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EZEKIEL 5

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Jerusalem Will Be Destroyed
  5:1 “And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber’s razor and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair. 2 A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them. 3 And you shall take from these a small number and bind them in the skirts of your robe. 4 And of these again you shall take some and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will come out into all the house of Israel.
    
5 “Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her. 6 And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes. 7 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you, 8 therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations. 9 And because of all your abominations I will do with you what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again. 10 Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds. 11 Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord God, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw. My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity. 12 A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.
    
13 “Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that I am the Lord—that I have spoken in my jealousy—when I spend my fury upon them. 14 Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by. 15 You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes—I am the Lord; I have spoken— 16 when I send against you the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and break your supply of bread. 17 I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the Lord; I have spoken.”



EZEKIEL 6

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Judgment Against Idolatry
  6:1 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, 3 and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places. 4 Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols. 5 And I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars. 6 Wherever you dwell, the cities shall be waste and the high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined, your idols broken and destroyed, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out. 7 And the slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
    
8 “Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries, 9 then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations. 10 And they shall know that I am the Lord. I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them.”
    
11 Thus says the Lord God: “Clap your hands and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. 12 He who is far off shall die of pestilence, and he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who is left and is preserved shall die of famine. Thus I will spend my fury upon them. 13 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols. 14 And I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land desolate and waste, in all their dwelling places, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”



PROVERBS 1

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The Beginning of Knowledge
  1:1 The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
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To know wisdom and instruction,
to understand words of insight,
3
to receive instruction in wise dealing,
in righteousness, justice, and equity;
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to give prudence to the simple,
knowledge and discretion to the youth—
5
Let the wise hear and increase in learning,
and the one who understands obtain guidance,
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to understand a proverb and a saying,
the words of the wise and their riddles.

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The Enticement of Sinners
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Hear, my son, your father’s instruction,
and forsake not your mother’s teaching,
9
for they are a graceful garland for your head
and pendants for your neck.
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My son, if sinners entice you,
do not consent.
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If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood;
let us ambush the innocent without reason;
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like Sheol let us swallow them alive,
and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
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we shall find all precious goods,
we shall fill our houses with plunder;
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throw in your lot among us;
we will all have one purse”—
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my son, do not walk in the way with them;
hold back your foot from their paths,
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for their feet run to evil,
and they make haste to shed blood.
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For in vain is a net spread
in the sight of any bird,
18
but these men lie in wait for their own blood;
they set an ambush for their own lives.
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Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain;
it takes away the life of its possessors.
The Call of Wisdom
20
Wisdom cries aloud in the street,
in the markets she raises her voice;
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at the head of the noisy streets she cries out;
at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
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“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
and fools hate knowledge?
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If you turn at my reproof,
behold, I will pour out my spirit to you;
I will make my words known to you.
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Because I have called and you refused to listen,
have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded,
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because you have ignored all my counsel
and would have none of my reproof,
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I also will laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when terror strikes you,
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when terror strikes you like a storm
and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
when distress and anguish come upon you.
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Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;
they will seek me diligently but will not find me.
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Because they hated knowledge
and did not choose the fear of the Lord,
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would have none of my counsel
and despised all my reproof,
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therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way,
and have their fill of their own devices.
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For the simple are killed by their turning away,
and the complacency of fools destroys them;
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but whoever listens to me will dwell secure
and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.”



PSALM 129

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They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth
A Song of Ascents.
129:1
“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth”—
let Israel now say—
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“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth,
yet they have not prevailed against me.
3
The plowers plowed upon my back;
they made long their furrows.”
4
The Lord is righteous;
he has cut the cords of the wicked.
5
May all who hate Zion
be put to shame and turned backward!
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Let them be like the grass on the housetops,
which withers before it grows up,
7
with which the reaper does not fill his hand
nor the binder of sheaves his arms,
8
nor do those who pass by say,
“The blessing of the Lord be upon you!
We bless you in the name of the Lord!”



PSALM 130

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My Soul Waits for the Lord
A Song of Ascents.
130:1
Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!
2
O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

3
If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
4
But with you there is forgiveness,
that you may be feared.

5
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
and in his word I hope;
6
my soul waits for the Lord
more than watchmen for the morning,
more than watchmen for the morning.

7
O Israel, hope in the Lord!
For with the Lord there is steadfast love,
and with him is plentiful redemption.
8
And he will redeem Israel
from all his iniquities.

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