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and I will set my face against that man and will set him up for a sign and for sayings, and I will cut him off from among my people; and ye shall know that I
am the LORD.
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And the prophet when he is deceived and speaks a word, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him and will destroy him from among my people Israel.
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And they shall bear the
punishment of their iniquity; the iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity of him that seeks
unto him
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that the house of Israel may no longer go astray from me, neither be polluted any longer in all their rebellions but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, said the Lord GOD.
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The word of the LORD came again to me, saying:
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Son of man, when the land sins against me by rebelling blatantly and I stretch out my hand upon her and break the staff of the bread thereof and send famine upon her and cut off man and beast out of her
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though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in the midst of her, they should deliver
but their own souls by their righteousness, said the Lord GOD.
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If I cause an evil beast to pass through the land and destroy her so that it be desolate that there be no one to pass through because of the beast
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though these three men
were in the midst of her,
as I live, said the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither their sons nor their daughters; they only shall be delivered, and the land shall be destroyed.
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Or
if I bring a sword upon the land and say: Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast out of her;
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though these three men
were in the midst of her,
as I live, said the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither their sons nor their daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.