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weight. : And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow. : And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about,
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all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these. : And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about. : And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the
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door: : He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the kings person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land,
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that were found in the midst of the city. : So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. : And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.
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: This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty: : In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons: : In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the
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Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred. : And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his
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reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison. : And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, : And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life. :
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And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life. The Lamentations of Jeremiah : How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among
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the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! : She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies. : Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because
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of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. : The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness. : Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper;
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for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy. : And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer. : Jerusalem remembered in the days of her
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affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths. : Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have
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seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. : Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself. : The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that
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the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation. : All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile. : Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold,
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and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. : From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made
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me desolate and faint all the day. : The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up. : The LORD hath trodden under foot all my
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mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the LORD hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress. : For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my
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children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. : Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them. : The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people,
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and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. : I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls. : Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart
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is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death. : They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall
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be like unto me. : Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint. : How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth
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the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! : The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the
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princes thereof. : He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about. : He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew
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all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire. : The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. : And
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he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. : The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath
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abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast. : The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not
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withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together. : Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD. : The elders of
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the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. : Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter
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of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. : They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers bosom. : What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what
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thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee? : Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy
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captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment. : All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? : All thine enemies have opened their mouth against
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thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it. : The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath
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not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries. : Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease. : Arise, cry
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out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street. : Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women
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eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? : The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed,
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and not pitied. : Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORDs anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. : I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. : He hath led
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me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. : Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. : My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. : He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. : He hath set me in
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dark places, as they that be dead of old. : He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. : Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. : He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. : He was unto me as a
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bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. : He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. : He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. : He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. : I was
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a derision to all my people; and their song all the day. : He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. : He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. : And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. : And I said,
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My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: : Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. : My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. : This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. : It is of the LORDs mercies that we are not consumed, because his
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compassions fail not. : They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. : The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. : The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. : It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the
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salvation of the LORD. : It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth. : He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. : He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. : He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is
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filled full with reproach. : For the LORD will not cast off for ever: : But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. : For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. : To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth. : To turn
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aside the right of a man before the face of the most High, : To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not. : Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? : Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? : Wherefore doth a
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living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? : Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. : Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. : We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. : Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us:
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thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. : Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. : Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. : All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. : Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
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: Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. : Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission. : Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven. : Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. : Mine enemies chased me sore, like
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a bird, without cause. : They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. : Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. : I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. : Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at
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my cry. : Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. : O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. : O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. : Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. :
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Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me; : The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. : Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick. : Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. :
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Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. : Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. : How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. : The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine
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gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! : Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. : The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth
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for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them. : They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. : For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown
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as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her. : Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: : Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it
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is become like a stick. : They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field. : The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my
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people. : The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof. : The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
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: For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, : They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. : They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean;
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depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there. : The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders. : As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our
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vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us. : They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. : Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid
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wait for us in the wilderness. : The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen. : Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou
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shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. : The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins. : Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. : Our inheritance
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is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. : We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. : We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. : Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. : We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be
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satisfied with bread. : Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. : Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. : We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. : Our skin was black like an oven
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because of the terrible famine. : They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. : Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. : They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. : The elders have ceased from the gate, the young
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men from their musick. : The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. : The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! : For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. : Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk
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upon it. : Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. : Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? : Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. : But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against
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us. The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel : Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. : In the fifth day of the month, which was
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the fifth year of king Jehoiachins captivity, : The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him. : And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and
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a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire. : Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. : And every one had four
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faces, and every one had four wings. : And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calfs foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass. : And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and
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their wings. : Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward. : As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left
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side; they four also had the face of an eagle. : Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. : And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went. :
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As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. : And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
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: Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. : The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle
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of a wheel. : When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went. : As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four. : And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living
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creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. : Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. : When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and
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when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. : And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above. : And under the firmament
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were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies. : And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the
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noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings. : And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings. : And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon
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the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. : And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of
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fire, and it had brightness round about. : As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a
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voice of one that spake. : And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee. : And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me. : And he said unto me, Son of man, I
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send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day. : For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD. : And they, whether they will
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hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. : And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor
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be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. : And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious. : But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that
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I give thee. : And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein; : And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe. : Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou
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findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel. : So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll. : And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in
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my mouth as honey for sweetness. : And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them. : For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel; : Not to many people of
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a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee. : But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted. : Behold, I have made
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thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. : As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. : Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in
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thine heart, and hear with thine ears. : And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. : Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a
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great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place. : I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing. : So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went
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in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me. : Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days. : And it came to pass at the end of
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seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, : Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. : When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to
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warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. : Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
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: Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. : Nevertheless if
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thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul. : And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee. : Then
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I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face. : Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine
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house. : But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them: : And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a
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