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As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what was not good among his people, behold, he will die for his iniquity.

"Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not bear the punishment for the father's iniquity?' But the son has done justice and righteousness and has kept all My statutes and done them. He shall surely live.

"But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, does injustice, and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, will he live? All his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered for his unfaithfulness which he has committed and his sin which he has committed; for them he will die.

When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, does injustice, and dies because of it, for his injustice which he has done he will die.

For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies," declares Lord Yahweh. "Therefore, turn back and live."

"As for you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel

And it had strong thick branches fit for scepters of rulers,And its height was exalted above the cloudsSo that it was seen in its exaltedness with the mass of its foliage.

on that day I swore to them, to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land that I had selected for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.

But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made Myself known to them by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, before whose sight I had brought them out.

because they rejected My judgments, and as for My statutes, they did not walk in them; they even profaned My sabbaths, for their heart continually walked after their idols.

But I turned back My hand and acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

"As for you, O house of Israel," thus says Lord Yahweh, "Go, serve everyone his idols; but after this you will surely listen to Me, and My holy name you will profane no longer with your gifts and with your idols.

For on My holy mountain, on the high mountain of Israel," declares Lord Yahweh, "there the whole house of Israel, all of them, will serve Me in the land; there I will accept them, and there I will seek your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your holy things.

And there you will remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves; and you will loathe yourselves to your own faces for all the evil things that you have done.

Then you will know that I am Yahweh when I have dealt with you for My name's sake, not according to your evil ways or according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Israel," declares Lord Yahweh.'"

Now as for you, son of man, groan with breaking heart and bitter grief, groan in their sight.

Cry out and wail, son of man; for it is against My people; it is against all the princes of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with My people; therefore slap your thigh.

For there is a testing; and what if even the scepter which the sword despises will be no more?" declares Lord Yahweh.

"You therefore, son of man, prophesy and strike your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword for the slain. It is the sword for the great one slain, which surrounds them,