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Why would you yet be struck, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.
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Rebels and sinners together shall be crushed, those who desert the Lord shall be consumed.
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Seraphim were stationed above; each of them had six wings: with two they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they hovered.
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Chapter 7
The Syro-Ephraimite War
Crisis in Judah. In the days of Ahaz, king of Judah, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, king of Israel, son of Remaliah, went up to attack Jerusalem, but they were not able to conquer it.
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On that day every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand pieces of silver shall become briers and thorns.
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But as for all the hills which were hoed with a mattock, for fear of briers and thorns you will not go there; they shall become a place for cattle to roam and sheep to trample.
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Though your people, O Israel, were like the sand of the sea, Only a remnant of them will return; their destruction is decreed, as overflowing justice demands.
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Indeed, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and burning anger; To lay waste the land and destroy the sinners within it!
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You who were full of noise, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain with the sword, nor killed in battle.
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All your leaders fled away together, they were captured without use of bow; All who were found were captured together, though they had fled afar off.
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you saw that the breaches in the City of David were many; you collected the water of the lower pool.
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over the deep waters, Whose revenue was the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, you who were the merchant among the nations.
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As a woman about to give birth writhes and cries out in pain, so were we before you, Lord.
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We conceived and writhed in pain, giving birth only to wind; Salvation we have not achieved for the earth, no inhabitants for the world were born.
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I am not angry. But if I were to find briers and thorns, In battle I would march against it; I would burn it all.
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Your perversity is as though the potter were taken to be the clay: As though what is made should say of its maker, “He did not make me!” Or the vessel should say of the potter, “He does not understand.”
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Redemption
Surely, in a very little while, Lebanon shall be changed into an orchard, and the orchard be considered a forest!
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And every sweep of the rod of his punishment, which the Lord will bring down on him, Will be accompanied by timbrels and lyres, while he wages war against him.
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Yet he too is wise and will bring disaster; he will not turn from his threats. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against those who help evildoers.
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The highways are desolate, travelers have quit the paths, Covenants are broken, witnesses spurned; yet no one gives it a thought.
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In Zion sinners are in dread, trembling grips the impious: “Who of us can live with consuming fire? who of us can live with everlasting flames?”
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They gave their gods to the fire —they were not gods at all, but the work of human hands— Wood and stone, they destroyed them.
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Then the angel of the Lord went forth and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. Early the next morning, there they were, all those corpses, dead!
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So he poured out wrath upon them, his anger, and the fury of battle; It blazed all around them, yet they did not realize, it burned them, but they did not take it to heart.
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Yet you did not call upon me, Jacob, for you grew weary of me, Israel.