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Then they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. So I removed them when I saw it.

before your wickedness was uncovered, so now you have become the reproach of the daughters of Edom and of all who are around her, of the daughters of the Philistines—those all around you who despise you.

so that you may remember and be ashamed and never open your mouth anymore because of your dishonor, when I have atoned for you for all that you have done," declares Lord Yahweh.

Then it sprouted and became a low, spreading vine with its foliage turned toward him, but its roots remained under it. So it became a vine and yielded shoots and sent out branches.

Say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, "Will it succeed? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it dries up—so that all its sprouting leaves dry up? And neither by great strength nor by many people can it be raised from its roots again.

"Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his way," declares Lord Yahweh. "Turn back and turn away from all your transgressions, so that iniquity may not become a stumbling block to you.

So she brought up one of her cubs;He became a lion,And he learned to tear his prey;He devoured men.

Then she saw, as she waited,That her hope was lost,So she took another of her cubsAnd made him a young lion.

So now it is planted in the wilderness,In a dry and thirsty land.

And fire has gone out from its thick branch;It has consumed its shoots and fruit,So that there is not in it a strong thick branch,A scepter to rule.'"This is a lamentation and has become a lamentation.

So I took them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.

But the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, nor were they careful to do My judgments, which, if a man does them, he will live by them; they profaned My sabbaths. So I said I would pour out My wrath on them, to spend My anger against them in the wilderness.

and I pronounced them unclean because of their gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might know that I am Yahweh."'

Then I said to them, ‘What is the high place to which you are going?' So its name is called Bamah to this day."'

As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you," declares Lord Yahweh.

"Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your deeds your sins appear—because you have come to remembrance, you will be seized with the hand.

And you shall say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, "A city shedding blood in her midst, so that her time will come; and she makes idols against herself for defilement!

As they gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into the furnace to blow fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in My anger and in My wrath, and I will lay you there and melt you.

As silver is melted in the furnace, so you will be melted in the midst of it; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured out My wrath on you.'"

And I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the breach before Me for the land, so that I would not bring it to ruin; but I found no one.