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Your people will be killed, and then you will know that I am the Lord!’”

God said, “But I will let a few of your people escape. They will live in other countries for a short time. I will scatter them and force them to live in other countries. Then the survivors will be taken as prisoners. They will be forced to live in other countries, but they will remember me. I broke their spirit.[a] They will hate themselves for the evil things they did. In the past, they turned away from me and left me. They chased after their filthy idols. They were like a woman leaving her husband and running off with another man. They did many terrible things,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 6:9 spirit Literally, “heart.”

Your people will fall slain(A) among you, and you will know that I am the Lord.(B)

“‘But I will spare some, for some of you will escape(C) the sword when you are scattered among the lands and nations.(D) Then in the nations where they have been carried captive, those who escape will remember(E) me—how I have been grieved(F) by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have lusted after their idols.(G) They will loathe themselves for the evil(H) they have done and for all their detestable practices.(I)

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And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.

And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

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