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- Behold, Jehovah maketh the land empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.
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- And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest;
as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with him from whom usury is taken.
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- The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled;
for Jehovah hath spoken this word.
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- The land mourneth, it fadeth away;
the world languisheth, it fadeth away: the haughty people of the land do languish.
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- And the land is polluted under the inhabitants thereof;
for they have violated the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.
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- Therefore doth the curse devour the earth, and they that dwell therein are held guilty;
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are consumed, and few men are left.
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- The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all that were merry-hearted do sigh;
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- the mirth of tambours ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
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- They do not drink wine with a song;
strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.
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- The city of solitude is broken down;
every house is shut up, so that none entereth in.
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- There is a crying for wine in the streets;
all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone;
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- desolation remaineth in the city, and the gate is smitten, — a ruin.
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- For so will it be in the midst of the land among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the grape-gleanings when the vintage is done.
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- These shall lift up their voice, they shall shout for the majesty of Jehovah, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
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- Therefore glorify Jehovah in the east, the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the west.
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- From the end of the earth have we heard songs: Glory to the righteous!
And I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! The treacherous have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
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- Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, inhabitant of the land.
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- And it shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth from the sound of the fear shall fall into the pit;
and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are open, and the foundations of the earth shake.
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- The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is completely dissolved, the earth is violently moved.
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- The earth reeleth to and fro like a drunkard, and is shaken like a night hut;
and its transgression is heavy upon it; and it falleth and shall not rise again.
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- And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] Jehovah will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
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- And they shall be brought together, [as] an assemblage of prisoners for the pit, and shall be shut up in prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
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- And the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed;
for Jehovah of hosts shall reign on mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients in glory.
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