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"For these things I weep; My eye, my eye overflows with water; Because the comforter, who should restore my life, Is far from me. My children are desolate Because the enemy prevailed."

My eyes fail with tears, My heart is troubled; My bile is poured on the ground Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the children and the infants Faint in the streets of the city.

Through the LORD's mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not.

Let him sit alone and keep silent, Because God has laid it on him;

My eyes bring suffering to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city.

Because of the sins of her prophets And the iniquities of her priests, Who shed in her midst The blood of the just.

We get our bread at the risk of our lives, Because of the sword in the wilderness.

Our skin is hot as an oven, Because of the fever of famine.

Because of this our heart is faint; Because of these things our eyes grow dim;

Because of Mount Zion which is desolate, With foxes walking about on it.

Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went, because there the spirit went; and the wheels were lifted together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures [fn] was in the wheels.

But the house of Israel will not listen to you, because they will not listen to Me; for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted.

"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 did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness 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 should not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; also you will have delivered your soul."

that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity.

Therefore thus says the Lord God: 'Because you have multiplied disobedience more than the nations that are all around you, have not walked in My statutes nor kept My judgments, nor even done Ezekiel 11:12).">[fn] according to the judgments of the nations that are all around you'--

And I will do among you what I have never done, and the like of which I will never do again, because of all your abominations.

"Therefore, as I live,' says the Lord GOD, "surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you; My eye will not spare, nor will I have any pity.

Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed from Me, and by their eyes which play the harlot after their idols; they will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their abominations.

"They will throw their silver into the streets, And their gold will be like refuse; Their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of the LORD; They will not satisfy their souls, Nor fill their stomachs, Because it became their stumbling block of iniquity.