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This is what the Lord GOD says: "Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your obscene practices with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your sons that you gave to idols,

"Also, bear your disgrace in that you have made judgment favorable for your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. Yes, be also ashamed and bear your disgrace, in that you made your sisters appear innocent.

"Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both your older and your younger; and I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant.

so that you may remember and be ashamed, and not open your mouth again because of your disgrace, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done," the Lord GOD declares.

"As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what was not good among his people, behold, he will die for his guilt.

"All his offenses which he has committed will not be remembered against him; because of his righteousness which he has practiced, he will live.

"When a righteous person turns away from his righteousness, commits injustice and dies because of it, for his injustice which he has committed he dies.

'He destroyed their palaces And laid waste their cities; And the land and its fullness were appalled Because of the sound of his roaring.

'Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, Planted by the waters; It was fruitful and thick with branches Because of abundant waters.

because they rejected My ordinances, and as for My statutes, they did not walk in them; they also profaned My Sabbaths, because their heart continually followed their idols.

because they had not complied with My ordinances, but had rejected My statutes and had profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes were on the idols of their fathers.

and I pronounced them unclean because of their gifts, in that they made all their firstborn pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might know that I am the LORD."'

"Because I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore My sword will go out from its sheath against humanity from south to north.

"And when they say to you, 'Why are you groaning?' you shall say, 'Because of the news, for it is coming; and every heart will melt, all hands will go limp, every spirit will be disheartened, and all knees will drip with water. Behold, it is coming and it will happen,' declares the Lord GOD."

"Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Because you have made your guilt known, in that your offenses are uncovered, so that in all your deeds your sins are seen—because you have come to mind, you will be seized by the hand.

"Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Because all of you have become waste metal, therefore, behold, I am going to gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

"So you longed for the outrageous sin of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your breasts because of the breasts of your youth.

'These things will be done to you because you have adulterously pursued the nations, because you have defiled yourself with their idols.

"This is what the Lord GOD says: 'You will drink your sister's cup, Which is deep and wide. You will be laughed at and held in derision; Because it contains much.

"Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Because you have forgotten Me and discarded Me behind your back, suffer on your own part the punishment for your outrageous sin and your obscene practices.'"