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Your heart was proud because of your beauty. You made your wisdom sinful because of your beauty. So I threw you to the ground. I laid you in front of kings for them to see you.

All the nations who know you are filled with wonder and fear because of you. You have come to a bad end, and you will be no more forever."'"

And the land of Egypt will be destroyed and laid waste. Then they will know that I am the Lord. "Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I made it,'

I have given him the land of Egypt for the work he has done, because he and his army worked for Me," says the Lord God.

So it was higher than all the trees of the field. And it grew many long and spreading branches because it had so much water.

‘So the Lord God says, "Because it has grown high with its top among the heavy branches, its heart has become proud,

I will give it over to a powerful ruler of the nations, and he will punish it. Because of its sin, I will drive it out.

‘The Lord God says, "When it goes down to the place of the dead, I will make the waters under the ground cover it in sorrow. I will stop its rivers of water and fill Lebanon with sorrow over it. All the trees of the field will waste away because of it.

I will fill many nations with fear and wonder because of you. Their kings will shake in fear for you when I wave My sword in front of them. Every man will keep shaking in fear for his own life, on the day you are destroyed."

But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the horn, and the people are not told of the danger, and a sword comes and kills one of them, that man will be taken away because of his sin. But the blood of the watchman must be given.'

But when the sinful man turns from his sin and does what is right and good, he will live because of it.

Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I destroy the land and make it a waste because of all the hated sins they have done."'

They went everywhere because they had no shepherd. And they became food for every animal of the field.

"As I live," says the Lord God, "My flock has been killed and become food for wild animals because they had no shepherd. My shepherds did not look for My flock. They fed themselves, but have not fed My flock."

Because you push with your side and shoulder and run against all the weak with your horns until you have driven them away,

So as I live," says the Lord God, "I will punish you for your anger and the jealousy you showed because of your hate toward them. And I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

As you had joy because the land of Israel was destroyed, so I will do to you. You will be destroyed, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the Lord."'

‘So speak about the land of Israel, and tell the mountains, the hills, and valleys, "The Lord God says, ‘I speak in My jealousy and anger because you have been put to shame by the nations.'

So I poured out My anger upon them because of the blood they had poured on the land, and because they had made it sinful with their false gods.

But in every place they went among the nations, they brought shame upon My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, yet they had to leave His land.'