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Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're

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taking this journey together to read the Bible

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in a year. Today's reading is from the book of

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Ezekiel, chapters 4 and 5. Chapter 4 You also,

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son of man, take a clay tablet and lay it before

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you, and portray on it a city, Jerusalem. Lay

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siege against it, build a siege wall against

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it, and heap up a mound against it. set camps

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against it also and place battering rams against

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it all around moreover take for yourself an iron

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plate and set it as an iron wall between you

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and the city set your face against it and it

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shall be besieged and you shall lay siege against

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it this will be a sign to the house of israel

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lie also on your left side and lay the iniquity

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of the house of israel upon it According to the

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number of the days that you lie on it, you shall

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bear their iniquity. For I have laid on you the

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years of their iniquity according to the number

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of the days, 390 days. So you shall bear the

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iniquity of the house of Israel. And when you

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have completed them, lie again on your right

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side. Then you shall bear the iniquity of the

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house of Judah 40 days. I have laid on you a

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day for each year. Therefore, you shall set your

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face toward the siege of Jerusalem. Your arm

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shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against

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it. And surely I will restrain you, so that you

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cannot turn from one side to another till you

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have ended the days of your siege. Also take

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for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet,

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and spelt. Put them into one vessel, and make

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bread of them for yourself. During the number

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of days that you lie on your side, three hundred

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and ninety days you shall eat it. And your food

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which you eat shall be by weight twenty shekels

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a day. From time to time you shall eat it. You

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shall also drink water by measure, one sixth

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of a hin. From time to time you shall drink,

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and you shall eat it as barley cakes, and bake

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it using fuel of human waste in their sight.

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Then the Lord said, So shall the children of

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Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles,

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where I will drive them. So I said, Ah, Lord

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God, indeed, I have never defiled myself from

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my youth till now. I have never eaten what died

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of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has abominable

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flesh ever come into my mouth. Then he said to

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me, see i am giving you cow dung instead of human

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waste and you shall prepare your bread over it

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moreover he said to me son of man surely i will

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cut off the supply of bread in jerusalem they

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shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety and

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shall drink water by measure and with dread that

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they may lack bread and water and be dismayed

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with one another and waste away because of their

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iniquity chapter 5 And you, son of man, take

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a sharp sword, take it as a barber's razor, and

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pass it over your head and your beard. Then take

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scales to weigh and divide the hair. You shall

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burn with fire one -third in the midst of the

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city, when the days of the siege are finished.

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Then you shall take one -third and strike around

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it with the sword, and one -third you shall scatter

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in the wind. I will draw out a sword after them.

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You shall also take a small number of them and

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bind them in the edge of your garment. Then take

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some of them again and throw them into the midst

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of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From

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there a fire will go out into all the house of

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Israel. Thus says the Lord God, This is Jerusalem.

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I have set her in the midst of the nations and

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the countries all around her. She has rebelled

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against my judgments by doing wickedness. more

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than the nations, and against my statutes, more

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than the countries that are all around her. For

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they have refused my judgments, and they have

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not walked in my statutes. Therefore thus says

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the Lord God, Because you have multiplied disobedience

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more than the nations that are all around you,

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have not walked in my statutes, nor kept my judgments,

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nor even done according to the judgments of the

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nations that are all around you. therefore thus

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says the lord god indeed i even i am against

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you and will execute judgments in your midst

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in the sight of the nations and i will do among

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you what i have never done and the like of which

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i will never do again because of all your abominations

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Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your

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midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And

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I will execute judgments among you, and all of

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you who remain I will scatter to all the winds.

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Therefore as I live, says the Lord God, surely

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because you have defiled my sanctuary with all

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your detestable things and with all your abominations,

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therefore I will also diminish you. My eye will

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not spare, nor will I have any pity. One third

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of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed

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with famine in your midst. And one third shall

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fall by the sword all around you. And I will

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scatter another third to all the winds, and I

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will draw out a sword after them. Thus shall

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my anger be spent, and I will cause my fury to

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rest upon them, and I will be avenged. And they

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shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it in

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my zeal, when I have spent my fury upon them.

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Moreover, I will make you a waste and a reproach

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among the nations that are all around you in

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the sight of all who pass by. So it shall be

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a reproach, a taunt, a lesson, and an astonishment

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to the nations that are all around you when I

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execute judgments among you in anger and in fury

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and in furious rebukes. I the Lord have spoken.

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When I send against them the terrible arrows

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of famine, which shall be for destruction, which

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I will send to destroy you, I will increase the

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famine upon you and cut off your supply of bread.

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So I will send against you famine and wild beasts,

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and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood

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shall pass through you, and I will bring the

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sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken.

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I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as

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I did, and I look forward to seeing you again

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tomorrow to continue on our journey. God bless

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you and have a great day.