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Ezekiel 5:1-17
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And you, son of man, take a sword sharper than a barber's razor; you shall procure it for yourself, and shall bring it upon your head, and upon your beard; and you shall take a pair of scales, and shall separate the hair.
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A fourth part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, at the fulfillment of the days of the siege. And you shall take a fourth part, and burn it up in the midst of it. And a fourth part you shall cut with a sword round about it. And a fourth part you shall scatter to the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
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And you shall take a few of them, and wrap them in the fold of your garment.
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And you shall take of these again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them up with fire. From there shall come forth fire, and you shall say to the whole house of Israel,
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Thus says the Lord: This is Jerusalem: I have set her and the countries round about her in the midst of the nations.
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And you shall declare My ordinances to the lawless one from out of the nations; and My statutes [to the sinful one] of the countries round about her, because they have rejected My ordinances, and have not walked in My statutes.
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Therefore thus says the Lord: Because your occasion [for sin has been taken] from the nations round about you, and you have not walked in My statutes, nor kept My ordinances, no, you have not even done according to the ordinances of the nations round about you; therefore thus says the Lord:
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Behold, I am against you, and I will execute judgment in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.
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And I will do in you things which I have not done, and the like of which I will not do again, for all your abominations.
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Therefore the fathers shall eat [their] children in the midst of you, and children shall eat [their] fathers; and I will execute judgments in you, and I will scatter all that are left of you to the four winds.
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Therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord; surely, because you have defiled My holy things with all your abominations, I also will reject you; My eye shall not spare, and I will have no mercy.
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A fourth part of you shall be cut off by pestilence, and a fourth part of you shall be consumed in the midst of you with famine; and [as for another] fourth part of you, I will scatter them to all the winds; and a fourth part of you shall fall by the sword round about you, and I will draw out a sword after them.
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And My wrath and My anger shall be accomplished upon them: and you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken in My jealousy, when I have accomplished My anger upon them.
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And I will make you desolate, and your daughters round about you, in the sight of everyone that passes through.
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And you shall be mourned over and miserable among the nations round about you, when I have executed judgments in you in the vengeance of My wrath. I, the Lord, have spoken.
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And when I have sent against them shafts of famine, then they shall be consumed, and I will break the strength of your bread.
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So I will send forth against you famine and evil beasts, and I will take vengeance upon you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through upon you; and I will bring a sword upon you round about. I, the Lord, have spoken.
Ezekiel 12:3-16
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You therefore, son of man, prepare yourself baggage for going into captivity by day in their sight; and you shall be led into captivity from your place into another place in their sight; that they may see that they are a provoking house.
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And you shall carry forth your baggage, baggage for captivity, by day before their eyes; and you shall go forth at evening, as a captive goes forth, in their sight.
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Dig for yourself into the wall [of the house], and you shall pass through it in their sight.
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You shall be lifted up on [men's] shoulders, and shall go forth in secret; you shall cover your face, and shall not see the ground, because I have made you a sign to the house of Israel.
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And I did thus according to all that He commanded me; and I carried forth my baggage for captivity by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall for myself, and I went out secretly; I was taken up on [men's] shoulders before them.
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And the word of the Lord came to me in the morning, saying,
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Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the provoking house, said to you, What are you doing?
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Say to them, Thus says the Lord God, the Prince and the Ruler in Israel, even to all the house of Israel who are in the midst of them:
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say, I am performing signs: as I have done, so shall it be to him; they shall go into banishment and captivity.
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And the prince in the midst of them shall be borne upon shoulders, and shall go forth in secret through the wall, and shall dig, so that he may go forth thereby; he shall cover his face, so that he may not be seen by [anyone], and he himself shall not see the ground.
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And I will spread out My net upon him, and he shall be caught in My snare, and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; but he shall not see it, though he shall die there.
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And I will scatter to every wind all his assistants round about him, and all that help him; and I will draw out a sword after them;
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And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have scattered them among the nations; and I will disperse them into the countries.
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And I will leave among them [a few] men in number [spared] from the sword, and from famine, and pestilence; that they may declare all their iniquities among the nations where they have gone; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
1 Samuel 15:27
And Samuel turned his face to depart, and Saul caught hold of the edge of his robe, and tore it.
1 Samuel 15:28
And Samuel said to him, The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from out of your hand this day, and will give it to your neighbor, who is better than you.
1 Kings 11:30
And Ahijah laid hold of his new garment that was upon him, and tore it [into] twelve pieces.
1 Kings 11:31
And he said to Jeroboam, Take to yourself ten pieces, for thus says the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give you ten tribes.
Isaiah 20:2-4
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then the Lord spoke to Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and take the sackcloth off your loins, and loose your sandals from off your feet, and do thus, going naked and barefoot.
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And the Lord said, As My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years, there shall be three years for signs and wonders to the Egyptians and Ethiopians;
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for thus shall the king of the Assyrians lead the captivity of Egypt and the Ethiopians, young men and old, naked and barefoot, having the shame of Egypt exposed.
Jeremiah 13:1-14
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Thus says the Lord: Go and procure for yourself a linen sash, and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water.
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So I procured the sash according to the word of the Lord, and put it around my waist.
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And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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Take the sash that is around your waist, and get up, and go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
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So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.
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And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the sash from there, which I commanded you to hide there.
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So I went to the river Euphrates, and dug, and took the sash out of the place where I had buried it. And behold, it was ruined, utterly good for nothing.
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And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thus says the Lord,
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Thus will I ruin the pride of Judah, and the pride of Jerusalem;
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[even] this great pride [of the men] that will not listen to My words, and have gone after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them. And they shall be as this sash, which is profitable for nothing.
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For as a sash clings about the waist of a man, so have I caused the house of Israel, and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me; that they might be to Me a famous people, and a praise, and a glory. But they did not hearken to Me.
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And you shall say to this people, Every bottle shall be filled with wine. And it shall come to pass, if they shall say to you, Shall we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? That you shall say to them,
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Thus says the Lord: Behold, I [will] fill the inhabitants of this land, and their kings, the sons of David that sit upon their throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and Judah and all the dwellers in Jerusalem, with strong drink.
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And I will scatter them, a man and his brother, and their fathers and their sons together. I will not have compassion, says the Lord, and I will not spare, neither will I pity [to save them] from destruction.
Jeremiah 18:2-12
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Jeremiah, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there you shall hear My words.
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So I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he was making a vessel on the stones.
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And the vessel which he was making with his hands fell [apart.] So he made it into another vessel, as it seemed good to him.
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And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? Behold, as the clay [is in] the potter's[hand], so are you in My hands.
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[If] I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation, or upon a kingdom, to cut them off, and to destroy [them];
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and that nation turn from all their sins, then will I relent of the disasters which I purposed to do to them.
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And [if] I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation and kingdom, to rebuild and to plant [it];
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and they do evil before Me, so as not to heed My voice, then will I relent of the good which I spoke of, to do it to them.
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And now, say to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Behold, I prepare disasters against you, and devise a plan against you: let everyone turn now from his evil way, and amend your practices.
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And they said, We will quit ourselves like men, for we will pursue our perverse ways, and we will perform each the lusts of his evil heart.
Jeremiah 19:1-15
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Then the Lord said to me, Go and get an earthen bottle, the work of the potter, and you shall bring [some] of the elders of the people, and of the priests.
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And you shall go forth to the burial place of the sons of their children, which is at the entrance of the Potsherd Gate; and proclaim there all these words which I shall speak to you.
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And you shall say to them, Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and men of Judah, and the dwellers in Jerusalem, and they that enter in by these gates. Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I [will] bring such a catastrophe upon this place, that the ears of everyone that hears it shall tingle.
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Because they forsook Me, and profaned this place, and burned incense in it to strange gods, which they and their fathers knew not; and the kings of Judah have filled this place with innocent blood,
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and built high places for Baal, to burn their children in the fire, which things I commanded not, neither did I design [them] in My heart.
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Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when this place shall no more be called Tophet, or the fall and burial place of the son of Hinnom, but the burial place of slaughter.
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And I will destroy the counsel of Judah and the counsel of Jerusalem in this place; and I will cast them down with the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives. And I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth.
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And I will bring this city to desolation and [make it] a hissing: everyone that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss because of all her plagues.
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And they shall eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat, everyone the flesh of his neighbor in the blockade, and in the siege with which their enemies shall besiege them.
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And you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men that go forth with you,
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and you shall say, Thus says the Lord, Thus will I break in pieces this people, and this city, even as an earthen vessel is broken in pieces which cannot be mended again.
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Thus will I do to this place, says the Lord, and to the inhabitants of it, that this city may be given up, as one that is falling to ruin.
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And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be as a ruinous place, because of their uncleanness in all the houses, in which they burnt incense upon their roofs to all the host of heaven, and poured [out] drink offerings to strange gods.
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And Jeremiah came from Tophet, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the Lord's house. And said to all the people, Thus says the Lord:
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Behold I bring upon this city, and upon all the cities belonging to it, and upon the villages of it, all the doom which I have spoken against it, because they have hardened their neck, [that they might not] hearken to My commands.
Jeremiah 25:15-38
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Thus said the Lord God of Israel: Take the cup of this unmixed wine from My hand, and you shall cause all the nations to drink, to whom I send you.
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And they shall drink, and vomit, and be mad, because of the sword which I send among them.
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So I took the cup out of the Lord's hand, and caused the nations to whom the Lord sent me to drink:
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Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings of Judah, and his princes, to make them a desert place, a desolation, and a hissing.
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And Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his nobles, and all his people;
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and all the mixed multitude, and all the kings of the Philistines, [namely] Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Azotus,
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and Edom, and the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon,
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and the kings of Tyre, and the kings of Sidon, and the kings in the [country] beyond the sea,
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and Dedan, Tema, Buz, and everyone that is shaved round about the face,
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and all the mixed multitude dwelling in the wilderness,
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and all the kings of Aelam, and all the kings of the Persians,
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and all the kings from the north, the far and the near, each one with his brother, and all the kingdoms which are on the face of the earth.
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And you shall say to them, Thus said the Lord Almighty: Drink, and be drunk; and you shall vomit and fall, and shall by no means rise, because of the sword which I send among you.
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And it shall come to pass, when they refuse to take the cup out of your hand, to drink it, that you shall say, Thus said the Lord; You shall surely drink.
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For I am beginning to afflict the city which is called by My name, and you shall by no means be held guiltless: for I am calling a sword upon all that dwell upon the earth.
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And you shall prophesy against them these words, and shall say: The Lord shall speak from on high, from His sanctuary He will utter His voice. He will pronounce a declaration on His place; and these shall answer like men gathering grapes. And destruction is coming on them that dwell on the earth,
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[even] upon [the extreme] part of the earth; for the Lord [has] a controversy with the nations, He is pleading with all flesh, and the ungodly are given to the sword, says the Lord.
32
Thus said the Lord: Behold, evils are proceeding from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind goes forth from the end of the earth.
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And the slain of the Lord shall be in the day of the Lord from [one] end of the earth even to the [other] end of the earth. They shall not be buried; they shall be as dung on the face of the earth.
34
Howl, O you shepherds, and cry; lament, you rams of the flock: for your days have been completed for slaughter, and you shall fall as the choice rams.
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And flight shall perish from the shepherds, and safety from the rams of the flock.
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A voice of the crying of the shepherds, and a moaning of the sheep and the rams: for the Lord has destroyed their pastures.
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And the peaceful dwellings that remain shall be destroyed before the fierceness of My anger.
38
He has forsaken His lair, as a lion: for their land has become desolate before the great sword.
Jeremiah 27:2-22
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Thus said the Lord: Make for yourself bonds and yokes, and put [them] about your neck,
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and you shall send them to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the children of Ammon, to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hands of their messengers that come to meet them at Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
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And you shall commission them to say to their masters, Thus said the Lord God of Israel: Thus shall you say to your masters:
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I have made the earth by My great power, and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to whomsoever it shall seem [good] in My eyes.
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I have given the earth to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to serve him, and the wild beasts of the field to labor for him.
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[This translation omits this verse.]
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And the nation and kingdom, all that shall not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, with sword and famine will I visit them, says the Lord, until they are consumed by his hand.
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And do not listen to your false prophets, nor to them that divine to you, nor to them that foretell events by dreams to you, nor to your soothsayers, nor your sorcerers, that say, You shall by no means work for the king of Babylon:
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for they prophesy lies to you, to remove you far from your land.
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But the nation which shall put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, I will even leave it upon its land, and it shall serve him, and dwell in it.
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I spoke also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Put your neck into [the yoke], and serve the king of Babylon.
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[This translation omits this verse.]
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For they prophesy unrighteous [words] to you,
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for I sent them not, says the Lord; and they prophesy [in] My name unjustly, that I might destroy you, and you should perish, and your prophets, who unrighteously prophesy lies to you.
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I spoke to you, and to all this people, and to the priests, saying, Thus said the Lord: Do not listen to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the Lord's house shall return from Babylon- for they prophesy unrighteous [words] to you.
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If they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is in them, let them meet Me, for thus has the Lord said.
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And as for the remaining vessels,
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which the king of Babylon did not take, when he carried Jeconiah prisoner out of Jerusalem,
21
[This translation omits this verse.]
22
they shall go into Babylon, says the Lord.
Hosea 1:2-9
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The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take to yourself a wife of fornication, and children of fornication: for the land will surely go a-whoring in departing from the Lord.
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So he went and took Gomer, daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.
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And the Lord said to him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little [while] and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Judah, and will make to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
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And it shall be in that day, [that] I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
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And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And He said to him, Call her name, Unpitied: for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, but will surely set Myself in array against them.
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But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them with bow, nor with sword, nor by war, nor by horses, nor by horsemen.
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And she weaned Unpitied; and she conceived again, and bore a son.
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And He said, Call his name, Not my people: for you are not My people, and I am not your [God].
Hosea 3:1-5
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And the Lord said to me, Go yet, and love a woman that loves evil things, an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, and they have respect to strange gods, and love cakes of dried grapes.
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So I hired [her] to myself for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and a homer of barley, and a flagon of wine.
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And I said unto her, You shall wait for me many days; and you shall not commit fornication, neither shall you be for [another] man; and I [will be] for you.
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For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an altar, and without a priesthood, and without manifestations.
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And afterward shall the children of Israel return, and shall seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall be amazed at the Lord and at His goodness in the latter days.
Hosea 12:10
And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.
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Jeremiah 6:6
For thus says the Lord, Cut down her trees, array a numerous force against Jerusalem. O false city, she is full of oppression.
Jeremiah 32:31
For this city was [obnoxious] to My anger and My wrath, from the day that they built it, even to this day; that I should remove it from My presence,
Amos 3:2
You especially have I known out of all the families of the earth: therefore will I take vengeance upon you for all your sins.