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A City Full of Lies

6"Run for your lives, children of Benjamin! Get out of Jerusalem, and now! Give a blast on the ram's horn in Blastville. Send up smoke signals from Smoketown. Doom pours out of the north— massive terror!H1121H1144H5756H7130H3389H8628H7782H8620H5375H4864H1021H7451H8259H6828H1419H7667 2I have likened my dear daughter Zion to a lovely meadow.H1820H1323H6726H5116H6026 3Well, now 'shepherds' from the north have discovered her and brought in their flocks of soldiers. They've pitched camp all around her, and plan where they'll 'graze.'H7462H5739H935H8628H168H5439H7462H376H3027 4And then, 'Prepare to attack! The fight is on! To arms! We'll strike at noon! Oh, it's too late? Day is dying? Evening shadows are upon us?H6942H4421H6965H5927H6672H188H3117H6437H6752H6153H5186 5Well, up anyway! We'll attack by night and tear apart her defenses stone by stone.'"H6965H5927H3915H7843H759 6GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies gave the orders: "Chop down her trees. Build a siege ramp against Jerusalem, A city full of brutality, bursting with violence.H3068H6635H559H3772H6097H8210H5550H3389H5892H6485H6233H7130 7Just as a well holds a good supply of water, she supplies wickedness nonstop. The streets echo the cries: 'Violence! Rape!' Victims, bleeding and moaning, lie all over the place.H953H6979H4325H6979H7451H2555H7701H8085H6440H8548H2483H4347 8You're in deep trouble, Jerusalem. You've pushed me to the limit. You're on the brink of being wiped out, being turned into a ghost town."H3256H3389H5315H3363H7760H8077H776H3427 9More orders from GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies: "Time's up! Harvest the grapes for judgment. Salvage what's left of Israel. Go back over the vines. Pick them clean, every last grape.H559H3068H6635H5953H5953H7611H3478H1612H7725H3027H1219H5552

Is Anybody Listening?

10"I've got something to say. Is anybody listening? I've a warning to post. Will anyone notice? It's hopeless! Their ears are stuffed with wax— deaf as a post, blind as a bat. It's hopeless! They've tuned out GOD. They don't want to hear from me.H1696H5749H8085H241H6189H3201H7181H1697H3068H2781H2654 11But I'm bursting with the wrath of GOD. I can't hold it in much longer. "So dump it on the children in the streets. Let it loose on the gangs of youth. For no one's exempt: Husbands and wives will be taken, the old and those ready to die;H4392H2534H3068H3811H3557H8210H5768H2351H5475H970H3162H376H802H3920H2205H4390H3117 12Their homes will be given away— all they own, even their loved ones— When I give the signal against all who live in this country." GOD's Decree.H1004H5437H312H7704H802H3162H5186H3027H3427H776H5002H3068 13"Everyone's after the dishonest dollar, little people and big people alike. Prophets and priests and everyone in between twist words and doctor truth.H6996H1419H1214H1215H5030H3548H6213H8267 14My people are broken—shattered!— and they put on band-aids, Saying, 'It's not so bad. You'll be just fine.' But things are not 'just fine'!H7495H7667H1323H5971H7043H559H7965H7965H7965 15Do you suppose they are embarrassed over this outrage? No, they have no shame. They don't even know how to blush. There's no hope for them. They've hit bottom and there's no getting up. As far as I'm concerned, they're finished." GOD has spoken.H3001H6213H8441H1571H954H954H1571H3045H3637H5307H5307H6256H6485H3782H559H3068

Death Is on the Prowl

16GOD's Message yet again: "Go stand at the crossroads and look around. Ask for directions to the old road, The tried and true road. Then take it. Discover the right route for your souls. But they said, 'Nothing doing. We aren't going that way.'H559H3068H5975H1870H7200H7592H5769H5410H2896H1870H3212H4672H4771H5315H559H3212 17I even provided watchmen for them to warn them, to set off the alarm. But the people said, 'It's a false alarm. It doesn't concern us.'H6965H6822H7181H6963H7782H559H7181 18And so I'm calling in the nations as witnesses: 'Watch, witnesses, what happens to them!'H8085H1471H3045H5712 19And, 'Pay attention, earth! Don't miss these bulletins.' I'm visiting catastrophe on this people, the end result of the games they've been playing with me. They've ignored everything I've said, had nothing but contempt for my teaching.H8085H776H935H7451H5971H6529H4284H7181H1697H8451H3988 20What would I want with incense brought in from Sheba, rare spices from exotic places? Your burnt sacrifices in worship give me no pleasure. Your religious rituals mean nothing to me."H935H3828H7614H2896H7070H4801H776H5930H7522H2077H6149 21So listen to this. Here's GOD's verdict on your way of life: "Watch out! I'm putting roadblocks and barriers on the road you're taking. They'll send you sprawling, parents and children, neighbors and friends— and that will be the end of the lot of you."H559H3068H5414H4383H5971H1H1121H3162H3782H7934H7453H6 22And listen to this verdict from GOD: "Look out! An invasion from the north, a mighty power on the move from a faraway place:H559H3068H5971H935H6828H776H1419H1471H5782H3411H776 23Armed to the teeth, vicious and pitiless, Booming like sea storm and thunder—tramp, tramp, tramp— riding hard on war horses, In battle formation against you, dear Daughter Zion!"H2388H7198H3591H394H7355H6963H1993H3220H7392H5483H6186H376H4421H1323H6726 24We've heard the news, and we're as limp as wet dishrags. We're paralyzed with fear. Terror has a death grip on our throats.H8085H8089H3027H7503H6869H2388H2427H3205 25Don't dare go outdoors! Don't leave the house! Death is on the prowl. Danger everywhere!H3318H7704H3212H1870H2719H341H4032H5439 26"Dear Daughter Zion: Dress in black. Blacken your face with ashes. Weep most bitterly, as for an only child. The countdown has begun . . . six, five, four, three . . . The Terror is on us!"H1323H5971H2296H8242H6428H665H6213H60H3173H8563H4553H7703H6597H935 27GOD gave me this task: "I have made you the examiner of my people, to examine and weigh their lives.H5414H969H4013H5971H3045H974H1870 28They're a thickheaded, hard-nosed bunch, rotten to the core, the lot of them.H5493H5637H1980H7400H5178H1270H7843 29Refining fires are cranked up to white heat, but the ore stays a lump, unchanged. It's useless to keep trying any longer. Nothing can refine evil out of them.H4647H2787H5777H8552H800H784H6884H6884H7723H7451H5423 30Men will give up and call them 'slag,' thrown on the slag heap by me, their GOD."H3988H3701H7121H3068H3988


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