will bring them out from the people and gather them from the countries, and bring them to their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the rivers, and in all the places of the land where people live.


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I will feed them in a good field. The ground they eat upon will be on the mountains of Israel. There they will lie down in a good field and feed on good grass on the mountains of Israel.


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“I will look for the lost, bring back those that have gone away, help those who have been hurt, and give strength to the sick. But I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them with punishment.


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“As for you, My flock, the Lord God says, ‘I will judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and the male goats.


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Is it not enough for you to eat in the good field? Must you crush under foot the rest of your fields? Is it not enough for you to drink of the clear waters? Must your feet fill the rest with mud?


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Must My flock eat what you have crushed with your feet, and drink what you have made dirty with your feet?’”


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Because you push with your side and shoulder and run against all the weak with your horns until you have driven them away,


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Then I will set over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.


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I, the Lord, will be their God, and My servant David will be their leader. I, the Lord, have spoken.


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“I will make a peace agreement with them and take away wild animals from the land. Then they will be safe as they live in the desert and sleep in the woods.


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I will bring good to them and to the places around My hill. I will give them rain when they need it. Good will rain down upon them.


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The trees of the field will give their fruit and the earth will give its food. They will be safe in their land. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the load from their backs and have saved them from those who made servants of them.


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They will no longer be under the power of the nations. And the wild animals of the earth will not eat them. But they will be safe, and no one will make them afraid.


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I will give them a land well known for its fields of food. They will never suffer with hunger again, and will no longer be put to shame by the nations.


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Then they will know that I, the Lord their God, am with them, and that they, the people of Israel, are My people,” says the Lord God.


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saying, ‘The Lord God says, “I am against you, Mount Seir. I will put out My hand against you and make you a waste land.


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You have always hated the people of Israel and have given them over to be killed at the time of their trouble, at the time of the punishment of the end.


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So as I live,” says the Lord God, “I will give you over to death, and you will not get away from death. Since you have not hated killing, death will come after you.


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I will fill its mountains with its dead. Those killed by the sword will fall on your hills and in your valleys.


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I will destroy you forever, and no one will live in your cities. Then you will know that I am the Lord.


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“You have said, ‘These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will own them,’ even when the Lord was there.


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So as I live,” says the Lord God, “I will punish you for your anger and the jealousy you showed because of your hate toward them. And I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.


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Then you will know that I, the Lord, have heard all the bad things you have said against the mountains of Israel. You have said, ‘They are destroyed. They are given to us for food.’


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As you had joy because the land of Israel was destroyed, so I will do to you. You will be destroyed, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”’


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Good Comes to Israel
“Son of man, speak in My name to the mountains of Israel. Say, ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the Word of the Lord.


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The Lord God says, “Those who hate you have laughed and spoken against you, saying, ‘The old hills now belong to us.’


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So tell the mountains of Israel, ‘The Lord God says, “They have made you a waste land, and destroyed you from every side. You were taken by the rest of the nations for their own. And the people have been saying bad things about you.”’”


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So, mountains of Israel, hear the Word of the Lord God. This is what the Lord God says to the mountains, the hills, the valleys, the destroyed places and empty cities, which have been robbed and made fun of by the rest of the nations around them.


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The Lord God says, “I speak in the fire of My jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom. They have taken My land for themselves with hearts full of joy and hate, that they might rob its good things.”


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‘So speak about the land of Israel, and tell the mountains, the hills, and valleys, “The Lord God says, ‘I speak in My jealousy and anger because you have been put to shame by the nations.’


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But you, O mountains of Israel, will put out your branches and give your fruit for My people Israel. For they will come home soon.


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I will cause the people to become many, all the people of Israel. People will live in the cities, and the places that have been destroyed will be built again.


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I will give you many people and animals, and they will have many young ones. You will be full of people as you were before. And I will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the Lord.


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I will have people, My people Israel, walk on you and own you. You will belong to them, and you will never again take their children from them.’


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“I will not let you hear words of shame from the nations any more. You will not be put to shame by the nations any longer. And you will no longer make your nation fall,” says the Lord God.’”


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“Son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own land, they made it sinful by their ways and their works. The way they acted before Me was unclean, like a woman is unclean during her time each month.


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So I poured out My anger upon them because of the blood they had poured on the land, and because they had made it sinful with their false gods.


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I sent them among the different nations and spread them out among the lands. I judged them for their ways and their works.


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But in every place they went among the nations, they brought shame upon My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, yet they had to leave His land.’


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But I cared about My holy name, which the people of Israel had put to shame among the nations where they had gone.


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“So tell the people of Israel, ‘The Lord God says, “It is not because of you, O people of Israel, that I am about to act. It is because of My holy name, which you have put to shame among the nations where you have gone.


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I will show how holy My great name is, which you have put to shame among the nations. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord,” says the Lord God, “when I use you to show them that I am holy.


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For I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the lands, and bring you into your own land.


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Then I will put clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will make you clean from all your unclean ways and from all your false gods.


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I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. I will take away your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.


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And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to follow My Laws and be careful to do what I tell you.


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And you will live in the land that I gave to your fathers. You will be My people, and I will be your God.


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I will save you from all your unclean ways. I will give you much grain, and you will not have to go without food.


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I will have the trees give much fruit and the fields give much food. So you will never again suffer the shame of going hungry among the nations.


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Then you will remember your sinful ways and your sinful works, and you will hate yourselves because of your sins and wrong-doing.


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I want you to know that I am not doing this because of you,” says the Lord God. “Be ashamed and troubled because of your ways, O people of Israel!”


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‘The Lord God says, “On the day that I make you clean from all your sins, I will fill the cities with people, and the destroyed places will be built again.


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They will say, ‘This waste land has become like the garden of Eden. And the destroyed cities now have strong walls and many people.’


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Then the nations that are left around you will know that I, the Lord, have built again the places that were destroyed, and planted what had been waste land. I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do what I say.”


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‘The Lord God says, “I will also let the people of Israel ask Me to do this for them: I will give them many people, like the sheep of a flock.


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The empty cities will be filled with flocks of people, like the flock kept for burnt gifts, like the flock at Jerusalem during her special suppers. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”’”


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The Valley of Dry Bones
The hand of the Lord was upon me. He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the center of the valley. It was full of bones.


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He said to me, “Speak in My name over these bones. Say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the Word of the Lord.’


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This is what the Lord God says to these bones: ‘I will make breath come into you, and you will come to life.


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I will join you together, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin, and put breath in you to make you come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”


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So I spoke as I was told. And as I spoke, there was a noise, the sound of bones hitting against each other. The bones came together, bone to bone.


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I looked and saw that parts had grown to hold them together. Flesh had grown, and they were covered with skin. But there was no breath in them.


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Then He said to me, “Speak to the breath in My name, son of man. Tell the breath, ‘The Lord God says, “Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these dead bodies to make them come to life.”’”


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So I spoke as I had been told. The breath came into them, and they came to life and stood on their feet. They were a large army.


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Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are all the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is gone. We are all destroyed.’


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So speak in My name and tell them, ‘The Lord God says, “I will open your graves, My people, and make you come out of them. And I will bring you into the land of Israel.


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Then, My people, you will know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves and brought you up.


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I will put My Spirit within you, and you will come to life. I will place you in your own land. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken and have done it,” says the Lord.’”


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“Son of man, take one stick of wood and write on it, ‘For Judah and for the people of Israel with him.’ Then take another stick of wood and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the people of Israel with him.’


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tell them, ‘The Lord God says, “I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the people of Israel who are with him. And I will put it with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick. They will be one in My hand.”’


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and tell them, ‘The Lord God says, “I will take the people of Israel from the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land.


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I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king will rule over all of them. They will no longer be two nations, and they will no longer be divided under two kings.


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They will no longer make themselves unclean with their false gods, or with their hated objects of worship, or with any of their sins. I will keep them from turning again to these sins, and will make them clean. They will be My people, and I will be their God.


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“My servant David will be their king, and they will have one shepherd. They will follow and keep My Laws, and obey them.


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And they will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children’s children will live in it forever. And My servant David will be their leader forever.


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I will make a peace agreement with them, one that lasts forever. I will bring good to them and make them many in number. And I will set My holy place among them forever.


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Then the nations will know that I am the Lord Who makes Israel holy, when My holy place is among them forever.”’”


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“Son of man, look toward Gog of the land of Magog, the leader of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and speak against him.


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I will turn you around, put hooks into your mouth, and bring you out with your whole army. Your horses and horsemen will be dressed for battle. The army will be very large, with all the men holding battle-coverings and waving swords.


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There will be Gomer with all its army, and Beth-togarmah from the farthest parts of the north with all its army. Many nations will be with you.


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After many days you will be called. In future years you will come into the land where people have been gathered from many nations and have lived without fear of war. You will come to the mountains of Israel, which had been a waste land for a long time. But its people were brought out from the nations, and all of them are living without fear.


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You and all your army will come up against them like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the land. Many nations will be with you.”


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‘The Lord God says, “On that day, thoughts will come into your mind, and you will make a sinful plan.


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You will say, ‘I will go up against the open country, where people are quiet and live in peace. They live in villages without walls and have no iron pieces or gates.’


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You will go to rob the land and fight in the waste places where people now live. You will go up against the people who were gathered from the nations and are rich with cattle and good things and who live at the center of the land.


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Sheba and Dedan and the traders of Tarshish and all its villages will say to you, ‘Have you come to take prizes of war? Have you gathered your army to carry away silver and gold, cattle, good things, and many prizes of war?’”’


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“So, son of man, speak in My name and tell Gog, ‘The Lord God says, “On that day when My people Israel are living in peace and without fear, will you not know it?


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You will come from your place in the far north, and many nations will be with you. All of them will be riding on horses, a large and powerful army.


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You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud covering the land. In the last days, O Gog, I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I show Myself holy through you in front of their eyes.”


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‘The Lord God says, “Are you the one I spoke of in the past, through My servants of Israel who spoke in My name? At that time they said for many years that I would bring you against them.


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“On the day when Gog comes against the land of Israel, I will become very angry,” says the Lord God.


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“In My jealousy and in My burning anger I have said that on that day the earth will shake in the land of Israel.


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The fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the wild animals of the field, all the animals that move upon the earth, and all the men on the earth will shake before Me. Mountains will be thrown down, the mountain sides will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.


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I will call for a sword against Gog on all My mountains,” says the Lord God. “His men will turn their swords against one another.


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I will punish him with disease and with blood. I will send down a hard rain, hailstones, fire and sulphur upon him and his army and the many nations with him.


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Gog’s Armies Are Destroyed
“Son of man, speak against Gog, and tell him, ‘The Lord God says, “I am against you, O Gog, leader of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.


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I will turn you around and drive you on. I will bring you from the farthest parts of the north and lead you against the mountains of Israel.


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You will fall dead on the mountains of Israel, you and all your army and the nations who are with you. I will feed you to every kind of meat-eating bird and wild animal of the field.


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“I will send fire upon Magog and upon those who think they are safe in the islands. Then they will know that I am the Lord.


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“I will make My holy name known among My people Israel. I will not let My holy name be made unclean any more. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.


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“Then those who live in the cities of Israel will go out and make fires to burn up the objects of war. They will burn battle-coverings, bows and arrows, heavy sticks, and spears. For seven years they will use them to make fires.


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They will not take wood from the field or from among the trees to burn. For they will make fires with the objects of war. And they will rob those who robbed them,” says the Lord God.


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Gog Is Buried
“On that day I will give Gog a place in Israel for burying his dead. It will be the valley of those who travel east of the sea. And it will close that road to travelers, for Gog and all his people will be buried there. They will call it the Valley of Hamon-Gog.


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All the people of the land will bury them, and they will be honored for this on the day that I show My greatness,” says the Lord God.


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“At the end of seven months, they will choose men to pass through the land to look for bodies that may be left on the ground. And the bodies will be buried to make the land clean.


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Those who pass through and see a man’s bone will set up something to mark the place, until it is buried in the Valley of Hamon-Gog.


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“Son of man, the Lord God says, ‘Speak to every kind of bird and to every wild animal of the field. Say to them, “Gather together and come. Come together from every side to the special supper I have made for you. Much food has been killed for you on the mountains of Israel. You will eat flesh and drink blood.


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You will eat the flesh of powerful men, and drink the blood of the leaders of the earth. It will be as if they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fat animals of Bashan.


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You will eat fat until you are filled, and drink blood until you are drunk, at the special supper I have killed and made ready for you.


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You will be filled at My table with horses and horsemen, with powerful men and all the men of war,” says the Lord God.


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The Land Is Given Back to Israel
“I will show My greatness among the nations. All the nations will see how I have punished Israel and My hand which I have laid on them.


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The nations will know that the people of Israel were taken from their land because of their sin, because they were not faithful to Me. So I hid My face from them and gave them over to those who hated them, and they died in battle.


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So the Lord God says, “Now I will return the people of Jacob to their land and show loving-kindness to all the people of Israel. And I will be jealous for My holy name.


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They will forget their shame and how unfaithful they were to Me, when they live in peace on their own land with no one to make them afraid.


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I will bring them back from the nations and gather them from the lands of those who hate them. In this way I will show the many nations that I am holy.


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Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them away into the other nations and then gathered them again to their own land. And I will not leave any of them there any longer.


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I will not hide My face from them again, for I will pour out My Spirit on the people of Israel,” says the Lord God.


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A New House of God
It was the twenty-fifth year since the people of Israel were taken away to a strange land, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, and fourteen years since Jerusalem was taken in battle. On that day the hand of the Lord was upon me and He brought me there.


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In a special way God brought me into the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain. There were some buildings on its south side that looked like a city.


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He took me there, and I saw a man who looked like he was made of brass. In his hand was a linen rope and a stick to find how long something is. He was standing at the gate.


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And the man said to me, “Son of man, look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and think about all I am going to show you. For you have been brought here so that I may show it to you. Tell the people of Israel everything you see.”


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The East Gate
I saw a wall all around the outside of the house of the Lord. The stick in the man’s hand was six cubits long (with the width of a hand being added to the length of each arm). And with it he showed that the wall was one stick wide and one stick high.


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Then he went up the steps of the east gate, and showed me with his stick that the gateway was one stick wide, and the other gate was also one stick wide.


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The rooms for the watchmen were each one stick long and one stick wide, and they were five cubits apart. And the gateway next to the porch toward the Lord’s house was one stick wide.


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The porch of the gate was eight cubits and its side pillars two cubits wide. The porch of the gate was on the inside.


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There were three rooms for the watchmen on each side of the east gate. They all had the same length and width. And the pillars on each side were the same in width.


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There was a wall one-tenth cubit wide in front of the watchmen’s rooms on each side. And the watchmen’s rooms were six cubits wide and six cubits long.


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Then he showed me that it was twenty-five cubits from the roof of one room to the roof of the room across from it.


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He showed me that it was twenty cubits around the walls inside the gateway, up to the porch facing the open space.


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There were narrow windows looking toward the watchmen’s rooms and toward their side pillars, all around inside the gate and also in the porches. And pictures of palm trees were cut on each side pillar.


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The Outside Open Space
Then he brought me into the outer open space, and I saw rooms and a stone floor all around it. Thirty rooms were around the stone floor.


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Then he showed me how far it was from the inside of the lower gate to the outside of the inner open space. Both east and north sides were 100 cubits each.


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It had three rooms on each side for the watchmen. Its side pillars and porches were as long and as wide as the first gate. It was as long as fifty cubits, and as wide as twenty-five cubits.


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Its windows, its porches, and palm tree pictures were the same length and width as those of the east gate. Seven steps led up to it, and its porch was in front of them.


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Across from the north gate was another gate leading to the inner open space, just as there was for the east gate. He showed me that it was 100 cubits from gate to gate.


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The South Gate
Then he led me to the south, and I saw a gate toward the south. He showed me the length and width of its side pillars and its porches, and they were the same as the others.


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The gate and its porches had windows like the others all around and was as long as fifty cubits and as wide as twenty-five cubits.


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Seven steps led up to it, and its porches were in front of them. And it had pictures of palm trees on its side pillars, one on each side.


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The open space had a gate toward the south. He showed me that it was 100 cubits from gate to gate toward the south.


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The Inside Open Space
Then he brought me to the inner open space by the south gate, and showed me that this gate had the same width as the others.


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Its watchmen’s rooms, side pillars and porches were also the same as the others and had windows all around. It was as long as fifty cubits and as wide as twenty-five cubits.


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and its porches were toward the outer open space. Pictures of palm trees were on its side pillars, and leading up to it were eight steps.


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Then he brought me to the inner open space toward the east. He showed me that it was as wide as the others.


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Its watchmen’s rooms, side pillars and porches were also the same as the others and, there were windows all around which were as long as fifty cubits and as wide as twenty-five cubits.


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Its gateway was toward the outer open space. Pictures of palm trees were on its side pillars, on each side. And going up to it were eight steps.


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Its watchmen’s rooms, side pillars and porches were also the same as the others. There were windows all around and it was as long as fifty cubits and as wide as twenty-five cubits.


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Its side pillars were toward the outer open space. Pictures of palm trees were on its side pillars, on each side. And going up to it were eight steps.


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Where the Burnt Gifts Were Made Ready
There was a room with its door by the side pillars, where the burnt gifts were washed.


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And there were two tables on each side of the porch. On these tables the animals were killed for the burnt gifts, the sin gifts, and the guilt gifts.


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On the outer side of the gateway, by the north gate, were two tables. And there were two tables on the other side of the gate.


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So there were four tables on each side of the gateway, eight tables in all, where they killed the animals for the altar.


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There were four tables for the burnt gifts. They were made of cut stone, and were one-and-a-half cubits long, one-and-a-half cubits wide, and one cubit high. The objects used for killing the animals for the burnt gifts were kept on these stone tables.


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Hooks as long as a man’s hand hung on the wall all around. The tables were for the meat of the burnt gifts.


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Then he brought me from the outside into the inner open space and there were two rooms for the singers. One was at the side of the north gate which faced the south, and the other was at the side of the south gate which faced the north.


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And he said to me, “This room which faces the south is for the religious leaders who take care of the Lord’s house.


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The room which faces the north is for the religious leaders who take care of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who are the only Levites who may come near the Lord to do His work.”


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The Inside Open Space and the House of God
He showed me that the inner open space was as long as 100 cubits and as wide as 100 cubits, the same on all four sides. And the altar was in front of the Lord’s house.


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Then he brought me to the porch of the Lord’s house. He showed me that each side pillar of the porch was five cubits wide. And each side of the gate was three cubits wide.


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The porch was as long as twenty cubits, and six steps wide. Ten steps led up to it, and there was one pillar on each side.


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Then he brought me into the center room, and showed me the width of the side pillars. They were six cubits wide on each side.


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The doorway was ten cubits wide, and the side walls on each side of it were five cubits wide. The center room was as long as forty cubits and as wide as twenty cubits.


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Then he went into a smaller room. Each side pillar of the doorway was two cubits wide, and the doorway was six cubits high and seven cubits wide.


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The room was as long as twenty cubits and as wide as twenty cubits, at the far end of the center room. He said to me, “This is the most holy place.”


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Then he showed me that the wall of the Lord’s house was six cubits in width. And the side rooms all around the house on every side were four cubits wide.


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The side rooms were on three floors, one above the other, and thirty on each floor. The outside wall on each floor was not as wide as the one below it, so the side rooms could sit upon the wall without being nailed to it.


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The side rooms at the top were larger than the ones at the bottom, all around the Lord’s house. The house became wider as it went higher. There were steps leading up from the first floor all the way to the third floor.


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I saw that the house had a raised base all around it, which made the base for the side rooms six cubits high.


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The width of the outside wall of the side rooms was five cubits. But the open space between the side rooms


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There were doorways to the side rooms from this open space, one on the north and another on the south. The width of this open space was five cubits wide all around.


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The building in front of the open space of the Lord’s house, on the west side, was as wide as seventy cubits. The width of the building wall was five cubits, and it was as long as ninety cubits.


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Then he showed me that the Lord’s house was as long as 100 cubits. The open space and the other building and its walls were also as long as 100 cubits.


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He showed me the length of the building to the west, with its walkways on each side. It was as long as 100 cubits.
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all had roofs of wood. And all three had windows with wooden cross-pieces all around. The inside walls of the house were covered with wood from the floor up to the windows, and from the windows to the roof.


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There was wood covering the wall above the door, and all the way to the most holy place, and all the walls both inside and out.


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Pictures of cherubim and palm trees were cut into the wood. A palm tree was between every two cherubim, and each cherub had two faces.


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The face of a man looked toward the palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion looked toward the palm tree on the other side. These pictures were cut into the wood all around the Lord’s house.


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There were cherubim and palm trees from the floor to above the door, and on the wall of the center room.


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The pillars beside the door of the center room were the same width on all four sides, and they looked alike.


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There was an altar of wood three cubits high and two cubits long. Its corners, base, and sides were made of wood. And he said to me, “This is the table that is before the Lord.”


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Pictures of cherubim and palm trees were made on the doors of the center room, like the pictures on the walls. And there was a roof of wood over the front of the porch outside.


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There were windows with wooden cross-pieces and palm trees cut on each side wall of the house porch. It was the same on the side rooms of the house and their roofs.


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Rooms for the Religious Leaders
Then he brought me to the outside open space toward the north. He brought me to the rooms which were on the other side of the open space and the building to the north.


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Over from the place in the inner open space which was as wide as twenty cubits, and over from the stone floor in the outer open space, was a walkway on the three floors, one above the other.


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In front of the rooms was an inside walkway as wide as ten cubits and as long as 100 cubits. Their doors were on the north.


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The upper rooms were smaller because the walkways took more away from them than from the rooms on the first and second floors of the building.


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For the rooms on all three floors had no pillars like the other buildings on the grounds. So the upper rooms were smaller than the ones on the first and second floors.


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There was an outside wall built beside the rooms toward the outer open space. It was in front of the rooms for fifty cubits.


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The rooms next to the outer open space were as long as fifty cubits, and those over from the Lord’s house were as long as 100 cubits.


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There were rooms in the width of the wall of the open space toward the east, over from the other open space and the other building.


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These rooms had a walkway in front of them, and they were like the rooms on the north. They had the same length and width. The ways out of them were the same, and the doors were made the same way.


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And like the doors of the rooms on the south side, there was a door at the beginning of the walkway in front of the wall toward the east, as one goes into them.


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Then he said to me, “The north rooms and the south rooms, over from the other open space, are the holy rooms where the religious leaders who go near the Lord eat the most holy things. There they will lay the most holy things, the grain gift, the sin gift, and the guilt gift. For the place is holy.


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When the religious leaders go in, they are not to go out into the outer open space from the holy place without leaving behind the clothes they wear while they do the Lord’s work, for these are holy. They must put on other clothes before they go near the places that are for the people.”


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When he had finished showing me the lengths and widths of the inner house, he brought me out through the east gate. And he showed me the lengths of all the open space around the house.


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He showed me the length of the four sides. It had a wall all around it, as long as 500 sticks and as wide as 500 sticks. This wall divided what was holy from what was not.


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and I saw the shining-greatness of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice was like the sound of many waters, and the earth was shining because of His greatness.


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It was like the special dream that I saw when He came to destroy the city. It was like the special dream that I saw by the Chebar River. I fell with my face to the ground.


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the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner open space. And the shining-greatness of the Lord filled the house.


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And He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place for My throne and for the bottom of My feet, where I will live among the people of Israel forever. No longer will the people of Israel or their kings make My holy name unclean, by worshiping other gods or by the dead bodies of their kings.


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They put their doorways by My doorways, and their door pillars beside My door pillars, with only a wall between Me and them. In doing so, they have made My holy name unclean by the hated sins they have done. So I have destroyed them in My anger.


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Now let them put their worship of other gods and the dead bodies of their kings far from Me. And I will live among them forever.


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“Son of man, tell the people of Israel about the house of the Lord, that they may be ashamed of their sins. Let them look over the plan.


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And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, let them know how the house is built, the house with its doors and gateways, and its whole plan. Let them know all its laws. Write it down in front of them, so that they will see its whole plan and obey all its laws.


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This is the law of the house: All the ground around it on top of the mountain will be most holy. This is the law of the house.


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The Altar
“This is the length, width, and height of the altar by cubits (with the length of the hand being added to the length of each arm). The base will be one cubit long and one cubit wide, with a side piece going around it as wide as a man’s spread hand. This will be the height of the altar:


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The base will be two cubits long from the base on the ground to its top, and one cubit wide. And it will be four cubits from the smaller part up to its larger top part, and one cubit wide.


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The altar fireplace will be four cubits high, and four horns will go up from the top four corners of the altar one cubit high.


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This top part of the altar will be twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide, the same on each of the four sides.


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The side of it will be fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, the same on each of the four sides. And a side piece half a cubit will be around that. Its base will be a cubit wide all around, and its steps will be on the east side.”


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And He said to me, “Son of man, the Lord God says, ‘These are the laws for giving burnt gifts and for putting blood on the altar on the day it is built:


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You must give a young bull for a sin gift to the Levite religious leaders of the sons of Zadok. They are the ones who come near Me to do My work,’ says the Lord God.


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‘You must take some of the bull’s blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, and on the four corners of the top of the altar, and on the side piece that goes around it. In this way you will make it clean and free from sin.


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You must also take the bull for the sin gift, and burn it in the chosen place of the house, outside the holy place.


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On the second day you must give a male goat that is perfect for a sin gift. And the altar will be made clean, as it was made clean with the bull.


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When you have finished making it clean, you must give a young bull that is perfect, and a ram from the flock that is perfect.


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You must bring them before the Lord. The religious leaders will throw salt on them, and burn them on the altar as a gift to the Lord.


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You must make ready a goat for a sin gift each day for seven days. Also make ready a young bull and a ram from the flock. They must be perfect.


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For seven days they must make the altar free from sin and make it pure, so it will be set apart to Me.


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At the end of these days, from the eighth day on, the religious leaders will give your burnt gifts and peace gifts on the altar. And I will receive you,’ says the Lord God.”


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The Use of the East Gate
Then he brought me back to the outer gate of the holy place, toward the east, and it was shut.


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The Lord said to me, “This gate must stay shut. It must not be opened. No one may come in through it, for the Lord God of Israel has come in through it. So it must stay shut.


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Only the ruler may sit at the gate to eat bread before the Lord. He must come in through the porch of the gate, and go out the same way.”


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Those Who Could Go In to the House of God
Then he brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the house. There I saw the shining-greatness of the Lord filling the Lord’s house, and I fell with my face to the ground.


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The Lord said to me, “Son of man, be careful to see with your eyes and to hear with your ears everything that I say to you about all the rules and laws of the Lord’s house. Be careful to learn which persons are allowed to go in and out of the Lord’s house, and which persons are not allowed.


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Tell the sinful people of Israel, ‘The Lord God says, “Enough of your hated sins, O people of Israel!


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You have brought in strangers, who had not gone through the religious act of becoming a Jew, and who were sinful in their heart. You brought them into My holy place to make it unclean, when you brought My food of the fat and the blood. You have broken My agreement by all your hated sins.


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And you have not taken care of My holy things yourselves. You have let strangers take care of My holy place.”


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‘So the Lord God says, “No stranger among the people of Israel who has not gone through the religious act of becoming a Jew, and is sinful in his heart, may come into My holy place.


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Levites Cannot Be Religious Leaders
“The Levites who went far from Me when Israel left Me to follow their false gods, will be punished for their sin.


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They may do the work in My holy place. They may watch over the gates of the house and do the work in the house. They may kill the burnt gifts and the gifts brought by the people. And they may stand in front of the people to serve them.


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But because they served them in front of their false gods and caused the people of Israel to sin, I have promised,” says the Lord God, “that they will be punished for their sin.


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They must not come near Me to serve Me as a religious leader. They must not come near any of My holy things and the things that are most holy. But they must suffer their shame because of the hated sins they have done.


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Zadok’s Sons to Serve in the House of God
“But the Levite religious leaders of the sons of Zadok took care of My holy place when the people of Israel left Me. So they will come near Me to serve Me. They will stand before Me to give Me the fat and the blood,” says the Lord God.


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When they come through the gates of the inner open space, they will be dressed in linen clothing. They must not wear any wool while they are serving inside the gates of the inner open space or in the house.


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They will wear linen head-coverings and linen underclothes. They must not dress in anything that makes their bodies wet with heat.


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When they go out to the people in the outer open space, they must take off the clothes they wear while they serve Me, and lay them in the holy rooms. Then they will put on other clothes, so that they do not make the people holy because of their clothing.


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And they must not cut all the hair from their heads, yet they must not let their hair grow long. They must only cut their hair shorter.


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They must not marry a woman whose husband has died, or who has been divorced. But they may marry women of Israel who have never had a man, or a woman whose husband was a religious leader before he died.


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They will teach My people the difference between what is holy and what is not. And they will teach them to know what is unclean and what is clean.


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In an argument, the religious leaders will serve as judges, and will judge by My Laws. They will also keep My Laws in all My special suppers. And they will keep My Day of Rest holy.


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They must not make themselves unclean by going near a dead person. But they may make themselves unclean if the dead person is their father or mother, son or daughter, brother, or sister who was not married.


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And on the day he goes into the holy place, into the inner open space to serve in the holy place, he must bring his sin gift,” says the Lord God.


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“I am to be the only part that the religious leaders have. You must not give them any land in Israel for their own. I am their part.


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They will eat the grain gift, the sin gift, and the guilt gift. Everything in Israel that is set apart to Me will be theirs.


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The first of all the first fruits of every kind, and every kind of gift you bring, will be for the religious leaders. And you must give them the first of your grain, so that good will come to your house.


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The religious leaders must not eat any bird or animal that has died of itself or has been torn to pieces.


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The Land Is Divided
“When the land is divided and each family receives its part, you must give a part to the Lord. This will be a holy piece of land, as long as 12,500 long steps and as wide as 5,000 long steps. This whole piece of land will be holy.


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Of this, there will be a piece of land for the holy place, as long as 250 long steps and as wide as 250 long steps. It will have four sides of the same length. And there will be an open space around it as wide as fifty cubits.


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In the holy piece of land, number a length of 12,500 long steps and a width of 5,000 long steps. And in it will be the most holy place.


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It will be the holy part of the land. It will be for the religious leaders, those who do the work in the holy place, who come near to serve the Lord. It will also be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the Lord’s House.


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Another piece of land as long as 12,500 long steps and as wide as 5,000 long steps will be for the Levites who serve in the house. It will be land to build their houses on.


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Next to the holy piece of land, another piece as wide as 2,500 long steps and as long as 12,500 long steps will be set aside for a city belonging to all the people of Israel.


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The ruler will have land on both sides of the holy piece of land and the place for the city. His land will be next to these two pieces of land, on the west side and on the east side. It will be as long as one of the shares of land, from the west side of the whole land to the east side.


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This land in Israel will belong to him. So My rulers will no longer make it hard for My people. They will give the rest of the land to the people of Israel by their family groups.”


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‘The Lord God says, “Enough, you rulers of Israel! Stop ruling in bad ways with your power and do what is right and good. Stop driving My people off their land,” says the Lord God.


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One barrel of grain must be the same amount as one barrel of water. And one-tenth part of a barrel of grain must be the same amount as one-tenth part of a barrel of water.


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The silver piece of money must be worth the same as twenty small silver pieces. And sixty silver pieces of money must be worth the same as the heavy silver weight.


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“This is the gift that you must bring: One-sixtieth part of a barrel of wheat, one-sixtieth part of a barrel of barley,


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Also bring one lamb from each flock of 200 sheep from the well-watered fields of Israel. Bring them for a grain gift, a burnt gift, and a peace gift, to pay for the people’s sins,” says the Lord God.


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It will be the ruler’s duty to bring the burnt gifts, the grain gifts, and the drink gifts, to the special suppers on the new moons and on the Days of Rest, and to all the special suppers of the people of Israel. He must bring the sin gift, the grain gift, the burnt gift, and the peace gifts, to pay for the sins of the people of Israel.”


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The Special Suppers
‘The Lord God says, “On the first day of the first month, you must take a young bull that is perfect and make the holy place clean.


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The religious leader will take some of the blood from the sin gift and put it on the door pillars of the house, on the four corners of the altar, and on the pillars of the gate of the inner open space.


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You must do the same on the seventh day of the month for every one who sins by mistake or because he does not know any better. In this way you will keep the Lord’s house holy.


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“On the fourteenth day of the first month, you will have the Passover, a special supper that lasts for seven days. Every one will eat bread made without yeast.


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During the seven days of the special supper he will bring as a burnt gift to the Lord seven bulls and seven rams that are perfect, on each of the seven days. And he will bring a male goat each day for a sin gift.


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For a grain gift he will bring a tenth part of a barrel of grain for each bull, a tenth part of a barrel for each ram. And he will bring a large jar of oil for each tenth part of a barrel of grain.


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On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, and for the seven days of the special supper, he is to bring the same amount for the sin gift, the burnt gift, the grain gift, and the oil.”


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The Way of Worship
‘The Lord God says, “The east gate of the inner open space must stay shut during the six working days. But it may be opened on the Day of Rest and on the day of the new moon.


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The ruler will come in through the porch of the gate from outside and stand by the pillar of the gate. The religious leaders will make ready his burnt gift and his peace gifts, and he will worship at the gate and then go out. But the gate will not be shut until evening.


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The people of the land will also worship at the gate before the Lord on the Days of Rest and on the new moons.


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The burnt gift the ruler gives to the Lord on the Day of Rest will be six lambs that are perfect and a ram that is perfect.


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The grain gift will be one-tenth part of a barrel of grain with the ram, and as much grain as he is able to give with the lambs. And he will give a large jar of oil with each tenth part of a barrel of grain.


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On the day of the new moon he will give a young bull that is perfect, and six lambs and a ram that are perfect.


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He will give a grain gift, one-tenth part of a barrel of grain with the bull, one-tenth part of a barrel of grain with the ram, and as much grain as he is able to give with the lambs. And he will give a large jar of oil with each tenth part of a barrel of grain.


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But when the people of the land come before the Lord at the special suppers, he who comes in through the north gate to worship must go out through the south gate. And he who comes in through the south gate must go out through the north gate. No one should leave through the same gate that he came in. Each person must go out the gate on the other side from where he came in.


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At the special times and special suppers, the grain gift will be one-tenth part of a barrel of grain with a bull, and one-tenth part of a barrel with a ram. A person should give as much grain as he is able to give with the lambs. And he will give a large jar of oil with each tenth part of a barrel of grain.


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When the ruler brings a free-will gift to the Lord, a burnt gift or a peace gift, the east gate must be opened for him. He will bring his burnt gift and his peace gifts as he does on the Day of Rest. Then he will leave, and the gate will be shut after he goes out.


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“You must bring a one-year-old lamb that is perfect for a burnt gift to the Lord each day. Morning by morning you must bring it.


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And you must bring a grain gift with it each morning. Bring one-sixtieth part of a barrel of grain, and one-third part of a large jar of oil to mix with the flour. This is the law for the grain gift to the Lord forever.


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In this way the lamb, the grain gift and the oil will be brought each morning for a burnt gift forever.”


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‘The Lord God says, “If the ruler gives some of his land to any of his sons, it will belong to his sons. They will own the land for their families.


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But if he gives some of his land to one of his servants, it will be his until the year he is set free. Then it will be returned to the ruler. His land may be kept only by his sons. It will belong to them.


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The ruler must not take any land from the people, driving them away from what belongs to them. He must give only his own land to his sons, so that My people will not be divided from what belongs to them.”’”


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Then he brought me through the door beside the gate into the holy rooms for the religious leaders, toward the north. And I saw a place at the far west end.


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He said to me, “This is the place where the religious leaders will boil the guilt gift and the sin gift, and make the grain gift ready. This is so they will not bring them into the outer open space and make the people holy.”


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Then he brought me into the outer open space and led me to its four corners. And in every corner I saw a small open space.


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In the four corners there were open spaces with walls around them, as long as twenty long steps and as wide as fifteen long steps. All four spaces in the corners were the same in length and width.


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Then he said to me, “These are the places where those who serve in the house will boil the gifts brought by the people.”


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The River Coming from the House of God
Then he brought me back to the door of the house. And I saw water flowing from under the doorway toward the east, for the house looked toward the east. The water was flowing from under the right side of the house, from south of the altar.


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He brought me out through the north gate and led me around on the outside to the east gate. And I saw water coming from the south side.


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Going toward the east, the man numbered 500 long steps, and he led me through the water, which covered my feet.


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He numbered another 500 long steps and led me through the water, which came up to my knees. He numbered another 500 long steps and led me through the water. This time it came above my legs.


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Again he numbered 500 long steps, and it was a river that I could not walk through. The water had risen. It was deep enough to swim in, and no one could cross it.


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He said to me, “These waters go out toward the east country and down into the Arabah, then flow into the Dead sea. When they flow into the sea, the waters there become clean again.


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Every living thing that gathers where the river goes will live. There will be very many fish, because these waters go there and make the salt water clean. So everything will live where the river goes.


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Fishermen will stand beside it. They will have places to spread their nets from Engedi to Eneglaim. The fish will be of many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.


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All kinds of fruit trees will grow on both sides of the river. Their leaves will not dry up, and they will never stop giving fruit. They will give fruit every month because their water flows from the holy place. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”


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The Lord God says, “This is how you should divide the land among the twelve family groups of Israel. Joseph will have two parts.


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You must divide the land so each family receives the same amount. For I promised to give this land to your fathers, and it will be your land to own.


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“This will be the side of the land: The north side will go from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon, and on to Zedad,


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Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim (between the lands of Damascus and Hamath), and to Hazer-hatticon, by the land of Hauran.


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So the land will spread from the sea to Hazarenan on the north side of Damascus, with the land of Hamath toward the north. This will be the north side.


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The east side of the land will go from between Hauran and Damascus along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel, to the sea in the east. This will be the east side.


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The south side of the land will go from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribath-kadesh, then to the River of Egypt and to the Great Sea. This will be the south side.


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The west side of the land will be the Great Sea, to a place beside Lebo-hamath. This will be the west side.


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Divide it by drawing names for yourselves and for the people from other lands who live with you and raise their children among you. You are to think of them as if they were born Israelites. They must be given a share of land with you among the families of Israel.


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The man from another country must be given a share of land among the family group he lives with,” says the Lord God.


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The Land Divided among the Family Groups
“These are the names of the family groups: Dan will have one share of land at the far north. His land will follow the Hethlon road to Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan beside the land of Damascus, toward the north beside Hamath, going from east to west.


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“Beside Judah, from the east side to the west side, will be the share of land you must set apart as a special gift. It will be as wide as 12,500 long steps, and as long as one of the other shares of land, from the east side to the west side. And the holy place will be in the center of it.


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The gift of land that you will set apart to the Lord will be as long as 12,500 long steps and as wide as 5,000 long steps.


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There will be a holy part for the religious leaders. It will be as long as 12,500 long steps on the north side, 5,000 long steps on the west side, 5,000 long steps on the east side, and 12,500 long steps on the south side. The holy house of the Lord will be in the center of it.


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It will be for the religious leaders who are set apart of the sons of Zadok, who have been faithful in serving Me. They did not sin as the Levites did when the people of Israel went the wrong way.


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It will belong to them as a special gift from part of the land, a most holy place, beside the land of the Levites.


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The Levites will have land beside the religious leaders, as long as 12,500 long steps and as wide as 5,000 long steps. The whole length will be 12,500 long steps, and the width 5,000 long steps.


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They must not sell or trade any of it. This is the best part of the land, and it must not pass into other hands. For it is holy to the Lord.


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“The rest of the land, 2,500 long steps in width and 12,500 long steps in length, will be for all the people. It will be for houses and for open fields, and the city will be in the center of it.


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The rest of the length beside the holy part of the land will be 5,000 long steps toward the east and 5,000 long steps toward the west. This will be where food is grown for those who work in the city.


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The whole piece of land will be as long as 12,500 long steps on each of its four sides. You will set apart the holy piece of land, together with the land for the city.


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“The rest of the land will be for the ruler, on both sides of the holy piece of land and of the land for the city. It will go from the 12,500 long steps of the holy piece of land all the way to the east side, and from the 12,500 long steps all the way to the west side, along the shares for the family groups. It will belong to the ruler. The holy piece of land and the house of the Lord will be in the center of it.


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So the land of the Levites and the land of the city will be in the center of the ruler’s land. And the ruler’s land will be between the land of Judah and the land of Benjamin.


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“As for the rest of the family groups, Benjamin will have one share of land. It will spread from the east side to the west side.


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The south side of Gad’s share will be from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, then to the River of Egypt and to the Great Sea.


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This is the land you will give by drawing names to the family groups of Israel for their own. And these are their shares,” says the Lord God.


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The Gates of Jerusalem
“These will be the gates of the city: Beginning on the north side, which is as long as 2,250 long steps,


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the gates of the city will be given the names of the family groups of Israel. The three gates on the north side will be the gate of Reuben, the gate of Judah, and the gate of Levi.


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The east side is as long as 2,250 long steps. The three gates on this side will be the gate of Joseph, the gate of Benjamin, and the gate of Dan.


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The south side is as long as 2,250 long steps. The three gates on this side will be the gate of Simeon, the gate of Issachar, and the gate of Zebulun.


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And the west side is as long as 2,250 long steps. The three gates on this side will be the gate of Gad, the gate of Asher, and the gate of Naphtali.


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It will be 9,000 long steps around the city. And the name of the city from that time on will be: ‘The Lord is there.’”


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Daniel Obeys God
In the third year that Jehoiakim was king of Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem. His army was all around the city.


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The Lord let him take King Jehoiakim of Judah, with some of the objects of the house of God. He brought them to the house of his god in the land of Shinar, and put the objects into the store-room of his god.


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Then the king told Ashpenaz, his head ruler, to bring in some of the sons of Israel, both those of the king’s family and of the important leaders.


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They were to be young men, perfect in body, good-looking, with wisdom, understanding, much learning, and able to serve in the king’s house. The king told Ashpenaz to teach them the writings and language of the Babylonians.


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And the king gave them a share of his best food and wine every day. They were to be taught for three years, and after that they were to serve the king.


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The king’s head ruler gave them new names. To Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar. To Hananiah he gave the name Shadrach. To Mishael he gave the name Meshach. And to Azariah he gave the name Abed-nego.


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But Daniel made up his mind that he would not make himself unclean with the king’s best food and wine. So he asked the head ruler to allow him not to make himself unclean.


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The head ruler said to him, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has said you were to have so much and he would see that you were not looking as good as the other young men who are as old as you. The king would cut off my head because of you.”


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Then Daniel said to the man whom the head ruler had chosen to watch over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,


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Then compare how we look with the young men who are eating the king’s best food. And do with us what you think is best by what you see.”


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At the end of ten days they looked even better. They were fatter than all the young men who had been eating the king’s best food.


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So the man who watched over them took away the best food and the wine they were to drink, and kept giving them vegetables.


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God gave these four young men much learning and understanding in all kinds of writings and wisdom. Daniel even had understanding in all kinds of special dreams.


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At the end of the time set by the king to bring them in, the head ruler brought them to Nebuchadnezzar.


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The king talked with them, and found no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. So they became the king’s own helpers.


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Every time the king asked them questions that needed wise and understanding answers, he found that they knew ten times more than all the wonder-workers under his rule who used their secret ways.


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Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream
In the second year that Nebuchadnezzar was king, he had a dream. His spirit was troubled and he could not sleep.


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Then the king called for the wonder-workers, those who used secret ways, those who learned from stars, to tell the king what he had dreamed. So they came in and stood in front of the king.


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Then those who learn from stars said to the king in the Aramaic language, “O king, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants, and we will tell you what it means.”


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The king answered, saying, “My word is sure. If you do not tell me what my dream was and what it means, you will be torn apart and your houses will be laid waste.


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But if you tell me the dream and what it means, I will give you gifts and riches and great honor. So tell me the dream and what it means.”


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They answered the king a second time, saying, “Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will tell you what it means.”


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The king said, “I am sure that you are trying to get more time, because you see that my word is sure.


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You know that if you do not tell me what I dreamed, there is only one penalty for you. You have agreed among yourselves to keep telling me lies until things change. So tell me the dream. Then I will know that you can tell me what it means.”


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Those who learn from stars answered the king and said, “There is not a man on earth who can do this for the king. For no great king or ruler has ever asked anything like this of any wonder-worker or one who learns from stars.


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What the king asks is too hard. No one can do it for you except the gods, who do not live among men.”


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Because of this the king became very angry and said that all the wise men of Babylon must be destroyed.


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So the law was sent out that the wise men must be killed. They looked for Daniel and his friends, to kill them also.


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God Shows Daniel the Meaning of the Dream
Then Daniel spoke with wisdom and understanding to Arioch, the captain of the soldiers who watched over the king, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon.


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He said to Arioch, the king’s captain, “Why is the king’s law so hard?” Then Arioch told him what had happened.


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Then Daniel went to his house and told his friends, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, what had happened.


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He told them to ask for loving-pity from the God of heaven about this secret, so that Daniel and his friends might not be killed with the other wise men of Babylon.


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Then the secret was made known to Daniel in a special dream during the night. He gave honor and thanks to the God of heaven.


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He changes the times and the years. He takes kings away, and puts kings in power. He gives wisdom to wise men and much learning to men of understanding.


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I give thanks and praise to You, O God of my fathers. For You have given me wisdom and power. Even now You have made known what we asked of You. You have made the king’s dream known to us.”


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Daniel Tells the Meaning to the King
So Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had told to kill the wise men of Babylon. He went and said to him, “Do not kill the wise men of Babylon! Take me to the king, and I will tell him what his dream means.”


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Then Arioch brought Daniel to the king in a hurry, and said to him, “I have found a man among those brought out of Judah who can tell the king the meaning of his dream!”


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The king said to Daniel (also called Belteshazzar), “Are you able to tell me the dream I had, and what it means?”


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Daniel answered the king and said, “No wise men, wonder-workers, or men who use secret ways can make this dream known to the king.


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But there is a God in heaven who makes secrets known. And He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the future. This was the special dream you had while you were on your bed.


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O king, while on your bed your thoughts turned to what would happen in the future. And He Who makes secrets known has let you know what will happen.


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But this secret has not been made known to me because I am wiser than any other living man. It was made known to me so that I can make it known to the king, and that you may understand the thoughts of your mind.


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“O king, you were looking and saw a great object. The object was large and very bright, and it was standing in front of you. It filled you with fear and wonder as you looked at it.


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The object’s head was made of fine gold. Its breast and arms were made of silver. Its stomach and thighs were made of brass.


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While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It fell and hit the large object on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.


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Then the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver and the gold were broken to pieces at the same time and became like dust on the grain-floor in the summer. The wind carried the dust away so nothing was to be found. But the stone that hit the large object became a large mountain and filled the whole earth.


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You, O king, are the king of kings. The God of heaven has given you the nation, the power, the strength, and the honor.


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In every place where people live, or the animals of the field, or the birds of the air, He has given them to you and has caused you to rule over them all. You are the head of gold.


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After you there will be another nation that is not as great as yours. A third nation of brass will come, which will rule over all the earth.


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Then there will be a fourth nation, as strong as iron. Iron crushes and breaks all things. So, like iron breaks things to pieces, this nation will crush and break all the others.


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Just as you saw the feet and toes made of part clay and part iron, it will be a divided nation. But it will have some of the strength of iron, just as you saw the iron mixed with the clay.


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As the toes of the feet were made of part iron and part clay, so some of the nation will be strong and part of it will be weak.


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As you saw the iron mixed with clay, they will try to join with one another. But they will not stay together any more than iron mixes with clay.


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In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a nation which will never be destroyed. And it will never be taken by another people. It will crush and put an end to all these nations, but it will last forever.


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You saw how a stone was cut out of the mountain by no human hands, and how it crushed the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold. The great God has shown the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true. And I have given you its true meaning.”


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Daniel Becomes Ruler of Babylon
Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face and gave honor to Daniel. He had a gift and special perfume brought to him.


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The king said to Daniel, “For sure your God is God of gods and Lord of kings, and He makes hidden things known. For you have been able to make known this secret.”


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Then the king gave Daniel much power and gave him many great gifts. He made him ruler over the whole land of Babylon and the head of all the wise men of Babylon.


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And Daniel asked the king to put Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego as leaders over the land of Babylon, while Daniel stayed near the king.


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The False God Made of Gold
King Nebuchadnezzar made an object of gold which looked like a god. It was fifteen times taller than a man, and as wide as three long steps. He set it up on the plain of Dura in the land of Babylon.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar called together all the captains, leaders, rulers, wise men, money-keepers, judges, and law-keepers of Babylon’s lands. He called them to come to the first showing of the object that he had set up.


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So all the captains, leaders, rulers, wise men, money-keepers, judges, and law-keepers of Babylon’s lands were gathered together for the special time of setting apart this object Nebuchadnezzar had set up. And they stood in front of it.


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Then the man who spread news for the king said in a loud voice, “This is what you must do, O people of every nation and language:


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When you hear the sound of the horns and harps, and all kinds of music, you are to get down on your knees and worship the object of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.


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Then all the people heard the sound of the horns and harps and all kinds of music. All the people of every nation and language got down and worshiped the object of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.


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Daniel’s Friends Do Not Obey the King
At this time certain ones who learned from stars came up and spoke against the Jews.


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You yourself, O king, have made a law that every man who hears the sound of the horns and harps and all kinds of music is to get down on his knees and worship the object of gold.


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There are certain Jews whom you have chosen as leaders over the land of Babylon. Their names are Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. These men have not listened to you, O king. They do not serve your gods or worship the object of gold which you have set up.”


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Then Nebuchadnezzar became very angry and called for Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. And they were brought to the king.


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Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the object of gold that I have set up?


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Now if you are ready to get down on your knees and worship the object I have made when you hear the sound of the horns and harps and all kinds of music, very well. But if you will not worship, you will be thrown at once into the fire. And what god is able to save you from my hands?”


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Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to give you an answer to this question.


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If we are thrown into the fire, our God Whom we serve is able to save us from it. And He will save us from your hand, O king.


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But even if He does not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the object of gold that you have set up.”


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Daniel’s Friends Come Out of the Fire Alive
Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with anger, and he looked at Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego with an angry face. He had the fire made seven times hotter than it was.


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And he told certain powerful soldiers in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, and to throw them into the fire.


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So the men were tied up in their coats and head-coverings and their other clothes, and were thrown into the fire.


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Because the king had spoken that the fire was to be very hot, those men who put Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego into the fire were killed by the fire.


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Then King Nebuchadnezzar was very surprised and stood up in a hurry. He said to his leaders, “Did we not throw three men who were tied up into the fire?” They answered, “That is true, O king.”


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He said, “Look! I see four men loose and walking about in the fire without being hurt! And the fourth one looks like a son of the gods (or the Son of God)!”


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Nebuchadnezzar Praises God
Then Nebuchadnezzar came near the door where the fire was burning, and said, “Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!” So Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego came out of the fire.


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The captains, leaders, rulers, and the king’s important men gathered around and saw that the fire had not hurt the bodies of these three men. Their hair was not burned. Their clothes were not burned. They did not even smell like fire.


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Nebuchadnezzar said, “Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. He has sent His angel and saved His servants who put their trust in Him. They changed the king’s word and were ready to give up their lives instead of serving or worshiping any god except their own God.


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So I now make a law that if any people of any nation or language say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, they will be torn apart and their houses will be laid waste. For there is no other god who is able to save in this way.”


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Nebuchadnezzar’s Second Dream
King Nebuchadnezzar sent this letter to all the people of every nation and language who live in all the world: “May you have much peace!


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How great are the special things He shows us! How powerful are His wonderful works! His nation lasts forever, and His rule is for all people for all time.


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But I had a dream that made me afraid. As I lay on my bed the pictures that passed through my mind filled me with fear.


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Then the wonder-workers, those who learn from stars, and those who use their secret ways, came in. I told them about the dream, but they could not tell me what it meant.


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At last Daniel came to me, who was given the name Belteshazzar after the name of my god. A spirit of the holy gods is in him, and I told him about my dream. I said,


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‘O Belteshazzar, head of the wonder-workers, I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you and that no secret is hidden from you. So tell me what dream I had, and what it means.


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This is what I saw in my mind as I lay on my bed: I saw a tree in the center of the land. It was very tall.


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The tree grew and became strong. Its top went up to the sky, and it could be seen to the end of the whole earth.


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Its leaves were beautiful and it had much fruit. It had enough food for everyone. The wild animals of the field rested in its shadow. The birds of the air lived in its branches. And every living thing was fed from it.


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‘In the dreams I had as I lay on my bed, I looked and saw an angel who kept watch. He was a holy one who came down from heaven.


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He said in a loud voice, “Cut down the tree and cut off its branches. Tear off its leaves and throw away its fruit. Let the animals run from under it and the birds fly from its branches.


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Yet leave the base of the tree with its roots in the ground, and tie a chain of iron and brass around it. Leave it there in the new grass of the field. Let him be wet with the water from heaven on the grass in the early morning. Let him share with the wild animals in the grass of the earth.


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This penalty is by the law of the angels who keep watch. This is what the holy ones have decided, so that the living may know that the Most High is ruler over the nation of all people. He gives it to whomever He wants, and lets the least important of men rule over it.”


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This is the dream that I, King Nebuchadnezzar, have seen. Now, Belteshazzar, tell me what it means. None of the wise men in my nation can tell me what it means, but you can. For the spirit of the holy gods is in you.’


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Daniel Tells the Meaning of the Second Dream
“Then Daniel (also called Belteshazzar) was afraid for a while. His thoughts filled him with fear. The king said, ‘Belteshazzar, do not be afraid of the dream or its meaning.’ Belteshazzar answered, ‘My lord, if only the dream and its meaning had to do with those who hate you and fight against you!


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You saw the tree which grew large and strong, whose top went up to the sky and could be seen over all the earth.


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Its leaves were beautiful and it had much fruit, enough food for all. Wild animals of the field rested under it, and birds of the air lived in its branches.


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This tree is you, O king! For you have become great and strong. Your power has become great and has gone up to the sky, and your rule has gone to the end of the earth.


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The king saw an angel who kept watch, a holy one coming down from heaven and saying, “Cut down the tree and destroy it. Yet leave its base with its roots in the ground. Put a chain of iron and brass around it and leave it in the new grass of the field. And let him be wet with the water from heaven on the grass in the early morning. Let him share with the wild animals of the field for seven years.”


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You will be driven away from all people and will live with the wild animals of the field. You will eat grass like cattle and become wet with the water from heaven. Seven years will pass until you understand that the Most High is ruler over the nations of men, and gives them to whomever He wants.


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It was said that the base of the tree and its roots must be left. This means that your nation will be returned to you after you understand that it is Heaven that rules.


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So, O king, may my words be pleasing to you. Turn away from your sins by doing what is right and good. Turn away from your wrong-doing by being kind to the poor. Then it may be that things will keep going well for you.’


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And he said, ‘Is not this the great Babylon which I have built as a beautiful place for the king? I have built it by my great strength and for the greatness of my power.’


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Before the king was finished speaking, a voice came from heaven, saying, ‘King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is said: Your power over the nation has been taken from you.


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You will be driven away from all people and will live with the wild animals of the field. You will eat grass like cattle. And seven years will pass until you understand that the Most High is ruler over the nations of men, and gives them to whomever He wants.’


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At once these words about Nebuchadnezzar came true. He was driven away from all people and began eating grass like cattle. His body became wet with the water from heaven, until his hair grew as long as eagles’ feathers and his nails like those of birds.


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Nebuchadnezzar Praises God
“But at the end of that time I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up toward heaven and my understanding returned to me. And I gave thanks to the Most High and praised and honored Him Who lives forever. For His nation lasts forever, and His rule is for all people for all time.


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All the people of the earth are thought of as nothing. He does as He pleases with the angels of heaven and the people of the earth. No one can hold back His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’


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At that time my understanding returned to me. And my honor and power were returned to me for the greatness of my nation. My wise men and my leaders began looking for me, and I was made king again, with even more greatness added to me.


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Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and honor the King of heaven. For all His works are true and His ways are right. And He is able to bring down those who walk in pride.”


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Belshazzar’s Special Supper
King Belshazzar gave a special supper for a thousand of his important men, and drank wine with them.


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When Belshazzar tasted the wine, he had all the gold and silver cups brought which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the Lord’s house in Jerusalem. The king sent for them so that he and his important men and all his wives could drink from them.


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So they brought the gold cups that had been taken from the house of God in Jerusalem. And the king and his important men and all his wives drank from them.


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All at once the fingers of a man’s hand were seen writing on the wall near the lamp-stand of the king’s house. And the king saw the back of the hand as it wrote.


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Then the king’s face turned white, and his thoughts turned to fear. His legs became weak and his knees began shaking.


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The king called in a loud voice for the wonder-workers, the men who learned from stars and those who used their secret ways. He said to the wise men of Babylon, “Any man who can read this writing and tell me what it means will be dressed with purple clothing and have a chain of gold around his neck. And he will be the third in power in the nation.”


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Then all the king’s wise men came in. But they could not read the writing or tell the king what it meant.


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Then King Belshazzar was very afraid. His face lost even more of its color, and his important men did not know what to do.


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The queen heard the words of the king and his men, and came into the room where they were eating. She said, “O king, live forever! Do not let your thoughts make you afraid or your face turn white.


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There is a man in your nation who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. In your father’s time light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him. And King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, made him the head of the wonder-workers, the men who learned from stars, and those who use their secret ways.


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This was because a special spirit was found in this Daniel whom the king called Belteshazzar. He had much learning and understanding to tell the meaning of dreams and secrets and to give answers to problems. Call for Daniel, and he will tell you what this means.”


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Daniel Tells What the Writing Means
So Daniel was brought to the king. And the king said to him, “Are you that Daniel who is one of the people whom my father the king brought from Judah?


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I have heard that the spirit of the gods is in you. Light and understanding and special wisdom have been found in you also.


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The wise men and wonder-workers were brought in to me so that they might read this writing and tell me what it means. But they could not tell me its meaning.


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Now I have heard that you are able to tell the meaning of such things and give answers to hard problems. If you are able to read the writing and tell me what it means, you will be dressed in purple and wear a chain of gold around your neck. And you will be the third in power in the nation.”


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Then Daniel answered the king, saying, “Keep your gifts for yourself, or give them to someone else. But I will read the writing to the king and tell him what it means.


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O king, the Most High made your father Nebuchadnezzar king, and gave him greatness, honor, and power.


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Because of the greatness He gave to him, all the people of every nation and language shook in fear in front of him. He killed whomever he wanted. And he let live whomever he wanted. He gave honor to whomever he wanted. And he put down whomever he wanted.


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But when his heart and spirit became proud and he acted in pride, he was taken from his throne and his greatness was taken from him.


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He was driven away from people, and his mind became like that of an animal. He lived with the wild donkeys. He ate grass like cattle, and his body became wet with the water from heaven. It was like this for him until he understood that the Most High God is ruler over the nation of all men, and that He lets whomever He wants rule it.


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Yet you, his son Belshazzar, have not put away the pride from your heart, even though you knew all this.


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You have honored yourself more than the Lord of heaven. The cups of His house have been brought to you. And you and your important men and all your wives have been drinking wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver, gold, brass, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, hear or understand. But you have not honored the God Who holds your life and your ways in His hand.


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And this is what it means: ‘MENE’ means that God has numbered the days of your rule and has brought it to an end.


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Then Belshazzar had them dress Daniel in purple and put a chain of gold around his neck. And he made it known that Daniel was the third most powerful ruler in the nation.


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Daniel Is Thrown to the Lions
It pleased Darius to choose 120 captains to rule over the people. They would rule over the whole nation.


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And three leaders were to rule over them, and Daniel was one. The captains were to answer to them, so that the king might suffer no loss.


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Then Daniel showed that he could do better work than the other leaders and captains because a special spirit was in him. So the king planned to give him power over the whole nation.


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Then the leaders and captains tried to find a reason to complain against Daniel about his duties over the nation. But they could not find any reason to complain or anything to blame him for, because he was faithful and honest and did not do anything wrong.


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Then these men said, “We will not find anything to say against Daniel unless it has to do with the Law of his God.”


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All the leaders of the nation, the captains, the important men and the rulers have spoken with each other and have agreed that a new law should be made. The king should make a law that must be obeyed, saying that anyone who asks something of any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, must be thrown to the lions.


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O king, make this law now and write your name on it so that it may not be changed. It will be by the law of the Medes and Persians, and cannot be changed.”


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When Daniel knew that the king had written his name on this law, he went into his house where, in his upper room, he had windows open toward Jerusalem. There he got down on his knees three times each day, praying and giving thanks to his God, as he had done before.


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So they went to the king and spoke to him about his law, saying, “Did you not write your name on a law which says that anyone who asks something of any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, is to be thrown to the lions?” The king answered, “This is true. It is by the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.”


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Then they said to the king, “Daniel, who is one of the people brought from Judah, does not listen to you, O king. He is not obeying the law that you wrote your name on. He is still asking things of his God three times a day.”


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When the king heard this, he was very troubled and tried to think of a way to save Daniel. Even until sunset he was trying to find a way to save him.


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Then these men came as a group to the king and said, “Understand, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that any law the king makes cannot be changed.”


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So the king had Daniel brought in and thrown into the place where lions were kept. The king said to Daniel, “May your God, Whom you are faithful to serve, save you.”


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And a stone was brought and laid over the mouth of the hole. The king marked it with his own special ring and with the rings of his important men, so that no one could save Daniel.


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Then the king went to his beautiful house and spent the night without food and sleep. And nothing was brought to make him feel better.


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Daniel Is Saved from the Lions
The king got up at sunrise and went in a hurry to the place where lions were kept.


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When he came to the hole in the ground where Daniel was, he called to him with a troubled voice, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, Whom you always serve, been able to save you from the lions?”


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My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths. They have not hurt me, because He knows that I am not guilty, and because I have done nothing wrong to you, O king.”


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Then the king was very pleased and had Daniel taken up out of the hole in the ground. So they took Daniel out of the hole and saw that he had not been hurt at all, because he had trusted in his God.


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Then the king had those men brought to him who had spoken against Daniel. And they threw them with their wives and children into the hole with the lions. Even before they hit the bottom of the hole, the lions went after them and crushed all their bones.


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Then King Darius wrote to all the people of every nation and language who were living on the earth. He wrote, “May you have much peace!


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I make a law that all those under my rule are to fear and shake before the God of Daniel. For He is the living God and He lives forever. His nation will never be destroyed and His rule will last forever.


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He saves and brings men out of danger, and shows His great power in heaven and on earth. And He has saved Daniel from the power of the lions.”


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Daniel’s Special Dream of the Four Animals
In the first year that Belshazzar was king of Babylon, Daniel had a special dream in his mind as he lay on his bed. And he wrote the dream down, telling what he saw.


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Daniel said, “In my dream at night I looked and saw the four winds of heaven causing waves in the great sea.


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The first was like a lion and it had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were pulled off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man. A man’s heart was given to it also.


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Then I saw a second animal, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. And it was told, ‘Get up, and eat much meat!’


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Then I looked and saw another animal, which looked like a leopard. It had four wings of a bird on its back, and four heads. And it was given the power to rule.


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After this I looked in my dream in the night and saw a fourth animal. It filled me with a very great fear. It was very strong and it had large, iron teeth. It ate and crushed, and whatever was left, it crushed with its feet. It was different from all the animals that were before it, and it had ten horns.


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While I was thinking about the horns, I saw another horn, a little one, come up among them. And three of the first horns were pulled out by the roots in front of it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth which spoke in pride.


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The Special Dream of the One Who Has Always Lived
“As I kept looking, thrones were set up and the One Who has lived forever took His seat. His clothing was as white as snow and the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne and its wheels were a burning fire.


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A river of fire was flowing and coming out from before Him. Many thousands were serving Him, and many millions were standing before Him. The Judge was seated, and The Books were opened.


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I kept looking because of the sound of the proud words which the horn was speaking. I watched until the fourth animal was killed, and its body was destroyed and thrown into the burning fire.


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“I kept looking in the night dream and saw One like a Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He came to the One Who has lived forever, and was brought before Him.


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And He was given power and shining-greatness, and was made King, so that all the people of every nation and language would serve Him. His rule lasts forever. It will never pass away. And His nation will never be destroyed.


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Daniel Tells the Meaning of His Dream
“As for me, Daniel, my spirit was troubled within me. The things I saw in my dream made me afraid.


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I went to one of those who were standing near and asked him the true meaning of all this. So he told me what these things meant.


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Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth animal which was different from all the others. It filled me with fear, with its iron teeth and sharp nails of brass. It ate and crushed, and whatever was left it crushed with its feet.


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I wanted to know about the ten horns on its head, and the other horn which came up. I wanted to know about the three horns that fell in front of this larger horn which had eyes and a mouth which spoke proud words.


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until the One came Who has lived forever. This One judged in favor of the holy ones of the Most High. And the time came when the holy ones took the nation for their own.


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“He told me, ‘The fourth animal will be a fourth nation on the earth. It will be different from all the other nations. It will destroy the whole earth. And it will crush under foot whatever is left.


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The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this nation. And another will come after them who will be different from the ones before. He will put three kings under his power.


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He will speak against the Most High and make it hard for His holy ones. And he will try to make changes in times and in law. The holy ones will be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time (three and a half years).


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But the Judge will decide against him. And his ruling power will be taken away and destroyed forever.


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Then the ruling power and greatness of all the nations under the whole heaven will be given to the holy people of the Most High. His nation will last forever, and all rulers will serve and obey Him.’


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This is the end of the special dream. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts filled me with fear and my face turned white. But I kept everything to myself.”


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Daniel’s Special Dream of a Ram and Goat
In the third year that Belshazzar was king, I, Daniel, had another special dream.


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In the dream I looked and saw that I was in the strong city of Susa, in the land of Elam. I saw that I was beside the Ulai River.


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Then I looked up and saw a ram with two horns standing by the river. The two horns were long, but one was longer than the other. And the longer one came up last.


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I saw the ram pushing to the west, to the north, and to the south. No other animals could stop him or be saved from his power. He did as he pleased and made himself great.


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While I was watching, a male goat came from the west across the whole earth without touching the ground. And the goat had a horn between his eyes that was very easy to see.


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He came up to the ram with the two horns, which I had seen standing by the river, and rushed at him in his strong anger.


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I saw him come at the ram in his anger. He hit the ram and broke his two horns to pieces. The ram was not strong enough to fight against him. So the goat threw him to the ground and crushed him under foot. And there was no one to save the ram from his power.


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Then the male goat became very great. But as soon as he was powerful, the large horn was broken. And four large horns came up in its place, toward the four winds of heaven.


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Out of them came a little horn which grew in power toward the south, toward the east, and toward the Beautiful Land.


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It grew to be as great as the army of heaven and made some of them fall to the earth, and it crushed them into the ground.


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It thought itself to be as great as the Ruler of the army of heaven. It took away the burnt gifts which were given to Him each day, and destroyed His holy place.


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Because of sin, the army of heaven and the burnt gifts were given over to the horn. It did well in whatever it wanted to do, and truth was thrown to the ground.


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Then I heard a holy one speaking. And another holy one said to the one that spoke, “How long will it take for the things seen in the dream to happen? How long will the burnt gifts be taken, and sin allowed to destroy, so that the holy place and the army of heaven are crushed under foot?”


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Gabriel Tells the Meaning of the Dream
When I, Daniel, had seen the special dream, I tried to understand it. Then I saw one standing in front of me who looked like a man.


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And I heard a man’s voice from the Ulai River. He called out and said, “Gabriel, help this man to understand the special dream.”


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When he came near the place where I was standing, I was afraid and fell on my face to the ground. But he said to me, “Son of man, understand that the special dream is about the time of the end.”


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While he was talking to me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face to the ground. But he touched me and made me stand up.


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He said, “I am going to let you know what the end of God’s anger will be. For the special dream is about the time of the end.


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The broken horn and the four horns that grew in its place are the four nations which will come from his nation. But they will not be as powerful.


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In the later part of their rule, when they have become as sinful as they can be, a king will rise to power. This king will be very proud and will understand secret things.


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He will become very strong, but not by his own power. He will destroy much, and do well in whatever he wants done. He will destroy powerful men and the holy people.


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He will do well by using his false ways and lies, and will think of himself as great. He will destroy many who are taking it easy. He will even go against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be destroyed, but not by a human hand.


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The special dream of the evenings and mornings that has been given to you is true. But keep the dream secret, for it has to do with things far into the future.”


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I, Daniel, was tired and sick for days. Then I got up again and did the work that the king had given me. But I was filled with wonder because of the special dream, and did not understand it.


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Daniel’s Prayer for the People
Darius the son of Ahasuerus, who was born a Mede, was made king over the nation of the Babylonians.


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In the first year of his rule, I, Daniel, understood the books which were given by the Lord through Jeremiah that Jerusalem would lie waste for seventy years.


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So I turned to the Lord God in prayer and did not eat. I dressed in cloth made from hair, and threw ashes on myself.


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I prayed to the Lord my God and told him the sins of my people, saying, “O Lord, you are great and we fear You. You keep Your agreement and show loving-kindness to those who love You and keep Your Laws.


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“But we have sinned. We have done wrong and have acted in sin. We have turned against You and against Your Laws.


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We have not listened to Your servants who spoke for You, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our leaders, our fathers, and all the people of the land.


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You are right and good, O Lord. But we are all covered with shame, all the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel. The people both near and far away in all the countries where You have driven us are covered with shame because they have not been faithful to You.


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We, our kings, our leaders and our fathers are all covered with shame, O Lord, because we have sinned against You.


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We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by following the Laws He gave us through His servants who spoke for Him.


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All Israel has sinned against Your Law and turned away, not obeying Your voice. So the curses and punishments have been poured out on us, which were written about in the Law of God’s servant Moses. For we have sinned against Him.


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He has done what He said He would do against us and our leaders, and has brought much trouble upon us. For under the whole heaven nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.


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All this trouble has come upon us just as it is written in the Law of Moses. Yet we have not looked for the favor of the Lord our God by turning from our sin and following Your truth.


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So the Lord brought trouble upon us. For the Lord our God is right and good in all He does, but we have not obeyed His voice.


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“O Lord our God, You have brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a powerful hand. And You have made a name for Yourself that is known to this day. Now we have sinned. We have done sinful things.


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O Lord, because You are right and good in what You do, do not be angry any longer with Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain. For because of our sins and the sins of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have been put to shame by everyone around us.


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So now, our God, listen to Your servant’s prayer and what he is asking. And for Your good, O Lord, look with favor upon the House of God which now lies waste.


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O my God, turn Your ear and hear! Open Your eyes and see our trouble and the city that is called by Your name. We are not asking this of You because we are right or good, but because of Your great loving-pity.


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O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act! For Your own good, O my God, do not wait, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name.”


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Daniel Tells about the Future
I was speaking and praying, and telling the Lord my sin and the sin of my people Israel. I was asking the Lord my God to show favor to His holy mountain.


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And while I was still praying, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen before in the dream, flew to me in a hurry at about the time when the evening gift is given in worship.


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He talked to me and told me things, saying, “O Daniel, I have now come to give you wisdom and understanding.


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As soon as you began to pray, an answer was given, which I have come to tell you. For you are loved very much. So listen to what I say and understand the special dream.


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“Seventy weeks are given for your people and your holy city to finish the wrong-doing and put an end to sin. By the end of this time, you must pay for your sins and follow what is right and good forever. You must finish what was shown in the special dream and what has been spoken in My name, and set apart the most holy place.


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Know and understand that seven weeks and sixty-two weeks will pass from the time the people are told to build Jerusalem again until the Chosen One comes. It will be built again, with streets and with a ditch of water around it. But that will be a troubled time.


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After the sixty-two weeks, the Chosen One will be killed and have nothing. And the people of the ruler who is to come will destroy the city and the holy place. The end will come like a flood. Even to the end there will be war. For the Lord has said that much will be destroyed.


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That ruler will make a strong agreement with many for one week. But when half that time is past, he will put a stop to burnt gifts and grain gifts. And a very sinful man-made god will be put there. It will stay there until the one who put it there is destroyed.”


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Daniel’s Special Dream by the Tigris River
In the third year that Cyrus was the king of Persia, some news was made known to Daniel (who was called Belteshazzar). The news was true and it was about a battle. He received understanding of the news in a special dream.


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I did not eat any fine food, and no meat or wine came into my mouth. And I did not use any oil at all, until the three weeks were finished.


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His body was like shining stone. His face looked like lightning. His eyes were like fire. His arms and feet were like shining brass. And his voice was like the noise of many people.


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I, Daniel, was the only one who saw the special dream. The men who were with me did not see it. But they were filled with much fear, and ran away to hide themselves.


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So I was left alone and saw this special dream. I had no strength left. My skin color turned white as if I were dead, and there was no strength left in me.


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Then I heard the sound of his words. And as soon as I heard him speak, I fell into a deep sleep with my face to the ground.


book: Dan
contenido:
The Future for Persia and Greece
Then a hand touched me and I shook with fear on my hands and knees.


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And he said to me, “O Daniel, you who are loved very much, understand what I am about to tell you, and stand up. For I have now been sent to you.” When he said this to me, I stood up shaking in fear.


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Then he said to me, “Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind on understanding and getting rid of your pride before your God, your words were heard. And I have come because of your words.


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But the ruler of Persia stood against me for twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the leading princes of honor, came to help me, because I had been left there with the king of Persia.


book: Dan
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Now I have come to help you understand what will happen to your people in the last days. For the special dream is about the days yet to come.”


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Then one who looked like a man touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and spoke. I said to him who was standing in front of me, “O my lord, pain has come to me because of the special dream, and I have no strength left.


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He said, “O man who is loved very much, do not be afraid. May peace be with you. Be strong and have strength of heart.” And when he had spoken to me, I received strength, and said, “May my lord speak, for you have given me strength.”


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He said, “Do you understand why I have come to you? Soon I will return to fight against the ruler of Persia. And when I go, the ruler of Greece will come.


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But first I will tell you what is written in the Book of Truth. (No one helps me against these rulers except Michael, your leading angel.


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I tell you the truth. Three more kings will rule over Persia. Then a fourth will become much richer than all of them. As soon as he becomes strong because of his riches, he will move everyone against the nation of Greece.


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But as soon as he has risen to power, his nation will be broken and divided to the four winds of heaven. It will not be divided among his own children, or because of his own power. For his power will be taken and given to others besides these.


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The Nations of Egypt and Syria
“Then the king of the South will become strong. But one of his leaders will become stronger than he and will rule with much power.


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After some years they will join together. The daughter of the king of the South will come to the king of the North to make an agreement. But she will not keep her power, and he will not keep his. She will be killed, together with those who brought her, and her father, and the one who helped her.


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But one of her family will become king in his place. He will fight against the army and go into the strong city of the king of the North. He will fight against them and win.


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And he will carry their false gods and objects of silver and gold away to Egypt. For some years he will leave the king of the North alone.


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Then the king of the North will go to fight against the king of the South, but will return to his own land.


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“His sons will get ready for war and gather together a very large army. They will come like a flood and pass through, and fight in battle as far as his strong city.


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The king of the South will be very angry and will go and fight with the king of the North, who will have a very large army. But his army will be given over to the king of the South.


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When the army is taken away, the king of the South will become very proud, and he will kill tens of thousands. But his strength will not last.


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For the king of the North will gather together a larger army than before. And after some years he will come with a large army ready to do battle.


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“In those times many will fight against the king of the South. Angry men among your people will also go against the king to do what was shown in the special dream, but they will not win.


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Then the king of the North will come and build a battle-wall, and take a very strong city. The army of the South will not be able to stand against him, not even their best soldiers. They will not have enough strength.


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The king of the North will do as he pleases. No one will be able to stand against him. He will stay for awhile in the Beautiful Land with the power to destroy it.


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He will plan to come with the strength of his whole nation and will make a peace agreement with the king of the South. He will give him a daughter in marriage to try to destroy his nation. But she will not help him or be on his side.


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Then he will turn to the lands beside the sea and take many in battle. But a captain will stop him (king of the North) in his pride, and cause trouble to be put on him.


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So he will turn to the strong cities of his own land. But he will lose his step and fall, and will not be seen again.


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The Sinful King of Syria
“Then one will become king in his place, who will send a man through his great nation to make the people pay taxes. Yet within a short time that king will be killed, but not in anger or in battle.


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A very sinful person will rise to power in his place. He will not be given the honor of being king, but he will come in a time of peace and take over the nation using smooth sounding words and false ways.


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And after a peace agreement is made with him, he will use false ways and become strong with a small army.


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In a time of peace he will go into the richest parts of the land, and do what his fathers and his fathers’ fathers never did. He will divide the things taken in war and things of worth among them, and make plans against strong cities, but only for a time.


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He will gather all his strength against the king of the South with a large army. So the king of the South will gather together a very large and powerful army for war, but he will not win the battle. Secret plans will be made against him.


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Those who eat his best food will destroy him. And his army will be driven away and many will be killed.


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The hearts of both kings will be sinful. They will lie to each other at the same table. But nothing will come of it, for the end will still come at the chosen time.


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Then the king of the North will return to his land with many things of much worth. But his heart will be set against the holy agreement. He will work against it and then return to his own land.


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For ships of Kittim will come against him, and he will be afraid and turn back. He will return in anger and go against the holy agreement. He will come back and show favor to those who have turned away from the holy agreement.


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His armies will come and make the house of God unclean, and put an end to the burnt gifts. Then they will set up the very sinful manmade god.


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He will speak well of those who sin against the agreement. But the people who know their God will show their strength and stand against him.


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Those people who are wise will make many understand. But for many days they will be killed by the sword or by fire, or be taken to prison or robbed.


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Some of the wise people will be hurt, but this is so they will be made pure through punishment until the time of the end. For the end will still come at the chosen time.


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“Then the king will do as he pleases. He will honor himself more than every god, and will say very bad things against the God of gods. Everything will go well for him until the time of anger is finished. For what has been planned will be done.


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He will not care about the gods of his fathers or for the one that women like. He will not care about any other god, for he will honor himself more than any of them.


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Instead he will honor a god of strong cities, a god his fathers did not know. He will honor him with gold, silver, stones of much worth, and riches.


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And he will fight against the strongest cities with the help of a strange god. He will give great honor to those who follow him, and will let them rule over many people. And he will divide the land for a price.


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“At the time of the end the king of the South will go against him. And the king of the North will fight against him with war-wagons, horsemen, and many ships. He will come into countries like a flood and pass through.


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He will also come into the Beautiful Land and many countries will be taken. But Edom, Moab and the leaders of Ammon will be saved from his power.


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He will get the hidden riches of gold and silver and all the things of great worth in Egypt. And the people of Libya and Ethiopia will follow behind him.


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But news from the East and from the North will trouble him, and he will go with much anger to kill and destroy many people.


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He will set up his tents made for kings between the sea and the beautiful holy mountain. Yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.


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The Future End Time
“At that time the great angel Michael, who watches over your people, will rise up. And there will be a time of trouble, the worst since there was a nation. But at that time, every one whose name is written in the Book will be taken out of the trouble.


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Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will wake up. Some will have life that lasts forever, but others will have shame and will suffer much forever.


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Those who are wise will shine like the bright heavens. And those who lead many to do what is right and good will shine like the stars forever and ever.


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But as for you, Daniel, keep these words hidden and lock up the Book until the end of time. Many will travel here and there and knowledge will be more and more.”


book: Dan
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Then I, Daniel, looked and saw two others. One was standing on this side of the river, and the other was standing on that side.


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And one said to the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long will it be until the end of these wonders?”


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The man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven. And I heard him promise by Him Who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and a half a time (three and a half years). As soon as the power of the holy people is broken, all these things will be completed.


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Many will be made pure and made white and tried, but the sinners will be very sinful. None of the sinful will understand, but those who are wise will understand.


book: Dan
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From the time the burnt gifts are stopped and the very sinful manmade god is set up, there will be 1,290 days.


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But go your way until the end. Then you will have rest, and will rise again to take your place at the end of time.”


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The Word of the Lord came to Hosea the son of Beeri during the time that Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah were kings of Judah, and Jeroboam the son of Joash was king of Israel.


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Hosea’s Family
When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go and marry a wife who is not faithful in marriage, and have children from that woman. For the land is guilty of not being faithful to the Lord.”


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And the Lord said to Hosea, “Name him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the people of Jehu for the killing at Jezreel. And I will put an end to the ruling power of the people of Israel.


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Then Gomer gave birth to a daughter. And the Lord said to Hosea, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have loving-pity on the people of Israel and forgive them.


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But I will have loving-pity on the people of Judah. I, the Lord their God, will save them. But I will not save them by bow, sword, war, horses, or horsemen.”


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The Gathering of Israel and Judah
“Yet the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ it will be said to them, ‘You are the sons of the living God.’


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The people of Judah and the people of Israel will be gathered together, and they will choose one leader for themselves. And they will go up from the land, for the day of Jezreel will be a great day.


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God’s People Who Are Not Faithful
“Speak with strong words to your mother. Speak with strong words, for she is not My wife and I am not her husband. Tell her to stop selling the use of her body and giving herself to other men.


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If she does not, I will put her to shame by taking off her clothes and show her as when she was born. I will make her like a desert, like a hot and dry land, and will kill her with thirst.


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Their mother has not been faithful. She who gave birth to them has acted in shame. For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers. They give me my bread and water, my wool and linen, my oil and my drink.’


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She will go after her lovers but will not catch up with them. She will look for them but will not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband. For it was better for me then than now.’


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“She does not know that it was I Who gave her the grain, the new wine, the oil, and all the silver and gold, which they used for the false god Baal.


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So I will take back My grain during the gathering time, and My new wine during its time. And I will take away My wool and My linen, which were given to cover her.


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So I will take away the covering of her shame in the eyes of her lovers. And no one will take her out of My hand.


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I will put an end to all her fun, her special suppers, her new moons, her Days of Rest, and all her special times for gathering together.


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I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she said were her pay from her lovers. I will make many trees grow wild among them, and the animals of the field will eat them.


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I will punish her for the days she gave gifts in worship to the false gods of Baal. I will punish her for the times she forgot Me, and put on rings and other beautiful objects and went after her lovers” says the Lord.


book: Hos
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God’s Loving-Kindness for His People
“So I will lead her into the desert and speak words of comfort to her.


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I will give her grape-fields there, and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And she will sing there as she did when she was young, as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.


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In that day” says the Lord, “you will call Me, ‘My Husband.’ And you will no longer call Me, ‘My Baal.’


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For I will take the names of the Baals from her mouth. The names of these false gods will never be spoken again.


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In that day I will make an agreement for them with the wild animals of the field, the birds of the sky, and the things which move upon the ground. I will put an end to the bow, the sword, and war in all the land. And I will let My people lie down in peace and be safe.


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I will promise to make you Mine forever. Yes, I will take you as My bride in what is right and good and fair, and in loving-kindness and in loving-pity.


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“In that day” says the Lord, “I will give an answer to the heavens, and they will give an answer to the earth.


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The earth will give an answer to the grain, the new wine, and the oil. And they will give an answer to Jezreel.


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I will plant her for Myself in the land. Those who were not loved, I will call, ‘My loved ones.’ Those who were not My people, I will call, ‘My people.’ And they will say, ‘You are my God!’”


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Israel Will Return to the Lord Their God
Then the Lord said to me, “Go again and love your wife, even when she is loved by another and is not faithful. Love her as the Lord loves the people of Israel, even when they turn to other gods and love cakes of dried grapes.”


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Then I said to her, “You must stay with me for many days, and be faithful to me. Do not have another man, and I will also be faithful to you.”


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For the sons of Israel will live many days without a king or leader, without holy gifts or holy stone pillars, and without linen vests or false gods.


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After this the sons of Israel will return and look for the Lord their God and for David their king. And they will come shaking before the Lord and receive His goodness in the last days.


book: Hos
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God Speaks against Israel
Listen to the Word of the Lord, O people of Israel, because He has something against the people of the land. “They are not faithful or kind, and no one in the land knows God.


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There is swearing, lying, killing, stealing, and sex sins. They are always hurting others, and there is one killing after another.


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The land is filled with sorrow. Everyone who lives on it wastes away, together with the animals of the field and the birds of the sky. Even the fish of the sea are taken away.


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“Yet let no one put blame or guilt upon another. For your people are like those who argue with the religious leader.


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You will fall during the day, and the religious leaders will fall with you during the night. And I will destroy your mother.


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My people are destroyed because they have not learned. You were not willing to learn. So I am not willing to have you be My religious leader. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I also will forget your children.


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“The more there were, the more they sinned against Me. I will change their shining-greatness into shame.


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The religious leaders will be punished the same as the people. I will punish them for what they have done.


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They will eat, but not have enough. They will do sex sins, but the number of their children will not grow because they have not been faithful to the Lord.


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The Worship of False Gods
“Their sinful ways and both old and new wine take away My people’s understanding.


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They ask things of a wooden god and are answered by a stick of wood. A false spirit has led them the wrong way. They have not been faithful, and they have left their God.


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They give gifts in worship on the tops of the mountains and burn special perfume on the hills. They do this under oak, poplar and terebinth trees, because their shadow is pleasing. So your daughters are like women who sell the use of their bodies, and your brides do sex sins.


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I will not punish your daughters when they are like women who sell the use of their bodies, or your brides when they do sex sins. For the men themselves go with the sinful women to give gifts in worship to false gods. And people without understanding will be destroyed.


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“Even if you, Israel, are like women who sell the use of their bodies, do not let Judah become guilty. Do not go to Gilgal or up to Beth-aven. And do not swear, ‘As the Lord lives!’


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The people of Israel are strong-willed like a young cow. How then can the Lord feed them like a lamb in a large field?


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Their strong drink is gone. They are like women who sell the use of their bodies all the time. Their rulers love shame.


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The Lord Will Judge Israel and Judah
“Hear this, O religious leaders! Listen, O people of Israel! Listen, O family of the king! For you are to be judged. You have been a trap at Mizpah, and a net spread out on Tabor.


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I know all about Ephraim. Israel is not hidden from Me. O Ephraim, you have acted like a woman who sells the use of her body. Israel has made itself unclean.


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Their wrong-doing will not allow them to return to their God. For a spirit of a woman who sells the use of her body is within them, and they do not know the Lord.


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The pride of Israel speaks against them. Israel and Ephraim fall in their sin, and Judah has fallen with them.


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They will go with their flocks and cattle to look for the Lord, but they will not find Him. He has gone away from them.


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They have not been faithful to the Lord, for they have given birth to children who are not His. Now the new moon will destroy them with their land.


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War between Judah and Israel
“Blow the horn in Gibeah and in Ramah! Let the sound of danger be heard at Beth-aven! Look behind you, Benjamin!


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Ephraim will be laid waste in the day of punishment. Among the family groups of Israel I make known what is sure.


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The leaders of Judah are like those who take away the land-marks. I will pour out My anger on them like water.


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It is hard for Ephraim. He is crushed by punishment, because he wanted to follow what is of no worth.


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When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah saw his sore, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to King Jareb for help. But he is not able to cure you, or heal your sore.


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For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the people of Judah. I will tear them to pieces and go away. I will carry them away, with no one to take them.


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I will go away and return to My place until they know they are guilty and look for Me. In their suffering they will try to find Me.”


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The People Are toTurn from Their Sin
“Come, let us return to the Lord. He has hurt us but He will heal us. He has cut us but He will cover the sore.


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After two days He will give us new life. He will raise us up on the third day, that we may live before Him.


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So keep on trying to know the Lord. His coming to us is as sure as the rising of the sun. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain giving water to the earth.”


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“What should I do with you, Ephraim? What should I do with you, Judah? Your loving-kindness is like a morning cloud, and like the water on the grass in the early morning.


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So I have cut them in pieces by the men who speak for Me. I have killed them by the words of My mouth. My punishments come upon you like lightning.


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I want loving-kindness and not a gift to be given in worship. I want people to know God instead of giving burnt gifts.


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Like robbers lie in wait for a man, a group of religious leaders kill on the way to Shechem. For sure they have done a sinful thing.


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I have seen a very bad thing among the people of Israel. Ephraim has left Me to worship false gods. Israel has made itself unclean.


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“Whenever I would heal Israel, I see the sin of Ephraim and the wrong-doing of Samaria. They are false in their ways. The robber breaks into houses, and sinful men rob in the streets.


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They do not think about how I remember all the sinful things they do. Their sins are all around them, and are always before Me.


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None of them are faithful. They are like a hot stove whose fire the bread-maker leaves alone from the time he makes the dough until the bread rises.


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On the special day of our king the leaders became drunk with wine. He joined hands with those who laughed at the truth.


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Their hearts are like a hot stove as they make their plans. Their anger smokes all night, and in the morning it burns like a hot fire.


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All of them are hot like a stove, and they destroy their leaders. All their kings have fallen, and none of them calls to Me for help.


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Strangers destroy his strength, yet he does not know it. White hairs come upon him, yet he does not know it.


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Israel’s pride speaks against him, yet they do not return to the Lord their God. Even for all this, they do not look for Him.


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When they go, I will spread My net over them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will punish them for the sinful things they have done.


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It is bad for them, for they have turned away from Me! They will be destroyed, for they would not obey Me! I would save them and make them free, but they speak lies against Me.


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They do not cry out to Me from their heart when they cry on their beds. They come together for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.


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They do not turn to the Most High. They are like a bow that does not work right. Their leaders will be killed by the sword because of their proud words. And those in the land of Egypt will laugh at them.


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Israel Worships False Gods
“Put the horn to your lips! Men who hate us are coming like an eagle to fight against the house of the Lord, because the people of Israel have sinned against My agreement and would not obey My Law.


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They have set up kings, but not by Me. They have chosen leaders, but I did not know it. They have made false gods for themselves out of silver and gold, so they will be destroyed.


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O Samaria, I will have nothing to do with the calf you worship. My anger burns against them! How long will it be before they are pure


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in Israel? A workman made this calf, so it is not God. The calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces.


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They plant the wind and they will gather the storm. The standing grain has no heads, and will give no food. If it were to give food, strangers would eat it.


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Even when they hire people among the nations to help them, I will now gather them together. And they will begin to waste away because the powerful king will make it hard for them.


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They give gifts to Me and eat the meat of the gifts, but the Lord is not pleased with them. Now He will remember their wrong-doing and punish them for their sins. They will return to Egypt.


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Israel has forgotten his Maker and built great houses. And Judah has built many strong cities ready for battle. But I will send a fire upon its cities that will destroy its beautiful houses.”


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Israel Is Judged for Its Sin
Do not be happy, O Israel! Do not be glad like the nations! For you have sinned like a woman who sells the use of her body, turning away from your God. You have loved selling yourselves on every grain-floor.


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The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not feed them. And they will not have enough new wine.


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They will not stay in the Lord’s land, but Ephraim will return to Egypt. And in Assyria they will eat unclean food.


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They will not pour out drink gifts of wine to the Lord. Their gifts of worship will not please Him. Their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow. Everyone who eats it will be unclean, for their bread will be for themselves alone. It will not come into the house of the Lord.


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When trouble comes and the people try to get away, Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Their riches of silver will be grown over by weeds, and thorns will be in their tents.


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The days of punishment have come, the days when the people must pay for their sins. Let Israel know this. The man who tells what will happen in the future is a fool. The man who is led by the spirit is crazy. This is because of all your sin and anger.


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Ephraim was meant to be a watchman who would speak for God. Yet there is a net in all his ways, and only anger in the house of his God.


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They have gone deep into sin, as in the days of Gibeah. The Lord will remember their wrong-doing, and will punish their sins.


book: Hos
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“I found Israel like grapes in the desert. I saw your fathers like the first-fruit on the fig tree in its first year. But they came to Baal-peor and gave themselves to that false god of shame. They became as sinful as the thing they loved.


book: Hos
contenido:
Ephraim’s greatness will fly away like a bird. There will be no more children born to them, and they will not be able to have children.


book: Hos
contenido:
Even if they raise children, I will take them away and not leave anyone alive. It will be bad for them when I leave them!


book: Hos
contenido:
I have seen Ephraim planted in a good field like Tyre. But Ephraim will lead his children out to be killed.”


book: Hos
contenido:
O Lord, what will You give them? Give them children who die before they are born, and make them not able to nurse their babies.


book: Hos
contenido:
“Because of all their sin at Gilgal, I hated them there. Because of the sinful things they did, I will drive them out of My house. I will not love them any more. All their leaders would not obey Me.


book: Hos
contenido:
Ephraim is destroyed. Their root is dried up and they will give no fruit. Even if they give birth, I will kill the children they love.”


book: Hos
contenido:
My God will send them away because they have not listened to Him. And they will travel from nation to nation.


book: Hos
contenido:
Israel’s Sin
Israel is a spreading vine full of fruit. The more fruit he had, the more altars he made. As his land became richer, he made his pillars for worship better.


book: Hos
contenido:
Their heart is not faithful, and now they must suffer for their sins. The Lord will break down their altars and destroy their pillars for worship.


book: Hos
contenido:
Then they will say, “We have no king because we do not fear the Lord. And what could a king do for us?”


book: Hos
contenido:
They speak empty words and make false promises, so punishment grows like weeds of poison in a plowed field.


book: Hos
contenido:
The people of Samaria will be afraid for the calf of Beth-aven. Its people will have sorrow for it. Its religious leaders who worship false gods will cry over it in a loud voice. They will cry because its greatness has gone.


book: Hos
contenido:
The thing itself will be carried to Assyria and given to King Jareb. Ephraim will be put to shame, and Israel will be ashamed of its false god.


book: Hos
contenido:
The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. Thorns and thistles will grow on their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”


book: Hos
contenido:
“You have sinned since the days of Gibeah, O Israel, and there you have stayed. Will not the sinners be destroyed in battle in Gibeah?


book: Hos
contenido:
I will punish them when I please. And the nations will be gathered against them when they are punished for their many sins.


book: Hos
contenido:
“Ephraim is a well-taught young cow that loves to crush the grain. But I will put a load on her beautiful neck. I will drive Ephraim. Judah must plow. And Jacob must break up the ground.


book: Hos
contenido:
Plant what is right and good for yourselves. Gather the fruit of lasting love. Break up your ground that has not been plowed. For it is time to look for the Lord, until He comes and pours His saving power on you.


book: Hos
contenido:
You have plowed wrong-doing and have gathered sin. You have eaten the fruit of lies. You have trusted in your own strength and in your many soldiers.


book: Hos
contenido:
The noise of battle will rise up among your people. All your strong cities will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle. Mothers were crushed in pieces with their children.


book: Hos
contenido:
This will be done to you at Bethel because of your many sins. When the day begins, the king of Israel will be destroyed.


book: Hos
contenido:
God’s Love for His Sinful People
“When Israel was a child, I loved him. And I called My son out of Egypt.


book: Hos
contenido:
The more I called them, the more they went from Me. They kept giving gifts in worship to the Baals and burning special perfume to false gods.


book: Hos
contenido:
Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk. I took them in My arms. But they did not know that I healed them.


book: Hos
contenido:
I led them with ropes of human kindness, with ties of love. I lifted the load from their neck and went down to feed them.


book: Hos
contenido:
“They will not return to the land of Egypt, and Assyria will be their king, because they would not return to Me.


book: Hos
contenido:
The sword will come upon their cities and destroy their gates. And it will destroy them because of their plans.


book: Hos
contenido:
My people are always turning from Me. Even when those who speak for the Lord call them to the Most High, no one honors Him.


book: Hos
contenido:
“How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I give you up, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart will not let Me do it. I love you very much.


book: Hos
contenido:
I will not do anything in My burning anger. I will not destroy Ephraim again. For I am God and not man. I am the Holy One among you, and I will not come in anger.


book: Hos
contenido:
They will follow the Lord, and He will make noise like a lion. Yes, He will make noise like a lion, and His children will come from the west shaking with fear.


book: Hos
contenido:
They will come shaking like birds from Egypt, and like doves from the land of Assyria. And I will return them to their homes,” says the Lord.


book: Hos
contenido:
Israel and Judah Are Judged
“The lies of Ephraim and the lies of the people of Israel are all around Me. And Judah will not obey God, the One Who is holy and faithful.”


book: Hos
contenido:
Ephraim’s food is the wind, he goes after the east wind all day long. He tells many lies and does much in his anger. He makes an agreement with Assyria and takes oil to Egypt.


book: Hos
contenido:
The Lord has a cause against Judah, and will punish Jacob for his ways. He will make him pay for what he has done.


book: Hos
contenido:
He fought with the angel and won. He cried and begged for His favor. He met God at Bethel, and God spoke with him there.


book: Hos
contenido:
Ephraim has said, “I have become rich. I have found riches for myself. With all my riches they will not find any sin in me.”


book: Hos
contenido:
“I am the Lord your God Who brought you out of Egypt. I will make you live in tents again, as in the days of your special suppers.


book: Hos
contenido:
I have spoken to the men who speak for Me. I have given many special dreams. And I gave picture-stories through the men who speak for Me.”


book: Hos
contenido:
Is there sin in Gilead? For sure its people are of no worth. In Gilgal they kill bulls in worship. Their altars are like the many stones laid beside a plowed field.


book: Hos
contenido:
By a man who spoke for Him, the Lord brought Israel from Egypt. And by a man who spoke for Him, the Lord cared for him.


book: Hos
contenido:
But Ephraim has made the Lord very angry. So the Lord will leave on him the guilt of his blood, and make his shame return to him.


book: Hos
contenido:
Israel Judged the Last Time
When Ephraim spoke, men shook in fear. He was honored in Israel. But he sinned by worshiping Baal, and died.


book: Hos
contenido:
And now they sin more and more. They make false gods for themselves. Their able workmen make them out of silver. And they say, “Let the men who give gifts in worship kiss the calf-gods!”


book: Hos
contenido:
So they will be like the morning cloud, and like the water on the grass in the early morning which is soon gone. They will be like the dust of the grain that is blown away from the grain-floor, and like smoke from a fire.


book: Hos
contenido:
“I am the Lord your God Who brought you out of Egypt. You were not to know any god but Me, for there is no one who can save you but Me.


book: Hos
contenido:
When I fed them, they were filled. And when they were filled, their heart became proud and they forgot Me.


book: Hos
contenido:
I will fight them like a bear robbed of her young ones. I will tear open their chests. I will eat them there like a female lion, and tear them like a wild animal.


book: Hos
contenido:
Where is your king, that he may save you? Where are your rulers in all your cities, of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and leaders’?


book: Hos
contenido:
The pains like a woman giving birth will come upon him, but he is not a wise son. He is not willing to be born.


book: Hos
contenido:
I will pay the price to free them from the power of the grave. I will save them from death. O Death, where are your thorns? O Grave, where is your power to destroy? I will have no loving-pity.


book: Hos
contenido:
“Even if he grows among his brothers, an east wind will come. The wind of the Lord will come from the desert. And his well will dry up. His water will be gone. It will take away everything of much worth.


book: Hos
contenido:
Samaria will suffer for her guilt, for she has not wanted to obey her God. They will be killed by the sword. Their little ones will be crushed in pieces. And their women who are soon to give birth will be torn open.”


book: Hos
contenido:
Hosea’s Last Words to Israel
Return to the Lord your God, O Israel, for you have fallen because of your sin.


book: Hos
contenido:
Take words with you and return to the Lord. Say to Him, “Take away all sin, and receive us in kindness, that we may praise You with our lips.


book: Hos
contenido:
Assyria will not save us. We will not ride on horses. And we will never say again, ‘Our god,’ to what we have made with our hands. For those who have no father find loving-kindness in You.”


book: Hos
contenido:
New Life for Israel
“I will bring My people back to Me. I will not hold back My love from them, for I am no longer angry with them.


book: Hos
contenido:
I will be to Israel like the water on the grass in the early morning. He will grow like the lily, and have roots like the cedars of Lebanon.


book: Hos
contenido:
His young branches will spread out and his beauty will be like the olive tree. His smell will be like the cedars of Lebanon.


book: Hos
contenido:
Those who live in his shadow will grow like grain and like flowers of the vine. He will be known like the wine of Lebanon.


book: Hos
contenido:
“O Ephraim, what have I to do with false gods? It is I Who answer and take care of you. I am like a green cypress tree. Your fruit comes from Me.”


book: Hos
contenido:
Whoever is wise, let him understand these things and know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and those who are right and good will follow them, but sinners will not follow them.


book: Joel
contenido:
The Land Is Destroyed
Hear this, you old men. Listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this happened in your days or in your fathers’ days?


book: Joel
contenido:
Tell your sons about it, and let your sons tell their sons, and their sons tell the next sons-to-come.


book: Joel
contenido:
What the chewing locust has left, the flying locust has eaten. What the flying locust has left, the jumping locust has eaten. And what the jumping locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.


book: Joel
contenido:
Wake up and cry, you who drink too much. Cry in a loud voice, all you who drink wine, for the sweet wine has been taken from your lips.


book: Joel
contenido:
A nation has come to fight against my land. Its army is powerful, with too many to number. Its teeth are the teeth of a lion. It has the long, sharp teeth of a female lion.


book: Joel
contenido:
It has made my vine a waste, and has broken my fig tree to pieces. It has torn off their covering and thrown it away. Their branches have become white.


book: Joel
contenido:
Cry in sorrow like a young, pure woman dressed in cloth made from hair because the man she was going to marry is dead.


book: Joel
contenido:
The grain gifts and drink gifts have been cut off from the house of the Lord. The religious leaders who served the Lord are full of sorrow.


book: Joel
contenido:
The fields are laid waste and the land is full of sorrow. The grain is destroyed, the new wine dries up, and the oil wastes away.


book: Joel
contenido:
Be troubled, you farmers! Cry in a loud voice, you who take care of the vines! Cry for the wheat and the barley, because what was gathered from the field is destroyed.


book: Joel
contenido:
The vine dries up and the fig tree wastes away. The pomegranate, the palm, the apple tree, and all the trees of the field dry up. And the people’s joy dries up.


book: Joel
contenido:
Dress in cloth made from hair, and cry in sorrow, you religious leaders! Cry in a loud voice, you who serve at the altar! Come, spend the night in cloth made from hair, you who serve my God. For the grain gifts and drink gifts are kept from the house of your God.


book: Joel
contenido:
Set apart a time when no food will be eaten. Call together a holy meeting. Gather the leaders and all the people of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.


book: Joel
contenido:
What a bad day it will be! The day of the Lord is near, when the All-powerful God will come to destroy.


book: Joel
contenido:
Do you see how our food has been taken from us? Has not happiness and joy been cut off from the house of our God?


book: Joel
contenido:
The seeds dry up under the ground. The store-houses are laid waste. The buildings where the grain was kept are torn down, for the grain is destroyed.


book: Joel
contenido:
How the animals cry inside themselves! The cattle go from place to place because there is no food for them. Even the flocks of sheep suffer.


book: Joel
contenido:
I cry to You, O Lord. For fire has destroyed the fields of the desert. All the trees of the field have burned up.


book: Joel
contenido:
Even the animals of the field cry to You. For the rivers are dried up, and fire has burned up the fields of the desert.


book: Joel
contenido:
The Day of the Lord
Blow a horn in Zion! Give the sound of danger on My holy mountain! Let all the people of the land shake in fear, for the day of the Lord is coming. The day is near.


book: Joel
contenido:
It will be a day of darkness, a day of clouds and much darkness. A large and powerful army will come like darkness spreading over the mountains. There has never been anything like it, and there will never be anything like it again for all time to come.


book: Joel
contenido:
Fire destroys in front of them and behind them. The land is like the garden of Eden in front of them, but a desert waste is left behind them. Nothing gets away from them.


book: Joel
contenido:
As they jump on the tops of the mountains they sound like war-wagons. They sound like a fire burning up the dry grass, like a powerful army ready for battle.


book: Joel
contenido:
They run like strong men. They go over the wall like soldiers. They each walk straight on, and do not turn from their paths.


book: Joel
contenido:
They do not push each other. Each one walks in his path. When they break through those who fight against them, their path is not changed.


book: Joel
contenido:
They rush upon the city. They run on the wall. They go into the houses through the windows like a robber.


book: Joel
contenido:
The earth shakes in front of them. The heavens shake. The sun and the moon become dark, and the stars stop shining.


book: Joel
contenido:
The Lord thunders in front of His army. His army has too many to number. Those who obey His Word are powerful. The day of the Lord is very great and fills people with fear and wonder. Who can live through it?


book: Joel
contenido:
A Call to Turn from Sin
“Yet even now,” says the Lord, “return to Me with all your heart, crying in sorrow and eating no food.


book: Joel
contenido:
Tear your heart and not your clothes.” Return to the Lord your God, for He is full of loving-kindness and loving-pity. He is slow to anger, full of love, and ready to keep His punishment from you.


book: Joel
contenido:
It may be that He will turn and have pity, and leave good behind for you. He may leave you a grain gift and a drink gift for the Lord your God.


book: Joel
contenido:
Gather the people and make them holy. Gather together the leaders, the children, and the nursing babies. Let the man to be married come out of his room, and the bride come out of her room.


book: Joel
contenido:
Let the religious leaders who serve the Lord cry between the porch and the altar. Let them say, “Have pity on Your people, O Lord. Do not put your people to shame. And do not make the nations speak against them. Why should the people of the nations say, ‘Where is their God?’”


book: Joel
contenido:
The Lord will say to His people, “I am going to send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be filled with them. I will never again put you to shame among the nations.


book: Joel
contenido:
I will take the army from the north far from you, and will drive it into a hot and dry land. The ones in front will be driven into the sea in the east. The ones in the back will be driven into the sea in the west. And a bad smell will rise up from their dead bodies. For He has done great things.”


book: Joel
contenido:
Do not be afraid, you animals of the field. For the fields of the desert have turned green and there is fruit on the trees. The fig trees and vines are full of fruit.


book: Joel
contenido:
Be glad, O sons of Zion. Be happy in the Lord your God. For He has given the early rain to help you. He has poured down much rain for you, both fall and spring rains, as before.


book: Joel
contenido:
The grain-floors will be full of grain, and the crushing-places will flow over with new wine and oil.


book: Joel
contenido:
“I will pay you back for the years that your food was eaten by the flying locust, the jumping locust, the destroying locust, and the chewing locust, My large army which I sent among you.


book: Joel
contenido:
You will have much to eat and be filled. And you will praise the name of the Lord your God, Who has done wonderful things for you. Then My people will never be put to shame.


book: Joel
contenido:
You will know that I am in Israel. You will know that I am the Lord your God, and that there is no other. And My people will never be put to shame.


book: Joel
contenido:
God Sends His Spirit
“In the last days I will send My Spirit on all men. Then your sons and daughters will speak God’s Word. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see special dreams.


book: Joel
contenido:
I will show powerful works in the heavens and on the earth, like blood and fire and clouds of smoke.


book: Joel
contenido:
The sun will turn dark and the moon will turn to blood before the day of the Lord. His coming will be a great and troubled day.


book: Joel
contenido:
It will be that whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved from the punishment of sin. For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be taken out of trouble, as the Lord has said. Those whom the Lord calls will be kept alive.


book: Joel
contenido:
The Nations Will Be Judged
“In those days and at that time, I will return the riches of Judah and Jerusalem.


book: Joel
contenido:
I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will judge them for what they did to My people Israel. They have sent My people out among the different nations, and have divided up My land.


book: Joel
contenido:
They have drawn names to see who would get My people. They have traded a boy for a woman who sells the use of her body. And they have sold a girl for wine to drink.


book: Joel
contenido:
What are you to Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the lands of Philistia? Are you paying Me back for something? If you are, I will be quick to pay you back!


book: Joel
contenido:
So I am going to move them from the place where you have sold them, and do to you what you have done to them.


book: Joel
contenido:
I will sell your sons and daughters to the sons of Judah. And they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away.” The Lord has spoken.


book: Joel
contenido:
Make this known among the nations: Get ready for war! Call your strong men! Gather all the soldiers and let them come up!


book: Joel
contenido:
Beat your plows into swords, and your vine hooks into spears. Let the weak say, “I am a powerful soldier.”


book: Joel
contenido:
Hurry and come, all you nations on every side, and gather yourselves there. Bring down Your men of war, O Lord.


book: Joel
contenido:
Let the nations get ready and come to the valley of Jehoshaphat. For there I will sit to judge all the nations on every side.


book: Joel
contenido:
Use the long, sharp knife, for the fruit is full-grown. Come and crush the grapes, for the crushing-place is full. They flow over, for their sins are many.


book: Joel
contenido:
Thousands and thousands are in the valley of God’s punishment. For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of God’s punishment.


book: Joel
contenido:
The Lord makes a loud noise from Zion. He lets His voice be heard from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shake. But the Lord is a safe place for His people, a strong place to the sons of Israel.


book: Joel
contenido:
“Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, living in Zion My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, and strangers will never pass through it again.


book: Joel
contenido:
God Brings Good to His People
“In that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine and the hills will flow with milk. All the rivers of Judah will flow with water. And a river will go out from the house of the Lord to water the valley of Shittim.


book: Joel
contenido:
Egypt will be destroyed and Edom will become a desert waste, because of the bad things done to the sons of Judah. They have killed people in the land of Judah who were not guilty of wrong-doing.


book: Amos
contenido:
These are the words of Amos, a shepherd of Tekoa, which he received in special dreams about Israel two years before the earth shook. Uzziah was king of Judah then, and Jeroboam the son of Joash was the king of Israel.


book: Amos
contenido:
He said, “The Lord makes a loud noise from Zion. He lets His voice be heard from Jerusalem. And the shepherds’ fields are filled with sorrow, and the top of Carmel dries up.”


book: Amos
contenido:
God Judges Israel’s Neighbors—Syria
The Lord says, “For three sins of Damascus and for four, I will not hold back punishment. They have crushed Gilead with tools of sharp iron.


book: Amos
contenido:
I will break down the gate of Damascus, and destroy the people from the Valley of Aven and the king from Beth-Eden. The people of Syria will be taken away to Kir,” says the Lord.


book: Amos
contenido:
Philistia
The Lord says, “For three sins of Gaza and for four, I will not hold back punishment. They took a nation of people away and sold them to Edom.


book: Amos
contenido:
I will destroy the people from Ashdod and the king from Ashkelon. I will send My power against Ekron, and the rest of the Philistines will die,” says the Lord God.


book: Amos
contenido:
Tyre
The Lord says, “For three sins of Tyre and for four, I will not hold back punishment. They took a nation of people and sold them to Edom. They did not remember the agreement between brothers.


book: Amos
contenido:
Edom
The Lord says, “For three sins of Edom and for four, I will not hold back punishment. He went after his brother with the sword and would not have loving-pity. He was always angry, and he held on to his anger forever.


book: Amos
contenido:
Ammon
The Lord says, “For three sins of Ammon and for four, I will not hold back punishment. They tore open the women of Gilead who were going to have a baby, so that they would get more land.


book: Amos
contenido:
So I will set a fire on the wall of Rabbah, and it will destroy her strong-places. Then there will be cries of war on the day of battle, and strong winds on the day of the storm.


book: Amos
contenido:
Moab
The Lord says, “For three sins of Moab and for four, I will not hold back punishment. He burned the bones of the king of Edom to ashes.


book: Amos
contenido:
So I will send fire upon Moab, and it will destroy the strong-places of Kerioth. Moab will die among much noise, with cries of war and the sound of a horn.


book: Amos
contenido:
Judah
The Lord says, “For three sins of Judah and for four, I will not hold back punishment. They turned away from the Law of the Lord. They have not obeyed His Laws. They have gone the wrong way, following the lies of their fathers.


book: Amos
contenido:
God Judges Israel
The Lord says, “For three sins of Israel and for four, I will not hold back punishment. They sell those who are right and good for money. To get shoes, they sell people who are in need.


book: Amos
contenido:
They crush those who are poor in the dust of the earth with their feet. They push the poor out of the way. A man and his father go to the same girl and sin against My holy name.


book: Amos
contenido:
They lie down beside every altar on clothing taken as trust for promises. And in the house of their God they drink the wine which was paid by those who have done wrong.


book: Amos
contenido:
“I destroyed the Amorite before them, who was as tall as the cedar trees and as strong as the oaks. I destroyed his fruit above and his root below.


book: Amos
contenido:
I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you in the desert for forty years to give you the land of the Amorite.


book: Amos
contenido:
Then I raised up some of your sons to speak for Me, and some of your young men to be Nazirites. Is this not true, you sons of Israel?” says the Lord.


book: Amos
contenido:
Even the fast man will not get away. The strong man will not keep his strength. And the powerful man will not save his life.


book: Amos
contenido:
He who uses the bow will not stand. The fast runner will not get away. The horseman will not save his life.


book: Amos
contenido:
Even the strongest of heart among the men of war will run away without clothes on that day,” says the Lord.


book: Amos
contenido:
Word from the Man of God
O people of Israel, hear this word which the Lord has spoken against you and against the whole family which He brought up from the land of Egypt.


book: Amos
contenido:
“You are the only ones I have chosen among all the families of the earth. So I must punish you for all your sins.”


book: Amos
contenido:
Does a lion make noise among the trees when he has no food? Does a young lion cry out from his home if he has not caught anything?


book: Amos
contenido:
Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground when there is no food to tempt it? Does a trap jump up from the ground when it does not catch anything?


book: Amos
contenido:
Are not the people afraid when a horn is blown in a city? When trouble comes to a city, has not the Lord caused it?


book: Amos
contenido:
For sure the Lord does not do anything without making His plan known to His servants who speak for Him.


book: Amos
contenido:
The lion has made a noise! Who will not be afraid? The Lord God has spoken! Who can keep from speaking His Word?


book: Amos
contenido:
Israel Will Be Punished for Its Sin
Say to the people who live in the strong cities of Ashdod and Egypt, “Gather together on the mountains of Samaria. See all the trouble within her and how her people suffer.


book: Amos
contenido:
They do not know how to do what is right,” says the Lord. “They store up in their strong cities what they have fought for and robbed.”


book: Amos
contenido:
So the Lord God says, “Those who hate you will gather around the land. They will pull down your strong-places and rob your strong cities.”


book: Amos
contenido:
The Lord says, “As the shepherd saves from the lion’s mouth just two legs or a piece of an ear, so will the people of Israel living in Samaria be saved, with the corner of a bed and a part of a cover.


book: Amos
contenido:
“On the day I punish Israel for her sins, I will punish the altars of Bethel. The horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.


book: Amos
contenido:
I will destroy the winter house together with the summer house. The houses of ivory will be destroyed, and the beautiful houses will come to an end,” says the Lord.


book: Amos
contenido:
Listen to this, you fat cows of Bashan who are on the mountain of Samaria. You make it hard for the poor. You crush those in need. You say to your husbands, “Bring us something to drink!”


book: Amos
contenido:
As the Lord God is holy, He has promised, “The days are coming when they will take you away with meat hooks. And the last of you will be taken with fish hooks.


book: Amos
contenido:
You will go out through breaks in the walls. Each of you will go straight out. And you will be sent to Harmon,” says the Lord.


book: Amos
contenido:
“Go to Bethel and sin! Go and sin much more in Gilgal! Bring your gifts in worship every morning. Every three days give a tenth part of what you receive.


book: Amos
contenido:
Give a thank gift of bread made with yeast. And make your free-will gifts known. For this is what you love to do, O people of Israel,” says the Lord God.


book: Amos
contenido:
Israel Did Not Learn
“I kept food from your teeth in all your cities. I did not let you have enough bread in all your places. Yet you have not returned to Me,” says the Lord.


book: Amos
contenido:
“I kept the rain from you while there were still three months until gathering time. Then I would send rain on one city, but would send no rain on another city. One part would receive rain, while the part which did not receive rain would dry up.


book: Amos
contenido:
People would go from city to city to drink water, but would not get enough. Yet you have not returned to Me,” says the Lord.


book: Amos
contenido:
“I sent hot wind to dry up your fields. The locust destroyed your many gardens and grape-fields, fig trees and olive trees. Yet you have not returned to Me,” says the Lord.


book: Amos
contenido:
“I sent a very bad disease upon you as I had done to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword and took your horses away. I filled your nose with the bad smell of your camp. Yet you have not returned to Me,” says the Lord.


book: Amos
contenido:
“I destroyed some of you as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick pulled out of the fire. Yet you have not returned to Me,” says the Lord.


book: Amos
contenido:
“So I will do this to you, O Israel. And because I will do this to you, get ready to meet your God, O Israel.”


book: Amos
contenido:
He is the One Who makes the mountains and the wind. He makes His thoughts known to man. He turns the morning into darkness, and walks on the high places of the earth. The Lord God of All is His name.


book: Amos
contenido:
A Call to Turn from Sin
Hear this word, O people of Israel, this song of sorrow which I sing for you:


book: Amos
contenido:
“The young pure woman Israel has fallen, and she will not rise again. She is left alone on her land. There is no one to raise her up.”


book: Amos
contenido:
For the Lord God says, “The city of Israel that sends out a thousand soldiers will have a hundred left. And the one that sends out a hundred will have ten left.”


book: Amos
contenido:
But do not look for Bethel. Do not go to Gilgal or cross over to Beersheba. For the people of Gilgal will be taken away to a strange land, and Bethel will come to nothing.”


book: Amos
contenido:
Look for the Lord and live, or He will break out like fire in the family of Joseph. It will destroy, and no one in Bethel will be able to stop it.


book: Amos
contenido:
The Lord made the stars of Pleiades and Orion. He changes darkness into morning, and turns day into night. He calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the earth. The Lord is His name.


book: Amos
contenido:
You crush the poor under foot and make them pay taxes with their grain. Because of this, even though you have built houses of cut stone, you will not live in them and even though you have planted beautiful grape-fields, you will not drink their wine.


book: Amos
contenido:
For I know that you have done much wrong and your sins are many. You make trouble for those who are right and good, and you take pay in secret for wrong-doing. You will not be fair to the poor.


book: Amos
contenido:
Look for good and not sin, that you may live. Then the Lord God of All will be with you, just as you have said.


book: Amos
contenido:
Hate sin, and love good. And let what is fair be done at the gate. It may be that the Lord God of All will show kindness to those left of Joseph.


book: Amos
contenido:
The Day of the Lord
So the Lord, the Lord God of All, says, “There is a loud crying in the city. In all the streets they say, ‘It is bad! It is bad!’ They call the farmers to cry in sorrow. They call those whose work is to cry over the dead to sing songs of sorrow.


book: Amos
contenido:
And there are cries of sorrow in all the grape-fields, because I will pass among you,” says the Lord.


book: Amos
contenido:
It is bad for you who want the day of the Lord to come. For what will the day of the Lord be to you? It will be darkness and not light.


book: Amos
contenido:
It will be as when a man runs away from a lion and is met by a bear. It will be as when a man goes home and rests with his hand against the wall, and gets bitten by a snake.


book: Amos
contenido:
“I hate your special suppers. I will have nothing to do with them. And I am not pleased with your religious meetings.


book: Amos
contenido:
Even if you give Me burnt gifts and grain gifts in worship, I will not receive them. I will not even look at the peace gifts of your fat animals.


book: Amos
contenido:
“O people of Israel, was it to Me you gave gifts of animals and grain on the altar for forty years in the desert?


book: Amos
contenido:
You also carried with you Sikkuth your king and Kiyyun your star god, the false gods you made for yourselves.


book: Amos
contenido:
So I will make you go as prisoners to the other side of Damascus,” says the Lord, Whose name is the God of All.


book: Amos
contenido:
Israel to Be Destroyed
It is bad for those who are taking it easy in Zion, and for those who feel safe on the mountain of Samaria, you great men of the most important nation, to whom the people of Israel come!


book: Amos
contenido:
Go over to Calneh and look. And go from there to great Hamath. Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these nations? Is their land better than yours?


book: Amos
contenido:
How bad it will be for you who lie on beds of ivory and spread out upon your long seats! You eat lambs from the flock and calves from the cattle-house.


book: Amos
contenido:
You drink wine from the holy dishes, and pour the best oil on yourselves. Yet you are not filled with sorrow because Joseph has been destroyed!


book: Amos
contenido:
You will be among the first to be taken away as prisoners to a strange land, and your happy times of rest will pass away.


book: Amos
contenido:
The Lord God has promised by Himself. The Lord God of All has said, “I hate the pride of Jacob, and I hate his strong-places, so I will give up the city and everything in it.”


book: Amos
contenido:
The dead man’s brother, who is to take care of the body, will lift him up to carry his bones from the house. And he will say to the one inside the house, “Is anyone else with you?” That one will say, “No.” Then he will say, “Keep quiet! For the name of the Lord must not be spoken.”


book: Amos
contenido:
For the Lord is going to say that the great house must be broken apart and the small house into pieces.


book: Amos
contenido:
Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow them with oxen? Yet you have turned what is fair into poison. You have turned what is right and good into something bitter.


book: Amos
contenido:
The Lord God of All says, “I am going to raise up a nation against you, O people of Israel. And they will bring much suffering upon you from the gate of Hamath to the river of the Arabah.”


book: Amos
contenido:
Special Dream about Locusts
This is what the Lord God showed me: He was making a gathering of locusts when the spring grain began to grow. The spring grain was after the king’s share had been cut.


book: Amos
contenido:
When they had finished eating the grass I said, “Lord God, forgive! O that Jacob may stay alive for he is so small!”


book: Amos
contenido:
Special Dream about Fire
This is what the Lord God showed me: The Lord God was calling for a punishment by fire. It dried up the deep waters and began to destroy the farm land.


book: Amos
contenido:
Special Dream about a String
This is what He showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall made straight by a string held in His hand.


book: Amos
contenido:
The Lord said to me, “What do you see, Amos?” And I said, “A string.” Then the Lord said, “See, I am about to put a straight string among my people Israel. I will not change My mind again about punishing them.


book: Amos
contenido:
The high places of Isaac will be destroyed. The holy places of Israel will be laid waste. Then I will rise up against the people of Jeroboam with the sword.”


book: Amos
contenido:
Amos and Amaziah
Then Amaziah, the religious leader of Bethel, sent word to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying, “Amos has made plans against you among the people of Israel. His words will destroy the land.


book: Amos
contenido:
For this is what Amos is saying: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and the people of Israel will be taken away from their own land to a strange land.’”


book: Amos
contenido:
Then Amaziah said to Amos, “Go, you who tell what is going to happen in the future! Run away to the land of Judah! There eat your bread, and there speak your words!


book: Amos
contenido:
But never speak about your special dreams again at Bethel. For it is a holy place of the king, a place where the nation worships.”


book: Amos
contenido:
Amos answered Amaziah, saying, “I am not a man who tells what is going to happen in the future, or the son of such a man. I take care of sheep and cattle, and grow fig trees.


book: Amos
contenido:
But the Lord took me from following the flock and said to me, ‘Go and speak in My name to My people Israel.’


book: Amos
contenido:
So now hear the Word of the Lord. You are saying, ‘Do not speak against Israel or preach against the people of Isaac.’


book: Amos
contenido:
So this is what the Lord says: ‘Your wife will sell the use of her body in the city. Your sons and daughters will be killed by the sword. Your land will be divided and given to others. You yourself will die in an unclean land. And Israel will be driven away from this land to a strange country.’”


book: Amos
contenido:
Special Dream of a Basket of Fruit
This is what the Lord God showed me: There was a basket of summer fruit.


book: Amos
contenido:
And the Lord said, “What do you see, Amos?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel. I will not change My mind again about punishing them.


book: Amos
contenido:
The songs of the king’s house will become loud cries of sorrow on that day,” says the Lord God. “There will be many dead bodies. In every place they will be thrown out without a word.”


book: Amos
contenido:
You say, “When will the New Moon be over, so that we may buy grain? When will the Day of Rest be over, so that we may open the store and sell grain? Then we will make the basket smaller and the weight bigger, and we will lie about the weight.


book: Amos
contenido:
We will buy the poor for money, and those in need for shoes. And we will sell the part of the grain that is of no worth.”


book: Amos
contenido:
Will not the land shake because of this? Will not everyone who lives in it be filled with sorrow? All of it will rise up like the Nile. It will be troubled, and will fall like the Nile River of Egypt.


book: Amos
contenido:
On that day,” says the Lord God, “I will make the sun go down at noon. I will make the earth dark in the daytime.


book: Amos
contenido:
I will turn your special suppers into times of sorrow, and all your songs into songs of sorrow. I will make all of you wear cloth made from hair, and cut all the hair from your heads. I will fill that time with sorrow, as if an only son had died. And the end of it will be like a bitter day.


book: Amos
contenido:
“The days are coming,” says the Lord God, “when I will send a time upon the land when the people will be very hungry. They will not be hungry for bread or thirsty for water, but they will be hungry to hear the Words of the Lord.


book: Amos
contenido:
People will go from sea to sea, and from the north to the east. They will go from place to place to look for the Word of the Lord, but they will not find it.


book: Amos
contenido:
On that day the beautiful, pure, young women and the young men will lose their strength and fall because of thirst.


book: Amos
contenido:
As for those who swear by the false gods of Samaria, saying, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’ and ‘As the way of Beersheba lives,’ they will fall and never rise again.”


book: Amos
contenido:
The Lord Judges Israel
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said, “Break the tops of the pillars so that the bases shake! Break them to pieces on the heads of all the people! Then I will kill the rest of them with the sword. Not one of them will get away.


book: Amos
contenido:
Even if they dig into the place of the dead, My hand will take them from there. Even if they go up to heaven, I will bring them down from there.


book: Amos
contenido:
Even if they hide on the top of Mount Carmel, I will find them and take them from there. Even if they hide themselves from My eyes on the bottom of the sea, there I will tell the large sea-snake to bite them.


book: Amos
contenido:
Even if they are taken away to a strange land by those who hate them, there I will have the sword kill them. I will set My eyes against them to hurt them, and not to bring good to them.”


book: Amos
contenido:
The Lord God of All is the One Who touches the land and it melts. All those who live in it are filled with sorrow. All of it rises and falls like the Nile River of Egypt.


book: Amos
contenido:
The Lord builds His upper rooms in the heavens and sets His sky over the earth. He calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the earth. The Lord is His name.


book: Amos
contenido:
“Are you not like the Ethiopians to Me, you people of Israel?” says the Lord. “Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?


book: Amos
contenido:
See, the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful nation, and I will destroy it from the earth. But I will not destroy all the people of Jacob,” says the Lord.


book: Amos
contenido:
“I will say what must be done. I will shake the people of Jacob among all the nations, as grain is shaken on a fine net. But not the smallest seed will fall to the ground.


book: Amos
contenido:
All the sinners among My people who say, ‘The trouble will not catch up to us or come to us,’ will die by the sword.


book: Amos
contenido:
Israel to Have New Life
“In that day I will build again the tent of David that fell down. Yes, I will build it again from the stones that fell down. I will set it up again as it used to be.


book: Amos
contenido:
And so the people of Israel will own what is left of the land of Edom and all the nations that are called by My name,” says the Lord who does this.


book: Amos
contenido:
“The days are coming,” says the Lord, “when the man who plows will catch up with the man who gathers. The man who crushes the grapes will catch up with the man who plants the seed. The mountains will drip sweet wine, and all the hills will flow with it.


book: Amos
contenido:
And I will return My people Israel to their riches. They will build again the cities that have been destroyed, and live in them. They will plant grape-fields and drink their wine. And they will make gardens and eat their fruit.


book: Amos
contenido:
I will plant My people on their land. And they will never again be pulled up from the land I gave them,” says the Lord your God.


book: Obad
contenido:
Edom to Be Judged
This is the special dream of Obadiah, what the Lord God says about Edom. We have heard this news from the Lord. And a man has been sent among the nations to say, “Get ready! Let us go fight a war against Edom.”


book: Obad
contenido:
The pride of your heart has fooled you. You live in the holes of the rock. Your home is high in the mountains. And so you say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’


book: Obad
contenido:
Even when you build your home as high as the eagle, and make your nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.


book: Obad
contenido:
“If robbers came to you during the night, O how you will be destroyed! Would they not steal only enough for themselves? If those who gather grapes came to you, would they not leave some behind?


book: Obad
contenido:
All the men you have made an agreement with will drive you from the country. The men at peace with you will lie to you and get power over you. Those who eat your bread will set a trap for you, but you will not know it.”


book: Obad
contenido:
The Lord says, “On that day I will destroy the wise men from Edom and understanding from Mount Esau.


book: Obad
contenido:
Then your powerful soldiers will be troubled, O Teman, and every one from Mount Esau will be killed.


book: Obad
contenido:
Edom Hurt His Brother
“Because you have hurt your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and destroyed forever.


book: Obad
contenido:
You stood aside on that day when strangers carried his riches away. Men from another land went in through his gate and divided Jerusalem among themselves. And you were like one of them.


book: Obad
contenido:
Do not look down on your brother in the day of his trouble. Do not be happy about the sons of Judah in the day they are destroyed. Yes, do not speak with pride in the day of their trouble.


book: Obad
contenido:
Do not go in through the gate of My people in the day of their trouble. Do not speak with pride about their suffering in the day of their trouble. And do not rob their riches in the day of their trouble.


book: Obad
contenido:
Do not stand at the cross-roads to kill their people who get away. And do not put into prison those who are left alive in the day of their trouble.


book: Obad
contenido:
“For the day of the Lord is near for all nations. As you have done, it will be done to you. What you do will come back to you on your own head.


book: Obad
contenido:
Just as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink all the time. They will drink and drink, and be as if they had never been.


book: Obad
contenido:
Israel Will Win
“But on Mount Zion there will be a way to be set free, and it will be holy. The people of Jacob will own what belongs to them.


book: Obad
contenido:
The people of Jacob will be a fire. The people of Joseph will be burning. But the people of Esau will be like dry grass. They will set them on fire and destroy them. None of the people of Esau will be left alive,” for the Lord has spoken.


book: Obad
contenido:
People of the Negev will live on Mount Esau. And those in the lower land will live in the land of the Philistines. They will live in the land of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will own Gilead.


book: Obad
contenido:
The people of Israel who are living among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, and the people of Jerusalem who are in Sephared, will own the cities of the Negev.


book: Obad
contenido:
The men of Jerusalem who fight and win the battle will go up Mount Zion to rule over Mount Esau. And the nation will belong to the Lord.


book: Jonah
contenido:
“Get up and go to the large city of Nineveh, and preach against it. For their sin has come up before Me.”


book: Jonah
contenido:
But Jonah ran away from the Lord going toward Tarshish. He went down to Joppa and found a ship which was going to Tarshish. Jonah paid money, and got on the ship to go with them, to get away from the Lord.


book: Jonah
contenido:
Then the Lord sent a powerful wind upon the sea, and there was such a big storm that the ship was about to break up.


book: Jonah
contenido:
The sailors became afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the things that were in the ship into the sea so that it would not be so heavy. But Jonah had gone below in the ship and had lain down and fallen asleep.


book: Jonah
contenido:
So the captain went to him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god. It may be that your god will care about us, and we will not die.”


book: Jonah
contenido:
Then the sailors said to each other, “Come, let us draw names so we can find out who is to blame for this trouble.” So they drew names, and Jonah’s name was drawn.


book: Jonah
contenido:
Then they said to him, “Now tell us! Who is to blame for this? What is your work? Where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?”


book: Jonah
contenido:
Jonah said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I worship the Lord God of heaven Who made the sea and the dry land.”


book: Jonah
contenido:
Then the men were filled with fear and said to him, “How could you do this?” For the men knew that he was running away from the Lord, because he had told them.


book: Jonah
contenido:
So they said to him, “What should we do to you to make the sea quiet down for us?” For the storm was getting worse.


book: Jonah
contenido:
Jonah said to them, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will quiet down for you. For I know that this bad storm has come upon you because of me.”


book: Jonah
contenido:
The men rowed hard to return to land, but they could not, for the wind was blowing even worse against them.


book: Jonah
contenido:
Then they called on the Lord and said, “We beg You, O Lord, do not let us die for what this man has done. And do not let us become guilty for killing someone who is not to blame. For You, O Lord, have done as You have pleased.”


book: Jonah
contenido:
Then the men feared the Lord very much. They gave a gift in worship to the Lord and made promises to Him.


book: Jonah
contenido:
The Lord sent a big fish to swallow Jonah, and he was in the stomach of the fish for three days and three nights.


book: Jonah
contenido:
saying, “I called out to the Lord because of my trouble, and He answered me. I cried for help from the place of the dead, and You heard my voice.


book: Jonah
contenido:
You threw me into the deep waters, to the very bottom of the sea. A flood was all around me and all Your waves passed over me.


book: Jonah
contenido:
I went down to the roots of the mountains. The walls of the earth were around me forever. But You have brought me up from the grave, O Lord my God.


book: Jonah
contenido:
While I was losing all my strength, I remembered the Lord. And my prayer came to You, into Your holy house.


book: Jonah
contenido:
But I will give gifts in worship to You with a thankful voice. I will give You what I have promised. The Lord is the One Who saves.”


book: Jonah
contenido:
“Get up and go to the large city of Nineveh, and tell the people there the news which I am going to tell you.”


book: Jonah
contenido:
So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, as the Lord had told him. Now Nineveh was a very large city. It took three days to walk through it.


book: Jonah
contenido:
Jonah started into the city, for a day’s walk, and he cried out, “In forty days Nineveh will be destroyed!”


book: Jonah
contenido:
Then the people of Nineveh believed in God. They called for a time when no food was to be eaten. And all the people, from the greatest to the least, put on clothes made from hair.


book: Jonah
contenido:
When the news came to the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne and laid aside his beautiful clothing. Then he covered himself with cloth made from hair, and sat in ashes.


book: Jonah
contenido:
And he sent word through all of Nineveh, saying, “By the law of the king and his leaders, do not let man or animal, cattle or flock, taste anything. Do not let them eat or drink water.


book: Jonah
contenido:
Both man and animal must be covered with cloth made from hair. Everyone must pray to God with all his heart, so each person may turn from his sinful way and from the bad things he has done.


book: Jonah
contenido:
When God saw what they did, and that they turned from their sinful way, He changed His mind about the trouble He said He would bring upon them, and He did not destroy Nineveh.


book: Jonah
contenido:
He prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is this not what I said You would do while still in my own country? That is why I ran away to Tarshish. For I knew that You are a kind and loving God Who shows pity. I knew that You are slow to anger and are filled with loving-kindness, always ready to change Your mind and not punish.


book: Jonah
contenido:
Then Jonah left the city and sat to the east of the city. There he made a tent for himself, and sat in its shadow until he could see what would happen in the city.


book: Jonah
contenido:
Then the Lord God made a plant grow up over Jonah to cover him from the hot sun and to stop his suffering. Jonah was very happy about the plant.


book: Jonah
contenido:
When the sun came up, God sent a hot east wind. And the sun’s heat came upon Jonah’s head so that he became weak and begged with all his heart to die. He said, “Death is better to me than life.”


book: Jonah
contenido:
Then God said to Jonah, “Do you have a good reason to be angry about the plant?” And Jonah said, “I have a good reason to be angry, angry enough to die.”


book: Jonah
contenido:
The Lord said, “You had loving-pity on the plant which you did not work for. You did not cause it to grow. It came up during the night and died during the night.


book: Jonah
contenido:
And should I not have loving-pity for Nineveh, the large city where more than 120,000 people live who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?”


book: Mic
contenido:
This is the Word of the Lord which came to Micah of Moresheth about Samaria and Jerusalem in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.


book: Mic
contenido:
Israel Is Judged
Hear, O people, all of you. Listen, O earth and all who are in it. The Lord God will speak against you from His holy house.


book: Mic
contenido:
The mountains will melt under Him and the valleys will break open, like a candle in front of the fire, like water poured down a hill.


book: Mic
contenido:
All this is because Jacob would not obey and because of the sins of the people of Israel. What is Jacob’s sin? Is it not Samaria? What is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?


book: Mic
contenido:
So I will make Samaria a waste in the open country, making it a place to plant grape-fields. I will pour her stones down into the valley, and lay open the base of the city.


book: Mic
contenido:
All of her false gods will be broken to pieces. Everything given in the place of worship will be burned with fire. I will destroy all her objects of worship, for she gathered them from the pay of a woman who sells the use of her body. They will return to pay a woman who sells the use of her body.


book: Mic
contenido:
Jerusalem Will Be Taken
Because of this I must cry out in sorrow. I must go without shoes and clothing. I must cry out like the wild dogs, and cry in sorrow like the ostriches.


book: Mic
contenido:
For her hurt cannot be cured. It has come to Judah. It has come to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.


book: Mic
contenido:
Go on your way, people of Shaphir, without clothing and in shame. The people of Zaanan do not come out. Cries of sorrow come from Beth-ezel. Its help is taken from you.


book: Mic
contenido:
Those who live in Maroth become weak waiting for good, because trouble has come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.


book: Mic
contenido:
Tie the war-wagons to the horses, you people of Lachish. You were the beginning of sin to the people of Zion, for the sins of Israel were found in you.


book: Mic
contenido:
I will bring one who will beat you in battle, O people of Mareshah. The shining-greatness of Israel will come to Adullam.


book: Mic
contenido:
Cut off all your hair in sorrow for the children you love. Let no hair be on your head like the eagle, for your children will be taken away from you.


book: Mic
contenido:
It Is Bad for Wrong-Doers
It is bad for those who make plans to do wrong, who lie on their beds thinking of something sinful to do! When morning comes, they do it, because it is in their power.


book: Mic
contenido:
They want fields that belong to someone else, and take them. They want houses, and take them. They rob a man and his house, a man and what has been given to him.


book: Mic
contenido:
So the Lord says, “I am planning trouble against this family, from which you cannot save yourselves. You will no longer walk in pride, for it will be a time of much trouble.


book: Mic
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On that day they will make fun of you and sing a bitter song of sorrow, saying, ‘We are destroyed and everything is gone! My people’s land is divided. He takes it from me! He gives our fields to those who turned against us.’”


book: Mic
contenido:
Men Who Lie
“The people say to me, ‘Do not speak about these things, because we will not be put to shame.’


book: Mic
contenido:
Should it be said, O people of Jacob: “Is the Spirit of the Lord angry? Would He do such things? Do not My Words do good to the one whose way is right and good?


book: Mic
contenido:
My people have begun to hate those who are at peace with them. You pull the coat off from a brother Israelite, from those who pass by in peace like men returning from war.


book: Mic
contenido:
You drive the women of My people away from their beautiful houses. You take My greatness away from their children forever.


book: Mic
contenido:
Get up and go away, for this is no place of rest, because it is made unclean. It is destroyed with much suffering.


book: Mic
contenido:
If a man comes speaking lies and says, ‘I will speak to you about wine and strong drink,’ he would be the one for these people!


book: Mic
contenido:
Israel Is Gathered Together
“I will gather all of you together, Jacob. I will gather all those left of Israel. I will put them together like sheep within a fence, like a flock in its field. The land will be filled with the noise of many people.


book: Mic
contenido:
The One Who breaks open the way will go out before them. They will break through the gate and go out. Their king will pass through before them, and the Lord will lead them.”


book: Mic
contenido:
Sinful Leaders and Rulers
And I said, “Hear now, leaders of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel! Should you not know what is fair?


book: Mic
contenido:
Yet you hate good and love sin. You tear off the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones.


book: Mic
contenido:
You eat my people’s flesh, pull their skin off, break their bones, and cut them up like meat for the pot.”


book: Mic
contenido:
Then they will cry to the Lord, but He will not answer them. He will hide His face from them at that time, because they have done sinful things.


book: Mic
contenido:
This is what the Lord says about the men who speak in God’s name and lead my people the wrong way. When they have something to eat, they speak of peace. But they make holy war against him who does not feed them.


book: Mic
contenido:
So night will come to you without a special dream. Darkness will come to you without any word about the future. The sun will go down on those who speak about special dreams, and the day will become dark over them.


book: Mic
contenido:
Those who tell what is going to happen in the future will be ashamed. Those who learn about the future using their secret ways will be ashamed. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.


book: Mic
contenido:
But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord, with what is fair, and with strength. I am able to make known to Jacob his wrong-doing, and to Israel his sin.


book: Mic
contenido:
Now listen to this, you leaders of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel. You hate what is fair, and turn everything around that is right.


book: Mic
contenido:
Her leaders take pay in secret for doing wrong. Her religious leaders teach for a price. Her men who tell what is going to happen in the future do it for money. Yet they rest upon the Lord and say, “Is not the Lord among us? No trouble will come to us.”


book: Mic
contenido:
So because of you Zion will be plowed as a field. Jerusalem will be laid waste. And the mountain of the Lord’s house will be covered with trees.


book: Mic
contenido:
The Lord Rules in Jerusalem
In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s house will be the highest one of all. It will be raised above the hills, and the people will flow to it.


book: Mic
contenido:
Many nations will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord and to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us about His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” For the Law will go out from Zion, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem.


book: Mic
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He will judge between many people. He will decide for strong nations that are far away. Then they will beat their swords into plows, and their spears into cutting hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, and they will never learn war any more.


book: Mic
contenido:
Every man will sit under his vine and under his fig tree, with no one to make him afraid. For the mouth of the Lord of All has spoken.


book: Mic
contenido:
All the nations may walk in the name of their god. But we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.


book: Mic
contenido:
Israel Will Return from the Strange Land
“In that day,” says the Lord, “I will gather together those who cannot walk and those who have been driven away, even those whom I have made to suffer.


book: Mic
contenido:
I will make a new beginning with those who cannot walk. I will make a strong nation of those who have been driven away. And the Lord will rule over them in Mount Zion from that day and forever.


book: Mic
contenido:
As for you, O watch-tower of the flock, the strong-place of the people of Zion, the power you had to rule will come to you again. The nation will come to Jerusalem.


book: Mic
contenido:
“Now why do you cry out in a loud voice? Is there no king among you? Has your wise man died, so that you have pains like a woman giving birth?


book: Mic
contenido:
Suffer in pain, O people of Zion, like a woman giving birth. For now you will go out of the city and live in the field, and go to Babylon. There you will be saved and He will make you free from the power of those who hate you.


book: Mic
contenido:
“Now many nations are gathered against you. They say, ‘Let her be unclean. Let our eyes look on Zion.’


book: Mic
contenido:
But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord. They do not understand His plan. For He has gathered them like grain to the crushing-floor.


book: Mic
contenido:
Get up and crush the grain, O people of Zion. For I will give you horns of iron and feet of brass, and you will break many nations to pieces. You will give to the Lord what they received by hurting others. You will give their riches to the Lord of all the earth.


book: Mic
contenido:
“Now gather yourselves into armies, people of Israel. They are all around us with their army. They will hit the judge of Israel on the face.


book: Mic
contenido:
God’s Chosen One Will Come from Bethlehem
“Bethlehem Ephrathah, you are too little to be among the family groups of Judah. But from you One will come who will rule for Me in Israel. His coming was planned long ago, from the beginning.”


book: Mic
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He will give them up until the time when the woman in pain gives birth to a child. Then the rest of His brothers will return to the people of Israel.


book: Mic
contenido:
And He will come and feed His flock in the strength of the Lord, in the great power of the name of the Lord His God. His people will live there and be safe, because at that time He will be great to the ends of the earth.


book: Mic
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And He will be their peace.
Those Who Fight Israel Are Judged
When the Assyrian comes into our land and crushes under foot our strong-places, we will fight against him with seven shepherds and eight leaders.


book: Mic
contenido:
They will rule the land of Assyria, the land of Nimrod, with the sword. And He will take us from the Assyrians when they come into our country and crush under foot our land.


book: Mic
contenido:
Then the people who are left of Jacob will be among many people like water on the ground in the early morning from the Lord, like rain on the grass, which does not wait for man.


book: Mic
contenido:
Those who are left of Jacob will be among the nations, among many people, like a lion among the animals in the woods, like a young lion among flocks of sheep. When he passes through, he crushes them and tears them to pieces, and there is no one to help them.


book: Mic
contenido:
I will destroy your false gods and your pillars of worship, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your hands.


book: Mic
contenido:
The Lord Speaks against Israel
Listen to what the Lord says: “Stand up and make your cause known in front of the mountains. Let the hills hear your voice.


book: Mic
contenido:
Listen to the Lord’s cause, you mountains and bases of the earth that last forever. The Lord has something against His people, and will speak against Israel.


book: Mic
contenido:
I brought you out of the land of Egypt. I took you out of the land where you were servants. And I sent Moses, Aaron and Miriam to lead you.


book: Mic
contenido:
My people, remember what Balak king of Moab said, and what Balaam son of Beor answered him. Remember what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may know the good things the Lord has done.”


book: Mic
contenido:
What the Lord Wants
What should I bring to the Lord when I bow down before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt gifts, with calves a year old?


book: Mic
contenido:
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with 10,000 rivers of oil? Should I give my first-born to pay for not obeying? Should I give the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?


book: Mic
contenido:
O man, He has told you what is good. What does the Lord ask of you but to do what is fair and to love kindness, and to walk without pride with your God?


book: Mic
contenido:
Israel Is Punished
The voice of the Lord is calling to the city, and it is wise to fear Your name: “Listen, O family of Judah, you who are gathered in the city.


book: Mic
contenido:
O sinful house, can I forget the riches you got by wrong-doing? You lied about the weight of things, which I hate.


book: Mic
contenido:
The rich men of the city have hurt many people. Her people are liars. Their tongues in their mouths speak false words.


book: Mic
contenido:
You will eat, but you will not be filled. Your stomachs will still be empty. You will store up, but save nothing. And what you save I will give to the sword.


book: Mic
contenido:
You will plant, but you will not gather. You will crush the olive, but you will not pour oil on yourself. You will crush the grapes, but you will not drink wine.


book: Mic
contenido:
You have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the people of Ahab. You have followed their ways. So I will give you up to be destroyed, and your people will be made fun of. You, My people, will be put to shame.”


book: Mic
contenido:
Sorrow for Israel’s Sins
It is bad for me! For I am like those who pick fruit and gather grapes. There are no grapes to eat, or any of the early figs that I want so much.


book: Mic
contenido:
There is not a God-like person left in the land. There is no good person among men. All of them lie in wait to kill. Each one hunts the other with a net.


book: Mic
contenido:
Both hands are very able in doing sinful things. The ruler and the judge ask for pay in secret to do what is wrong. The powerful man tells what he wants, and they all make plans together.


book: Mic
contenido:
The best of them is like a thistle. The most honest of them is like a thorn bush. The day you have a watchman, you will be punished. Then their trouble will come.


book: Mic
contenido:
Do not trust a neighbor. Do not put trust in a friend. Be careful what you say even with her who lies in your arms.


book: Mic
contenido:
For a son does not honor his father. A daughter rises up against her mother. And a daughter-in-law turns against her mother-in-law. Those of a man’s own house hate him.


book: Mic
contenido:
But as for me, I will watch for the Lord. I will wait for the God Who saves me. My God will hear me.


book: Mic
contenido:
The Lord Saves
Do not have joy over me, you who hate me. When I fall, I will rise. Even though I am in darkness, the Lord will be my light.


book: Mic
contenido:
I will suffer under the Lord’s anger, because I have sinned against Him, until He speaks for me and does what is fair for me. He will bring me out to the light, and I will see His saving power.


book: Mic
contenido:
Then the one who hated me will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes will look on her, and she will be crushed under foot like mud in the streets.


book: Mic
contenido:
In that day people will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, from Egypt to the Euphrates River, from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.


book: Mic
contenido:
The Lord’s Loving-Kindness for Israel
Shepherd Your people with Your power. Take care of Your chosen flock which lives by itself in the woods, in a field of much fruit. Let them eat in Bashan and Gilead as in days long ago.


book: Mic
contenido:
Nations will see and be ashamed of all their power. They will put their hands on their mouths, and will not be able to hear with their ears.


book: Mic
contenido:
They will eat the dust like a snake, like animals that move along the ground. They will come out of their strong-places shaking with fear. They will come in much fear to the Lord our God, and they will be afraid of You.


book: Mic
contenido:
Who is a God like You, Who forgives sin and the wrong-doing of Your chosen people who are left? He does not stay angry forever because He is happy to show loving-kindness.


book: Mic
contenido:
He will again have loving-pity on us. He will crush our sins under foot. Yes, You will throw all our sins into the deep sea.


book: Mic
contenido:
You will be true to Jacob and show loving-kindness to Abraham, as You promised our fathers in days long ago.


book: Nah
contenido:
God’s Anger against Nineveh
The Lord is a jealous God and One Who punishes. The Lord punishes and is angry. The Lord punishes those who fight against Him. He is angry with those who hate Him.


book: Nah
contenido:
The Lord is slow to anger and great in power. The Lord will be sure to punish the guilty. The way He punishes is in the strong-wind and storm. The clouds are the dust under His feet.


book: Nah
contenido:
He speaks sharp words to the sea and makes it dry. He dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel dry up. The flowers of Lebanon dry up.


book: Nah
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Mountains shake because of Him, and the hills melt. The earth is laid waste before Him, the world and everyone in it.


book: Nah
contenido:
Who can stand before His anger? Who can live through the burning of His anger? His anger is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken up by Him.


book: Nah
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But He will put an end to Nineveh by making a flood flow over it. And He will drive those who hate Him into darkness.


book: Nah
contenido:
They are like thorns that tie themselves together, like those who are drunk with strong drink. They are destroyed like dry grass.


book: Nah
contenido:
From you one has come who makes sinful plans against the Lord, one who talks about sinful things to do.


book: Nah
contenido:
The Lord says, “Even if they are strong and many, they will be destroyed and pass away. I have brought trouble to you, O Judah, but I will not bring you trouble any more.


book: Nah
contenido:
The Lord has said this about you: “You will have no one to carry on your name. I will destroy the false gods and objects of worship from the house of your gods. I will make your grave ready, for you are very sinful.”


book: Nah
contenido:
See, on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news and speaks of peace! Keep your special suppers, O Judah. Keep your promises. For the sinful one will never come against you again. He is destroyed.


book: Nah
contenido:
Nineveh Is Destroyed
The one who destroys has come against you, O Nineveh. Put men on the battle-walls. Watch the road. Be strong. Be ready for battle.


book: Nah
contenido:
For the Lord will make Jacob great again, like the greatness of Israel, even when destroyers have destroyed them and their vine branches.


book: Nah
contenido:
The battle-coverings of his strong men are red. His men of war are dressed in red. The war-wagons shine like fire when they are made ready. The cypress spears are waved.


book: Nah
contenido:
The war-wagons race in the streets. They rush through the city. They look like fire and move like lightning.


book: Nah
contenido:
The leaders are called. They lose their step as they go, and hurry to the wall. The battle-covering is set up.


book: Nah
contenido:
The city is laid waste and the people are carried away. Her women servants are crying like doves, beating on their breasts.


book: Nah
contenido:
Take the silver! Take the gold! For there is no end of the riches, every kind of thing of great worth.


book: Nah
contenido:
Everything has been taken from her! Yes, she is an empty waste! Hearts are melting in fear and knees are knocking! All bodies suffer, and all their faces turn white!


book: Nah
contenido:
Where is the home of the lions, the place where they feed their young, where the male and female and young lions went, with nothing to be afraid of?


book: Nah
contenido:
The lion killed enough for his young, and for his female lions. He filled his home with food, with torn flesh.


book: Nah
contenido:
“I am against you,” says the Lord of All. “I will burn up your war-wagons in smoke. A sword will destroy your young lions. I will cut off your food from the land. And the voice of your men who came with news will never be heard again.”


book: Nah
contenido:
It Is Bad for Nineveh
It is bad for the city of blood, full of lies and stolen riches! There is no end of her prizes of war!


book: Nah
contenido:
Horsemen rushing to battle, swords and spears shining, many dead, too many dead bodies to number! They fall over the dead bodies!


book: Nah
contenido:
All this is because of the many sins of the woman who sells the use of her body. She tempts with her beauty and uses witchcraft. She sells nations by her sinful acts, and families by her witchcraft.


book: Nah
contenido:
“I am against you,” says the Lord of All. “I will lift up your clothing over your face and let the nations see your body. The nations will see your shame.


book: Nah
contenido:
All who see you will leave you and say, ‘Nineveh is destroyed! Who will have sorrow for her?’ Where can I find anyone to comfort you?”


book: Nah
contenido:
Are you better than Thebes, which is by the Nile River? Water was all around her. The sea kept her safe, for the water was her wall.


book: Nah
contenido:
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, with too many to number. Put and Lubim were among her helpers.


book: Nah
contenido:
Yet she was taken away to a strange land. She was taken away in chains. Her small children were beaten to death at every street corner. They drew names to see who would get her men of honor. And all her great men were put in chains.


book: Nah
contenido:
You also will become drunk. You will be hidden. You will look for a safe place from those who hate you.


book: Nah
contenido:
All your strong towers are like fig trees with first-fruits. When they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the one who eats them.


book: Nah
contenido:
Your soldiers are all women. The gates of your land are opened wide to those who hate you. Fire destroys your gates.


book: Nah
contenido:
Store up water to drink when you are shut in by armies! Make your walls stronger! Go into the clay to make more clay blocks for building!


book: Nah
contenido:
There the fire will destroy you. The sword will kill you. It will destroy you like the locust.
Make yourselves as many as the locusts, as many as the flying locusts.


book: Nah
contenido:
You have more traders than the stars of heaven. The locust destroys everything from the land and flies away.


book: Nah
contenido:
Your watchmen are like the flying locusts. Your leaders are like clouds of locusts. They stay in the stone walls on a cold day. When the sun rises they fly away and no one knows where they are.


book: Nah
contenido:
Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria. Your leaders are lying down. Your people have gone everywhere on the mountains. And there is no one to gather them together again.


book: Nah
contenido:
Nothing can heal your hurt. Your sore cannot be cured. All who hear about you will clap their hands over you. For who has not suffered under your sinful ways again and again?


book: Hab
contenido:
O Lord, how long must I call for help before You will hear? I cry out to You, “We are being hurt!” But You do not save us.


book: Hab
contenido:
Why do you make me see sins and wrong-doing? People are being destroyed in anger in front of me. There is arguing and fighting.


book: Hab
contenido:
The Law is not followed. What is right is never done. For the sinful are all around those who are right and good, so what is right looks like sin.


book: Hab
contenido:
The Lord’s Answer
“Look among the nations, and see! Be surprised and full of wonder! For I am doing something in your days that you would not believe if you were told.


book: Hab
contenido:
I am bringing the Babylonians to power. They are people filled with anger who go across the whole earth to take homes that are not theirs.


book: Hab
contenido:
Their horses are faster than leopards, and show less pity than wolves in the evening. Their horsemen come on running horses from far away. They fly like an eagle coming down to get food.


book: Hab
contenido:
They make fun of kings and laugh at rulers. They laugh at every strong city and build a battle-wall to take it.


book: Hab
contenido:
Then they move through like the wind and keep going. They are guilty men, whose strength is their god.”


book: Hab
contenido:
Habakkuk’s Second Question
Have You not lived forever, O Lord, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O Lord, You have chosen them to judge. You, O Rock, have chosen them to punish us.


book: Hab
contenido:
Your eyes are too pure to look at sin. You cannot look on wrong. Why then do You look with favor on those who do wrong? Why are You quiet when the sinful destroy those who are more right and good than they?


book: Hab
contenido:
Why have You made men like the fish of the sea, like things which move along the ground that have no ruler?


book: Hab
contenido:
The Babylonians bring all of them up with a hook, and pull them away with their net. They gather them together in their fishing net, and so they have joy and are glad.


book: Hab
contenido:
So they give gifts in worship to their net. They burn special perfume to their fishing net, because their net catches all the good things and good food they need.


book: Hab
contenido:
I will take my stand and keep watch. I will take my place on the tower. And I will keep watch to see what the Lord will say, and how I should answer when He speaks strong words to me.


book: Hab
contenido:
The Lord’s Answer to Habakkuk
Then the Lord answered me and said, “Write down the special dream on stone so that one may read it in a hurry.


book: Hab
contenido:
For it is not yet time for it to come true. The time is coming in a hurry, and it will come true. If you think it is slow in coming, wait for it. For it will happen for sure, and it will not wait.


book: Hab
contenido:
As for the proud one, his soul is not right in him. But the one who is right and good will live by his faith.


book: Hab
contenido:
It Is Bad for the Wrong-Doers
“Also, wine fools the proud man, so he does not stay at home. He is like the grave who always wants more. Like death, he never has enough. He gathers all nations for himself, and gathers all people for his own.


book: Hab
contenido:
“Will not all these people make fun of him and say, ‘It is bad for him who gathers what is not his and makes himself rich with other people’s money. How long will this go on?’


book: Hab
contenido:
Will not those to whom you owe money rise up all at once? Will they not wake up and make you afraid? Then they will take what belongs to you.


book: Hab
contenido:
Because you have robbed many nations, the rest of them will rob you. For you have killed men. You have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.


book: Hab
contenido:
“It is bad for him who builds his house by sinful ways, to put his nest in a high place to be safe from trouble!


book: Hab
contenido:
You have brought shame upon your house by destroying many nations. You are sinning against yourself.


book: Hab
contenido:
Is it not the will of the All-powerful Lord that people work for what will burn up and nations make themselves tired for nothing?


book: Hab
contenido:
For the earth will be filled with knowing of the Lord’s shining-greatness, as the waters cover the sea.


book: Hab
contenido:
“It is bad for him who makes his neighbors drink, mixing in his poison to make them drunk, so he can look on their shame!


book: Hab
contenido:
You will be filled with shame instead of honor. Now you yourself drink and let your own shame be seen. The cup in the Lord’s right hand will come around to you, and your greatness will turn to shame.


book: Hab
contenido:
The bad things you have done to Lebanon will come back to you. Because you have killed its animals, now they will make you afraid. This will happen because of all the killing you have done. You have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.


book: Hab
contenido:
“Of what worth is a false god when a workman has made it? Of what worth is an object of worship, a teacher of lies? For the workman trusts in his own work when he makes these false gods that cannot speak.


book: Hab
contenido:
It is bad for him who says to a piece of wood, ‘Wake up!’ or to a stone that cannot speak, ‘Get up!’ Can this teach you? See, it is covered with gold and silver. There is no breath in it.


book: Hab
contenido:
O Lord, I have heard of what You have done, and I am filled with fear. O Lord, do again in our times the great things which You have done before. Remember to show loving-kindness, even when You are angry.


book: Hab
contenido:
God comes from Teman. The Holy One comes from Mount Paran. His shining-greatness covers the heavens, and the earth is full of His praise.


book: Hab
contenido:
He stood and looked over the earth. He looked and shook the nations. The lasting mountains were broken to pieces, and the old hills fell down. His ways last forever.


book: Hab
contenido:
Were You angry with the rivers, O Lord? Was Your anger against the rivers? Or were You angry with the sea? You rode on Your horses. You rode on Your war-wagons saving people.


book: Hab
contenido:
You took the covering off Your bow and put the arrows to the string. You divided the earth with rivers.


book: Hab
contenido:
The mountains saw You and shook. The flood of waters flowed by. The sea made its noise and its waves rose high.


book: Hab
contenido:
The sun and moon stood still in the heavens at the light of Your arrows, at the shining of Your spear.


book: Hab
contenido:
You went to save Your people, to save Your chosen ones. You crushed the leader of the land of the sinful and laid him open from thighs to neck.


book: Hab
contenido:
With his own spear You cut through the head of his soldiers. They came like a storm to send us everywhere, finding joy as if they were destroying in secret those who had it very hard.


book: Hab
contenido:
I heard and my body shook. My lips shook at the sound. My bones began to waste away and my legs shook. Yet I will be quiet and wait for the day of trouble to come upon the people who fight against us.


book: Hab
contenido:
Even if the fig tree does not grow figs and there is no fruit on the vines, even if the olives do not grow and the fields give no food, even if there are no sheep within the fence and no cattle in the cattle-building,


book: Hab
contenido:
The Lord God is my strength. He has made my feet like the feet of a deer, and He makes me walk on high places.
This is for the song leader, on my different kinds of harps.


book: Zeph
contenido:
This is the Word of the Lord which came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, son of Godaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah.


book: Zeph
contenido:
“I will take away man and animal. I will take away the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea. I will destroy the sinful. And I will take man from off the earth,” says the Lord.


book: Zeph
contenido:
“I will put out My hand against Judah and against all the people of Jerusalem. I will destroy from this place the rest of the people who worship Baal, and the names of the religious leaders who worship false gods.


book: Zeph
contenido:
I will destroy those who bow down on the roofs to the stars of heaven, and those who bow down and make promises to the Lord and yet promise in the name of Milcom.


book: Zeph
contenido:
I will destroy those who have turned back from following the Lord, and those who have not looked for the Lord or prayed to Him.”


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Be quiet before the Lord God! For the day of the Lord is near. The Lord has made a gift ready for the altar. He has made holy those whom He has asked to come.


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“On the day of the Lord’s gift, I will punish the leaders, the king’s sons, and all who dress themselves with strange clothes.


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On that day I will punish everyone who is quick to jump through the door, who fill the house of their owner with angry actions and lies.


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On that day,” says the Lord, “a cry will be heard from the Fish Gate. A cry of sorrow will be heard from the new part of the city, and a loud noise from the hills.


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Cry in a loud voice, you people who live in the part of the city where people buy and sell. For all the traders of Canaan will be destroyed. All who weigh out silver will be cut off.


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At that time I will look through Jerusalem with a light and will punish those who take it easy and do not care what happens. They say in their hearts, ‘The Lord will not do good or bad.’


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Their riches will be taken from them and their houses will be laid waste. They will build houses but not live in them. They will plant grape-fields but not drink their wine.”


book: Zeph
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The great day of the Lord is near. It is near and coming soon. Listen! The cry on the day of the Lord! The man of war will cry out with a bitter cry.


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That day is a day of anger, a day of trouble and suffering, a day when much will be destroyed, a day of darkness, a day of clouds and much darkness.


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It is a day of the sound of a horn and the cry of battle against the strong cities and the high towers.


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I will bring trouble to men so that they will walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the Lord. Their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like body waste.


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Their silver and gold will not be able to save them on the day of the Lord’s anger. All the earth will be destroyed in the fire of His jealousy. For all at once He will make an end of all the people of the earth.


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before you are driven away like the waste from the grain. Gather together before the burning anger of the Lord comes upon you, before the day of the Lord’s anger.


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Look for the Lord, all you people of the earth who are not proud, and who have obeyed His Laws. Look for what is right and good. Have no pride. You may be kept safe on the day of the Lord’s anger.


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The Nations around Israel Are Judged
For Gaza will be left empty. Ashkelon will be laid waste. Ashdod’s people will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be pulled up by the roots.


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It is bad for the people who live by the sea, the nation of the Cherethites! The Word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines. I will destroy you so that no people will be left living in you.


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The land by the sea will be for those left of the people of Judah. They will let their flocks eat there. In the evening they will lie down in the houses of Ashkelon. For the Lord their God will care for them and return their riches.


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“I have heard how Moab has made fun of My people and the sons of Ammon have spoken strong words against them. They have spoken in pride against My people’s land.


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So as I live,” says the Lord of All, the God of Israel, “Moab will be like Sodom, and the sons of Ammon will be like Gomorrah, a land taken over by thistles and salt, a waste land forever. Those left of My people will rob them. Those left of My nation will take their land.”


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This will happen to them because of their pride, because they have made fun of the people of the Lord of All.


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They will be filled with fear because of the Lord. He will destroy all the gods of the earth. All the nations beside the sea will worship Him, every one in his own land.


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He will put out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria. And He will destroy Nineveh, making it a waste land like the desert.


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Flocks will lie down in it, all the animals of the field. The pelican and the hedgehog will live in the tops of its pillars. Birds will sing in the window. And the doorways will be broken down. The pieces of cedar will not be covered.


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This is the city that is full of joy and takes it easy and thinks it is safe. It says to itself, “I am, and there is no one else.” How it has become a waste, a resting place for animals! All who pass by will make fun of her and laugh at her shaking their hands.


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Jerusalem’s Sin
It is bad for her who does not obey and is unclean, the city who makes it hard for the people!


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She does not listen to anyone and will not be taught. She did not trust in the Lord. She does not come near to her God.


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Her leaders are lions that make a loud noise. Her judges are wolves at evening. They leave nothing for the morning.


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Her men who tell what is going to happen in the future are proud and cannot be trusted. Her religious leaders have made the holy place unclean. They have turned in anger against the Law.


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The Lord within her is right and good. He will be fair and do nothing wrong. Every morning He brings to light what is fair. Every new day He is faithful. But the one who does wrong knows no shame.


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“I have cut off nations. Their towers are destroyed. I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them. Their cities are laid waste, and no one lives in them.


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I said, ‘For sure you will honor Me with fear and receive teaching.’ Then her place would not be destroyed and she would not be punished as I had planned. But they were quick to make all their works sinful.


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“So wait for Me,” says the Lord, “for the day when I stand up to speak. I have decided to gather nations together to pour My burning anger upon them. All the earth will be destroyed by the fire of My jealous anger.


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Then I will make the lips of the people pure. And all of them will call on the name of the Lord, to serve Him shoulder to shoulder.


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Those who worship Me and have been driven away will bring My gifts in worship from the other side of the rivers of Ethiopia.


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On that day you will not be put to shame because of all the works you have done against Me. For then I will take away all your people who find joy in their pride. And you will never be proud again on My holy mountain.


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The people of Israel who are left will do no wrong and tell no lies. A lying tongue will not be found in their mouths. They will eat and lie down with no one to make them afraid.”


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contenido:
A Song of Joy
Sing, O people of Zion! Call out, O Israel! Have joy and be happy with all your heart, O people of Jerusalem!


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The Lord has taken away your punishment. He has taken away those who hate you. The King of Israel, the Lord, is with you. You will not be afraid of trouble any more.


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On that day it will be said to Jerusalem: “Do not be afraid, O Zion. Do not let your hands lose their strength.


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The Lord your God is with you, a Powerful One Who wins the battle. He will have much joy over you. With His love He will give you new life. He will have joy over you with loud singing.


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At that time I will punish all those who made it hard for you. I will save those who cannot walk and gather those who have been driven away. And I will turn their shame into praise. They will be known all over the earth.


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At that time I will bring you home, at the time when I gather you together. I will make you known all over the earth, and all the nations will praise you, when I return your riches before your eyes,” says the Lord.


book: Hag
contenido:
Word Is Given to Build the House of God
On the first day of the sixth month in the second year of Darius the king, the Word of the Lord came to Haggai. The Word was for Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the head religious leader, saying,


book: Hag
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“This is what the Lord of All says: ‘These people say, “The time has not yet come to build again the house of the Lord.”’”


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“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your houses with walls covered with wood, while this house lies waste?”


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You have planted much, but gather little. You eat, but there is not enough to fill you. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothing, but no one is warm enough. You earn money, but put it into a bag with holes.”


book: Hag
contenido:
Go up to the mountains and bring wood and build again the house of God, that I may be pleased with it and worshiped as I should be,” says the Lord.


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“You look for much, but it turns out to be little. When you bring it home, I blow it away. Why?” says the Lord of All. “Because My house lies waste, while each of you takes care of his own house.


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So the sky has held back the water on the grass in the early morning because of you, and the earth has held back its food.


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I have called for a time without rain on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on the vegetables, on men, on cattle, and on all the work of your hands.”


book: Hag
contenido:
The People Obey
Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the head religious leader, and all the rest of the people of Israel, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God. They obeyed the words of Haggai the man of God, as the Lord their God had sent him. And the people honored the Lord with fear.


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Then Haggai the man of God spoke for the Lord to the people, saying, “I am with you,” says the Lord.


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So the Lord moved the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the head religious leader, and the spirit of all the rest of the people. And they came and worked on the house of the Lord of All, their God.


book: Hag
contenido:
The Great New House of God
On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the Word of the Lord came by Haggai the man of God, saying,


book: Hag
contenido:
“Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the head religious leader, and to the rest of the people. Say to them,


book: Hag
contenido:
‘Who is left among you who saw this house of God as it was before in its greatness? And how does it look to you now? Is it anything like it was?


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But now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says the Lord. ‘Be strong, Joshua son of Jehozadak, head religious leader. And be strong, all you people of the land,’ says the Lord. ‘Do the work, for I am with you,’ says the Lord of All.


book: Hag
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For the Lord of All says, ‘Once again, in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.


book: Hag
contenido:
I will shake all the nations so that the riches of all nations will come in. And I will fill this house with greatness,’ says the Lord of All.


book: Hag
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‘This house will be even greater than it was before,’ says the Lord of All. ‘And in this place I will give peace,’ says the Lord of All.”


book: Hag
contenido:
The People Are Unclean
On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month in the second year of Darius, the Word of the Lord came to Haggai the man of God, saying,


book: Hag
contenido:
If a man carries holy meat in the fold of his clothing, and this fold touches bread or hot food, or wine, oil, or any other food, will it become holy?’” The religious leaders answered and said, “No.”


book: Hag
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Then Haggai said, “If a man is unclean because he touched a dead body and touches any of these, will it become unclean?” And the religious leaders answered and said, “It will become unclean.”


book: Hag
contenido:
The Lord Promises Good to Come to His People
Then Haggai said, “‘So are these people, and so is this nation before Me,’ says the Lord. ‘And so is everything they have made. What they give there is unclean.


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Now think about this from this day on. Think about how things were before one stone was placed on another in the house of the Lord.


book: Hag
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When anyone came to a place where there were twenty baskets of grain, there would be only ten. When anyone came to a place to get fifty bottles of wine, there would be only twenty.


book: Hag
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I destroyed you and everything you did with a strong-wind, disease, and hail. Yet you did not return to Me,’ says the Lord.


book: Hag
contenido:
‘Think about this from this day on, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day when the base of the Lord’s house was laid, think about this:


book: Hag
contenido:
Is the seed still in the store-house? The vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree have not given any fruit. Yet from this day on I will bring good to you.’”


book: Hag
contenido:
The Lord’s Promise to Zerubbabel
The Word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,


book: Hag
contenido:
I will take the power away from kings and destroy the power of the nations. I will destroy war-wagons and their drivers. Horses and their horsemen will fall, every one by the sword of another.


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On that day,’ says the Lord of All, ‘I will take you, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, My servant,’ says the Lord. ‘And I will make you like a ring for marking My name. For I have chosen you,’ says the Lord of All.”


book: Zech
contenido:
The Lord Calls His People to Turn from Sin
In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the Word of the Lord came to Zechariah the man of God, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,


book: Zech
contenido:
Do not be like your fathers. The men who spoke for Me in the past told them, ‘The Lord of All says, “Return from your sinful ways and from your sinful works.”’ But they did not listen to Me,” says the Lord.


book: Zech
contenido:
I gave My Words and My Laws to your fathers through My servants who spoke for Me. But they would not listen and so they were punished. Then they were sorry for their sins and said, ‘The Lord of All has punished us for our ways and our works, as He said He would.’”’”


book: Zech
contenido:
Zechariah Sees Horses during the Night
On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the Word of the Lord came to Zechariah the man of God, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo.


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During the night while I was sleeping I saw a man traveling on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the narrow valley, with red, brown, and white horses behind him.


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I asked, “My lord, what are these?” And the angel who was speaking with me said, “I will show you what these are.”


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So the man who was standing among the myrtle trees said, “These are the ones whom the Lord has sent to travel all over the earth to keep watch.”


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And they said to the angel of the Lord who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have looked over all the earth, and saw that the whole earth is at rest and in peace.”


book: Zech
contenido:
The Lord Comforts Jerusalem
Then the angel of the Lord said, “O Lord of All, how long will You have no loving-pity for Jerusalem and the cities of Judah? You have been angry with them for seventy years now.”


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contenido:
So the angel who was speaking with me said to me, “Make this known: ‘The Lord of All says, “I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion.


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But I am very angry with the nations who take it easy. When I was only a little angry, they added to the trouble.”


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contenido:
So the Lord says, “I will return to Jerusalem with loving-pity. My house will be built in it and all Jerusalem will be built again,” says the Lord of All.


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Also make this known: ‘The Lord of All says, “My cities will again be filled with riches. The Lord will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.”’”


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So I said to the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these?” And he said, “These are the horns which have divided the people of Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”


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I said, “What are these coming to do?” And he said, “These are the horns which have sent the people of Judah everywhere, so that no man raised his head. But these workmen have come to make them afraid and to throw down the horns of the nations who have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah so the people would be sent everywhere.”


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Zechariah Sees a String
Then I looked up and saw a man holding a string used to find the length of things.


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Then the angel who was speaking with me was going out, and another angel was coming out to meet him,


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and said to him, “Run, say to that young man, ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the many men and cattle in it.


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For I will be a wall of fire around her,’ says the Lord. ‘And I will be the shining-greatness of her.’”


book: Zech
contenido:
Joy to Come for Jerusalem
“Come, come, run from the land of the north!” says the Lord. “For I have sent you to the four winds of the heavens,” says the Lord.


book: Zech
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For the Lord of All says, “The Lord of shining-greatness has sent Me against the nations which have robbed you in battle. For whoever touches you, touches what is of great worth to Him.


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contenido:
I will wave My hand over them, and they will be taken by those who were made to serve them. Then you will know that the Lord of All has sent Me.


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contenido:
Sing for joy and be glad, O people of Zion. For I am coming and I will live among you,” says the Lord.


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contenido:
“Many nations will be joined to the Lord in that day and will become My people. I will live among you, and you will know that the Lord of All has sent Me to you.


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contenido:
Zechariah Sees a Religious Leader
Then he showed me Joshua the head religious leader standing before the angel of the Lord. And Satan was standing at his right side to blame him.


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The Lord said to Satan, “May the Lord’s Word be sharp against you, Satan! May the Lord who has chosen Jerusalem speak sharp words against you! Is not this a burning stick saved from the fire?”


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The angel said to those who were standing in front of him, “Take off his dirty clothes.” And he said to him, “See, I have taken your sin away from you, and will dress you in beautiful clothes.”


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Then I said, “Let them put a clean covering on his head.” So they put a clean covering on his head and dressed him in clothes, while the angel of the Lord was standing by.


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“The Lord of All says, ‘If you will walk in My ways and do My work, then you will rule My house and everything around it. And I will give you a place among these who are standing here.


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contenido:
Now listen, Joshua the head religious leader, and your friends who are sitting in front of you are men who show a part of the good things to come in the future. See, I am going to bring My Servant the Branch.


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See the stone that I have set in front of Joshua. There are seven eyes on that one stone, and I will cut writings on it,’ says the Lord of All. ‘And I will take away the sin of that land in one day.


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In that day,’ says the Lord of All, ‘every one of you will ask his neighbor to come sit under his vine and under his fig tree.’”


book: Zech
contenido:
Zechariah Sees a Lamp-Stand
Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and woke me up like a man would be made to wake up from his sleep.


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contenido:
He said to me, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a gold lamp-stand with a cup at the top and seven lamps on it. And there are seven places to hold oil, one on the top of each of the lamps.


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So the angel who was speaking with me said, “Do you not know what these are?” And I said, “No, my lord.”


book: Zech
contenido:
God’s Promise to Zechariah
Then he said to me, “This is the Word of the Lord to Zerubbabel saying, ‘Not by strength nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of All.


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contenido:
‘What are you, O great mountain? In front of Zerubbabel you will become a plain. Then he will bring out the top stone and call out, “May God give it loving-favor!”’”


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contenido:
“Zerubbabel’s hands have laid the first stones of this house, and his hands will finish it. Then you will know that the Lord of All has sent me to you.


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contenido:
Who has hated the day of small things? Men will be glad when they see Zerubbabel building the walls of the Lord’s house. These seven are the eyes of the Lord which travel over all the earth.”


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contenido:
A second time I said to him, “What are the two olive branches beside the two gold places that hold the oil to be poured out?”


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And the angel said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see a flying book, as long as ten long steps and as wide as five long steps.”


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Then he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over all the land. Everyone who steals will be cut off by what is written on one side. And everyone who swears will be cut off by what is written on the other side.


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I will send it out,” says the Lord of All, “and it will go into the house of the robber and the house of the one who makes false promises using My name. It will spend the night in that house and destroy it, both its wood and stones.”


book: Zech
contenido:
Zechariah Sees a Woman in a Basket
Then the angel who was speaking with me came out and said to me, “Look up and see what this is that is going out.”


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contenido:
And I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the large basket going out.” And he said, “This is the sin of all the people in all the land.”


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contenido:
The angel said, “This is Sin!” And he threw her back into the basket and threw the lead weight on its opening.


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contenido:
Then I looked up and saw two women coming out with the wind in their wings. They had wings like the wings of a stork. And they lifted up the large basket between earth and heaven.


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He said to me, “To build a house for it in the land of Shinar. When it is ready, it will be put in its place.”


book: Zech
contenido:
Zechariah Sees Four War-Wagons
I looked up again and saw four war-wagons coming out from between the two mountains. The mountains were made of brass.


book: Zech
contenido:
The angel said to me, “These are the four spirits of heaven, going away from standing before the Lord of All the earth.


book: Zech
contenido:
The war-wagon with the black horses is going toward the north country. The white ones follow them. And the horses with spots go toward the south country.


book: Zech
contenido:
When the strong horses went out, they were in a hurry to look over all the earth.” And he said, “Go, look over all the earth.” So they went over the whole earth.


book: Zech
contenido:
Then he called to me, “See, those who are going to the land of the north have given My Spirit rest in the north country.”


book: Zech
contenido:
“Take the gifts from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, who have returned from Babylon. And go the same day to the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah.


book: Zech
contenido:
Take the silver and gold and make a crown, and set it on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the head religious leader.


book: Zech
contenido:
Then tell him, ‘The Lord of All says, “See, the man whose name is the Branch, for He will branch out from where He is. And He will build the house of the Lord.


book: Zech
contenido:
Yes, He is the One Who will build the house of the Lord. He will be honored as King, and sit and rule on His throne. And He will be a religious leader on His throne, and there will be peace between the two.”’


book: Zech
contenido:
The crown will be in the Lord’s house, that people may remember Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Hen the son of Zephaniah.


book: Zech
contenido:
Those who are far away will come to build the house of the Lord. Then you will know that the Lord of All has sent me to you. This will happen if you are careful to obey the Lord your God.”


book: Zech
contenido:
It Is Better to Obey Than Go without Food
In the fourth year of King Darius, the Word of the Lord came to Zechariah. This was on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.


book: Zech
contenido:
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to ask for the Lord’s favor.


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contenido:
They asked the religious leaders of the house of the Lord of All, and the men who speak for God, “Should I cry and go without food in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”


book: Zech
contenido:
“Say to all the people of the land and to the religious leaders, ‘When you went without food and cried in sorrow in the fifth and seventh months these 70 years, was it to honor Me?


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contenido:
Are not these the words the Lord made known through the men who spoke for Him in the past? They spoke these words when Jerusalem was full of people and riches, together with the cities around it, and when the Negev and the lower hills were full of people.’”


book: Zech
contenido:
Do not make it hard for the woman whose husband has died, or the child who has no parents, or the stranger, or the poor. Do not make sinful plans in your hearts against one another.’


book: Zech
contenido:
They made their hearts like hard stone, so that they could not hear the Law and the words which the Lord of All had sent by His Spirit through the men who spoke for Him in the past. So the Lord of All became very angry.


book: Zech
contenido:
When I called, they would not listen. So when they called, I would not listen,” says the Lord of All.


book: Zech
contenido:
“With the wind of a storm I sent them everywhere among all the nations that they had not known. The land was laid waste behind them, so that no one could come or go. They turned the good land into an empty waste.”


book: Zech
contenido:
The Lord says, ‘I will return to Zion and live in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the Lord of All will be called the Holy Mountain.’


book: Zech
contenido:
The Lord of All says, ‘Old men and old women will sit in the streets of Jerusalem again. Each man will have a walking stick in his hand because he will be old.


book: Zech
contenido:
The Lord of All says, ‘It may be wonderful to the few people here in those days, but will it be wonderful to Me also?’ says the Lord of All.


book: Zech
contenido:
The Lord of All says, ‘I am going to save My people from the land of the east and from the land of the west.


book: Zech
contenido:
I will bring them back and they will live in Jerusalem. They will be My people and I will be their God. I will be faithful and do what is right and good for them.’


book: Zech
contenido:
“The Lord of All says, ‘You who are now listening to these words spoken through the men of God who were there when the Lord’s house was started, let your hands be strong for building the Lord’s house.


book: Zech
contenido:
Before that time there was no pay for man or animal. No one could come in or go out in peace because of those who hated him. I turned people against one another.


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‘The seed will grow in peace. The vine will give its fruit. The land will give its food. The heavens will give water on the grass in the early morning. And I will let the rest of this people have all these things.


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O people of Judah and Israel, just as you were a curse among the nations, I will save you and make you something good. Do not be afraid. Let your hands be strong.’


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These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to one another. Judge with truth so there will be peace within your gates.


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Do not make sinful plans against one another in your hearts. And do not love to make false promises. For I hate all these things,’ says the Lord.”


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“The Lord of All says, ‘The times when you do not eat in the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will become glad times of joy. They will become happy, special suppers for the people of Judah. So love truth and peace.’


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The people of one city will say to another, “Let us go at once and pray to the Lord and ask for His favor. I will go also.”


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‘So many people and powerful nations will come to look for the Lord of All in Jerusalem and to ask for the Lord’s favor.’


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The Lord of All says, ‘In those days ten men from the nations of every language will take hold of the coat of a Jew, saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”’”


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Other Nations Are Judged
The Word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach and will rest upon Damascus. For the eyes of men and all the family groups of Israel are on the Lord.


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The Word of the Lord is against Hamath also, which is beside Hadrach, and against Tyre and Sidon, even though they are very wise.


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For Tyre built a strong tower for herself. She gathered silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.


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But the Lord will take away her riches and throw them into the sea. And she will be destroyed by fire.


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Ashkelon will see it and be afraid. Gaza will suffer with much pain. So will Ekron, for her hope will be destroyed. Gaza will lose her king, and no one will live in Ashkelon.


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I will take the blood from their mouths, and the unclean food from between their teeth. Those who are left will belong to our God, and be like a family in Judah. Ekron will be like the Jebusites.


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Then I will camp around My land and keep armies from going through it. No one will make it hard for them again, for now I am keeping watch.


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The Future King
Be full of joy, O people of Zion! Call out in a loud voice, O people of Jerusalem! See, your King is coming to you. He is fair and good and has the power to save. He is not proud and sits on a donkey, on the son of a female donkey.


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I will destroy the war-wagon from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem. The battle-bow will be broken. He will make peace among the nations and rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.


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The Lord Will Save His People
As for you, because of the blood of My agreement with you, I have set your people free from the deep hole that has no water.


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Return to the strong city, you prisoners who have hope. Today I am telling you that I will give you twice as much as you had before.


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I will use Judah as My bow, and Ephraim as My arrow. I will move your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and make you like a soldier’s sword.


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Then the Lord will be seen over them, and His arrow will go out like lightning. The Lord God will blow the horn and go in the storm winds of the south.


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The Lord of All will fight for them, and they will destroy, and walk on the stones that were to be thrown at them. They will drink and make much noise as with wine. They will be filled like a cup used for putting blood on the corners of the altar.


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The Lord their God will save them on that day as the flock of His people. For they are like the stones of a crown, shining in His land.


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How good and how beautiful they will be! Grain will make the young men grow strong. And the young, pure women will grow strong with new wine.


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Israel Will Be Brought Home
Ask the Lord for rain in the spring time. It is the Lord Who makes the storm clouds. He gives rain to men, and gives vegetables in the field to every one.


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The false gods say what is not true. Those who use their secret ways tell lies about the false dreams they have seen. Their comfort means nothing. So the people go from place to place like sheep and are troubled because they have no shepherd.


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“My anger burns against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders. For the Lord of All has visited His flock, the people of Judah, and will make them like His proud horse in battle.


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From them will come the cornerstone. From them will come the tent nail. From them will come the bow of battle. And from them will come every ruler.


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Together they will be like powerful men, crushing under foot those who hate them into the mud of the streets. They will fight and win the battle against the horsemen because the Lord is with them.


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I will give strength to the family of Judah. I will save the family of Joseph, and I will bring them back, because I have loving-pity on them. They will be as if I had not turned away from them. For I am the Lord their God, and I will answer them.


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Ephraim will be like a powerful man. Their hearts will be glad as with wine. And their children will see it and be glad. Their hearts will have joy in the Lord.


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I will call them together, for I have saved them and set them free. And they will be as many as they were before.


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Even when I send them everywhere among the nations, they will remember Me in far countries. They and their children will live and return.


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I will bring them back from the land of Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon until there is no more room for them.


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When they pass through the sea of trouble, I will hold back the waves in the sea. The whole Nile River will dry up. The pride of Assyria will be brought down, and Egypt will lose its power.


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Cry in sorrow, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen. The beautiful trees have been destroyed. Cry in sorrow, O oaks of Bashan, for the many trees have fallen.


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Listen to the cry of the shepherds, for their great land is laid waste. Listen to the sound of the young lions, for the trees along the valley of the Jordan River lay waste.


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Those who buy them kill them and are not punished. And those who sell them say, ‘Thanks and honor be to the Lord, for I have become rich!’ Their own shepherds have no pity on them.


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For I will no longer have pity on the people who live in this land,” says the Lord. “I will give everyone over to the power of his neighbor and his king. They will bring trouble to the land, and I will not save them from their power.”


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So I took care of the flock that was to be killed, and those of the flock who suffered. I took two walking sticks. One I called Favor, and the other I called Agreement. I took care of the flock.


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Then I said, “I will not take care of you. Let those die who are to die. And what is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. Let those who are left eat each other’s flesh.”


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And I took my walking stick Favor and cut it in pieces, to break the agreement I had made with all the people.


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So it was broken on that day. And those of the flock who suffered and were watching me knew that it was the Word of the Lord.


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I said to them, “If you think it is right, give me my pay. But if not, keep it.” So they weighed out thirty pieces of silver as my pay.


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Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the one who makes pots—the great price they thought I was worth.” So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the pot maker in the house of the Lord.


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Then I cut my second walking stick, Agreement, in pieces, to break the agreement between Judah and Israel.


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For I am going to have a shepherd rule over the land who will not care for the dying. He will not look for those who were sent everywhere or heal the hurt, or feed those who are well. But he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their feet.


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It is bad for the shepherd who has no worth and who leaves the flock! A sword will destroy his arm and his right eye! His arm will be all dried up, and his right eye will be blind.”


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Judah to Be Saved
The Word of the Lord about Israel:
The Lord, Who spread out the heavens, who put the earth in its place, and made the spirit of man within him says this about Israel:


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“I am going to make Jerusalem like a cup that makes all the people around it seem to be drunk. Judah will be shut in by armies as well as Jerusalem.


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On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the people. All who lift it will be hurt. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.


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On that day,” says the Lord, “I will put fear in every horse, and make the horsemen crazy. But I will watch over the people of Judah, while I make every horse of the nations blind.


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Then the leaders of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘The people of Jerusalem are strong because of the Lord of All, their God.’


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On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a pot of fire among pieces of wood, like fire among cut grain. They will destroy all the people around them, on the right and on the left. And the people of Jerusalem will again live on their own land in Jerusalem.


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The Lord will save the tents of Judah first, so that the shining-greatness of the family of David and of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah.


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On that day the Lord will fight for the people of Jerusalem. The one who is weak among them on that day will be like David. And the family of David will be like God, like the angel of the Lord leading them.


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Sorrow in Jerusalem
“I will pour out the Spirit of loving-favor and prayer on the family of David and on those who live in Jerusalem. They will look on Him Whose side they cut. They will cry in sorrow for Him, as one cries for an only son. They will cry much over Him, like those who have lost their first-born son.


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On that day there will be much crying in Jerusalem, like the cries of Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo.


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The land will be filled with sorrow, each family by itself. The families of David and their wives, and the family of Nathan and their wives, will each be filled with sorrow.


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The family of Levi and their wives will cry in sorrow, and the family of the Shimeites and their wives,


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False Gods and False Preachers
“On that day a well of water will be opened for the family of David and for the people of Jerusalem to make them clean from their sin.


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“On that day,” says the Lord of All, “I will destroy the names of the false gods from the land. They will no longer be remembered. And I will take away from the land those who tell what will happen in the future and the unclean spirit.


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If anyone still tells what will happen in the future, his father and mother who gave birth to him will tell him, ‘You must not live, because you have lied in the name of the Lord.’ And his father and mother who gave birth to him will kill him when he speaks false words.


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On that day those who tell what will happen in the future will each be ashamed of his special dream when he speaks. He will not put on clothing made from hair to fool the people.


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But he will say, ‘I am not a man who speaks for God. I am a farmer. A man sold me as a servant when I was young.’


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If someone asks him, ‘What are these sores on your back?’ he will answer, ‘They are the sores I received in the house of my friends.’


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The Shepherd Who Saves
“Wake up, O sword, against My shepherd and against the man who is close to Me,” says the Lord of All. “Kill the shepherd, and the sheep will go everywhere. And I will turn My hand against the little ones.


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And I will bring the third part through the fire. I will make them pure like silver is made pure. I will test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”


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The Day of the Lord
A day of the Lord is coming when the things of much worth taken from you will be divided among you.


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For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle. The city will be taken. The houses will be robbed. The women will be taken against their will. And half of the city will be taken away to a strange land. But the rest of the people will not be taken away from the city.


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On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, in front of Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives will be divided in two from east to west by a very large valley. Half the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south.


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You will run away by the valley of My mountains, for it will go as far as Azel. You will run away just as you did when the earth shook in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with Him.


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It will be a special day which is known to the Lord. It will not be day or night. For when evening comes, there will be light.


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On that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem. Half of them will flow toward the sea in the east. The other half will flow toward the sea in the west. They will flow in summer and in winter.


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The Lord will be King over all the earth. On that day the Lord will be the only one, and His name the only one.


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The whole land will be changed into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem will rise and stay on its land from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to where the king’s wine is made.


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People will live in it, and there will be no more curse. The people of Jerusalem will live without fear.


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Now this is how the Lord will punish all the people who have gone to war against Jerusalem. Their flesh will waste away while they stand on their feet. Their eyes will waste away in their faces, and their tongues will waste away in their mouths.


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On that day the Lord will send much fear upon them. They will take hold of one another’s hand, and the hand of one will be raised against the hand of another.


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Judah also will fight at Jerusalem. And the riches of all the nations around will be gathered, much gold and silver and clothing.


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The same kind of punishment will come upon the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey, and all the cattle in those camps.


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The Nations Worship the King
Then everyone who is left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go each year to worship the King, the Lord of All, and to keep the Special Supper of Tents.


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If any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of All, they will have no rain.


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If the family of Egypt does not go up to worship, then they will have no rain. The Lord will punish them as He punishes the nations that do not go up to keep the Special Supper of Tents.


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This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to keep the Special Supper of Tents.


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On that day, “Holy to the Lord,” will be written on the bells of the horses. And the cooking pots in the house of the Lord will be like the holy dishes in front of the altar.


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Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of All. And all who come bringing gifts in worship will take some of the pots and cook in them. On that day there will no longer be one who buys and sells in the house of the Lord of All.


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God’s Love for Israel
“I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” says the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob,


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but I have hated Esau. I have laid waste his mountains and have given his riches to the wild dogs of the desert.”


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Edom may say, “We have been destroyed, but we will return and build our cities again.” But the Lord of All says, “They may build, but I will tear down. They will be called the sinful land, the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.”


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Unclean Gifts Given on the Altar
“A son honors his father. A servant honors his owner. Then if I am a father, where is My honor? If I am a boss, where is My respect? says the Lord of All to you, O religious leaders who hate My name. But you say, ‘How have we hated Your name?’


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You are bringing unclean food to My altar. But you say, ‘How have we made Your altar unclean?’ “Because you say the Lord’s table is to be hated.


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When you bring a blind animal to the altar as My gift, is it not sinful? When you bring one that cannot walk, or one that is sick, is it not sinful? Why not bring it to your ruler? Would he be pleased with you? Would he receive it?” says the Lord of All.


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“Now pray for God’s favor, that He may be kind to us. With such gifts from your hands, will He receive any of you in kindness?” says the Lord of All.


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“If only there were one among you who would shut the gates and stop you from burning a fire on My altar for nothing! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of All. “And I will not receive a gift in worship from you.


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From sunrise to sunset My name will be great among the nations. Special perfume will be given to My name everywhere, and a grain gift that is pure. For My name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord of All.


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“But you are making it unclean when you say that the table of the Lord is unclean, and that its food is to be hated.


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You say, ‘How tired it makes us!’ And you turn your nose away from it,” says the Lord of All. “You bring what was stolen, and what cannot walk, and what is sick. You bring this as your gift! Should I receive that from your hands?” says the Lord.


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“A curse will come upon the sinful man who promises to give a male from his flock, but gives an animal that is not perfect to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the Lord of All. “And My name is feared among the nations.


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If you do not listen, and if you do not set your heart to honor My name,” says the Lord of All, “then I will send the curse on you. I will destroy the good things you have been given. Yes, I have cursed them already, because you have not set your heart to honor Me.


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I will speak sharp words to your children. I will spread animal waste on your faces, the waste of your special suppers. And you will be taken away with it.


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Then you will know that I have sent this word to you, so that My agreement with Levi may be kept,” says the Lord of All.


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“My agreement with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him, that he might honor Me with fear. So he honored Me with fear. My name filled him with fear and wonder.


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True teaching was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and was right and good. And he turned many from sin.


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For the lips of a religious leader should have much learning. Men should listen for teaching from his mouth, for he is sent by the Lord of All.


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But you have turned aside from the way. You have made many fall by your teaching. You have sinned against the agreement of Levi,” says the Lord of All.


