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DECEMBER 16
7 The LORD has sworn by the pride From there I will bring them down;
of Jacob: 3 And though they hide themselves on
“Surely I will never forget any of their top of Carmel,
works. From there I will search and take them;
Shall the land not tremble for this, Though they hide from My sight at the
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And everyone mourn who dwells in it? bottom of the sea,
All of it shall swell like the River, From there I will command the
Heave and subside serpent, and it shall bite them;
Like the River of Egypt. 4 Though they go into captivity before
their enemies,
“And it shall come to pass in that day,” From there I will command the sword,
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says the Lord GOD,
And it shall slay them.
“That I will make the sun go down at I will set My eyes on them for harm
noon, and not for good.”
And I will darken the earth in broad
daylight; 5 The Lord GOD of hosts,
I will turn your feasts into mourning,
10 He who touches the earth and it melts,
And all your songs into lamentation; And all who dwell there mourn;
I will bring sackcloth on every waist, All of it shall swell like the River,
And baldness on every head; And subside like the River of Egypt.
I will make it like mourning for an only 6 He who builds His layers in the sky,
son, And has founded His strata in the earth;
And its end like a bitter day. Who calls for the waters of the sea,
And pours them out on the face of the
11 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the earth—
Lord GOD, The LORD is His name.
“That I will send a famine on the land,
7 “Are you not like the people of Ethiopia
Not a famine of bread,
Nor a thirst for water, to Me,
But of hearing the words of the LORD. O children of Israel?” says the LORD.
12 They shall wander from sea to sea, “Did I not bring up Israel from the land
And from north to east; of Egypt,
They shall run to and fro, seeking the The Philistines from Caphtor,
word of the LORD, And the Syrians from Kir?
But shall not find it. 8 “Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are
on the sinful kingdom,
13 “In that day the fair virgins
And strong young men And I will destroy it from the face of
the earth;
Shall faint from thirst.
14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, Yet I will not utterly destroy the house
Who say, of Jacob,”
‘As your god lives, O Dan!’ Says the LORD.
And, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives!’ 9 “For surely I will command,
They shall fall and never rise again.” And will sift the house of Israel among
all nations,
I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He As grain is sifted in a sieve;
9 said: Yet not the smallest grain shall fall to
“Strike the doorposts, that the the ground.
thresholds may shake, 10 All the sinners of My people shall die
And break them on the heads of them by the sword,
all. Who say, ‘The calamity shall not
I will slay the last of them with the overtake nor confront us.’
sword.
11 “On that day I will raise up
He who flees from them shall not get
away, The tabernacle of David, which has
And he who escapes from them shall fallen down,
not be delivered. And repair its damages;
I will raise up its ruins,
2 “Though they dig into hell, And rebuild it as in the days of old;
From there My hand shall take them; 12 That they may possess the remnant of
Though they climb up to heaven, Edom,

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