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a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion. : The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart
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of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. : And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. : And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof:
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and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. : And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. : And the waters shall fail from the
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sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. : And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither. : The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven
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away, and be no more. : The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. : Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded. : And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that
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make sluices and ponds for fish. : Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? : Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them
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know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. : The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. : The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every
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work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. : Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do. : In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he
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shaketh over it. : And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it. : In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear
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to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction. : In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD. : And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts
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in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them. : And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall
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vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it. : And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them. : In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come
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into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. : In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: : Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and
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Israel mine inheritance. : In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it; : At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And
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he did so, walking naked and barefoot. : And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; : So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks
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uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. : And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. : And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape? : The
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burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. : A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. : Therefore are
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my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. : My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. : Prepare the table, watch
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in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield. : For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. : And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: : And
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he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: : And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto
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the ground. : O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you. : The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? : The watchman said, The morning cometh,
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and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come. : The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. : The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. : For they fled from the
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swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. : For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail: : And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar,
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shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it. : The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? : Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. : All
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thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far. : Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. : For it is a day of trouble,
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and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains. : And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. : And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of
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chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate. : And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest. : Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the
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lower pool. : And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall. : Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago. : And
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in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: : And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. : And it was revealed in mine ears by the
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LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts. : Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say, : What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee
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out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock? : Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee. : He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou
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die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lords house. : And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down. : And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: : And I will clothe
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him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. : And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and
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he shall shut, and none shall open. : And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his fathers house. : And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his fathers house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of
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cups, even to all the vessels of flagons. : In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it. : The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships
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of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them. : Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. : And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the
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river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. : Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins. : As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained
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at the report of Tyre. : Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle. : Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. : Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of
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the earth? : The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth. : Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength. : He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD
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hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof. : And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest. : Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them
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that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin. : Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste. : And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after
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the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. : Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. : And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to
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her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. : And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing. :
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Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. : 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
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with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. : The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. : The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. :
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The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. : Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. : The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted
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do sigh. : The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. : They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. : The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come 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. : In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. : When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and
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as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done. : They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea. : Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea. : From the uttermost
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part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. : Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. : And it shall come to pass,
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that he who fleeth from the noise 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 from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake. : The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean
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dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. : The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. : And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the
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high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. : And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited. : Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of
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hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously. : O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. : For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin:
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a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. : Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. : For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the
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blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. : Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. : And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all
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people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. : And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations. : He will swallow up death in victory;
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and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it. : And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the
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LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. : For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. : And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that
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swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. : And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust. : In that day shall this song be sung in the land of
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Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. : Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. : Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. : Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the
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LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: : For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust. : The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. : The way of
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the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just. : Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. : With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within
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me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. : Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD. : LORD, when thy hand is
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lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them. : LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. : O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us:
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but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. : They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. : Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it
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far unto all the ends of the earth. : LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. : Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
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: We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. : Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy
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dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. : Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. : For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the
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earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. : In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. : In that day sing ye
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unto her, A vineyard of red wine. : I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. : Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together. : Or
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let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me. : He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. : Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or
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is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? : In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. : By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin;
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when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. : Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. : When the
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boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour. : And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall
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beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. : And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts
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in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem. : Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! : Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong
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one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand. : The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: : And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower,
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and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. : In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, : And for a spirit of
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judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate. : But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong
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drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. : For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. : Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. : For precept must be upon precept, precept
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upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: : For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. : To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. : But the word
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of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. : Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. : Because
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ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: : Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a
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stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. : Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. : And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and
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your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. : From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. : For
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the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. : For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his
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act, his strange act. : Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth. : Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. : Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open
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and break the clods of his ground? : When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place? : For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. : For the fitches
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are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. : Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
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: This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working. : Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices. : Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
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: And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. : And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a
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familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust. : Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. : Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with
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thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire. : And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision. : It shall even be as when an hungry
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man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion. : Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out,
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and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. : For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. : And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a
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book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: : And the s delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. : Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people
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draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: : Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise
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men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. : Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? : Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potters clay: for
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shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? : Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? : And in that
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