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SEPTEMBER 13
It shall be as he who gathers heads This is the portion of those who
of grain plunder us,
In the Valley of Rephaim. And the lot of those who rob us.
Yet gleaning grapes will be left in it, Woe to the land shadowed
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Like the shaking of an olive tree, 18
with buzzing wings,
Two or three olives at the top of the Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
uppermost bough,
2 Which sends ambassadors by sea,
Four or five in its most fruitful Even in vessels of reed on the waters,
branches,”
Says the LORD God of Israel. saying,
“Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall
7 In that day a man will look to his and smooth of skin,
Maker, To a people terrible from their
And his eyes will have respect for the beginning onward,
Holy One of Israel. A nation powerful and treading down,
He will not look to the altars, Whose land the rivers divide.”
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The work of his hands;
3 All inhabitants of the world and
He will not respect what his fingers
have made, dwellers on the earth:
Nor the wooden images nor the When he lifts up a banner on the
incense altars. mountains, you see it;
And when he blows a trumpet, you
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In that day his strong cities will be as a
4 For so the LORD said to me,
forsaken bough
And an uppermost branch, “I will take My rest,
Which they left because of the children And I will look from My dwelling place
of Israel; Like clear heat in sunshine,
And there will be desolation. Like a cloud of dew in the heat of
harvest.”
10 Because you have forgotten the God of
your salvation,
And have not been mindful of the Rock
of your stronghold,
Therefore you will plant pleasant plants 18:4 I will take My rest. The Lord will wait
And set out foreign seedlings; patiently until the appropriate time to inter-
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In the day you will make your plant to vene in human affairs, until sunshine and dew
grow, have built to an opportune climactic moment.
And in the morning you will make your
seed to flourish;
But the harvest will be a heap of ruins
In the day of grief and desperate 5 For before the harvest, when the bud
sorrow. is perfect
And the sour grape is ripening in the
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Woe to the multitude of many people flower,
Who make a noise like the roar of the He will both cut off the sprigs with
seas,
And to the rushing of nations pruning hooks
That make a rushing like the rushing And take away and cut down the
of mighty waters! branches.
6 They will be left together for the
13 The nations will rush like the rushing
of many waters; mountain birds of prey
But God will rebuke them and they will And for the beasts of the earth;
The birds of prey will summer on them,
flee far away,
And be chased like the chaff of the And all the beasts of the earth will
winter on them.
mountains before the wind,
Like a rolling thing before the 7 In that time a present will be brought to
whirlwind. the LORD of hosts
Then behold, at eventide, trouble! From a people tall and smooth of skin,
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And before the morning, he is no And from a people terrible from their
more. beginning onward,
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