Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
20 Then they will keep my laws and faithfully obey all my commands. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
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Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
21 But I will punish the people who love to worship filthy, disgusting idols. I will punish them for what they have done." The Sovereign Lord has spoken.
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But as for those whose hearts are devoted to their vile images and detestable idols, I will bring down on their own heads what they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
22 The living creatures began to fly, and the wheels went with them. The dazzling light of the presence of the God of Israel was over them.
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Then the cherubim, with the wheels beside them, spread their wings, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.
23 Then the dazzling light left the city and moved to the mountain east of it.
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The glory of the LORD went up from within the city and stopped above the mountain east of it.
24 In the vision the spirit of God lifted me up and brought me back to the exiles in Babylonia. Then the vision faded,
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The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the exiles in Babylonia in the vision given by the Spirit of God. Then the vision I had seen went up from me,
25 and I told the exiles everything that the Lord had shown me.
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and I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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