Her gates have sunk into the ground;
    (A)he has ruined (B)and broken her bars;
(C)her king and princes are among the nations;
    the law is no more,
and (D)her prophets find
    no vision from the Lord.

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Her gates(A) have sunk into the ground;
    their bars(B) he has broken and destroyed.
Her king and her princes are exiled(C) among the nations,
    the law(D) is no more,
and her prophets(E) no longer find
    visions(F) from the Lord.

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26 (A)Disaster comes upon disaster; (B)rumor follows rumor. (C)They seek a vision from the prophet, while (D)the law[a] perishes from the priest and (E)counsel from the elders.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 7:26 Or instruction

26 Calamity upon calamity(A) will come,
    and rumor upon rumor.
They will go searching for a vision from the prophet,(B)
    priestly instruction in the law will cease,
    the counsel of the elders will come to an end.(C)

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For the children of Israel (A)shall dwell many days (B)without king or prince, (C)without sacrifice or (D)pillar, without (E)ephod or (F)household gods.

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For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince,(A) without sacrifice(B) or sacred stones,(C) without ephod(D) or household gods.(E)

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Therefore (A)it shall be night to you, without vision,
    and darkness to you, without divination.
(B)The sun shall go down on the prophets,
    and the day shall be black over them;
(C)the seers shall be disgraced,
    and the diviners put to shame;
(D)they shall all cover their lips,
    for (E)there is no answer from God.

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Therefore night will come over you, without visions,
    and darkness, without divination.(A)
The sun will set for the prophets,(B)
    and the day will go dark for them.(C)
The seers will be ashamed(D)
    and the diviners disgraced.(E)
They will all cover(F) their faces(G)
    because there is no answer from God.(H)

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And they said to me, “The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and (A)shame. (B)The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, (C)and its gates are destroyed by fire.”

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They said to me, “Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.(A)

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(A)For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law,

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For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach(A) and without the law.(B)

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11 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
    “when (A)I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
    (B)but of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 (C)They shall wander from sea to sea,
    and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,
    (D)but they shall not find it.

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11 “The days are coming,”(A) declares the Sovereign Lord,
    “when I will send a famine through the land—
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
    but a famine(B) of hearing the words of the Lord.(C)
12 People will stagger from sea to sea
    and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
    but they will not find it.(D)

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30 The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting;
    they remain in their strongholds;
their strength has failed;
    (A)they have become women;
(B)her dwellings are on fire;
    (C)her bars are broken.

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30 Babylon’s warriors(A) have stopped fighting;
    they remain in their strongholds.
Their strength is exhausted;
    they have become weaklings.(B)
Her dwellings are set on fire;(C)
    the bars(D) of her gates are broken.

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We do not see our (A)signs;
    (B)there is no longer any prophet,
    and there is none among us who knows how long.

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We are given no signs from God;(A)
    no prophets(B) are left,
    and none of us knows how long this will be.

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36 “The Lord will (A)bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you (B)nor your fathers have known. And (C)there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.

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36 The Lord will drive you and the king(A) you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors.(B) There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.(C)

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20 (A)I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon (B)and enter into judgment with him there (C)for the treachery he has committed against me.

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20 I will spread my net(A) for him, and he will be caught in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment(B) on him there because he was unfaithful(C) to me.

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13 (A)And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare. And (B)I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, (C)yet he shall not see it, and he shall die there.

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13 I will spread my net(A) for him, and he will be caught in my snare;(B) I will bring him to Babylonia, the land of the Chaldeans,(C) but he will not see(D) it, and there he will die.(E)

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20 (A)The breath of our nostrils, (B)the Lord's anointed,
    was captured (C)in their pits,
of whom we said, (D)“Under his shadow
    we shall live among the nations.”

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20 The Lord’s anointed,(A) our very life breath,
    was caught in their traps.(B)
We thought that under his shadow(C)
    we would live among the nations.

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