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And your name went out among the nations, because of your beauty, for it was perfect by My splendor which I had set on you, declares the Lord Jehovah.

And you took from your clothes and made for you high places of various colors, and fornicated on them, such as had not come, nor shall be.

Also My food which I gave you, fine flour and oil and honey which I fed you, you have given it to their face for a soothing aroma. And it happened, declares the Lord Jehovah.

And you have taken your sons and your daughters whom you have borne to Me, and you sacrificed these to them for food. Are your fornications small?

You have slaughtered My sons, and you gave them to cause these to pass through the fire for them.

Woe, woe to you, says the Lord Jehovah! For it happened, after all your evil,

They give a gift to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers and bribe them to come to you from all around for your fornication.

For your sister Sodom was not to be heard from your mouth in the day of your pride,

For so says the Lord Jehovah: I will even do with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

Then you shall remember your ways and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, the older than you to the younger than you, and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.

so that you may remember and be ashamed. And you will not any more open your mouth, because of your humiliation, when I am propitiated for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord Jehovah.

And Pharaoh shall not work for him with great army or great company in the war by pouring out mounds and building siege walls to cut off many souls.

has turned back his hand off the poor, and has not received interest and increase. He has done My judgments, has walked in My statutes. He shall not die for the iniquity of his father. Living he shall live.

When a righteous one turns from his righteousness and does injustice and dies in them, he shall die for his injustice which he has done.

Cast away all your transgressions from you by which you have transgressed in them, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

For I do not have delight in the death of him who dies, declares the Lord Jehovah. So turn and live.

And you lift up a lament for the rulers of Israel,

And there were rods to her, strong for the scepters of rulers, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches. And it was seen in her height, with the multitude of her branches.

In that day I lifted up My hand to them to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land flowing with milk and honey that I had searched out for them, the glory of it is to all lands.

But I worked for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were, for I made Myself known to them in their eyes, by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.