26:019:014 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches,
which hath
devoured
her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a
sceptre
to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for
a
lamentation.
26:020:001 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 before me.
26:020:002 Then came the word of the lord unto me, saying,
26:020:003 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel,
and say unto
them,
Thus saith the Lord god; Are ye come to enquire
of me?
As
I live, saith the Lord god, I will not be enquired
of by
you.
26:020:004 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt
thou judge them? cause
them
to know the abominations of their fathers:
26:020:005 And say 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;
26:020:006 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
them,
flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of
all
lands:
26:020:007 Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every
man the abominations
of
his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols
of
Egypt:
I am the lord your God.
26:020:008 But they rebelled against me, and would
not hearken unto me:
they
did not every man cast away the abominations of their
eyes,
neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then
I
said,
I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my
anger
against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
26:020:009 But I wrought for my name’s sake,
that it should not be
polluted
before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose
sight
I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth
out
of the land of Egypt.
26:020:010 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out
of the land of Egypt,
and
brought them into the wilderness.
26:020:011 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed
them my judgments,
which
if a man do, he shall even live in them.
26:020:012 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths,
to be a sign between me
and
them, that they might know that I am the lord
that
sanctify
them.


