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But the children turned against Me. They did not keep My Laws or obey My Words which bring life to anyone who obeys them. They did not keep My Days of Rest holy. So I said I would be angry with them. I would send My anger against them in the desert.

"So, son of man, speak to the people of Israel. Tell them, ‘The Lord God says, "This is another way that your fathers have brought shame to My name by not being faithful to Me.

Then I said to them, ‘What is this high place you go to?' So it is called Bamah to this day."'

So tell the people of Israel, ‘The Lord God says, "Will you make yourselves sinful in the same way your fathers did, and go after their sinful things?

As I punished your fathers in the desert of Egypt, so I will punish you," says the Lord God.

Cry out in a loud voice, son of man, for the sword is against My people. It is against all the leaders of Israel. They are going to be killed with My people, so beat your upper leg in sorrow.

"So speak in My name, son of man, and clap your hands together. Let the sword that kills hit two, even three times. It is the sword that kills and is all around them,

so that they will lose their strength of heart, and many will be killed at all their gates. I have sent the shining sword. It is made to shine like lightning, and is ready to kill.

The people who promised to obey him will not believe this. But he will make them remember their guilt so that they may be taken.

So the Lord God says, ‘You have made your guilt to be remembered. Your sins are no longer covered, and everyone has seen the bad things you have done and remembers them. So you will be taken in battle.

You have become guilty by killing your people, and sinful by the false gods you have made. You have brought the day of your punishment near. The end of your years has come. So I have made you a shame to the nations. All the countries laugh at you.

So the Lord God says, ‘Because you have all become waste, I am going to gather you together in Jerusalem.

As men gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the stove to blow fire on it and melt it, so I will gather you in My anger. I will put you in the city and melt you.

As silver is melted in the hot stove, so you will be melted in Jerusalem. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have poured out My anger upon you.'"

So I have become angry with them. I have destroyed them with the fire of My anger. I am punishing them for what they have done," says the Lord God.

They sold the use of their bodies in Egypt, and did so when they were young. Their breasts were lain upon in that land. Their breasts, which had never before been held by a man, were held.

So I gave her over to her lovers the Assyrians whom she desired.

They took off her clothes. They took her sons and daughters. But they killed her with the sword. So she became a saying among women, because she was punished.

"So, Oholibah, the Lord God says, ‘I will bring your lovers against you, those you turned away from. I will bring them against you from every side:

So I will put an end to the sex sins you brought from the land of Egypt. You will never again look at these things with desire or remember Egypt.'