Hello and welcome to
"His Words are Life."
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I'm Kelly Mowrer
and today we'll continue
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reading together
from the Book of Ezekiel.
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But let's pray together first.
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Dear Heavenly
Father, thank you again
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for an opportunity to come apart
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and to read Your word together.
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You see, each one of
us, where we are right now.
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Please send Your Holy Spirit
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to bring
understanding to our hearts,
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that we won't
just shake our head
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at the
foolishness of Your people,
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all these centuries past,
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but we will see in
our own lives still,
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the ways that we
need You to change us
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and draw us closer to Yourself.
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We love You so much
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and thank you
for loving us, amen.
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Reading in the Book
of Ezekiel Chapter 21,
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picking up with verse 17,
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this is the King James Version.
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"I will also smite
mine hands together,
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and I will
cause my fury to rest,
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I the Lord have said it.
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The word of the Lord
came unto me again, saying.
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Also, thou son of
man, appoint thee two ways,
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that the sword of the
king of Babylon may come,
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both twain shall come
forth out of one land,
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and choose thou a place,
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choose it at the head
of the way to the city.
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Appoint a way
that the sword may come
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to Rabbath of the Ammonites,
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and to Judah in
Jerusalem the defenced.
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For the king of Babylon
stood at the parting of the way,
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at the head of the two ways,
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to use divination, he
made his arrows bright,
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he consulted with
images, he looked in the liver.
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At his right hand was
the divination for Jerusalem,
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to appoint captains,
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to open the
mouth in the slaughter,
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to lift up the
voice with shouting,
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to appoint battering
rams against the gates,
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to cast a mount,
and to build a fort.
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And it shall be unto them
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as a false
divination in their sight,
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to them that have sworn oaths,
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but he will call to
remembrance the iniquity,
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that they may be taken.
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Therefore thus
saith the Lord God,
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because ye have
made your iniquity
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to be remembered,
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in that your
transgressions are discovered,
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so that in all your
doings your sins do appear,
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because, I say, that ye
are come to remembrance,
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ye shall be taken with the hand.
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And thou, profane
wicked prince of Israel,
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whose day is come, when
iniquity shall have an end,
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Thus saith the Lord God,
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Remove the diadem,
and take off the crown,
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this shall not be the same,
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exalt him that is low,
and abase him that is high.
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I will overturn,
overturn, overturn it,
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and it shall be no more,
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until he come whose right it is,
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and I will give it him.
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And thou, Son of
Man, prophesy and say,
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Thus saith the Lord God
concerning the Ammonites,
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and concerning their
reproach, even say thou,
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The sword, the sword is drawn,
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for the
slaughter it is furbished,
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to consume
because of the glittering,
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Whiles they see
vanity unto thee,
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whiles they
divine a lie unto thee,
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to bring thee
upon the necks of them
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that are slain, of the wicked,
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whose day is come,
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when their
iniquity shall have an end.
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Shall I cause it to
return into his sheath?
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I will judge thee in the place
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where thou wast created,
in the land of thy nativity.
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And I will pour out
mine indignation upon thee,
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I will blow against
thee in the fire of my wrath,
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and deliver thee into
the hand of brutish men,
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and skilful to destroy.
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Thou shalt be
for fuel to the fire,
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thy blood shall be in
the midst of the land,
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thou shalt be
no more remembered,
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for I the Lord have spoken it."
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Continuing in the
Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 22
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"Moreover the word of the Lord
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came unto me, saying.
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Now, thou son of
man, wilt thou judge,
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wilt thou judge the bloody city?
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Yea, thou shalt shew
her all her abominations.
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Then say thou,
thus saith the Lord God,
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the city sheddeth
blood in the midst of it,
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that her time may come,
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and maketh idols against
herself to defile herself.
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Thou art become
guilty in thy blood
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that thou hast shed,
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and hast defiled
thyself in thine idols
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which thou hast made,
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and thou hast caused
thy days to draw near,
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and art come
even unto thy years,
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therefore have I
made thee a reproach
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unto the heathen,
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and a mocking to all countries.
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Those that be near, and
those that be far from thee,
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shall mock thee, which
art infamous and much vexed.
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Behold, the princes of Israel,
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every one were in thee to
their power to shed blood.
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In thee have they set
light by father and mother,
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in the midst of
thee have they dealt
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by oppression with the stranger,
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in thee have they vexed
the fatherless and the widow.
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Thou hast
despised mine holy things,
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and hast profaned my Sabbaths.
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In thee are men that
carry tales to shed blood,
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and in thee they
eat upon the mountains,
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in the midst of thee
they commit lewdness.
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In thee have they discovered
their fathers' nakedness,
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in thee have they humbled her
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that was set
apart for pollution.
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And one hath
committed abomination
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with his neighbor's wife,
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and another hath lewdly
defiled his daughter in law,
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and another in thee
hath humbled his sister,
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his father's daughter.
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In thee have they
taken gifts to shed blood,
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thou hast taken
usury and increase,
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and thou hast greedily gained
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of thy neighbors by extortion,
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and hast forgotten
me, saith the Lord God.
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Behold, therefore I have smitten
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mine hand at thy dishonest gain
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which thou hast
made, and at thy blood
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which hath been
in the midst of thee.
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Can thine heart endure,
or can thine hands be strong,
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in the days that I
shall deal with thee?
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I the Lord have
spoken it, and will do it.
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And I will scatter
thee among the heathen,
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and disperse
thee in the countries,
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and will consume thy
filthiness out of thee.
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And thou shalt
take thine inheritance
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in thyself in the
sight of the heathen,
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and thou shalt
know that I am the Lord.
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And the word of the
Lord came unto me, saying.
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Son of man, the house of Israel
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is to me become dross,
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all they are
brass, and tin, and iron,
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and lead, in the
midst of the furnace,
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they are even
the dross of silver.
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Therefore thus
saith the Lord God,
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because ye are all become dross,
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behold,
therefore I will gather you
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into the midst of Jerusalem.
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As they gather
silver, and brass,
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and iron, and lead, and tin,
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into the midst of the furnace,
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to blow the fire upon it,
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to melt it, so will I gather you
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in mine anger and in my fury,
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and I will leave
you there, and melt you.
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Yea, I will gather you,
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and blow upon you in
the fire of my wrath,
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and ye shall be
melted in the midst thereof.
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As silver is melted in
the midst of the furnace,
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so shall ye be
melted in the midst thereof,
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and ye shall
know that I the Lord
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have poured out
my fury upon you.
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And the word of
the Lord came unto me,
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saying, son of
man, say unto her,
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Thou art the land
that is not cleansed,
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nor rained upon in
the day of indignation.
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There is a
conspiracy of her prophets
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in the midst thereof,
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like a roaring
lion ravening the prey,
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they have devoured souls,
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they have taken the
treasure and precious things,
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they have made her many widows
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in the midst thereof.
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Her priests
have violated my law,
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and have
profaned mine holy things,
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they have put no difference
between the holy and profane,
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neither have
they shewed difference
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between the
unclean and the clean,
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and have hid their
eyes from my Sabbaths,
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and I am profaned among them.
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Her princes in the midst thereof
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are like wolves
ravening the prey,
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to shed blood,
and to destroy souls,
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to get dishonest gain.
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And her
prophets have daubed them
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with untempered
morter, seeing vanity,
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and divining lies unto them,
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saying, thus saith the Lord God,
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when the Lord hath not spoken.
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The people of the
land have used oppression,
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and exercised
robbery, and have vexed
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the poor and needy,
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yea, they have oppressed
the stranger wrongfully.
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And I sought
for a man among them
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that should make up the hedge,
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and stand in the gap
before me for the land,
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that I should not destroy it,
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but I found none.
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Therefore have I poured
out mine indignation upon them,
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I have consumed them
with the fire of my wrath,
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their own way have I recompensed
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upon their heads,
saith the Lord God."
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Continuing with
Ezekiel Chapter 23,
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this is the King James Version.
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"The word of the Lord
came again unto me, saying,
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Son of man,
there were two women,
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the daughters of one mother.
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And they committed
whoredoms in Egypt,
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they committed
whoredoms in their youth,
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there were
their breasts pressed,
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and there they bruised
the teats of their virginity.
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And the names of them
were Aholah the elder,
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and Aholibah her
sister, and they were mine,
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and they bare
sons and daughters.
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Thus were their
names, Samaria is Aholah,
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and Jerusalem Aholibah.
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And Aholah played the
harlot when she was mine,
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and she doted on her lovers,
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on the Assyrians her neighbors.
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Which were clothed with
blue, captains and rulers,
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all of them desirable young men,
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horsemen riding upon horses?
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Thus she committed
her whoredoms with them,
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and all them that were
the chosen men of Assyria,
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and with all on whom she doted,
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with all their
idols she defiled herself.
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Neither left she her
whoredoms brought from Egypt,
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for in her youth
they lay with her,
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and they bruised the
breasts of her virginity,
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and poured their
whoredom upon her.
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Wherefore I have delivered her
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into the hand of her lovers,
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into the hands of the Assyrians,
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upon whom she doted.
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These discovered her nakedness,
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they took her
sons and her daughters,
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and slew her with the sword,
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and she became
famous among women,
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for they had
executed judgment upon her.
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And when her
sister Aholibah saw this,
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she was more corrupt
in her inordinate love
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than she and in her whoredoms
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more than her
sister in her whoredoms.
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She doted upon the
Assyrians her neighbors,
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captains and rulers
clothed most gorgeously,
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horsemen riding upon horses,
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all of them desirable young men.
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Then I saw that she was defiled,
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that they took both one way.
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And that she
increased her whoredoms,
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for when she saw men
portrayed upon the wall,
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the images of the Chaldeans
portrayed with vermilion,
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Girded with
girdles upon their loins,
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exceeding in dyed
attire upon their heads,
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all of them princes to look to,
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after the manner of
the Babylonians of Chaldea,
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the land of their nativity.
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And as soon as she
saw them with her eyes,
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she doted upon
them, and sent messengers
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unto them into Chaldea.
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And the Babylonians came to her
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into the bed of love,
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and they defiled
her with their whoredom,
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and she was polluted with them,
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and her mind was
alienated from them.
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So she discovered her whoredoms,
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and discovered her nakedness,
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then my mind was
alienated from her,
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like as my mind was
alienated from her sister.
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Yet she
multiplied her whoredoms,
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in calling to remembrance
the days of her youth,
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wherein she had
played the harlot
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in the land of Egypt.
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For she doted
upon their paramours,
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whose flesh is as
the flesh of asses,
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and whose issue is
like the issue of horses.
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Thus thou
calledst to remembrance
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the lewdness of thy youth,
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in bruising thy
teats by the Egyptians
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for the paps of thy youth.
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Therefore, O Aholibah,
thus saith the Lord God,
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behold, I will raise up
thy lovers against thee,
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from whom thy mind is alienated,
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and I will bring them
against thee on every side.
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The Babylonians,
and all the Chaldeans,
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Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa,
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and all the Assyrians with them,
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all of them desirable young men,
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captains and rulers,
great lords and renowned,
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all of them riding upon horses.
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And they shall come
against thee with chariots,
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wagons, and wheels, and
with an assembly of people,
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which shall set
against thee buckler and shield
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and helmet round about,
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and I will set
judgment before them,
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and they shall judge thee
according to their judgments.
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And I will set my
jealousy against thee,
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and they shall deal
furiously with thee,
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they shall take away
thy nose and thine ears,
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and thy remnant
shall fall by the sword,
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they shall take thy
sons and thy daughters,
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and thy residue shall
be devoured by the fire.
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They shall also strip
thee out of thy clothes,
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and take away thy fair jewels.
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Thus will I make thy
lewdness to cease from thee,
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and thy whoredom
brought from the land of Egypt,
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so that thou shalt not
lift up thine eyes unto them,
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nor remember Egypt any more."
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