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And I sought for anyone among them who would repair the wall and stand in the breach before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

When she carried on her whorings so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned from her sister.

So I will put an end to your lewdness and your whoring brought from the land of Egypt; you shall not long for them, or remember Egypt any more.

Thus says the Lord God : You shall drink your sister's cup, deep and wide; you shall be scorned and derided, it holds so much.

Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, so that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.

To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance, I have placed the blood she shed on a bare rock, so that it may not be covered.

Stand it empty upon the coals, so that it may become hot, its copper glow, its filth melt in it, its rust be consumed.

So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. And on the next morning I did as I was commanded.

On that day your mouth shall be opened to the one who has escaped, and you shall speak and no longer be silent. So you shall be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am the Lord .

His horses shall be so many that their dust shall cover you. At the noise of cavalry, wheels, and chariots your very walls shall shake, when he enters your gates like those entering a breached city.

then I will thrust you down with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of long ago, and I will make you live in the world below, among primeval ruins, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you will not be inhabited or have a place in the land of the living.

The ships of Tarshish traveled for you in your trade. So you were filled and heavily laden in the heart of the seas.

In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and the guardian cherub drove you out from among the stones of fire.

By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade, you profaned your sanctuaries. So I brought out fire from within you; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all who saw you.

It shall be the most lowly of the kingdoms, and never again exalt itself above the nations; and I will make them so small that they will never again rule over the nations.

Thus says the Lord God : I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis; there shall no longer be a prince in the land of Egypt; so I will put fear in the land of Egypt.

Mortal, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; it has not been bound up for healing or wrapped with a bandage, so that it may become strong to wield the sword.

So it towered high above all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches long, from abundant water in its shoots.

So you shall be broken and lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are killed by the sword.

But if the sentinel sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any of them, they are taken away in their iniquity, but their blood I will require at the sentinel's hand.