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For so says the Lord Jehovah: Because you have clapped the hand, and you stamped the foot, and rejoiced with all your spite in your soul against the land of Israel;

So says the Lord Jehovah: Because Moab and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations.

So says the Lord Jehovah: Because Edom has acted by taking vengeance against the house of Judah, and they are very guilty and are avenged on them,

So says the Lord Jehovah: Because the Philistines have acted in vengeance and have taken vengeance with spite in their soul, to destroy with perpetual enmity;

Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha! She is shattered, the doors of the peoples; she has turned to me, I shall be filled, she is laid waste.

Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, So says the Lord Jehovah, Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of theseas; yet you are a man, and not God,though you give your heart as the heart of gods.

By your great wisdom, by your trade you have multiplied your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches.

So the Lord Jehovah says this: Because you have given your heart as the heart of gods,

Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. I have cast you to the ground. I will put you before kings, that they may see you.

And all those living in Egypt shall know that I am Jehovah, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

And the land of Egypt shall become for a desolation and a waste, and they shall know that I am Jehovah, because he has said, The river is mine, and I have made it.

For his labor which he served against it, I have given him the land of Egypt, because they worked for Me, declares the Lord Jehovah.

On account of this, his height was lifted up above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long in his sending, because of the many waters.

So the Lord Jehovah says this: Because you were exalted in height, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height,

of whom are given her graves in the recesses of the Pit, and her assembly is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, because they gave terror in the land of the living.

And they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have made the land desolate and a waste because of all their abominations which they have done.

As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, surely because My sheep became a prey, and My sheep became food for all the beasts of the field, from not having a shepherd, and because My shepherdsdid not search for My sheep,but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed the flock,

Because you have thrust with side and with shoulder, and have pushed all the weak with your horns until you have scattered them to the outside.

Because there was to you never-ending enmity, and you poured out the sons of Israel to the hands of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end.

Because you have said, These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we shall possess it (yet Jehovah was there),