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- I saw the Lord standing beside the altar;
and He said: Smite the capitals, that the posts may shake;
and break them in pieces on the head of all of them;
and I will slay the residue of them with the sword;
there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.
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- Though they dig into the nether-world, thence shall My hand take them;
and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.
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- And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence;
and though they be hid from My sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.
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- And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them;
and I will set Mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
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- For the Lord, the GOD of hosts, is He that toucheth the land and it melteth, and all that dwell therein mourn;
and it riseth up wholly like the River, and sinketh again, like the River of Egypt;
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- It is He that buildeth His upper chambers in the heaven, and hath founded His vault upon the earth;
He that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth;
The LORD is His name.
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- Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto Me, O children of Israel?
saith the LORD.
Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and Aram from Kir?
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- Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth;
saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
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- For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
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- All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, that say: "The evil shall not overtake nor confront us."
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- In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof, and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;
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- That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations, upon whom My name is called, saith the LORD that doeth this.
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- Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed;
and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
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- And I will turn the captivity of My people Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them;
and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof;
they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
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- And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.
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