13 And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

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12 Therefore because of you
    (A)Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem (B)shall become a heap of ruins,
    and (C)the mountain of the house (D)a wooded height.

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How Long, O Lord?

A Psalm of (A)Asaph.

79 O God, (B)the nations have come into your (C)inheritance;
    they have defiled your (D)holy temple;
    they have (E)laid Jerusalem in ruins.

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19 (A)And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels.

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11 For behold, the Lord commands,
    and (A)the great house shall be struck down into fragments,
    and the little house into bits.

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10 “They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord,
    (A)“those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”

11 Therefore thus says the Lord God:

(B)“An adversary shall surround the land
    and bring down[a] your defenses from you,
    and (C)your strongholds shall be plundered.”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 3:11 Hebrew An adversary, one who surrounds the land—he shall bring down

So (A)I will send a fire upon Judah,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.”

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(A)The Lord has scorned his altar,
    (B)disowned his sanctuary;
(C)he has delivered into the hand of the enemy
    the walls of her palaces;
(D)they raised a clamor in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of festival.

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10 (A)Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
    Zion has become a wilderness,
    Jerusalem a desolation.
11 (B)Our holy and beautiful[a] house,
    where our fathers praised you,
has been burned by fire,
    and all our pleasant places have become ruins.

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  1. Isaiah 64:11 Or holy and glorious

And all its (A)carved wood
    they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
They (B)set your sanctuary on fire;
    they (C)profaned (D)the dwelling place of your name,
    bringing it down to the ground.
They (E)said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
    they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

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(A)And he burned the house of the Lord (B)and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

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13 and they (A)set up false (B)witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against (C)this holy place and the law, 14 for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth (D)will destroy this place and will (E)change (F)the customs that Moses delivered to us.”

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But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, (A)there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”

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The Flock Doomed to Slaughter

11 Open your doors, (A)O Lebanon,
    that the fire may devour your cedars!

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21 ‘Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: (A)Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the yearning of your soul, and (B)your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.

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The Siege of Jerusalem

24 (A)In the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: (B)“Son of man, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day. And (C)utter a parable to (D)the rebellious house and say to them, Thus says the Lord God:

“Set on (E)the pot, set it on;
    pour in water also;
put in it the pieces of meat,
    all the good pieces, (F)the thigh and the shoulder;
    fill it with choice bones.
Take the choicest one of the flock;
    pile the logs[a] under it;
boil it well;
    seethe also its bones in it.

“Therefore thus says the Lord God: (G)Woe to the bloody city, to (H)the pot whose corrosion is in it, and whose corrosion has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making any choice.[b] For the blood she has shed is in her midst; she put it on (I)the bare rock; (J)she did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust. To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance, I have set on the bare rock the blood she has shed, that it may not be covered. Therefore thus says the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city! (K)I also will make the pile great. 10 Heap on the logs, kindle the fire, boil the meat well, mix in the spices,[c] and let the bones be burned up. 11 Then set it empty upon the coals, that it may become hot, and its copper may burn, (L)that its uncleanness may be melted in it, its corrosion consumed. 12 (M)She has wearied herself with toil;[d] its abundant corrosion does not go out of it. Into the fire with its corrosion! 13 On account of your unclean lewdness, because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness, (N)you shall not be cleansed anymore till (O)I have satisfied my fury upon you. 14 (P)I am the Lord. I have spoken; it shall come to pass; I will do it. I will not go back; (Q)I will not spare; (R)I will not relent; (S)according to your ways and your deeds you will be judged, declares the Lord God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 24:5 Compare verse 10; Hebrew the bones
  2. Ezekiel 24:6 Hebrew no lot has fallen upon it
  3. Ezekiel 24:10 Or empty out the broth
  4. Ezekiel 24:12 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

20 (A)His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and (B)they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore (C)I make it an unclean thing to them. 21 And I will give it into the hands of (D)foreigners for prey, (E)and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and (F)they shall profane it. 22 I will turn my face from them, and (G)they shall profane my treasured[a] place. Robbers shall enter (H)and profane it.

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  1. Ezekiel 7:22 Or secret

(A)The Chaldeans burned the king's house and the house of the people, (B)and broke down the walls of Jerusalem. Then (C)Nebuzaradan, the (D)captain of the guard, carried into exile to Babylon the rest of the people who were left in the city, (E)those who had deserted to him, and the people who remained.

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23 All your wives and (A)your sons shall be led out to the Chaldeans, and you yourself shall not escape from their hand, but shall be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city shall be burned with fire.”

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And (A)the Chaldeans shall come back and fight against this city. (B)They shall capture it and burn it with fire. Thus says the Lord, Do not deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely go away from us,” for they will not go away. 10 (C)For even if you should defeat the whole army of Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and there remained of them only wounded men, every man in his tent, they would rise up and (D)burn this city with fire.’”

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22 Behold, (A)I will command, declares the Lord, and will (B)bring them back to this city. (C)And they will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire. (D)I will make the cities of Judah a desolation (E)without inhabitant.”

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14 who says, ‘I will build myself a great house
    with spacious upper rooms,’
who cuts out windows for it,
    paneling it with cedar
    and (A)painting it with vermilion.

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14 therefore I will do to (A)the house (B)that is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, (C)as I did to Shiloh.

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