Today is the seventh day of November.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I'm Brian.

And it is great to be here with you for the next step forward in the scriptures today.

And I'm grateful.

Grateful that we can be together like this for the next step forward.

And this week we've been reading from the Good News translation, and so we'll continue to read

from that and pick up where we left off yesterday,

Ezekiel chapter 16, verse 42 through 17, verse 24.

Then my anger will be over and I will be calm.

I will not be angry or jealous anymore. You have forgotten how I treated you when you were young and you have made me angry by all the things you did. That is why I have made you pay for them all. Why did

you add sexual immorality to all the other disgusting things you did? The sovereign Lord has spoken. The Lord said,

people will use this proverb about you Jerusalem, Like mother, like daughter. You really are your

mother's daughter. She detested her husband and her children. You are like your sisters who hated their husbands and their

children. You and your sister cities had a Hittite mother and an Amorite father.

Your older sister with her villages and an ammerite father.

Your older sister with her villages

is Samaria in the north.

Your younger sister with her villages

is Sodom in the South. Were you satisfied to follow in their

footsteps and copy their disgusting actions? No, in only a little while you were acting worse than they were in everything you did.

As surely as I am the living God, the sovereign Lord says,

your sister Sodom and her villages never did the evil

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