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15:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
15:2 Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a
 branch which is among the trees of the forest?
15:3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work?  or will men take a pin
 of it to hang any vessel thereon?
15:4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the
 ends of it, and the midst of it is burned.  Is it meet for any work?
15:5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work:  how much less
 shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it
 is burned?
15:6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of
 the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the
 inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15:7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire,
 and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the
 LORD, when I set my face against them.
15:8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a
 trespass, saith the Lord GOD.

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16:1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
16:2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
16:3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy
 nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy
 mother an Hittite.
16:4 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not
 cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not
 salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
16:5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion
 upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the loathing of thy
 person, in the day that thou wast born.
16:6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I
 said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee
 when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
16:7 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast
 increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments:  thy
 breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked
 and bare.
16:8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was
 the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy
 nakedness:  yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee,
 saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
16:9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood
 from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
16:10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers'
 skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with
 silk.
16:11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands,
 and a chain on thy neck.
16:12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a
 beautiful crown upon thine head.
16:13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of
 fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and
 honey, and oil:  and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper
 into a kingdom.
16:14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty:  for it
 was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the
 Lord GOD.
16:15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot
 because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that
 passed by; his it was.
16:16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with
 divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon:  the like things shall
 not come, neither shall it be so.
16:17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver,
 which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst
 commit whoredom with them,
16:18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them:  and thou hast
 set mine oil and mine incense before them.
16:19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey,
 wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet
 savour:  and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.
16:20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast
 borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. 
 Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
16:21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to
 pass through the fire for them?
16:22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not
 remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast
 polluted in thy blood.
16:23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! 
 saith the Lord GOD;)
16:24 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made
 thee an high place in every street.
16:25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made
 thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that
 passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
16:26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy
 neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me
 to anger.
16:27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have
 diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them
 that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy
 lewd way.
16:28 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast
 unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest
 not be satisfied.
16:29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan
 unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
16:30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all
 these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
16:31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way,
 and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an
 harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
16:32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers
 instead of her husband!
16:33 They give gifts to all whores:  but thou givest thy gifts to all thy
 lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy
 whoredom.
16:34 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms,
 whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms:  and in that thou givest a
 reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.
16:35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
16:36 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and
 thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with
 all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which
 thou didst give unto them;
16:37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast
 taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that
 thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will
 discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
16:38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are
 judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
16:39 And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down
 thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places:  they shall
 strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave
 thee naked and bare.
16:40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone
 thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
16:41 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon
 thee in the sight of many women:  and I will cause thee to cease from
 playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
16:42 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall
 depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
16:43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast
 fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense
 thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD:  and thou shalt not commit
 this lewdness above all thine abominations.
16:44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against
 thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
16:45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that loatheth her husband and her
 children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which loathed their
 husbands and their children:  your mother was an Hittite, and your father
 an Amorite.
16:46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell
 at thy left hand:  and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand,
 is Sodom and her daughters.
16:47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their
 abominations:  but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast
 corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
16:48 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she
 nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of
 bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither
 did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me:  therefore
 I took them away as I saw good.
16:51 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast
 multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy
 sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
16:52 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy
 sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they:  they are more
 righteous than thou:  yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in
 that thou hast justified thy sisters.
16:53 When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and
 her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I
 bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:
16:54 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all
 that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
16:55 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their
 former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former
 estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
16:56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy
 pride,
16:57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach
 of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the
 daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.
16:58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.
16:59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast
 done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
16:60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy
 youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
16:61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt
 receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger:  and I will give them
 unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
16:62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I
 am the LORD:
16:63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth
 any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that
 thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

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17:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
17:2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of
 Israel;
17:3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings,
 longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon,
 and took the highest branch of the cedar:
17:4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land
 of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.
17:5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful
 field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.
17:6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches
 turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him:  so it became a
 vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
17:7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: 
 and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her
 branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her
 plantation.
17:8 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring
 forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly
 vine.
17:9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper?  shall he not pull
 up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither?  it
 shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or
 many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
17:10 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper?  shall it not utterly
 wither, when the east wind toucheth it?  it shall wither in the furrows
 where it grew.
17:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
17:12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean?
  tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath
 taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to
 Babylon;
17:13 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and
 hath taken an oath of him:  he hath also taken the mighty of the land:
17:14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up,
 but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
17:15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt,
 that they might give him horses and much people.  Shall he prosper?  shall
 he escape that doeth such things?  or shall he break the covenant, and be
 delivered?
17:16 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king
 dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant
 he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
17:17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make
 for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off
 many persons:
17:18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had
 given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.
17:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that
 he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I
 recompense upon his own head.
17:20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare,
 and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his
 trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
17:21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and
 they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds:  and ye shall know
 that I the LORD have spoken it.
17:22 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the
 high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young
 twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:
17:23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it:  and it shall
 bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar:  and under it
 shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof
 shall they dwell.
17:24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought
 down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green
 tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish:  I the LORD have spoken and
 have done it.

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18:1 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
18:2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel,
 saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are
 set on edge?
18:3 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more
 to use this proverb in Israel.
18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul
 of the son is mine:  the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
18:5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
18:6 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his
 eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his
 neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
18:7 And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his
 pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry,
 and hath covered the naked with a garment;
18:8 He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any
 increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true
 judgment between man and man,
18:9 Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly;
 he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.
18:10 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that
 doeth the like to any one of these things,
18:11 And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the
 mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,
18:12 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not
 restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath
 committed abomination,
18:13 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase:  shall he then
 live?  he shall not live:  he hath done all these abominations; he shall
 surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
18:14 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which
 he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,
18:15 That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his
 eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's
 wife,
18:16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither
 hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and
 hath covered the naked with a garment,
18:17 That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received
 usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes;
 he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
18:18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother
 by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even
 he shall die in his iniquity.
18:19 Yet say ye, Why?  doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? 
 When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all
 my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die.  The son shall not bear the
 iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the
 son:  the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the
 wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
18:21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed,
 and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall
 surely live, he shall not die.
18:22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be
 mentioned unto him:  in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
18:23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?  saith the Lord
 GOD:  and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
18:24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and
 committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the
 wicked man doeth, shall he live?  All his righteousness that he hath done
 shall not be mentioned:  in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in
 his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
18:25 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal.  Hear now, O house of
 Israel; Is not my way equal?  are not your ways unequal?
18:26 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and
 committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done
 shall he die.
18:27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he
 hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his
 soul alive.
18:28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions
 that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
18:29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal.  O
 house of Israel, are not my ways equal?  are not your ways unequal?
18:30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to
 his ways, saith the Lord GOD.  Repent, and turn yourselves from all your
 transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have
 transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit:  for why will ye
 die, O house of Israel?
18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord
 GOD:  wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

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19:1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
19:2 And say, What is thy mother?  A lioness:  she lay down among lions,
 she nourished her whelps among young lions.
19:3 And she brought up one of her whelps:  it became a young lion, and it
 learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
19:4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they
 brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
19:5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she
 took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
19:6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and
 learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
19:7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and
 the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his
 roaring.
19:8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and
 spread their net over him:  he was taken in their pit.
19:9 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of
 Babylon:  they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be
 heard upon the mountains of Israel.
19:10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters:  she
 was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
19:11 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and
 her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her
 height with the multitude of her branches.
19:12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and
 the east wind dried up her fruit:  her strong rods were broken and
 withered; the fire consumed them.
19:13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty
 ground.
19:14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured
 her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule.  This
 is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

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20:1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the
 tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to
 inquire of the LORD, and sat before me.
20:2 Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
20:3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus
 saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to inquire of me?  As I live, saith the
 Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.
20:4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them?  cause them
 to know the abominations of their fathers:
20:5 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose
 Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and
 made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine
 hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;
20:6 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth
 of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with
 milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
20:7 Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his
 eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt:  I am the LORD
 your God.
20:8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me:  they did
 not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they
 forsake the idols of Egypt:  then I said, I will pour out my fury upon
 them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of
 Egypt.
20:9 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before
 the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known
 unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
20:10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and
 brought them into the wilderness.
20:11 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if
 a man do, he shall even live in them.
20:12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and
 them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
20:13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness:  they
 walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man
 do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: 
 then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to
 consume them.
20:14 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted
 before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
20:15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would
 not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk
 and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
20:16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but
 polluted my sabbaths:  for their heart went after their idols.
20:17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I
 make an end of them in the wilderness.
20:18 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the
 statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile
 yourselves with their idols:
20:19 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments,
 and do them;
20:20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you,
 that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
20:21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me:  they walked not in
 my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he
 shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths:  then I said, I would
 pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the
 wilderness.
20:22 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake,
 that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight
 I brought them forth.
20:23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would
 scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
20:24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my
 statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their
 fathers' idols.
20:25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and
 judgments whereby they should not live;
20:26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass
 through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them
 desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
20:27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto
 them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me,
 in that they have committed a trespass against me.
20:28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted
 up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the
 thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they
 presented the provocation of their offering:  there also they made their
 sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
20:29 Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go?  And
 the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
20:30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are
 ye polluted after the manner of your fathers?  and commit ye whoredom after
 their abominations?
20:31 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through
 the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: 
 and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel?  As I live, saith
 the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.
20:32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say,
 We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood
 and stone.
20:33 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a
 stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:
20:34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of
 the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a
 stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
20:35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will
 I plead with you face to face.
20:36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of
 Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.
20:37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into
 the bond of the covenant:
20:38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that
 transgress against me:  I will bring them forth out of the country where
 they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel:  and ye
 shall know that I am the LORD.
20:39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve
 ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto
 me:  but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your
 idols.
20:40 For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,
 saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the
 land, serve me:  there will I accept them, and there will I require your
 offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy
 things.
20:41 I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from
 the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been
 scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
20:42 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into
 the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand
 to give it to your fathers.
20:43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye
 have been defiled; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all
 your evils that ye have committed.
20:44 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you
 for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to
 your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
20:45 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
20:46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward
 the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
20:47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus
 saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall
 devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree:  the flaming flame
 shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be
 burned therein.
20:48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it:  it shall not
 be quenched.
20:49 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD!  they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?

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21:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
21:2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward
 the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
21:3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am
 against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut
 off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
21:4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked,
 therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from
 the south to the north:
21:5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out
 of his sheath:  it shall not return any more.
21:6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and
 with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
21:7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou?  that
 thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh:  and every heart
 shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint,
 and all knees shall be weak as water:  behold, it cometh, and shall be
 brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
21:8 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
21:9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a
 sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
21:10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may
 glitter:  should we then make mirth?  it contemneth the rod of my son, as
 every tree.
21:11 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled:  this
 sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the
 slayer.
21:12 Cry and howl, son of man:  for it shall be upon my people, it shall
 be upon all the princes of Israel:  terrors by reason of the sword shall
 be upon my people:  smite therefore upon thy thigh.
21:13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod?
  it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
21:14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands
 together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the
 slain:  it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth
 into their privy chambers.
21:15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that
 their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied:  ah!  it is
 made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
21:16 Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the
 left, whithersoever thy face is set.
21:17 I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to
 rest:  I the LORD have said it.
21:18 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
21:19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the
 king of Babylon may come:  both twain shall come forth out of one land: 
 and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
21:20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites,
 and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
21:21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head
 of the two ways, to use divination:  he made his arrows bright, he
 consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
21:22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint
 captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with
 shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount,
 and to build a fort.
21:23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to
 them that have sworn oaths:  but he will call to remembrance the iniquity,
 that they may be taken.
21:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity
 to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in
 all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to
 remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.
21:25 And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when
 iniquity shall have an end,
21:26 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: 
 this shall not be the same:  exalt him that is low, and abase him
 that is high.
21:27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it:  and it shall be no more,
 until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
21:28 And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD
 concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The
 sword, the sword is drawn:  for the slaughter it is furbished, to
 consume because of the glittering:
21:29 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee,
 to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose
 day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
21:30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath?  I will judge thee in
 the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
21:31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against
 thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish
 men, and skilful to destroy.
21:32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of
 the land; thou shalt be no more remembered:  for I the LORD have spoken
 it.

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22:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
22:2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city?
  yea, thou shalt show her all her abominations.
22:3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the
 midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to
 defile herself.
22:4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast
 defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused
 thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years:  therefore have
 I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
22:5 Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock
 thee, which art infamous and much vexed.
22:6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to
 shed blood.
22:7 In thee have they set light by father and mother:  in the midst of thee
 have they dealt by oppression with the stranger:  in thee have they vexed
 the fatherless and the widow.
22:8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
22:9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood:  and in thee they eat
 upon the mountains:  in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
22:10 In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness:  in thee have
 they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
22:11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and
 another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath
 humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
22:12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and
 increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and
 hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
22:13 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which
 thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.
22:14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that
 I shall deal with thee?  I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.
22:15 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the
 countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
22:16 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the
 heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
22:17 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
22:18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross:  all they are
 brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are
 even the dross of silver.
22:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross,
 behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
22:20 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into
 the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I
 gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there,
 and melt you.
22:21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and
 ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.
22:22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted
 in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my
 fury upon you.
22:23 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
22:24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed,
 nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
22:25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a
 roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken
 the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the
 midst thereof.
22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: 
 they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they
 showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their
 eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
22:27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey,
 to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
22:28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing
 vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when
 the LORD hath not spoken.
22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery,
 and have vexed the poor and needy:  yea, they have oppressed the stranger
 wrongfully.
22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and
 stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it:  but
 I found none.
22:31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have
 consumed them with the fire of my wrath:  their own way have I recompensed
 upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.