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26-EZK/01.usfm

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 \v 1-2 "When I, Ezekiel, was thirty years old, I was living among the Israelite people by the Chebar Canal, which was south of Babylon. The Babylonians had taken us from the land of Judah and brought us here. On the fifth day of the fourth month of that year, it was as though the sky opened and I saw visions from God.

26-EZK/21.usfm

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 \v 28 And, Son of man, prophesy and say that this is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say about the Ammon people group, and about how I will disgrace them:
-\q1 The king of Babylon will say,
+\q1 'My soldiers have swords
-\q1 'My soldiers have swords;
+\q2 and they have pulled out those swords to slaughter many people.
-\q2 they have pulled out those swords to slaughter many people.
 \q1 They have polished them in order to kill people,
 \q2 and to flash like lightning.
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-\v 29 Your Ammonite prophets have recounted for you false visions about what will happen to you,
+\v 29 Your Ammonite prophets have given you false visions about what will happen to you,
 \q2 and they have held useless ceremonies that give you false messages.
-\q1 So swords will strike the necks
+\q1 So swords will strike the necks of those wicked people.
-\q2 of those wicked people;
+\q2 The day when I punish them has come, 
-\q1 it is time for my soldier to kill them;
+\q2 because they have not been loyal to me.'
-\q2 it is the day when I will punish them because they have not been loyal to me.'
 
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26-EZK/22.usfm

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 \v 24 "Son of man, say to the Israelite people, 'You are disgusting to Yahweh, completely unacceptable to him. So Yahweh is angry with you. There will be no rain in your country.'
 \v 25 Their leaders are like lions that tear apart the animals that they have killed. The leaders destroy their people. They steal treasures and other valuable things from people, and they murder many men and make their wives into widows.
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-\v 26 Their priests disobey my laws and dishonor my sacred things by saying that there is no difference between things that are sacred and those that are not sacred, and by ignoring my laws about resting on the Sabbath days. As a resut, they no longer honor me.
+\v 26 Their priests disobey my laws and dishonor my sacred things by saying that there is no difference between things that are sacred and those that are not sacred, and by ignoring my laws about resting on the Sabbath days. As a result, they no longer honor me.
 \v 27 Their officials are like wolves that tear apart the animals that they have killed. They murder people in order to get their money.
-\v 28 Their prophets try to cover up those sins by saying they have received visions from God, but by giving false messages. They say, 'This is what Yahweh the Lord says,' when I have said nothing to them.
+\v 28 Their prophets try to cover up those sins by saying they have received visions from God. They say, 'This is what Yahweh the Lord says,' when I have said nothing to them.
 
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 \v 29 The Israelite people force others to give them money, and they rob people. They oppress poor people, and they mistreat foreigners among them by not treating them fairly in the courts.

26-EZK/23.usfm

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 \v 7 She acted like a prostitute toward all the important Assyrian officials. I could no longer accept her as belonging to me, because she was worshiping all the idols of the men she wanted to sleep with.
 
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-\v 8 When she was a young woman in Egypt, she started being a prostitute, and she allowed young men to caress her breasts and sleep with her; when she became older, she did not quit acting like a prostitute.
+\v 8 When she was a young woman in Egypt, she started being a prostitute, and she allowed young men to caress her breasts and have sex with her. When she became older, she did not quit acting like a prostitute.
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 \v 9 So I allowed the Assyrian soldiers, whom she wanted to sleep with, to capture her.
 \v 10 They stripped all her clothes off her. They took away her sons and daughters. And then they killed her with a sword. Other women started talking about how she was disgraced, and about how she deserved to suffer.
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 \v 19 But she became even more immoral, as she remembered when she was a young woman learning to be a prostitute in Egypt.
 
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-\v 20 "There she wanted to sleep with those who loved her, whose private parts were very long, like those of donkeys, and whose reproductive emissions were huge, like those of horses."
+\v 20 There she wanted to sleep with those who loved her, whose private parts were very long, like those of donkeys, and whose reproductive emissions were huge, like those of horses.
 \v 21 So she desired to be immoral like she was when she was young, when men in Egypt caressed her bosom and fondled her young breasts.
 
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-\v 32 This is what I,Yahweh the Lord, say: You will suffer as people suffer when they drink from a cup that has very strong alcoholic drink.
+\v 32 This is what I,Yahweh the Lord, say: You will suffer when you drink from a cup that is deep and large.
-\q1 It will be as though you will drink from the cup that the people of Samaria drank from;
+\q1 It will be as though you will drink from the same cup that the people of Samaria drank from.
-\q2 a big cup, a tall cup.
+\q1 And it is because you will drink what it is in that cup, many people will scorn you and make fun of you,
-\q1 Because you will drink what it is in that cup, many people will scorn you and make fun of you,
+\q2 because when you drink from the cup it will make you drunk and then you will be overcome with sadness.
-\q2 because there is so much drink in that cup.
 
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 \v 46 So this is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: Bring a mob to attack Samaria and Jerusalem, and allow that mob to cause the people of those cities to be terrified; allow the mob to rob them.
-\v 47 The mob will throw stones at them to kill them; they will cut them into pieces with their swords, they will kill their sons and daughters, and they burn down their houses.
+\v 47 The mob will throw stones at them to kill them; they will cut them into pieces with their swords, they will kill their sons and daughters, and they will burn down their houses.
 
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26-EZK/24.usfm

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-\v 9 Therefore, this is what I, Yahweh the Lord say:
+\v 9 Therefore, this is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say:
 \q1 'Terrible things will happen to that city that is full of murderers!
 \q2 It will be as though I also will pile high the wood in the fire.
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 \v 11 Then set the empty pot on the coals of the fire
 \q2 until the pot becomes very hot and the copper glows,
-\q1 so that result that the corrosion will disappear.
+\q1 so that the corrosion will disappear.
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 \v 12 It is as though I tried to get rid of that corrosion,
 \q1 but I was not able to do it,
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-\v 14 I, Yahweh, have said that I will surely punish you. And it is time for me to do that. I will not change my mind; I will not refrain from punishing you, and I will not pity you. I will judge you and punish you as you deserve to be punished for your sinful behavior. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh the Lord, have said it.'"
+\v 14 I, Yahweh, have said that I will s	urely punish you. And it is time for me to do that. I will not change my mind; I will not refrain from punishing you, and I will not pity you. I will judge you and punish you as you deserve to be punished for your sinful behavior. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh the Lord, have said it.'"
 
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-\v 25 Then Yahweh said to me,"Son of man, soon I will destroy their sacred temple, which they rejoice about and which they respect and delight to look at, and I will get rid of their sons and daughters also.
+\v 25 Then Yahweh said to me, "Son of man, soon I will destroy their sacred temple, which they rejoice about and which they respect and delight to look at, and I will get rid of their sons and daughters also.
 \v 26 On that day, someone will escape from Jerusalem and come and tell you what has happened there.
 \v 27 When that happens, you will be able to speak again without constraint. You two will talk together. You will be a warning to the people; and they will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do."
 

26-EZK/25.usfm

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 \v 6 This is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: You clapped your hands joyfully and stomped your feet, and laughed because you despised the people in the land of Israel.
-\v 7 Therefore, I will use my power against you, and I will enable other nations to conquer you and take you away like any other possessions of yours. I will destroy you completely, and you will no longer will be one of the nations. When that happens, people will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do.'"
+\v 7 Therefore, I will use my power against you, and I will enable other nations to conquer you and take you away like any other possessions of yours. I will destroy you completely, and you will no longer be one of the nations. When that happens, people will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do.'"
 
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26-EZK/27.usfm

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-\v 10 Men who came from far the away lands of Persia, Lud, and Put, were soldiers in your army.
+\v 10 Men who came from the far away lands of Persia, Lud, and Put were soldiers in your army.
 \q1 They hung their shields and helmets on the walls of your city;
-\q2 this made many people to admire your city.
+\q2 this caused many people to admire your city.
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 \v 11 Men from the cities of Arvad and Helech were watchmen on your city walls;
 \q2 men from the city of Gammad were in your towers.
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-\v 34 But now your city is like a ship is wrecked in the sea,
+\v 34 But now your city is like a ship wrecked in the sea;
-\q2 and everything that was in it is broken, at the bottom of the sea.
+\q2 and everything in it is broken, and it is now at the bottom of the sea.
 \q1 All of your cargo and your sailors have sunk to the bottom of the sea.
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 \v 35 All the people who live along the seacoast are appalled

26-EZK/28.usfm

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 \v 18 By committing many sins
 \q2 and by buying and selling things dishonestly,
 \q2 you caused the places where people worshiped me to become unacceptable to me.
-\q1 So I will make a fire burn your city down.
+\q1 So I will make a fire that will burn your city down.
-\q2 Your city will be burned completely;
+\q2 Your city will be burned completely,
-\q1 the people who watching it will see
+\q1 and the people who watch it will see
-\q2 that only ashes will remained on the ground.
+\q2 that what is left of the city will only be ashes.
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 \v 19 All the people who knew what your city was like previously
 \q2 will be appalled.
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-\v 25 And this is also what Yahweh the Lord says: " I will gather them from distant countries where I have scattered them. And the other people groups will see that I am set apart and honored, when the house of Israel makes their homes in the land I gave my servant Jacob!
+\v 25 And this is also what Yahweh the Lord says: "I will gather them from distant countries where I have scattered them. And the other people groups will see that I am set apart and honored, when the house of Israel makes their homes in the land I gave my servant Jacob!
 \v 26 My people will live safely in Israel; they will build houses and plant vineyards. And when I punish the nearby people groups that despised them, my people will know that it is I, Yahweh their God, who has done this."
 
 

26-EZK/29.usfm

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 \v 1 Almost ten years after the Babylonians had taken us Israelites to their land, on the twelfth day of the tenth month of that year, Yahweh gave me another message. He said to me,
 \v 2 "Son of man, turn toward Egypt and proclaim the terrible things that will happen to the king of Egypt and all his people.
-\v 3 Give the king this message from me, Yahweh the Lord:
+\v 3 Give the king this message from me, for I am Yahweh the Lord:
-\q1 'Know this, Pharaoh, king of Egypt: I, Yahweh, am your enemy;
+\q1 'Know this, Pharaoh, king of Egypt that I, Yahweh, am your enemy.
-\q2 you are like a great monster that lies in the streams of the Nile River.
+\q2 You are like a great monster that lies in the streams of the Nile River.
-\q1 You say that the Nile River is yours,
+\q1 You are so bold to say that the Nile River is yours,
-\q2 that you made it for yourself.
+\q2 and that you made it for yourself.
 
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26-EZK/30.usfm

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 \v 15 I will punish the soldiers in the fortress of Pelusium in northern Egypt,
-\q2 and I will get destroy the people in Thebes.
+\q2 and I will destroy the people in Thebes.
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 \v 16 I will burn Egypt with fire;
 \q2 the people in Pelusium will suffer severe pain.