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The descendants are impudent and stubborn. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, "Thus says the Lord God ."

then go to the exiles, to your people, and speak to them. Say to them, "Thus says the Lord God "; whether they hear or refuse to hear.

But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, "Thus says the Lord God "; let those who will hear, hear; and let those who refuse to hear, refuse; for they are a rebellious house.

Thus says the Lord God : This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

Therefore thus says the Lord God : Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not followed my statutes or kept my ordinances, but have acted according to the ordinances of the nations that are all around you;

therefore thus says the Lord God : I, I myself, am coming against you; I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God , surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations—therefore I will cut you down; my eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.

and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God ! Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I, I myself will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

Thus says the Lord God : Clap your hands and stamp your foot, and say, Alas for all the vile abominations of the house of Israel! For they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

You, O mortal, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

Thus says the Lord God : Disaster after disaster! See, it comes.

Then the spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and he said to me, "Say, Thus says the Lord : This is what you think, O house of Israel; I know the things that come into your mind.

Therefore thus says the Lord God : The slain whom you have placed within it are the meat, and this city is the pot; but you shall be taken out of it.

You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword upon you, says the Lord God .

Therefore say: Thus says the Lord God : Though I removed them far away among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a little while in the countries where they have gone.

Therefore say: Thus says the Lord God : I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their deeds upon their own heads, says the Lord God .

Say to them, "Thus says the Lord God : This oracle concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel in it."

and say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord God concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, because their land shall be stripped of all it contains, on account of the violence of all those who live in it.

Tell them therefore, "Thus says the Lord God : I will put an end to this proverb, and they shall use it no more as a proverb in Israel." But say to them, The days are near, and the fulfillment of every vision.