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"Son of man, if a countrysins against Me by committingunfaithfulness, and I stretch out My handagainst it, destroy its supply of bread, sendfamine against it and cutoff from it both man and beast,
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even though thesethreemen, Noah, Daniel and Job were in its midst, by their own righteousness they could only deliverthemselves," declares the LordGOD.
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"If I were to cause wildbeasts to pass through the land and they depopulated it, and it becamedesolateso* that noone would passthrough it because* of the beasts,
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though thesethreemen were in its midst, as I live," declares the LordGOD, "they could not delivereither their sonsor their daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the country would be desolate.
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even though thesethreemen were in its midst, as I live," declares the LordGOD, "they could not deliver either their sons or their daughters, but they alone would be delivered.
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even though Noah, Daniel and Job were in its midst, as I live," declares the LordGOD, "they could not delivereither their sonor their daughter. They would deliver only themselves by their righteousness."
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For thussays the LordGOD, "Howmuchmore*when I send My fourseverejudgmentsagainstJerusalem: sword, famine, wildbeasts and plague to cutoffman and beast from it!
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"Yet, behold, survivors will be left in it who will be brought out, both sons and daughters. Behold, they are going to comeforth to you and you will see their conduct and actions; then you will be comforted for the calamitywhich I have broughtagainstJerusalem for everythingwhich I have brought upon it.
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"Then they will comfort you when you see their conduct and actions, for you will know that I have not done in vainwhatever* I did to it," declares the LordGOD.