Ezekiel 20:44-46

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⁴⁴ Family of Israel, you did many evil things, and you should be destroyed because of them. But to protect my good name, I will not give you the punishment you really deserve. Then you will know that I am the Lord.” This is what the Lord God said.

⁴⁵ Then the word of the Lord came to me. He said, ⁴⁶ “Son of man, look toward the Negev, the southern part of Judah. Speak against the Negev Forest.^[a]