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Lexicon :: Strong's H136 - 'ăḏōnāy

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אֲדֹנָי
Transliteration
'ăḏōnāy
Pronunciation
ad-o-noy'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
An emphatic form of אָדוֹן (H113)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 27b

Strong’s Definitions

אֲדֹנָי ʼĂdônây, ad-o-noy'; an emphatic form of H113; the Lord (used as a proper name of God only):—(my) Lord.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 434x

The KJV translates Strong's H136 in the following manner: Lord (431x), lord (2x), God (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 434x
The KJV translates Strong's H136 in the following manner: Lord (431x), lord (2x), God (1x).

  1. my lord, lord

    1. of men

    2. of God

  2. Lord - title, spoken in place of Yahweh in Jewish display of reverence

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֲדֹנָי ʼĂdônây, ad-o-noy'; an emphatic form of H113; the Lord (used as a proper name of God only):—(my) Lord.
STRONGS H136: Abbreviations
אָדוֺן noun masculine
בִּי אֲדנָי Exodus 4:10, 13; Joshua 7:8 (J) Judges 6:15; Judges 13:8 is referred to God
(2) reference to God: אֲדֹנָי
a. my Lord Genesis 20:4 (? E) Exodus 15:17 (Samaritan יהוה) elsewhere in Hexateuch, J; Genesis 18:3(?); Genesis 18:27, 30, 31, 32; [H113 Genesis 19:2, 18(?)] Exodus 4:10; Exodus 4:13; Exodus 5:22; Exodus 34:9; Numbers 14:17; Joshua 7:8; also Judges 6:15; Judges 13:8; not Samuel; 1 Kings 22:6; 2 Kings 19:23; not Chron. except memorials Ezra 10:3 (reference to Ezra) Nehemiah 1:11; Nehemiah 4:8 [Nehemiah 4:14]; Wisdom Literature only Job 28:28 (doubtless scribal error for יהוֺה of many MSS.); not Hosea; Isaiah 37:24; [H3068 Isaiah 38:14], 16 (historical part); exile Isaiah 49:14 (compare H113 Isaiah 51:22); Micah 1:2; Psalm 16:2 + (47 times, chiefly this sense, except below b.; compare אֱלֹהַי וַאדֹנָי my Lord and my God Psalm 35:23; (writers that use אֱלֹהִים seldom use אֲדֹנָי);
b. Adonay proper name of God, parallel with Yahweh, substitution for it often by scribal error, & eventually supplanting it. In earlier Isaiah 3:17 + (19 times seeming to belong here), Amos 7:7, 8; Amos 9:1; Ezekiel 18:25, 29; Ezekiel 33:17, 20; (H3068 Ezekiel 21:14 [Ezekiel 21:9]) (probably אֲדֹנָי י׳ as in usual phrase); Zechariah 9:4; [H3068 Malachi 1:12], 14; Lamentations 1:14 + (14 times) Psalm 2:4; Psalm 37:13; Psalm 78:65; [H3068 Psalm 90:17] (? יהוה) Psalm 110:5 (Dalman puts most of these below (a); — many cases are doubtful); 1 Kings 3:10, [H3068 1 Kings 3:15] (Masoretic אדני for יהוה compare Dalm 2 Kings 7:6; Dalm rightly questions; he reads יהוה). The phrases אֲדֹנָי אֱלֹהַי Psalm 38:16 [Psalm 38:15]; Psalm 86:12, Adonay my God; אֲדֹנָי הָאֱלֹהִים Daniel 9:3, אֱלֹהֵינוּ א׳ Daniel 9:9, 15, הָאֵל א׳ Daniel 9:4 favour taking א׳ Daniel 1:2; Daniel 9:7, 8 (יהוה ?) Daniel 9:16; Daniel 9:17; Daniel 9:19; Daniel 9:19; Daniel 9:19 as the divine name.
4. אֲדֹנָי יהוה
(a) my Lord Yahweh (see H3068 יהוה) Genesis 15:2, 8 (JE) Joshua 7:7 (J, Greek Version of the LXX omit י׳) Deuteronomy 3:24; Deuteronomy 9:26; Judges 6:22; Judges 16:28; [H3068 2 Samuel 7:1] (6 times) 1 Kings 2:26; 1 Kings 8:53; probably Amos 3:7, 8; Amos 7:2, 4, 5; Amos 9:8; Jeremiah 1:6; Jeremiah 4:10; Jeremiah 14:13; Jeremiah 32:17, 25; Ezekiel 4:14; Ezekiel 8:1; Ezekiel 9:8; Ezekiel 11:13; Ezekiel 20:49; Ezekiel 37:3 (יָדַע כִּי אֲני א׳ י׳) Ezekiel 13:9; Ezekiel 23:49; Ezekiel 24:24; Ezekiel 28:24; Ezekiel 29:16 inappropriate in mouth of God; strike out אֲדֹנָי (Co) or read אֱלֹהֵיכֶם י׳ (Dalm); Micah 1:2; Zephaniah 1:7; Obadiah 1; Zechariah 9:14; Psalm 71:5; Psalm 71:16; Psalm 73:28;
(b) apparently proper name Adonay Yahweh Isaiah 25:8; Jeremiah 44:26; exile Isaiah 40:10 + (10 times, but Isaiah 61:1, 11 read יהוה, Greek Version of the LXX);
(c) uncertain whether (a) or (b) in prophetic formula אָמַר י׳ א׳ Isaiah 7:7; Isaiah 28:16; Isaiah 30:15; Isaiah 49:22; Isaiah 52:4; Isaiah 65:13; Jeremiah 7:20; Amos 1:8; Amos 3:11; Amos 5:3; Amos 7:6; Obadiah 1; Ezekiel (131 times); י׳ נְאֻם א׳ Isaiah 56:8; Jeremiah 2:22; Amos 3:13; Amos 4:5; Amos 8:3, 9, 11; Ezekiel (80 times); י׳ דְּבַר־א׳ Ezekiel 6:3; Ezekiel 25:3; Ezekiel 36:4; י׳ נִשְׁבַּע א׳ Amos 4:2; Amos 6:8; י׳ כֹּה הִרְאַנִי א׳ Amos 7:1, 4; Amos 8:1.
5. יהוה אֲדֹנָי Yahweh my Lord Psalm 68:21 [Psalm 68:20]; Psalm 109:21; Psalm 140:8 [Psalm 140:7]; Psalm 141:8; Habakkuk 3:19.
6. אֲדֹנָי יהוה צְבָאוֺת
(a) my Lord Yahweh Ṣ (see H6635 צבאות) Psalm 69:7 [Psalm 69:6]; Amos 9:5; Isaiah 10:23; Isaiah 22:5, 12; Isaiah 28:22 compare אֱלֹהֵי הַצְבָאוֺת א׳ י׳, Yahweh, the God of Hosts my Lord Amos 5:16;
(b) a divine name, Adonay, Yahweh Jeremiah 46:10 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 50:25;
(c) uncertain are צ׳ י׳ כֹּה אָמַר א׳ Isaiah 10:24; Isaiah 22:14, 15; נְאֻם א׳ צ׳ י׳ Isaiah 3:15; Jeremiah 2:19; Jeremiah 49:5; Jeremiah 50:31.

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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

15:2; 15:8; 18:3; 18:27; 18:30; 18:31; 18:32; 20:4

Exodus

4:10; 4:10; 4:13; 4:13; 5:22; 15:17; 34:9

Numbers

14:17

Deuteronomy

3:24; 9:26

Joshua

7:7; 7:8; 7:8

Judges

6:15; 6:15; 6:22; 13:8; 13:8; 16:28

1 Kings

2:26; 3:10; 8:53; 22:6

2 Kings

7:6; 19:23

Ezra

10:3

Nehemiah

1:11; 4:14

Job

28:28

Psalms

2:4; 16:2; 35:23; 37:13; 38:15; 68:20; 69:6; 71:5; 71:16; 73:28; 78:65; 86:12; 109:21; 110:5; 140:7; 141:8

Isaiah

3:15; 3:17; 7:7; 10:23; 10:24; 22:5; 22:12; 22:14; 22:15; 25:8; 28:16; 28:22; 30:15; 37:24; 38:16; 40:10; 49:14; 49:22; 52:4; 56:8; 61:1; 61:11; 65:13

Jeremiah

1:6; 2:19; 2:22; 4:10; 7:20; 14:13; 32:17; 32:25; 44:26; 46:10; 49:5; 50:25; 50:31

Lamentations

1:14

Ezekiel

4:14; 6:3; 8:1; 9:8; 11:13; 13:9; 18:25; 18:29; 20:49; 23:49; 24:24; 25:3; 28:24; 29:16; 33:17; 33:20; 36:4; 37:3

Daniel

1:2; 9:3; 9:4; 9:7; 9:8; 9:9; 9:15; 9:16; 9:17; 9:19; 9:19; 9:19

Amos

1:8; 3:7; 3:8; 3:11; 3:13; 4:2; 4:5; 5:3; 5:16; 6:8; 7:1; 7:2; 7:4; 7:4; 7:5; 7:6; 7:7; 7:8; 8:1; 8:3; 8:9; 8:11; 9:1; 9:5; 9:8

Obadiah

1; 1

Micah

1:2; 1:2

Habakkuk

3:19

Zephaniah

1:7

Zechariah

9:4; 9:14

Malachi

1:14

H136

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H136 matches the Hebrew אֲדֹנָי ('ăḏōnāy),
which occurs 445 times in 430 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 4 / 9 (Jer 4:10–Eze 13:8)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:10 - Then said I, Ah, Lord H136 GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:20 - Therefore thus saith the Lord H136 GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:13 - Then said I, Ah, Lord H136 GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:17 - Ah Lord H136 GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:25 - And thou hast said unto me, O Lord H136 GOD, Buy thee the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:26 - Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord H136 GOD liveth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:10 - For this is the day of the Lord H136 GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord H136 GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:5 - Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord H136 GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:25 - The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord H136 GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:31 - Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord H136 GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:14 - The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord H136 hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:15 - The Lord H136 hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord H136 hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:1 - How hath the Lord H136 covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:2 - The Lord H136 hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:5 - The Lord H136 was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:7 - The Lord H136 hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:18 - Their heart cried unto the Lord, H136 O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:19 - Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: H136 lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:20 - Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? H136

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:31 - For the Lord H136 will not cast off for ever:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:36 - To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord H136 approveth not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:37 - Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord H136 commandeth it not?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:58

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:58 - O Lord, H136 thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:4 - For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord H136 GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:11 - And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord H136 GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:27 - But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord H136 GOD; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:14 - Then said I, Ah Lord H136 GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:5 - Thus saith the Lord H136 GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:7 - Therefore thus saith the Lord H136 GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:8 - Therefore thus saith the Lord H136 GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:11 - Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord H136 GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:3 - And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord H136 GOD; Thus saith the Lord H136 GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:11 - Thus saith the Lord H136 GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:2 - Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord H136 GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:5 - Thus saith the Lord H136 GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:1 - And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord H136 GOD fell there upon me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:8 - And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord H136 GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:7 - Therefore thus saith the Lord H136 GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:8 - Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord H136 GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:13 - And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord H136 GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16 - Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord H136 GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:17 - Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord H136 GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:21 - But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord H136 GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:10 - Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord H136 GOD; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:19 - And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord H136 GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:23 - Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord H136 GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:25 - For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord H136 GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:28 - Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord H136 GOD; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord H136 GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:3 - Thus saith the Lord H136 GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:8 - Therefore thus saith the Lord H136 GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord H136 GOD.

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