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Moreover, the Spiritlifted me up and brought me to the eastgate of the LORD'Shouse which facedeastward. And behold, there were twenty-five*men at the entrance of the gate, and among them I sawJaazaniahson of Azzur and Pelatiahson of Benaiah, leaders of the people.
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'Therefore, thussays the LordGOD, "Your slainwhom you have laid in the midst of the city are the flesh and this city is the pot; but I will bring you out of it.
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"Thus you will know that I am the LORD; for you have not walked in My statutesnor have you executed My ordinances, but have acted according to the ordinances of the nationsaround you.""'
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Now it came about as I prophesied, that Pelatiahson of Benaiahdied. Then I fell on my face and cried out with a loudvoice and said, "Alas, LordGOD! Will You bring the remnant of Israel to a completeend?"
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"Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, your fellowexiles and the wholehouse of Israel, all of them, are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, 'Gofar from the LORD; thisland has been given us as a possession.'
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"Thereforesay, 'Thussays the LordGOD, "Though I had removed them far away among the nations and though I had scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary for them a littlewhile in the countrieswhere* they had gone."'
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"Thereforesay, 'Thussays the LordGOD, "I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel."'
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"And I will give them oneheart, and put a newspiritwithin them. And I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
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"But as for those whose heartsgo after their detestablethings and abominations, I will bring their conductdown on their heads," declares the LordGOD.