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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Ask rain from the LORD in the season of the spring rain, from the LORD who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For the household gods utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; they tell false dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3“My anger is hot against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the LORD of hosts cares for his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like his majestic steed in battle. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4From him shall come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler—all of them together. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5They shall be like mighty men in battle, trampling the foe in the mud of the streets; they shall fight because the LORD is with them, and they shall put to shame the riders on horses. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6“I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back because I have compassion on them, and they shall be as though I had not rejected them, for I am the LORD their God and I will answer them. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior, and their hearts shall be glad as with wine. Their children shall see it and be glad; their hearts shall rejoice in the LORD. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8“I will whistle for them and gather them in, for I have redeemed them, and they shall be as many as they were before. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember me, and with their children they shall live and return. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10I will bring them home from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria, and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon, till there is no room for them. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He shall pass through the sea of troubles and strike down the waves of the sea, and all the depths of the Nile shall be dried up. The pride of Assyria shall be laid low, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I will make them strong in the LORD, and they shall walk in his name,” declares the LORD. |
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