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"Yet she multiplied her obscene practices, remembering the days of her youth, when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt.

"She has wearied Me with work, Yet her great rust has not gone from her; Let her rust be in the fire!

"In your filthiness is outrageous sin. Because I would have cleansed you, Yet you are not clean, You will not be cleansed from your filthiness again Until I have expended My wrath on you.

"Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, 'The Lord GOD says this: "Because your heart is haughty And you have said, 'I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods In the heart of the seas'; Yet you are a mortal and not God, Although you make your heart like the heart of God—

"To which among the trees of Eden are you so alike in glory and greatness? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth beneath; you will lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those who were killed by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his hordes!"' declares the Lord GOD."

"Son of man, take up a song of mourning over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, 'You compared yourself to a young lion of the nations, Yet you are like the monster in the seas; And you burst forth in your rivers And muddied the waters with your feet And fouled their rivers.'"

"Though I inflicted the terror of him on the land of the living, yet he will be laid to rest among the uncircumcised along with those killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his hordes," declares the Lord GOD.

"Yet your fellow citizens say, 'The way of the Lord is not right,' when it is their own way that is not right.

"Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not right.' I will judge each of you according to his ways, house of Israel."

"Son of man, they who live in these ruins in the land of Israel are saying, 'Abraham was only one, yet he possessed the land; so to us who are many the land has been given as a possession.'

"When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, yet they have left His land.'

"Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house and ministering in the house; they shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.

"Also they shall not shave their heads, yet they shall not let their locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.

"Yet leave the stump with its roots in the ground, But with a band of iron and bronze around it In the new grass of the field; And let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, And let him share with the animals in the grass of the earth.

'And in that the king saw an angelic watcher, a holy one, descending from heaven and saying, "Chop down the tree and destroy it; yet leave the stump with its roots in the ground, but with a band of iron and bronze around it in the new grass of the field, let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let him share with the animals of the field until seven periods of time pass over him,"

"Yet you, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this,

"Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come on us; yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our wrongdoing and giving attention to Your truth.

So I was left alone and saw this great vision; yet no strength was left in me, for my complexion turned to a deathly pallor, and I retained no strength.

"However, I will tell you what is recorded in the writing of truth. Yet there is no one who stands firmly with me against these forces except Michael your prince.

"When the multitude is carried away, his heart will be haughty, and he will cause tens of thousands to fall; yet he will not prevail.