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65 lines
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# Chapter 9
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1 I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said:
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“Strike the doorposts, that the thresholds may shake,
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And break them on the heads of them all.
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I will slay the last of them with the sword.
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He who flees from them shall not get away,
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And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered.
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2 “Though they dig into hell,
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From there My hand shall take them;
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Though they climb up to heaven,
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From there I will bring them down;
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3 And though they hide themselves on top of Carmel,
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From there I will search and take them;
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Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea,
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From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them;
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4 Though they go into captivity before their enemies,
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From there I will command the sword,
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And it shall slay them.
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I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good.”
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5 The Lord God of hosts,
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He who touches the earth and it melts,
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And all who dwell there mourn;
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All of it shall swell like the River,
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And subside like the River of Egypt.
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6 He who builds His layers in the sky,
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And has founded His strata in the earth;
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Who calls for the waters of the sea,
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And pours them out on the face of the earth—
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The Lord is His name.
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7 “Are you not like the people of Ethiopia to Me,
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O children of Israel?” says the Lord.
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“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
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The Philistines from Caphtor,
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And the Syrians from Kir?
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8 “Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,
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And I will destroy it from the face of the earth;
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Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
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Says the Lord.
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9 “For surely I will command,
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And will sift the house of Israel among all nations,
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As grain is sifted in a sieve;
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Yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground.
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10 All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword,
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Who say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.’
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11 “On that day I will raise up
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The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down,
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And repair its damages;
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I will raise up its ruins,
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And rebuild it as in the days of old;
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12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom,
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And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,”
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Says the Lord who does this thing.
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13 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,
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“When the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
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And the treader of grapes him who sows seed;
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The mountains shall drip with sweet wine,
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And all the hills shall flow with it.
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14 I will bring back the captives of My people Israel;
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They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them;
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They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them;
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They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.
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15 I will plant them in their land,
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And no longer shall they be pulled up
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From the land I have given them,”
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Says the Lord your God. |