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42 “So will I make My wrath rest toward you. And My jealousy shall depart from you. And I will cease, and no longer be angry.
43 “Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have provoked Me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have also brought your way upon your head,” says the Lord GOD, “And you shall not commit this lewdness in addition to all your other abominations.
44 “Behold, all who use proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
45 “You are your mother’s daughter, who has cast off her husband and her children. And you are the sister of your sisters who forsook their husbands and their children. Your mother is a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
46 “And your elder sister is Samaria, and her daughters who dwell on your left. And your younger sister who dwells on your right is Sodom and her daughters.
47 “Yet, you have not merely walked in their ways or followed after their abominations; but as if that were too little, you have been corrupted more than they in all your ways.
48 “As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “Sodom, your sister, has not done (she or her daughters) as you and your daughters have done.
49 “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister, Sodom: pride. Fullness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her, and in her daughters. Nor did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
50 “But they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore, I took them away as it pleased Me.
51 “Nor has Samaria committed half of your sins. But you have exceeded them in your abominations and have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have done.
52 “Therefore, you, who have judged your sisters, bear shame for your own sins, in that you have committed more abominable ones than they (who are more righteous than you are). Therefore, you also should be disgraced, and bear your shame, seeing that you have judged your sisters.
53 “Therefore I will bring back their captives, with the captives of Sodom and her daughters, and with the captives of Samaria and her daughters, the captives of your captives, in the midst of them,
54 “so that you may bear your own shame and may be disgraced by all that you did when you comforted them.
55 “And your sister, Sodom, and her daughters, shall return to their former state. Samaria, also, and her daughters, shall return to their former state, when you and your daughters shall return to your former state.
56 “For your sister, Sodom, was not mentioned by you in the days of your pride,
57 “before your wickedness was uncovered. It was like the time of the reproach of the daughters of Aram, and of all the daughters of the Philistines all around her, who despise you in all directions.
58 “You have borne your wickedness and your abomination,” says the LORD.
59 ‘For thus says the Lord GOD: “I might even deal with you as you have done when you despised the oath in breaking the Covenant.
60 “Nevertheless, I will remember My Covenant with you in the days of your youth. And I will confirm an everlasting Covenant with you.
61 “Then you shall remember your ways and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, both elder and younger. And I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.
62 “And I will establish My Covenant with you. And you shall know that I am the LORD,
63 “so that you may remember and be ashamed, and never again open your mouth because of your shame, when I am pacified toward you for all that you have done,” says the Lord GOD.’”
17 And the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2 “Son of man, put forth a parable and speak a proverb to the House of Israel,
3 “and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “The great eagle, with great wings, long wings, full of feathers, which had diverse colors, came to Lebanon and took the highest branch of the cedar,
4 “and broke off the top of his twig and carried it into the land of trade and set it in a city of merchants.
5 “He also took from the seed of the land and planted it in fruitful ground. He placed it by great waters and set it as a willow tree.
6 “And it budded up and was like a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward it, and its roots were under it. So it became a vine, and it brought forth branches and shot forth buds.
7 “There was also another great eagle, with great wings and many feathers. And behold, this vine turned her roots toward it and spread forth her branches toward it, so that she might water it near the trenches of her planting.
8 “It was planted in a good soil by great waters, so that it would bring forth branches, and bear fruit, and be an excellent vine.”’
9 “Say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Shall it prosper? Shall he not pull up its roots and destroy its fruit and cause them to dry up? All the leaves of her bud shall wither without great power or many people to pluck it up by its roots.
10 “Behold, it was planted, but shall it prosper? Shall it not dry up and wither? When the East wind shall touch it, it shall wither in the trenches where it grew.”’”
11 Moreover, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying:
12 “Now say to this rebellious House, ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babel has come to Jerusalem, and has taken its king and its princes and led them with him to Babel,
13 ‘and has taken the king’s seed and made a covenant with him and has taken an oath from him. He has also taken the princes of the land,
14 ‘so that the kingdom might be in subjection, and not lift itself up, keeping their covenant so that it might stand.
15 ‘But he rebelled against him and sent his ambassadors into Egypt, so that they might give him horses and many people. Shall he prosper? Shall he escape who does such things? Or shall he break the covenant and still be delivered?
16 ‘As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘in the place of the king who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, with him he shall die in the midst of Babel.
17 ‘Nor shall Pharaoh, with his mighty army and great multitude of people, maintain him in the war when they have cast up siege mounds and built ramparts to destroy many people.
18 ‘For he has despised the oath and broken the covenant (yet, lo, he had given his hand). Because he has done all these things, he shall not escape.’”
19 Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: “As I live, I will surely bring My oath that he has despised, and My Covenant that he has broken, upon his own head.
20 “And I will spread My net upon him, and he shall be taken in My net. And I will bring him to Babel and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has committed against Me.
21 “And all who flee from him, with all his army, shall fall by the sword. And those who remain shall be scattered toward all the winds. And you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it.”
22 Thus says the Lord GOD: “I will also take off the top of this high cedar, and will set it out. And I will cut off the top of its tender plant; and I will plant it upon a high and great mountain.
23 “On the high mountain of Israel I will plant it. And it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be an excellent cedar. And all birds shall remain under it. Every bird shall dwell in the shadow of its branches.
24 “And all the trees of the field shall know that I, the LORD, have brought down the high tree and exalted the low tree, that I have dried up the green tree and made the dry tree flourish. I, the LORD, have spoken it and have done it.”
8 Now of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum: that we have such a High Priest Who sits at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in Heaven,
2 and is a Minister of the Sanctuary, and of the true Tabernacle (which the Lord pitched, and not man).
3 For every High Priest is ordained to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore, it was necessary that this Man also have something to offer.
4 For if He were on the Earth, He would not be a priest, seeing there are priests that offer gifts according to the Law,
5 who serve the pattern and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was instructed by God when he was about to finish the Tabernacle. “See,” said He, “that you make all things according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain.”
6 But now, our High Priest has obtained a more excellent office, inasmuch as He is the Mediator of a better Testament, which is established upon better promises.
7 For if that first Testament had been blameless, no place would have been sought for the second.
8 For in rebuking them He said, “‘Behold, the days will come,’ says the Lord, ‘when I shall make a new Testament with the House of Israel and with the House of Judah -
9 ‘unlike the Testament that I made with their fathers on the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my Testament. And I disregarded them,’ says the Lord.
10 “For this is the Testament that I will make with the House of Israel, ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put My Laws in their mind, And I will write them on their heart. And I will be their God. And they shall be my people.
11 ‘And no one shall teach his neighbor, or every man his brother, saying, “Know the Lord.” For all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.
12 ‘For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. And I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.’”
13 In saying, “a New Testament”, He has rendered the first obsolete. Now that which has aged and grown old is ready to vanish.
13 But they soon forgot His works. They did not wait for His counsel,
14 but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness and tempted God in the desert.
15 Then He gave them their desire. But He sent leanness into their soul.
16 They also envied Moses in the tents, and Aaron, the saint of the LORD.
17 The Earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the company of Abiram.
18 And the fire was kindled in their assembly; the flame burnt up the wicked.
19 They made a calf in Horeb and worshipped the molten image.
20 Thus, they turned their glory into the likeness of a bullock that eats grass.
21 They forgot God their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt,
22 wondrous works in the land of Ham, and fearful things by the Red Sea.
23 Therefore, He intended to destroy them had not Moses, His chosen, stood in the breach before Him, to turn away His wrath lest He should destroy them.
24 Also, they despised that pleasant land and did not believe His word,
25 but murmured in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.
26 Therefore, He lifted up His hand against them to destroy them in the wilderness,
27 and to destroy their seed among the nations, and to scatter them throughout the countries.
28 They also joined themselves to Baal of Peor and ate the offerings of the dead.
29 Thus, they provoked Him to anger with their own inventions; and the plague broke in upon them.
30 But, Phinehas stood up and executed judgment, and the plague was stopped.
31 And it was counted to him for righteousness, from generation to generation, forever.
7 The person that is full rejects a honeycomb. But to the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.
8 As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his own place.
9 As ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, so does the sweetness of hearty counsel by a man’s friend.
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