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Every town will lie in ruins, and the land will be a barren desert. Then they will know that I am the Lord .

Now tell the people that I, the Lord , am going to prove that saying wrong. No one will ever be able to use it again in Israel, because very soon everything I have said will come true!

So I am going to punish those lying prophets for deceiving the people of Israel with false messages.

I will turn against them and no longer let them belong to my people. They will not be allowed to call themselves Israelites or even to set foot in Israel. Then they will realize that I am the Lord God.

That wall is the city of Jerusalem. And I, the Lord God, am so angry that I will send strong winds, rainstorms, and hailstones to destroy it.

I will tear the scarves from their heads and rescue my people from their power once and for all. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.

Now, Ezekiel, tell everyone in Israel: I am the Lord God. Stop worshiping your disgusting idols and come back to me.

by turning against you. I will make you a warning to anyone who might think of doing the same thing, and you will no longer belong to my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord and that you have sinned against me.

If a prophet gives a false message, I am the one who caused that prophet to lie. But I will still reject him and cut him off from my people,

And suppose I am so angry that I send a deadly disease to wipe out the people and livestock of a sinful nation.

I am the Lord God, and I promise to punish Jerusalem severely. I will send war, starvation, wild animals, and deadly disease to slaughter its people and livestock.

I will punish the people of Jerusalem with fire. Some of them have escaped one destruction, but soon they will be completely burned. And when that happens, you, Ezekiel, will know that I am the Lord .

and tell them that I, the Lord God, am saying: Jerusalem, you were born in the country where Canaanites lived. Your father was an Amorite, and your mother was a Hittite.

As surely as I am the living Lord God, the people of Sodom and its nearby villages were never as sinful as you.

I will keep this solemn promise, and you will know that I am the Lord .

so they will understand what I am saying to them: A large eagle with strong wings and beautiful feathers once flew to Lebanon. It broke the top branch off a cedar tree,

As surely as I am the living Lord God, I swear that the king of Judah will die in Babylon, because he broke the treaty with the king of Babylonia, who appointed him king.

Now tell them that I am the Lord God, and as surely as I live, that saying will no longer be used in Israel.

But you still say that I am unfair. You are the ones who have done wrong and are unfair!

by worshiping idols and by sacrificing their own children as offerings. They commit these sins and still think they can ask me for a message. As surely as I am the living Lord God, I will give them no answer.