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Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.

So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD."

So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your bosom and pressed your young breasts.

So I will put an end to your indecency and prostitution, which began in the land of Egypt, and you will not lift your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.'

They will treat you with hatred, take all for which you have worked, and leave you naked and bare, so that the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your indecency and promiscuity

This is what the Lord GOD says: 'You will drink your sister's cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.

So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your behavior.

In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so that it would not be covered.'

So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And the next morning I did as I had been commanded.

So I answered them, "The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

On that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped; you will speak and no longer be mute. So you will be a sign for them, and they will know that I am the LORD."

I will give it along with the Ammonites as a possession to the people of the East, so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations.

So I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that I am the LORD.'

This is what the Lord GOD says: 'Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah and in so doing incurred grievous guilt,

So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.

For this is what the Lord GOD says: 'When I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,

then I will bring you down with those who descend to the Pit, to the people of antiquity. I will make you dwell in the earth below like the ancient ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will no longer be inhabited or set in splendor in the land of the living.

By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.

Your heart grew proud of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor; so I cast you to the earth; I made you a spectacle before kings.