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"Thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Strike your hands together, stamp your foot and say, "Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, which will fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague!

Then you will say to the people of the land, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel, "They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with desolation because their very soil will be made desolate of its fullness on account of the violence of all who inhabit it.

Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, "Because you have spoken worthlessness and beheld a lie, therefore behold, I am against you," declares Lord Yahweh.

It is definitely because they have misled My people by saying, ‘Peace!' when there is no peace. And when anyone builds a wall, behold, they plaster it over with whitewash;

Because you disheartened the righteous with falsehood when I did not cause him grief, but have strengthened the hands of the wicked not to turn from his evil way and preserve his life,

"If I were to cause wild beasts to pass through the land and they bereaved it of children and it became desolate so that no one would pass through it because of the beasts,

Thus I will give over the land to desolation because they have acted unfaithfully,'" declares Lord Yahweh.

Then your name went forth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My majesty which I set on you," declares Lord Yahweh.

"But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot because of your name, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by who might be willing.

Moreover, you played the harlot with the Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied.

Thus you are the opposite of those women in your harlotries, in that no one plays the harlot as you do, because you give away your earnings and no earnings are given to you; thus you are the opposite."

Thus says Lord Yahweh, "Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your sons which you gave to idols,

Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged Me by all these things, behold, I in turn will bring your way down on your own head," declares Lord Yahweh, "so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other abominations.

Also bear your dishonor in that you have made judgment favorable for your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. Yes, be also ashamed and bear your dishonor, in that you made your sisters appear righteous.

Then you will remember your ways and feel dishonor when you receive your sisters, both your older and your younger; and I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant.

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.

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.

All his transgressions which he has done will not be remembered against him; because of his righteousness which he has done, he will live.

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.

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.