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But I the Lord will speak the word that I speak, and it will be fulfilled. It will no longer be delayed; but in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and fulfill it, says the Lord God .

Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God : None of my words will be delayed any longer, but the word that I speak will be fulfilled, says the Lord God .

Thus says the Lord God , Alas for the senseless prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

Therefore thus says the Lord God : Because you have uttered falsehood and envisioned lies, I am against you, says the Lord God .

My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations; they shall not be in the council of my people, nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord God .

Therefore thus says the Lord God : In my wrath I will make a stormy wind break out, and in my anger there shall be a deluge of rain, and hailstones in wrath to destroy it.

the prophets of Israel who prophesied concerning Jerusalem and saw visions of peace for it, when there was no peace, says the Lord God .

and say, Thus says the Lord God : Woe to the women who sew bands on all wrists, and make veils for the heads of persons of every height, in the hunt for human lives! Will you hunt down lives among my people, and maintain your own lives?

Therefore thus says the Lord God : I am against your bands with which you hunt lives; I will tear them from your arms, and let the lives go free, the lives that you hunt down like birds.

Therefore speak to them, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God : Any of those of the house of Israel who take their idols into their hearts and place their iniquity as a stumbling block before them, and yet come to the prophet—I the Lord will answer those who come with the multitude of their idols,

Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God : Repent and turn away from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

so that the house of Israel may no longer go astray from me, nor defile themselves any more with all their transgressions. Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God, says the Lord God .

even if Noah, Daniel, and Job, these three, were in it, they would save only their own lives by their righteousness, says the Lord God .

even if these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord God , they would save neither sons nor daughters; they alone would be saved, but the land would be desolate.

though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord God , they would save neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be saved.

even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, says the Lord God , they would save neither son nor daughter; they would save only their own lives by their righteousness.

For thus says the Lord God : How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four deadly acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild animals, and pestilence, to cut off humans and animals from it!

They shall console you, when you see their ways and their deeds; and you shall know that it was not without cause that I did all that I have done in it, says the Lord God .

Therefore thus says the Lord God : Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted faithlessly, says the Lord God .