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God Will Speak in Baby Talk

28Doom to the pretentious drunks of Ephraim, shabby and washed out and seedy— Tipsy, sloppy-fat, beer-bellied parodies of a proud and handsome past.H1945H5850H1348H7910H669H6643H8597H5034H6731H7218H8081H1516H1986H3196 2Watch closely: GOD has someone picked out, someone tough and strong to flatten them. Like a hailstorm, like a hurricane, like a flash flood, one-handed he'll throw them to the ground.H136H2389H533H2230H1259H6986H8178H2230H3524H4325H7857H3240H776H3027 3Samaria, the party hat on Israel's head, will be knocked off with one blow.H5850H1348H7910H669H7429H7272 4It will disappear quicker than a piece of meat tossed to a dog.H6643H8597H7218H8081H1516H5034H6733H1061H7019H7200H7200H3709H1104 5At that time, GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies will be the beautiful crown on the head of what's left of his people:H3117H3068H6635H5850H6643H6843H8597H7605H5971 6Energy and insights of justice to those who guide and decide, strength and prowess to those who guard and protect.H7307H4941H3427H4941H1369H7725H4421H8179 7These also, the priest and prophet, stagger from drink, weaving, falling-down drunks, Besotted with wine and whiskey, can't see straight, can't talk sense.H428H7686H3196H7941H8582H3548H5030H7686H7941H1104H4480H3196H8582H7941H7686H7203H6328H6417 8Every table is covered with vomit. They live in vomit.H7979H4390H6892H6675H4725 9"Is that so? And who do you think you are to teach us? Who are you to lord it over us? We're not babies in diapers to be talked down to by such as you—H3384H1844H995H8052H1580H2461H6267H7699 10'Da, da, da, da, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's a good little girl, that's a good little boy.'"H6673H6673H6673H6673H6957H6957H6957H6957H2191H2191 11But that's exactly how you will be addressed. God will speak to this people In baby talk, one syllable at a time—H3934H8193H312H3956H1696H5971 12and he'll do it through foreign oppressors. He said before, "This is the time and place to rest, to give rest to the weary. This is the place to lay down your burden." But they won't listen.H559H4496H5889H5117H4774H14H8085 13So GOD will start over with the simple basics and address them in baby talk, one syllable at a time— "Da, da, da, da, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's a good little girl, that's a good little boy." And like toddlers, they will get up and fall down, get bruised and confused and lost.H1697H3068H6673H6673H6673H6673H6957H6957H6957H6957H2191H2191H3212H3782H268H7665H3369H3920 14Now listen to GOD's Message, you scoffers, you who rule this people in Jerusalem.H8085H1697H3068H3944H582H4910H5971H3389 15You say, "We've taken out good life insurance. We've hedged all our bets, covered all our bases. No disaster can touch us. We've thought of everything. We're advised by the experts. We're set."H559H3772H1285H4194H7585H6213H2374H7857H7752H7885H5674H5674H935H7760H3577H4268H8267H5641

The Meaning of the Stone

16But the Master, GOD, has something to say to this: "Watch closely. I'm laying a foundation in Zion, a solid granite foundation, squared and true. And this is the meaning of the stone: A TRUSTING LIFE WON'T TOPPLE.H559H136H3069H3245H6726H68H976H68H3368H6438H3245H4143H539H2363 17I'll make justice the measuring stick and righteousness the plumb line for the building. A hailstorm will knock down the shantytown of lies, and a flash flood will wash out the rubble.H4941H7760H6957H6666H4949H1259H3261H4268H3577H4325H7857H5643 18"Then you'll see that your precious life insurance policy wasn't worth the paper it was written on. Your careful precautions against death were a pack of illusions and lies. When the disaster happens, you'll be crushed by it.H1285H4194H3722H2380H7585H6965H7857H7752H5674H4823 19Every time disaster comes, you'll be in on it— disaster in the morning, disaster at night." Every report of disaster will send you cowering in terror.H1767H5674H3947H1242H1242H5674H3117H3915H2113H995H8052 20There will be no place where you can rest, nothing to hide under.H4702H7114H8311H4541H6887H3664 21GOD will rise to full stature, raging as he did long ago on Mount Perazim And in the valley of Gibeon against the Philistines. But this time it's against you. Hard to believe, but true. Not what you'd expect, but it's coming.H3068H6965H2022H6559H7264H6010H1391H6213H4639H2114H4639H5647H5656H5237H5656 22Sober up, friends, and don't scoff. Scoffing will just make it worse. I've heard the orders issued for destruction, orders from GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies—ending up in an international disaster.H3887H4147H2388H8085H136H3069H6635H3617H2782H776 23Listen to me now. Give me your closest attention.H238H8085H6963H7181H8085H565 24Do farmers plow and plow and do nothing but plow? Or harrow and harrow and do nothing but harrow?H2790H2790H3117H2232H6605H7702H127 25After they've prepared the ground, don't they plant? Don't they scatter dill and spread cumin, Plant wheat and barley in the fields and raspberries along the borders?H7737H6440H6327H7100H2236H3646H7760H7795H2406H5567H8184H3698H1367 26They know exactly what to do and when to do it. Their God is their teacher.H430H3256H4941H3384 27And at the harvest, the delicate herbs and spices, the dill and cumin, are treated delicately.H7100H1758H2742H5699H212H5437H3646H7100H2251H4294H3646H7626 28On the other hand, wheat is threshed and milled, but still not endlessly. The farmer knows how to treat each kind of grain.H3899H1854H5331H156H1758H2000H1536H5699H1854H6571 29He's learned it all from GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, who knows everything about when and how and where.H3318H3068H6635H6381H6098H1431H8454


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