Hello and welcome to
"His Words are Life."
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I'm, Kelly Mowrer, and
today we're going to be reading
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together from
the Book of Ezekiel,
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but first let's pray.
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Dear Heavenly
Father, thank you so much
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for Your love and
Your care for each of us
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in all the things that we're
each going through right now.
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But please help us to set aside
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those cares and those concerns
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for these few
minutes to hear Your word.
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Please may these
words speak to each of us
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in what You need for us to hear.
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We love You so much and
thank You for loving us. Amen.
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We're reading in
the Book of Ezekiel,
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Chapter 34 and when
we were last together,
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the Lord is speaking to
the shepherd's of Israel
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who have not
fulfilled their duties
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and fed the sheep.
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Picking up in
Ezekiel 34, verse 7
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"Therefore, ye shepherds,
hear the word of the Lord,
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As I live, saith the Lord God,
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surely because my
flock became a prey,
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and my flock became meat
to every beast of the field,
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because there was no shepherd,
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neither did my
shepherds search for my flock,
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but the
shepherds fed themselves,
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and fed not my flock,
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Therefore, O ye shepherds,
hear the word of the Lord,
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Thus saith the Lord God, Behold,
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I am against the shepherds,
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and I will require
my flock at their hand,
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and cause them to
cease from feeding the flock,
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neither shall the shepherds
feed themselves any more,
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for I will deliver my
flock from their mouth,
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that they may
not be meat for them.
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For thus saith
the Lord God, Behold,
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I, even I, will
both search my sheep,
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and seek them out.
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As a shepherd seeketh
out his flock in the day
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that he is among his
sheep that are scattered,
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so will I seek out my sheep,
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and will deliver
them out of all places
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where they have been scattered
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in the cloudy and dark day.
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Now will bring them
out from the people,
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and gather them
from the countries,
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and will bring
them to their own land,
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and feed them upon
the mountains of Israel
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by the rivers, and
in all the inhabited
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places of the country.
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I will feed them
in a good pasture,
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and upon the high
mountains of Israel
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shall their fold
be, there shall they lie
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in a good fold,
and in a fat pasture
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shall they feed upon
the mountains of Israel.
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I will feed my
flock, and I will cause them
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to lie down, saith the Lord God.
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I will seek that which was lost,
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and bring again that
which was driven away,
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and will bind up
that which was broken,
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and will strengthen
that which was sick,
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but I will destroy
the fat and the strong,
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I will feed them with judgment.
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And as for you, O my flock,
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thus saith the Lord God, Behold,
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I judge between
cattle and cattle,
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between the rams
and the he goats.
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Seemeth it a
small thing unto you
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to have eaten up
the good pasture,
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but ye must tread
down with your feet
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the residue of your pastures?
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And to have drunk
of the deep waters,
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but ye must foul the
residue with your feet?
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And as for my flock,
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they eat that which ye
have trodden with your feet,
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and they drink that which
ye have fouled with your feet.
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Therefore thus saith
the Lord God unto them,
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Behold, I, even I, will
judge between the fat cattle
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and between the lean cattle.
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Because ye have thrust
with side and with shoulder,
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and pushed all the
diseased with your horns,
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till ye have
scattered them abroad,
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Therefore will I save my flock,
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and they shall
no more be a prey,
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and I will judge
between cattle and cattle.
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And I will set up
one shepherd over them,
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and he shall feed
them, even my servant David,
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he shall feed them,
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and he shall be their shepherd.
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And I the Lord
will be their God,
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and my servant
David a prince among them,
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I the Lord have spoken it.
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And I will make with
them a covenant of peace,
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and will cause the evil
beasts to cease out of the land,
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and they shall dwell
safely in the wilderness,
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and sleep in the woods.
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And I will make
them and the places
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round about my hill a blessing,
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and I will cause the shower
to come down in his season,
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there shall be
showers of blessing.
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And the tree of the
field shall yield her fruit,
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and the earth
shall yield her increase,
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and they shall be
safe in their land,
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and shall know
that I am the Lord,
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when I have broken
the bands of their yoke,
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and delivered
them out of the hand
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of those that
served themselves of them.
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And they shall no more
be a prey to the heathen,
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neither shall the beast
of the land devour them,
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but they shall dwell safely,
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and none shall make them afraid.
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I will raise up for
them a plant of renown,
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and they shall
be no more consumed
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with hunger in the land,
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neither bear the shame
of the heathen any more.
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Thus shall they know
that I the Lord their God
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am with them, and that they,
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even the house of
Israel, are my people,
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saith the Lord God.
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And ye my flock,
the flock of my pasture,
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are men, and I am your
God, saith the Lord God."
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Continuing in
Ezekiel, Chapter 35,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"Moreover the word of
the Lord came unto me,
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saying, Son of man,
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set thy face against mount Seir,
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and prophesy
against it, And say unto it,
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Thus saith the Lord God, Behold,
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O mount Seir, I am against thee,
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and I will stretch out
mine hand against thee,
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and I will make
thee most desolate.
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I will lay thy cities waste,
and thou shalt be desolate,
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and thou shalt
know that I am the Lord.
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Because thou hast
had a perpetual hatred,
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and hast shed the blood
of the children of Israel
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by the force of the sword
in the time of their calamity,
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in the time that
their iniquity had an end,
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Therefore, as I
live, saith the Lord God,
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I will prepare thee unto blood,
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and blood shall pursue thee,
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since thou hast not hated blood,
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even blood shall pursue thee.
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Thus will I make
mount Seir most desolate,
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and cut off from it him
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that passeth out
and him that returneth.
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And I will fill his
mountains with his slain men,
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in thy hills,
and in thy valleys,
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and in all thy
rivers, shall they fall
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that are slain with the sword.
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I will make thee
perpetual desolations,
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and thy cities shall not return,
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and ye shall know
that I am the Lord.
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Because thou hast
said, These two nations
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and these two
countries shall be mine,
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and we will possess it,
whereas the Lord was there,
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Therefore, as I
live, saith the Lord God,
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I will even do
according to thine anger,
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and according to thine
envy which thou hast used
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out of thy hatred against them,
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and I will make
myself known among them,
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when I have judged thee.
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And thou shalt
know that I am the Lord,
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and that I have
heard all thy blasphemies
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which thou hast spoken
against the mountains of Israel,
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saying, They are laid desolate,
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they are given us to consume.
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Thus with your mouth ye
have boasted against me,
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and have multiplied
your words against me,
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I have heard them.
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Thus saith the Lord God,
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When the whole earth rejoiceth,
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I will make thee desolate.
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As thou didst rejoice
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at the inheritance
of the house of Israel,
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because it was desolate,
so will I do unto thee,
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thou shalt be
desolate, O mount Seir,
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and all Idumea, even all of it,
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and they shall know
that I am the Lord."
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Continuing in
Ezekiel, Chapter 36
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"Also, thou son of man,
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prophesy unto the
mountains of Israel,
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and say, Ye mountains of Israel,
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hear the word of the
Lord, Thus saith the Lord God,
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Because the enemy
hath said against you,
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Aha, even the ancient high
places are ours in possession,
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Therefore prophesy and
say, Thus saith the Lord God,
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Because they have
made you desolate,
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and swallowed
you up on every side,
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that ye might be a possession
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unto the residue of the heathen,
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and ye are taken up
in the lips of talkers,
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and are an infamy of the people,
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Therefore, ye
mountains of Israel,
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hear the word of the Lord God,
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Thus saith the Lord
God to the mountains,
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and to the hills, to the rivers,
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and to the valleys,
to the desolate wastes,
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and to the cities
that are forsaken,
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which became a prey and derision
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to the residue of the
heathen that are round about,
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Therefore thus
saith the Lord God,
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Surely in the
fire of my jealousy
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have I spoken against
the residue of the heathen,
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and against all Idumea,
which have appointed my land
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into their possession with
the joy of all their heart,
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with despiteful minds,
to cast it out for a prey.
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Prophesy therefore
concerning the land of Israel,
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and say unto the
mountains, and to the hills,
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to the rivers,
and to the valleys,
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Thus saith the Lord God, Behold,
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I have spoken in my
jealousy and in my fury,
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because ye have borne
the shame of the heathen,
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Therefore thus
saith the Lord God,
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I have lifted up mine hand,
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Surely the heathen
that are about you,
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they shall bear their shame.
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But ye, O mountains of Israel,
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ye shall shoot
forth your branches,
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and yield your fruit
to my people of Israel,
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for they are at hand to come.
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For, behold, I am for you,
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and I will turn unto you,
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and ye shall be tilled and sown,
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And I will
multiply men upon you,
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all the house of
Israel, even all of it,
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and the cities
shall be inhabited,
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and the wastes shall be builded,
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And I will multiply
upon you man and beast,
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and they shall
increase and bear fruit,
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and I will settle you
after your old estates,
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and will do better unto
you than at your beginnings,
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and ye shall know
that I am the Lord.
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Yea, I will cause
men to walk upon you,
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even my people Israel,
and they shall possess thee,
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and thou shalt be
their inheritance,
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and thou shalt
no more henceforth
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bereave them of men.
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Thus saith the Lord God,
Because they say unto you,
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Thou land devourest up men,
and hast bereaved thy nations,
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Therefore thou
shalt devour men no more,
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neither bereave
thy nations any more,
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saith the Lord God.
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Neither will I
cause men to hear in thee
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the shame of the
heathen any more,
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neither shalt thou bear
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the reproach of
the people any more,
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neither shalt thou cause
thy nations to fall any more,
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saith the Lord God.
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Moreover the word of
the Lord came unto me,
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saying, Son of man,
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when the house of
Israel dwelt in their own land,
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they defiled it by their
own way and by their doings,
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their way was before me
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as the uncleanness
of a removed woman.
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Wherefore I
poured my fury upon them
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for the blood that
they had shed upon the land,
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and for their idols
wherewith they had polluted it,
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And I scattered
them among the heathen,
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and they were
dispersed through the countries,
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according to
their way and according
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to their doings I judged them.
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And when they
entered unto the heathen,
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whither they went,
they profaned my holy name,
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when they said to them,
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These are the
people of the Lord,
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and are gone
forth out of his land.
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But I had pity
for mine holy name,
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which the house of
Israel had profaned
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among the
heathen, whither they went.
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Therefore say unto
the house of Israel,
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thus saith the Lord God, I
do not this for your sakes,
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O house of Israel, but
for mine holy names sake,
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which ye have profaned
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among the
heathen, whither ye went.
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And I will
sanctify my great name,
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which was
profaned among the heathen,
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which ye have
profaned in the midst of them,
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and the heathen shall
know that I am the Lord,
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saith the Lord God,
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when I shall be sanctified
in you before their eyes.
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For I will take you
from among the heathen,
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and gather you
out of all countries,
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and will bring you
into your own land.
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Then will I sprinkle
clean water upon you,
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and ye shall be clean,
from all your filthiness,
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and from all your
idols, will I cleanse you.
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A new heart
also will I give you,
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and a new spirit
will I put within you,
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and I will take away the
stony heart out of your flesh,
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and I will give
you an heart of flesh.
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And I will put my
spirit within you,
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and cause you to
walk in my statutes,
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and ye shall keep my
judgments, and do them.
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And ye shall dwell in the land
that I gave to your fathers,
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and ye shall be my
people, and I will be your God.
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I will also save you
from all your uncleannesses,
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and I will call for the
corn, and will increase it,
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and lay no famine upon you.
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And I will multiply
the fruit of the tree,
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and the increase of the
field, that ye shall receive
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no more reproach of
famine among the heathen.
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Then shall ye
remember your own evil ways,
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and your doings
that were not good,
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and shall lothe
yourselves in your own sight
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for your iniquities
and for your abominations.
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Not for your sakes do I
this, saith the Lord God,
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be it known unto you,
be ashamed and confounded
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for your own
ways, O house of Israel.
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Thus saith the Lord God,
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In the day that I
shall have cleansed you
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from all your iniquities
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I will also cause you
to dwell in the cities,
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and the wastes
shall be builded."
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