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So the Lord God says, ‘You have been more sinful than the nations around you. You have not walked in My Laws or kept them. You have not even kept Laws like the nations around you have. Because you have acted this way,'

You have made My holy place unclean with all your hated objects of worship and sinful ways. So as I live,' says the Lord, ‘for sure I will turn away from you. My eye will have no pity and I will punish all of you.

So your altars will be laid waste. Your altars for special perfume will be broken. And I will kill your people in front of your false gods.

They turned the beauty of gold into objects of pride, and made their hated objects of worship with it. So I will make it an unclean thing to them.

So I will bring the worst of the nations to take their houses for their own. I will put an end to the pride of the strong ones, and their holy places will become unclean.

He said to me, "Son of man, look toward the north." So I looked toward the north, and saw that to the north of the altar gate was this false god of jealousy in the doorway.

And He said to me, "Son of man, now dig through the wall." So I dug through the wall and saw a door.

So I went in and looked. And I saw that on the wall all around were pictures of every kind of thing which moves along the ground, and wild animals, and hated things, and all the false gods of the people of Israel.

So I will act in My anger. My eye will have no pity, and I will not let any go without punishment. Even if they cry in My ears with a loud voice, I will not listen to them."

Kill and destroy old men, young men, young women, little children, and women. But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at My holy house." So they started with the leaders who were in front of the Lord's house.

He said to them, "Make the house of worship unclean and fill the open spaces with the dead. Go out!" So they went out and killed the people in the city.

These are the living beings that I saw under the God of Israel by the Chebar River, so I knew that they were cherubim.

So tell what will happen against them, son of man. Speak the Word of God!"

So the Lord God says, "Your dead whom you have laid in the city are the meat, and this city is the pot. But I will bring you out of it.

You have been afraid of the sword, so I will bring a sword upon you," the Lord God says.

You will be killed by the sword all the way to the land of Israel, so you will know that I am the Lord.

So tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: "I sent them far away among the nations. I divided them among the countries. But still I was a holy place for them a little while in the countries where they had gone."'

So tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: "I will gather you from the nations. I will gather you together out of the countries where you have been divided. And I will give you the land of Israel."'

So, son of man, get your things ready to take with you to another land, and let them see you leave during the day. Let them see you leave to go to another place. It may be that they will understand even if they are sinful people.

Load your things on your shoulder while they watch, and carry the load out in the dark. Cover your face so that you cannot see the land. For I have made you as something special for the people of Israel to see."