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9I wish my head were a well of water and my eyes fountains of tears So I could weep day and night for casualties among my dear, dear people.H5414H7218H4325H5869H4726H1832H1058H3119H3915H2491H1323H5971 2At times I wish I had a wilderness hut, a backwoods cabin, Where I could get away from my people and never see them again. They're a faithless, feckless bunch, a congregation of degenerates.H5414H4057H4411H732H5800H5971H3212H5003H6116H898 3"Their tongues shoot out lies like a bow shoots arrows— A mighty army of liars, the sworn enemies of truth. They advance from one evil to the next, ignorant of me." GOD's Decree.H1869H3956H7198H8267H1396H530H776H3318H7451H7451H3045H5002H3068 4"Be wary of even longtime neighbors. Don't even trust your grandmother! Brother schemes against brother, like old cheating Jacob. Friend against friend spreads malicious gossip.H8104H376H7453H982H251H251H6117H6117H7453H1980H7400 5Neighbors gyp neighbors, never telling the truth. They've trained their tongues to tell lies, and now they can't tell the truth.H2048H376H7453H1696H571H3925H3956H1696H8267H3811H5753 6They pile wrong upon wrong, stack lie upon lie, and refuse to know me." GOD's Decree.H3427H8432H4820H4820H3985H3045H5002H3068 7Therefore, GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies says: "Watch this! I'll melt them down and see what they're made of. What else can I do with a people this wicked?H559H3068H6635H6884H974H6213H6440H1323H5971 8Their tongues are poison arrows! Deadly lies stream from their mouths. Neighbor greets neighbor with a smile, 'Good morning! How're things?' while scheming to do away with him.H3956H2671H7819H1696H4820H1696H7965H7453H6310H7130H7760H696 9Do you think I'm going to stand around and do nothing?" GOD's Decree. "Don't you think I'll take serious measures against a people like this?H6485H5002H3068H5315H5358H1471 10"I'm lamenting the loss of the mountain pastures. I'm chanting dirges for the old grazing grounds. They've become deserted wastelands too dangerous for travelers. No sounds of sheep bleating or cattle mooing. Birds and wild animals, all gone. Nothing stirring, no sounds of life.H2022H5375H1065H5092H4999H4057H7015H3341H376H5674H8085H6963H4735H5775H8064H929H5074H1980 11I'm going to make Jerusalem a pile of rubble, fit for nothing but stray cats and dogs. I'm going to reduce Judah's towns to piles of ruins where no one lives!"H5414H3389H1530H4583H8577H5414H5892H3063H8077H3427 12I asked, "Is there anyone around bright enough to tell us what's going on here? Anyone who has the inside story from GOD and can let us in on it? "Why is the country wasted? "Why no travelers in this desert?"H2450H376H995H6310H3068H1696H5046H776H6H3341H4057H5674 13GOD's answer: "Because they abandoned my plain teaching. They wouldn't listen to anything I said, refused to live the way I told them to.H3068H559H5800H8451H5414H6440H8085H6963H1980 14Instead they lived any way they wanted and took up with the Baal gods, who they thought would give them what they wanted—following the example of their parents."H3212H310H8307H3820H310H1168H1H3925 15And this is the consequence. GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies says so: "I'll feed them with pig slop. "I'll give them poison to drink.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H398H5971H3939H4325H7219H8248 16"Then I'll scatter them far and wide among godless peoples that neither they nor their parents have ever heard of, and I'll send Death in pursuit until there's nothing left of them."H6327H1471H1H3045H7971H2719H310H3615

A Life That Is All Outside but No Inside

17A Message from GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies: "Look over the trouble we're in and call for help. Send for some singers who can help us mourn our loss.H559H3068H6635H995H7121H6969H935H7971H2450H935 18Tell them to hurry— to help us express our loss and lament, Help us get our tears flowing, make tearful music of our crying.H4116H5375H5092H5869H3381H1832H6079H5140H4325 19Listen to it! Listen to that torrent of tears out of Zion: 'We're a ruined people, we're a shamed people! We've been driven from our homes and must leave our land!'"H6963H5092H8085H6726H7703H3966H954H5800H776H4908H7993 20Mourning women! Oh, listen to GOD's Message! Open your ears. Take in what he says. Teach your daughters songs for the dead and your friends the songs of heartbreak.H8085H1697H3068H802H241H3947H1697H6310H3925H1323H5092H802H7468H7015 21Death has climbed in through the window, broken into our bedrooms. Children on the playgrounds drop dead, and young men and women collapse at their games.H4194H5927H2474H935H759H3772H5768H2351H970H7339 22Speak up! "GOD's Message: "'Dead bodies everywhere, scattered at random like sheep and goat dung in the fields, Like wheat cut down by reapers and left to rot where it falls.'"H1696H5002H3068H5038H120H5307H1828H6440H7704H5995H310H7114H622 23GOD's Message: "Don't let the wise brag of their wisdom. Don't let heroes brag of their exploits. Don't let the rich brag of their riches.H559H3068H2450H1984H2451H1368H1984H1369H6223H1984H6239 24If you brag, brag of this and this only: That you understand and know me. I'm GOD, and I act in loyal love. I do what's right and set things right and fair, and delight in those who do the same things. These are my trademarks." GOD's Decree.H1984H1984H7919H3045H3068H6213H2617H4941H6666H776H2654H5002H3068 25"Stay alert! It won't be long now"—GOD's Decree!—"when I will personally deal with everyone whose life is all outside but no inside:H3117H935H5002H3068H6485H4135H6190 26Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab. All these nations are big on performance religion—including Israel, who is no better."H4714H3063H123H1121H5983H4124H7112H6285H3427H4057H1471H6189H1004H3478H6189H3820


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