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26-EZK/04.usfm

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 \v 9 Take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make bread for yourself according to the number of the days that you will lie upon your side. For 390 days you will eat it.
 \v 10 The food you will eat will be by weight, twenty shekels per day, and you will eat it at set times each day.
-\v 11 And you will drink water, measured out to a sixth of a hin, and you will drink it at set times.
+\v 11 Then you will drink water, measured out to a sixth of a hin, and you will drink it at set times.
 
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 \v 12 You will eat it as barley cakes, but you will bake it on excrement of human dung within their sight!"

26-EZK/05.usfm

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-\v 1 "Then you, son of man, take a sharp sword as a barber's razor for yourself. And pass the razor over your head and your beard, then take scales to weigh and divide your hair.
+\v 1 "Then you, son of man, take a sharp sword as a barber's razor for yourself, and pass the razor over your head and your beard, then take scales to weigh and divide your hair.
-\v 2 Burn a third of it with fire in the midst of the city when the days of the siege are completed. And take a third of the hair and strike it with the sword all around the city. Then scatter a third of it to the wind, and I will draw out a sword to chase after the people.
+\v 2 Burn a third of it with fire in the midst of the city when the days of the siege are completed, and take a third of the hair and strike it with the sword all around the city. Then scatter a third of it to the wind, and I will draw out a sword to chase after the people.
 
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 \v 3 But take a small number of hairs from them and tie them into the folds of your robe.

26-EZK/07.usfm

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 \v 20 They took jeweled ornaments in their pride and they formed idolatrous figures depicting their abominations and their detestable things they made with them,
 \q therefore, I am making these things unclean to them.
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-\v 21 And I will give those things into the hand of strangers as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as plunder,
+\v 21 Then I will give those things into the hand of strangers as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as plunder,
 \q and they will defile them.
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 \v 22 Then I will turn my face away from them when they defile my cherished place;
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 \v 27 The king will mourn and the prince will dress in despair,
 \q while the hands of the people of the land will tremble in fear. According to their own ways I will do this to them!
-\q And I will judge them with their own standards until they know that I am Yahweh.'"
+\q I will judge them with their own standards until they know that I am Yahweh.'"
 
 
 

26-EZK/08.usfm

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 \v 1 So it came about in the sixth year and the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Yahweh again fell upon me there.
-\v 2 So I looked, and behold, there was a figure like a man, with what looked like fire from his hips downward. And from his hips upward there was a shining appearance like glowing metal.
+\v 2 So I looked, and behold, there was a figure like a man, with what looked like fire from his hips downward, and from his hips upward there was a shining appearance like glowing metal.
 
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-\v 3 And he reached out the form of a hand and took me by the hair of my head; the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and in visions from God, he brought me to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the inner northern gate, where the idol that provokes great jealousy was standing.
+\v 3 Then he reached out the form of a hand and took me by the hair of my head; the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and in visions from God, he brought me to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the inner northern gate, where the idol that provokes great jealousy was standing.
-\v 4 And the glory of the God of Israel, whose appearance was the same as I had seen in the plain, was there.
+\v 4 Then the glory of the God of Israel, whose appearance was the same as I had seen in the plain, was there.
 
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 \v 11 Seventy elders of the house of Israel were there, and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan was standing in their midst. They were standing in front of the images, and each man had his censer in his hand so that the smell of the cloud of incense went up.
 
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-\v 12 Then he said to me, "Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark? Each one does this in the hidden chamber of his idol, for they say, 'Yahweh does not see us! Yahweh has forsaken the land.'"
+\v 12 He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark? Each one does this in the hidden chamber of his idol, for they say, 'Yahweh does not see us! Yahweh has forsaken the land.'"
-\v 13 And he said to me, "Turn again and see the other great abominations that they are doing."
+\v 13 Then he said to me, "Turn again and see the other great abominations that they are doing."
 
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-\v 16 And he brought me into the inner courtyard of Yahweh's house, and behold! at the entrance of the temple of Yahweh between the portico and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of Yahweh and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping the sun.
+\v 16 He brought me into the inner courtyard of Yahweh's house, and behold! at the entrance of the temple of Yahweh between the portico and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of Yahweh and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping the sun.
 
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 \v 17 He said to me, "Do you see this, son of man? Is it a little thing for the house of Judah to do these abominations that they are doing here? For they have filled the land with violence and they have turned again to provoke me to anger, putting the branch to their noses.

26-EZK/09.usfm

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 \v 1 Then he cried in my hearing with a loud voice, and said, "Let the guards come up to the city, each with his weapon of destruction in his hand."
-\v 2 Then behold! Six men came from the pathway of the upper gate that faces north, each with his weapon of slaughter in his hand. And there was a man in their midst dressed in linen with a scribe's equipment at his side. So they went in and stood beside the bronze altar.
+\v 2 Then behold! Six men came from the pathway of the upper gate that faces north, each with his weapon of slaughter in his hand. There was a man in their midst dressed in linen with a scribe's equipment at his side. So they went in and stood beside the bronze altar.
 
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-\v 3 Then the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherubim where it had been to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man dressed in linen who had the scribe's equipment at his side.
+\v 3 Then the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherubim where it had been to the threshold of the house. He called to the man dressed in linen who had the scribe's equipment at his side.
 \v 4 Yahweh said to him, "Pass through the midst of the city—the midst of Jerusalem—and make a mark on the foreheads of those who groan and sigh about all the abominations being performed in the midst of the city."
 
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 \v 7 He said to them, "Defile the house, and fill its courtyards with the dead. Proceed!" So they went out and attacked the city.
-\v 8 And as they were attacking it, I found myself alone and I fell on my face and cried out and said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh, will you destroy all the remnant of Israel in the outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?"
+\v 8 As they were attacking it, I found myself alone and I fell on my face and cried out and said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh, will you destroy all the remnant of Israel in the outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?"
 
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 \v 9 He said to me, "The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of blood and the city full of perversions, since they say, 'Yahweh has forgotten the land,' and 'Yahweh does not see!'
 \v 10 So then, my eye will not look with compassion, and I will not spare them. I will instead bring it all on their heads."
-\v 11 And behold! The man dressed in linen who had the scribe's equipment by his side came back. He reported and said, "I have done all that you have commanded."
+\v 11 Behold! The man dressed in linen who had the scribe's equipment by his side came back. He reported and said, "I have done all that you have commanded."
 
 
 

26-EZK/10.usfm

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-\v 1 Then I looked toward the dome that was over the heads of the cherubim; something appeared above them like a sapphire with the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
+\v 1 As I looked toward the dome that was over the heads of the cherubim; something appeared above them like a sapphire with the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
-\v 2 And Yahweh spoke to the man dressed in linen and said, "Go between the wheels underneath the cherubim, and fill both your hands with fiery coals from between the cherubim and scatter them over the city." Then the man went in as I watched.
+\v 2 Then Yahweh spoke to the man dressed in linen and said, "Go between the wheels underneath the cherubim, and fill both your hands with fiery coals from between the cherubim and scatter them over the city." Then the man went in as I watched.
 
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 \v 3 The cherubim stood on the right side of the house when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner courtyard.
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 \v 5 Then I heard the sound of the cherubim's wings in the outer courtyard, like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.
 
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-\v 6 And it came about, when God commanded the man dressed in linen and said, "Take fire from between the wheels that are between the cherubim," the man went in and stood beside a wheel.
+\v 6 It came about, when God commanded the man dressed in linen and said, "Take fire from between the wheels that are between the cherubim," the man went in and stood beside a wheel.
 \v 7 A cherub reached out his hand between the cherubim to the fire that was among the cherubim, and lifted it up and placed it into the hands of the one dressed in linen. The man took it and went back out.
 \v 8 I saw on the cherubim something like a man's hand under their wings.
 

26-EZK/11.usfm

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-\v 13 And it came about that as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah, died. So I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh, will you completely destroy the remnant of Israel?"
+\v 13 It came about that as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah, died. So I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh, will you completely destroy the remnant of Israel?"
 
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 \v 14 The word of Yahweh came to me and said,
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 \v 18 Then they will go there and remove every detestable thing and every abomination from that place.
 
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-\v 19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit in them when they come near to me; I will take the stone heart from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
+\v 19 I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit in them when they come near to me; I will take the stone heart from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
 \v 20 so that they will walk in my statutes, they will carry out my decrees and do them. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.
 \v 21 But to those who walk with affection toward their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their conduct on their own heads—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration."
 
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-\v 22 Then the cherubim lifted up their wings and the wheels that were beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was high up over them.
+\v 22 The cherubim lifted up their wings and the wheels that were beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was high up over them.
-\v 23 And the glory of Yahweh went up from within the midst of the city and stood on the mountain to the east of the city.
+\v 23 Then the glory of Yahweh went up from within the midst of the city and stood on the mountain to the east of the city.
 
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-\v 24 And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into Chaldea, to the exiles, in the vision from the Spirit of God. And the vision that I had seen went up from upon me.
+\v 24 The Spirit lifted me up and brought me into Chaldea, to the exiles, in the vision from the Spirit of God, and the vision that I had seen went up from upon me.
 \v 25 Then I declared to the exiles all the things of Yahweh that I had seen.

26-EZK/12.usfm

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 \v 3 Therefore as for you, son of man, prepare your things for exile, and begin going out by day in their sight, for I will exile you in their sight from your place to another place. Perhaps they will begin to see, though they are a rebellious house.
 
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-\v 4 And you will bring out your things for an exile in the day in their sight; go out in the evening in their sight in the way that anyone goes into exile.
+\v 4 You will bring out your things for an exile in the day in their sight; go out in the evening in their sight in the way that anyone goes into exile.
 \v 5 Dig a hole through the wall in their sight, and go out through it.
 \v 6 In their sight, lift up your things onto your shoulder, and bring them out in the darkness. Cover your face, for you must not see the land, since I have set you as a sign to the house of Israel."
 

26-EZK/13.usfm

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 \v 20 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this: I am against the magic charms that you have used to ensnare the people's lives as if they were birds. Indeed, I will tear them from your arms; and the people whom you have trapped like birds—I will let them go free.
-\v 21 I will tear away your veils and rescue my people from your hand, so they will no longer be trapped in your hands. And you will know that I am Yahweh.
+\v 21 I will tear away your veils and rescue my people from your hand, so they will no longer be trapped in your hands. You will know that I am Yahweh.
 
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 \v 22 Because you discourage the heart of the righteous person with lies, even though I did not desire his discouragement, and because you encourage instead the actions of the wicked person so that he will not turn from his way to save his life—
-\v 23 therefore you will no longer have false visions or continue to make predictions, for I will rescue my people out of your hand. And you will know that I am Yahweh.'"
+\v 23 therefore you will no longer have false visions or continue to make predictions, for I will rescue my people out of your hand. You will know that I am Yahweh.'"
 
 

26-EZK/14.usfm

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 \v 9 If a prophet is deceived and speaks a message, then I, Yahweh, will deceive that prophet; I will reach out with my hand against him and destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
-\v 10 And they will carry their own iniquity; the iniquity of the prophet will be the same as the iniquity of the one who inquires from him.
+\v 10 They will carry their own iniquity; the iniquity of the prophet will be the same as the iniquity of the one who inquires from him.
 \v 11 Because of this, the house of Israel will no longer wander away from following me nor defile themselves any longer through all their transgressions. They will be my people, and I will be their God—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.'"
 
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26-EZK/16.usfm

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 \v 17 You took the fine jewels of the gold and silver that I gave you, and you made for yourself male figures, and you did with them as a prostitute would do.
 \v 18 You took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set my oils and perfumes before them.
-\v 19 And my bread oI gave you—made with fine flour, oil, and honey—you set before them for a fragrant aroma, for this is what happened—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.
+\v 19 My bread oI gave you—made with fine flour, oil, and honey—you set before them for a fragrant aroma, for this is what happened—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.
 
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 \v 20 Then you took your sons and daughters whom you bore for me, and you sacrificed them to the images to be devoured as food. Are your acts of prostitution a small matter?
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 \v 27 See! I will strike you with my hand and cut off your food. I will hand your life over to your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, to bring you shame because of your lustful behavior.
 \v 28 You have acted like a prostitute with the Assyrians because you could not be satisfied. You acted like a prostitute and still were not satisfied.
-\v 29 And you performed many more acts of prostitution in the land of the merchants of Chaldea, and even this did not satisfy you.
+\v 29 You performed many more acts of prostitution in the land of the merchants of Chaldea, and even this did not satisfy you.
 
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 \v 40 Then they will bring up a crowd against you and stone you with stones, and they will cut you apart with their swords.
-\v 41 And they will burn your houses and will perform many acts of punishment on you in the sight of many women, for I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay anyone for them.
+\v 41 They will burn your houses and will perform many acts of punishment on you in the sight of many women, for I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay anyone for them.
 \v 42 Then I will calm my fury against you; my anger will leave you, for I will be satisfied, and will no longer be angry.
 
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26-EZK/17.usfm

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 \v 7 But there was another great eagle with large wings and many feathers.
-\q And behold! This vine turned its roots toward the eagle,
+\q Behold! This vine turned its roots toward the eagle,
 \q and it spread out its branches toward the eagle from the place it had been planted so it would be watered.
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 \v 8 It had been planted in good soil beside a large body of water
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 \v 12 "Speak to the rebellious house, 'Do you not know what these things mean? Behold! The king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took her king and her princes and brought them to him in Babylon.
 
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-\v 13 Then he took a royal descendant, made a covenant with him, and brought him under an oath. And he took away the powerful people of the land,
+\v 13 Then he took a royal descendant, made a covenant with him, and brought him under an oath. He took away the powerful people of the land,
 \v 14 so the kingdom might become lowly and not lift itself up. By keeping his covenant the land will survive.
 
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 \v 15 But the king of Jerusalem rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt to acquire horses and an army. Will he succeed? Will the one doing these things escape? If he breaks the covenant, will he escape?
 \v 16 As I live!—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—he will surely die in the land of the king who made him king, the king whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke. He will die in the middle of Babylon.
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-\v 17 And Pharaoh with his mighty army and assembling of many men for war will not protect him in battle, when the Babylonian army builds siege mounds and siege walls to destroy many lives.
+\v 17 Pharaoh with his mighty army and assembling of many men for war will not protect him in battle, when the Babylonian army builds siege mounds and siege walls to destroy many lives.
 \v 18 For the king despised his oath by breaking the covenant. Behold, he reached out with his hand to make a promise and yet he did all these things. He will not escape.
 
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 \v 19 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this: As I live, was it not my oath that he despised and my covenant that he broke? So I will bring his punishment on his head!
 \v 20 I will spread my net out over him, and he will be caught in my hunting net. Then I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment on him there for his treason that he committed when he betrayed me!
-\v 21 And all of his refugees in his armies will fall by the sword, and the ones who remain will be scattered in every direction. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; I have declared this would happen."
+\v 21 All of his refugees in his armies will fall by the sword, and the ones who remain will be scattered in every direction. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; I have declared this would happen."
 
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26-EZK/18.usfm

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 \v 7 Suppose that he has not oppressed anyone but instead has returned a pledge to its debtor. Suppose that he has not taken what was stolen, but instead gives his food to the hungry, and that he covers the naked with clothes.
 
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-\v 8 And suppose that he does not charge any interest for loans, nor gains too much profit. Suppose that he carries out justice and establishes faithfulness between people.
+\v 8 Then suppose that he does not charge any interest for loans, nor gains too much profit. Suppose that he carries out justice and establishes faithfulness between people.
 \v 9 Suppose that he walks in my statutes and keeps my decrees to act faithfully. Then the promise for this righteous man is this: He will surely live!—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.
 
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 \v 28 For he has seen and turned away from all the transgressions that he had done. He will live life; he will not die.
 
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-\v 29 But the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not fair!' How is my way not fair, house of Israel? And how is your way not unfair?
+\v 29 But the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not fair!' How is my way not fair, house of Israel? How is your way not unfair?
 \v 30 Therefore I will judge each man among you according to his ways, house of Israel!—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration. Repent and turn away from all your transgressions so that they will not be stumbling blocks of iniquity against you.
 
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26-EZK/19.usfm

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-\v 1 "And you, take up a lamentation against the leaders of Israel
+\v 1 "Now you, take up a lamentation against the leaders of Israel
 \v 2 and say,
 \q 'Who was your mother? A lioness, she lived with a lion's son;
 \q in the midst of young lions, she nurtured her cubs.
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-\v 3 And she raised up one of her cubs to become a young lion who learned to tear his victims. He devoured men.
+\v 3 She is the one who raised up one of her cubs to become a young lion, a lion who learned to tear apart his victims, and then he devoured men.
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 \v 4 Then the nations heard about him. He was caught in their trap, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
 

26-EZK/20.usfm

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 \v 29 Then I said to them, "What is this high place where you bring offerings there?" So the name is called Bamah to this day.'
 
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-\v 30 Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'The Lord Yahweh says this: Why do you make yourselves unclean with the ways of your fathers? And why do you act like prostitutes, searching for disgusting things?
+\v 30 Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'The Lord Yahweh says this: Why do you make yourselves unclean with the ways of your fathers? So why do you act like prostitutes, searching for disgusting things?
-\v 31 For when you offer up your gifts and you put your sons into the fire, and to this day you make yourselves unclean with all your idols. And so should I let you question me, house of Israel? As I live—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—I will not let you question me.
+\v 31 For when you offer up your gifts and you put your sons into the fire, and to this day you make yourselves unclean with all your idols. So why should I let you question me, house of Israel? As I live—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—I will not let you question me.
 \v 32 The thought that is forming in your mind will come true. You say, "Let us be like the other nations, like the clans in the other lands who worship wood and stone."
 
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