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\c 7
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\v 1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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\v 2 "You, son of man—the Lord Yahweh says this to the land of Israel."
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\q 'An end! An end has come to the four borders of the land.
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\q
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\v 3 Now the end is upon you, for I am sending out my wrath on you, and I will judge you according to your ways;
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\q then I will bring all your abominations upon you.
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\q
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\v 4 For my eyes will not pity you, and I will not spare you. Instead, I will bring your ways upon you,
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\q and your abominations will be in your midst, so you will know that I am Yahweh.
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\v 5 The Lord Yahweh says this:
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\q Disaster! A unique disaster! Behold, it is coming.
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\f + \ft Instead of \fqa Disaster! A unique disaster! \fqa* some ancient copies have \fqa Disaster after disaster \fqa \f*
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\q
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\v 6 An end is surely coming. The end has woken up against you. Behold, it is coming!
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\q
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\v 7 Your doom is coming to you who inhabit the land.
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\q The time has come; the day of destruction is near, and the mountains will no longer be joyful.
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\q
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\v 8 Now before long I will pour out my fury against you and fill up my wrath upon you
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\q when I judge you according to your ways and bring all your abominations upon you.
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\q
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\v 9 For my eye will not look compassionately, and I will not spare you. As you have done, I will do to you;
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\q and your abominations will be in your midst so you will know that I am Yahweh, the one punishing you.
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\q
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\v 10 Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming!
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\q Doom has gone out! The rod has blossomed, arrogance has budded!
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\q
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\v 11 Violence has grown up into a rod of wickedness—
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\q none of them, and none of their multitude, none of their wealth, and none of their importance will last!
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\q
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\v 12 The time is coming; the day has come close. Do not let the buyer rejoice,
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\q nor the seller mourn, since my anger is on the entire multitude!
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\q
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\v 13 For the seller will never return to that which is sold for, as long as they live,
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\q since the vision is against the entire multitude. They will not return,
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\q for no man living in his sin will be strengthened!
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\q
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\v 14 They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but there is no one marching to battle;
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\q since my anger is on the entire multitude.
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\q
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\v 15 The sword is on the outside, and plague and famine are inside the building.
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\q Those who are in the field will die by the sword, while famine and plague will consume those in the city.
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\q
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\v 16 But some survivors will escape from among them, and they will go to the mountains.
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\q Like doves of the valleys, all of them will moan—each man for his iniquity.
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\q
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\v 17 Every hand will falter and every knee will be weak as water,
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\q
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\v 18 and they will wear sackcloth, and terror will cover them;
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\q and shame will be on every face, and baldness on all of their heads.
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\q
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\v 19 They will throw their silver into the streets and their gold will be like refuse. Their silver and their gold
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\q will not be able to rescue them in the day of Yahweh's rage. Their lives will not be saved,
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\q and their hunger will not be satisfied, because their iniquity has become a stumbling block.
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\q
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\v 20 In their pride they took the beauty of his jeweled ornaments, and with them they made their idolatrous figures, and their detestable things. Therefore, I am turning these into an unclean thing to them.
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\q
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\v 21 Then I will give those things into the hand of strangers as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as plunder,
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\q and they will defile them.
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\q
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\v 22 Then I will turn my face away from them when they defile my cherished place;
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\q bandits will enter it and defile it.
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\q
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\v 23 Make a chain, because the land is filled with the judgment of blood,
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\q and the city is full of violence.
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\q
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\v 24 So I will bring the most wicked of the nations, and they will possess their houses,
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\q and I will bring an end to the pride of the mighty, for their holy places will be defiled!
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\q
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\v 25 Fear will come! They will seek peace, but there will be none.
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\q
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\v 26 Disaster upon disaster will come, and there will be rumor after rumor.
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\q Then they will seek a vision from the prophet, but the law will perish from the priest and advice from the elders.
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\q
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\v 27 The king will mourn and the prince will dress in despair,
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\q while the hands of the people of the land will tremble in fear. According to their own ways I will do this to them!
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\q I will judge them with their own standards until they know that I am Yahweh.'"
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