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See, LORD; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.

See you their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.

The slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am the LORD.

They shall know that I am the LORD: I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them.

You shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered sweet savor to all their idols.

I will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am the LORD.

The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do to them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Yisra'el; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

and you shall know that I am the LORD: for you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you.

Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done to them; they shall go into exile, into captivity.

They shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries.

But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

For I am the LORD; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, rebellious house, will I speak the word, and will perform it, says the Lord GOD.

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the Lord GOD.