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<n>(6:8)</n> All the presidents of the kingdom, the superintendents, and the lieutenants, the counsellors, and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm prohibition, that whosoever will ask any thing by prayer of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.


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<n>(6:9)</n> Now, O king, establish the prohibition, and sign the writing, that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which is not to be repealed.


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<n>(6:11)</n> Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went up unto his house, where he had open windows in his upper chamber in the direction of Jerusalem; and three times every day he kneeled upon his knees, and prayed, and offered thanks before his God, as he had been doing before that time.


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<n>(6:12)</n> Then came in these men tumultuously, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.


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<n>(6:13)</n> Then came they near, and spoke before the king concerning the kings prohibition, Hast thou not signed a prohibition, that every man that will pray <i>for aught</i> of any God or man, within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is certainly so, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot he repealed.


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<n>(6:14)</n> Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, who is of the children of the exiles of Judah, hath paid no regard to thee, O king, nor to the prohibition which thou hast signed; but three times every day he offereth up his prayer.


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<n>(6:15)</n> Then the king, when he heard this matter, felt very much distressed within himself, and on account of Daniel he sought an excuse to deliver him; and till the going down of the sun he strove hard to rescue him.


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<n>(6:16)</n> Then came these men tumultuously unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that it is the law of the Medes and Persians. That every prohibition and statute which the king hath established is not to be changed.


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<n>(6:17)</n> Then gave the king the order, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king commenced and said unto Daniel, May thy God whom thou worshippest continually, truly deliver thee.


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<n>(6:18)</n> And a stone was brought, and placed upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signetring, and with the signetring of his lords, that nothing should be changed in the purpose concerning Daniel.


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<n>(6:19)</n> Then went the king to his palace, and passed the night fasting: and no food was brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.


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<n>(6:20)</n> Then arose the king by the morningdawn, as soon as it was light, and went in great haste unto the den of lions.


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<n>(6:21)</n> And when he came near to the den, he cried with a mournful voice unto Daniel: the king commenced and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, hath thy God, whom thou worshippest continually, been able to deliver thee from the lions!


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<n>(6:23)</n> My God sent his angel, and locked up the mouths of the lions, and they have not hurt me; forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, had I done nothing injurious.


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<n>(6:24)</n> Then was the king exceedingly glad within himself, and concerning Daniel he ordered to bring him up out of the den. So was Daniel brought up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he had trusted in his God.


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<n>(6:25)</n> And the king gave the order, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel treacherously, and they cast into the den of lions them, their children, and their wives; and they had not yet touched the bottom of the den when the lions had the mastery over them, and ground up all their bones.


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<n>(6:26)</n> Then wrote king Darius unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell on all the earth, May your welfare increase.


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<n>(6:27)</n> From me is it decreed, That in all the dominion of my kingdom men shall tremble and have fear before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God, and endureth for ever, and it is his kingdom which will not be destroyed, and his dominion will be unto the end <i>of things</i>.


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<n>(6:28)</n> He delivereth and rescueth, and he displayeth sings and wonders in heaven and on earth, he who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.


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<n>(6:29)</n> So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.


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In the first year of Belshazzar the king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and the visions of his head while on his couch: afterward he wrote down the dream, relating the principal things.


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Daniel commenced and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of heaven blew fiercely on the great sea.


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the first was like a lion, and had eagles wings: I looked till its wings were plucked out, and it was lifted up from the earth, and was placed upon its feet as a man, and a human heart was given to it.


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And behold there was another, a second beast, like a bear, and on one side was it placed, with three ribs in its mouth between its teeth: and thus they said unto it, Arise, eat much flesh.


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After this I looked, and lo there was another, like a leopard; and it had four wings of a bird on its back: the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given unto it.


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After this I looked in the night visions, and behold there was a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and ground up, and what was left it stamped with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.


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I looked carefully at the horns, and, behold, another little horn came up between them, and three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots before the same; and, behold, there were eyes like the eyes of man in this horn, with a mouth speaking presumptuous things.


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I was looking until chairs were set down, and an Ancient of days seated himself, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of whose head was like clean wool; his chair was like flames of fire, and his wheels like fire that burnt;


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A stream of fire issued and came forth from before him; thousand times thousands ministered unto him, and myriad times myriads stood before him: they sat down to hold judgment, and the books were opened.


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I looked then, because of the sound of the presumptuous words which the horn had spoken,I looked till the beast was slain, and its body destroyed, and given over to the burning fire.


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But concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet a longer duration of life was given unto them until the time and period.


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I looked in the nightly visions, and, behold, with the clouds of heaven came one like a son of man, and he attained as far as the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.


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And there were given him dominion, and dignity, and government, and all people, nations, and languages had to serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom is one which shall never be destroyed.


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My spirit was deeply shaken within me, Daniel, in the midst of its tenement, and the visions of my head troubled me.


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I came near unto one of those that stood by, and asked him something certain concerning all this: and he spoke to me, and made known unto me the interpretation of the things.


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But the saints of the Most High will obtain the kingdom, and possess the kingdom to eternity, even to all eternity for ever.


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Then I desired what is certain concerning the fourth beast, which was different from all these others, exceedingly dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and whose nails of copper; which devoured, ground up, and stamped with its feet what was left;


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


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Until the Ancient of days came, and procured justice unto the saints of the Most High; and the time came and the saints took possession of the kingdom.


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Thus said he, The fourth beast <i>signifieth that</i> a fourth kingdom will be upon earth, which is to be different from all kingdoms, and will devour all the earth, and will tread it down, and grind it up.


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And the ten horns out of this kingdom <i>signify</i> that ten kings will arise; and another will rise after them, and he will be different from the first, and three kings will he bring low.


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And he will speak words against the Most High, and the saints of the Most High will he oppress, and think to change the festivals and the law: and they will be given up into his hand until a time and times and half a time.


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But they will sit down to hold judgment, and they will take away his dominion, to destroy and to annihilate it unto the end.


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And the kingdom and the dominion, and the power over the kingdoms under the whole heaven, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all governments are to worship and obey him.


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Thus far is the end of the speech. As for me Daniel, my reflections troubled me greatly, and my color was changed on me; but I kept the speech in my heart.


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In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, to me Daniel, after that which had appeared unto me at the first.


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And I saw in the visionand it came to pass, in my seeing, that I was at Shushan the capital, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in the vision, as though I was by the river Ulai.


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And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, there was a ram standing before the river, and he had two horns; and the 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 butting westward, and northward, and southward; so that all the beasts could not stand before him, and no one was there to deliver out of his hand: and he did according to his will, and became great.


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And as I was looking attentively, behold, there came a shaggy, hegoat from the west over the face of the whole earth, without touching the ground; and the goat had a sightly large horn between his eyes.


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And he came as far as the ram that had two horns, that I had seen standing before the river, and ran at him with his furious power.


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And I saw him coming close unto the ram, and he became bitterly enraged against him, and he struck the ram, and broke his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand forward before him: and he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him; and there was no one to deliver the ram out of his hand.


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And the shaggy hegoat became very great: but when he was grown strong, the great horn was broken; and there came up four slightly large ones in its place toward the four winds of heaven.


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And out of them came forth a little horn, which became exceedingly great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the glorious land.


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And it became great, even up to the host of the heavens; and it cast down to the ground some of the host and of the stars, and trod them under foot.


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Yea, it magnified itself even up to the prince of the host, and by it the continual sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.


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And the host is given up together with the continual sacrifice, by reason of transgression: and it casteth down the truth to the ground, and it doth <i>this</i>, and is prosperous.


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Then did I hear a certain holy one speaking, and a holy one said unto the unknown one who was speaking, For how long is the vision concerning the continual sacrifice, and the wasting transgression, to give up both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?


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And he said unto me, Until two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings, when the sanctuary shall be justified.


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And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, saw the vision, and sought for understanding, that, behold, there was standing opposite to me something like the appearance of a man.


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And I heard the voice of a man between <i>the banks of</i> the Ulai, and it called, and said, Gabriel, cause this one to understand this appearance.


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So he came close to where I stood: and when he came, I was terrified, and I fell upon my face; but he said unto me, Mark it well, O son of man; because for the time of the end is the vision.


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Now as he was speaking with me, I fell down in amazement on my face to the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright where I had been standing.


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And he said, Behold, I will make known unto thee what is to be at the last end of the indignation; for it is for the appointed time of the end.


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The ram that thou hast seen, him with the two horns, <i>signifieth</i> the kings of Media and Persia.


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And the shaggy hegoat is the king of Javan; and the great horn which is between his eyes is the first king.


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But that it was broken, and that four sprung up in its stead, <i>signifieth that</i> four kingdoms will spring up out of the nation, but not with his power.


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And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have filled their measure of guilt, there will arise a king of an impudent face, and understanding deep schemes.


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And his power will be mighty, but not by his own power; and he will destroy wonderfully, and will prosper while he doth <i>this</i>; and he will destroy very many and the people of the saints.


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And through his intelligence, and because he prospereth, is craftiness in his hand; and in his heart will he magnify himself, and in peace will he destroy many: he will also stand up against the Prince of princes; but without a human hand will he be broken.


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And the appearance of the evening and the morning which was spoken of is true: but do thou keep the vision closed up;


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And I Daniel grieved, and was sick several days; afterward I rose up, and did the kings business; and I was depressed because of the appearance; but no one observed it.


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In the first year of Darius the son of Achashverosh, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,


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In the first year of his reign, I Daniel searched in the books for understanding concerning the number of the years whereof the word of the Lord had come to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would let pass full seventy years over the ruins of Jerusalem.


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And I directed my face unto the Lord God, to ask by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and in sackcloth, and ashes.


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And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and terrible God, who keepeth the covenant and kindness to those that love him, and to those that keep his commandments:


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We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, and have departed from thy commandments and from thy ordinances;


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Nor have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, who spoke in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.


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Thine, O Lord, is the righteousness, but unto us belongeth the shame of face, as it is this day,to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, those that are near, and those that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass which they have trespassed against thee.


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O Lord, to us belongeth the shame of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers; because we have sinned against thee.


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And we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us through means of his servants the prophets.


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Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have departed so as not to obey thy voice: therefore was poured out over us the curse, with the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God; because we had sinned against him.


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And he hath accomplished his words, which he had spoken concerning us, and concerning our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil, which was never done under the whole heaven as it hath been done in Jerusalem.


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As it is written in the law of Moses; all this evil came over us: yet offered we not any entreaty before the Lord our God, to return from our iniquities, and to become intelligent in thy truth.


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Therefore did the Lord watch over the evil, and he brought it upon us; for the Lord our God is righteous because of all his deeds which he hath done; but we have not obeyed his voice.


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And now, O Lord our God, who hast brought forth thy people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and hast made thyself a <i>great</i> name, as it is this day: we have sinned, we have done wickedly.


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O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thy anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; because through our sins, and through the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all who are round about us.


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And now listen, O our God, to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary which is desolate, for the sake of the Lord.


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Incline, O my God, thy ear, and hear; open thy eyes, and look on our desolations, and the city whereupon thy name is called: for not <i>relying</i> on our acts of righteousness do we present humbly our supplications before thee, but <i>relying</i> on thy great mercies.


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O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do it; delay it not; for thy own sake, O my God; for thy name is called upon thy city and upon thy people.


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And while I was yet speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication humbly before the Lord my God because of the holy mountain of my God:


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Yea, while I was yet speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, came, flying swiftly, near me about the time of the evening oblation.


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And he gave me understanding, and spoke with me, and said, O Daniel, now am I come forth to make thee intelligent with understanding.


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At the beginning of thy supplications the word went forth, and I am come to tell it; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and have understanding of the appearance.


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Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to close up the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to atone for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy thing.


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Know therefore and comprehend, that from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the anointed the prince will be seven weeks: and during sixty and two weeks will it be again built with streets and ditches <i>around it</i>, even in the pressure of the times.


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And after the sixty and two weeks will an anointed one be cut off without a successor to follow him: and the city and the sanctuary will the people of the prince that is coming destroy; but his end will come in a violent overthrow; but until the end of the war devastations are decreed <i>against it</i>.


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And he will make a strong covenant with the many for one week; and in the half of the week will he cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and this because of the prevalence of the abominations which bringeth devastation, and until destruction and what is decreed shall be poured out upon the waster.


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In the third year of Cyrus the king of Persia a word was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the word is the truth, but the time appointed is long off: and he noted the word, and took notice of it in the appearance.


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Costly food did I not eat, and flesh and wine came not in my mouth, nor did I at all anoint myself, till three whole weeks were elapsed.


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And on the four and twentieth day of the first month, while I was by the side of the great river, which is Chiddekel,


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


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And his body was also like the chrysolite, and his face, like the appearance of lightning, and his eyes were like torches of fire, and his arms and his feet, like the color of polished copper, and the sound of his words was like the noise of a multitude.


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And I Daniel saw alone this appearance; but the men that were with me did not see the appearance: nevertheless a great terror fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.


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And I was left by myself alone, and I saw this great appearance, and there remained no strength in me; and my healthy color was changed on me into corruption, and I retained no strength.


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Then heard I the sound of his words; and as I heard the sound of his words, I sank in amazement on my face, with my face toward the ground.


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And he said unto me, O Daniel, the man greatly beloved, mark well the words that I speak unto thee, and stand on thy standingplace; for now have I been sent unto thee. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood up trembling.


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And he said unto me, Fear not, Daniel; for from the first day that thou didst set thy heart to obtain understanding, and to fast before thy God, were thy words heard: and I am come in consequence of thy words.


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But the prince of the kingdom of Persia stood up against me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I obtained the victory there with the kings of Persia.


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Now am I come to make thee understand what is to befall thy people, in the latter days; for the vision is yet for the <i>coming</i> days.


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And, behold, something like the form of the sons of men touched my lips; and I opened my mouth, and I spoke, and said unto him that stood opposite to me, O my lord, because of the appearance my pains suddenly overcame me, and I have retained no strength.


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And how shall the servant of this my lord be able to speak with this my lord? And as for me, from that moment there remained no strength in me, and no breath was left in me.


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And he said, Fear not, O man greatly beloved: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he spoke with me, I felt myself strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.


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Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I am come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia; and as I am going forth, lo, the prince of Javan is coming.


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Nevertheless will I tell thee what is noted down in the writing of truth:and there is none that holdeth with me <i>to assist me</i> against those, except Michael your prince.


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And now will I tell thee the truth. Behold, there will stand up yet three kings of Persia: and the fourth will obtain far greater riches than all <i>these</i>: and when he is strong through his riches will he stir up all, <i>namely,</i> the kingdom of Javan.


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And then will stand up a mighty king, who will rule with great dominion, and do according to his pleasure.


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And when he shall have stood, his kingdom will be broken, and will be divided toward the four winds of the heavens, and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled; for his kingdom will be torn asunder even for others beside those.


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And the king of the south will become strong, yea, he who is one of his princes; but <i>another</i> will become strong against him, and will rule: a great dominion will his dominion be.


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But at the end of <i>some</i> years will they associate themselves together; and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make a settlement of difficulties; but she will not retain the power of the support; neither will he stand, nor his support: but she will be given up with those that had brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in those times.


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But there will up a sprout of her roots in his place, and he will come to the army, and will enter into the stronghold of the king of the north, and will deal with them, and prevail:


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


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But this one will then enter the kingdom of the king of the south, and then return into his own land.


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But his sons will commence a war, and assemble a multitude of great armies; and one will certainly enter, and overflow, and pass along: then will he return, and make war again, even to his stronghold.


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And the king of the south will be moved with bitter wrath, and go forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he will set forth a great multitude; but the multitude <i>of the other</i> will be given up into his hand.


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And the multitude will be lifted up, and his heart will become proud; and he will cast down myriads; but he will not be strengthened by it.


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And the king of the north will return, and set forth a multitude greater than the former; and at the end of the times, of years, will he certainly come with a great army and with much riches.


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And in those times many will stand up against the king of the south: also the rebellious sons of thy people will lift themselves up to establish the vision; but they will stumble.


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And the king of the north will come, and cast up a mound, and capture the city defended by fortifications: and the arms of the south will not withstand, and as regardeth his chosen people, there will be no power <i>in them</i> to withstand.


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But he that cometh against them will do according to his pleasure, and none will stand before him; and he will place himself in the glorious land, which will be altogether in his hand.


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He will also direct his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, having professions of peace with him; and thus will he do it: and he will give him the daughter of his wife to destroy it: but it will not stand, and it will not remain his.


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And he will direct his face unto the isles, and capture many; but a chieftain will cause to cease his reproach against him: without his giving back to him his own reproach.


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Then will he direct his face toward the strongholds of his own land; but he will stumble and fall, and will no more be found.


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And there will stand up in his place one who will cause the exactor <i>of taxes</i> to pass through the glorious <i>land</i> of the kingdom; but within a few days will he be broken, but not in anger, nor in battle.


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And there will stand up in his place a despicable person, to whom they assigned not the honor of the kingdom; but he will come in quietly, and lay hold of the kingdom by flatteries.


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And the powers of the overflow will be swept away from before him, and will be broken: yea, so also the prince in covenant <i>with him</i>.


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And from the time of his associating with him will he deal deceitfully; and he will come up, and obtain the victory with a small number of people.


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In quiet and into the fattest portion of the province will he enter; and he will do what his fathers have not done, nor his fathers fathers: the prey, and spoil, and riches will he divide freely to them, and against the strongholds will he devise his plans, but only till a certain time.


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And he will then stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army: and the king of the south will prepare himself for the war with an exceedingly great and mighty army; but he will not stand; for they will devise <i>evil</i> plans against him.


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Yea, they that eat of his food will bring his downfall, and the army of the other will overflow; and many will fall down slain.


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And as for both these kings, their heart is bent on mischief, and at one table will they speak lies; but it shall not prosper; for the end is yet for the time appointed.


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Then will he return into his land with great riches, and his heart will be against the holy covenant: and he will do it, and return to his own land.


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At the time appointed will he return, and enter into the south; but not as in the former will it be in the latter time.


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For there will come against him the ships of Kittim; and he will become fainthearted, and return, and will rage against the holy covenant; and he will do it: and he will return, and have an understanding with those that forsake the holy covenant.


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And the army divisions will proceed from him, and they will defile the sanctuary, the fortress, and remove the continual sacrifice, and they will set up the desolating abomination.


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And such as act wickedly against the covenant will he corrupt by flatteries; but the people that do know their God will be strong, and deal <i>valiantly</i>.


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And the intelligent among the people will impart understanding to many: yet they will stumble through the sword, and through flame, through captivity, and through being plundered for some time.


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But in their stumbling will they be aided with a little help: but many will join themselves to them with deceptive flatteries.


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And some of the intelligent will stumble, to make a purification among them, and to select and to cleanse them, until the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.


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And the king will do according to his pleasure; and he will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and against the God of gods will he speak incredible things, and he will prosper till the indignation be at an end; for that which is determined will be accomplished.


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And to the gods of his fathers will he pay no regard; and to the desire of women, or to any god whatever will he not pay any regard; for above all will he magnify himself.


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But in his place he will pay honor to the god of the fortresses; and to a god whom his fathers knew not will he pay honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and costly things.


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This will he do for the very strong fortresses together with the strange god: whoever will acknowledge him, him will he give much honor; and he will cause such to rule over many, and he will divide out the land for a price.


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And at the time of the end will the king of the south push against him; and the king of the north will come against him like a stormwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he will enter into some countries, and will overflow and press along.


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And he will enter into the glorious land, and much will be overthrown; but these will escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the first portion of the children of Ammon.


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And he will have control over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the costly things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians will follow at his steps.


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But reports out of the east and out of the north will terrify him; and he will go forth with great fury to destroy, and to exterminate many.


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And he will pitch the tents of his palace between seas and the glorious holy mountain; and he will come to his end, without one to help him.


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And at that time will Michael, the great prince who standeth for the children of thy people, stand forth; and there will be a time of distress, such as hath never been since the existence of any nation, until that same time; and at that time shall thy people be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.


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And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to disgrace and everlasting abhorrence.


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And the intelligent shall shine brilliantly like the brilliance of the expanse <i>of the sky</i>; and they that bring many to righteousness shall be like the stars, for ever and ever.


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But thou, O Daniel, close up the words, and seal the book, until the time of the end: many will roam about, yet shall knowledge be increased.


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


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And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?


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Then heard I the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream; and he lifted up his right hand and his left hand unto the heavens, and swore by the Everliving One that after a time, times, and a half, and when there shall be an end to the crushing of the power of the holy people, all these things shall be ended.


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And I heard indeed, but I understood it not: then said I, O my lord, what shall be the end of these things?


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And he said, Go <i>thy way</i>, Daniel; for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.


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Many shall be selected and cleansed, and purified; but the wicked will deal wickedly, and none of the wicked will understand: but the intelligent will understand.


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And from the time that the continual sacrifice will be removed, even to set up the desolating abomination, there will be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.


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But thou, go <i>thy way</i> toward the end; and thou shalt rest, and arise again for thy lot at the end of the days.


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The word of the Lord that came unto Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziyah, Jotham, Achaz, <i>and</i> Hezekiah, the kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash the king of Israel.


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The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea was, that the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of prostitution and children of prostitution; for the <i>inhabitants of the</i> land go far astray, departing from the Lord.


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And the Lord said unto him, Call his name Yizreel; for but yet a little while, when I will visit the blood of Yizreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.


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And it shall come to pass on that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Yizreel.


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And she conceived again, and bore a daughter: and he said unto him, Call her name Loruchamah <i>Not finding mercy</i>; for I will not farther have any more mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will give them their full recompense.


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But upon the house of Judah will I have mercy, and I will save them through the Lord their God, and I will not save them by the bow, or by the sword, or by battle, by horses, or by horsemen.


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Then said he, Call his name Loammi <i>Not my people</i>; for ye are not my people, and I will indeed not be unto you <i>a God</i>.


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<n>(2:1)</n> Yet shall the number of the children of Israel <i>once</i> be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that instead that people say of them, Ye are not my people <i>Loammi</i>, shall they call them, The sons of the living God.


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<n>(2:2)</n> Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one head, and they shall go up out of the land, for great shall be the day of Yizreel.


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<n>(2:3)</n> Call ye your brothers, Ammi <i>my people</i>; and your sisters, Ruchamah <i>That hath obtained mercy</i>.


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<n>(2:4)</n> Contend with your mother, contend; for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; but let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts:


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<n>(2:5)</n> Lest I strip her naked, and set her, as on the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and render her like a dry land, and let her die with thirst.


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<n>(2:7)</n> For their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.


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<n>(2:8)</n> Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will close it up with a fence, that she shall not find her paths.


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<n>(2:9)</n> And she will make pursuit after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she will seek them, but shall not find them: then will she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for it was better with me then than now.


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<n>(2:10)</n> But she indeed did not acknowledge, that it was I that had given her the corn, and the wine, and the oil, and multiplied for her silver and gold, which they devoted for Baal.


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<n>(2:11)</n> Therefore will I turn back, and take away my corn in its time, and my wine in its season, and I will snatch away my wool and my flax, <i>given</i> to cover her nakedness.


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<n>(2:12)</n> And now will I lay open her disgrace before the eyes of her lovers, and no man shall deliver her out of my hand.


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<n>(2:13)</n> And I will cause to cease all her mirth, her festival, her newmoon, and her sabbath, and all her appointed feasts.


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<n>(2:14)</n> And I will make desolate her vine and her figtree, whereof she hath said, These are my reward which my lovers have given me: and I will change them into a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them.


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<n>(2:15)</n> And I will visit upon her the days of the Bealim, to which she used to burn incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and me she forgot, saith the Lord.


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<n>(2:16)</n> Therefore, behold, will I allure her, and lead her forth into the wilderness, and I will speak comfortingly unto her heart.


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<n>(2:17)</n> And I will give her <i>again</i> her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor <i>sorrow</i> as an entrance for hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as on the day of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.


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<n>(2:18)</n> And it shall happen at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call me Ishi <i>my husband</i>, and shalt not call me any more Baali <i>my lord</i>.


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<n>(2:19)</n> For I will remove the names of the Bealim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be mentioned by their name.


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<n>(2:20)</n> And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and bow, and sword, and war I will break away out of the land, and I will cause them to lie down in safety.


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<n>(2:21)</n> And I will betroth thee unto me for ever: yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in justice, and in lovingkindness, and in mercy.


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<n>(2:23)</n> And it shall come to pass on that day, that I will answer prayer, saith the Lord, I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth;


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<n>(2:24)</n> And the earth shall answer the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall answer Yizreel.


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<n>(2:25)</n> And I will sow her for me in the land; and I will have mercy upon "Her that had not obtained mercy" <i>Loruchamah</i>; and I will say to those who were "Not my people" <i>Loammi</i>, Thou art my people: and they shall say, Thou art my God.


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Then said the Lord unto me, Go once more, love a woman beloved of her husband, yet committing adultery; like the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel, who turn themselves after other gods, and love flagons of wine.


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So I bought me such a one for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a chomer of barley, and half a chomer of barley.


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And I said unto her, Many days shalt thou abide <i>true</i> for me: thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not belong to any man, and so will I also be toward thee.


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For many days shall the children of Israel abide without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without a standing image, and without an ephod and theraphim.


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After that will the children of Israel return, and seek for the Lord their God and David their king; and fearing will they hasten to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days,


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Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel; for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land; because there is no truth, nor kindness, nor knowledge of God in the land.


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There is false swearing, and lying, and murdering, and stealing, and committing adultery: they break the bounds, and blood toucheth on blood.


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Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the heaven; yea, also the fishes of the sea shall perish.


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Yet let no man strive, let no man reprove another: and thy people are contentious equally with the priest.


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Therefore shalt thou stumble in the daytime, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night; and I will destroy thy mother.


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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because thou hast rejected knowledge, so will I also reject thee, that thou shalt not be a priest to me; and as thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, so will I myself also forget thy children.


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The more they increased, the more did they sin against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.


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The sinoffering of my people do they eat, and for their iniquity doth the soul of each one of them long.


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Therefore shall the same befall both people and priest: and I will punish every one of them for his ways, and recompense every one for his doings.


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And they will eat, and shall not be satisfied; they will commit lewdness, and they shall not increase; because the Lord have they forsaken <i>not</i> keeping <i>his law</i>.


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My people ask counsel of their stick of wood, and their staff shall tell them <i>the future</i>: for the spirit of lewdness hath caused them to err, and they are gone astray unfaithful to their God.


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Upon the tops of the mountains do they sacrifice, and upon the hills burn they incense, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because their shadow is good: therefore will your daughters play the harlot, and your daughterinlaw will commit adultery.


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I cannot inflict punishment on your daughters when they play the harlot, nor on your daughtersinlaw when they commit adultery; for they themselves associate with lewd women, and with harlots do they sacrifice: and so doth the people that doth not understand stumble.


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Yet though thou play the harlot, O Israel, let not Judah offend: and come not ye unto Gilgal, nor go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, As the Lord liveth.


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For like an untamable cow is Israel disobedient: now would the Lord have fed them as a sheep in a wide pasture.


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Their drinking bout will come to an end: while they are so often guilty of lewdness, their rulers love, prepare themselves but shame.


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The wind seizeth fast on them with its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.


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Hear this, O ye priests; and listen well, O ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for the punishment threateneth you; because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread out upon Thabor.


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And for murdering they who had rebelled <i>against God</i> concealed themselves in deep places; but I will inflict correction on them all.


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I well know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, O Ephraim, hast thou played the harlot, <i>and</i> Israel is defiled.


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Their doings will not permit them to return unto their God; for the spirit of lewdness is in their bosom, and the Lord they have not known.


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Therefore shall the pride of Israel be humbled before his face: and Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them.


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With their flocks and with their herds will they go to seek the Lord; but they shall not find him: he hath withdrawn himself from them.


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Against the Lord have they dealt treacherously; for strange children have they begotten: now shall one month devour them together with their possessions.


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Blow ye the cornet in Gibah, the trumpet in Ramah: blow the alarm at Bethaven, <i>The enemy is</i> after thee, O Benjamin.


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Ephraim shall be made desolate on the day of chastisement: among the tribes of Israel had I made known that which is true.


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The princes of Judah were like those that remove the landmark: my wrath, therefore, will I pour out upon them like water.


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Oppressed is Ephraim, broken through punishment; because he willingly walked after the commandment <i>of false prophets</i>.


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Then saw Ephraim his sickness, and Judah his wound, and Ephraim went to Asshur, and <i>the other</i> sent to the king that should contend <i>Jareb</i>; but he will never be able to heal you, nor remove from you your wound.


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For I am as a lion unto Ephraim, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I myself will tear in pieces and go away; I will bear away, and none shall deliver.


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I will go <i>from here, and</i> return to my place, till they acknowledge their guilt, and seek my presence: in their affliction will they seek for me.


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"Come, and let us return unto the Lord; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind up our wounds.


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He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his presence.


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And let us feel it, that we may strive to know the Lord; bright as the morningdawn is his rising; and he will come as the rain unto us, as the latter rain that maketh fruitful the earth."


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What shall I do unto thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do unto thee, O Judah? for your piety is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away.


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Therefore did I hew <i>them</i> down by means of the prophets; I slew them by the words of my mouth: and thy punishments go forth like the light.


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But they, like an ordinary man, have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.


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And as troops that lie in wait for a man, so is the band of priests, they murder on the way in unison; for they commit scandalous deeds.


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On the house of Israel have I seen a horrible thing: there is lewdness in Ephraim, Israel is become defiled.


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Should I desire to heal Israel, then would the iniquity of Ephraim and the wickedness of Samaria be laid open; for they commit falsehood; and the thief entereth <i>secretly</i>, and the troop of robbers is spread abroad without.


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And they never think in their own heart that I remember all their wickedness: though now their own doings are all round about them; before my face are they present.


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They are all adulterers, as an oven well heated by the baker: <i>when</i> he that stirreth <i>the fire</i> resteth awhile from kneading the dough, until it be leavened.


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On the day of our kings <i>entering on his rule</i> the princes are made sick with the fumes of wine: <i>the king</i> joineth his hand with scorners.


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For they make ready their heart for their tricky deeds, like the oven, the baker whereof sleepeth all the night, while in the morning it gloweth as a flaming fire.


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They are all hot as an oven, they devour their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.


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Strangers devour his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are sprinkled about on his <i>head</i>, yet he knoweth not.


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And humbled was the pride of Israel before his own face; but they did not return to the Lord their God, and sought him not, notwithstanding all this.


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And Ephraim is become like a silly dove without understanding: Egypt did they call hither, to Assyria did they go.


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As they go, so will I spread out my net over them; as the fowls of the heaven will I bring them down: I will chastise them, as it hath been announced to their congregation.


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Woe unto them! for they have fled from me; destruction shall come unto them, because they have transgressed against me: though I desired to redeem them, they yet spoke lies against me.


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And they cried not unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: for corn and new wine they assemble themselves, and they rebel against me.


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They never return upward: they are like a deceitful bow: by the sword shall their princes fall because of the rage of their tongue; this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.


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Set the cornet to thy mouth. <i>Let the enemy come</i> like the eagle against the house of the Lord: because they have transgressed my covenant, and against my law have they trespassed.


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They set up kings, but not my advice: they chose princes and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made themselves idols so that they will be cut off.


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Thy calf, O Samaria, hath caused thy rejection; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be that they cannot cleanse themselves?


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For whom Israel did also that <i>idol</i> spring; an artisan made it, and no God is it: so then shall it become broken in splinters that calf of Samaria.


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For the wind do they sow, and the whirlwind shall they reap: <i>their seed</i> bringeth no standing corn; the plant yieldeth no meal; but should it yield it, strangers would swallow it up.


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For they are needs gone up to Assyria, they who like a wild ass should dwell alone: Ephraim spendeth lovers gifts.


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But even though they should spend gifts among the nations, now will I gather them: and they shall be humbled a little through the burden of the king of princes.


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My sacrificial offerings they slay as common flesh that they may eat it; the Lord accepteth them not in favor: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall indeed return to Egypt.


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For Israel forgot his Maker, and built palaces; and Judah multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire among his cities, and it shall devour their fine edifices.


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Rejoice not, O Israel, for gladness, as other people; for thou art gone astray, unfaithful to thy God: thou hast loved the wages of sin upon every cornfilled threshingfloor.


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They shall not dwell in the land of the Lord; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and in Assyria will they eat unclean things.


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They shall not pour out wine to the Lord, and <i>their offerings</i> shall not be pleasing unto him; their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for this their food can only be for themselves, it shall not come into the house of the Lord.


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For, lo, they are gone forth because of the desolation: Egypt will gather them up, Moph will bury them: the pleasant chambers for their silver,these shall nettles take possession of; thorns shall <i>grow</i> in their tents.


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Come are the days of the visitation, come are the days of thy recompense; this shall Israel experience: a fool was the prophet, mad the inspired man, because of the greatness of thy iniquity, and the great hatefulness.


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The watchman of Ephraim with my God, the prophet, was a snare of the fowler on all his ways, a hateful thing in the house of his god.


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They are deeply corrupt, as in the days of Gibah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.


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Like grapes in the wilderness had I found Israel; as the first ripe fruit on the figtree in the first of the season had I seen your fathers; but they too went to Baalpeor: and devoted themselves unto that shameful idol, and became abominations as those they loved.


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As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there is no more birth, and no pregnancy, and no conception.


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But though they were to bring up their children, yet would I bereave them, that there should be no man: yea, woe also to themselves, when I depart from them!


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Ephraim, as I have seen him like Tyre, planted in a pleasant meadow,yet this Ephraim shall lead forth to the murderer his children.


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All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I <i>learnt to</i> hate them; for the wickedness of their doings will I drive them out of my house: I will love them no farther; all their princes are rebels.


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Smitten is Ephraim, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yea, though they should bring forth, yet would I slay the beloved fruit of their body.


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My God will reject them, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.


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An emptied vine is Israel; how should he bring forth fruit for himself? the more numerous was his fruit the more he increased the altars; the more prosperous was his land, the more they made goodly statues.


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Their heart is divided; now shall they bear their guilt: this will break down their altars, will devastate their statues.


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For now will they say, We have no king; because we fear not the Lord: and the kingwhat can he do for us?


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They have spoken <i>vain</i> words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: therefore springeth up the punishment as poison in the furrows of the field.


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For the calves of Bethaven are terrified the inhabitants of Samaria: yea, the people thereof mourn over them, and also its false priests that <i>before</i> rejoiced over them, for its glory, because it is departed from it.


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Also this shall be carried unto Assyria for a present to the contentious king: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed because of his own counsel.


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And destroyed shall be the highplaces of Aven, <i>the cause of</i> the sin of Israel; the thorn and the thistle shall grow upon their altars: and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall upon us.


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More than in the days of Gibah hast thou sinned, O Israel! there they stood; and the battle in Gibah against the children of wickedness did not overtake them.


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<i>But now</i> after my desire will I chastise them: and the people shall be gathered against them, when they harness them <i>for labor</i> in their two furrows.


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And Ephraim is as a welltaught heifer that loveth to tread out the corn; and I passed over her fair neck: now will I make Ephraim draw the wagon, Judah shall plough, and Jacob shall harrow the field for the enemy.


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Sow then for yourselves after righteousness, that you may reap <i>the fruit</i> of kindness; cultivate your fallow field; for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness down for you.


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<i>But</i> ye have ploughed wickedness, iniquity have ye reaped, ye have eaten the fruit of lies; because thou didst trust in thy own way, in the multitude of thy mighty men:


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Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be wasted, as Shalman devastated Betharbel on the day of battle, <i>when</i> the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.


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The like of this doth Bethel procure unto you because of your great wickedness: in the early morning shall utterly pass away the king of Israel.


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The <i>prophets</i> called them; but the more they went from them: unto the Bealim would they sacrifice, and to the graven images would they burn incense.


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Yet I myself appointed a leader for Ephraim, who took them up in his arms; but they would not acknowledge that I healed them.


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With human cords I ever drew them forward, with leadingstrings of love: and I was to them as those that lift off the yoke from their jaws, and I held out unto them food.


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He should not return unto the land of Egypt: yet <i>now</i> is the Assyrian his king; because they refused to repent.


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And the sword shall fall on his cities, and shall make an end of his boughs, and consume them, because of their <i>evil</i> counsels.


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For my people are only bent on backsliding from me; and though upward they call them, they altogether will not elevate themselves.


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How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I surrender thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I change thee as Zeboyim? turned is my heart within me, all my compassion is enkindled together.


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I will not execute the fierceness of my anger, I will not again destroy Ephraim; for God am I, and not man, the Holy One in the midst of thee, and I will not come with an enemys hatred.


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They shall follow after the Lord, when he will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children shall hasten together from the west;


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They shall hasten together as birds out of Egypt, and as doves out of the land of Assyria: and I will cause them to dwell in their houses, saith the Lord.


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<n>(12:1)</n> With lies hath Ephraim encompassed me about, and with deceit, the house of Israel; but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful to the Holy One.


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<n>(12:2)</n> Ephraim feedeth on wind, and pursueth the east wind; the whole day he increaseth deceit and corruption; and a covenant do they make with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.


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<n>(12:3)</n> But with Judah also hath the Lord <i>to hold</i> a controversy; and to punish Jacob according to his ways, according to his doings will he recompense him.


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<n>(12:4)</n> In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his strength he strove with an angel.


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<n>(12:5)</n> Yea, he strove with an angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: in Bethel he should find him, and there he will speak with us.


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<n>(12:7)</n> Therefore do thou return to thy God: keep goodness and justice, and wait on thy God continually.


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<n>(12:8)</n> But like a merchant, who hath the balances of deceit in his hand, loving to overreach,


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<n>(12:9)</n> Did Ephraim say, I am certainly become rich, I have acquired substance unto myself: it is all through my labors; they will find no iniquity in me, that could be sin.


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<n>(12:10)</n> And I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt: I will yet make thee dwell in tents, as in the days of antiquity.


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<n>(12:11)</n> And I have spoken through the prophets, and I myself have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets have I spoken in similitudes.


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<n>(12:12)</n> If in Gilad there was misfortune, <i>it is because</i> there was naught but idolatry; in Gilgal they sacrificed bullocks <i>to idols</i>: their altars also are as stoneheaps on the furrows of the fields.


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<n>(12:13)</n> And Jacob fled into the fields of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept <i>the flocks</i>.


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<n>(12:14)</n> And by a prophet did the Lord bring Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he guarded.


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<n>(12:15)</n> <i>Yet</i> Ephraim provoked <i>him</i> to anger most bitterly: therefore will his Lord cast his bloodguiltiness upon him, and his reproach will he recompense unto him.


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When once Ephraim spoke, <i>all</i> trembled, so high was he exalted in Israel; but he offended through Baal, and he died.


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And now they yet continue to sin, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, idols according to their own imagining, every one of them the work of the artisan: they say to them, They that sacrifice men may kiss the calves.


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Therefore shall they be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that early passeth away, as the chaff that is driven by the whirlwind out of the threshingfloor, and as smoke out of a window.


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Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt: and no god but me shalt thou know, and there is no saviour beside me.


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When they came to their pasture, they became sated; they were sated, and their heart was lifted up: therefore have they forgotten me.


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I will meet them as a bear bereaved of her whelps, and I will rend their closedup heart; and I will devour them there like a lioness, the beasts of the field shall rend them.


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Where then is now thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges, since thou saidst, Give me a king, and princes?


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The pains of a travailing woman shall come upon him; he is an unwise son; for he will not remain steadfast at the time of the breaking forth of the child.


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From the power of the grave would I ransom them, from death would I redeem them; <i>but now</i> where are thy plagues, O death, where is thy pestilence, O grave? compassion shall be hidden from my eyes.


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Though he grow luxuriantly in the green meadows, the east wind shall come, the wind of the Lord, rising up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: the same shall plunder the treasure of all precious vessels.


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<n>(14:1)</n> Samaria shall meet her punishment; for she hath rebelled against her God: by the sword shall they fall; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women shall be ripped up.


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<n>(14:2)</n> Return, O Israel, even unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast stumbled through thy iniquity.


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<n>(14:3)</n> Take with you swords, and return to the Lord: say unto him, "Pardon all <i>our</i> iniquity, and accept <i>our return to</i> good; and let us repay the steers <i>of sacrifice</i> with <i>the prayer of</i> our lips.


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<n>(14:4)</n> Asshur shall not help us; upon horses will we not ride: and we will no more say, Ye are our gods, to the work of our hands; for in thee alone the fatherless obtaineth mercy."


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<n>(14:5)</n> I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from them.


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<n>(14:6)</n> I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall bloom as the lily; and he shall strike his roots as <i>the forests of</i> Lebanon.


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<n>(14:7)</n> His suckers shall spread out, and his beauty shall be as that of the olivetree, and his smell as that of the Lebanon.


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<n>(14:8)</n> They shall return that sat under his shade; they shall revive as corn, and bloom as the vine: the scent of which shall be as that of the wine of Lebanon.


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<n>(14:9)</n> Ephraim <i>shall say</i>, What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and will observe him; I will be <i>to him</i> like a green firtree; through me is thy fruit found.


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<n>(14:10)</n> Who is wise, that he may understand these things? intelligent, that he may know them? for righteous are the ways of the Lord; and the just shall walk in them; but the transgressors will stumble through them.


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Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Did ever such a thing as this come to pass in your days, or ever in the days of your fathers?


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Tell ye of it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to another generation.


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What the caterpillar left hath the locust eaten; and what the locust left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm left hath the cricket eaten.


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Wake up, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet new wine, that it is taken away from your mouth.


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For a nation is come up over my land, strong, and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it hath the cuttingteeth of the lioness.


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It hath laid my vine waste, and barked my figtree: it hath peeled it clean bare, and cast it down; made white are its light branches.


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Cut off are the meatoffering and the drinkoffering from the house of the Lord: now mourn the priests, the ministers of the Lord.


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Wasted is the field, the land mourneth; for wasted is the corn: dried up is the new wine, withered is the oil.


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Be ashamed, O ye husbandmen; wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because lost is the harvest of the field.


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The vine is made ashamed, and the figtree is withered; the pomegranatetree, the palmtree also, and the appletree, even all the trees of the field, are dried up; because joy hath ceased from the children of men.


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Gird yourselves <i>with sackcloth</i>, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar: come, remain all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God; for there are withholden from the house of your God the meatoffering and the drinkoffering.


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Sanctify ye a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly, gather the elders, all the inhabitants of the land, into the house of the Lord your God, and cry aloud unto the Lord.


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Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and like destruction from the Almighty will it come.


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The grains of seed are rotten under their clods, laid desolate are the garners, pulled down are the barns; for the corn is dried up.


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How do the beasts groan! how do the herds of cattle roam about; because there is no pasture for them: yea, the flocks of sheep are made to perish.


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To thee O Lord, will I cry; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath singed all the trees of the field.


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Also the beasts of the field cry unto thee panting; for the brooks of waters are dried up, and a fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.


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Blow ye the cornet in Zion, and sound an alarm on my holy mount; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh;


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It is a day of darkness and of gloom, a day of clouds and of tempestuous obscurity, like the morningdawn spread out upon the mountains: a people numerous and strong, the like of which hath never been and after it there will be none any more, even to the years of all coming generations.


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Before it devoureth a fire; and behind it singeth a flame: like the garden of Eden was the land before it <i>came</i>, and after it is a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing escapeth from it.


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Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains do they leap; they are like the noise of a flame of fire consuming the stubble, as a strong people arrayed for a battle.


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Like mighty men do they run; like men of war they climb up a wall; and they march every one on his own ways, and they turn not aside on their paths.


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And they do not press one another; every one on his beaten track do they go forward: and they pass through between warlike weapons, and change not their purpose.


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Into the city they hasten forward; on the wall they run; into the houses they climb up; through the windows they make their entrance like a thief.


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Before them trembleth the earth; the heavens quake; the sun and the moon are obscured, and the stars withdraw their brightness.


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And the Lord uttereth his voice before his army; for very numerous is his camp; for strong is he that executeth his word; for great is the day of the Lord and very terrible; and who is able to endure it?


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But even now also, saith the Lord, return ye fully to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:


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And rend your heart, and not your garments, and return unto the Lord your God; for gracious and merciful is he, long suffering, and of great kindness, and he bethinketh himself of the evil.


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He that is conscious <i>of guilt</i>, let him return and repent: when <i>the plague</i> may leave behind it a blessing; even a meatoffering and a drinkoffering unto the Lord your God.


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Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth out of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.


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Between the porch and the altar let the priests weep, the ministers of the Lord, and let them say, Spare, O Lord, thy people, and give not up thy heritage to reproach, for nations to make a byword of them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?


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And the Lord answered and said unto his people, "Behold, I will send you the corn, and the young wine, and the oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith; and I will not give you up any more to be a reproach among the nations:


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And the host of the north will I remove far away from you, and I will drive it off into a land barren and desolate, with its advance toward the eastern sea, and its rereward toward the western sea; and its stench shall ascend, and its ill savor shall come up, because it hath done great things."


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Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness have become green; for the tree beareth its fruit, the figtree and the vine yield their strength.


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And ye children of Zion, be glad, and rejoice in the Lord your God; for he hath given you the first rain in beneficence, and he hath caused to come down for you the rain, the first rain, and the latter rain in the first <i>month</i>.


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And I will repay to you the years <i>in</i> which the locust hath eaten <i>all</i>, with the cankerworm, and the cricket, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I had sent against you.


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And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall not be made ashamed unto eternity.


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And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and none else; and my people shall not be made ashamed unto eternity.


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<n>(3:1)</n> And it shall come to pass after this, that I will pour out my spirit over 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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<n>(3:2)</n> And also over the menservants and over the maidservants in those days will I pour out my spirit.


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<n>(3:3)</n> And I will display wonderful tokens in the heavens and on the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.


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<n>(3:4)</n> The sun shall be changed into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the day of the Lord, the great and the terrible.


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<n>(3:5)</n> And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall escape; for on mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and among the remnant whom the Lord calleth.


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<n>(4:1)</n> For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I will cause to return the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,


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<n>(4:2)</n> Then will I assemble all the nations, and I will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will hold judgment with them there because of my people and my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and for my land <i>which</i> they have divided out.


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<n>(4:3)</n> And for my people did they cast lots; and gave a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and drank it.


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<n>(4:4)</n> And also ye, what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all ye districts of Philistia? is this the recompense which ye repay me? or do ye only commence to render me evil? swiftly and speedily will I bring back your recompense upon your own head;


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<n>(4:5)</n> Because my silver and my gold have ye taken, and the handsomest of my precious things have ye carried into your temples;


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<n>(4:6)</n> And the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the sons of the Jevanim, in order to remove them far from their borders.


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<n>(4:7)</n> Behold, I will awaken them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and I will bring back your recompense upon your own head;


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<n>(4:8)</n> And I will deliver your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far off; for the Lord hath spoken it.


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<n>(4:9)</n> Proclaim ye this among the nations, Prepare war, wake up the mighty men; let them draw near; let them come upall the men of war.


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<n>(4:10)</n> Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruningknives into spears: let the weak say, I am a hero.


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<n>(4:11)</n> Assemble hastily together, and come, all ye nations from every side, and gather yourselves together: there doth the Lord strike down thy mighty ones.


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<n>(4:12)</n> Let the nations awake, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations from every side.


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<n>(4:13)</n> Put forth the sickle; for the harvest is ripe: come, tread down <i>the grapes</i>; for the press is full; the vats overflow; for great is their wickedness.


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<n>(4:14)</n> Multitudes, multitudes are in the valley of decision; for near is the day of the Lord in the valley of decision.


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<n>(4:16)</n> And the Lord will cry aloud out of Zion, and from Jerusalem will he send forth his voice; and the heavens and the earth shall quake; but the Lord will be a refuge for his people, and a stronghold for the children of Israel.


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<n>(4:17)</n> So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling on Zion, my holy mount: and Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall not pass through her any more.


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<n>(4:18)</n> And it came to pass on that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweet new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the ravines of Judah shall flow with water; and a spring shall come forth out of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim.


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<n>(4:19)</n> Egypt shall become a desolate land, and Edom shall become a desolate wilderness; because of the violence against the children of Judah, in whose land they have shed innocent blood.


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<n>(4:21)</n> And I will avenge their blood that I have not yet avenged; for the Lord dwelleth in Zion.


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The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he foresaw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziyah 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, The Lord will cry aloud out of Zion, and from Jerusalem will he send forth his voice; and then shall mourn the pastures of the shepherds, and then shall dry up the top of Carmel.


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Thus hath said the Lord, For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, will I not turn away their punishment; because they have threshed <i>the inhabitants of</i> Gilad with threshing instruments of iron;


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And I will break the bars of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the valley of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall be exiled unto Kir, saith the Lord.


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Thus hath said the Lord, For three transgressions of Gazzah, and for four, will I not turn away their punishment; because they carried away exiles in full numbers, to deliver them up to Edom;


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And I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn my hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord Eternal.


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Thus hath said the Lord, For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, will I not turn away their punishment; because they delivered up the exiles in full numbers to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant;


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Thus hath said the Lord, For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, will I not turn away their punishment; because he pursued with the sword his brother, and disregarded his mercy, and his anger tore in pieces continually, and he kept his wrath for ever:


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Thus hath said the Lord, For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, will I not turn away their punishment; because they have ripped up the pregnant women of Gilad, in order to enlarge their own territory;


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And I will kindle a fire within the walls of Rabbah, which shall devour her palaces, with shouting on the day of battle, with a storm on the day of the tempest;


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Thus hath said the Lord, For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, will I not turn away their punishment; because he burnt the bones of the king of Edom into lime;


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And I will send a fire against Moab, which shall devour the palaces of Keriyoth: and Moab shall die in the tumult, in the shouting, amidst the sound of the cornet;


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And I will cut off the judges from her midst, and all her princes will I slay, with him, saith the Lord.


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Thus hath said the Lord, For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, will I not turn away their punishment; because they have despised the law of the Lord, and did not keep his statutes, and their lying idols caused them to err, after which their fathers had walked;


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Thus hath said the Lord, For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, will I not turn away their punishment; because they sold for silver the righteous, and the needy for a pair of shoes;


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That are eager after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same young woman, in order to profane my holy name.


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And upon pledged garments they stretch themselves out by every altar, and the wine of the condemned do they drink in the house of their gods.


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Yet have I destroyed the Emorite from before them, whose height was like the height of cedars, and who was strong as the oaks; but I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.


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And it was I who have brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to take possession of the land of the Emorite.


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And I have raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for nazarites: is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the Lord.


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But ye have given the nazarites wine to drink; and concerning the prophets have ye commanded, saying, Ye shall not prophesy.


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Behold, I press down <i>the ground</i> under you, as the wagon presseth <i>it</i> down that is full of sheaves.


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And refuge shall vanish from the swift, and the strong shall not make use of his force, neither shall the mighty man escape with his life.


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And he that handleth the bow shall not be able to stand; and he that is swift of foot shall not escape: neither shall he that rideth the horse escape with his life.


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And he that is most courageous hearted among the mighty shall flee away naked on that day, saith the Lord.


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Hear this word which the Lord hath spoken concerning you, O children of Israel, concerning the whole family which I have brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,


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Only you have I loved out of all the families of the earth: therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.


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Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion send forth his voice out of his den, unless he have caught something?


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Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, when there is no gin for him? is ever a snare taken up from the ground, when it hath caught nothing at all?


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Shall a cornet be blown in a city, and the people not become afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord have not done it?


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For the Lord Eternal will do nothing, unless he have revealed his secret unto his servants the prophets.


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Publish at the palaces in Ashdod, and at the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great confusions in her midst, and the oppressions <i>that are</i> within her.


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For they know not how to act rightly, saith the Lord, who treasure up violence and robbery in their palaces.


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Therefore thus hath said the Lord Eternal, The adversary <i>is there</i> and surroundeth the land: and he shall bring down from thee thy strength, and thy palaces shall be plundered.


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Thus hath said the Lord, As the shepherd snatcheth out of the mouth of the lion <i>at most</i> two legbones, or a tip of the ear: so shall be delivered the children of Israel that sit in Samaria on the corner of a bed, and on Damascus couches.


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For on the day when I visit the transgressions of Israel upon him, will I also inflict punishment on the altars of Bethel: and then shall be hewn off the horns of the altar, and they shall fall to the ground.


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And I will smite the winterhouse together with the summerhouse: and the houses of ivory shall disappear, and the great houses shall be no more, saith the Lord.


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Hear this word, O ye cows of Bashan, that are on the mount of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink.


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Sworn hath the Lord Eternal by his holiness, that, lo, days are coming over you, when men will carry you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.


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And through breaches in the wall shall ye go out, every one through that before her: and ye shall cast off your proud greatness, saith the Lord.


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Go then to Bethel, and transgress; to Gilgal, <i>and</i> multiply transgression; and bring in the morning your sacrifices, after three days your tithes:


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And burn of leaven a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and proclaim and publish freewillofferings; for so do you love <i>to do</i>, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord Eternal.


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But, I also had indeed given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: and yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.


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And I also had indeed withholden from you the rain, when it was yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and upon another city I caused it not to rain; one piece of land was rained upon, and another piece whereupon it rained not became dried up;


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And two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: and yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.


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I had smitten you with blasting and mildew; the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your figtrees and your olivetrees did the caterpillar devour: and yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.


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I had sent out against you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I slew your young men with the sword, together with your captive horses; and I had caused the stench of your camps to ascend even into your nostrils; and yet ye have not returned unto me, saith the Lord.


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I had produced an overthrow among you, like the overthrow by God of Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye became like a firebrand snatched out of the burning: and yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.


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Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: because then I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.


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For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morningdawn <i>and</i> darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The Lord, the God of hosts, is his name.


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She is fallen, she will not rise againthe virgin of Israel: she is thrown down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.


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For thus hath said the Lord Eternal, The city that goeth forth with a thousand shall retain but a hundred, and she that goeth forth with a hundred shall retain but ten, <i>left</i> to the house of Israel.


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But seek not for Bethel, and into Gilgal enter not, and to Beersheba do not pass over; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall become naught.


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Seek for the Lord, and ye shall live: so that he come not suddenly like fire over the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Bethel;


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<i>But</i> he maketh the seven stars and Orion, and changeth into morning the shadow of death, and maketh the day dark into night; he it is that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out over the face of the earth: The Lord is his name;


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That causeth wasting to prevail against the strong, so that wasting shall come against the fortress.


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Therefore forasmuch as you tread down upon the poor, and ye take from him onerous contributions of corn: if ye have built houses of hewn stone, ye shall not dwell in them; if ye have planted pleasant vineyards, ye shall not drink their wine.


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For I know your manifold transgressions and your numerous sins: ye are those that are the adversaries of the just, that take a ransom, and that wrest <i>the cause of</i> the needy in the gate.


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Seek for the good, and not the evil, in order that ye may live: and so will the Lord, the God of hosts, be with you, as ye have said.


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Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice firmly in the gate: perhaps the Lord the God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.


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Therefore thus hath said the Eternal, the God of hosts, the Lord, On all public places there is lamentation, and in all the streets they cry, Woe! woe! and they call the husbandman to mourning, and to lamentation those skilled in wailing.


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Woe unto you that long for the day of the Lord! for what do you wish the day of the Lord? it is <i>one of</i> darkness, and not of light.


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As if a man were to flee from a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he enter into the house, and lean his hand against the wall, and a serpent should bite him.


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Behold the day of the Lord is <i>one of</i> darkness, and not of light; yea, it is obscure, and hath no brightness.


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I hate, I despise your feastdays, and I will not smell <i>the sacrifices</i> on your festive assemblies.


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For though ye should offer me burntofferings and your meatofferings, I will not accept them in favor: and the peaceofferings of your fatted cattle will I not look at.


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Remove thou from around me the noise of thy songs: and the playing of thy psalteries I will not hear.


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Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and meatofferings in the wilderness <i>during</i> forty years, O house of Israel?


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Bear then the canopy of your chief idol, and the figure of your images, the star of your god, which ye have made for yourselves.


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And I will cause you to go into exile far beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, The God of hosts is his name.


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Woe to those that are free from care in Zion, and that are in safety on the mount of Samaria, who are named the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!


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Pass ye over unto Calneh, and see; and go from there to Chamathrabbah; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: whether they be better than these kingdoms? or whether their territory be greater than your territory?


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That lie upon beds of ivory, and are stretched out upon their couches, and eat lambs out of the flock, and calves out of the midst of the stall;


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That chant to the sound of the psaltery, and like Davids do they imagine their instrument of music to be;


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That drink out of winebowls, and anoint themselves with the costliest of ointments; but who feel no pain for the wound of Joseph.


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Therefore now shall they go into exile at the head of exiles, and the noisy banquet of those that were stretched out shall pass away.


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The Lord Eternal hath sworn by his own existence, saith the Lord the God of hosts, I abhor the pride of Jacob, and his palaces do I hate: therefore will I surrender up <i>to the enemy</i> the city with all that filleth it.


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And should a mans uncle or relative carry him forth, to bring out the bones out of the house, and say unto him that is in the recesses of the house, Is there yet any one with thee? he will say, There is no one left. Then will he say, Be silent; for we may not make mention of the name of the Lord.


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For, behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.


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Do horses ever run upon the rock? or will one plough there with oxen? that ye have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;


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Ye who rejoice for a thing of naught, who say, Have we not through our own strength procured ourselves horns?


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For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts, and they shall oppress you from the entrance of Chamath unto the brook of the wilderness.


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Thus did the Lord Eternal show unto me: and, behold, he was forming locusts in the beginning of the sprouting up of the latter groweth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the kings mowings <i>was over</i>.


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And it came to pass, when they had made an end of eating up the herbs of the earth, that I said, O Lord Eternal, forgive, I beseech thee: how should Jacob be able to endure, since he is so small!


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Thus did the Lord Eternal show unto me: and, behold, the Lord Eternal called forth the punishment by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and consumed the ploughed field.


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Then said I, O Lord Eternal, forbear, I beseech thee: how should Jacob be able to endure, since he is so small!


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Thus he showed unto me: and, behold, the Lord was standing upon a wall <i>made</i> by a plumbline, and in his hand was a plumbline.


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And the Lord said unto me, What dost thou see, Amos? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel; I will not farther indulge them any more.


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And the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid in ruins: and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.


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Then sent Amazyah, the priest of Bethel, to Jeroboam the king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.


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For thus hath Amos said, By the sword shall Jeroboam die, and Israel shall surely be led away into exile out of their own land.


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And Amazyah said unto Amos, Seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and eat there <i>thy</i> bread, and there prophesy;


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But at Bethel prophesy not farther any more; for it is the kings sanctuary, and it is a royal residence.


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Then answered Amos, and said to Amazyah, I am no prophet, nor am I a prophets son; but I am a herdman, and a gatherer of wild figs;


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But the Lord hath taken me away from behind the flocks, and the Lord said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.


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And now hear thou the word of the Lord, Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and preach not against the house of Isaac.


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Therefore thus hath said the Lord, Thy wife will play the harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided out by the line; and thou shalt die in an unclean land; and Israel shall surely be led forth into exile out of their land.


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And he said, What dost thou see, Amos? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come for my people Israel: I will not farther indulge them any more.


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And the songs of the temple shall become a wailing on that day, saith the Lord Eternal: many shall be the dead bodies; in every place shall men throw them down, <i>saying,</i> Be silent.


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Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell provision? and the sabbath, that we may open the cornwarehouses, making the ephah small, and increasing the shekel, and cheating with deceitful balances?


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That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and even sell the refuse of the corn?


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Sworn hath the Lord by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will not forget to eternity all their works.


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Shall because of this the land not tremble, and mourn every one that dwelleth therein? and shall it not rise up like a stream wholly, and roll onward and sink again like the stream of Egypt?


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And it shall come to pass on that day, saith the Lord Eternal, that I will cause the sun to set at noon, and I will bring darkness over the earth on a bright day;


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And I will change your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentations; and I will bring upon all loins sackcloth, and upon every head baldness; and I will cause <i>the land</i> to mourn as one doth for an only son, and its end to be as a day of bitter <i>complaint</i>.


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Behold, days are coming, saith the Lord Eternal, when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine for bread, nor a thirst for water, but to hear the words of the Lord:


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And they will wander about from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they will roam about to seek the word of the Lord; but they shall not find it.


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Those that swear by the guilt of Samaria, and say, As thy god liveth, O Dan; and, As liveth the worshipped idol of Beersheba, yea, they shall fall, and never rise up again.


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I saw the Lord standing upon the altar; and he said, Smite the capital, that the sills may quake; and break them in pieces over the head of all of them; and their posterity will I slay with the sword: there shall not flee away from them one that fleeth, and there shall not escape from them one that is saved.


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Though they were to creep down into the nether world, thence would my hand fetch them; and though they were to climb up to the heavens, thence would I bring them down;


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And though they were to hide themselves on the top of Carmel, thence would I search and take them out; and though they were to conceal themselves from before my eyes in the bottom of the sea, thence would I command the serpent, that he should bite them;


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And though they were to go into captivity before their enemies, thence would I command the sword, that it should slay them: and I will set my eye upon them for evil, and not for good.


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And the Lord Eternal of hosts it is that toucheth the earth, and she melteth away, and all that dwell thereon shall mourn; and she riseth up like a stream wholly; and she sinketh like the stream of Egypt;


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That buildeth in the heavens his steps, and hath founded his vault over the earth; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out over the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.


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Are ye not like the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the Lord: have I not brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?


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Behold, the eyes of the Lord Eternal are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; save only that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord.


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For, lo, I will give the command, and I will shake about among all the nations the house of Israel, as one shaketh things in a sieve, while not the least piece falleth down upon the earth.


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By the sword shall die all the sinners of my people, who say, The evil will not come near <i>us</i>, nor hasten along for our sake.


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On that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David which is fallen; and I will close up its breaches; and its ruins will I raise up, and I will rebuild it as in days of old:


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In order that they may take possession of the remnant of Edom, and of all the nations, which are called by my name, saith the Lord that doth this.


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Behold, days are coming, saith the Lord, when the ploughman shall come close up to the harvester, and the treader of the grapes to the one that scattereth the seed: and the mountains shall drop with sweet new wine, and all the hills shall melt away.


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And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall build the wasted cities, and dwell therein; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink their wine; and they shall lay out gardens, and eat their fruit.


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The vision of Obadiah: Thus hath said the Lord Eternal concerning Edom, A rumor have we heard from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her to war.


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The presumption of thy heart hath beguiled thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?


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Though thou wert to rise as high as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.


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How? are thieves come to thee? or nightprowling robbers? how destroyed art thou! would they not have stolen till they had enough? if grapegatherers had come to thee, would they not have left some gleanings?


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Up to the border have accompanied thee all the men of thy confederacy; beguiled, overcome thee have the men that were at peace with thee: <i>they that eat</i> thy bread have struck thee secretly a wound. There is no understanding in him.


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Shall I not on that same day, saith the Lord, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?


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And thy mighty men, O Theman, shall be dismayed, in order that every one from the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.


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Because of thy violence against thy brother Jacob shall shame cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.


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On the day that thou stoodest on the other side, on the day that strangers carried away captive his army, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots over Jerusalem, also thou wast as any one of them.


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But thou shouldst not have looked on <i>pleased</i> at the day of thy brother, on the day that he was delivered up to strangers; neither shouldst thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction; nor should thou have spoken proudly on the day of distress.


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Thou shouldst not have entered into the gate of my people on the day of their calamity; yea, thou too shouldst not have looked <i>pleased</i> on their affliction on the day of their calamity; nor have laid hands on their army on the day of their calamity;


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Neither shouldst thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldst thou have delivered up those of his that did remain on the day of distress.


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For near is the day of the Lord over all the nations: as thou hast done, shall it be done unto thee; thy deeds shall return upon thy own head.


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For as ye have drunk upon my holy mount, so shall all the nations drink continually; yea, they shall drink, and they shall reel about, and they shall be as though they had not been.


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But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and it shall be holy: and the house of Jacob shall again possess their inheritances.


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And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau become stubble, and they shall set them on fire, and devour them; and there shall not be any one remaining of the house of Esau; for the Lord hath spoken it.


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And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the lowlands, the Philistines; and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin <i>shall possess</i> Gilad.


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And the exiles of this host of the children of Israel that are <i>with</i> the Canaanites, as far as Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.


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And deliverers shall go up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau: and the kingdom shall be the Lords


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Arise, Go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim against her; for their wickedness is come up before me.


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But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tharshish from the presence of the Lord; and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tharshish, and paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tharshish, from the presence of the Lord.


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But the Lord excited a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea; and it was thought that the ship would be broken in pieces.


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And the mariners were afraid, and called every man unto his god; and they cast forth the articles which were in the ship into the sea, to be lightened of them. But Jonah was gone down into the hold of the ship, and lay down, and was fast asleep.


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So the shipmaster came near unto him, and said unto him, Why dost thou sleep? arise, call upon thy God: perhaps it be that God will think of us, that we may not be lost.


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And they said one to the other, Come, and let us cast lots; that we may know for whose cause this evil hath happened unto us. And they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.


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Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, thou for whose cause this evil hath happened unto us, What is thy business? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?


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And he said unto them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who hath made the sea and the dry land.


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Then were the men exceedingly afraid and they said unto him, What is this thou hast done? for the men knew that he was flying from the presence of the Lord; because he had told them.


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And they said unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may become calm around us? for the sea grew more and more tempestuous.


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And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea: so shall the sea be calm around you; for I know well that because of me is this great tempest upon you.


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Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring <i>the ship</i> back to the land; but they could not; for the sea grew more and more tempestuous around them.


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And they called unto the Lord, and said, We beseech thee, O Lord, let us not be lost, we pray thee, for the life of this man, and lay not upon us <i>the guilt of</i> innocent blood; for thou art the Lord, as it pleaseth thee so dost thou do.


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And the men feared the Lord very greatly; and they offered a sacrifice unto the Lord, and made vows.


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<n>(2:1)</n> And the Lord made ready a large fish to swallow up Jonah: and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.


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<n>(2:3)</n> And he said, I called from the midst of my distress unto the Lord, and he hath answered me: out of the depth of the grave have I cried, and thou hast heard my voice.


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<n>(2:4)</n> For thou hast cast me into the deep, in the heart of the seas; and the stream compasseth me about: all thy billows and thy waves have passed over me.


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<n>(2:5)</n> And I thought indeed, I am driven out from before thy eyes: yet I again shall look toward thy holy temple.


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<n>(2:6)</n> The waters surrounded me, to the peril of my life; the deep compassed me about: seaweeds were bound about my head.


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<n>(2:7)</n> To the bottoms of the mountains did I go down; the earth <i>closed</i> her bars about me for ever: when thou broughtest up my life from the pit, O Lord my God!


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<n>(2:8)</n> When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came unto thee, unto thy holy temple.


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<n>(2:10)</n> But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; that which I have vowed will I pay; <i>for</i> help is with the Lord.


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Arise, go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim unto it the proclamation which I shall speak unto thee.


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And Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was a great city before God, a three days journey.


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And Jonah began to go through the city one days journey, and he called out, and said, Yet forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.


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


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For when the matter was come unto the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, and put off his mantle from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat down on ashes.


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And he caused to be proclaimed and he published through Nineveh, By the decree of the king and his chief men, it is said, Neither man nor beast, neither herds nor flocks, shall taste any thing; they shall not feed, nor drink water;


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But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let <i>men</i> call unto God with might; and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence which is in their hands.


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Who knoweth, but God may turn and bethink himself, and turn away from the fierceness of his anger, that we perish not?


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And God saw their works, that they had turned from their evil way: and God bethought himself of the evil, which he had spoken that he would do unto them, and he did it not.


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And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my word, while I was yet in my own country? Therefore made I haste to fly unto Tharshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, longsuffering, and abundant in kindness, and repentant of the evil.


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And now, O Lord, take, I pray thee, my soul from me; because it is better for me to die, than to live.


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Now Jonah was gone out of the city, and dwelt on the east side of the city; and he had made himself there a booth, and sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city.


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And the Lord God made ready a gourd, and it grew up over Jonah, to be a shade over his head, to relieve him from his affliction. And Jonah rejoiced because of the gourd exceedingly.


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But God made ready a worm when the morning dawned on the morrow, and it smote the gourd that it withered.


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And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God made ready a hot east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he became faint; and he wished for himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.


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And God said unto Jonah, Art thou very wroth for the gourd? And he said, I am very wroth, even unto death.


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And the Lord said, Thou wouldst have spared the gourd, for which thou hadst not labored, neither hadst thou made it grow; which came up in one night, and perished in one night;


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And shall I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than twelve times ten thousand persons, who know not how to discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?


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The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morashthite in the days of Jotham, Achaz, <i>and</i> Hezekiah, the kings of Judah, which he foresaw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.


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Hear, ye people, altogether; listen, O earth, with all that filleth it: and let the Lord Eternal be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.


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For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his residence; and he will come down, and will step along upon the high places of the earth.


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And the mountains shall melt beneath him, and the valleys shall cleave in twain, like wax <i>melteth</i> before the fire, like water poured out on a declivity.


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For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. Who caused the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and who caused the highplaces of Judah? is it not Jerusalem?


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Therefore will I change Samaria into stoneheaps on the field, into vineyard plantations: and I will hurl down into the valley her stones, and her foundations will I lay open.


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And all her graven images shall he beaten to pieces, and all her wages of sin shall be burnt with the fire, and all her idols will I make desolate; for from harlots wages she gathered them, and for harlots wages shall they be used again.


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For this will I lament and wail; I will go confused and naked: I will make a lament like the crocodiles, and mourning like the ostriches.


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For her wounds arc incurable; for <i>the evil</i> is come even unto Judah; <i>the enemy</i> hath reached as far as the gate of my people, even up to Jerusalem.


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Pass ye away, ye inhabitants of Shaphir, having your shame laid bare: the inhabitress of Zaanan cometh not forth <i>any more</i>; the mourning of Bethhaezel taketh from you its halting place.


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For the inhabitress of Maroth is grieved for the <i>lost</i> good; because evil came down from the Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem.


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Bind the chariot to the swift horses, O inhabitress of Lachish: the beginning of sin was she to the daughter of Zion; for in thee were found the transgressions of Israel.


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Therefore shalt thou have to give presents to Moreshethgath: the houses of Achzib shall become a deception to the kings of Israel.


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Yet will I bring an <i>enemy as</i> heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: as far as Adullam shall withdraw the glory of Israel.


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Make thyself bald, and cut off thy hair for the children of thy delight; enlarge thy baldness like the eagle; because they are gone into exile from thee.


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Woe to those that devise wickedness, and resolve on evil upon their couches! by the first light of the morning they execute it, if they have it in the power of their hand.


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And they covet fields, and rob them; and houses, and take them away: so they defraud the master and his house, and the man and his heritage.


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Therefore thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I will devise against this family an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; nor shall ye go erect; for it is an evil time.


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On that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a mournful lamentation, and say, "We are utterly wasted: the portion of my people hath he exchanged; how hath he removed it from me! instead of restoring <i>them to us</i> he divideth our fields."


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Therefore shalt thou have none that shall draw the <i>measuring</i> cord in <i>his</i> lot in the congregation of the Lord.


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"Preach not;" <i>but</i> they shall preach: they shall not preach <i>indeed</i> to these, that reproach may not overtake them.


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Shall it be said <i>in</i> the house of Jacob, Is the spirit of the Lord straightened? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?


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But long since is my people risen up as an enemy: from the garment do you pull off the ornament; of those that pass by securely <i>ye make</i> men returned from war.


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The wives of my people do you drive out of their delightful houses; from their children do ye take away my ornament for ever.


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Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your restingplace; because it is polluted, it shall destroy <i>you</i>, even with a grievous destruction.


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If a man that goeth after wind and lieth with falsehood <i>should say</i>, "I will preach unto thee of wine and of strong drink:" he would be a preacher for this people.


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I will <i>once</i> surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather up the remnant of Israel; I will place them together as flocks in the fold, as droves in the midst of their pen: they shall be crowded with men.


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The wallbreaker cometh up before them; they break in and pass through the gate, and go out by it: and their king passeth on before them, and the Lord at their head.


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And I said, Hear, I pray you, O ye heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know what is justice?


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<i>But they are those</i> who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;


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Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and who crush their bones, and chop them in pieces, as that to be put in a pot, and as flesh within a caldron.


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Then will they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them; and he will hide his face from them at that time, as they have committed their evil deeds.


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Thus hath said the Lord concerning the prophets that mislead my people, who, when they have something to bite with their teeth, cry, Peace; but who prepare war against him who putteth nothing in their mouth:


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Therefore shall the night be unto you, without a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, without divining; and the sun shall go down around the prophets, and the day shall be obscured around them.


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Thus shall the seers be made ashamed, and the diviners be put to the blush: yea, they shall all wrap themselves up to the upper lip; for there is no answer of God.


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But truly I am indeed full of strength by the spirit of the Lord, and <i>of power</i> of judging, and of might, to tell unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.


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Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel, that abhor justice, and make crooked all that is straight.


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Her heads judge for bribes, and her priests teach for reward, and her prophets divine for money: and yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? evil cannot come over us.


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Therefore for your sake shall Zion be ploughed up as a field, and Jerusalem shall become ruinous heaps, and the mount of the house, forestcovered highplaces.


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And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lords house shall be firmly established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and unto it shall people flow.


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And many nations shall come, and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us of his ways, and we may walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.


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And he shall judge between many people, and decide for strong nations even afar off; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruningknives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and they shall not learn any more war.


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But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his figtree, with none to make them afraid; for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.


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<i>But</i> though all the people should walk every one in the name of his god, yet will we walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.


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On that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her that halteth, and her that is driven out will I gather, and her to whom I have done evil;


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And I will make of her that halted a remnant, and of her that was cast off far away a strong nation: and the Lord will reign over them on mount Zion, from this time and unto eternity.


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And thou, O tower of flocks, the stronghold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall go, and shall come, the former dominion, the kingdom belonging to the daughter of Jerusalem.


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Now why dost thou cry aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor lost? that pangs have seized on thee as on a woman in travail?


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Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now shalt thou go forth out of the town, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go as far as Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there will the Lord redeem thee from the grasp of thy enemies.


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And now many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look with pleasure on Zion.


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But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, and they understand not his counsel: that he will <i>once</i> gather them as the sheaves into the threshingfloor.


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Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; for I will render thy horn iron, and thy hoofs will I render copper, and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will devote unto the Lord their illgotten gain, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.


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<n>(4:14)</n> Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops; they lay siege against us: with the rod they smite upon the cheek the judge of Israel.


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<n>(5:1)</n> But thou, Bethlechem Ephratah, the least <i>though</i> thou be among the thousands of Judah, <i>yet</i> out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from olden times, from most ancient days.


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<n>(5:2)</n> Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she who travaileth hath brought forth: then shall the remnant of his brethren return with the children of Israel.


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<n>(5:3)</n> And he shall stand forward and feed <i>Israel</i> through the strength of the Lord, through the excellency of the name of the Lord his God: and they shall abide <i>safely</i>; for now shall he be great even unto the ends of the earth.


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<n>(5:4)</n> And in this <i>manner</i> shall there be peace: If Asshur should come into our land; and if he should tread in our palaces, then will we raise up against him seven shepherds, and eight anointed men.


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<n>(5:5)</n> And they shall lay waste the land of Asshur with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the gates of its <i>cities</i>: thus will he deliver us from Asshur, if he should come into our land, and if he should tread within our borders.


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<n>(5:6)</n> And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people like dew from the Lord, like showers upon the herbs, that wait not for man, nor hope for the sons of man.


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<n>(5:7)</n> And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many people, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep: who, if he break in, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, while none can deliver.


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<n>(5:8)</n> High shall thy hand be lifted up above thy adversaries, and all thy enemies shall be cut off.


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<n>(5:9)</n> And it shall come to pass on that day, saith the Lord, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots;


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<n>(5:11)</n> And I will cut off the arts of witchcraft out of thy hand; and soothsayers shalt thou have no more;


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<n>(5:12)</n> And I will cut off thy graven images, and thy statues out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more prostrate thyself to the work of thy hands;


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<n>(5:13)</n> And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee; and I will destroy thy enemies.


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<n>(5:14)</n> And I will in anger and in fury execute vengeance upon the nations, upon those that have not hearkened.


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Do but hear now what the Lord saith, Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.


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Hear ye, O mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and ye strong foundations of the earth! for the Lord hath a controversy with his people, and with Israel will he plead.


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Although I had brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondmen; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.


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O my people, do but remember what Balak the king of Moab resolved, and what Bilam the son of Beor answered him, from Shittim unto Gilgal, in order that ye may know the gracious benefits of the Lord.


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Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, bow myself before the God on high? shall I come before him with burntofferings, with calves of a year old!


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Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with myriads of streams 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 hath told thee, O man, what is good; and what the Lord doth require of thee: <i>nothing</i> but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God.


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The voice of the Lord calleth unto the city,and <i>the man of</i> wisdom shall see thy name:hear ye the rod <i>of punishment</i>, and who hath ordained it.


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Are there yet in the house of the wicked man the treasures of wickedness, and the scant accursed measure?


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For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants have spoken falsehood, and their tongue is deceit <i>itself</i> in their mouth.


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Therefore have I also smitten thee with sore wounds, making <i>thee</i> desolate because of thy sins.


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Thou wilt indeed eat, but not be satisfied; and what thou hast eaten shall bend thee down; and thou wilt overtake <i>the enemy</i>, but thou shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.


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Thou wilt indeed sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou wilt indeed tread out olives, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil; and the juice of the grapes, but thou shalt not drink wine.


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For there are observed the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Achab, and ye walk in their counsels: in order that I should give thee up unto desolation, and thy inhabitants to derision; and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.


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Woe is me! for I am as in the gathering of the summerfruits, as in the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat, no firstripe fruit for which my soul longeth.


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The pious hath disappeared out of the land; and the upright among men there is none; all of them lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.


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For the evil of your hands you expect good? while the prince demandeth <i>bribes</i>, and the judge acteth for pay; and the great man is only speaking the wilful pleasure of his soul: and so do they make a network <i>of wrong</i>.


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The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is <i>sharper</i> than a thornhedge: the day of thy watchmen, thy punishment, is come; now shall be perplexity among them.


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Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a confidant: from her that lieth in thy bosom guard the doors of thy mouth.


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For the son disgraceth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughterinlaw against her motherinlaw; a mans enemies are the men of his own house.


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Rejoice not, O my enemy, over me: though I am fallen, I rise again: though I should sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light unto me.


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The indignation of the Lord will I bear, because I have sinned against him; until that he plead my cause, and execute justice for me: <i>when</i> he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.


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Then she that is my enemy will see it, and shame shall cover her, who said unto me, Where is the Lord thy God? My eyes shall complacently see her <i>suffer</i>: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.


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It is a day when men shall come to thee from Assyria, and the cities of Mazor, and from Mazor even to the river, and from sea to sea, and <i>from</i> mountain to mountain.


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While the land <i>of the nations</i> shall be made desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their doings.


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Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage, which dwell in solitude in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilad, as in the days of old.


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Nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deafened.


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They shall lick the dust like the serpent; like those that crawl on the earth, shall they come forth trembling out of their close places: unto the Lord our God shall they hasten in dread, and shall be afraid of thee.


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Who is a god like unto thee, pardoning iniquity, and forgiving transgression to the residue of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in kindness.


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He will again have mercy on us, he will suppress our iniquities; yea, thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.


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Thou wilt show faithfulness unto Jacob, and kindness unto Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers in the days of old.


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A God watchful and avenging is the Lord; an avenger is the Lord, and full of fury; the Lord taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and keepeth in mind the deeds of his enemies.


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The Lord is longsuffering, and great in power, but he will by no means clear the guilty: the Lordin the whirlwind and in the storm is his way, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.


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He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and all the rivers he drieth up: Bashan then withereth, with Carmel, and the flowers of Lebanon wither.


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Mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away; and the earth is lifted up at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.


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Before his indignation who can stand? and who can subsist before the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken down by him.


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But with an overflowing flood will he utterly destroy the place of <i>Nineveh</i>, and his enemies will he pursue with darkness.


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What will you devise against the Lord? he is bringing about an utter destruction, the distress shall not rise up twice.


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For they, like thorns interwoven, and as men made drunken in their drinking bout, shall be entirely consumed as dry stubble.


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There is gone forth out of thee he that devised evil against the Lord, the counsellor of infamous things.


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Thus hath said the Lord, Though they be complete, and ever so many, nevertheless shall they be cut down, and it shall be over <i>with them</i>: and if even I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.


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But against thee hath the Lord decreed, that no heir of thy name shall be any more: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven and the molten image; I will prepare thy grave <i>there</i>; for thou art made vile.


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<n>(2:1)</n> Behold, upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace, Celebrate thy feasts, O Judah, fulfill thy vows; for never more shall the wicked pass again through thee, he is utterly cut off.


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<n>(2:2)</n> The destroyer is come up against thee to enclose <i>thee</i> with works of siege: look out on the way, make thy loins strong, strengthen <i>thyself</i> greatly with power.


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<n>(2:3)</n> For the Lord bringeth back again the excellency of Jacob, as also the excellency of Israel; for the plunderers have plundered them, and have wasted branches of their vines.


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<n>(2:4)</n> The shields of his mighty men are made red, the valiant men are <i>clothed</i> in scarlet: with the fire of the steel the chariots <i>glitter</i> on the day when he prepareth himself <i>for battle</i>, and the spears are shaken.


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<n>(2:5)</n> In the streets the chariots rush madly along, they rattle through the public places: their appearance is like torches, they run along like the lightnings.


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<n>(2:6)</n> He will summon his valiant men, they shall stumble in their walk: they hasten to her walls, and the covering for defence is prepared.


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<n>(2:8)</n> And the queen is carried away into exile stripped of her attire, and her maids moan as with the voice of doves, striking their hand upon their breast.


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<n>(2:9)</n> And Nineveh was like a pool of water from the days that she existed: yet now they flee. "Stand, stand," <i>shall they cry,</i> but none shall look back.


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<n>(2:10)</n> Plunder silver, plunder gold; for without end are the treasures, there is an abundance of all precious vessels.


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<n>(2:11)</n> She is void, and emptied out, and wasted; and the heart melteth, and the knees totter, and trembling is in all loins, and the faces of them all are covered with blackness.


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<n>(2:12)</n> Where is <i>now</i> the dwelling of the lions, and what was the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, the lioness, and the lions whelp walked, and none made them afraid?


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<n>(2:13)</n> The lion tore in pieces <i>prey</i> enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled with prey his holes, and his dens with what he had torn.


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<n>(2:14)</n> Behold, I will be against thee, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will burn into smoke thy chariots, and thy young lions shall the sword devour: and I will cut off from the earth thy preying, and no more shall be heard the voice of thy messengers.


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The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of wheels, and of prancing horses, and of the skipping chariots.


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Horsemen mount, and there are the flaming sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and heaps of carcasses; and without end are the corpses; they stumble on their corpses;


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Because of the multitude of the lewd deeds of the harlot, that is rich in gracefulness, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her lewd deeds, and families through her witchcrafts.


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Behold, I will be against thee, saith the Lord of hosts; and I will lay thy skirts open over thy face, and I will let nations see thy nakedness, and kingdoms thy shame.


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And it shall come to pass, that all they that see thee shall flee from thee, and say, Laid waste is Nineveh: who will condole with her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?


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Art thou better than Noamon, that was situated on the rivers, that had water round about her, the rampart of which was the sea, and the walls of which rose out of the sea?


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Yet also she was exiled, was carried away into captivity; also her young children were dashed in pieces at the corners of all streets: and for her honorable men they cast lots, and all her great ones were bound with chains.


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Thou also shalt be made drunken, thou shalt be hidden from view: thou also shalt seek refuge because of the enemy.


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All thy strongholds shall be like figtrees with the first ripe figs, which, if they be shaken, will fall into the mouth of the eater.


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Behold, thy people are become women in the midst of thee: unto thy enemies are the gates of thy land set wide open; the fire hath devoured thy bars.


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Water for the siege draw for thyself, fortify thy strongholds: go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brickkiln.


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There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall devour thee up like the cankerworm: <i>though</i> thou make thyself many as the cankerworm; make thyself many as the locusts.


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<i>Though</i> thou hadst multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spreadeth itself out, and flieth away.


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Thy crowned ones are like the locusts, and thy leaders like the swarms of locusts, which camp in the hedges on a cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.


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Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; thy valiant men are at rest: scattered are thy people upon the mountains, and there is none that gathereth them.


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There is no healing for thy breach; fatal is thy wound: all that hear the report of thee will clap their hands over thee; for over whom did not thy wickedness pass continually?


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How long, O Lord, have I entreated <i>thee</i>, and thou wouldst not hear? <i>how long</i> shall I cry out unto thee <i>because of</i> violence, and thou wilt not save?


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Why wilt thou let me see wickedness, and wilt look on trouble, and the robbery and violence <i>that are</i> before me: while there is strife, and contention lifteth up <i>its head</i>?


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Therefore is the law powerless, and justice cometh not forth victorious; for the wicked encompasseth about the righteous; therefore doth justice come forth perverted.


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Look ye about among the nations, and behold and be astonished and astounded; for <i>God</i> will fulfill a work in your days, ye would not believe it, if it were only told you.


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For, lo, I will raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and impetuous nation, that march to the wide spaces of the earth to conquer dwellingplaces that are not theirs.


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And swifter than leopards are their horses, and fiercer than the evening wolves; and their horsemen spread themselves abroad: and their horsemen will come from afar; they will fly like the eagle hastening to eat.


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They all will come for violence: the front of their faces is like the east wind, and they gather captives as the sand.


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And they will make sport with kings, and princes will be a play unto them: at every stronghold will they laugh, and they will cast up earthmounds and capture it.


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Then doth their spirit become arrogant, and they are surpassingly proud, and offend, <i>imputing</i> this their power unto their god.


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Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? we shall not die. O Lord, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O Protector, thou hast appointed them to correct <i>nations</i>.


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Thou, who art too pure of eyes to behold evil, and canst not look on trouble, wherefore wilt thou look upon those that deal treacherously, be silent when the wicked swalloweth up him that is more righteous than he?


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And <i>why</i> makest thou men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?


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All of them he bringeth up with the angle, he draggeth them up in his net, and gathereth them in his drag: therefore he rejoiceth and is glad.


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Therefore he sacrificeth unto his net, and burneth incense unto his drag; because through them is his portion fat, and his food marrowy.


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Upon my watch will I stand, and place myself upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will speak with me, and what I shall answer to my reproof.


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And the Lord answered me, and said, Write down the vision, and make it plain upon the tables, that everyone may read it fluently.


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For there is yet a vision for the appointed time, and it speaketh of the end, and it will not deceive: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not be delayed.


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Behold, disturbed, not at rest is the soul of <i>the wicked</i> in him; but the righteous ever liveth in his <i>trustful</i> faith.


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And though the wine<i>drunken</i> traitor, the proud man, whose house will not stand, who enlargeth his desire as the grave, and is like death, which cannot be satisfied,though he gather unto him all the nations, and assemble unto him all the people:


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Will not all these take up a parable against him, and a proverb and a satire concerning him? and they will say, Woe to him that increaseth what is not his! for how long? and to him that loadeth himself with a burden of guilt!


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Behold, suddenly will rise up those that afflict thee, and awake those that plague thee, and thou shalt become a booty unto them.


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Because thou hast despoiled many nations will all the remnant of the people despoil thee; because of the blood of men, and the violence against the land, the town, and all that dwell therein.


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Woe to him that obtaineth an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the grasp of the wicked!


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Thou hast counselled shame to thy house, by cutting off many people, and sinning <i>against</i> thy soul.


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Woe to him that buildeth a city with bloodguiltiness, and layeth the foundation of a town by wrongdoing.


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Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts that people shall labor for the very fire, and nations shall weary themselves for naught but vanity!


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Woe unto him that maketh his neighbors drink, <i>to thee</i> that pourest out thy poisonous <i>wine</i>, and makest them also drunken, in order to look on their nakedness!


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Thou art filled with shame instead of glory; drink thou also, and let thy nakedness be uncovered: there shall be turned around thee the cup of the Lords right hand, and filthy spittle shall be on thy glory.


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For the violence against Lebanon shall cover thee, and the destruction of beasts, which he terrified away; because of the blood of men, and the violence against the land, the town, and all that dwell therein.


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What profiteth the graven image that its maker hath graven it? the molten image, and a teacher of falsehood? that the maker of his image trusteth therein, while making dumb idols?


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Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake! Rouse up to the dumb stone. Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and no breath whatever is in its bosom.


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O Lord, I have heard thy fame, <i>and</i> was afraid: O Lord, thy workin the midst of the years <i>of sorrow</i> revive thou it, in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.


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<i>When</i> God from Theman came, and the Holy One from mount Paran, Selah: his glory covered the heavens, and of his praise the earth was full.


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And <i>his</i> brightness was like the sunlight; rays streamed forth out of his hand unto them; and there was the hiding of his power.


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He stood forward, and made the earth tremble; he looked and dispersed nations; and there burst asunder the everlasting mountains; there sunk the perpetual hills: the ways of the world are his.


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Was the Lord wroth against the rivers? yea, was against the rivers thy anger <i>kindled</i>? was against the sea thy wrath that thou rodest upon thy horses, thy chariots of victory!


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Laid quite bare is thy bow, like severe rods of punishment <i>goeth forth</i> thy word, Selah: into rivers thou splittest the earth.


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The mountains saw thee, they trembled; the flowing waters passed along: the deep issued forth its voice, the height lifted up its hands.


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The sun and moon stood still in their dwelling: at the light of thy arrows they walked along, at the shining of the flaming glitter of thy spear.


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Thou wentest forth to the assistance of thy people, to the assistance of thy anointed: thou didst wound the head out of the house of the wicked, destroy the foundation with the hightowering walls. Selah.


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Thou didst strike through with his own spears the chiefs of his villages, who rushed out furiously to scatter me; who rejoiced greatly as though they were to devour the poor in secret.


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<i>But</i> thou didst pass along over the sea with thy horses, over the piled up billows of great waters.


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I heard it, and my inmost parts trembled; at the report my lips quivered; rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in my place, that I should rest till the day of distress, till the withdrawing of the people that will invade us with its troops.


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For the figtree doth not bud, and no fruit is on the vines; the productiveness of the olive deceiveth, and the fields yield no food; from the fold the flocks are cut off, and there are no herds in the stalls.


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The Lord Eternal is my strength, and he maketh my feet fleet as those of the hinds, and he will cause me to tread upon my high places. To the chief musician of my songs.


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The word of the Lord which came unto Zephanyah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedalyah, the son of Amaryah, the son of Chizkiyah, 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 fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling blocks together with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the face of the earth, saith the Lord.


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And I will stretch out my hand over Judah, and over all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, the name of his ministers with his priests;


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And those that bow themselves down on the roofs of houses to the host of heaven; and those that bow themselves down that are sworn <i>to be true</i> to the Lord and still swear by Malkom;


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And those that are turned away from following the Lord; and those that have not sought for the Lord, and have not inquired of him.


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Be silent in the presence of the Lord Eternal; for nigh is the day of the Lord; for the Lord hath prepared a slaughter, he hath bidden his invited guests.


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And it shall come to pass on the day of the Lords slaughter, that I will inflict punishment on the princes, and on the kings sons, and on all such as are clothed in garments of a foreign land.


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And I will inflict punishment on all those that leap over the threshold on that day, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.


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And it shall come to pass on that day, saith the Lord, that there shall be a loud cry of lamentation from the fishgate, and a wailing from the second, and <i>that of</i> a great breach from the hills.


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Wail, ye inhabitants of the mortarstreet, for destroyed are all the trading people; cut off are all that were laden with silver.


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And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem through with lights; and I will inflict punishment on the men that are at rest on their lees, that say in their heart, The Lord will not do good, nor will he do evil.


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And their wealth shall become a booty, and their houses shall be made desolate; and they will build houses, but they shall not inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, but they shall not drink their wine.


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Nigh is the great day of the Lord, it is nigh, and hasteneth greatly, <i>there is</i> the noise of the day of the Lord: bitterly crieth there the mighty man.


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A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anxiety, a day of wasting and desolation, a day of darkness and obscurity, a day of clouds and tempestuous gloom,


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And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk about like the blind, because against the Lord have they sinned: and their blood shall be poured out like the dust, and their flesh like the dung.


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Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the Lords wrath; through the fire of whose zeal the whole land shall be devoured; for destruction, yea, quite sudden, will he prepare for all the inhabitants of the land.


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Before the decree is brought forthlike the chaff the day passeth awaybefore yet there be come over you the fierce anger of the Lord, before yet there be come over you the day of the anger of the Lord.


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Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, who have fulfilled his ordinances; seek righteousness, seek meekness: perhaps ye will be protected on the day of the Lords anger.


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For Gazzah shall become forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolate place: Ashdod shall they drive out at the noon of day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.


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Woe unto the inhabitants of the district by the sea, the nation of the Kerethites! the word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that no inhabitant shall remain.


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And this district shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; thereupon shall they feed their flocks: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening; for the Lord their God will think of them, and bring back their captivity.


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I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have reproached my people, and made themselves great against their border.


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Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall become like Sodom, and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, overgrown with nettles, and <i>filled with</i> saltpits, and a desolation to eternity; the residue of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my nation shall possess them.


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This shall they have in recompense for their pride; because they have reproached and made themselves great against the people of the Lord of hosts.


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Terrible will the Lord <i>appear</i> over them; for he will cause to vanish all the gods of the earth; and then shall prostrate themselves before him, every one from its place, all the isles of the nations.


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And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and he will make Nineveh a desolate place, dry, like the wilderness.


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And there shall lie down in the midst of her flocks, all the beasts of the nations; both the pelican and the hedgehog shall lodge in the capitals of her columns; singingbirds shall sing in the windows; ruin shall be on the thresholds; for the cedar wainscoting shall be torn away.


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This is the joyful city that dwelt in security, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none else beside me: how is she become desolate, a restingplace for beasts! Every one that passeth by her will hiss, and shake his hand.


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She hearkened not to any voice; she accepted no correction; in the Lord she did not trust; to her God she drew not near.


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Her princes in her midst are roaring lions: her judges are evening wolves, they leave not a bone for the morning.


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Her prophets are thoughtless men of treachery: her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.


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The just Lord is in her midst, he will not do wrong; morning after morning doth he bring his justice to the light <i>of day</i>, it never faileth; but the unjust knoweth no shame.


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I have cut off nations; destroyed are their battlements; I have laid in ruins their streets, so that none passeth through; their cities are wasted, without a man, without an inhabitant.


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I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt accept correction; so that her dwelling should not be cut off, all that I had decreed to bring over her; but they rose up early, they acted corruptly in all their doings.


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Therefore wait but for me, saith the Lord, for the day that I rise up to the prey; for my judgment <i>cometh</i> to gather the nations, for me to assemble the kingdoms, to pour over them my indignation, all the fierceness of my anger; for through the fire of my jealousy shall all the earth be devoured.


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Yea then will I change unto the people a pure language, that they may all call on the name of the Lord, to serve him with one accord.


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From beyond the rivers of Cush shall they bring my suppliants, even the assembly of my dispersed, as an offering unto me.


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On that day shalt thou not be ashamed because of all thy doings, whereby thou hast transgressed against me; for then will I remove out of the midst of thee those that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt never more be haughty again on my holy mount.


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And I will leave remaining in the midst of thee a humble and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the Lord.


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The remnant of Israel shall not do injustice, nor speak lies; and there shall not be found in their mouth a deceitful tongue; for they shall feed and lie down, with none to make them afraid.


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Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; rejoice and be glad with all thy heart, O daughter of Jerusalem!


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The Lord hath removed thy punishment, he hath cleared away thy enemy: the king of Israel, the Lord, is in the midst of thee; thou shalt not see evil any more.


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On that day shall it be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: <i>to</i> Zion, Let not thy hands become weak.


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The Lord thy God is in the midst of thee, the mighty one who will save; he will be glad over thee with rejoicing; he will be silent in his love, he will exult over thee with song.


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Those that mourn far away from the festive assembly do I gather, those that were separated from thee, <i>that have borne</i> for thee the burden of reproach.


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Behold, I will deal <i>severely</i> with all that afflict thee at that time: and I will save her that halteth, and her that was driven off will I gather; and I will render them a praise and a famous name on all the earth where they have been put to shame.


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At that time will I bring you back, even in the time that I gather you; for I will make you for a name and for a praise among all people of the earth, when I bring back again your captives before your eyes, saith the Lord.


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In the second year of king Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord through means of Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealthiel, the governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,


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Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, saying, This people have said, The time is not yet come, the time for the Lords house to be built.


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Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but it doth not satisfy hunger; ye drink, but it doth not appease thirst; ye clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he that earneth something earneth it for a bag with holes.


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Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house: that I may take pleasure in it, and be glorified, saith the Lord.


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<i>Till now</i> ye looked for much, and lo, it came to be little; and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. For what cause? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of my house that lieth in ruins, while ye run every man unto his own house.


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And I called for a drought over the land, and over the mountains, and over the corn, and over the new wine, and over the oil, and over what the ground bringeth forth, and over men, and over cattle, and over all the labor of the hands.


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Then hearkened Zerubbabel the son of Shealthiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, unto the voice of the Lord their God, and to the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him, and the people were afraid of the Lord.


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Then said Haggai the messenger of the Lord by the Lords message unto the people saying, I am with you, saith the Lord.


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And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealthiel, 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 on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God.


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In the seventh <i>month</i>, on the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the Lord by means of Haggai the prophet, saying,


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Do say to Zerubbabel the son of Shealthiel, the governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,


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Who is there yet left among you that hath seen this house in its first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in comparison with it as nothing in your eyes?


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Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the Lord, and be strong O Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord, and do; <i>for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts,</i>


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<i>In accordance with</i> the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so <i>will</i> my spirit remain among you: fear nought.


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For thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Yet one thing more <i>will I do</i>, it is but little, when I will cause to quake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;


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And I will cause to quake all the nations, and the precious things of all the nations shall come <i>hither</i>: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.


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Greater shall be the glory of this latter house than that of the former, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.


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On the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord by means of Haggai the prophet, saying,


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Lo! if one should carry holy flesh in the corner of his garment, and touch with his corner bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No.


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Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body shall touch any of these, will it become unclean? And the priests answered and said, It will become unclean.


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Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord; and so are all works of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean.


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And now direct, I pray you, your heart from this day and upward, before the time that a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord:


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Since those days were, when one came to a heap of sheaves of twenty <i>in number</i>, and there were but ten; when one came to the winepress for to draw off fifty measures out of the vat, and there were but twenty.


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I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labors of your hands: yet ye <i>turned</i> not <i>back</i> to me, saith the Lord.


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Direct, I pray you, your heart from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lords temple was laid, direct your heart <i>to this</i>.


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Is the seed yet in the barn? yes, as yet the vine, and the figtree, and the pomegranate, and the olivetree, have not brought forth; <i>but</i> from this day will I bless you.


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And the word of the Lord came the second time unto Haggai on the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,


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And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; and I will overthrow chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.


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On that day, saith the Lord of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, the son of Shealthiel, my servant, saith the Lord, and I will place thee as a signet; for of thee have I made choice, saith the Lord of hosts.


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In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, the son of Berechyah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,


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And <i>now</i> say thou unto them, Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Return ye unto me, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will return unto you: so hath said the Lord of hosts.


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Be ye not like your fathers, unto whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Do return from your evil ways, and your evil doings; but they did not hear, nor listen unto me, saith the Lord.


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But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, behold, they did overtake your fathers: and <i>then</i> they returned and said, Just as the Lord of hosts had purposed to do unto us, in accordance with our ways, and in accordance with our doings, so hath he dealt with us.


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On the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, the son of Berechyahu, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,


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I saw this night, and behold there was a man riding upon a red horse, and he was standing among the myrtletrees that were in the deep valley; and behind him were red, pale, and white horses.


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And I said, What are these, O my lord? Then said unto me the angel that spoke with me, I will show thee what these are.


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And the man that stood among the myrtletrees answered and said, These are those whom the Lord hath sent to traverse the earth.


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And they answered the angel of the Lord that stood among the myrtletrees, and said, We have traversed the earth, and, behold, all the earth is inhabited quietly, and is at rest.


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Then commenced the angel of the Lord, and said, O Lord of hosts, how long yet wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast been indignant these seventy years?


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And the angel that spoke with me said unto me, Proclaim thou, saying, Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.


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And with a great anger will I be angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little angry <i>with Zion</i>, and they helped forward the mischief.


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Therefore thus hath said the Lord, I am returned to Jerusalem in mercy: my house shall be rebuilt in it, saith the Lord of hosts, and the measuringline shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem.


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Proclaim yet <i>farther</i>, saying, Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, My cities shall again overflow with prosperity: and the Lord will again comfort Zion, and make choice again of Jerusalem.


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<n>(2:2)</n> And I said unto the angel who spoke with me, What are these? And he said unto me, These are the horns that have dispersed Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.


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<n>(2:4)</n> Then said I, What are these coming to do? And he said as followeth, These are the horns that have dispersed Judah, to the extent that no man could lift up his head; but these are come to terrify them, to cast off the horns of the nations, that have been lifting up their horn over the land of Judah to disperse it.


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<n>(2:5)</n> And I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, there was a man with a measurecord in his hand.


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<n>(2:6)</n> Then said I, Whither art thou going? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is her breadth, and what is her length.


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<n>(2:7)</n> And, behold, the angel that spoke with me went out, and another angel came out to meet him;


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<n>(2:8)</n> And he said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Without walls shall Jerusalem be inhabited because of the multitude of men and cattle in her midst.


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<n>(2:9)</n> But II will be unto her, saith the Lord, a wall of fire round about, and for glory will I be in the midst of her.


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<n>(2:10)</n> Up! up! and flee away from the land of the north saith the Lord; for as the four winds of the heaven have I spread you abroad, saith the Lord.


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<n>(2:12)</n> For thus hath said the Lord of hosts, For the sake of <i>your</i> glory hath he sent me unto the nations that have despoiled you; for whoever toucheth you, toucheth the apple of his eye.


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<n>(2:13)</n> For, behold, I will swing my hand over them, and they shall be a spoil to those that served them: and ye shall acknowledge that the Lord of hosts hath sent me.


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<n>(2:14)</n> Sing, and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for, lo, I am coming, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.


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<n>(2:15)</n> And many nations will join themselves to the Lord on that day, and they shall be unto me for a people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto thee.


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<n>(2:16)</n> And the Lord will take Judah as his inheritance upon the holy land; and he will again make choice of Jerusalem.


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And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and the accuser standing at his right hand to accuse him.


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And the Lord said unto the accuser, The Lord rebuke thee, O Accuser; yea, the Lord rebuke thee that hath chosen Jerusalem: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?


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And he commenced and said unto those that stood before him, saying; Take away the filthy garments from him. And he said unto him, Behold, I have caused thy iniquity to pass from off thee, and I clothe thee with festive garments.


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And I said, Let them place a clean mitre upon his head. So they placed the clean mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments; rind the angel of the Lord stood by.


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Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then shalt thou also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.


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Do but hear, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee; for distinguished men are they; for, behold, I will bring my servant Zemach <i>the Sprout</i>.


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For behold <i>here is</i> the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave thereon its inscription, saith the Lord of hosts, And I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.


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On that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall ye call every man to his neighbor under the vine and under the figtree.


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And the angel that spoke with me came back again, and waked me up, as a man that is wakened up out of his sleep;


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And he said unto me, What art thou seeing? And I said, I have looked, and behold, there is a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon its top, and its seven lamps are thereupon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon its top:


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And two olivetrees are by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.


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Then the angel that spoke with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these are? And I said, No, my lord.


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Then answered he and spoke unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.


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Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou wilt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone with shoutings of, Grace, grace unto it.


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The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands shall complete it: and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you.


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For whoever even despised the day of <i>its</i> small beginning: yet will they rejoice when they see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel, with those seven; they are the eyes of the Lord, which hold a survey through all the earth.


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And I began, and said unto him, What are these two olivetrees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon its left?


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And I began a second time, and said unto him, What are these two olivebranches, which are close by the two golden pipes which empty out of themselves the goldcolored oil?


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And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll, its length is twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits.


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Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of all the earth; for every one that stealeth as it is on this side shall be in an equal degree entirely destroyed, as also every one that sweareth <i>falsely</i> as it is on that side shall be likewise entirely destroyed.


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I bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with its timber and its stones.


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Then went forth the angel that spoke with me, and said unto me, Do but lift up thy eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.


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And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their appearance through all the earth.


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And, behold, there was lifted up a heavy <i>cover</i> of lead: and there was a certain woman sitting in the midst of the ephah.


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And he said, This is the wickedness. And he cast her into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weighty lead cover upon the mouth thereof.


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Then did I lift up my eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, having the wind in their wings, and they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.


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And he said unto me, To build for it a house in the land of Shinar: and when this is erected, then will the other be set there upon its own base.


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And I again lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, there came out four chariots from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of copper.


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And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth after having stood before the Lord of all the earth.


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The <i>chariot</i> on which are black horsesthese go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grizzled go forth toward the south country.


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And the redcolored were gone forth, and sought to traverse the earth: and he said, Go, traverse the earth. So they traversed the earth.


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Then cried he loudly unto me, and spoke unto me, saying, Behold, these that are going toward the north country, have quieted <i>the indignation of</i> my spirit in the north country.


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Take from the exiles, from Cheldai, from Tobiyahu, and from Yedayah, and thou shalt come on the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephanyah, whither they have arrived from Babylon;


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Take also silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak the high priest;


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And thou shalt say unto him as followeth, Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold a man, Sprout is his name; since out of his own place shall he sprout up, even he shall build the temple of the Lord:


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Yea, he shall build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and a priest shall be upon his own throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between both of them.


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And the crowns shall be for Chelem, and for Tobiyah, and for Yedayah, and for Chen the son of Zephanyah, as a memorial in the temple of the Lord.


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And distant ones shall come and build on the temple of the Lord, and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your God.


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And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius that the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, in Kislev;


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When they had sent unto Bethel Sherezer and Regemmelech, and his men, to make entreaty before the Lord.


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<i>And</i> to say unto the priests who were in the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Shall I weep in the fifth month with abstinence, as I have done already these many years?


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Say unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, as followeth, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh <i>month</i>, already these seventy years, did ye in anywise fast for me, yea, for me?


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And if ye do eat, and if ye do drink, are ye not yourselves those that eat, and yourselves those that drink?


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Are not these the words which the Lord hath proclaimed by means of the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, with her cities round about her, when <i>men</i> inhabited the south, and the lowlands?


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Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true justice, and show kindness and mercy every man to his brother;


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And defraud not the widow, or the fatherless, the stranger, or the poor; and imagine not evil in your heart one against the other.


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But they refused to listen, and turned away rebelliously the shoulder, and stopped their ears, so as not to hear;


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And their heart they rendered as an adamant, so as not to hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent through his spirit, by means of the former prophets: wherefore came a great anger from the Lord of hosts.


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And it is come to pass, that as he proclaimed, and they would not hear: so had they to call, and I would not hear, saith the Lord of hosts;


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And I resolved to scatter them with a stormwind among all the nations that they had not known; and the land was left desolate after them, without any one to pass through it forward or backward; and the pleasant land have they changed into a desert.


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Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, I am jealous for Zion with a great jealousy, and with great fury am I jealous for her.


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Thus hath said the Lord, I return unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called, The city of truth; and the mount of the Lord of hosts, The holy mount.


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Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Again shall there sit old men and old women in the streets of Jerusalem, and every one with his staff in his hand because of their multitude of years.


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Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, If it should be marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes? saith the Lord of hosts.


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Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the country of the setting of the sun;


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And I will bring them <i>back</i>, that they may dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be unto me for a people, and I will be unto them for a God, in truth and in righteousness.


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Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words out of the mouth of the prophets, who <i>spoke</i> on the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, when the temple was to be built.


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For before those days there was no reward for man, nor any reward for beast; and for him that went out or came in there was no peace, because of the oppressor: and I let loose all men, every one against his neighbor.


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But now I am no more as in the former days unto the residue of this people, saith the Lord of hosts.


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For the seed shall be undisturbed; the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give her production, and the heavens shall give their dew: and I will bestow on the remnant of this people all these things.


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And it shall come to pass, that, in the same degree as ye have been a curse among the nations, O house of Judah, and house of Israel, so will I save you and ye shall be a blessing: fear not; let your hands be strong.


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For thus hath said the Lord of hosts, As I had purposed to do you evil, when your fathers incensed me, saith the Lord of hosts, and I bethought myself not:


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So do I again purpose in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah; fear ye not.


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These are the things that ye shall do, Speak ye the truth every man to his neighbor; <i>with</i> truth and the judgment of peace judge ye in your gates;


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And let none of you think evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love not a false oath, for all these are what I hate, saith the Lord.


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Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, The fast of the fourth, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth <i>month</i>, shall become to the house of Judah gladness and joy, and merry festivals: only love ye the truth and peace.


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Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, <i>A time</i> shall yet be when there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities;


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And the inhabitants of one <i>city</i> shall go to another, saying, Let us only go to pray before the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts: I too will likewise go.


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And many people and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord.


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Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, In those days <i>it shall happen</i>, that ten men out of all the languages of the nations shall take holdyea, they shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, Let us go with you; for we have heard that God is with you.


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The prophecy of the word of the Lord concerning the land of Chadrach, and Damascus his restingplace; for unto the Lord <i>will look</i> the eye of men, and <i>that of</i> all the tribes of Israel;


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And though Tyre have built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets:


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Behold, the Lord will drive her out, and he will strike down her power into the sea; and she herself shall be devoured with fire.


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Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gazzah also, and tremble greatly: and Ekron, for her trust will be made ashamed: and the king shall vanish from Gazzah, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.


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And I will remove their bloody<i>sacrifices</i> out of their mouth, and their abominations from between their teeth; and their land also shall be left for our God, and it shall be as a princes <i>dwelling</i> in Judah, and Ekron shall be like Jebusi.


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And I will encamp about my house against armies, against those that pass to and fro, and there shall not pass over them any more an oppressor; for now do I look <i>on them</i> with my eyes.


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Be greatly glad, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! behold, thy King will come unto thee, righteous and victorious is he, lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of a sheass.


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And I will cut off chariots from Ephraim, and horses from Jerusalem, and there shall be cut off the battlebow, and he shall speak peace unto the nations; and his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.


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As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant, do I send forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein there is no water.


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Return you to the stronghold, ye hopeful prisoners: even today do I declare, that I will recompense twofold <i>good</i> unto thee.


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For I do bend Judah for me, grasp Ephraim <i>as</i> a bow; and I will stir up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Javan, and I will render thee as the sword of a mighty man.


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And the Lord will appear over them, and then will go forth like the lightning his arrow: and the Lord Eternal will blow on the cornet, and he will go along in the tempests of the south.


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The Lord of hosts will be a shield over them; and they shall devour <i>the prey</i>, and subdue the slingstones; and they shall drink, make a noise as one <i>drunken with</i> wine; and they shall be filled like the offeringbowls, like the corners of the altar.


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And the Lord their God will save them on that day as the flock of his people; for <i>like</i> the stones of a crown, will they elevate themselves over his land.


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For how great will be <i>that generations</i> happiness, and how great its beauty! corn shall make the young men sing joyfully, and new wine the virgins.


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Ask from the Lord rain at the time of the latter rain, <i>from</i> the Lord who maketh lightningclouds: and he will give unto them showers of rain, to every herb in the field.


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For the Theraphim speak vanity, and the diviners foresee a lie, and those that have dreams speak what is false, with nought do they comfort: therefore do they move about like a flock, they bleat, because <i>they have</i> no shepherd.


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Against the shepherds is my anger kindled, and on the hegoats will I inflict punishment; for the Lord of hosts thinketh of his flock, the house of Judah, and maketh them as his elegant horse in the battle.


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Out of him cometh forth the corner<i>stone</i>, out of him the tentnail, out of him the battlebow, out of him every ruler <i>of others</i> together.


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And they shall be like mighty men, treading down <i>their enemies</i> in the mire of the streets in the battle, and they shall fight, because the Lord is with them: and the riders on horses shall be made ashamed.


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And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and the house of Joseph will I save, and I will bring them again to their own homes; for I have mercy upon them, and they shall be as though I had never cast them off; for I am the Lord their God, and I will answer their prayer.


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And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as though from wine: and their children shall see it, and be rejoiced; their heart shall be glad in the Lord.


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I will call for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased <i>formerly</i>.


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And when I shall have scattered them among the people, they will remember me in the faroff countries: therefore shall they live with their children, and return again.


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And I will bring them back again out of the land of Egypt, and out of Assyria will I gather them; and into the land of Gilad and Lebanon will I bring them, and it shall not be sufficient for them.


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And he will pass through the sea <i>with</i> distress, and he will smite in the sea the waves, and there shall dry up all the deeps of the stream: and there shall be brought down the pride of Assyria, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.


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Wail, firtree; for fallen is the cedar; those that were mighty are despoiled: wail, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the impervious forest is come down.


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<i>There is</i> the noise of the wailing of the shepherds; for wasted is their glory: <i>there is</i> the noise of the roaring of young lions; for wasted is the pride of the Jordan.


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Whom their buyers slay, and hold themselves guiltless; and whose sellers say, Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich: and none of whose shepherds have pity on them.


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For I will no more have pity on the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into the hand of his neighbor, and into the hand of his king: and they shall beat down the land, and I will not deliver out of their hand.


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And I had fed the flocks <i>that were destined for</i> the slaughter,indeed, the poorest of the flocks; and I had taken unto me two staves; the one I called Mildness <i>Noam</i>, and the other I called Concord <i>Choblim</i>: and I fed the flocks.


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And I removed the three shepherds in one month; and my soul was tired of them, and also their soul abhorred me.


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Then said I, I will not feed you: what is dying may die; and what is to be lost may be lost; and those that are left may eat every one the flesh of the other.


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And I took my staff, namely, Mildness, and cut it to pieces, to annul my covenant which I had made with all the tribes.


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And when it was annulled on that day, then knew they well, truly the poorest of the flocks that waited for me, that it was the word of the Lord.


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And I said unto them, If it be good in your eyes, give me my reward; and if not, forbear. So they weighed out as my reward thirty pieces of silver.


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And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the treasurer, the precious price which I am prized at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them in the house of the Lord unto the treasurer.


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Then I cut in pieces my second staff, namely, Concord, to annul the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.


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For, lo, I raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not think of those that are lost, nor seek for that which is gone astray, nor heal that which hath <i>a limb</i> broken; who will not care for that which hath stood still; but who will eat the flesh of the fat, and devour all even to their claws.


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Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall utterly wither, and his right eye shall be completely blinded.


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The prophecy of the word of the Lord concerning Israel, Saith the Lord, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him:


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Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of confusion unto all the people round about; and also against Judah, who will have to be at the siege against Jerusalem.


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And it shall come to pass on that day that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the people; all that burden themselves with it shall be severely cut: yet then will be gathered together against it all the nations of the earth.


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On that day, saith the Lord, will I smite every horse with dizziness, and his rider with madness; but over the house of Judah will I open my eyes, while I will smite every horse of the people with blindness.


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And the chiefs of Judah will say in their heart, A strong support for me are the inhabitants of Jerusalem through the Lord of hosts their God.


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On that day will I make the chiefs of Judah like a firehearth among the wood, and like a torch of fire among sheaves; and they shall devour on the right hand and on the left all the people round about; and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.


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The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first: in order that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall not become boastful over Judah.


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On that day will the Lord be a shield around the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and the feeblest among them shall be on that day like David; and the house of David shall be like divine beings, like an angel of the Lord before them.


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And it shall come to pass on that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that are come against Jerusalem.


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But I will pour out over the house of David, and over the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they will look up toward me <i>for every one</i> whom they have thrust through, and they will lament for him, as one lamenteth for an only son, and weep bitterly for him, as one weepeth bitterly for the firstborn.


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On that day will the lamentation be great in Jerusalem, like the lamentation at Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.


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And the land will mourn, every family apart by itself: the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;


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The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimi apart, and their wives apart;


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On that day shall there be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for cleansing from sin and for purification.


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And it shall come to pass on that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall not be remembered any more: and also the prophets and the unclean spirit will I remove out of the land.


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And it shall come to pass, if any one should yet prophesy, that his father and his mother who have begotten him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for falsely hast thou spoken in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother who have begotten him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.


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And it shall come to pass on that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one because of his vision, when he prophesieth; and they shall not clothe themselves with a hairy cloak in order to deceive.


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But he will say, I am no prophet, a man that tilleth the ground am I; for some one hath taught me to keep cattle from my youth.


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And should some one say unto him, What are these wounds between thy hands? Then will he say, Those with which I have been wounded in the house of my <i>vicious</i> friends.


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Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man whom I have associated with me, saith the Lord of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; but I will turn my hand toward the feeble ones.


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And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts <i>of those</i> therein shall be cut off, shall perish; but the third part shall be left therein.


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And I will bring the third part into the fire, and I will refine them as one refineth silver, and will probe them as gold is probed: they will call on my name, and I will answer their prayer; I will say, They arc my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.


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And I will assemble all the nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be captured, and the houses plundered, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into exile, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.


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Then will the Lord go forth, and fight against these nations, as on the day when he fought on the day of battle.


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And his feet will stand on that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall be split in twain in its middle eastward and westward, making a very great valley; and half of the mount shall remove northward, and half of it southward.


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And ye shall flee <i>from</i> the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal; and ye shall flee, just as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziyah the king of Judah: and then will come the Lord my God, and all the saints with thee.


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And it shall come to pass on that day, that there shall be no light, but fleeting light and thick darkness;


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But it shall be one particular day which shall indeed be known as the Lords, neither day nor night; but it shall come to pass, that at eveningtime there shall be light.


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And it shall happen on that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem, the half of them toward the eastern sea, and the other half of them toward the western sea: in summer and in winter shall it be so.


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And the Lord will be king over all the earth: on that day shall the Lord be <i>acknowledged</i> one, and his name be one.


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All the land shall be changed as it were into a plain from Geba to Rimmon to the south of Jerusalem; and she herself shall be elevated, and be inhabited on her former site, from the gate of Benjamin unto the place of the first gate, up to the corner gate, and from the tower of Chananel unto the kings winepresses.


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And men shall dwell in it, and no destruction shall any more take place; but Jerusalem shall be inhabited in safety.


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And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will afflict all the people that shall have come to battle against Jerusalem: The flesh of every one shall consume away while he standeth upon his feet, and his eyes shall consume away in their holes, and the tongue of every one shall consume away in his mouth.


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And it shall come to pass on that day, that a great confusion from the Lord shall be among them: and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.


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And also Judah will have to fight against Jerusalem: and there shall be gathered together the wealth of all the nations round about, gold, and silver, and garments, in great abundance.


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And thus shall be the plague of the horses, of the mules, of the camels, and of the asses, and of all the beasts that will be in these camps, just like this plague.


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And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left out of all the nations who will have come against Jerusalem, yea, these shall go up year by year to bow down before the King, the Lord of hosts, and to celebrate the feast of tabernacles.


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And it shall happen, that whoso will not come up out of the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to bow down before the King, the Lord of hosts,even upon these there shall be no rain.


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And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, then shall not <i>any rain fall</i> upon them also: this shall be the plague, wherewith the Lord will afflict the nations that will not come up to celebrate the feast of tabernacles.


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This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that will not come up to celebrate the feast of tabernacles.


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On that day shall <i>every thing</i>, even to the bells of the horses, be holy unto the Lord; and the pots in the Lords house shall be like the bowls before the altar.


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And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holy unto the Lord of hosts; and all those that sacrifice will come and take some of them, and seethe therein: and on that day there shall be no more any trader in the house of the Lord of host.


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I have loved you, so hath said the Lord: yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Is not Esau brother to Jacob? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob;


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And Esau I hated; and I rendered his mountains a desert, and his heritage a dwelling for the monsters of the wilderness.


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Should Edom even say, We are impoverished; but we will return and build the ruined places: thus hath said the Lord of hosts, They may indeed build, but I will surely throw down; and men shall call them, The territory of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord hath indignation to eternity.


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And your eyes shall see it; and ye shall then say, The Lord will be magnified beyond the territory of Israel.


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A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name; and ye say, wherein have we despised thy name?


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Ye offer upon my altar polluted bread; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the Lord is contemptible.


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And if ye bring near the blind to sacrifice it, is this not evil? and if ye bring near the lame and the sick, is this not evil? do but present it unto thy governor, will he be pleased with thee, or receive thee with favor? saith the Lord of hosts.


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And now, I pray you, beseech the presence of God that he may be gracious unto us; from your hand hath this thing come: will he receive one of you with favor? saith the Lord of hosts.


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Oh that there were some one among you that would lock up the doors <i>of the sanctuary</i>, that ye might not light up my altar for nought: I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts, neither will I accept in favor an offering from your hand.


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For from the rising of the sun even unto his going down my name is great among the nations; and in every place incense is burnt and there is offered unto my name, even a pure offering; for great is my name among the nations, saith the Lord of hosts.


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But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted, and by the assertion, Its food is contemptible.


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And ye have said, Behold, what a wearisome task is it! and ye have left it to famish, saith the Lord of hosts; and ye have brought what was robbed, and the lame, and the sick, and thus ye have brought an offering: should I accept this in favor from your hand? saith the Lord.


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But cursed be the deceiver, who hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth a corrupt thing unto the Lord; for I am a great king, saith the Lord of hosts, and my name is feared among the nations.


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If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will even send out against you a curse, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I will curse the same, because ye do not lay it to heart.


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Behold, I will destroy unto you the seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your festive offerings; and one shall take you away with it.


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And ye shall thereby know that I have sent out unto you this commandment, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.


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My covenant was with him life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and because of my name he had dread.


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The law of truth was in his mouth, and falsehood was not found on his lips: in peace and equity he walked with me, and many did he turn away from iniquity.


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For the priests lips are ever to keep knowledge, and the law are they to seek from his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.


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But ye are indeed departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of the Levite, saith the Lord of hosts.


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Therefore have I also made you contemptible and low before all the people, in the same measure as ye do not keep my ways, but act with partiality in the law.


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Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? <i>then</i> why shall we deal treacherously every man against his brother, to profane the covenant of our fathers?


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Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination hath been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the sanctuary of the Lord which he loveth, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.


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The Lord will cut off unto the man that doth this, son and grandson, out of the tents of Jacob, and him that bringeth near an offering unto the Lord of hosts.


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And this do ye secondly, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping and with loud complaint, so that he turneth not any more his regard to the offerings, nor receiveth it with favor at your hand.


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Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast indeed dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.


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And not one doth so who hath a remnant of a <i>good</i> spirit; for what desireth such a one? he seeketh <i>to possess</i> a godly posterity: therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none of you deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.


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For he hateth putting away <i>the wife</i>, so hath said the Lord the God of Israel, and him who covereth his garment with violence, so hath said the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, and deal not treacherously.


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Ye have wearied the Lord with your words: yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? By your saying, Every one that doth evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and in them he findeth delight; or else, Where is the God of justice!


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Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall clear out the way before me: and suddenly will come to his temple the Lord, whom ye seek; and the messenger of the covenant, whom ye desire for, behold, he is coming, saith the Lord of hosts.


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But who can sustain the day of his coming? and who can stand when he appeareth? for he is like the fire of the melter, and like the lye of the washers:


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And he will sit as a melter and purifier of silver; and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness


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And then shall be pleasant unto the Lord the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem, as in the days of old, and as in former years.


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And I will come near unto you to <i>hold</i> judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against those that swear falsely, and against those that withhold the wages of the hired laborer, <i>oppress</i> the widow, and the fatherless, and that do injustice to the stranger, and fear me not, saith the Lord of hosts.


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From the days of your fathers did ye depart from my statutes, and did not keep them; return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts; but ye say, Wherein shall we return?


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Can a man rob God, that ye will rob me? But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and in heaveofferings.


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Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be provision in my house, and prove me but herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour out for you a blessing, until it be more than enough.


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And I will rebuke for you the devourer, and he shall not destroy for you the fruit of the ground: and the vine shall not cast its fruit for you before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.


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And all the nations shall call you blessed; for ye shall be a land of delight, saith the Lord of hosts.


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Your words have been strong against me, saith the Lord; but ye say, What have we spoken among us against thee?


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Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked contritely before the Lord of hosts?


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And now we call the presumptuous happy: yea, built up are those that practise wickedness; yea, they have even tempted God and are <i>yet</i> suffered to escape.


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Then conversed they that fear the Lord one with the other: and the Lord listened and heard it, and there was written a book of remembrance before him for those who fear the Lord, and for those who respect his name.


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And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, on that day which I create as a special treasure: and I will spare them, as a man spareth his son that serveth him.


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And ye shall return, and see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that hath not served him.


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<n>(3:19)</n> For, behold, the day is coming, which shall burn as an oven; and all the presumptuous, yea, and all who practise wickedness shall be stubble: and the day that is coming shall set them on fire, saith the Lord of hosts, who will not leave them root or bough.


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<n>(3:20)</n> But there shall rise unto you that fear my name the sun of righteousness with healing in his wings: and ye will go forth, and grow fat as calves of the stall.


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<n>(3:21)</n> And ye will tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day that I create, saith the Lord of hosts.


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<n>(3:22)</n> Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, whom I commanded on Horeb for all Israel, statutes and ordinances.


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<n>(3:23)</n> Behold, I send unto you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the day of the Lord, the great and the dreadful.


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<n>(3:24)</n> And he shall turn back the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers: lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.


