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“After you have finished this, lie down again, this time on your right side, and bear the sin of the people of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year.
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Weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day and eat it at set times.
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Also measure out a sixth of a hin of water and drink it at set times.
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Doom has come upon you, upon you who dwell in the land. The time has come! The day is near! There is panic, not joy, on the mountains.
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The time has come! The day has arrived! Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller grieve, for my wrath is on the whole crowd.
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“So then, son of man, prophesy and strike your hands together. 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.
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“‘You profane and wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, whose time of punishment has reached its climax,
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Despite false visions concerning you and lying divinations about you, it will be laid on the necks of the wicked who are to be slain, whose day has come, whose time of punishment has reached its climax.
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They have also done this to me: At that same time they defiled my sanctuary and desecrated my Sabbaths.
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“‘I the Lord have spoken. The time has come for me to act. I will not hold back; I will not have pity, nor will I relent. You will be judged according to your conduct and your actions, declares the Sovereign Lord.’”
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At that time your mouth will be opened; you will speak with him and will no longer be silent. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the Lord.”
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For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near— a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
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“‘Because you harbored an ancient hostility and delivered the Israelites over to the sword at the time of their calamity, the time their punishment reached its climax,
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“‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You are the one I spoke of in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel. At that time they prophesied for years that I would bring you against them.
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In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that at that time there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.
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“The distance all around will be 18,000 cubits. “And the name of the city from that time on will be: the Lord is there.”
