12 But the vine was plucked up in fury,
    cast down to the ground;
(A)the east wind dried up its fruit;
    they were stripped off and withered.
As for its strong stem,
    fire consumed it.

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15 Though (A)he may flourish among his brothers,
    (B)the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come,
    rising from the wilderness,
(C)and his fountain shall dry up;
    his spring shall be parched;
it shall strip (D)his treasury
    of every precious thing.

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10 Behold, it is planted; will it thrive? (A)Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it—wither away on the bed where it sprouted?”

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11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
    women come and make a fire of them.
(A)For this is a people without discernment;
    therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
    he who formed them will show them no favor.

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11 Its strong stems became
    rulers' scepters;
it towered aloft
    among the thick boughs;[a]
it was seen in its height
    with the mass of its branches.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 19:11 Or the clouds

(A)Behold, it is given to the fire for fuel. When the fire has consumed both ends of it, and the middle of it is charred, is it useful for anything?

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28 And it shall come to pass that (A)as I have watched over them (B)to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring harm, (C)so I will watch over them (D)to build and to plant, declares the Lord.

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If anyone does not abide in me (A)he is thrown away like a branch and withers; (B)and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

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10 Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. (A)Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

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17 (A)Your heart was proud because of (B)your beauty;
    you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor.
I cast you to the ground;
    I exposed you before kings,
    to feast their eyes on you.

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47 Say to the forest of the Negeb, Hear the word of the Lord: Thus says the Lord God, Behold, (A)I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every (B)green tree in you and every (C)dry tree. The blazing flame shall not be quenched, and (D)all faces from south to north shall be scorched by it. 48 (E)All flesh shall see that I the Lord have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.”

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Therefore thus says the Lord God: (A)Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, (B)which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem. (C)And I will set my face against them. Though (D)they escape from the fire, the fire shall yet consume them, (E)and you will know that I am the Lord, (F)when I set my face against them. (G)And I will make the land desolate, because (H)they have acted faithlessly, declares the Lord God.”

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30 Thus says the Lord:
“Write this man down as (A)childless,
    a man who shall not succeed in his days,
(B)for none of his offspring shall succeed
    (C)in sitting on the throne of David
    and ruling again in Judah.”

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25 and (A)give you (B)into the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 (C)I will hurl you and (D)the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die. 27 But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return.”

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18 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

(A)“They shall not lament for him, saying,
    (B)‘Ah, my brother!’ or ‘Ah, sister!’
They shall not lament for him, saying,
    (C)‘Ah, lord!’ or ‘Ah, his majesty!’
19 With the burial of a donkey (D)he shall be buried,
    dragged and dumped beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

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10 (A)Weep not for him who is dead,
    nor grieve for him,
(B)but weep bitterly for him who goes away,
    for he shall return no more
    to see his native land.

Message to the Sons of Josiah

11 For thus says the Lord concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and (C)who went away from this place: “He shall return here no more,

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11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from (A)the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse, 12 a wind too full for this comes for me. Now it is I who (B)speak in judgment upon them.”

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And now I will tell you
    what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove (A)its hedge,
    and it shall be devoured;[a]
(B)I will break down its wall,
    and it shall be trampled down.
I will make it a waste;
    it shall not be pruned or hoed,
    and (C)briers and thorns shall grow up;
(D)I will also command the clouds
    that they rain no rain upon it.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:5 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5

40 You have (A)breached all his walls;
    you have laid his strongholds in ruins.
41 (B)All who pass by plunder him;
    he has become (C)the scorn of his neighbors.
42 You have exalted the right hand of his foes;
    you have made all his enemies rejoice.
43 You have also turned back the edge of his sword,
    and you have not made him stand in battle.
44 You have made his splendor to cease
    and cast his throne to the ground.
45 You have cut short (D)the days of his youth;
    you have (E)covered him with shame. Selah

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16 They have (A)burned it with fire; they have (B)cut it down;
    may they perish at (C)the rebuke of your face!

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12 Why then have you (A)broken down its walls,
    so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
13 (B)The boar from the forest ravages it,
    and all that move in the field feed on it.

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But God will break you down forever;
    he will snatch and (A)tear you from your tent;
    he will uproot you from (B)the land of the living. Selah

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Then they captured the king (A)and brought him up to the king of Babylon at (B)Riblah, and they passed sentence on him. They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, (C)and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon.

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14 (A)He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, (B)10,000 captives, (C)and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, (D)except the poorest people of the land. 15 (E)And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon. The king's mother, the king's wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. 16 And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, (F)7,000, and the craftsmen and the metal workers, 1,000, all of them strong and fit for war.

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So Jehoiakim (A)slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

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