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And you took your beautiful jewelry made from my gold and from my silver that I had given to you, and you made for yourself male images, and you prostituted with them.

‘And you took your sons and your daughters whom you had borne for me, and you sacrificed them to them to be eaten, as if your whorings were not enough.

‘And then you built for yourself a mound, and you made for yourself a high place in every public square.

At the head of every street you built your high place and you disgraced your beauty and you spread your feet for every passerby, and you increased your whoring.

And as for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, they will return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters, they will return to their former state, and you and your daughters will return to your former state.

‘For thus says the Lord Yahweh: And I will do it to you according to what you have done, who despised the oath to break covenant.

in order that you will remember, and you will be ashamed, and you will not open your mouth again because of your disgrace when I forgive you for all that you have done!'" declares the Lord Yahweh.

so that they would be a humble kingdom and not lift itself up to keep his covenant in order for it to stand.

As I live, declares the Lord Yahweh, it will surely not any longer be appropriate for you to quote this proverb in Israel!

and he oppresses no one and he returns a pledge for his loan and he commits no robbery and he gives his bread to the hungry and he covers a naked person with a garment,

(though he did not do all of these things), for the son also eats on the mountains and he defiles the wife of his neighbor.

He oppresses the needy and the poor, and he commits robbery, and he does not return a pledge for a loan, and he lifts his eyes to the idols so he does a detestable thing.

He charges interest and takes usury. Then, shall he live? He shall not live, for he did all of these detestable things. Surely he will die! His blood will be on him.

And he oppresses no one; he requires no pledge for a loan, and he does not commit robbery; he gives his bread to the hungry, and he covers the naked person with a garment.

Throw away from yourselves all of your transgressions that you committed, and make for yourselves a new heart and new spirit, and so why will you die, house of Israel?

For I have no pleasure in the death of the dying," declares the Lord Yahweh. "And so repent and live!"

And so fire has gone out from the stem of its branches; its fruit it has consumed, and there was not in it a strong branch, a scepter for ruling.'" This is a lament, and it will be used as a lament.

On that day I swore to them to bring them out from the land of Egypt to the land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey—it is the most beautiful of all of the lands.

"But I acted for the sake of my name to keep it from being profaned before the eyes of the nations among whom they lived, where I made known to them before their eyes, to bring them out from the land of Egypt.

and I acted for the sake of my name, that it not be profaned before the eyes of the nations before whom I brought them out.