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But now their faces are blacker than soot. No one recognizes them in the streets. Their skin sticks to their bones; it is as dry and hard as wood.

But now the anger of the Lord is satisfied. His fierce anger has been poured out. He started a fire in Jerusalem that burned the city to its foundations.

"Get away!" the people shouted at them. "You're defiled! Don't touch us!" So they fled to distant lands and wandered among foreign nations, but none would let them stay.

We looked in vain for our allies to come and save us, but we were looking to nations that could not help us.

Are you rejoicing in the land of Uz, O people of Edom? But you, too, must drink from the cup of the Lord 's anger. You, too, will be stripped naked in your drunkenness.

O beautiful Jerusalem, your punishment will end; you will soon return from exile. But Edom, your punishment is just beginning; soon your many sins will be exposed.

Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are exhausted but are given no rest.

Our ancestors sinned, but they have died— and we are suffering the punishment they deserved!

But Lord , you remain the same forever! Your throne continues from generation to generation.

They are a stubborn and hard-hearted people. But I am sending you to say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says!'

You must give them my messages whether they listen or not. But they won't listen, for they are completely rebellious!

But the people of Israel won't listen to you any more than they listen to me! For the whole lot of them are hard-hearted and stubborn.

But look, I have made you as obstinate and hard-hearted as they are.

The Spirit lifted me up and took me away. I went in bitterness and turmoil, but the Lord 's hold on me was strong.

If I warn the wicked, saying, ‘You are under the penalty of death,' but you fail to deliver the warning, they will die in their sins. And I will hold you responsible for their deaths.

If you warn them and they refuse to repent and keep on sinning, they will die in their sins. But you will have saved yourself because you obeyed me.

But if you warn righteous people not to sin and they listen to you and do not sin, they will live, and you will have saved yourself, too."

But when I give you a message, I will loosen your tongue and let you speak. Then you will say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says!' Those who choose to listen will listen, but those who refuse will refuse, for they are rebels.

but she has rebelled against my regulations and decrees and has been even more wicked than the surrounding nations. She has refused to obey the regulations and decrees I gave her to follow.

"But I will let a few of my people escape destruction, and they will be scattered among the nations of the world.