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Egypt will be his reward, because he and his army have been following my orders. I, the Lord God, have spoken.

because you will soon be punished! That will be a time of darkness and doom for all nations.

If any of these people hear the signal and ignore it, they will be killed in battle. But it will be their own fault, because they could have escaped if they had paid attention.

When I tell wicked people they will die because of their sins, you must warn them to turn from their sinful ways. But if you refuse to warn them, you are responsible for their death.

If you do warn them, and they keep sinning, they will die because of their sins, and you will be innocent.

Suppose I promise good people that they will live, then later they start sinning and believe they will be saved by the good they did in the past. These people will certainly be put to death because of their sins. Their good deeds will be forgotten.

Suppose I warn wicked people that they will die because of their sins, and they stop sinning and start doing right.

Their past sins will be forgiven, and they will live because they have done right.

If good people start doing evil, they will be put to death, because they have sinned.

I will punish you because of your sins, and I will turn your nation into a barren desert. Then you will know that I am the Lord .

They strayed in every direction, and because there was no shepherd to watch them, they were attacked and eaten by wild animals.

Now listen to what I, the living Lord God, am saying to you shepherds. My sheep have been attacked and eaten by wild animals, because you refused to watch them. You never went looking for the lost ones, and you fed yourselves without feeding my sheep.

to look for those that are lost and bring back the ones that wander off, to bandage those that are hurt and protect the ones that are weak. I will also slaughter those that are fat and strong, because I always do right.

But in my fierce anger, I will turn against those nations, and especially the Edomites, because they laughed at you the loudest and took over your pasturelands.

Trees will grow on you mountains of Israel and produce fruit for my people, because they will soon come home.

I will bring my people Israel home, and they will live on you mountains, because you belong to them, and your fertile slopes will never again let them starve.

Wherever they went, my name was disgraced, because foreigners insulted my people by saying I had forced them out of their own land.

because I will put my Spirit in you and make you eager to obey my laws and teachings.

because in a few years, I will command you to invade Israel, a country that was ruined by war. It was deserted for a long time, but its people have returned from the foreign nations where they once lived. The Israelites now live in peace in the mountains of their own land.

Foreign nations will realize that the Israelites were forced to leave their own land because they sinned against me. I turned my back on my people and let enemies attack and kill them.