6Flee for safety, O people of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise a signal on Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms out of the north, and great destruction.H1121H1144H5756H7130H3389H8628H7782H8620H5375H4864H1021H7451H8259H6828H1419H76672The lovely and delicately bred I will destroy, the daughter of Zion.H1820H1323H6726H5116H60263Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her; they shall pasture, each in his place.H7462H5739H935H8628H168H5439H7462H376H30274"Prepare war against her; arise, and let us attack at noon! Woe to us, for the day declines, for the shadows of evening lengthen!H6942H4421H6965H5927H6672H188H3117H6437H6752H6153H51865Arise, and let us attack by night and destroy her palaces!"H6965H5927H3915H7843H7596For thus says the LORD of hosts: "Cut down her trees; cast up a siege mound against Jerusalem. This is the city that must be punished; there is nothing but oppression within her.H3068H6635H559H3772H6097H8210H5550H3389H5892H6485H6233H71307As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.H953H6979H4325H6979H7451H2555H7701H8085H6440H8548H2483H43478Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I turn from you in disgust, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land."H3256H3389H5315H3363H7760H8077H776H34279Thus says the LORD of hosts: "They shall glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel; like a grape-gatherer pass your hand again over its branches."H559H3068H6635H5953H5953H7611H3478H1612H7725H3027H1219H555210To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the LORD is to them an object of scorn; they take no pleasure in it.H1696H5749H8085H241H6189H3201H7181H1697H3068H2781H265411Therefore I am full of the wrath of the LORD; I am weary of holding it in. "Pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the gatherings of young men, also; both husband and wife shall be taken, the elderly and the very aged.H4392H2534H3068H3811H3557H8210H5768H2351H5475H970H3162H376H802H3920H2205H4390H311712Their houses shall be turned over to others, their fields and wives together, for I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land," declares the LORD.H1004H5437H312H7704H802H3162H5186H3027H3427H776H5002H306813"For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.H6996H1419H1214H1215H5030H3548H6213H826714They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace.H7495H7667H1323H5971H7043H559H7965H7965H796515Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown," says the LORD.H3001H6213H8441H1571H954H954H1571H3045H3637H5307H5307H6256H6485H3782H559H306816Thus says the LORD: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'H559H3068H5975H1870H7200H7592H5769H5410H2896H1870H3212H4672H4771H5315H559H321217I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Pay attention to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not pay attention.'H6965H6822H7181H6963H7782H559H718118Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.H8085H1471H3045H571219Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing disaster upon this people, the fruit of their devices, because they have not paid attention to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.H8085H776H935H7451H5971H6529H4284H7181H1697H8451H398820What use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.H935H3828H7614H2896H7070H4801H776H5930H7522H2077H614921Therefore thus says the LORD: 'Behold, I will lay before this people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble; fathers and sons together, neighbor and friend shall perish.'"H559H3068H5414H4383H5971H1H1121H3162H3782H7934H7453H622Thus says the LORD: "Behold, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.H559H3068H5971H935H6828H776H1419H1471H5782H3411H77623They lay hold on bow and javelin; they are cruel and have no mercy; the sound of them is like the roaring sea; they ride on horses, set in array as a man for battle, against you, O daughter of Zion!"H2388H7198H3591H394H7355H6963H1993H3220H7392H5483H6186H376H4421H1323H672624We have heard the report of it; our hands fall helpless; anguish has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in labor.H8085H8089H3027H7503H6869H2388H2427H320525Go not out into the field, nor walk on the road, for the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.H3318H7704H3212H1870H2719H341H4032H543926O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.H1323H5971H2296H8242H6428H665H6213H60H3173H8563H4553H7703H6597H93527"I have made you a tester of metals among my people, that you may know and test their ways.H5414H969H4013H5971H3045H974H187028They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron; all of them act corruptly.H5493H5637H1980H7400H5178H1270H784329The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed.H4647H2787H5777H8552H800H784H6884H6884H7723H7451H542330Rejected silver they are called, for the LORD has rejected them."H3988H3701H7121H3068H3988
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