Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
14 But from now on it will no longer eat people and rob you of your children. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken.
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therefore you will no longer devour people or make your nation childless, declares the Sovereign LORD.
15 The land will no longer have to listen to the nations making fun of it or see the peoples sneer at it. The land will no longer rob the nation of its children. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken."
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No longer will I make you hear the taunts of the nations, and no longer will you suffer the scorn of the peoples or cause your nation to fall, declares the Sovereign LORD.’ ”
16 The Lord spoke to me.
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Again the word of the LORD came to me:
17 "Mortal man," he said, "when the Israelites were living in their land, they defiled it by the way they lived and acted. I regarded their behavior as being as ritually unclean as a woman is during her monthly period.
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“Son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own land, they defiled it by their conduct and their actions. Their conduct was like a woman’s monthly uncleanness in my sight.
18 I let them feel the force of my anger because of the murders they had committed in the land and because of the idols by which they had defiled it.
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So I poured out my wrath on them because they had shed blood in the land and because they had defiled it with their idols.
19 I condemned them for the way they lived and acted, and I scattered them through foreign countries.
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I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered through the countries; I judged them according to their conduct and their actions.
20 Wherever they went, they brought disgrace on my holy name, because people would say, "These are the people of the Lord, but they had to leave his land.'
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And wherever they went among the nations they profaned my holy name, for it was said of them, ‘These are the LORD’s people, and yet they had to leave his land.’
21 That made me concerned for my holy name, since the Israelites brought disgrace on it everywhere they went.
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I had concern for my holy name, which the people of Israel profaned among the nations where they had gone.
22 "Now then, give the Israelites the message that I, the Sovereign Lord, have for them: What I am going to do is not for the sake of you Israelites, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have disgraced in every country where you have gone.
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“Therefore say to the Israelites, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: It is not for your sake, people of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone.
23 When I demonstrate to the nations the holiness of my great name - the name you disgraced among them - then they will know that I am the Lord. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken. I will use you to show the nations that I am holy.
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I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Sovereign LORD, when I am proved holy through you before their eyes.
24 I will take you from every nation and country and bring you back to your own land.
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“ ‘For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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