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and say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.

I passed by you again and looked on you; you were at the age for love. I spread the edge of my cloak over you, and covered your nakedness: I pledged myself to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God , and you became mine.

Your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of my splendor that I had bestowed on you, says the Lord God .

Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with choice flour and oil and honey—you set it before them as a pleasing odor; and so it was, says the Lord God .

After all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! says the Lord God ),

How sick is your heart, says the Lord God , that you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen whore;

Thus says the Lord God , Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whoring with your lovers, and because of all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,

Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things; therefore, I have returned your deeds upon your head, says the Lord God . Have you not committed lewdness beyond all your abominations?

As I live, says the Lord God , your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.

Yes, thus says the Lord God : I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath, breaking the covenant;

in order that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I forgive you all that you have done, says the Lord God .

Say: Thus says the Lord God : A great eagle, with great wings and long pinions, rich in plumage of many colors, came to the Lebanon. He took the top of the cedar,

Say: Thus says the Lord God : Will it prosper? Will he not pull up its roots, cause its fruit to rot and wither, its fresh sprouting leaves to fade? No strong arm or mighty army will be needed to pull it from its roots.

As I live, says the Lord God , surely in the place where the king resides who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant with him he broke—in Babylon he shall die.

Therefore thus says the Lord God : As I live, I will surely return upon his head my oath that he despised, and my covenant that he broke.

Thus says the Lord God : I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of a cedar; I will set it out. I will break off a tender one from the topmost of its young twigs; I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.

As I live, says the Lord God , this proverb shall no more be used by you in Israel.

follows my statutes, and is careful to observe my ordinances, acting faithfully—such a one is righteous; he shall surely live, says the Lord God .

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord God , and not rather that they should turn from their ways and live?

Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, all of you according to your ways, says the Lord God . Repent and turn from all your transgressions; otherwise iniquity will be your ruin.