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and do according to all that I command you; so
shall you be My people, and I will be your God,’
5 that I may establish the oath which I have
sworn to your fathers, to give them ‘a land flow- 11:15 My beloved. A phrase showing God’s
ing with milk and honey,’ as it is this day.” ’ ” sensitive regard for His relationship to Israel as
And I answered and said, “So be it, LORD.” a nation (2:2; 12:7). It does not carry the
6 Then the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all assumption, however, that every individual is
these words in the cities of Judah and in the spiritually saved (5:10a).lewd deeds.Shameful
streets of Jerusalem, saying: ‘Hear the words idolatry that defiled all that befits true temple
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of this covenant and do them. For I earnestly worship, such as the examples in Ezekiel
exhorted your fathers in the day I brought 8:6–13.These were gross violations of the first
them up out of the land of Egypt, until this day, 3 commandments (Ex. 20:2–7). holy flesh. In
rising early and exhorting, saying, “Obey My some way,they corrupted the animal sacrifices
by committing sin which they enjoyed.
voice.” Yet they did not obey or incline their
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ear, but everyone followed the dictates of his
evil heart; therefore I will bring upon them all they have done against themselves to provoke
the words of this covenant, which I command- Me to anger in offering incense to Baal.”
ed them to do, but which they have not done.’ ” 18 Now the LORD gave me knowledge of it,
9 And the LORD said to me, “A conspiracy has
been found among the men of Judah and among and I know it; for You showed me their doings.
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But I was like a docile lamb brought to the
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the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They have slaughter; and I did not know that they had
turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers devised schemes against me, saying, “Let us
who refused to hear My words, and they have destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut
gone after other gods to serve them; the house him off from the land of the living, that his
of Israel and the house of Judah have broken name may be remembered no more.”
My covenant which I made with their fathers.”
11 Therefore thus says the LORD: “Behold, I 20 But, O LORD of hosts,
will surely bring calamity on them which they You who judge righteously,
will not be able to escape; and though they cry Testing the mind and the heart,
out to Me, I will not listen to them. Then the Let me see Your vengeance on them,
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cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem For to You I have revealed my cause.
will go and cry out to the gods to whom they
21 “Therefore thus says the LORD concerning
offer incense, but they will not save them at all
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in the time of their trouble. For according to the men of Anathoth who seek your life, saying,
the number of your cities were your gods, O Ju- ‘Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, lest
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dah; and according to the number of the streets you die by our hand’— therefore thus says the
of Jerusalem you have set up altars to that LORD of hosts: ‘Behold, I will punish them. The
shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal. young men shall die by the sword, their sons
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14 “So do not pray for this people, or lift up a and their daughters shall die by famine; and
cry or prayer for them; for I will not hear them there shall be no remnant of them, for I will
in the time that they cry out to Me because of bring catastrophe on the men of Anathoth, even
their trouble. the year of their punishment.’ ”
15 “What has My beloved to do in My 12 Righteous are You, O LORD,
house, when I plead with You;
Having done lewd deeds with many? Yet let me talk with You about Your
And the holy flesh has passed from judgments.
you. Why does the way of the wicked
When you do evil, then you rejoice. prosper?
16 The LORD called your name, Why are those happy who deal so
Green Olive Tree, Lovely and of Good treacherously?
Fruit. 2 You have planted them, yes, they have
With the noise of a great tumult taken root;
He has kindled fire on it, They grow, yes, they bear fruit.
And its branches are broken. You are near in their mouth
But far from their mind.
17 “For the LORD of hosts, who planted you, has
pronounced doom against you for the evil of the 3 But You, O LORD, know me;
house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which You have seen me,

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