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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"Flee to safety, you people of Benjamin, leave Jerusalem. Sound the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise a signal over Beth-haccerem! For calamity and terrible destruction are turning toward you from the north. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I'll destroy the lovely and delicate Daughter of Zion. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Shepherds and their flocks will come against her. They'll pitch their tents all around her, and every one will tend his flock in his own place. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Prepare for war against her. Get ready, let's attack at noon! How terrible for us that the day is coming to an end, and that the evening shadows are lengthening. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Get ready, let's attack at night, and destroy her fortresses." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Cut down trees and set up siege works against Jerusalem. It is the city to be judged, and there is oppression throughout the entire city. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7As a well keeps its waters fresh, so the city keeps her wickedness fresh. Violence and destruction are heard in her, sickness and wounds are always before me. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Be warned, Jerusalem, or I'll be alienated from you. I'll make you desolate, a land not inhabited." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Let them glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as they would the vine. Pass your hand over them like grape gatherers over the branches. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10To whom will I speak and give a warning so they'll listen? Look, their ears are closed, and they cannot hear. Look, this message from the LORD is contemptible to them; they don't delight in it. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11I'm full of the wrath of the LORD, and I'm tired of holding it back. Pour it out on the children in the street and on the groups of young men gathered together. Indeed, both husband and wife will be caught in it, the old and the very old. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Their houses will be turned over to others— their fields and wives together— when I stretch out my hand against those who live in the land," declares the LORD. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Indeed, from the least important to the most important, they're all greedy for dishonest gain. From prophet to priest, they all act deceitfully. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14They treated my people's wound superficially, telling them, 'Peace, peace,' but there is no peace. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Were they ashamed because they did what was repugnant to God? They were not ashamed at all— they don't even know how to blush! Therefore they'll fall with those who fall. When I punish them, they'll be brought down," says the LORD. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16This is what the LORD says: "Stand beside the roads and watch. Ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is. Walk in it and find rest for yourselves. But they said, 'We won't walk in it!' |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I appointed watchmen over you. Listen for the sound of the trumpet. But they said, 'We won't listen!' |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Therefore, hear, nations, and know, congregation, what will happen to them. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Listen, earth! I'm about to bring calamity on this people, on the fruit of their plans, because they didn't listen to my words and they rejected my instruction. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20What good is frankincense that comes from Sheba to me, or sweet cane from a distant country? Your burnt offerings aren't acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me." |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Therefore, this is what the LORD says: "I'm about to put stumbling blocks in front of this people, and fathers and sons will stumble over them together. The neighbor and his friends will perish." |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22This is what the LORD says: "Look, people are coming from a northern country. A great nation is stirring from the ends of the earth. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23They grab bow and spear; they're cruel and show no mercy. Their sound roars like the sea as they ride on horses, deployed like men ready for battle against you, daughter of Zion." |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24We have heard the news about it, and our hands are limp. Distress has seized us like a woman in labor. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Don't go out into the field, and don't travel on the road, because the enemy has a sword, and terror is on every side. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Daughter of my people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as one mourns at the death of an only son. For the destroyer will come on us suddenly. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"I've made you an assayer of my people, as well as a fortress. You know how to test their way." |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28All of them are very rebellious, going around as slanderers. They're bronze and iron, and all of them are corrupt. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29The bellows blow fiercely to consume the lead with the fire. The assayer keeps on refining, but the impurities aren't separated out. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30They're called reject silver, because the LORD has rejected them. |
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