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As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed and extorted from his brother and did nothing that is good among his people, lo, he is dead in his own sins.

Cast away from you all the iniquities which you have committed; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit, so that you may not die, O house of Israel.

For I have no pleasure in the death of any one who dies, says the LORD God; wherefore repent and live.

MOREOVER, you Son of man, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

And she had strong rods for scepters of the rulers upon the great branches, and their stature rose up higher among its shoots, and their height was seen and the multitude of their tendrils.

And fire is gone out from its choice branches and has devoured its fruit, so that no strong rod was found in it, or a branch to become a rulers scepter. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

But I pitied them for my names sake, that it should not be defiled among the Gentiles, in whose sight I revealed myself to them to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt.

But I pitied them for my names sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the Gentiles, in whose presence I brought them out.

Because they despised my judgments and polluted my sabbaths exceedingly; for their hearts went after their idols.

But I pitied them for my names sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the Gentiles, in whose presence I brought them out.

For when I had brought them into the land that I had sworn to give them, then they saw every high hill and every shady tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented their offerings; there they also made their sweet savor and poured out there their drink offerings.

And that which is in your mind shall not come to pass at all, for you say, We will be like the Gentiles and like the families of the earth, to serve wood and stones.

As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the LORD God: If you will not hearken to me, go then and serve every one his own idols, but pollute not my holy name any more with your gift offerings and with your idols.

For on my holy mountain, even in the mountain height of Israel, says the LORD God, there shall all the house of Israel serve me perfectly; there will I be pleased with them, and there will I require their offerings and the first fruits of their harvest and the choicest of their gift offerings with all their holy things.

And there you shall remember your ways and all your doings by which you have been defiled; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all the evils that you have committed.

And you shall know that I am the LORD who had pity upon you for my names sake, not according to your evil ways nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, says the LORD God,

And as for you, O Son of man, sigh with a broken heart, and with bitterness groan before their eyes.

Cry and wail, Son of man; for it is against my people and against all the princes of Israel;

You therefore, Son of man, prophesy and clap your hands, and let the sword smite double, and the third stroke is the stroke of the slain; this is the sword for a great slaughter that causes them to tremble,

That their hearts may faint and the sufferers be multiplied in all their gates, for I have delivered them to the sword which is sharpened, glittering and drawn for the slaughter.