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\c 4
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\p
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\q
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\v 1 Listen to this word,
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\q you cows of Bashan,
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\q you who are in the mountain of Samaria,
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\q you who oppress the poor,
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\q you who crush the needy,
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\q you who say to your husbands,
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\q "Bring us drinks."
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\q
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\v 2 The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness:
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\q "Look, the days will come on you
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\q when they will take you away with hooks,
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\q the last of you with fishhooks.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 3 You will go out through the breaks in the city wall,
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\q every one of you women straight before herself,
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\q and you will be driven out in the direction of Mount Hermon"
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\q —this is the declaration of Yahweh.
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\s5
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\p
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\q
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\v 4 "Go to Bethel and sin,
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\q to Gilgal and multiply sin.
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\q Bring your sacrifices every morning,
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\q your tithes every three days.
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\q
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\v 5 Offer a thanksgiving sacrifice with bread;
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\q proclaim freewill offerings; announce them,
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\q for this pleases you,
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\q you people of Israel"
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\q —this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh.
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\p
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\q
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\v 6 "I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities
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\q and lack of bread in all your places.
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\q Yet you have not returned to me"
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\q —this is the declaration of Yahweh.
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\q
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\v 7 "I also withheld rain from you
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\q when there were still three months to the harvest.
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\q I caused it to rain on one city,
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\q and caused it not to rain on another city.
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\q One piece of land was rained on,
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\q but the piece of land where it did not rain dried up.
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\q
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\v 8 Two or three cities staggered to another city to drink water,
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\q but were not satisfied.
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\q Yet you have not returned to me"
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\q —this is the declaration of Yahweh.
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\q
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\v 9 "I afflicted you with blight and mildew.
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\q The multitude of your gardens,
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\q your vineyards,
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\q your fig trees,
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\q and your olive trees—
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\q the locusts devoured them all.
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\q Yet you have not returned to me"
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\q —this is the declaration of Yahweh.
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\q
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\v 10 "I sent a plague on you as on Egypt.
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\q I killed your young men with the sword,
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\q carried away your horses,
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\q and made the stench of your camp come up
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\q to your nostrils.
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\q Yet you have not returned to me"
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\q —this is the declaration of Yahweh.
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\q
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\v 11 "I overthrew cities among you,
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\q as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
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\q You were like a burning stick snatched out of the fire.
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\q Yet you have not returned to me"
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\q —this is the declaration of Yahweh.
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\p
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\q
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\v 12 "Therefore I will do something terrible to you, Israel;
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\q and because I will do something terrible to you,
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\q prepare to meet your God, Israel!
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\q
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\v 13 For, look, he who forms the mountains
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\q also creates the wind,
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\q reveals his thoughts to mankind,
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\q makes the morning darkness,
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\q and treads on the high places of the Earth."
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\q Yahweh, God of hosts, is his name.
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