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

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

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

that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares 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 Lebanon and took the top of the cedar.

"Say, Thus says the Lord God : Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it withers, so that all its fresh sprouting leaves wither? It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it from its roots.

"As I live, declares the Lord God , surely in the place where the king dwells 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, surely it is my oath that he despised, and my covenant that he broke. I will return it upon his head.

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

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

walks in my statutes, and keeps my rules by acting faithfully—he is righteous; he shall surely live, declares the Lord God .

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord God , and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?

"Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord God . Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.

For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God ; so turn, and live."

"Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God , Is it to inquire of me that you come? As I live, declares the Lord God , I will not be inquired of by you.

and say to them, Thus says the Lord God : On the day when I chose Israel, I swore to the offspring of the house of Jacob, making myself known to them in the land of Egypt; I swore to them, saying, I am the Lord your God.

And I said to them, ‘Cast away the detestable things your eyes feast on, every one of you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.'

I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules,

and keep my Sabbaths holy that they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.'

"Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, Thus says the Lord God : In this also your fathers blasphemed me, by dealing treacherously with me.