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And he said to me, Son of man, dig: so I dug, and behold a door.

So I went in and looked; and beheld vain abominations, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon them round about.

say, I am performing signs: as I have done, so shall it be to him: they shall go into banishment and captivity.

And the prince in the midst of them shall be borne upon shoulders, and shall go forth in secret through the wall, and shall dig so that he may go forth thereby: he shall cover his face, that he may not be seen by any eye, and he himself shall not see the ground.

that the house of Israel may no go astray from me, and that they may no more defile themselves with any of their transgressions: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God, saith the Lord.

increase; I have made thee as the springing grass of the field. So thou didst increase and grow, and didst enter into great cities: thy breasts were set, and thy hair grew, whereas thou wast naked and bare.

So thou wast adorned with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and variegated work: thou didst eat fine flour, and oil, and honey, and didst become extremely beautiful.

And thou tookest my bread which I gave thee, (yea I fed thee with fine flour and oil and honey) and didst set them before them for a sweet-smelling savour: yea, it was so, saith the Lord.

So will I slacken my fury against thee, and my jealousy shall be removed from thee, and I will rest, and be no more careful for thee.

As is the mother, so is thy mother�s daughter: thou art she that has rejected her husband and her children; and the sisters of thy sisters have rejected their husbands and their children: your mother was a Chettite, and your father an Amorite.

And they boasted, and wrought iniquities before me: so I cut them off as I saw fit.

And it sprang up, and became a weak and little vine, so that the branches thereof appeared upon it, and its roots were under it: and it became a vine, and put forth shoots, and sent forth its tendrils.

that it may become a weak kingdom, so as never to lift itself up, that he may keep his covenant, and establish it.

Whereas he has profaned the oath so as to break the covenant, when, behold, I engage his hand, and he has done all these things to him, he shall not escape.

For all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son, they are mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.

But I wrought so that my name should not be at all profaned in the sight of the Gentiles, in the midst of whom they are, among whom I was made known to them in their sight, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

But I wrought so that my name should not be at all profaned before the Gentiles, before whose eyes I brought them out.

Yet mine eyes spared them, so as not to destroy them utterly, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

But I wrought so that my name might not be at all profaned before the Gentiles; and I brought them out in their sight.

So I gave them commandments that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live.