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And it came to pass, while they were bris. slaying them, and I was left, that I fell

upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord God! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?

THE LORD'S ANSWER.

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Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not. And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.

THE FURTHER INTERCESSION OF EZE

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EZEX. xi. 5-13.

And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the

Lord; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them. Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain. Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it. Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord God. And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you. Ye shall fall bby the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord. This city shall not be your cal dron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the Lord for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judg ments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you. voy

And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died.

Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord God wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?

Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said! Get you far from the Lord: unto us is this land given in possession. Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come. Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have

been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof, all the abominations thereof from thence. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord God

THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL ENQUIRE OF THE LORD BY EZEKIEL.

And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the

month, that certain of the elders of Israel

came to enquire of the Lord, and sat be

v Then came the word of the Lord unto me, saying, Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Are ye come to enquires of me? As I live, saith the Lord God, Howill not be enquired of by you.ho to Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers: w I adot

Andbosay unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed. of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the Lord your God;

In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for