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11 Days
are surely coming,
(My Lord
Adonai's
oracle.)
when I
will send hunger on
the land;
not hunger
for bread, or thirst for water,
but
for hearing Adonai's
words.
12 They will stagger
from sea to sea,
and from north
to east;
they will run back and forth,
seeking the message
of Adonai,
but
they'll not find it.
13 In that
day beautiful young
women and young men
shall faint
of thirst.
14 Swearing
by Samaria's guilt,
they say, "as your god lives,
Dan!"
and, "as the road
to Beer-sheba lives!"
-
they will fall,
and not rise again.
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1 I saw my
lord standing on the altar,
and he said:
"Strike
the capital
and the thresholds
will shake.
Break them on all their heads.
Those left, I will
kill with the sword;
not one who runs
away shall get away,
not a fugitive shall escape.
2 If they dig to Sheol,
from there
my hand will take them;
if they climb
to the
skies,
from there
I will bring
them down.
3 If they hide on Carmel's crest,
from there
I will seek and take them;
if they hide
away from my eye
on the sea bed,
there
I will command the
serpent,
and it will bite
them.
4 if they go into captivity before their enemies,
there
I will command the
sword,
and it will
kill them.
I will fix my eye
on them
for evil
and not for good.
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5 My Lord
Adonai, of armies,
who touches
the land and it trembles,
and everyone who
lives in it mourns,
and all of it rises
like the Nile,
and sinks like the Nile in Egypt;
6 who builds his stairway
in the sky,
and founds his vault upon
the land;
who calls for the sea's
waters,
and pours
them out across the land-
Adonai
is his name.
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7 Are you not like the Kushites to me,
children
of Israel?
Adonai's oracle.
Did I not bring
Israel up from the land
of Egypt,
and the Philistines from Caphtor
and the Arameans from Kir?
8 Look!
The eyes
of my Lord
Adonai are on
the guilty kingdom:
"I will destroy
it from upon the earth
- yet I will not completely
destroy Jacob's house."
Adonai's oracle.
9 "So,
look! I
am giving the order,
and I will shake the house
of Israel among all
the nations
like
being shaken
in a sieve,
and no pebble
falls to the earth.
10 All
the guilty among my
people shall die
by the sword,
who say, "Evil
will not come
near us
nor catch
us."
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11 On that
day I will raise
up
David's hut
that's fallen,
and I will repair
its breaches,
and its ruins I'll raise
up,
and I'll rebuild
it as in the days of old;
12 as a result
they will possess the remains of Edom
and all the nations who are
called by my name.
Oracle of Adonai
who does this.
13 Days
are surely
coming,
(Oracle of Adonai)
when the reaper will be chased by the plowman,
and the grape treaders
by the seed
sowers;
the mountains
will drip
sweet wine,
and all the hills flow
with it.
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14 I will return the exiles
of my people Israel,
and they shall build
the ruined cities
and inhabit them;
they shall plant
vineyards and drink
the wine,
and they shall make
orchards
and eat their fruit.
15 I will plant them
on their land,
and they shall not be uprooted
again
out
of the land that I have given them.
Said Adonai
your God.
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