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And the word of Jehovah was unto▵ me, saying,
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Thou shalt not take to thee a wife, neither shalt thou have◦ sons or◦ daughters in this place.
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For thus says Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who gave··birth to them, and concerning their fathers who begot them in this land;
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from the deaths of sicknesses they shall··die; they shall not be bewailed, and they shall not be buried; they shall be for manure on the face of the ground; and they shall all··be··consumed by the sword and by famine; and their carcasses shall be for food for the fowl of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.
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For thus says Jehovah, Come· not ·into the house of the wake, and go not to wail, and be· not ·sorry for them; for I have gathered My peace from this people, says◦ Jehovah, even the mercy and the compassions.
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And the great and the small shall··die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men wail for them◦, nor gash themselves, nor make· themselves ·bald for them◦:
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neither shall they divide◦ bread for them upon mourning, to comfort him for▵ the dead; neither shall men give· them the cup of comforting ·to··drink◦ over his father or over his mother.*
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And thou shalt not go··into the house of feasts, to sit with◦ them to eat and to drink.
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For thus says Jehovah of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out··of this place before▫ your eyes, and in your days, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
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And it shall be, when◦ thou shalt tell this people all these words, and they shall say unto▵ thee, Why has Jehovah spoken all this great evil against us, or◦ what is our iniquity, or◦ what is our sin that we have sinned against▵ Jehovah our God?
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And thou shalt say unto▵ them, Because your fathers have forsaken Me, says◦ Jehovah, and have walked◦ after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken Me, and have not kept My law;
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and you◦ have done more evil than your fathers; for, behold, you walk each··man◦ after the stubbornness of his evil heart, to hearken not▵ unto▵ Me;
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and I will throw you from off this land onto◦ a land which you◦ and your fathers know not; and there shall you serve other gods by··day and by night, where▵ I will not give you grace.
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Therefore, behold, the days come, says◦ Jehovah, that it shall no◦ more◦ be said, Jehovah lives, who brought··up the sons of Israel out··of the land of Egypt;
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but◦, Jehovah lives, who brought··up the sons of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither He had compelled them; and I will return them onto◦ their ground that I gave unto their fathers.
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Behold, I will send for many fishers, says◦ Jehovah, and they shall fish them; and after thus◦ I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from on every mountain, and from on every hill, and from the crevices of the rocks◦.
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For My eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, neither is their iniquity kept··secret from in··front··of My eyes.
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And first I will repay their iniquity and their sin double◦; on··account··of their profaning My land; they have··filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable things.
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O Jehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my place··to··flee in the day of adversity, the nations shall come to▵ Thee from the ends◦ of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited falsity, vanity◦ and there is no profit in them.
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Shall man make gods unto himself, and they◦ are no◦ gods?
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Therefore, behold, I will this time◦ make· them ·to··know, I will make· them ·to··know My hand and My might; and they shall know that My name is Jehovah.
