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Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Though I have removed them far away among the nations and though I have scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary to them for a little while in the countries to which they have gone.'"

And when they come there, then they will remove all of its vile idols and all of its detestable things from it.

so that they may walk in my statutes, and they will keep my regulations, and they will do them, and they will be to me a people, and I myself will be to them as God.

"Son of man, you are dwelling in the midst of the house of rebellion who has eyes to see and they do not see; they have ears to hear, and they do not hear, for they are a house of rebellion.

And you, son of man, prepare for yourself the baggage of an exile, and go into exile by day before their eyes. And you must go into exile from your place to another place before their eyes; perhaps they will see that they are a house of rebellion.

Say, ‘I am your sign, and just as I did, so will it be done to them in the exile; into captivity they will go.'

And they will know that I am Yahweh when I scatter them among the nations and I scatter them in the countries.

But I will spare from them a few men from the sword, from the famine and from the plague, so that they may tell of all their abominations among the nations to which they will go, and they will know that I am Yahweh."

And you must say to the people of the land, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the inhabitants of Jerusalem about the land of Israel: "They will eat their food with anxiety and their water they will drink with horror, because their land will be desolate from its fullness because of all the violence of those who are dwelling in it.

Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "I will put an end to this proverb, and they will not quote it as a proverb again in Israel."' But say to them, ‘The days are near, and also the word of every vision.'

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Alas, for the foolish prophets who are going after their own spirit, and they did not see anything!

They saw falseness and a lying divination, the ones saying, ‘Declaration of Yahweh!' and Yahweh did not send them, and they wait for the confirmation of their word.

"And it will be my hand against the prophets who are seeing falseness and who are practicing lying divination. They will not be in the council of my people, and they will not be written down in the record book of the house of Israel, and into the land of Israel they will not come, and then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.

Because, yes, because they led my people astray, saying ‘Peace!' And there is not peace. And when anyone builds a flimsy wall, look, they coat it with whitewash.

Say to those covering it with whitewash that it will fall; there will be a torrent of rain, and I will give stones of hail; they will fall! And a windstorm will burst forth!

And I will tear off your veils, and I will deliver my people from your hand, and they will not any longer be in your hand as prey, and you will know that I am Yahweh.

And men from the elders of Israel came to me, and they sat before me.

"Son of man, these men took up their idols into their heart and they placed before themselves a stumbling block of their guilt. Should I really let myself be consulted by them?

And they will bear their guilt, like the guilt of the inquirer so the guilt of the prophet will be,

so that the house of Israel will not go astray again from me, and they will not make themselves unclean again with all of their transgressions, and they will be for me a people, and I will be for them as God," declares the Lord Yahweh.