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- Ask of Jehovah rain in the time of the latter rain;
Jehovah will make lightnings, and he will give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
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- For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams: they comfort in vain.
Therefore they have gone away as a flock, they are in distress, because there is no shepherd.
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- Mine anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the he-goats;
for Jehovah of hosts visiteth his flock, the house of Judah, and maketh them as his majestic horse in the battle.
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- From him shall come forth the corner-stone, from him the nail, from him the battle bow, from him every exactor together.
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- And they shall be as mighty men, treading down the mire of the streets in the battle;
and they shall fight, for Jehovah is with them, and the riders on horses shall be put to shame.
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- And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back again;
for I will have mercy upon them; and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am Jehovah their God, and I will answer them.
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- And [they of] Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their hearts shall rejoice as through wine;
and their children shall see [it], and rejoice; their heart shall be joyful in Jehovah.
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- I will hiss for them, and gather them;
for I have redeemed them: and they shall multiply as they used to multiply.
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- And I will sow them among the peoples, and they shall remember me in far countries;
and they shall live with their children and return.
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- And I will bring them again out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria;
and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and [place] shall not be found for them.
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- And he shall pass through the sea of affliction, and shall smite the billows in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile shall dry up;
and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.
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- And I will strengthen them in Jehovah;
and they shall walk in his name, saith Jehovah.
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