Verse 43
Ezekiel 20:43
Free Bible Version
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Tell the forest of the Negev: Listen to the word of the Lord! This is what the Lord God (Elohim) says: I am going to set you on fire, and it will burn up all your trees, both those that are living and those that are dead. The blaze won't be put out, and everything from the north to the south will be burned.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וּ/זְכַרְתֶּם שָׁ֗ם אֶת דַּרְכֵי/כֶם֙ וְ/אֵת֙ כָּל עֲלִיל֣וֹתֵי/כֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר נִטְמֵאתֶ֖ם בָּ֑/ם וּ/נְקֹֽטֹתֶם֙ בִּ/פְנֵי/כֶ֔ם בְּ/כָל רָעוֹתֵי/כֶ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר עֲשִׂיתֶֽם
English Translation
And you will remember there your ways and all your deeds by which you have been defiled, and you will be ashamed in your presence of all your evils that you have done.
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On the tenth day of the fifth month of the seventh year, some of the elders of Israel came to ask ad...
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Then a message from the Lord came to me, saying,
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“Son of man, tell these elders of Israel that this is what the Lord God (Elohim) says: Have you come...
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Are you going to condemn them—will you do that, son of man? Remind them about the disgusting things...
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So I held up my hand and vowed to them in the desert that I wouldn't take them into the land that I...
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because they repeatedly rejected my regulations, refused to observe my laws, and violated my Sabbath...
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Even so I was sorry for them and I didn't destroy them; I didn't wipe them out in the desert.
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I told their children in the desert: ‘Don't do what your fathers told you to do. Don't follow their...
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I am the Lord your God (Elohim). Do what I tell you to do. Follow my regulations and make sure to pr...
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Keep my Sabbaths holy so they may be a sign between me and you, so that you may acknowledge that I a...
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But I held back and did what I did so I would not be misrepresented, so that I wouldn't lose respect...
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However, I held up my hand and vowed to them in the desert that I was going to scatter them among th...
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For they didn't keep my regulations, instead they rejected my laws and violated my Sabbaths, always...
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I also let them follow the regulations they wanted that weren't good; laws that wouldn't help them l...
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I let them make themselves unclean by their offerings to idols, including their firstborn sons. I al...
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So, son of man, tell the people of Israel that this is what the Lord God (Elohim) says: You're actin...
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After I led them into the land that I had promised to give them, on any high hill or under any leafy...
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So I asked them: ‘What's this high place you're going to?’ (Even today it's still called Bamah.)
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Therefore tell the people of Israel that this is what the Lord God (Elohim) says: Are you going to m...
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When you present your offerings to idols and sacrifice your children in the fire, you continue to ma...
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When you say to yourselves, ‘Let's be like the other nations, like people in other countries who wor...
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As I live, declares the Lord God (Elohim), I will rule you with all my strength and power, and in my...
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Then you will acknowledge that I am the Lord when I bring you back to the country of Israel, the lan...
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That's where you will remember your bad ways and everything you've done to make yourselves unclean,...
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Then you people of Israel will acknowledge that I am the Lord, because I have treated you well becau...
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Another message from the Lord came to me, saying,
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“Son of man, face towards the south and preach against it. Prophesy against the forest of the Negev.
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Tell the forest of the Negev: Listen to the word of the Lord! This is what the Lord God (Elohim) say...
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Then everyone will recognize that it was me, the Lord, who started the fire, and it won't be put out...
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But then I said, “Oh no, Lord God (Elohim)! People already say, ‘He's just telling stories!’”
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