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From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness— only wounds and welts and open sores, not cleansed or bandaged or soothed with olive oil.
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Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.
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Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.
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Your silver has become dross, your choice wine is diluted with water.
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Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.
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I will turn my hand against you; I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities.
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Zion will be delivered with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness.
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You will be like an oak with fading leaves, like a garden without water.
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The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire.”
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In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
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The Lord Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled),
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for all the cedars of Lebanon, tall and lofty, and all the oaks of Bashan,
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for all the towering mountains and all the high hills,
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Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah
See now, the Lord, the Lord Almighty, is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: all supplies of food and all supplies of water,
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The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
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Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.
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What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
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The Lord says, “The women of Zion are haughty, walking along with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, strutting along with swaying hips, with ornaments jingling on their ankles.
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Those who are left in Zion, who remain in Jerusalem, will be called holy, all who are recorded among the living in Jerusalem.
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Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night; over everything the glory will be a canopy.
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He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit.
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The Lord Almighty has declared in my hearing: “Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants.
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Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after their drinks, who stay up late at night till they are inflamed with wine.
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Therefore my people will go into exile for lack of understanding; those of high rank will die of hunger and the common people will be parched with thirst.
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Therefore Death expands its jaws, opening wide its mouth; into it will descend their nobles and masses with all their brawlers and revelers.
