EQ 22 Into his right hand will come the lot for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to give the command to slaughter, to sound the battle cry, ER to set battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp ES and to erect siege works.
ET 23 It will seem like a false omen to those who have sworn allegiance to him, but he will remind EU them of their guilt EV and take them captive.
EY It will not be as it was: The lowly will be exalted and the exalted will be brought low. EZ 27 A ruin! A ruin! I will make it a ruin! The crown will not be restored until he to whom it rightfully belongs shall come; FA to him I will give it. D 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. E 4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers F who mowed your fields are crying out against you.
The cries G of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. H 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves I in the day of slaughter. M See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting N for the autumn and spring rains. The Judge S is standing at the door! X The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
Let them pray. AA Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise. AB 14 Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders AC of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil AD in the name of the Lord. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. AG The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. AI He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. AJ 18 Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.
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Log In. Each day includes a passage from both the Old Testament and New Testament. Ezekiel Rebellious Israel Purged 20 In the seventh year, in the fifth month on the tenth day, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire A of the Lord , and they sat down in front of me.
Footnotes Ezekiel Bamah means high place. Ezekiel Or and the gifts of your firstfruits Ezekiel In Hebrew texts is numbered Ezekiel In Hebrew texts is numbered Ezekiel Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain. James 5. Warning to Rich Oppressors 5 Now listen, A you rich people, B weep and wail C because of the misery that is coming on you. T 10 Brothers and sisters, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets U who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Y 12 Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear—not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. Z The Prayer of Faith 13 Is anyone among you in trouble? AH 17 Elijah was a human being, even as we are.
AK 19 My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth AL and someone should bring that person back, AM 20 remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save AN them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
AO Footnotes James Or yourselves as in a day of feasting. As surely as I live, I will not let you inquire of me, declares the Sovereign Lord. Will you judge them, son of man? I am the Lord your God. Q So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in Egypt.
R 9 But for the sake of my name, I brought them out of Egypt. S I did it to keep my name from being profaned T in the eyes of the nations among whom they lived and in whose sight I had revealed myself to the Israelites. U 11 I gave them my decrees and made known to them my laws, by which the person who obeys them will live. They did not follow my decrees but rejected my laws AB —by which the person who obeys them will live—and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths.
AF 14 But for the sake of my name I did what would keep it from being profaned AG in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out. AH 15 Also with uplifted hand I swore AI to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands AJ — 16 because they rejected my laws AK and did not follow my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths.
For their hearts AL were devoted to their idols. AM 17 Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy AN them or put an end to them in the wilderness. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger AW against them in the wilderness. AX 22 But I withheld AY my hand, and for the sake of my name AZ I did what would keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
BE 25 So I gave BF them other statutes that were not good and laws through which they could not live; BG 26 I defiled them through their gifts—the sacrifice BH of every firstborn—that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the Lord.
BQ 31 When you offer your gifts—the sacrifice of your children BR in the fire—you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. Am I to let you inquire of me, you Israelites? As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord , I will not let you inquire of me. BU 34 I will bring you from the nations BV and gather BW you from the countries where you have been scattered—with a mighty hand BX and an outstretched arm and with outpoured wrath.
CB 37 I will take note of you as you pass under my rod, CC and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant. CD 38 I will purge CE you of those who revolt and rebel against me. Although I will bring them out of the land where they are living, yet they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord. But afterward you will surely listen to me and no longer profane my holy name CH with your gifts and idols.
CI 40 For on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, CJ declares the Sovereign Lord , there in the land all the people of Israel will serve me, and there I will accept them. There I will require your offerings CK and your choice gifts, [ b ] along with all your holy sacrifices. CL 41 I will accept you as fragrant incense CM when I bring you out from the nations and gather CN you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will be proved holy CO through you in the sight of the nations.
CS 43 There you will remember your conduct CT and all the actions by which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves CU for all the evil you have done. This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to set fire to you, and it will consume DC all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and every face from south to north DD will be scorched by it. DE 48 Everyone will see that I the Lord have kindled it; it will not be quenched.
DM I will draw my sword DN from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked. DO 4 Because I am going to cut off the righteous and the wicked, my sword DP will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north. Groan before them with broken heart and bitter grief.
Every heart will melt with fear DW and every hand go limp; DX every spirit will become faint DY and every leg will be wet with urine. It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign Lord. The sword despises every such stick. They are thrown to the sword along with my people. Therefore beat your breast. And what if even the scepter, which the sword despises, does not continue?
Let the sword strike twice, even three times. It is a sword for slaughter— a sword for great slaughter, closing in on them from every side. EF 15 So that hearts may melt with fear EG and the fallen be many, I have stationed the sword for slaughter [ e ] at all their gates. It is forged to strike like lightning, it is grasped for slaughter. EH 16 Slash to the right, you sword, then to the left, wherever your blade is turned.
I the Lord have spoken. Make a signpost EM where the road branches off to the city. EQ 22 Into his right hand will come the lot for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to give the command to slaughter, to sound the battle cry, ER to set battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp ES and to erect siege works.
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