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So, sinful woman, hear the Word of the Lord.

I will gather all your lovers who pleased you. I will gather all those whom you loved and all those whom you hated. I will gather them against you from every side, and take off your covering so that they may see all your shame.

You have not remembered the days when you were young, but have made Me angry with all these things. So I will punish you for what you have done," says the Lord God. "Did you not add these sex sins to all your other hated sins?

They were proud and did hated sins in front of Me. So I took them away when I saw it.

Samaria has not done half of your sins. You have done more sins than they. So you have made your sisters look right and good by all the hated sins which you have done.

Take your shame upon you, for you have made Me show favor to them in their punishment. Because of your sins in which you acted worse than they, they are more in the right than you. So then be ashamed and take your shame upon you, for you have made your sisters look right and good.

This is so you will take your shame upon you, and feel ashamed for all that you have done in becoming a comfort to them.

So I will make My agreement with you, and you will know that I am the Lord.

And it grew and became a low spreading vine. Its branches grew toward him, but its roots stayed under it. So it became a vine, and branches and leaves grew out from it.

Tell them, ‘The Lord God says, "Will it live and grow? Will not its roots be pulled up and its fruit be cut off so that its leaves that started to grow dry up? It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it up by the roots.

so that the nation would be under his power and not become strong again. It could only last by keeping his agreement.

Pharaoh with his powerful army of many men will not help him in the war, when battle-walls are put up so that many people are killed.

So the Lord God says, "As I live, I will punish him for hating My promise and for breaking My agreement.

"So I will judge you, O people of Israel, each of you by what he has done," says the Lord God. "Be sorry for all your sins and turn away from them, so sin will not destroy you.

For I am not pleased with the death of anyone who dies," says the Lord God. "So be sorry for your sins and turn away from them, and live."

They put him in a prison with chains and brought him to the king of Babylon. They put him in prison so that his voice would never be heard again on the mountains of Israel.

But it was pulled up by the roots in anger and thrown down to the ground. The east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branch was torn off so that it dried up. And fire destroyed it.

So I led them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the desert.

I gave them My Days of Rest to be something special to see between Me and them, so they would know that I am the Lord Who makes them holy.

So I promised them in the desert that I would not bring them into the land I had given them, the land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.