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Impending Destruction from the North
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# Chapter 6
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1. "O you children of Benjamin,
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Gather yourselves to flee from the midst of Jerusalem!
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Blow the trumpet in Tekoa,
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And set up a signal-fire in Beth Haccerem;
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For disaster appears out of the north,
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And great destruction.
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2. I have likened the daughter of Zion
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To a lovely and delicate woman.
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3. The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her.
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They shall pitch their tents against her all around.
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Each one shall pasture in his own place."
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4. "Prepare war against her;
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Arise, and let us go up at noon.
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Woe to us, for the day goes away,
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For the shadows of the evening are lengthening.
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5. Arise, and let us go by night,
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And let us destroy her palaces."
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6. For thus has the Lord of hosts said:
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"Cut down trees,
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And build a mound against Jerusalem.
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This is the city to be punished.
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She is full of oppression in her midst.
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7. As a fountain wells up with water,
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So she wells up with her wickedness.
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Violence and plundering are heard in her.
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Before Me continually are grief and wounds.
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8. Be instructed, O Jerusalem,
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Lest My soul depart from you;
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Lest I make you desolate,
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A land not inhabited."
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9. Thus says the Lord of hosts:
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"They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel;
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As a grape-gatherer, put your hand back into the branches."
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10. To whom shall I speak and give warning,
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That they may hear?
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Indeed their ear is uncircumcised,
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And they cannot give heed.
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Behold, the word of the Lord is a reproach to them;
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They have no delight in it.
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11. Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord.
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I am weary of holding it in.
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"I will pour it out on the children outside,
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And on the assembly of young men together;
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For even the husband shall be taken with the wife,
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The aged with him who is full of days.
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12. And their houses shall be turned over to others,
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Fields and wives together;
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For I will stretch out My hand
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Against the inhabitants of the land," says the Lord.
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13. "Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them,
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Everyone is given to covetousness;
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And from the prophet even to the priest,
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Everyone deals falsely.
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14. They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly,
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Saying, 'Peace, peace!'
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When there is no peace.
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15. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?
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No! They were not at all ashamed;
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Nor did they know how to blush.
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Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
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At the time I punish them,
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They shall be cast down," says the Lord.
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16. Thus says the Lord:
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"Stand in the ways and see,
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And ask for the old paths, where the good way is,
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And walk in it;
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Then you will find rest for your souls.
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But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'
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17. Also, I set watchmen over you, saying,
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'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!'
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But they said, 'We will not listen.'
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18. Therefore hear, you nations,
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And know, O congregation, what is among them.
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19. Hear, O earth!
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Behold, I will certainly bring calamity on this people--
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The fruit of their thoughts,
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Because they have not heeded My words
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Nor My law, but rejected it.
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20. For what purpose to Me
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Comes frankincense from Sheba,
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And sweet cane from a far country?
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Your burnt offerings are not acceptable,
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Nor your sacrifices sweet to Me."
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21. Therefore thus says the Lord:
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"Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people,
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And the fathers and the sons together shall fall on them.
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The neighbor and his friend shall perish."
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22. Thus says the Lord:
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"Behold, a people comes from the north country,
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And a great nation will be raised from the farthest parts of the earth.
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23. They will lay hold on bow and spear;
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They are cruel and have no mercy;
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Their voice roars like the sea;
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And they ride on horses,
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As men of war set in array against you, O daughter of Zion."
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24. We have heard the report of it;
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Our hands grow feeble.
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Anguish has taken hold of us,
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Pain as of a woman in labor.
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25. Do not go out into the field,
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Nor walk by the way.
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Because of the sword of the enemy,
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Fear is on every side.
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26. O daughter of my people,
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Dress in sackcloth
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And roll about in ashes!
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Make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation;
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For the plunderer will suddenly come upon us.
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27. "I have set you as an assayer and a fortress among My people,
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That you may know and test their way.
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28. They are all stubborn rebels, walking as slanderers.
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They are bronze and iron,
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They are all corrupters;
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29. The bellows blow fiercely,
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The lead is consumed by the fire;
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The smelter refines in vain,
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For the wicked are not drawn off.
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30. People will call them rejected silver,
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Because the Lord has rejected them."
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