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NOVEMBER 8
The day draws near. 22 I will turn My face from them,
And they will defile My secret place;
‘Let not the buyer rejoice, For robbers shall enter it and defile it.
Nor the seller mourn,
For wrath is on their whole multitude. 23 ‘Make a chain,
For the seller shall not return to what For the land is filled with crimes
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has been sold, of blood,
Though he may still be alive; And the city is full of violence.
For the vision concerns the whole 24 Therefore I will bring the worst
multitude, of the Gentiles,
And it shall not turn back; And they will possess their houses;
No one will strengthen himself I will cause the pomp of the strong to
Who lives in iniquity. cease,
And their holy places shall be defiled.
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‘They have blown the trumpet and 25
made everyone ready, Destruction comes;
But no one goes to battle; They will seek peace, but there shall be
For My wrath is on all their multitude. none.
15 The sword is outside, 26 Disaster will come upon disaster,
And the pestilence and famine within. And rumor will be upon rumor.
Whoever is in the field Then they will seek a vision from a
Will die by the sword; prophet;
And whoever is in the city, But the law will perish from the priest,
Famine and pestilence will devour him. And counsel from the elders.
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16 ‘Those who survive will escape and be ‘The king will mourn,
on the mountains The prince will be clothed with
Like doves of the valleys, desolation,
All of them mourning, And the hands of the common people
Each for his iniquity. will tremble.
17 Every hand will be feeble, I will do to them according to their
And every knee will be as weak as water. way,
18 They will also be girded with And according to what they deserve
sackcloth; I will judge them;
Horror will cover them; Then they shall know that I am the
Shame will be on every face, LORD!’ ”
Baldness on all their heads. And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the
19 ‘They will throw their silver into the 8 sixth month, on the fifth day of the month,
streets, as I sat in my house with the elders of Judah
And their gold will be like refuse; sitting before me, that the hand of the Lord
GOD fell upon me there. Then I looked, and
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Their silver and their gold will not be there was a likeness, like the appearance of
able to deliver them fire—from the appearance of His waist and
In the day of the wrath of the LORD; downward, fire; and from His waist and
They will not satisfy their souls, upward, like the appearance of brightness, like
Nor fill their stomachs, the color of amber. He stretched out the form
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Because it became their stumbling of a hand, and took me by a lock of my hair; and
block of iniquity. the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heav-
en, and brought me in visions of God to Jerusa-
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‘As for the beauty of his ornaments, lem, to the door of the north gate of the inner
He set it in majesty; court, where the seat of the image of jealousy
But they made from it was, which provokes to jealousy. And behold,
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The images of their abominations— the glory of the God of Israel was there, like
Their detestable things; the vision that I saw in the plain.
Therefore I have made it 5 Then He said to me, “Son of man, lift your
Like refuse to them. eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted my eyes
I will give it as plunder toward the north, and there, north of the altar
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Into the hands of strangers, gate, was this image of jealousy in the entrance.
And to the wicked of the earth as spoil; 6 Furthermore He said to me, “Son of man,
And they shall defile it. do you see what they are doing, the great
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