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"Flee for safety, people of Benjamin! Flee from Jerusalem! Sound the trumpet in Tekoa! Raise the signal over Beth Hakkerem! For disaster looms out of the north, even terrible destruction. |
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I will destroy the Daughter of Zion, so beautiful and delicate. |
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Shepherds with their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents round her, each tending his own portion." |
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"Prepare for battle against her! Arise, let us attack at noon! But, alas, the daylight is fading, and the shadows of evening grow long. |
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So arise, let us attack at night and destroy her fortresses!" |
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This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Cut down the trees and build siege ramps against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; it is filled with oppression. |
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As a well pours out its water, so she pours out her wickedness. Violence and destruction resound in her; her sickness and wounds are ever before me. |
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Take warning, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you and make your land desolate so that no-one can live in it." |
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This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Let them glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine; pass your hand over the branches again, like one gathering grapes." |
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To whom can I speak and give warning? Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed so that they cannot hear. The word of the LORD is offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it. |
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But I am full of the wrath of the LORD, and I cannot hold it in. "Pour it out on the children in the street and on the young men gathered together; both husband and wife will be caught in it, and the old, those weighed down with years. |
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Their houses will be turned over to others, together with their fields and their wives, when I stretch out my hand against those who live in the land," declares the LORD. |
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"From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practise deceit. |
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They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious.`Peace, peace,' they say, when there is no peace. |
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Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when I punish them," says the LORD. |
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This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said,`We will not walk in it.' |
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I appointed watchmen over you and said,`Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But you said,`We will not listen.' |
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Therefore hear, O nations; observe, O witnesses, what will happen to them. |
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Hear, O earth: I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not listened to my words and have rejected my law. |
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What do I care about incense from Sheba or sweet calamus from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please me." |
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Therefore this is what the LORD says: "I will put obstacles before this people. Fathers and sons alike will stumble over them; neighbours and friends will perish." |
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This is what the LORD says: "Look, an army is coming from the land of the north; a great nation is being stirred up from the ends of the earth. |
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They are armed with bow and spear; they are cruel and show no mercy. They sound like the roaring sea as they ride on their horses; they come like men in battle formation to attack you, O Daughter of Zion." |
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We have heard reports about them, and our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labour. |
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Do not go out to the fields or walk on the roads, for the enemy has a sword, and there is terror on every side. |
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O my people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes; mourn with bitter wailing as for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us. |
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"I have made you a tester of metals and my people the ore, that you may observe and test their ways. |
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They are all hardened rebels, going about to slander. They are bronze and iron; they all act corruptly. |
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The bellows blow fiercely to burn away the lead with fire, but the refining goes on in vain; the wicked are not purged out. |
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They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them." |
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