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And you, son of man, say to the sons of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he that is righteous be able to live by it in the day that he sins.

When I say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trusts to his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein he shall die.

Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right;

None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.

And when the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not fair. O house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.

You stand on your sword, you do disgusting things, and you defile every one his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land?

And as for you, son of man, the sons of your people talk of you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what the word is that comes forth from Yahweh.

As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

And when the people came to the nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of Yahweh, and have gone forth out of his land.

And you, son of man, take for yourself one stick, and write on it, For Judah, and for the sons of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and [for] all the house of Israel his companions:

say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Look, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them with it, [even] with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.

Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with you.

And I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains, says the Lord Yahweh: every man's sword shall be against his brother.

And with pestilence and with blood I will enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples that are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give to Gog a place of renown for burial in Israel, the valley of those that pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop those that pass through: and there they shall bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of Hamon-gog.

And he brought me there; and, look, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

And, look, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shined with his glory.

And in the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin-offering, says the Lord Yahweh.