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class="poetry"> "After this, I will pour out my Spirit on all humanity. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions; and also on male and female slaves in those days I will pour out my Spirit. I will show wonders in the sky and on earth — blood, fire and columns of smoke. The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great and terrible Day of Adonai ." At that time, whoever calls on the name of Adonai will be saved. For in Mount Tziyon and Yerushalayim there will be those who escape, as Adonai has promised; among the survivors will be those whom Adonai has called.

Here is what Adonai says: "For Dammesek's three crimes, no, four — I will not reverse it — because they threshed Gil‘ad with an iron-spiked threshing-sledge;

Here is what Adonai says: "For ‘Azah's three crimes, no, four — I will not reverse it — because they exiled a whole population and handed them over to Edom;

Here is what Adonai says: "For Tzor's three crimes, no, four — I will not reverse it — because they exiled a whole population to Edom and did not remember the covenant with kinsmen;

Here is what Adonai says: "For Edom's three crimes, no, four — I will not reverse it — because with sword he pursued his kinsman and threw aside all pity, constantly nursing his anger, forever fomenting his fury;

Here is what Adonai says: "For the people of ‘Amon's three crimes, no, four — I will not reverse it — because they ripped apart pregnant women just to expand their territory,

Here is what Adonai says: "For Mo'av's three crimes, no, four — I will not reverse it — because he burned the bones of the king of Edom, turning them into lime;

Here is what Adonai says: "For Y'hudah's three crimes, no, four — I will not reverse it — because they rejected Adonai 's Torah and haven't observed his laws, and their lies caused them to fall into error and live the way their ancestors did;

Here is what Adonai says: "For Isra'el's three crimes, no, four — I will not reverse it — because they sell the upright for silver and the poor for a pair of shoes,

"Of all the families on earth, only you have I intimately known. This is why I will punish you for all your crimes."

For they don't know how to do right," says Adonai . "They store up violence and robbery in their palaces."

"For when I punish Isra'el's crimes, I will also punish the altars of Beit-El. The horns of the altar will be cut off, and they will fall to the ground.

from two or three cities they would stagger to one city for water to drink, but there wasn't enough; still you haven't returned to me," says Adonai .

For thus says Adonai Elohim : "The city from which a thousand marched will be left with a hundred, and the one from which a hundred marched will be left with ten from the house of Isra'el."

For here is what Adonai says to the house of Isra'el: "If you seek me, you will survive;

but don't seek Beit-El, or enter Gilgal or pass on into Be'er-Sheva; for Gilgal will certainly go into exile, and Beit-El will come to nothing."

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who brings deathlike shadows over the morning, who darkens the day into night, who calls for the water in the sea and with it floods the earth — Adonai is his name —

For I know how numerous are your crimes and how outrageous your sins — bullying the innocent, extorting ransoms pushing the poor aside at the gate.

At times like these a prudent person stays silent, for it is an evil time.

There will be wailing in every vineyard, for I will pass through among you," says Adonai .