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And the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil for an ephah.


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And on the day of the new moon he shall offer a bull of the herd without blemish, six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without blemish.


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And he shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for the bull and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs as he can afford, and a hin of oil for an ephah.


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And when the prince enters, he shall come in through the porch of the gate, and he shall go out the same way.


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But when the people of the land come before Jehovah at the appointed feasts, whoever enters through the north gate to worship shall go out through the south gate, and whoever enters through the south gate shall go out through the north gate; he shall not


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And the prince shall come in among them when they enter, and when they go out, they shall go out together.


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And at the feasts and at the appointed feasts the meal offering shall be an ephah for a bull and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil for an ephah.


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And when the prince prepares a freewill offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to Jehovah, someone will open for him the gate that faces east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the


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And you shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to Jehovah daily, every morning you shall provide it.


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And you shall provide with it a meal offering every morning, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour. It is a meal offering to Jehovah continually, a perpetual statute.


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Thus they shall provide the lamb and the meal offering and the oil every morning for a continual burnt offering.


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance. It shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.


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But if he gives some of his inheritance as a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince. His inheritance shall remain only for his sons.


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Moreover the prince shall not take any of the people's inheritance, casting them out of their own possession. He shall give an inheritance to his sons from his own possession so that none of My people are scattered away from their possession.


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Then He brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which face north. And there was a place there, at the rear toward the west.


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And He said to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the meal offering, so that they do not bring them out into the outer court, thereby sanctifying the people.


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Then He brought me out into the outer court and led me past the four corners of the court; and there in each corner of the court was a court.


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In the four corners of the court there were enclosed courts, forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide. These four enclosed courts in the corners were of one measurement.


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And there was a wall all around them, around all four, and boiling places were made at the base of the walls all around.


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Then He said to me, These are the boiling houses, where those who minister in the house shall boil the sacrifices of the people.


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Then He brought me back to the entrance of the house, and there was water flowing out from under the threshold of the house to the east (for the house faced east); and the water flowed down below the south side of the house, on the south of the altar.


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Then He brought me out by the way of the north gate and led me around on the way outside to the outer gate, on the way to the gate that faces east; and there the water was running out on the south side.


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When the man went out to the east with the line in His hand, He measured a thousand cubits; and He led me through the water, water that was to the ankles.


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Then He measured a thousand cubits and led me through the water, water that was to the knees. Then He measured a thousand cubits and led me through the water, water that was to the loins.


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Then He measured a thousand cubits, and it was a river that I could not pass through; for the water had risen, enough water to swim in, a river that could not be crossed.


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And He said to me, Son of man, have you seen this? Then He led me and brought me back along the bank of the river.


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And when I returned, there were very many trees on the bank of the river, on one side and on the other.


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Then said He to me, This water flows out toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah and goes to the sea; when it flows into the sea, the water of the sea is healed.


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And every living creature which swarms in every place where the river goes shall live, and there will be very many fish, when this water comes there. And the water of the sea shall be healed, and everything shall live wherever the river comes.


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And fishermen will stand beside the sea from En-gedi even to En-eglaim; it will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish shall be according to their kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea, very many.


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And on the banks on both sides of the river will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail; but they will bring forth new fruit every month, because the water for them flows out of the sanctuary. And their f


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Thus says the Lord Jehovah, This is the boundary by which you shall divide up the land as an inheritance for the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall have two portions.


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And you shall divide it for an inheritance, each one equally with the other, for I swore to give it to your fathers, and this land will fall to you as an inheritance.


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This shall be the border of the land:on the north side, from the Great Sea by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Hamath, and on to Zedad;


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Berothah, Sibraim (which is between the territory of Damascus and the territory of Hamath), to Hazer-hatticon, which is on the border of Hauran.


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Thus the border shall extend from the sea to Hazar-enan on the border of the territory of Damascus, and on the north toward the north is the territory of Hamath. This is the north side.


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And on the east side you shall measure Gilead and the land of Israel, from between Hauran and Damascus and down the Jordan, from the north border to the eastern sea. This is the east side.


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And the south side toward the south, the border shall go from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribah-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, and to the Great Sea. This is the south side toward the south.


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And the west side shall be the Great Sea, from the south border to opposite the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.


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And you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance among yourselves and among the sojourners who sojourn among you, who bring forth sons among you. And they shall be to you just like the native among the sons of Israel; they shall be allotted an inheritanc


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And in whatever tribe the sojourner sojourns, you shall give him his inheritance there, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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Now these are the names of the tribes:From the north end, along the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, and Hazar-enan on the border of the territory of Damascus with Hamath to the north (with their sides extending from east to west), Dan, one port


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And alongside the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the heave offering of land which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand reeds in width, and in length just like one of the portions of the tribes from the east side to the wes


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The heave offering that you shall offer to Jehovah shall be twenty-five thousand reeds in length and ten thousand reeds in width.


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And for these, that is, for the priests, shall be the holy heave offering - on the north twenty-five thousand reeds in length , on the west ten thousand reeds in width, on the east ten thousand reeds in width, and on the south twenty-five thousand reeds


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This is for the priests who are sanctified from among the sons of Zadok, who have kept My charge, who did not go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.


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And it shall be theirs as a heave offering from the heave offering of the land, most holy, alongside the territory of the Levites.


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And alongside the territory of the priests, the Levites shall have a portion twenty-five thousand reeds in length and ten thousand reeds in width. The whole length shall be twenty-five thousand reeds, and its width ten thousand reeds.


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And they shall not sell or exchange or transfer any of it; it is the firstfruits of the land, for it is holy to Jehovah.


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And the five thousand reeds remaining of the width, alongside the twenty-five thousand reeds, shall be for common use:for the city, for dwellings, and for suburbs; and the city shall be in its midst.


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And these shall be its measurements:the north side four thousand five hundred reeds, the south side four thousand five hundred reeds, on the east side four thousand five hundred reeds, and the west side four thousand five hundred reeds.


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And the city shall have suburbs:two hundred fifty reeds to the north, two hundred fifty reeds to the south, two hundred fifty reeds to the east, and two hundred fifty reeds to the west.


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And the remaining length, alongside the holy heave offering, shall be ten thousand reeds to the east and ten thousand reeds to the west, and it shall be alongside the holy heave offering. And its produce shall be food for those who labor in the city.


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The entire heave offering of land shall be twenty-five thousand reeds by twenty-five thousand reeds. You shall offer the holy heave offering, a square, including the possession of the city.


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And what is remaining on both sides of the holy heave offering and of the city's possession shall be for the prince; adjacent to the twenty-five thousand reeds of the heave offering unto the eastern border, and to the west adjacent to the twenty-five thou


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And it shall be distinct from the possession of the Levites and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of what belongs to the prince. The remaining area lying between the territory of Judah and the territory of Benjamin shall be for the princ


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And alongside the border of Gad, at the south side to the south, the border shall be from Tamar to the waters of Meribah-kadesh to the brook of Egypt to the Great Sea.


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This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for an inheritance, and these are their portions, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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And these are the exits of the city:On the north side, which measures four thousand five hundred reeds,


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(Now the gates of the city shall be according to the names of the tribes of Israel) three gates to the north:the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one;


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And on the east side, which is four thousand five hundred reeds, another three gates:the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one;


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And on the south side, which measures four thousand five hundred reeds, another three gates:the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one;


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On the west side, which is four thousand five hundred reeds, their three gates:the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.


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It shall be eighteen thousand reeds all around, and the name of the city from that day shall be, Jehovah Is There.


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In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim the king of Judah Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.


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And the Lord gave Jehoiakim the king of Judah into his hand with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he brought them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into the treasury of his god.


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Then the king told Ashpenaz, the chief of his eunuchs, to bring some of the sons of Israel, including some from the royal seed and from the nobility,


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Children in whom was no defect, who were good in appearance, who showed insight in all wisdom, understanding in knowledge, and apprehension in thought, and in whom was the ability to stand in the king's palace. And he told him to teach them the learning a


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And the king appointed to them a daily portion from the king's choice provision and from the wine that he drank, and appointed that they should be brought up for three years so that at the end of the time they might stand before the king.


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And the leader of the eunuchs gave them names:he gave Daniel the name Belteshazzar; Hananiah, the name Shadrach; Mishael, the name Meshach; and Azariah, the name Abed-nego.


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But Daniel set his heart not to defile himself with the king's choice provision and with the wine that the king drank, so he requested of the leader of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.


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And the leader of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and drink; for why should he see your faces being more morose than those of the children who are of your own age? Then you would bring guilt upon my head be


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Then Daniel said to the steward whom the leader of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,


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Please test your servants for ten days, and let vegetables be given to us to eat and water to drink.


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Then let our countenances be watched in your presence, as well as the countenances of the children who eat the king's choice provision; and do with your servants according to what you see.


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And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared better, and they were more fully fleshed than all the children who ate the king's choice provision.


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Therefore the steward withheld their portion of the choice provision and the wine that they were to drink and gave them vegetables.


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Now as for these four children, God gave them knowledge and insight in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.


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Then at the end of the days when the king had said that the children should be brought in, the leader of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar;


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And the king spoke with them. And among them all none were found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; therefore they stood in the presence of the king.


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And in every matter of wisdom and understanding that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and conjurers who were in all his realm.


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And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams and his spirit was troubled and his sleep left him.


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And the king ordered the call for the magicians, conjurers, sorcerers, and the Chaldeans to declare to the king his dreams; and they came in and stood before the king.


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Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic, O king, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation.


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The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The command from me is published:If you do not make the dream and its interpretation known to me, you shall be cut into pieces and your houses shall be made a dunghill.


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But if you declare the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive gifts and a reward and much honor from me. Therefore declare the dream and its interpretation to me.


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They answered a second time and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will declare the interpretation.


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The king answered and said, I know for certain that you are trying to buy time because you have seen that the command from me is published.


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But if you do not make the dream known to me, there is but one decree for you; for you have agreed together to speak false and corrupt words before me until the time is changed. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can declare its interpr


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The Chaldeans answered before the king and said, There is not a man upon the earth who can declare the matter for the king, because no great king or ruler has ever asked any magician, conjurer, or Chaldean for something like this.


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And the thing that the king asks is rare, and there is no one else who can declare it before the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.


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Because of this the king was angry and very furious, and he gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.


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And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his companions so that they might be slain.


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Then Daniel responded in counsel and with discretion to Arioch, the captain of the king's bodyguard, who had gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon.


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He answered and said to Arioch, the king's commander, Why is the decree from before the king so harsh? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.


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Daniel then went in and sought from the king that he would give him a time to declare the interpretation to the king.


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Then Daniel went to his house and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions,


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That they might request compassions from before the God of the heavens concerning this mystery so that Daniel and his companions would not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.


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Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of the heavens.


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Daniel answered and said, Let the name of God Be blessed from eternity to eternity, For wisdom and might are His.


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And it is He who changes the times and seasons; He deposes kings and causes kings to ascend. He gives wisdom to the wise And knowledge to those who have understanding.


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He reveals the deep things and the hidden things; He knows what is obscured in the darkness, And the light dwells with Him.


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To You, O God of my fathers, I render thanks and praise, For You have given me wisdom and might; And You have now made known to me what we requested of You, For You have made known the king's matter to us.


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Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and said thus to him, Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon; bring me before the king, and I will declare the interpretation to the king.


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Then Arioch brought Daniel hurriedly before the king and spoke in this way to him, I have found a man among the captives of Judah who will make the interpretation known to the king.


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The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Are you able to make known to me the dream that I have seen and its interpretation?


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Daniel answered before the king and said, As to the mystery which the king has inquired about, no wise men, no conjurers, magicians, or diviners, are able to declare it to the king.


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But there is a God in the heavens who reveals mysteries, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the last days. This is your dream, even the visions of your head upon your bed.


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As for you, O king, your thoughts on your bed came upon what would happen after these times, and He who reveals mysteries has made known to you what will happen.


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But as for me, this mystery has not been revealed to me because of some wisdom that is in me more than in any other living person, but so that the interpretation may be made known to the king and that you may understand the thoughts of your heart.


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You, O king, were watching, and there was a single great image. This image, large and its brightness surpassing, stood opposite you; and its appearance was frightful.


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Concerning this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its abdomen and its thighs of bronze,


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You were watching until a stone was cut out without hands, and it struck the image at its feet of iron and clay and crushed them.


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Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed all at once, and they became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image be


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You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of the heavens has given kingship, power, and strength and glory.


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And wherever the children of men, the beasts of the field, or the birds of the sky dwell, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over all of them. You are the head of gold.


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And after you another kingdom will arise, inferior to you; and there will be another kingdom, a third one, of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.


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And there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron crushes and shatters everything; and like iron that smashes all these, it will crush and smash.


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And in that you saw the feet and the toes, partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, the kingdom will be a confused mass; but there will be some of the firmness of iron in it, for you saw the iron mixed with the earthy clay.


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And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so some of the kingdom will be strong and part of it will be fragile.


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And in that you saw the iron mixed with the earthy clay, they will be mixed together through the seed of men, but they will not cleave to one another, even as iron does not mix with clay.


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And in the days of those kings the God of the heavens will raise up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and its reign will not be left to another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms; and it will stand forever.


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Inasmuch as you saw that out of the mountain a stone was cut without hands and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what will happen afterward; and the dream is certain, and its


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Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face and worshipped Daniel and commanded that they offer an oblation and incense to him.


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The king answered Daniel and said, It is certain that your God is the God of gods and the Lord of kings and a Revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery.


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Then the king made Daniel great and gave many great gifts to him; and he made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon and chief of the prefects over all the wise men of Babylon.


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And Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego over the administration of the province of Babylon; but Daniel was at the king's court.


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Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, its height sixty cubits and its width six cubits; he set it up in the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent word to assemble the satraps, the prefects and the governors, the chief judges, the treasury officials, the law officials, the judges, and all the rulers of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image that Nebuch


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Then the satraps, the prefects and the governors, the chief judges, the treasury officials, the law officials, the judges, and all the rulers of the provinces assembled themselves for the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; an


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At the time that you hear the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all kinds of music, you shall fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up;


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And whoever does not fall down and worship shall be thrown into the midst of a blazing furnace of fire in that very hour.


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Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, nations, and languages fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had se


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You, O king, have made a decree that every man who hears the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all kinds of music shall fall down and worship the golden image;


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And whoever does not fall down and worship shall be thrown into the midst of a blazing furnace of fire.


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There are certain Jews, whom you have appointed over the administration of the province of Babylon - Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego - these men have not respected you, O king; they do not serve your gods nor worship the golden image that you have set up


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Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded men to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; then they brought these men before the king.


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Nebuchadnezzar responded and said to them, Do you, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, purposely not serve my gods nor worship the golden image that I have set up?


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Now then, if, at the time when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all kinds of music, you are ready to fall down and worship the image that I have made, very well; but if you do not worship, you will be thrown into


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Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, there is no need for us to give you an answer in this matter.


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If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the blazing furnace of fire, and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king.


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But if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods nor worship the golden image that you have set up.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with fury and the countenance of his face was changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. He responded and commanded that the furnace be made seven times hotter than it was usually heated.


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And he commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, and throw them into the blazing furnace of fire.


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Then these men were bound in their shirts, tunics, and mantles, and other clothing, and thrown into the midst of the blazing furnace of fire.


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For this reason, because the king's word was so harsh and the furnace had been heated to an extreme, the flame of the fire slew those men who carried up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.


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And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell into the midst of the blazing furnace of fire bound up.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished and stood up in haste; he responded and said to his counselors, Did we not throw three men into the midst of the fire bound up? They answered and said to the king, Certainly, O king.


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He answered and said, Look, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not harmed. And the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the blazing furnace of fire. He responded and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, servants of God the Most High, come out and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego came out of the midst of the fi


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And the satraps, prefects, and governors, and the king's counselors, being gathered together, saw concerning these men that the fire had no effect on their bodies and that the hair of their heads was not singed, nor had their clothes been affected, nor ha


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Nebuchadnezzar responded and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him and changed the king's word and yielded their bodies that they might not serve nor worship any


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Therefore I make a decree that any people, nation, or language that speaks something offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego shall be cut into pieces and their houses shall be made a dunghill, because there is no other god who is abl


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Nebuchadnezzar the king to all the peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in the whole earth:May your peace abound!


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How great are His signs, And how mighty are His wonders! His kingdom is an eternal kingdom, And His dominion is from generation to generation.


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I saw a dream and it frightened me, and the imaginings upon my bed and the visions of my head alarmed me.


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Therefore I made the decree to bring before me all the wise men of Babylon that they might make the interpretation of the dream known to me.


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Then the magicians, conjurers, Chaldeans, and diviners came in, and I told the dream to them; but they could not make its interpretation known to me.


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But at last there came in before me Daniel, whose name is Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is a spirit of the holy gods; and I told the dream to him, saying,


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O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, because I know that a spirit of the holy gods is in you and no mystery troubles you, here are the visions of my dream that I have seen; now tell me its interpretation.


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Now these were the visions of my head upon my bed:I was watching and there was a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.


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The tree grew great and became strong, And its height reached to heaven, And the sight of it to the end of all the earth.


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Its foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, And in it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, And the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches; And all flesh fed from it.


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I was watching in the visions of my head upon my bed, and there was a watcher, indeed, a holy one, coming down from heaven.


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He cried out loudly and spoke in this way, Cut down the tree and cut off its branches; Strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit; Let the beasts flee from under it, And the birds from its branches.


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Yet leave its stump of roots In the earth, But with an iron and bronze band around it, In the tender grass of the field; And let him be wet with the dew of heaven, And let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth;


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Let his mind be changed from that of a man's, And let a beast's mind be given to him; And let seven periods of time pass over him.


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This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the decision is a command of the holy ones, to the intent that the living may know that the Most High is the Ruler over the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He wills and sets up over it the lowlies


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This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, have seen. Now you, Belteshazzar, tell me the interpretation, inasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make the interpretation known to me; but you are able, for a spirit of the holy gods is in you.


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Then Daniel, whose name is Belteshazzar, was appalled for a while as his thoughts alarmed him. The king responded and said, Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its interpretation alarm you. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, may the dream be for t


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The tree that you saw, which grew great and became strong, and whose height reached to heaven and the sight of it to all the earth,


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And whose foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in which was food for all, and under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and in whose branches the birds of the sky lodged -


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It is you, O king, who have grown great and become strong, for your greatness has grown and reaches to heaven, and your dominion to the end of the earth.


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And in that the king saw a watcher, indeed, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, Cut down the tree and destroy it; yet leave its stump of roots in the earth, but with an iron and bronze band around it, in the tender grass of the field; and let


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This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king:


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You shall be driven out from among mankind, and with the beasts of the field shall your dwelling place be; and you shall be made to eat grass as bulls do and shall be wet with the dew of heaven; and seven periods of time will pass over you, until you come


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And in that it was commanded that the stump of roots of the tree be left, your kingdom will be assured to you after you have come to know that the heavens do rule.


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Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you:Break off your sins by doing righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; perhaps there may be a prolonging of your prosperity.


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The king responded and said, Is this not Babylon the great, which I have built up as a royal house by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?


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While the word was still in the king's mouth, a voice came down from heaven:To you it is spoken, King Nebuchadnezzar:The kingdom has passed on from you;


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And from among mankind you shall be driven out, and with the beasts of the field shall your dwelling place be; you shall be made to eat grass as bulls do; and seven periods of time will pass over you, until you come to know that the Most High is the Ruler


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In that very hour the word concerning Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled; and from among mankind he was driven out, and he began to eat grass as bulls do, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, until his hair had grown like eagles' feathers and his nails


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And at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and reason returned to me; and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored the ever-living One; For His dominion is an eternal dominion, And His kingdom is from generation


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And all the inhabitants of earth are considered as nothing, But He does according to His will in the army of heaven And among the inhabitants of the earth; And there is no one who can resist His hand Or say to Him, What are You doing?


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At that time reason returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and splendor returned to me; and my counselors and my lords sought me out, and I was established in my kingdom, and surpassing greatness was added to me.


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Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor the King of the heavens, because all His works are truth and His ways justice, and because He is able to abase those who walk in pride.


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Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords; and he drank wine before the thousand.


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Belshazzar, under the influence of the wine, commanded men to bring the gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his forefather had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink f


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Then they brought the golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple of the house of God, which was in Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.


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At that moment the fingers of a man's hand came forth and wrote opposite the lampstand upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace. And the king saw that part of the hand that wrote.


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Then the king's countenance changed and his thoughts alarmed him; and the joints of his hips loosened and his knees began to knock together.


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The king cried loudly to bring the conjurers, the Chaldeans, and the diviners. The king responded and said to the wise men of Babylon, Any man who reads this writing and declares its interpretation to me shall be clothed in purple and shall have a chain o


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Then all the king's wise men came, but they could not read the writing nor make its interpretation known to the king.


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Then King Belshazzar was greatly alarmed; his countenance was further changed, and his lords were perplexed.


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The queen mother, because of the words of the king and his lords, came to the banquet house. The queen mother responded and said, O king, live forever! Do not let your thoughts alarm you, nor let your countenance change.


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There is a man in your kingdom in whom is a spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your forefather light and insight and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him. And King Nebuchadnezzar your forefather - your forefather, O king - made hi


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Because an excellent spirit and knowledge and insight, and the interpretation of dreams, the declaring of riddles, and the resolving of problems were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Let Daniel now be called, and he will declare th


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Then Daniel was brought before the king. The king responded and said to Daniel, Are you Daniel, one of the captives of Judah, whom my forefather the king brought from Judah?


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Now I have heard about you that a spirit of the gods is in you and that light and insight and surpassing wisdom are found in you.


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And now the wise men, the conjurers, have been brought in before me that they might read this writing and make its interpretation known to me, but they cannot declare the interpretation of the thing.


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But I have heard about you that you can give interpretations and resolve problems. If you can now read the writing and make its interpretation known to me, you shall be clothed in purple and shall have a chain of gold around your neck and shall rule as th


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Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let your gifts remain with you, or give your rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing for the king and make the interpretation known to him.


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Regarding you, O king, God the Most High gave to Nebuchadnezzar your forefather kingship, greatness, glory, and majesty;


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And because of the greatness which He gave to him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him; whomever he wished he slew, and whomever he wished he kept alive, and whomever he wished he raised up, and whomever he wished he brought


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But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became so arrogant that he conducted himself in pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken away from him.


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And he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like that of the beasts, and his dwelling place was with the wild donkeys; men fed him with grass as they do bulls, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, until he came to know that God


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But you have exalted yourself against the Lord of the heavens; and they have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and of gol


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This is the interpretation of the matter:MENE - God has numbered your kingdom and brought it to an end;


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Then Belshazzar commanded; and they clothed Daniel in purple and put a chain of gold around his neck, and they made the proclamation concerning him that he should rule as the third ruler in the kingdom.


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It pleased Darius to set up over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, who would be throughout the whole kingdom;


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And over them, three chief ministers - of whom Daniel was one - so that these satraps might give account to them and the king might not suffer loss.


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Then this Daniel distinguished himself among the chief ministers and satraps because in him there was an excellent spirit, and the king considered setting him over the whole kingdom.


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Then the chief ministers and satraps sought to find a ground for accusation against Daniel from the perspective of the kingdom, but they could find no ground for accusation or fault, inasmuch as he was faithful, and no negligence or fault was found relate


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Then these men said, We will not find any ground for accusation against this Daniel unless we find something related to him due to the law of his God.


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Then these chief ministers and satraps came to prevail upon the king and said thus to him, King Darius, live forever!


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All the chief ministers of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have taken counsel together that the king should establish a statute and make firm an edict that anyone who makes a petition within the next thirty day


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Now, O king, establish the edict and sign the writing, so that it is not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot pass away.


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Now when Daniel came to know that the writing had been signed, he went to his house (in his upper room he had windows open toward Jerusalem) and three times daily he knelt on his knees and prayed and gave thanks before his God, because he had always done


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Then they came near and spoke before the king concerning the king's edict:Did you not sign an edict that anyone who petitions, within the next thirty days, any god or man besides you, O king, shall be cast into the lions' den? The king answered and said,


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Then they answered and said before the king, Daniel, one of the captives from Judah, has not respected you, O king, or the edict that you have signed, but three times daily makes his petition.


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Then the king, when he heard the thing, was very displeased with himself and set his heart on delivering Daniel; and until the sun set, he made efforts to deliver him.


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Then these men came to prevail upon the king and said to the king, Know, O king, that it is the law of the Medes and Persians that no edict or statute which the king establishes can be changed.


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Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions' den. The king responded and said to Daniel, Your God, whom you serve continually, He will deliver you.


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And a stone was brought and set over the mouth of the den. And the king sealed it with his signet ring and with the signet rings of his lords that nothing might be changed regarding Daniel.


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Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; and no entertainment was brought before him, and his sleep fled from him.


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And when he had come near the den, he shouted to Daniel with a sad voice; the king responded and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?


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My God has sent His angel and has shut the lions' mouth, and they have not hurt me, inasmuch as before Him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.


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Then the king was very pleased concerning him, and he commanded that they take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and he was found completely unhurt, because he had trusted in his God.


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Then the king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel and threw them into the lion's den, them, their children, and their wives; and they had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bo


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Then Darius the king wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in the whole land:May your peace abound!


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I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; For He is the living God And enduring forever; And His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed, And His dominion will be unto the end.


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He delivers and rescues, And He does signs and wonders In heaven and on earth; It is He who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.


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In the first year of Belshazzar the king of Babylon Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head upon his bed. Then he wrote down the dream; he related the sum of the matters.


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Daniel responded and said, I was watching in my vision by night, and there were the four winds of heaven, stirring up the Great Sea.


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The first was like a lion and had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were plucked and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on two feet like a man; and a man's heart was given to it.


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And there was another beast, a second one, resembling a bear. And it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth; and they said thus to it, Arise, devour much flesh.


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After this I watched and there was another beast, like a leopard; and it had four wings of a bird on its back; and the beast had four heads, and dominion was given to it.


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After this I watched in the night visions, and there was a fourth beast, dreadful and frightful and exceedingly strong; and it had large iron teeth; it devoured and crushed and trampled down the remainder with its feet; and it was different from all the b


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I was considering the horns; then there was another horn, a small one, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted from before it. And there were eyes like the eyes of a man in this horn and a mouth speaking great things.


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I watched Until thrones were set, And the Ancient of Days sat down. His clothing was like white snow, And the hair of His head was like pure wool; His throne was flames of fire, Its wheels, burning fire.


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A stream of fire issued forth And came out from before Him. Thousands of thousands ministered to Him, And ten thousands of ten thousands stood before Him. The court of judgment sat, And the books were opened.


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I watched then because of the sound of the great things that the horn was speaking; I watched until the beast was slain and its body was destroyed and given to the burning fire.


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And as for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but an extension of life was given to them for a season and a time.


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I watched in the night visions, And there with the clouds of heaven One like a Son of Man was coming; And He came to the Ancient of Days, And they brought Him near before Him.


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And to Him was given dominion, glory, and a kingdom, That all the peoples, nations, and languages might serve Him. His dominion is an eternal dominion, which will not pass away; And His kingdom is one that will not be destroyed.


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I came near to one of those standing by and asked of him the exact meaning of all this. So he told me and made the interpretation of the things known to me:


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But the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, indeed, forever and ever.


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Then I wished to know the exact meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others, exceedingly dreadful, with its teeth of iron and its claws of bronze, which devoured, crushed, and trampled under the remainder with its feet,


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And of the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn that came up, and before which three horns fell, even that horn that had eyes and a mouth speaking great things and whose appearance was greater than that of its companions.


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Until the Ancient of Days came; and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom.


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Thus he said, The fourth beast will be the fourth kingdom upon the earth, which will be different from all the other kingdoms; and it will devour the whole earth and tread it down and crush it.


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And as for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will arise, and another will arise after them, and he will be different from the previous ones; and he will subdue three kings.


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And he will speak things against the Most High and wear out the saints of the Most High; and his intention will be to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand for a time and times and half a time.


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But the court of judgment will sit, and they will take away his dominion, so as to annihilate and destroy it unto the end.


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And the kingdom and dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; His kingdom is an eternal kingdom, and all the dominions will serve and obey Him.


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Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts alarmed me greatly, and my countenance was changed, but I kept the matter in my heart.


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In the third year of the reign of Belshazzar the king a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after the one that appeared to me at the beginning.


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And I looked in the vision, and while I looked, now I was in the fortress of Shushan, which is in the province of Elam; and while I looked in the vision, I was beside the river Ulai.


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Then I lifted my eyes, and I looked, and there was a ram, standing before the river, and he had two horns. And the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other; and the higher one came up last.


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I saw the ram pushing westward, northward, and southward; and no beast could stand before him, and there was no one who could deliver from his power; but he did as he pleased, and he became great.


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And while I considered this, there was a male goat, coming from the west over the face of the whole earth without touching the ground; and the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes.


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And he came up to the ram that had the two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran toward him in his mighty wrath.


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And I saw him come close to the ram, and he was enraged at him; and he struck the ram and broke his two horns; and the ram had no strength to withstand him, but the goat threw him down to the ground and trampled him; and there was none to deliver the ram


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And the male goat became very great. But once he became strong, the great horn was broken, and in its place four conspicuous ones came up toward the four winds of heaven.


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And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which grew very great toward the south, toward the east, and toward that which is beautiful.


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And it grew great, as high as the host of heaven; and it caused some of the host and some of the stars to fall to the earth, and it trampled them.


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Indeed, he grew in greatness to that of the Prince of the host; and from Him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of His sanctuary was thrown down.


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And an army was given to him together with the daily sacrifice because of transgression; and he cast truth down to the ground, and he took action and prospered.


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Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to the particular one who was speaking, How long will the vision concerning the daily sacrifice and the transgression that desolates apply, so that the sanctuary and the host are trampled down?


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And he said to me, For two thousand three hundred nights and days; then the sanctuary will be cleansed.


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And when I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought an understanding of it; and immediately there was someone with an appearance like that of a man standing before me.


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And I heard the voice of a man between the banks of the Ulai; and He called out and said, Gabriel, cause this man to understand the vision.


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So he came near to where I stood; and when he came, I was afraid, and I fell on my face; but he said to me, Understand, O son of man, that the vision pertains to the end time.


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And as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep on my face upon the ground; but he touched me and made me stand in my place.


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And he said, I now make known to you what will happen at the end of the indignation, for the vision pertains to the appointed time of the end.


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And the hairy goat is the king of Javan; and the great horn which was between its eyes is the first king.


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And the broken horn and the four horns that arose in its place are four kingdoms that will arise from his nation, but not with his power.


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And in the latter time of their kingdom, When the transgressors have filled up their transgressions, A king will arise, Of fierce countenance and skilled in ambiguities.


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And his power will be mighty, but not by his own power. And he will destroy in an extraordinary manner And will prosper and take action. He will destroy mighty men And the holy people.


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Through his craftiness He will also cause deceit to prosper in his hand; And he will magnify himself in his heart; And he will destroy many who are complacently secure. And against the Prince of princes he will stand up; But he will be broken, yet not by


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And the vision of the evenings and the mornings, Which has been told, is true. But shut the vision up, For it pertains to something many days from now.


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Then I, Daniel, was spent, and I was sick for days. Then I arose and conducted the king's affairs; but I was astonished at the vision, and there was no one to explain it.


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In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, a Median descendant who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,


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In the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by means of the Scriptures the number of the years, which came as the word of Jehovah to Jeremiah the prophet, for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, that is, seventy years.


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So I set my face toward the Lord God to seek Him in prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.


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And I prayed to Jehovah my God and confessed; and I said, Ah, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and lovingkindness with those who love Him and keep His commandments,


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We have sinned and have committed iniquity, and we have acted wickedly and rebelled, to the point of even turning away from Your commandments and from Your judgments.


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And we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our chief men, and our fathers, as well as to all the people of the land.


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To You, Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us, shamefacedness, as it is this day, that is, to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off in all the lands to which You have driven t


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O Jehovah, to us belongs shamefacedness, to our kings, our chief men, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.


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And we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in His instruction, which He set before us through the hand of His servants the prophets.


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Indeed, all Israel has transgressed Your law, to the point of even turning away so as not to obey Your voice; thus the curse has been poured out upon us, the very oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against Him.


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And He has confirmed His words which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us great ill; for under all heaven there has not been done anything like that which has been done in Jerusalem.


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As it is written in the law of Moses, all this ill has come upon us, yet we have not entreated the favor of Jehovah our God by turning from our iniquities and attending to Your truth.


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Therefore Jehovah has been vigilant with the ill and has brought it upon us, for Jehovah our God is righteous in all the deeds that He has done, but we have not obeyed His voice.


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And now, O Lord our God, who have brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and have made for Yourself a name, as it is this day, we have sinned, we have been wicked.


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O Lord, in accordance with all the manifestations of Your righteousness, may Your anger and Your wrath be turned away, I pray, from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your peop


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And now hear, O our God, the prayer of Your servant and his supplications, and cause Your face to shine upon Your sanctuary that has been desolated, for the Lord's sake.


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O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city that is called by Your name; for we are not presenting our supplications before You based upon any righteous doings that we have done, but based upon Your great comp


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O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take action! Do not delay, for Your own sake, O my God; for Your city and Your people are called by Your own name.


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And while I was still speaking and praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my supplication before Jehovah my God for the holy mountain of my God,


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Even while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, reached me in my utter exhaustion about the time of the evening oblation.


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And he informed me and talked with me and said, Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with understanding.


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At the beginning of your supplications the command went forth, and I have come to tell you, for you are preciousness itself. Therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.


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Seventy weeks are apportioned for your people and for your holy city, to close the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make propitiation for iniquity, and to bring in the righteousness of the ages, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to


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Know therefore and comprehend:From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the time of Messiah the Prince will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with street and trench, even in distressful times.


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And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing; and the people of the prince who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end of it will be with a flood, and even to the end there will be war; desolations are


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And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week; and in the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease and will replace the sacrifice and the oblation with abominations of the desolator, even until the complete


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In the third year of Cyrus the king of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar; and the word was true and concerning a great distress. And he understood the word and had an understanding of the vision.


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I ate no desirable food, nor did meat or wine enter my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, until the three full weeks were completed.


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And on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, while I was by the great river, that is, the Hiddekel,


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I lifted up my eyes and I looked, and there was a certain man, clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with the fine gold of Uphaz.


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His body also was like beryl, His face like the appearance of lightning, His eyes like torches of fire, His arms and His feet like the gleam of polished bronze, and the sound of His words like the sound of a multitude.


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And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision; instead, a great dread fell on them, and they fled to hide themselves.


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Thus I was left alone and I saw this great vision; and no strength was left in me, but my color turned deathly pale; and I retained no strength.


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Yet I heard the sound of His words; and when I heard the sound of His words, I fell into a deep sleep on my face, with my face to the ground.


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And he said to me, Daniel, man of preciousness, understand the words that I am about to tell you and stand in your place, for I have now been sent to you. And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood up trembling.


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And he said to me, Do not be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand this matter and to afflict yourself before your God, your words were heard; and I have come because of your words.


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But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me for twenty-one days; but now Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I remained there alone with the kings of Persia.


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Thus I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the last days, yet the vision pertains to something many days from now.


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And at that moment one who resembled the sons of men touched my lips; and I opened my mouth and spoke, and I said to him who stood before me, Sir, because of the vision my anguish has turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.


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For how can such a servant of my lord speak with such as my lord? For as for me, just now there is no strength in me, nor has there been breath left in me.


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And he said, Do not be afraid, man of preciousness. Peace to you. Be strong, yes, be strong. And when he spoke to me, I received strength and said, Speak, sir, for you have strengthened me.


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Then he said, Do you know why I have come to you? And now I will return to fight with the prince of Persia; so I go forth, and the prince of Javan is now about to come.


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However I will tell you what is inscribed in the writing of truth. Yet there is no one who holds strongly with me against these ones except Michael your prince.


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And now I will tell you the truth. There will yet arise three kings in Persia; then the fourth will gain great riches, more than all of them; and once he becomes strong because of his riches, he will stir up the whole empire against the realm of Javan.


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But once he arises, his kingdom will be broken and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom will be plucked up and given to others besides his descendants.


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And the king of the south will become strong, as well as one of his princes, who will grow in strength above him and have dominion; his dominion will be a great dominion.


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And at the end of some years they will join themselves together. And the daughter of the king of the south will go to the king of the north and make a treaty; but she will not retain the strength of her arm, nor will he and his arm stand; but she will be


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But a shoot from her roots will arise in his place, and he will come against the army and enter into the fortress of the king of the north; and he will deal with them and show his strength.


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And also their gods with their cast images, with their precious vessels of silver and gold, he will carry off into captivity in Egypt; and for some years he will refrain from the king of the north.


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And the king of the north will come to the kingdom of the king of the south, but he will return to his own land.


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But his sons will stir themselves up to war and will gather a multitude of great forces; and one will come unrelentingly and will overflow and pass through and will return and wage war, even up to the fortress of the king of the south.


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And the king of the south will be enraged and will come forth to fight with him, with the king of the north. Then the king of the north will raise up a great multitude, but the multitude will be given into the hand of the king of the south.


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When the multitude is carried away, the heart of the king of the south will be lifted up; and he will cast down tens of thousands, but he will not prevail.


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For the king of the north will return, and he will raise up a multitude greater than the first; and at the end of some years he will come unrelentingly with a great army and with much materiel.


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And in those times many will rise up against the king of the south; and the violent ones of your people will lift themselves up to establish the vision, but they will fall.


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Then the king of the north will come and cast up a siege mound and capture the fortified city; and the forces of the south will not stand, nor his choice people, for there will be no strength to stand.


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But he who comes against the king of the south will do as he pleases; and no one will stand before him. And he will stand in the beautiful land, and destruction will be in his hand.


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And he will set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and with him there will be terms of peace that he will act upon. And he will give the king of the south a youthful daughter, to destroy it; yet she will not be able to stand for h


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Then he will turn his face to the coastlands and will capture many. But a leader, for his own sake, will put an end to the reproach caused by him; indeed, he will turn his reproach back on him.


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Then the king of the north will turn his face to the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and will not be found.


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Then there will arise in his place one who will cause an oppressor to pass through the splendor of the kingdom; yet within a few days he will be broken, but not while venting his anger nor pursuing battle.


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Then there will arise in his place a despicable person, to whom the honor of a kingdom will not be given; but he will come in a time of security and will seize the kingdom by smooth and cunning words and actions.


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And the overflowing forces will be flooded over before him and broken, even also the prince of the covenant.


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And once he has made an alliance with him, he will practice deceit and will go up and become mighty with a small group of people.


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In a time of security he will enter even the richest parts of the kingdom and will do that which his fathers never did, nor his fathers' fathers; prey, spoil, and riches will he scatter among them, and against strongholds he will devise strategies, but o


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And he will stir up his power and his heart against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south will stir himself up to wage war with an extremely great and mighty army of his own; but he will not stand, for strategies will have bee


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And those who eat of his choice provision will destroy him; and his army will overflow, and many will fall down slain.


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And as for both of these kings, their hearts will be to do evil, and they will speak lies across one table; but what they do will not succeed, for the end is still at the appointed time.


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Then the king of the north will return to his land with great riches; but his heart will be set against the holy covenant, and he will take action and will return to his land.


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At the appointed time he will return and come against the south; but this latter time will not be like the former time.


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For ships of Kittim will come against him; therefore he will be disheartened and will turn away; and he will be enraged at the holy covenant and will take action. When he turns away, he will focus his attention on those who forsake the holy covenant.


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And forces from him will arise and profane the sanctuary, establishing the fortress and removing the daily sacrifice; and they will set up the abomination that desolates.


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And with his smooth words he will cause those who act wickedly toward the covenant to be profane. But the people who know their God will show strength and take action.


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And those with insight among the people will cause the many to understand; yet they will fall by sword and by flames, by captivity and by plundering for some days.


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And when they fall, they will be helped with a little help; and many will join themselves to them in word only.


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And some of those with insight will fall, in order to refine the people and to purify and cleanse them, until the time of the end, for the end is still at the appointed time.


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And the king will do as he pleases; and he will exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and against the God of gods he will speak extraordinary things; and he will prosper until the indignation is complete; for what has been determined will be


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And he will not regard the gods of his fathers or the desire of women, nor will he regard any other god; for he will magnify himself above all.


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But he will honor instead the god of fortresses; indeed a god whom his fathers did not know he will honor with gold, silver, precious stones, and treasures.


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And he will take action against the most fortified of fortresses with the help of a foreign god; he will increase the honor of those who acknowledge him and will cause them to rule over many, and he will divide the land to them as a reward.


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And at the time of the end the king of the south will push against him, and the king of the north will storm back at him with chariots and horsemen and many ships; and he will enter the countries and overflow and pass through.


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He will also enter the beautiful land, and many countries will fall; but these will slip away from his hand:Edom, Moab, and the foremost of the children of Ammon.


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Then he will stretch forth his hand against the countries, and for the land of Egypt there will be no escape.


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And he will have control over the hidden stores of gold and silver and over all the precious things of the Egyptians; and the Libyans and Cushites will follow in his steps.


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But news from the east and from the north will trouble him, and he will go forth with great wrath destroying and exterminating many.


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And he will pitch the tents of his palace between the sea and the beautiful holy mountain; but he will come to his end, and there will be no one to help him.


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And at that time Michael, the great prince who stands for the children of your people, will arise; and there will be a time of distress, such as never occurred since there came to be a nation until that time; and at that time your people, every one found


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And many of those who are sleeping in the dust of the ground will awake, some to life eternal and some to reproach, to eternal contempt.


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And those who have insight will shine like the shining of the heavenly expanse, and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars, forever and ever.


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But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book until the time of the end; many will go here and there, and knowledge will be increased.


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Then I, Daniel, looked, and there were two others standing, one on this bank of the river and the other on that bank of the river.


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And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the water of the river, How long will it be until the end of these wonders?


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And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the water of the river, as He lifted up His right hand and His left hand to heaven and swore by Him who lives forever that there would be a time and times and half a time; and when the shattering of the


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And I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, Lord, what will the latter end of these things be?


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Many will be purified, cleansed, and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand.


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And from the time that the daily sacrifice is removed and the abomination that desolates is set up, there will be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.


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But you, go your way until the end, and you will rest and rise again in your lot at the end of the days.


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The word of Jehovah which came to Hosea the son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash the king of Israel.


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At the beginning of Jehovah's speaking to Hosea, Jehovah said to Hosea, Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotries And children of harlotries, For the land is entirely given over to harlotry, And thus departs from Jehovah.


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And Jehovah said to him, Call his name Jezreel, For yet a little while And I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel Upon the house of Jehu And will bring an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.


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And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And He said to him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah, For I will no longer have compassion On the house of Israel, That I should forgive them at all.


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But on the house of Judah I will have compassion and will save them by Jehovah their God, and I will not save them by bow or by sword or by battle, by horses or by horsemen.


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But the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, Which cannot be measured or numbered; And in the place where it will be said to them, You are not My people, It will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.


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And the children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, And they will appoint for themselves one head, and they will go up from the land, For great will be the day of Jezreel.


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Contend with your mother; contend. For she is not my wife, And I am not her husband. And let her turn away her harlotries from her face, And her adulteries from between her breasts,


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Lest I strip her naked And set her out as in the day she was born And make her a wilderness And make her a dry land And slay her with thirst.


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For their mother has gone about as a harlot; She who conceived them has acted shamefully; For she has said, I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, My oil and my drink.


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Therefore I will now hedge up Her way with thorns; And I will build up a wall against her, So that she will not find her paths.


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And she will pursue her lovers But will not overtake them; And she will seek them but not find them; And she will say, I will go And return to my first husband, For it was better for me then than now.


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For she did not know That it was I who gave her The grain and the new wine and the fresh oil, And who multiplied to her silver And gold, which they used for Baal.


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Therefore I will take back My grain in its time And My new wine in its appointed season, And I will snatch away My wool and My flax, Which were to cover her nakedness.


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And now I will uncover her lewdness In the sight of her lovers, And no one will deliver her from My hand.


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And I will bring all her mirth to an end, Her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, And all her appointed assemblies.


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And I will desolate her vine and her fig tree, Of which she said, These are my payments That my lovers have given me; And I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field will devour them.


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And I will visit the days of the Baals upon her, In which she offered incense to them And adorned herself with her nose rings and her jewels And went after her lovers And forgot Me, Declares Jehovah.


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Therefore I am now luring her, And I will bring her into the wilderness And will speak to her heart.


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And I will give her her vineyards from there And the valley of Achor as a door of hope; And she will respond there as in the days of her youth And as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.


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For I will take away the names of the Baals from her mouth, And they will no longer be remembered by their name.


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And I will make a covenant for them In that day With the beasts of the field And with the birds of heaven And the creeping things of the earth; And bow and sword and battle I will break from the land, And I will cause them to lie down in safety.


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And I will betroth you to Myself forever; Indeed I will betroth you to Myself In righteousness and justice And in lovingkindness and compassions;


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And in that day I will answer, declares Jehovah; I will answer the heavens, And they will answer the earth,


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And the earth will answer the grain And the new wine and the fresh oil, And they will answer Jezreel.


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And I will sow her for Myself in the land; And I will have compassion on Lo-ruhamah, And I will say to Lo-ammi, You are My people; And they will say, My God.


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Then Jehovah said to me, Go again, love a woman who is loved by her companion yet who is an adulteress, even as Jehovah has loved the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.


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So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley and a half-homer of barley.


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And I said to her, You will abide for me for many days; you shall not go about as a harlot nor be another man's; and I will be the same toward you.


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For the children of Israel will abide for many days without king and without prince and without sacrifice and without pillar and without ephod and teraphim.


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Afterward the children of Israel will return and seek Jehovah their God and David their King, and they will come with fear to Jehovah and to His goodness in the last days.


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Hear the word of Jehovah, O children of Israel; For Jehovah has a controversy With the inhabitants of the land. For there is no faithfulness or kindness And no knowledge of God in the land.


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Rather there are swearing and deceiving and murder And stealing and adultery; They are violent, And bloodshed follows bloodshed.


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Because of this the land mourns, And all the inhabitants languish within it, With the beasts of the field And with the birds of heaven; Indeed, even the fish of the sea will be taken away.


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Yet let no man contend, And let no man reprove; For your people are like those who contend with the priest.


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And you will stumble in the day, And the prophet also will stumble With you in the night; And I will destroy your mother.


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My people are destroyed Because of a lack of that knowledge. For you have rejected that knowledge, And I will reject you, so that you will not be a priest to Me; Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.


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The more they were multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; I will change their glory into shame.


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And it will be that as it is with the people, so it will be with the priest; Thus I will visit their ways upon them, And I will recompense their doings to them.


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And they will eat but will not be filled; And they will commit fornication but will not increase; For they have ceased giving heed to Jehovah.


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My people inquire at their wooden post, And their rod informs them of things; For a spirit of harlotries makes them err, And they have gone about as harlots away from their God.


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Upon the tops of the mountains they offer sacrifices, And upon the hills they burn incense, Under oak, poplar, and terebinth, Because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters go about as harlots, And your brides commit adultery.


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I will not punish your daughters when they go about as harlots Nor your brides when they commit adultery; For the men themselves go off with harlots, And they offer sacrifices with the prostitutes; And the people who have no understanding will be cast do


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Though you, Israel, go about as a harlot, Let not Judah trespass; And do not come to Gilgal, Nor go up to Beth-aven, Nor swear, As Jehovah lives.


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For Israel is stubborn, Like a stubborn heifer; Will Jehovah now pasture them Like a lamb in a spacious place?


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Hear this, O priests; And listen, O house of Israel; And, O house of the king, give ear. For to you belongs the judgment, For you have been a snare at Mizpah And a net spread over Tabor.


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I know Ephraim, And Israel is not hidden from Me; For now, Ephraim, you have gone about as a harlot; Israel is defiled.


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Their doings do not permit them To turn to their God; For a spirit of harlotries is within them, And they do not know Jehovah.


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And the pride of Israel testifies to his face, And Ephraim and Israel will stumble in their iniquity; Judah also will stumble with them.


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With their flocks and with their herds they will go To seek Jehovah, But they will not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.


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They have acted treacherously against Jehovah, For they have begotten strange children. Now the new moon will devour them With their apportionments.


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Ephraim will be a desolation In the day of correction; Among the tribes of Israel I have made known what is sure.


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The princes of Judah have become Like those who move a boundary mark. I will pour out upon them My overflowing wrath like water.


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When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria And sent word to King Jareb; But he cannot heal you, And the wound will not depart from you.


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For I will be like a lion to Ephraim And like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, I will tear them and go away; I will carry them off, and there will be no one to deliver them.


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I will go away, I will return to My place, Until they acknowledge their offense And seek My face; In their affliction they will seek Me earnestly.


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Come and let us return to Jehovah; For He has torn us, but He will heal us, And He has stricken us, but He will bind us up.


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He will enliven us after two days; On the third day He will raise us up, And we will live in His presence.


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Therefore let us know, let us pursue knowing Jehovah:His going forth is as sure as the dawn, And He will come to us as the rain, As the latter rain which waters the earth.


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What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your lovingkindness is like a morning cloud And like dew that departs early.


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Therefore I hewed them to pieces by the prophets; I slew them by the words of My mouth, And My judgments went forth as light.


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For I delight in lovingkindness and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.


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And like bands of robbers lying in wait for a man, The company of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Indeed they commit wickedness.


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In the house of Israel I have seen a horrid thing:The harlotry of Ephraim is there; Israel has defiled itself.


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When I would heal Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim is discovered As well as the evil deeds of Samaria; For they practice falsehood. And the thief comes inside; The band of robbers makes raids outside.


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And they do not say in their hearts That I remember all their evil. Now their doings are all around them; They are before My face.


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All of them practice adultery; They are like an oven heated by the baker:He ceases from stirring the fire, After kneading the dough, until it is leavened.


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On the feast day of our king The princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine; He stretched out his hand with scorners.


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For they have made their heart ready Like an oven while they lie in wait:All night long Their baker sleeps, But in the morning the oven burns Like a flaming fire.


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All of them are hot like an oven, And they devour their judges; All their kings fall; There is no one among them who calls on Me.


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Strangers have devoured his strength, And he himself does not know it; Indeed gray hairs are all over him, And he himself does not know it.


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And the pride of Israel testifies to his face; Yet they have not returned to Jehovah their God, And they have not sought Him, because of all this.


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And Ephraim has become like a silly dove Without understanding:They call to Egypt; They go to Assyria.


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When they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like the birds of heaven; I will chasten them according to the report given to their assembly.


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Woe to them! For they have wandered from Me. Devastation to them! For they have transgressed against Me. And I would have redeemed them, But they have spoken lies against Me.


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And they did not cry unto Me in their heart When they howled in their beds. For grain and new wine they assemble themselves; They rebel against Me.


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They return, but not to Him who is on high; They are like a deceitful bow. Their princes will fall by the sword Because of the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision In the land of Egypt.


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A trumpet to your lips! Like an eagle he comes against the house of Jehovah, Because they have trespassed My covenant And have transgressed against My law.


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They have set up kings, but not by Me; They have set up princes, but I did not acknowledge it. With their silver and their gold they made Idols for themselves, That they might be cut off.


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Your calf has cast you off, O Samaria; My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?


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For from Israel is this! A workman made it; Thus it is no God. The calf of Samaria Will be shattered to pieces.


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For they have sown wind, And they will reap a whirlwind. It has no stalk; should there be a sprout, It will not produce flour; If it should produce, Strangers will swallow it up.


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Israel has been swallowed up; Now they have become among the nations Like a vessel in which no one takes pleasure.


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Indeed though they have hired such among the nations, I will now gather them; And they will begin to be diminished because of the burden Of the king of the princes.


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As for the sacrifices of My offerings, They sacrifice flesh and eat it, But Jehovah has no delight in them. Now He will remember their iniquity, And He will punish their sins; They will return to Egypt.


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For Israel has forgotten his Maker And has built palaces, And Judah has multiplied fortified cities; But I will send fire into his cities, And it will devour its palaces.


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Do not rejoice, O Israel, To exult like the nations. For you have gone as a harlot away from your God; You have loved payment Upon every grain floor.


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They will not dwell in the land of Jehovah; But Ephraim will return to Egypt, And in Assyria they will eat what is unclean.


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They will not pour out offerings of wine to Jehovah, Neither will their sacrifices be pleasing to Him; They will be to them as the bread of mourning; All who eat them will be unclean, For their bread will be for themselves; It will not come into the hou


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For they will go because of destruction; Egypt will gather them; Moph will bury them. As for their desirable things of silver, nettles will dispossess them; Thistles will be in their tents.


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The days of the visitation have come; The days of the recompense have come; Israel will know it. The prophet is a fool, The inspired man is mad, Because of the greatness of your iniquity And because of the greatness of the enmity.


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Ephraim was a watchman With my God. As for the prophet, a fowler's trap Is in all his ways; Enmity is in the house of his God.


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They have deeply corrupted themselves As in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.


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I found Israel Like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers As the first ripe fruit on the fig tree at its beginning. They went to Baal-peor And sanctified themselves unto the shameful thing, And they became detestable, like the thing that they loved


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For even if they bring up their children, I will bereave them, so that not a man is left. Indeed woe also to them When I turn away from them.


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Ephraim, as I have seen him, Is planted like Tyre in a meadow; But Ephraim will bring forth His children to the slayer.


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All their evil is in Gilgal, For there I hated them. Because of the evil of their doings I will drive them from My house, I will love them no more; All their princes are rebels.


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Ephraim is stricken; Their root is dried up; They will not bear fruit. Indeed though they bring forth, I will kill the beloved fruit of their womb.


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My God has rejected them, For they did not listen to Him. And they will be wanderers among the nations.


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Israel is a luxuriant vine; He brings forth fruit for himself. According to the abundance of his fruit He has multiplied altars; According to the goodness of their land They have made pillars well.


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Their heart is divided; Now they will be found guilty. He Himself will break down their altars; He will destroy their pillars.


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For now they will say, We have no king, For we did not fear Jehovah; And the king, what can he do for us?


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They speak mere words, Swearing falsely While making a covenant; And judgment sprouts forth like poisonous weeds In the furrows of the field.


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The inhabitants of Samaria will fear For the calves of Beth-aven; For its people will mourn over it, And its idol priests will tremble for it, For its glory, Because it has departed from it.


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Indeed it will be carried to Assyria:A present to King Jareb. Ephraim will be taken in shame, And Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.


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And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, Will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up Upon their altars; And they will say to the mountains, Cover us! And to the hills, Fall on us!


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Since the days of Gibeah You have sinned, O Israel; There they have stood. Did not the battle Overtake them in Gibeah Because of the children of iniquity?


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When I so desire, I will chastise them; And the peoples will be gathered against them, When they are bound for their double iniquity.


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And Ephraim is a trained heifer That loves to tread the grain; But I have passed the yoke Over her fair neck:I will make Ephraim draw the plow; Judah will plow; Jacob will break his clods.


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Sow unto righteousness for yourselves; Reap according to lovingkindness; Break up your fallow ground; For it is time to seek Jehovah Until He comes and rains Righteousness on you.


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You have plowed wickedness; You have reaped injustice; You have eaten the fruit of lying. For you have trusted in your way, In the multitude of your mighty men.


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And a tumult will arise among your peoples; And all your fortresses will be devastated, As Shalman devastated Beth-arbel In the day of battle:The mother was dashed in pieces with the children.


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Thus Bethel will cause this to happen to you Because of your great evil:At dawn the king of Israel Will be utterly cut off.


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As they called them, So they went from them; To the Baals they sacrificed, And to the idols they burned incense.


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And it was I who taught Ephraim to walk (He took them in His arms), But they did not know that I healed them.


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I drew them with cords of a man, With bands of love; And I was to them like those Who lift off the yoke on their jaws; And I gently caused them to eat.


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They will not return to the land of Egypt, But the Assyrian will be their king, For they refused to return to Me.


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And the sword will whirl about in their cities And will consume their bars, And it will devour them because of their own counsels.


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Indeed My people are bent upon turning away from Me; Though they call them to Him who is on high, None at all exalts Him.


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How shall I give you up, O Ephraim? How shall I deliver you up, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboim? My heart is turned within Me; All My compassions have warmed.


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I will not execute the fierceness of My anger; I will not return to destroy Ephraim; For I am God and not man, The Holy One in the midst of you, And I will not come in wrath.


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They will walk after Jehovah; He will roar like a lion. For He will roar, And the children will come trembling from the west.


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They will come trembling like a bird from Egypt And like a dove from the land of Assyria. And I will cause them to dwell in their houses, Declares Jehovah.


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Ephraim encompasses Me with lies, And the house of Israel, with deceit; And Judah is yet unsteadfast with God And with the Holy One, the Faithful One.


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Ephraim feeds on wind And follows the east wind continually; He multiplies lies and violence. They make a covenant with Assyria, And oil is carried into Egypt.


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Jehovah has also a controversy with Judah And will punish Jacob according to his ways; According to his doings He will recompense him.


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Indeed he contended with the Angel and prevailed; He wept and made supplication to Him. At Bethel he found Him; And there He spoke with us,


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And you, return there to your God; Keep lovingkindness and justice, And wait on your God continually.


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And Ephraim said, I have surely become rich; I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors They will find with me No iniquity, which would be sin.


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But I have been Jehovah your God Since the land of Egypt; Yet again I will cause you to dwell in tents As in the days of the appointed feast.


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I have also spoken unto the prophets:And I have multiplied vision, And through the prophets I have used similitudes.


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Is Gilead iniquity? They are altogether vanity. In Gilgal they sacrifice oxen; Indeed their altars are like heaps In the furrows of a field.


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And Jacob fled into the country of Aram; And Israel served for a wife, And for a wife he kept sheep.


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Ephraim provoked Him to bitter anger; Therefore his Lord will leave his bloodshed upon him And will recompense him with his own reproach.


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When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel; But he trespassed through Baal and died.


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And now they sin more and more And make molten images for themselves out of their silver, Idols according to their own understanding, All of it the work of craftsmen. Of them they say, Let the men who sacrifice Kiss the calves.


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Therefore they will be like a morning cloud And like dew that departs early, Like chaff driven by a storm wind from the threshing floor And like smoke from a window vent.


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But I have been Jehovah your God Since the land of Egypt; And you were to know no god except Me, For there is no savior besides Me.


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According to their pasturage they became full; They became full, and their heart was exalted; Therefore they have forgotten Me.


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I will meet them like a bear robbed of her cubs, And I will tear away the covering of their heart; And I will devour them there like a lioness; The beast of the field will tear them to pieces.


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Where then is your king, That he may save you in all your cities, And your judges of whom you said, Give me a king and some princes?


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The pains of a woman giving birth will come upon him. He is an unwise son; For he should not delay at the time The children break forth.


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From the power of Sheol I will ransom them; From death I will redeem them. Where are your plagues, O death? Where is your destruction, O Sheol? Repentance will be hidden from My eyes.


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Even if he should be fruitful among his brothers, An east wind will come, A wind of Jehovah Coming up from the wilderness, And his spring will become dry, And his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the treasure Of every desirable vessel.


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Samaria will be guilty, For she rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; Their children will be dashed in pieces, And their pregnant women will be ripped up.


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Take words with you, And return to Jehovah; Say to Him, Forgive all iniquity, And take us graciously; Thus we will render our lips as bulls.


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Assyria will not save us; We will not ride upon horses. Neither will we say again to the work of our hands, Our God! Because in You the orphan finds compassion.


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I will be like the dew to Israel; He will bud like the lily And will send forth his roots like the trees of Lebanon.


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His shoots will go forth; And his splendor will be like that of the olive tree, And his fragrance, like that of the trees of Lebanon.


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Those who sit under his shade will return; They will revive like grain And will bud like the vine; His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.


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Ephraim says, What have I yet to do with idols? I respond and look on him. I am like a green fir tree; From Me your fruit is found.


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Who is wise? Then let him understand these things. Who is intelligent? Then let him know them. For the ways of Jehovah are right, And the righteous will walk in them, But the transgressors will stumble in them.


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Hear this, you elders, And give heed, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, Or even in the days of your fathers?


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Tell your children about it, And let your children tell their children, And let their children tell the next generation.


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What the cutting locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; And what the swarming locust has left, the licking locust has eaten; And what the licking locust has left, the consuming locust has eaten.


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Awake, drunkards, and weep; Howl, all you who drink wine, Because of the fresh wine; For it has been cut off from your mouth.


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For a nation has come up against My land, Mighty and without number; Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, And it has the cutting teeth of a lioness.


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It has made My vine a desolation, And My fig tree a heap of splinters. It has stripped it bare and cast it away; Its branches are white.


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The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off From the house of Jehovah; The priests, the ministers of Jehovah, mourn.


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The field is a waste; The land mourns, For the grain is a waste; The new wine is dried up; The fresh oil languishes.


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Be ashamed, O farmers; Howl, O vinedressers, For the wheat and for the barley, Because the harvest of the field has perished.


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The vine is dried up, And the fig tree languishes, The pomegranate and the palm and the apple tree - All the trees of the field are dried up; Indeed gladness has withered away From the children of men.


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Gird yourselves and lament, O priests; Howl, O ministers of the altar. Come, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God. For the meal offering and the drink offering Are held back from the house of your God.


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Sanctify a fast; Call a solemn assembly; Gather the elders And all the inhabitants of the land To the house of Jehovah your God; And cry unto Jehovah.


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Alas for the day! For the day of Jehovah has drawn near, And as the destruction from the Almighty it will come.


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The seeds have shriveled Under their clods; The storehouses have been desolated; The barns have been torn down; For the grain is dried up.


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How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are confused, For they have no pasture; The flocks of sheep also suffer punishment.


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To You, O Jehovah, I cry out; For fire has devoured The pastures of the wilderness, And the flame has set ablaze All the trees of the field.


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The beasts of the field also Cry to You, For the waterways Are dried up, And fire has devoured The pastures of the wilderness.


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Blow a trumpet in Zion; Sound an alarm in My holy mountain; Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, For the day of Jehovah comes; For it draws near:


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A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and deep darkness, Like the dawn spread over the mountains - A people great and mighty. There has not been any like them Since eternity, And there will not be any more after them, Even until the years of


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A fire devours before them, And after them a flame blazes. Before them the land is like the garden of Eden, After them, like a desolate wilderness; And indeed no one escapes them.


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Like the sound of chariots Upon the mountaintops they leap, Like the sound of a flame of fire That devours the stubble, Like a mighty people Set in battle array.


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They run like mighty men; Like men of battle they climb the wall. And they march, each in his ways, And do not break their ranks.


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Nor do they crowd each other; They march, each on his highway. Though they fall among weapons, They do not break off their progress.


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They rush at the city; They run against the wall; They go up into the houses; In through the windows They go, like a thief.


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The earth quakes before them; The heavens shake; The sun and the moon grow dark, And the stars withdraw their shining.


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And Jehovah utters His voice Before His army, For His camp is very great, For He who executes His word is mighty. For the day of Jehovah is great And very terrible, And who can endure it?


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Yet even now, Declares Jehovah, Turn to Me with all your heart And with fasting and weeping and mourning;


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And rend your hearts, And not your garments, And turn to Jehovah your God, For He is gracious and compassionate, Long-suffering and abundant in lovingkindness And repentant of evil.


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Who knows whether He will turn and repent And leave a blessing behind Him, A meal offering and a drink offering To Jehovah your God?


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Gather the people; Sanctify the congregation; Assemble the elders; Gather the children And those who suck the breasts; Let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, And the bride from her canopy.


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Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, Weep between the porch and the altar, And let them say, Look with pity, O Jehovah, upon Your people; And do not give Your inheritance over to reproach, That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say


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And Jehovah answered and said to His people, I am about to send you The grain and the new wine and the fresh oil, And you will be satisfied with it; And I will no longer make you A reproach among the nations,


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But the northern army I will remove far from you; And I will drive it into a land Barren and desolate, With its face toward the eastern sea And its end toward the western sea. And its stench will go up, And its foul smell will go up, For it has done grea


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Do not fear, O beasts of the field, For the pastures of the wilderness turn green. For the tree bears its fruit; The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.


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O children of Zion, Be glad and rejoice In Jehovah your God. For He gives you The former rain in righteousness, And He makes the rain come down for you:The former rain and the latter rain At the beginning of the season.


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And the threshing floors will be full of grain, And the wine vats will overflow with new wine and fresh oil.


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And I will restore to you the years That the swarming locust has eaten, The licking locust and the consuming locust and the cutting locust, My great army That I sent among you.


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And you will eat to the full and be satisfied, And you will praise the name of Jehovah your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you; And My people will never be ashamed.


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And you will know that I am in the midst of Israel, And that I am Jehovah your God and there is none else. And My people will never be ashamed.


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And afterward I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh, And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; Your old men shall dream dreams; Your young men shall see visions.


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The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon, into blood, Before the great and terrible Day of Jehovah comes.


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And everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah shall be saved; For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem will be an escape, As Jehovah has said, Even for the remnant Whom Jehovah calls.


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I will gather all the nations And will bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat; And I will enter into judgment with them there Because of My people and My inheritance Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations. And they have divided My land


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And have cast lots for My people; And they have given a boy for a prostitute And sold a girl for wine to drink.


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Indeed then, what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon And all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay Me with a recompense? But if you recompense Me, Swiftly, speedily, I will return your recompense upon your own head.


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In that you have taken My silver and My gold, And have brought My fine precious things into your temples,


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And have sold to the children of the Javanim The children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem, In order to remove them Away from their borders;


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I will rouse them out of the place To which you have sold them, And will return your recompense upon your own head.


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And I will sell your sons and your daughters Into the hand of the children of Judah, And they will sell them to the Sabeans, To a nation that is far off, For Jehovah has spoken.


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Proclaim this among the nations:Prepare the battle; Rouse the mighty men; Let all the men of battle Draw near; let them go up.


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Beat your plowshares into swords, And your pruning knives into spears; Let the weak say, I am mighty.


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Hurry and come, All you surrounding nations, And be gathered. There cause Your mighty ones to descend, O Jehovah!


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Let the nations rouse themselves and come up To the valley of Jehoshaphat. For there I will sit to judge All the surrounding nations.


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Send forth the sickle, For the harvest is ripe; Come, tread, For the winepress is full; The wine vats overflow, For their evil is great.


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Multitudes, multitudes, In the valley of decision; For the day of Jehovah has drawn near In the valley of decision.


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And Jehovah will roar from Zion, And from Jerusalem He will utter His voice, And the heavens and the earth will shake. But Jehovah will be a shelter to His people And a stronghold to the children of Israel.


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Thus you will know that I am Jehovah your God, Dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain. And Jerusalem will be holy, And strangers will pass through her no longer.


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And in that day The mountains will drop down fresh wine, And the hills will flow with milk; And all the waterways of Judah Will flow with water, And a fountain will go forth from the house of Jehovah, And it will water the valley of Shittim.


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Egypt will be a desolation, And Edom will be a desolate wilderness, Because of the violence against the children of Judah, In that they have shed innocent blood in their land.


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And I will acquit them of their bloodshed that I had not acquitted them of, For Jehovah dwells in Zion.


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The words of Amos, who was among the sheep tenders from Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah the king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, the king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.


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And he said, Jehovah will roar from Zion, And from Jerusalem He will utter His voice; And the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, And the top of Carmel will dry up.


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Thus says Jehovah, Because of three transgressions of Damascus, Indeed, because of four, I will not turn away the punishment; Because they have threshed Gilead With sharp threshing tools of iron.


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And I will break the bar of Damascus, And I will cut off the inhabitant of the valley of Aven And him who holds the scepter from the Beth-eden; And the people of Aram will go into captivity unto Kir, Says Jehovah.


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Thus says Jehovah, Because of three transgressions of Gaza, Indeed, because of four, I will not turn away the punishment; Because they carried away captive the entire captivity In order to deliver them up to Edom.


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And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod And him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon, And I will turn My hand against Ekron; And the remnant of the Philistines will perish, Says the Lord Jehovah.


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Thus says Jehovah, Because of three transgressions of Tyre, Indeed, because of four, I will not turn away the punishment; Because they delivered up the entire captivity to Edom And did not remember a covenant among brothers.


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Thus says Jehovah, Because of three transgressions of Edom, Indeed, because of four, I will not turn away the punishment; Because he pursued his brother with the sword And stifled his compassions; And his anger raged continually, And he kept his overfl


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Thus says Jehovah, Because of three transgressions of the children of Ammon, Indeed, because of four, I will not turn away the punishment; Because they ripped up the pregnant women of Gilead In order to enlarge their border.


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And I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah, And it will devour its palaces With shouting in the day of battle, With a tempest in the day of the storm wind.


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Thus says Jehovah, Because of three transgressions of Moab, Indeed, because of four, I will not turn away the punishment; Because he burned the bones Of the king of Edom into lime.


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And I will send fire upon Moab, And it will devour the palaces of Kerioth; And Moab will die amid tumult, With shouting, with the sound of a trumpet.


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And I will cut off the judge from the midst of it And will slay all its princes with him, Says Jehovah.


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Thus says Jehovah, Because of three transgressions of Judah, Indeed, because of four, I will not turn away the punishment; Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah And have not kept His statutes; And their lies have caused them to err, The lies w


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Thus says Jehovah, Because of three transgressions of Israel, Indeed, because of four, I will not turn away the punishment; Because they have sold the righteous for silver And the needy for a pair of sandals -


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They who pant after the dust of the earth upon the heads of the poor, And turn aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father go in unto the same young woman, In order to profane My holy name.


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And upon garments taken as pledge they lay themselves down Beside every altar, And in the house of their God they drink The wine of those who have been fined.


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But I destroyed the Amorite before them, Whose height was like the height of the cedars, And he was as strong as the oaks; Yet I destroyed his fruit from above And his roots from beneath.


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And I brought you up from the land of Egypt And led you in the wilderness for forty years, To possess the land of the Amorites.


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And I raised up some of your sons as prophets And some of your young men as Nazarites. Is it not indeed so, O children of Israel? Declares Jehovah.


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And flight will perish from the swift, And the strong will not strengthen his force, Nor will the mighty deliver his soul;


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And he who wields the bow will not stand, And he who is swift of foot will not deliver himself, And he who rides the horse will not deliver his soul.


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And he who is stout-hearted among the mighty men Will flee away naked in that day, Declares Jehovah.


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Hear this word that Jehovah has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,


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Only you have I known Of all the families of the earth; Therefore I will visit upon you All your iniquities.


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Will the lion roar in the forest When he has no prey? Will a young lion utter his voice from his den If he has not seized anything?


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Will a bird fall into a trap on the earth When there is no snare laid for it? Will a trap spring up off the ground When it has seized nothing at all?


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Can a trumpet be blown in a city And the people not dread? Can there be ill in a city And Jehovah did not do it?


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Surely the Lord Jehovah will not do anything unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.


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Cause it to be heard in the palaces of Ashdod And in the palaces of the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves in the mountains of Samaria, And see what great tumults are in the midst of it And what oppressions are within it;


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And they do not know to do what is right, Declares Jehovah, They who store up violence and devastation in their palaces.


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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, An adversary! Indeed one surrounding the land; And he will bring down your strength from you, And your palaces will be plundered.


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Thus says Jehovah, As the shepherd rescues Out of the mouth of the lion Two legs or a piece of the ear, So will the children of Israel Who dwell in Samaria be rescued, With the corner of a bed And a silk cushion of a couch.


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For in the day when I visit The transgressions of Israel upon him, I will visit the altars of Bethel, And the horns of the altar will be cut off And will fall to the ground.


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And I will strike the winter house Along with the summer house; And the houses of ivory will perish, And many houses will come to an end, Declares Jehovah.


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Hear this word, O heifers of Bashan, which are on the mountain of Samaria, Who oppress the poor And crush the needy, Who say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink.


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The Lord Jehovah has sworn by His holiness Indeed days are coming upon you When one will take you away with hooks, And your posterity, with fish hooks.


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And you will go out through the breaches, each one straight ahead of her; And you will cast yourselves into Harmon, declares Jehovah.


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Come to Bethel, and transgress; To Gilgal, and multiply transgression; And bring your sacrifices every morning And your tithes every three days,


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And offer in smoke a thank offering out of what is leavened; And proclaim freewill offerings; make them known; For you love them, O children of Israel, Declares the Lord Jehovah.


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And I also have given you Cleanness of teeth in all your cities And want of bread in all your places. Yet you have not returned to Me, Declares Jehovah.


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And I have also withheld the rain from you When there was yet three months until the harvest; And I made it rain on one city, But on another city I did not make it rain; One portion was rained on, And the portion that was not rained on dried up.


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And two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water, But they were not satisfied. Yet you have not returned to Me, Declares Jehovah.


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I have stricken you with blight and mildew; The multitudes of your gardens and your vineyards, And your fig trees and your olive trees, the cutting locust has devoured. Yet you have not returned to Me, Declares Jehovah.


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I have sent among you pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I have slain your choice young men with the sword, taking your horses captive; And I have caused the stench of your camp to go up even into your own nostrils. Yet you have not returned to Me, Dec


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I have overturned cities among you, As when God overturned Sodom and Gomorrah; And you were like a brand plucked out of the burning. Yet you have not returned to Me, Declares Jehovah.


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Therefore this is what I will do to you, O Israel; And because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, O Israel.


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For it is He who forms the mountains and creates the wind And declares to man what His thought is; He who makes the morning darkness And treads upon the high places of the earth - Jehovah the God of hosts is His name!


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Fallen and no more to rise Is the virgin of Israel; She has been cast down upon her land; There is none to raise her up.


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For thus says the Lord Jehovah, The city that sent forth a thousand Will have a hundred left, And that which sent forth a hundred Will have ten left, To the house of Israel.


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And do not seek Bethel, Nor go to Gilgal, Nor pass on to Beer-sheba; For Gilgal will surely go into captivity, And Bethel will become vanity.


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Seek Jehovah, and live; Lest He rush upon the house of Joseph like fire, And it devour it, and there be none to extinguish the fire in Bethel.


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He who makes the Pleiades and Orion And turns the shadow of death into the morning And darkens the day with the night; He who calls for the water of the sea And pours it upon the surface of the earth, Jehovah is His name,


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Therefore because you trample upon the poor And take a forced gift of wheat from them; You have built houses of hewn stone, But you will not dwell in them; You have planted desirable vineyards, But you will not drink their wine.


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For I know that your transgressions are many And that your sins are mighty, You who vex the righteous and take ransom payment And turn aside justice for the needy in the gate.


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Seek good and not evil, In order that you may live; And so Jehovah the God of hosts will be with you, As you say.


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Hate evil and love good, And set up justice in the gate. Perhaps Jehovah the God of hosts will be gracious To the remnant of Joseph.


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Therefore thus says Jehovah, The God of hosts, the Lord:In all the open plazas there will be wailing, And in all the streets they will say, Alas! Alas! And they will call the farmer to mourning, And for wailing to those skilled in lamentation.


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Woe to you who desire The day of Jehovah! What good is the day of Jehovah to you? It will be darkness and not light,


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As when a man flees from before a lion And encounters a bear, Or goes into the house and leans his hand against the wall, And a serpent bites him.


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For if you offer up to Me burnt offerings And your meal offerings, I will not accept them; Nor will I regard the peace offerings of your fatted animals.


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Did you bring Me sacrifices and meal offerings In the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?


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Indeed, you took up Sikkuth your king And Kiyyun your images, the star of your gods that you made for yourselves.


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Woe to those who are at ease in Zion And to those who are secure in the mountain of Samaria, The distinguished among the chief of the nations, To whom the house of Israel comes!


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Go over into Calneh, and see; And go from there to Hamath the great; Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory?


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You who lie upon beds of ivory And sprawl out upon your couches And eat the lambs from the flock And the calves from the midst of the stall,


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You who drink wine in sacrificial bowls And anoint yourselves with the finest oils; Yet you are not grieved about the destruction of Joseph.


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Therefore they will now go into captivity with the first of the captives, And the cry of revelry from those who sprawled themselves out will pass away.


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The Lord Jehovah has sworn by Himself, Declares Jehovah the God of hosts, I abhor the pride of Jacob, And his palaces I hate; Therefore I will deliver up the city and its fullness.


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When his kinsman, that is, he who should burn his body, takes him up to bring his bones from the house, and says to him who is in the innermost part of the house, Are there any more with you, and that one says, None; then he will say, Hush, for the name o


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For it is Jehovah who commands, And He will strike the great house into fragments And the little house into pieces.


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Do horses run on rock? Or does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,


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You who rejoice in that which is nothing, You who say, Have we not taken By our own strength horns for ourselves?


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For I am about to raise up a nation over you, O house of Israel, declares Jehovah the God of hosts, And they will oppress you From the entrance of Hamath To the brook of the Arabah.


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Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me, and there He was, forming locusts in the beginning of the springing up of the spring crop; and it was the spring crop after the king's mowings.


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And when their eating of the herbage of the land was complete, I said, O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I beseech You! How will Jacob stand, for he is small?


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Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me, and there the Lord Jehovah was, calling to contend with them with fire; and it devoured the great deep, and it devoured the land.


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Thus He showed me, and there the Lord was, standing upon a perfectly plumbed wall; and in His hand was a plumb line.


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And Jehovah said to me, What do you see, Amos? And I said, A plumb line. And the Lord said, I am now setting a plumb line in the midst of My people Israel; I will not pass them by again any more.


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And the high places of Isaac will be desolated, And the sanctuaries of Israel will be made waste; And I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with a sword.


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Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam the king of Israel, saying, Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to endure all his words.


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For thus says Amos, By the sword Jeroboam will die, and Israel will surely go into captivity out from its land.


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Then Amaziah said to Amos, Go, you seer; flee into the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there;


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But in Bethel you shall not ever prophesy again, for it is the king's sanc- tuary and it is the royal residence.


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Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, I am no prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet; rather I am a herdsman and a dresser of sycamores.


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And Jehovah took me from following the flock, and Jehovah said to me, Go, prophesy to My people Israel.


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And now hear the word of Jehovah:You say, You shall not prophesy against Israel, nor shall you speak against the house of Isaac.


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Therefore thus says Jehovah, Your wife will go about as a harlot in the city, And your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, And your land will be divided by the line, And you yourself will die in a land that is unclean; And Israel will indeed g


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And He said, What do you see, Amos? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then Jehovah said to me, The end has come upon My people Israel; I will not pass them by again any more.


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And the songs of the temple will be wailings In that day, declares the Lord Jehovah. The corpses will be many; In every place They will cast them. Hush!


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Saying, When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may lay open the wheat? In order to make the ephah small and the shekel large And to falsify the balances for deceit;


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That we may buy the poor for silver And the needy for a pair of sandals, And sell the refuse of the wheat.


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Jehovah has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, I shall by no means forget any of their deeds forever.


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Will the land not quake because of this, And will all who dwell in it not mourn? Indeed all of it will rise up like the River, And it will be driven and will sink like the river of Egypt.


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And in that day, Declares the Lord Jehovah, I will cause the sun to go down at noon, And I will darken the land in the light of day.


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And I will turn your feasts into mourning And all your songs into lamentation; And I will bring up sackcloth upon all the loins And baldness upon every head; And I will make it like the mourning for an only child And the end of it like a bitter day.


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Indeed days are coming, Declares the Lord Jehovah, When I will send a hunger into the land, Not a hunger for bread Nor a thirst for water, But for hearing the words of Jehovah.


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And they will totter from sea to sea, And from the north even to the east; They will rove about, seeking the word of Jehovah, But they will not find it.


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They who swear by the trespass of Samaria And say, As your god lives, O Dan! And, As the way of Beer-sheba lives! Indeed they will fall and not rise up again.


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I saw the Lord standing upon the altar. And He said, Strike the capitals of the pillars That the thresholds may shake. And break them off upon the heads of them all, And the last of them I will slay with the sword:Any one of them who flees will not flee


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Though they dig into Sheol, From there My hand will take them; And though they go up into heaven, From there I will bring them down.


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And though they hide at the top of Carmel, From there I will seek them and take them. And though they hide themselves from My sight on the floor of the sea, There I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.


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And though they go into captivity before their enemies, There I will command the sword, and it will slay them; And I will set My eyes upon them For evil and not for good.


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For the Lord Jehovah of hosts Is the One who touches the land and it melts, And all those who dwell in it mourn; And all of it rises like the River, And it sinks like the river of Egypt.


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He is the One who builds His upper stories in the heavens And has founded His vault over the earth; He is the One who calls for the water of the sea And pours it upon the surface of the earth; Jehovah is His name.


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Are you not like the children of the Cushites To Me, O children of Israel? Declares Jehovah. Have I not brought up Israel Out from the land of Egypt, And the Philistines out from Caphtor, And Aram out from Kir?


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Yes, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah Are on the sinful kingdom, And I will destroy it From off the face of the earth, Except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, Declares Jehovah.


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For I will command And shake the house of Israel among all the nations, As grain is shaken in the sieve; Yet a kernel will not fall to the ground.


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All the sinners of My people Will die by the sword, Those who say, Evil will not overtake us Nor come before us on all sides.


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In that day I will raise up The fallen tabernacle of David, And I will wall up its breaches And raise up its ruins And build it up as it was in the days of old;


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That they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations which are called by My name, declares Jehovah who does this.


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Indeed days are coming, Declares Jehovah, When the plowman will overtake the reaper, And the grape treader, him who sows the seed; And the mountains will drip sweet wine, And all the hills will melt.


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And I will turn the captivity of My people Israel, And they will build the desolated cities and inhabit them; And they will plant vineyards and drink the wine from them, And make gardens and eat the fruit from them.


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And I will plant them upon their land, and they will not be plucked up again from their land, which I have given to them, says Jehovah your God.


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The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord Jehovah concerning Edom, We have heard a report from Jehovah, And an envoy has been sent among the nations:Arise, and let us rise up against it for battle.


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The arrogance of your heart has beguiled you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, Whose habitation is lofty, Who says in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground?


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Though you set yourself on high like the eagle And though you make your nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there, Declares Jehovah.


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If thieves came to you, If spoilers in the night - How you would be cut off! - Would they not steal only their fill? If grape gatherers came to you, Would they not leave gleanings?


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All the men of your confederacy Have sent you away to the border; The men who were at peace with you Have deceived you; they have prevailed against you. They make your bread A snare under you. There is no understanding in him.


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Will I not in that day, Declares Jehovah, Destroy the wise men from Edom, And understanding from the mountain of Esau?


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And your mighty men will be dismayed, O Teman, So that each one is cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.


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Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, Shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.


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In the day that you stood on the side, In the day that strangers took his substance captive And foreigners entered into his gates And cast lots over Jerusalem, You also were like one of them.


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But do not look to the day of your brother, To the day of his misfortune; Neither rejoice concerning the children of Judah In the day of their destruction, Nor boast In the day of distress.


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Do not enter the gate of My people In the day of their calamity; Do not look, even you, on his affliction In the day of his calamity, Nor send forth your hands on his substance In the day of his calamity.


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And do not stand at the crossroads To cut off those of his who escape, Nor deliver those of his who survive In the day of distress.


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For the day of Jehovah is near Upon all the nations:As you have done, it will be done to you; Your recompense will return upon your head.


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For as you, the people of Judah, have drunk the cup of wrath upon My holy mountain, All the nations will drink the same continually; Indeed they will drink and swallow down, And they will be as though they had not been.


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But in Mount Zion There will be those who have escaped, And it will be holy. And the house of Jacob will possess Their possessions.


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And the house of Jacob will be a fire, And the house of Joseph a flame; And the house of Esau will be as stubble, And they will burn among them and devour them; And there will be no survivor To the house of Esau, For Jehovah has spoken.


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And those of the south will possess the mountain of Esau, And those of the lowlands, the Philistines; Indeed they will possess the field of Ephraim And the field of Samaria, And Benjamin will possess Gilead.


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And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel, Who are among the Canaanites, will possess as far as Zarephath; And the captivity of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, Will possess the cities of the south.


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And saviors will come up on Mount Zion To judge the mountain of Esau, And the kingdom will be Jehovah's.


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But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah, and he went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare for it and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah.


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But Jehovah hurled a great wind toward the sea, and there was a great tempest on the sea, and the ship seemed to be about to break up.


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Then the mariners became afraid, and each called out to his god. And they cast out the equipment that was on the ship into the sea to lighten themselves of it. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost part of the vessel and lain down and fallen fast asl


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So the ship captain approached him and said to him, How can you be fast asleep? Arise, call on your God. Perhaps God will give thought to us, and we will not perish.


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And each man said to his companion, Come, let us cast lots that we may know on whose account this misfortune has befallen us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.


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Then they said to him, Tell us now, On whose account has this misfortune befallen us? What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you?


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And he said to them, I am a Hebrew, and I fear Jehovah, the God of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.


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And the men became greatly afraid and said to him, What is this that you have done? For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Jehovah, because he had told them so.


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And they said to him, What shall we do with you that the sea may be quiet for us? For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.


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Then he said to them, Lift me up and cast me into the sea, and the sea will be quiet for you. For I know that it is on my account that this great tempest has come upon you.


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Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get back to the dry land, but they could not, because the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.


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And they cried out to Jehovah and said, Ah, Jehovah, let us not perish, we pray, for this man's life, and do not put innocent blood upon us; for You, Jehovah, have done as You pleased.


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And Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah up, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish for three days and three nights.


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And he said, I called out because of my distress To Jehovah, and He answered me; From the belly of Sheol I cried out for help; You heard my voice.


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You flung me into the depths, into the heart of the sea, And the flood surrounded me; All Your breakers and Your billows Passed over me.


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Therefore I said, I have been driven out From before Your eyes; Yet I will look again Toward Your holy temple.


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To the bottom of the sea mountains I went down; The earth with its bars was around me forever. Then You have brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.


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When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah, And my prayer came to You In Your holy temple.


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But I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving; That which I have vowed I will fully pay. Salvation is of Jehovah.


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So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three days' journey in size.


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And Jonah began to go through the city a day's journey and cried out and said, Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overturned!


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And the men of Nineveh believed God, and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.


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And the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne and put away his majestic clothes from him and covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes.


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And he issued a proclamation and declared in Nineveh by the decree of the king and his great men, saying, Let neither man nor beast nor herd nor flock taste anything; let them not feed, nor let them drink water.


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And let man and beast be covered in sackcloth, and let them call to God strongly. And let each turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.


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Who knows whether God will turn and repent, and will turn from His burning anger so that we do not perish?


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And God saw their deeds, that they turned from their evil way, and God repented for the evil that He said He would do to them; and He did not do it.


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And he prayed to Jehovah and said, Ah, Jehovah, was this not what I said when I was still in my land? Therefore I anticipated it by fleeing to Tarshish, for I know that You are a gracious and compassionate God, long-suffering and abundant in lovingkindnes


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Then Jonah went out from the city and sat to the east of the city. And he made a booth for himself there and sat underneath it in the shade until he could see what would happen to the city.


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And Jehovah God prepared a castor-oil tree; and it came up over Jonah to be a shade over his head, that it might deliver him from his misfortune. And Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the tree.


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But God prepared a worm when the dawn came up the next day, and it struck the tree, and the tree withered.


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And when the sun rose, God prepared a 1sultry east wind. And the sun beat down on Jonah's head, and he fainted. And he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.


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And God said to Jonah, Do you do well to be angry about the tree? And he said, I do well to be angry unto death.


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And Jehovah said, You had pity on the tree that you did not labor for nor cause to grow, which came into being overnight and perished overnight;


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And I, should I not have pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot discern between their right hand and their left, and many cattle?


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The word of Jehovah which came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.


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Hear, all you peoples, And give heed, O earth and its fullness; And let the Lord Jehovah be a witness against you, The Lord from His holy temple.


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For Jehovah is about to come forth from His place, And He will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.


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And the mountains will be melted under Him, And the valleys will be cleft, Like wax before fire, Like water poured down a slope.


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All this is because of the transgression of Jacob And because of the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Are they not Jerusalem?


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Therefore I will make Samaria A heap of ruins in a field, Places for the planting of vineyards; And I will pour her stones down into the valley And uncover her foundations.


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And all her engraved idols will be smashed, And all her gifts for harlotry will be burned with fire, And all her images I will make a desolation; For from the harlot's hire she has gathered them, And unto the harlot's hire they will return.


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Because of this I will wail and howl; I will go about barefoot and naked. I will make a wailing like the jackals And a lamentation like the ostriches.


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For her wound is incurable, For it has come as far as Judah; It reaches as far as the gate of my people, As far as Jerusalem.


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Pass away on your own, O inhabitress of Shaphir, In shameful nakedness; The inhabitress of Zaanan Has not gone forth; The wailing of Beth-ezel Will take away from you the staying of the calamity.


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For the inhabitress of Maroth Waits in pain for good, For evil has come down from Jehovah To the gate of Jerusalem.


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Bind the chariot to the steeds, O inhabitress of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.


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Therefore you will give a parting gift To Moresheth-gath:The houses of Achzib will be a deception To the kings of Israel.


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Further, I will bring upon you the possessor, O inhabitress of Mareshah; The glory of Israel will come As far as Adullam.


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Shave yourself and cut off your hair For the children of your delights; Enlarge your baldness like an eagle, For they have gone from you into captivity.


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Woe to those who devise wickedness And who prepare evil upon their beds! In the light of the morning they do it Because it is in the power of their hand to do so.


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And they covet fields and seize them, And houses, and take them away; And they oppress a person and his house, And a man and his inheritance.


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Therefore thus says Jehovah, I am now devising evil against this family, From which you will not remove your necks; And you will not go about haughtily, For it is an evil time.


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In that day they will take up a proverb concerning you, And they will lament a lamenting lament; they will say, We are utterly ruined; He has changed the portion of my people. How He removes it from me! He has apportioned our fields to the rebellious.


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Do not prophesy, they prophesy. If they do not prophesy concerning these things, The reproaches will not be turned back.


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Will it be said, O house of Jacob, Is the Spirit of Jehovah hasty? Are these His doings? Do not My words benefit Him who walks uprightly?


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But recently My people Have risen up as an enemy; You strip away the mantle From off the garment Of those who pass by securely, Those who turn away from conflict.


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The women of My people you cast out, From their pleasant houses; From their young children you take away My splendor forever.


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Arise and go, For this is not your resting place, Because of the uncleanness That brings destruction, indeed grievous destruction.


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If a man going about After wind and falsehood lies, saying, I will prophesy to you Concerning wine and liquor; He would indeed become a prophet of this people.


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I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will surely assemble the remnant of Israel. I will place them together like the sheep of Bozrah, Like the flock in the midst of its pasture; They will make much noise because of the many men.


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He who breaks through goes up before them; They break through and pass through the gate, And they go forth through it. And their King goes forth before them; Indeed Jehovah is at their head.


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And I said, Hear now, you heads of Jacob And you rulers of the house of Israel:Is it not for you To know justice?


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You who hate good And love evil, You who tear away their skin from off them And their flesh from off their bones,


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And who devour the flesh of My people And strip off their skin from off them And break their bones in pieces And chop them as for the pot And like meat in a cauldron.


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Then they will cry out to Jehovah, But He will not answer them; Indeed He will hide His face from them at that time, Just as they were evil in their doings.


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Thus says Jehovah concerning the prophets Who cause My people to err, Who, when they have something to bite with their teeth, Cry, Peace, But if there is one who does not give something for their mouths, They prepare for war against him.


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Therefore there will be night to you, without vision, And darkness to you, without divination. And the sun will go down on the prophets, And the day will be black over them.


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And the seers will be put to shame, And the diviners will be ashamed; And they will all cover their mouths, For there will be no answer from God.


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But as for me, I am full Of power, with the Spirit of Jehovah, and of justice and might, To declare to Jacob his transgression And to Israel his sin.


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Hear now this, you heads of the house of Jacob And you rulers of the house of Israel:You who abhor justice And pervert all uprightness,


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Her leaders judge for a bribe, And her priests teach for hire, And her prophets divine for money; But they lean on Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil will not come upon us.


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Therefore on account of you Zion will be plowed as a field, And Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, And the mountain of the house will become the high places of a forest.


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But in the last days The mountain of the house of Jehovah Will be established on the top of the mountains; And it will be lifted up among the hills; And the peoples will stream to it.


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And many nations will come and say, Come and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah And to the house of the God of Jacob; That He may instruct us in His ways, And that we may walk in His paths; For from Zion will go forth instruction, And the word of Je


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And He will judge between many peoples And will decide matters for numerous nations from afar. And they will beat their swords into plowshares And their spears into pruning knives; Nation will not lift up sword against nation, Nor will they learn war anym


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And they will each sit underneath his vine And underneath his fig tree, And no one will disturb them; For the mouth of Jehovah of hosts has spoken.


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For all the peoples will walk, Each in the name of his god; But we will walk In the name of Jehovah our God Forever and ever.


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In that day, Declares Jehovah, I will gather her that limps, And her that has been driven out I will collect, As well as her that I have afflicted;


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And I will make her that limps a remnant, And her that has been cast far away a mighty nation; And Jehovah will reign over them in Mount Zion From then on, and even forever.


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And you, O tower of the flock, O hill of the daughter of Zion, To you will it come, Indeed the first dominion will come, The kingdom to the daughter of Jerusalem.


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Why do you now cry out aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished, That pain has seized you like a woman delivering a child?


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Suffer the pain and thrust forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman delivering a child. For now you will go forth from the city And dwell in the field; And you will go into Babylon. And there you will be delivered; There Jehovah will redeem you From the ha


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And now many nations Are gathered against you, They who say, Let her be profaned, And let our eyes gaze on Zion.


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But they do not know The thoughts of Jehovah, And they do not understand His counsel; For He has gathered them like sheaves for the threshing floor.


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Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; For I will make your horn iron, And I will make your hooves bronze; And you will crush many peoples to powder. And I will devote their profit to Jehovah, And their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.


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Now gather yourself in troops, O daughter of troops; He has laid a siege against us. With a rod they strike on the cheek The Judge of Israel.


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(But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, So little to be among the thousands of Judah, From you there will come forth to Me He who is to be Ruler in Israel; And His goings forth are from ancient times, From the days of eternity.)


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Therefore He will give them up until the time When she who is in labor delivers the child; Then the remainder of His brothers will return, Along with the children of Israel.


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And He will stand and feed His flock in the strength of Jehovah, In the majesty of the name of Jehovah His God; And they will abide, for now He will be great Unto the ends of the earth.


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And this One will be the peace. When Assyria comes into our land And when he treads in our palaces, We will raise up against him seven shepherds And eight princes of men.


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And they will waste the land of Assyria with the sword And the land of Nimrod at its entrances. And He will save us from Assyria, When he comes into our land And when he treads in our border.


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And the remnant of Jacob will be In the midst of many peoples Like dew from Jehovah, Like abundant showers upon the herbage, Which do not tarry for man And do not wait for the sons of men.


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And the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, In the midst of many peoples, Like a lion among the beasts of the forest, Like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, Who, if he should pass through, tramples under And tears up, and there is none to de


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In that day, Declares Jehovah, I will cut off your horses from the midst of you And will destroy your chariots.


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And I will cut off your idols And your pillars from your midst; And you will no longer worship The work of your hands.


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Hear, O mountains, Jehovah's contention, And you enduring foundations of the earth; For Jehovah has a contention with His people, And with Israel He will dispute.


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For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, And from the slave house I redeemed you; And I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.


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O My people, remember now what Balak the king of Moab counseled, And what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, From Shittim to Gilgal, That you may know the righteous acts of Jehovah.


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With what shall I come before Jehovah And bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, With one-year-old calves?


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Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?


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He has declared to you, O man, what is good; And what does Jehovah require of you, But that you would execute justice and love mercy And walk humbly with your God?


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The voice of Jehovah cries out to the city, And wisdom looks upon Your name. Hear the rod and Him who appointed it.


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Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, And a scant measure that is abominable?


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For the rich men of the city are full of violence, And those who inhabit it speak falsehood, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.


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You will eat, but you will not be satisfied; And your emptiness will remain in the midst of you; And you will take away, But you will not rescue, And what you rescue I will give up to the sword.


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You will sow, But you will not reap; You will tread olives, But you will not anoint yourself with oil, And the new wine, But you will not drink wine.


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For the statutes of Omri are kept, And all the works of the house of Ahab; And you walk in their counsels, That I may make you a desolation, And the inhabitants of the city a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of My people.


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Woe is me! For I am like a gathering of summer fruit And like a gleaning of the vintage; There is no cluster to eat, Nor first-ripe fig, which my soul desires.


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The godly man has perished from the land, And there is none upright among men; They all lie in wait for bloodshed; They each hunt their brother with a net.


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Both hands are set upon evil, to do it well:The prince asks for it, And the judge agrees, for a reward, And the great man, he utters the evil desire of his soul, And they weave it together.


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The best one among them is like a briar; The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, your visitation, has come; Now will be their confounding.


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Do not trust in a neighbor; Do not put your confidence in a friend; Keep the doors of your mouth From her who lies in your bosom.


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For the son treats the father like a fool; The daughter rises up against her mother, The daughter-in-law, against her mother-in-law; A man's enemies are the men of his own house.


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But as for me, I will look for Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation; My God will hear me.


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Do not rejoice against me, O my enemy; When I fall, I will rise up; When I sit in the darkness, Jehovah will be a light to me.


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I will bear the indignation of Jehovah - For I have sinned against Him - Until He plead my cause And execute justice for me; He will bring me forth into the light; I will see His righteousness.


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Then my enemy will see And shame will cover Her who said to me, Where is Jehovah your God? My eyes will see her:At that time she will become trampled Like mud in the streets.


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In that day they will come even unto you From Assyria and from the cities of Egypt, And from Egypt even to the River, And from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.


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But the land will become desolate Because of the inhabitants in it, due to the fruit of their doings.


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Shepherd Your people with Your rod, The flock of Your inheritance, Who dwell alone in the forest In the midst of Carmel; Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead As in the days of old.


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The nations will see and be ashamed Of all their might; They will put the hand over the mouth; Their ears will be deaf.


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They will lick the dust like a serpent; Like crawling things of the earth, They will come quivering from their enclosed places; To Jehovah our God They will turn in fear and be afraid because of You.


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Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression Of the remnant of His inheritance? He does not retain His anger forever, For He delights in lovingkindness.


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He will again have compassion on us; He will tread our iniquities underfoot. And You will cast into the depths of the sea All their sins.


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You will perform truth to Jacob, And lovingkindness to Abraham, Which You have sworn to our fathers From the days of old.


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Jehovah is a jealous God and One who avenges; Jehovah avenges and is full of wrath; Jehovah takes vengeance on His adversaries, And reserves wrath for His enemies.


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Jehovah is long-suffering and great in power And will by no means clear the guilty. Jehovah - His way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, And the clouds are the dust of His feet.


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He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, And He dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel languish, And the sprout of Lebanon languishes.


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The mountains quake because of Him, And the hills melt, And the earth is heaved up at His presence, Indeed the world, and all that inhabit it.


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Who can stand before His indignation, And who can maintain himself in the fierceness of His anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, And the rocks are broken down by Him.


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But with an overflowing flood He will make a full end of her place, And He will pursue His enemies into darkness.


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For though they are entangled like thorns And like those drunken with their drink, They will be consumed as fully as dry stubble.


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Thus says Jehovah, Though they are complete in number and even numerous, Even so they will be cut down; and they will pass away. And though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.


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And Jehovah has commanded concerning you:No more of your name will be sown; Out of the house of your gods I will cut off The graven idol and the molten idol; I will make your grave, for you are worthless.


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See, upon the mountains The feet of him who bears the glad news, Who announces peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah; Complete your vows; For the wicked one will never again Pass through you; He will be completely cut off.


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He who scatters has come up before you:Keep the fortress, Watch the way, Strengthen the loins, Fortify the power greatly.


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For Jehovah restores The excellency of Jacob As the excellency of Israel; For the emptiers have emptied them out And destroyed their vine branches.


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The shield of His mighty men is red; The valiant men are clad in scarlet; The chariots flash with the shining of steel In the day of His preparation, And the spears are brandished.


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In the streets the chariots rush madly; They dash to and fro in the open squares; Their appearance is like that of torches; They dart like lightning.


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The Assyrian king remembers his glorious ones:They stumble in their march; They hasten to the wall of the city, But the besiegers' shelter is prepared.


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And it is determined:She is uncovered; she is carried away; And her maidens moan, As with the sound of doves, Beating their breasts.


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Though Nineveh has been like a pool of water all her days, Now they are fleeing. Stand! Stand! But no one turns back.


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Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! And there is no end to what has been prepared. Oh, the glory of all the desirable vessels!


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Emptiness and void and waste! And the heart melts, and the knees knock, And anguish is in all the loins, And the faces of all of them become pale.


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Where is the den of lions And the feeding place of young lions, Where the lion and the lioness walked, And the lion's whelp; and no one frightened them?


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The lion tore in pieces, enough for his whelps, And strangled for his lioness And filled his caves with torn prey And his dens with torn animals.


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Indeed I am against you, Declares Jehovah of hosts; And I will burn your chariots in smoke, And the sword will devour your young lions; And I will cut off your prey from the earth; And the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.


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The sound of the whip, And the sound of the rattling wheel; And the horse galloping, And the chariot jolting by,


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The horseman making the horse to rear up, And the sword flashing, And the spear glittering; And a multitude of the slain, And a mass of corpses, And no end to the bodies - They stumble among their bodies.


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This because of the multitude of harlotries Of the well-favored harlot, The mistress of sorceries, Who sells nations by her harlotries And families by her sorceries.


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Indeed I am against you, declares Jehovah of hosts; And I will throw open your skirts upon your face, And I will show the nations your nakedness, And the kingdoms your shame.


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And I will cast abominable filth upon you And make you appear foolish and make you like a spectacle.


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And everyone who sees you Will flee from you and say, Nineveh is laid waste. Who will lament for her? Where will I seek Some to comfort you?


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Are you better than No-amon, Who sat beside the canals With waters all around her, Whose bulwark was the sea And water was her wall?


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Cush was her strength, As well as Egypt, and it was without end; Put and the Libyans Were among her helpers.


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She too was carried away; She went into captivity; Her little ones too were dashed to pieces At the head of every street, And for her nobles They cast lots, And all her great men Were bound in chains.


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All your fortresses will be like fig trees With first ripe figs:If they are shaken, they will fall Into the mouth of the eater.


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Indeed your people are like women In the midst of you; Unto your enemies the gates of your land Are wide open; Fire devours your bars.


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Draw for yourself water for the siege! Strengthen your fortresses! Go into the clay, And tread in the mortar! Make the brick kiln ready!


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There will the fire devour you; The sword will cut you off; It will devour you like the locust. Enlarge yourself like the locust; Enlarge yourself like the locust swarm.


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You have multiplied your merchants Like the stars of heaven; The locust strips everything and flies away.


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Your princes are like the locust swarm, And your officials are like hordes of locusts, Which camp in the hedges On a cold day, But when the sun arises, they flee away, And the place where they are is unknown.


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Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; Your nobles sleep. Your people are scattered upon the mountains, And there is no one to gather them.


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There is no alleviating of your injury; Your wound is grievous. All who hear the report of you Clap their hands over you; For upon whom has your wickedness Not passed continually?


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How long, O Jehovah, shall I cry And You do not hear? I cry out to You, Violence! And You do not save.


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Why do You cause me to see iniquity And look upon wrong? Indeed destruction and violence are before me; And there is strife, and contention arises.


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Therefore the law is ineffective, And justice never goes forth; For the wicked encompasses the righteous, Therefore justice goes forth perverted.


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Look among the nations, and see, And be amazed, utterly amazed. For I am doing a work in your days Which you would not believe if it were told you.


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For I am about to raise up the Chaldeans, That bitter and hasty nation That marches through the breadth of the earth To possess habitations that are not theirs.


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And their horses are swifter than leopards And more agile than the wolves of evening. And their horsemen prance about; Indeed their horsemen come from afar; They fly like an eagle that hastens to devour.


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All of them come to do violence; The set of their faces is forward, And they gather captives like sand.


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Indeed they scoff at kings, And potentates are a derision to them; They deride every fortress, For they heap up dirt and take it.


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Then they will sweep through like the wind and pass over And thus become guilty; this - their strength - is their god.


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Are You not from everlasting, O Jehovah, My God, my Holy One? We will not die. O Jehovah, You have appointed them for judgment; And You, O Rock, have established them for correction.


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You who are of purer eyes than to behold evil And who cannot look upon wrong, Why do You look upon them who deal treacherously And keep silent when the wicked man swallows up him who is more righteous than he?


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And You make man like the fish of the sea, Like the creeping things, who have no one to rule for them.


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They take all of them up with a hook; They drag them off in their net And gather them into their seine; So they rejoice and exult.


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Therefore they offer sacrifices to their net And burn incense to their seine, For by them their portion is fat And their food is plenteous.


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I will stand at my watch And station myself on the fortress, And I will watch to see what He will speak to me And what I will reply concerning my complaint.


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Then Jehovah answered and said, Write the vision, and render it plainly upon tablets, That even he who runs by may read it.


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For the vision is yet for the appointed time, And it hastens toward the end and will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; For it will surely come; it will not delay.


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See, he who is puffed up, his soul is not upright within him, But the righteous one will live by his faith.


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Furthermore his wine is treacherous:A boasting man, he does not abide at home, He who enlarges his appetite like Sheol, And is like death and cannot be satisfied, But gathers to himself all the nations And collects for himself all the peoples.


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Will not all of these take up a parable against him, Indeed a mocking song and a riddle against him, and say, Woe to him who increases what is not his (For how long?) And who loads himself with the burden of pledges?


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Will not those who bite you rise up suddenly, And those who shake you awake, And you will become booty to them?


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Because you have plundered many nations; All the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, Because of the bloodshed of men and the violence done to the land, To the city, and to all the inhabitants in it.


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Woe to him who by violence takes evil gain for his house, So as to place his nest on high That he may be delivered from the hand of evil!


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You have devised shame against your own house By cutting off many peoples, And have sinned against your own soul.


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Indeed is it not of Jehovah of hosts That the peoples toil for the fire And the nations weary themselves for vanity?


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Woe to him who makes his neighbor drink, Adding in his poison, And also making him drunk In order to look at their nakedness!


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You are sated with shame, not glory. You also, drink and be shown to be uncircumcised! The cup of Jehovah's right hand will come around to you, And disgrace will be upon your glory.


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For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you, As well as the destruction of the beasts which frightened them, Because of the bloodshed of men and the violence done to the land, To the city, and to all the inhabitants in it.


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What profit is the graven idol that its maker should engrave it, Or the molten idol, even the teacher of lies, That he who forms its form depends on it To make dumb idols?


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Woe to him who says to wood, Awake! And, Arise! to silent stone. Will it teach him? Behold, it is set in gold and silver, And there is no breath at all within it.


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O Jehovah, I have heard the report concerning You and am afraid. O Jehovah, revive Your work In the midst of the years; In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember compassion.


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God comes from Teman, Even the Holy One from Mount Paran. His splendor covers the heavens, And the earth is filled with His praise.


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And His brightness is like the light:Rays come forth from His hand, And the hiding of His power is there.


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He stands and measures the earth; He looks and startles the nations; And the ancient mountains are shattered into dust, And the everlasting hills sink down; His goings are as of old.


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Is it against the rivers, O Jehovah, Against the rivers that Your anger is kindled? Is Your overflowing wrath against the sea That You ride upon Your horses, Upon Your chariots of salvation?


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Your bow is bared utterly; The rods of discipline are sworn according to Your word. You cleave the earth with rivers.


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The mountains see you; they writhe; The tempest of water passes by; The deep utters its voice, It lifts its hands high.


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The sun and the moon stand still in their high abode At the light of Your arrows going forth, At the brightness of Your glittering spear.


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You go forth for the salvation of Your people, For the salvation of Your anointed one, You strike the head from the house of the wicked one, Laying bare the foundation, even to the neck.


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You pierce, with his own staves, The heads of his warriors. They come out like a whirlwind to scatter me; Their exultation is as if to devour the poor in secret.


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I heard and my body trembled; My lips quivered at the sound. Rottenness entered my bones, And I tremble in my place, Because I must wait quietly for the day of distress, When he who attacks comes up against the people.


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For the fig tree will not sprout, And there will be no yield on the vines; The labor on the olive tree will fail, And the fields will make no food; The flock will be cut off from the fold, And there will be no herd in the stalls.


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Jehovah the Lord is my strength; And He makes my feet like hinds' feet And will cause me to walk on my high places. For the choir director, with my stringed instruments.


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The word of Jehovah that came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, the king of Judah.


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I will remove man and beast; I will remove the birds of heaven and the fish of the sea, And the stumbling blocks with the wicked; And I will cut off man From the face of the earth, Declares Jehovah.


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And I will stretch out My hand against Judah And against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, And I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, And the name of the idol priests with the priests,


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And those who worship upon the housetops The host of heaven, And the worshippers who swear to Jehovah And swear by Malcam,


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And those who have been turned back from going after Jehovah And have not sought Jehovah And have not inquired of Him.


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Be silent before the Lord Jehovah, For the day of Jehovah is near; For Jehovah has prepared a sacrifice; He has consecrated those whom He has called.


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And in the day of the sacrifice of Jehovah I will punish the princes And the sons of the king And all who wear The clothing of foreigners.


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And in that day I will punish All who leap over the threshold, Who fill their master's house With violence and deceit.


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And in that day, declares Jehovah, There will be the sound of an outcry from the Fish Gate And wailing from the second district And a great crashing from the hills.


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Wail, O inhabitants of Maktesh, For all the people of Canaan are destroyed, All who are laden with silver are cut off.


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And at that time I will search through Jerusalem with lamps, And I will punish the men Who have settled on their lees, Who say in their heart, Jehovah will not do good, Nor will He do evil.


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And their wealth will become plunder, And their houses, a desolation. Indeed they will build houses but not inhabit them, And they will plant vineyards but not drink the wine from them.


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The great day of Jehovah is near; It is near and hastens greatly. The sound of the day of Jehovah! The mighty man bitterly cries there.


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That day is a day of overflowing wrath, A day of trouble and distress, A day of waste and ruin, A day of darkness and gloom, A day of clouds and deep darkness,


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And I will bring distress upon the men, So that they walk about like the blind, For they have sinned against Jehovah; And their blood will be poured out like dust, And their bowels like dung.


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Neither their silver nor their gold Will be able to deliver them In the day of the overflowing wrath of Jehovah; But the whole land will be devoured by the fire of His jealousy, For He will make an end, nothing other than sudden destruction, Of all the


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Before the decree has effect, (The day passes like chaff) Before there comes upon you The burning anger of Jehovah, Before there comes upon you The day of Jehovah's anger.


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Seek Jehovah, All you meek of the earth, Who have performed His judgments. Seek righteousness; Seek meekness; Perhaps you will be hidden In the day of Jehovah's anger.


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For Gaza will be a forsaken city, And Ashkelon will become a desolation; As for Ashdod, they will drive it out at noontime, And Ekron will be rooted up.


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Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, O nation of Cherethites! The word of Jehovah is against you, O Canaan, O land of the Philistines:I will destroy you so that there will be no inhabitant.


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And the area will be For the remnant of the house of Judah; They will feed their flocks upon them. In the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down in the evening, For Jehovah their God will visit them And turn again their captivity.


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I have heard the reproaching of Moab And the revilings of the children of Ammon, By which they have reproached My people And magnified themselves against their border.


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Therefore as I live, Declares Jehovah of hosts, The God of Israel, Moab will surely be like Sodom, And the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, A possession of scrubs And salt pits And a perpetual desolation; The remnant of My people will spoil them, And the


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This will they have for their pride, for they reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts.


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Jehovah will be terrible to them, for He will make all the gods of the earth vanish, and all the coastlands of the nations will worship Him, each from his own place.


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And He will stretch out His hand against the north And will destroy Assyria, And will make Nineveh a desolation And a desert, like the wilderness.


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And herds will stretch out in the midst of her, And animals of every kind; Both the pelican and the porcupine Will lodge in her capitals. Their voice will sing in the windows; Desolation is upon the threshold; For He has laid the cedar work bare.


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This is the jubilant city That dwelt securely, That said in her heart, I am, And there is none besides me. How she has become a desolation, A place for animals to stretch out! Everyone who passes by her will hiss And wave his hand at her.


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She has not listened to the voice; She has not taken the correction. She has not trusted in Jehovah; She has not drawn near to her God.


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Her princes in the midst of her Are roaring lions. Her judges are wolves of the evening; They have left nothing until the morning.


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Her prophets are vainglorious; They are men of treachery. Her priests have defiled the sanctuary; They have done violence to the law.


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Jehovah is righteous in the midst of her; He does no wrong; Morning by morning He brings His justice to light; He does not fail; but he who is wrong knows no shame.


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I have cut off nations; Their battlements are desolated; I have made their streets a waste, So that no one passes through; Their cities are destroyed, So that there is no one, So that there is no inhabitant.


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I said, Only fear Me; Take the correction; That her habitation might not be cut off, According to all that I have appointed concerning her. But they rose up early to corrupt All their deeds.


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Therefore wait on Me, declares Jehovah, For the day when I rise up to the prey. For My decision is to assemble the nations, To gather kingdoms together, That I may pour out upon them My wrath, All My burning anger; For in the fire of My jealousy All the e


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For then I will change the language of the peoples Into a pure language That they may all call upon the name of Jehovah, To serve Him with one accord.


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From beyond the rivers of Cush my suppliants, The daughter of My dispersed, will bring My meal offering.


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In that day you will not be put to shame because of all your deeds, By which you have transgressed against Me; For then I will take away from your midst Those who exult in your majesty, And you will never again be haughty On My holy mountain.


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And I will leave in the midst of you An afflicted and poor people, And they will take refuge in the name of Jehovah.


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The remnant of Israel will not do wrong; And they will not speak lies, Nor will there be found in their mouth A deceitful tongue; For they will have pasture and lie down, And there will be no one to frighten them.


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Give a ringing shout, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem!


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Jehovah has taken away your judgments; He has turned aside your enemy. The King of Israel, Jehovah, is in the midst of you; You will not see evil again.


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Jehovah your God in the midst of you Is a mighty One who saves; He will be jubilant over you with rejoicing; He will rest in His love; He will exult over you with a ringing shout.


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I will gather those who mourn for the appointed assembly, Who were of you. The reproach was a burden upon them.


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Indeed at that time I will deal with all who afflict you; And I will save that which is lame, And that which has been driven away I will gather. And I will make them a praise and a name In every land where their shame had been.


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At that time I will bring you in, And at that time I will gather you; For I will cause you to be a name and a praise Among all the peoples of the earth, When I turn again your captivity before your eyes, Says Jehovah.


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In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of Jehovah came through Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah, and unto Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high pries


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people says, The time has not come, the time for the house of Jehovah to be built.


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You have sown much, but you bring in little; you eat, but there is no satisfaction; you drink, but there is no being filled with drink; you dress yourselves, but there is no warmth in doing so; and he who earns wages, earns wages to put them into a bag with


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Go up to the mountain and bring wood and build the house, and I will take pleasure in it and will be glorified, says Jehovah.


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You looked for much, and yet it amounted to little; and when you brought it home, I blew on it. Why? declares Jehovah of hosts. Because of My house that lies waste while you each run to your own house.


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Indeed I called for a drought upon the land and upon the mountains and upon the grain and upon the new wine and upon the fresh oil and upon that which the ground brings forth and upon man and upon beast and upon all the toil of the hands.


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And Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the remnant of the people listened to the voice of Jehovah their God and to the words of Haggai the prophet, as Jehovah their God had sent him; and the people we


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Then Haggai, Jehovah's messenger, spoke in Jehovah's message to the people, saying, I am with you, declares Jehovah.


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And Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of Jehova


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In the seventh month, on the twenty- first day of the month, the word of Jehovah came through Haggai the prophet, saying,


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Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,


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Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? And how do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes?


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Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares Jehovah; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land, declares Jehovah, and work; for I am with you, declares Jehovah of hosts.


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The word which I covenanted with you when you came forth from Egypt and My Spirit endure among you; do not fear.


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For thus says Jehovah of hosts, Yet once more - it is but a little while - I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land;


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And I will shake all the nations, and the Desire of all the nations will come; and I will fill this house with glory, says Jehovah of hosts.


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The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former, says Jehovah of hosts; and in this place I will give peace, declares Jehovah of hosts.


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In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of Jehovah came to Haggai the prophet, saying,


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If one carries holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt he touches bread or boiled food or wine or oil or any other food, will it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No.


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Then Haggai said, If one who is unclean because of a corpse touches any of these, will it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It will be unclean.


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Then Haggai answered and said, So is this people and so is this nation before Me, declares Jehovah, and so is all the work of their hands. Thus what they offer there is unclean.


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Before these days were, someone would come to a grain heap for twenty measures, and there would be only ten; someone would come to a vat to draw fifty troughfuls, and there would be only twenty.


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I struck you with blight and with mildew and with hail on all the work of your hands; but on your part, none turned to Me, declares Jehovah.


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Consider from this day and previously, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day when the foundation of the temple of Jehovah was laid; consider.


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Is there yet seed in the barn? Indeed even the vine and the fig tree and the pomegranate and the olive tree have not borne fruit; from this day I will bless you.


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And I will overthrow the throne of the kingdoms and will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; and I will overthrow the chariots and their riders, and the horses and their riders will go down, each by the sword of his brother.


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In that day, declares Jehovah of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, My servant, declares Jehovah, and make you as a signet; for I have chosen you, declares Jehovah of hosts.


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In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of Jehovah came to Zechariah the prophet, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,


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Therefore say to them, Thus says Jehovah of hosts, Return to Me, declares Jehovah of hosts, and I will return to you, says Jehovah of hosts.


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Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus says Jehovah of hosts, Turn from your evil ways and from your evil deeds; but they did not hear nor hearken to Me, declares Jehovah.


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But My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers, so that they returned and said, As Jehovah of hosts has thought to do with us, according to our ways and according to our deeds, so has He done w


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On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of Jehovah came to Zechariah the prophet, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,


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I saw during the night, and behold, a man was riding upon a red horse; and He was standing among the myrtle trees that were in the bottoms; and behind Him there were red, reddish-brown, and white horses.


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Then I said, What are these, sir? And the angel who spoke with me said to me, I will show you what these are.


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And the man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are those whom Jehovah has sent to go to and fro on the earth.


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And they answered the Angel of Jehovah, who was standing among the myrtle trees, and they said, We have gone to and fro on the earth, and indeed all the earth sits still and is quiet.


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Then the Angel of Jehovah answered and said, O Jehovah of hosts, how long will You not have compassion on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, with which You have been indignant for these seventy years?


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So the angel who spoke to me said to me, Cry out, saying, Thus says Jehovah of hosts:I am greatly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion;


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And I am extremely angry with the nations, who are at ease; for I was only a little angry, but their help increased the affliction.


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Therefore thus says Jehovah, I return to Jerusalem with compassions; My house will be built in it, declares Jehovah of hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem.


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Cry out again, saying, Thus says Jehovah of hosts, My cities will again overflow with good, and Jehovah will again comfort Zion and will again choose Jerusalem.


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And I said to the angel who spoke with me, What are these? And he said to me, These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.


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And I said, What do these come to do? And he spoke, saying, These are the horns that have so scattered Judah that no man lifts up his head, but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations who have lifted up the horn against the


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And I said, Where are you going? And He said to me, To measure Jerusalem; to see how great its breadth is and how great its length is.


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And he said to him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem will lie as an open region due to the multitude of men and cattle within it,


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Ho! Ho! Flee from the land of the north, declares Jehovah, for I have spread you out like the four winds of the heavens, declares Jehovah.


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For thus says Jehovah of hosts, After the glory He has sent Me against the nations who plunder you; for he who touches you touches the pupil of His eye.


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For I am now waving My hand over them, and they will be plunder for those who served them; and you will know that Jehovah of hosts has sent Me.


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Give a ringing shout and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for now I am coming, and I will dwell in your midst, declares Jehovah.


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And many nations will join themselves to Jehovah in that day and will become My people; and I will dwell in your midst, and you will know that Jehovah of hosts has sent Me to you.


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And Jehovah will inherit Judah as His portion upon the holy land, and He will again choose Jerusalem.


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Then He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of Jehovah and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.


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And Jehovah said to Satan, Jehovah rebuke you, Satan! Indeed, Jehovah, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?


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And He answered and spoke to those standing before Him, saying, Remove the filthy garments from him. Then He said to him, See, I hereby make your iniquity pass from you and clothe you with stately robes.


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And He said, Let them put a clean turban upon his head. And they put the clean turban upon his head and clothed him with garments while the Angel of Jehovah stood by.


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, If you will walk in My ways and if you will keep My charge, then you will both judge My house and keep My courts, and I will grant you to walk among these standing here.


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Hear then, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you - for they are men of symbol - for I am about to bring forth My Servant, the Shoot.


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For here is the stone that I have set before Joshua - upon one stone are seven eyes. I will engrave its engraving, declares Jehovah of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.


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In that day, declares Jehovah of hosts, each of you will invite his neighbor to come under the vine and under the fig tree.


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And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see that there is a lampstand all of gold, with its bowl on top of it and its seven lamps upon it, with seven pipes for each of the lamps on top of it;


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And the angel who spoke with me answered and said to me, Do you not know what these are? And I said, No, sir


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And he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of Jehovah to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says Jehovah of hosts.


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Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain, and he will bring forth the topstone with shouts of Grace, grace to it.


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The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will finish it; and you will know that Jehovah of hosts has sent Me to you.


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For who has despised the day of small things? For these seven rejoice when they see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel; they are the eyes of Jehovah running to and fro on the whole earth.


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Then I answered and said to him, What are these two olive trees on the right of the lampstand and on its left?


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And I answered a second time and said to him, What are the two olive branches that are by the side of the two golden spouts, which empty the gold from themselves?


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And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see a flying scroll, its length twenty cubits and its breadth ten cubits.


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Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of all the land; for everyone who steals will be purged according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears will be purged according to what is on the other side.


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I will cause it to go forth, declares Jehovah of hosts; and it will enter the house of him who steals and the house of him who swears falsely by My name; and it will lodge overnight within his house and consume it, both with its timbers and its stones.


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Then the angel who spoke with me went forth and said to me, Lift up now your eyes and see what this is that goes forth.


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And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah vessel that goes forth; and he said, This is their appearance in all the land;


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Then he said, This is Wickedness. And he threw her down into the midst of the ephah vessel and threw the lead weight over its opening.


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Then I lifted up my eyes and I looked, and there were two women going forth, and the wind was in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork. And they lifted up the ephah vessel between the earth and the heavens.


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And he said to me, To build a house for her in the land of Shinar; and when it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place.


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Then I lifted up my eyes again and I looked, and there were four chariots coming forth from between the two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of bronze.


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And with the third chariot were white horses, and with the fourth chariot were strong, speckled horses.


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And the angel answered and said to me, These are the four winds of heaven who go forth from presenting themselves to the Lord of the whole earth.


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With one of the winds the black horses went forth to the land of the north, and the white horses went forth after them, and the speckled horses went forth to the land of the south.


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And the strong horses went forth and sought to proceed to go to and fro on the earth. And He said, Proceed to go to and fro on the earth; and they went to and fro on the earth.


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Then He called out to me and spoke to me, saying, See, these who are going forth to the land of the north have given My Spirit rest in the land of the north.


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Take from them of the captivity, from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, and go the same day and enter the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have come from Babylon.


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Indeed, take the silver and gold, and make a splendid crown and put it upon the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest,


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And speak to him, saying, Thus speaks Jehovah of hosts, saying, Here is a man, whose name is the Shoot; and He will shoot forth from His place and will build the temple of Jehovah.


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Indeed, it is He who will build the temple of Jehovah; and He will bear majesty and will sit and rule on His throne; and He will be a priest on His throne; and the counsel of peace will be between the two of them.


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And the splendid crown will be as a reminder in the temple of Jehovah to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Hen the son of Zephaniah.


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And those who are far off will come and uild the temple of Jehovah, and you will know that Jehovah of hosts has sent Me to you. And it will happen, if you fully obey the voice of Jehovah your God.


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And in the fourth year of Darius the king the word of Jehovah came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month Chislev.


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Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to entreat the favor of Jehovah


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By speaking to the priests who belong to the house of Jehovah of hosts and to the prophets, saying, Shall I weep in the fifth month and separate myself, as I have done these many years?


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Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months, even for these seventy years, was it at all for Me that you fasted?


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Are not these the words which Jehovah proclaimed by the former prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous and had cities round about her, when the Negev and the lowlands were inhabited?


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Thus speaks Jehovah of hosts, saying, Judge with judgment of truth, and show lovingkindness and compassion each to his brother;


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And do not oppress the widow and the orphan, the stranger and the poor; and let none of you think evil in your hearts about his brother.


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And they set their hearts like flint so as not to hear the instruction and the words which Jehovah of hosts sent by His Spirit through the former prophets; therefore great wrath came from Jehovah of hosts.


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And as He called and they would not hear, so they called and I would not hear, says Jehovah of hosts;


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But with a storm I scattered them away upon all the nations, whom they did not know. Thus the land is desolate behind them, so that no one passes through it and no one returns to it; for they have made the desirable land desolate.


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy; indeed, I am jealous for her with great wrath.


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Thus says Jehovah, I return to Zion, and I will dwell within Jerusalem; and Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of Jehovah of hosts, the Holy Mountain.


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, Yet again old men and old women will dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, each with his staff in his hand due to the multitude of his days.


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, If it seems too wonderful in the sight of the remnant of this people in those days, will it also be too wonderful in My sight? declares Jehovah of hosts.


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, I am about to save My people from the land of the east and from the land of the going down of the sun.


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And I will bring them, and they will dwell within Jerusalem; and they will be My people and I will be their God in truth and in righteousness.


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, Let your hands be strong, you who in these days hear these words from the mouth of the prophets who were there in the day when the foundation of the house of Jehovah of hosts, that is, the temple, was laid so that it might be b


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For before those days a man's wages amounted to nothing, and an animal's wages were nothing; and for him who went out or came in there was no peace, because of the adversary; for I set all men each against his neighbor.


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But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as I was in the former days, declares Jehovah of hosts;


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For there will be peace for the seed:The vine will give forth its fruit, and the land will give forth its produce, and the heavens will give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.


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And just as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you will be a blessing. Do not fear; let your hands be strong.


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For thus says Jehovah of hosts, Just as I intended to do harm to you when your fathers provoked Me to anger, says Jehovah of hosts, and I did not repent,


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These are the things which you shall do:Each man speak truth to his neighbor; judge with truth and the judgment of peace in your gates;


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And let none of you think evil in your hearts about his neighbor; and do not love a false oath; for all these are the things I hate, declares Jehovah.


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth month and the fast of the seventh month and the fast of the tenth month will become joy and rejoicing and cheerful feasts to the house of Judah; therefore love truth and pe


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And the inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, Let us go at once to entreat the favor of Jehovah and to seek Jehovah of hosts; and the other:I will go too.


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Indeed, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Jehovah of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of Jehovah.


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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, In those days, from all the languages of the nations, ten men will take hold, indeed, they will take hold of the skirt of a Jewish man, saying, Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.


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The burden of the word of Jehovah against the land of Hadrach, And Damascus will be its resting place (For Jehovah has an eye on man, Especially on the tribes of Israel),


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For Tyre built herself a stronghold And heaped up silver like dust And gold like the mire of the streets.


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The Lord is about to take possession of her, And He will strike her might in the sea, And she will be consumed with fire.


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Ashkelon will see it and be afraid; Gaza also, and it will writhe much in anguish; And Ekron, for her expectation will have been confounded. And the king will perish from Gaza, And Ashkelon will not be inhabited.


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And I will remove his blood from his mouth And his detestable things from between his teeth; And he also will remain unto our God; And he will be like a leader in Judah, And Ekron will be like a Jebusite.


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And I will encamp around My house because of an army, Because of him who passes by and returns; And no oppressor will pass over them any more; For now I see with My eyes.


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Exult greatly, O daughter of Zion; Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Now your King comes to you. He is righteous and bears salvation, Lowly and riding upon a donkey, Even upon a colt, the foal of a donkey,


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And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim And the horse from Jerusalem, And the battle bow will be cut off; And He will speak peace unto the nations, And His dominion will be from sea to sea And from the River unto the ends of the earth.


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As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have released your captives from the pit, where there is no water.


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Turn to the stronghold, O prisoners with hope. This very day I am declaring that I will restore double to you.


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For I will bend Judah for Myself, And I will fill a bow with Ephraim; And I will stir up your sons, O Zion, Against your sons, O Javan; And I will make you like a warrior's sword.


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And Jehovah will appear above them, And His arrow will go forth like lightning; And the Lord Jehovah will blow the trumpet, And He will go in the whirlwinds of the south.


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Jehovah of hosts will defend them; And they will devour and trample the sling stones. And they will drink; they will be noisy as if with wine; And they will be filled like a sacrificial basin, Like the corners of the altar.


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And Jehovah their God will save them in that day as the flock of His people, For they will be like the stones of a crown, sparkling in His land.


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For how great is their goodness, and how great their beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, And new wine, the virgins.


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Ask rain of Jehovah At the time of spring rain, Of Jehovah who makes the lightning, And He will give them showers of rain, To everyone herbage in the field.


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For the teraphim have spoken vanity, And the diviners have seen a lie And have spoken false dreams; They comforted in vain. Therefore the people have wandered like sheep; They are afflicted because there is no shepherd.


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My anger is kindled against the shepherds, And I will punish the male goats; For Jehovah of hosts has visited His flock, the house of Judah, And will make them like His horse of majesty in battle.


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From him will come forth the cornerstone, from him the peg, From him the battle bow, From him every ruler together.


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And they will be as mighty men trampling their enemies In the mire of the streets in the battle; And they will fight, for Jehovah is with them; And the riders of horses will be put to shame.


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And I will strengthen the house of Judah, And I will save the house of Joseph; And I will bring them back, for I have had compassion on them; And they will be as though I had not rejected them; For I am Jehovah their God, and I will answer them.


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And they of Ephraim will be like a mighty man, And their hearts will rejoice as if with wine; Indeed, their children will see it and rejoice; Their heart will exult in Jehovah.


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I will whistle for them and gather them, for I have redeemed them; And they will multiply as they have multiplied.


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And I will sow them among the peoples; and in distant lands they will remember Me; And they will live with their children and return.


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I will also bring them back from the land of Egypt And gather them out of Assyria; And to the land of Gilead and Lebanon I will bring them; And there will not be enough room found for them.


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And He will pass through the sea of distress And strike the waves in the sea, And all the depths of the Nile will dry up; And the pride of Assyria will be brought down, And the scepter of Egypt will depart.


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Howl, O fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, Because the majestic trees are devastated. Howl, O oaks of Bashan, For the impenetrable forest is brought down.


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The sound of the howling of shepherds! For their majesty is devastated. The sound of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of Jordan is devastated.


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Whose owners slaughter them and are not punished; and they who sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich; and their own shepherds do not spare them.


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For I will no longer spare the inhabitants of the land, declares Jehovah; but I am about to cause each man to fall into his neighbor's hand and into the hand of his king; and they will strike the land, and I will not deliver them from their hand.


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So I shepherded the flock of slaughter, and thereby the afflicted of the flock. And I took to myself two staffs; one I called Favor, and the other I called Bonds; and I shepherded the flock.


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Then I destroyed the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also detested me.


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Then I said, I will not shepherd you. What is to die will die, and what is to be destroyed will be destroyed, and those who are left will each eat one another's flesh.


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And I took my staff, Favor, and I broke it in pieces so as to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.


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And it was broken in that day; and thus the afflicted of the flock, who watched me, knew that it was the word of Jehovah.


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And I said to them, If it is good in your sight, give me my wages; but if not, do not bother. So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.


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And Jehovah said to me, Throw it to the potter, that magnificent price that I am priced with by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter, into the house of Jehovah.


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Then I broke my second staff, Bonds, in pieces, so as to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.


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For I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not visit those who are perishing, nor seek the scattered, nor heal what is broken, nor sustain what stands, but will devour the flesh of the fat ones and tear off their hooves.


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Woe to the worthless shepherd, Who abandons the flock! The sword will fall on his arm And on his right eye. His arm will be utterly withered, And his right eye will be totally darkened.


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The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Thus declares Jehovah, who stretches forth the heavens and lays the foundations of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him,


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I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples; and when what happens in siege is upon Jerusalem, it will be upon Judah as well.


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And in that day I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone to all the peoples; all who burden themselves with her will be cut up. Indeed all the nations of the earth will be gathered against her.


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In that day, declares Jehovah, I will strike every horse with bewilderment and its rider with madness; and I will open My eyes upon the house of Judah and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.


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Then the leaders of Judah will say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem, by Jehovah of hosts their God, are my strength.


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In that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a fire pot on wood and like a torch of fire among sheaves, and they will consume all the surrounding peoples on the right and on the left. And Jerusalem will dwell again in her own place, in Jerusalem.


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And Jehovah will save the tents of Judah first, so that the beauty of the house of David and the beauty of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be magnified above Judah.


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In that day Jehovah will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he who is feeble among them in that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the Angel of Jehovah before them.


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And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplications; and they will look upon Me, whom they have pierced; and they will wail over Him with wailing as for an only son and cry bitterly over H


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In that day there will be great wailing in Jerusalem, like the wailing of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon.


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And the land will wail, every family by itself:the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;


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The family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves;


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In that day there will be an opened fountain for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity.


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And in that day, declares Jehovah of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass from the land.


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And if anyone still prophesies, his father and mother, who begot him, will say to him, You shall not live, for you have spoken falsely in the name of Jehovah; and his father and mother, who begot him, will pierce him through when he prophesies.


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And in that day the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; and they will not wear a hairy garment in order to deceive.


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And someone will say to Him, What are these wounds between Your arms? And He will say, Those with which I was wounded in the house of those who love Me.


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Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, And against the man who is My Fellow, Declares Jehovah of hosts. Strike the Shepherd, That the sheep may be scattered; And I will turn My hand upon the little ones.


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And in all the land, declares Jehovah, Two parts in it will be cut off and will die, But the third part will be left in it.


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And I will bring the third part through fire And refine them as silver is refined And try them as gold is tried. They will call on My name, And I will answer them; I will say, They are My people, And they will say, Jehovah is my God.


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For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be captured, and the houses plundered, and the women ravished; and half of the city will go forth into captivity, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city


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And His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split at its middle toward the east and toward the west into a very great valley, so that half of the mountain will remove t


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And you will flee into the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach unto Azel; yes, you will flee, just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah the king of Judah. And Jehovah my God will come, and all the saints w


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For it will be a kind of day known only to Jehovah, neither day nor night; but at evening time there will be light.


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And in that day living waters will go forth from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea and half of them toward the western sea; it will be there in summer and in winter.


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And Jehovah will be King over all the earth; and in that day Jehovah will be the one God and His name the one name.


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All the land will be changed into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem will be raised and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin's Gate to the place of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's


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And this will be the plague with which Jehovah will strike all the peoples who have fought against Jerusalem:Their flesh will rot while they are standing on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth.


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And in that day a great panic from Jehovah will be among them; and each will seize his neighbor's hand, and his hand will rise up against his neighbor's hand.


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And Judah will also fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together, gold and silver and garments, in great abundance.


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And as this plague is, so will the plague be on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey, and all the cattle that are in those camps.


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And everyone left from all the nations that went forth against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.


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And whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, upon them there will be no rain.


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And if the family of Egypt does not go up and enter, there will be no rain upon them; there will be the plague with which Jehovah strikes the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.


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This will be the sin of Egypt and the sin of all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.


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In that day on the horses' bells will be, Holiness to Jehovah; and the pots in the house of Jehovah will be like the basins before the altar.


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Indeed every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holiness to Jehovah of hosts; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them; and there will never again be a Canaanite in the house of Jehovah of hosts in that day.


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I have loved you, says Jehovah; but you say, How have You loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother, declares Jehovah? Yet I loved Jacob;


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But Esau I hated, and I made his mountains a desolation, and gave his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.


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Though Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build up the waste places; thus says Jehovah of hosts, They will build up, but I will throw down; and they will be called the territory of wickedness and the people with whom Jehovah is indignan


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And your eyes will see it, and you yourselves will say, Jehovah is magnified over the territory of Israel.


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A son honors his father, and a servant his lord. Therefore if I am a Father, where is My honor? And if I am the Lord, where is My fear? says Jehovah of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, How have we despised Your name?


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You offer defiled food upon My altar. And you say, How have we defiled You? In that you say, The table of Jehovah is despicable.


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And when you offer what is blind as a sacrifice, is it not evil? And when you offer what is lame and sick, is it not evil? Present it, if you will, to your governor. Will he be pleased with you or accept your person? says Jehovah of hosts.


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And now, if you will, entreat the favor of God, that He may be gracious to us. This is what is from your hand. Will He accept any of your persons? says Jehovah of hosts.


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Oh, that there were even someone among you who would shut the doors so that you would not kindle fire on My altar in vain! I have no delight in you, says Jehovah of hosts; and I am not pleased with the sacrifice from your hand.


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For from the rising of the sun even unto its setting My name will be great among the nations. And in every place incense will be offered to My name as well as a pure sacrifice, for My name will be great among the nations, says Jehovah of hosts.


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But you profane it by saying, The table of the Lord is defiled, and the produce on it, its food, is despicable.


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And you say, Ah, how tiresome it is! and sniff at it in contempt, says Jehovah of hosts. Then you bring what has been stolen and what is lame and what is sick, and you offer it as a sacrifice. Should I be pleased with what comes from your hand? says Jehov


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Rather, cursed be the deceiver who has in his flock a male, and when he makes a vow, he offers what is blemished to the Lord; for I am a great King, says Jehovah of hosts, and My name is feared among the nations.


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If you will not hear and take it to heart to give glory to My name, says Jehovah of hosts, I will send the curse among you, and I will curse your blessings; indeed I have cursed them already because you have not taken it to heart.


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I will rebuke your seed and spread dung upon your faces, the dung of your feasts; and they will take you away with it.


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And you will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that My covenant may remain with Levi, says Jehovah of hosts.


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My covenant was with him as life and peace; and I gave these to him that he might fear; and he did fear Me, and he did stand in awe of My name.


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The law of truth was in his mouth, and no wrong was found in his lips; in peace and uprightness he walked with Me, and he turned many away from iniquity.


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For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and men should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the mes- senger of Jehovah of hosts.


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But you have turned away from the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says Jehovah of hosts.


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Therefore I also have made you despicable and base before all the people to the same extent that you have not kept My ways but have been respecters of persons in the law.


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Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why are we treacherous, each one to his brother, thus profaning the covenant of our fathers?


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Judah has been treacherous, and an abomination has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of Jehovah, which He loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.


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As regards the man who does this, Jehovah will cut off from the tents of Jacob him who wakes and him who answers and him who offers a sacrifice to Jehovah of hosts.


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And this second thing you do:You cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping and sighing, so that He no longer regards the sacrifice or receives it with pleasure from your hand.


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Yet you say, For what reason? Because Jehovah has been the witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been treacherous; yet she is your companion and your wife of covenant.


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But did He not make them one? And the remnant of the Spirit was His. And why the one? He sought the seed of God. Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one be treacherous to the wife of his youth.


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For I hate divorce, says Jehovah the God of Israel; and he who does it behaves in violence, says Jehovah of hosts. Take heed then to your spirit, and do not be treacherous.


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You have wearied Jehovah with your words; but you say, How have we wearied Him? By saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and He delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?


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I am about to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me; and suddenly the Lord, whom you seek, will come to His temple. And the Angel of the covenant, whom you desire, He will come, says Jehovah of hosts.


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And who will endure the day of His coming? And who will stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.


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And He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and purge them like gold and like silver, and they will offer to Jehovah a sacrifice in righteousness.


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And the sacrifice of Judah and of Jerusalem will be pleasing to Jehovah, as in the days of old and as in the former years.


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And I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely and against those who oppress the hired worker for his hire, and the widow and the orphan, and tho


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From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you, says Jehovah of hosts. but you say, How shall we return?


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Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me. But you say, How have we robbed You? In tithes and offerings.


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Bring the whole tithe to the storehouse that there may be food in My house; and prove Me, if you will, by this, says Jehovah of hosts, whether I will open to you the windows of heaven and pour out blessing for you until there is no room for it.


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And I will rebuke the devourer for your sake, and for your sake he will not destroy the fruit of the ground; and for your sake the vine will not lose its fruit in the field, says Jehovah of hosts.


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And all the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says Jehovah of hosts.


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Your words have been strongly against Me, says Jehovah; but you say, What have we spoken against You?


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You say, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge and have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?


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And now we call the arrogant blessed; not only have those who act wickedly been built up, but they also try God and escape.


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Then those who feared Jehovah spoke to one another, each with his neighbor. And Jehovah gave heed and listened, and a book of remembrance was written before Him of those who feared Jehovah and considered His name.


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And they will be Mine, says Jehovah of hosts, a personal treasure, in the day that I prepare; and I will spare them, as a man spares his son who serves him.


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And you will return and discern between him who is righteous and him who is wicked, between him who serves God and him who does not serve Him.


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For indeed the day comes, burning like a furnace, and all the proud ones and all the ones who act wickedly will be stubble; and the coming day will set them ablaze, says Jehovah of hosts, so that it will not leave them root or branch.


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But unto you who fear My name will the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in His wings, and you will go forth and leap about like well-fed calves.


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And you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I prepare, says Jehovah of hosts.


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Remember the law of Moses My servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, that is, the statutes and the ordinances.


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And he will turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a curse.


