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Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.

Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.

Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are turbulent more than the nations that are round about you, and haven't walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you;

And I will do in you that which I haven't done, and to which I will not do anymore the like, because of all your disgusting behaviors.

Therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your disgusting behaviors, therefore I also will shave [you off]; neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Smite with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil disgusting behaviors of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their insides; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

And the prince that is among them shall bear on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes.

and say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate of all that is therein, because of the violence of all those that dwell therein.

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

Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and when one builds up a wall, look, they daub it with untempered [mortar]:

Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive:

that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

If I cause evil beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the beasts;

And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, says the Lord Yahweh.

But you trusted in your beauty, and prostituted because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on every one that passed by, that it may be for him.

You have prostituted also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have prostituted with them, and yet you were not satisfied.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your disgusting things, and for the blood of your sons, that you gave to them;

Because you haven't remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, look, I also will bring your way on your head, says the Lord Yahweh: and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your disgusting behaviors.