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Don't be as your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus says Yahweh of hosts, Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.

But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my slaves the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? and they turned and said, Like Yahweh of hosts thought to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so has he dealt with us.

And I am very intensely displeased with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

Then I said, What do these come to do? And he spoke, saying, These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of Yahweh to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says Yahweh of hosts.

But they refused to listen, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days, says Yahweh of hosts.

And it shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don't be afraid, [but] let your hands be strong.

For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh; but, look, I will deliver man, every man into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.

For, look, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those that are cut off, neither will seek that which remains behind, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat [sheep], and will tear their hoofs in pieces.

but he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for man has acquired me from my youth.

And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, says Yahweh, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

but it shall be one day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it shall come to pass, that at evening time there shall be light.

And men shall dwell therein, and there shall be no more curse; but Jerusalem shall dwell safely.

but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

Whereas Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places; this is what Yahweh of Hosts says, They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them The border of wickedness, and The people against whom Yahweh has indignation forever.

But you profane it, in that you say, The table of Yahweh is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even its food, is contemptible.

But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King, says Yahweh of hosts, and my name is awesome among the Gentiles.

But you have turned aside out of the way; you have caused many to stumble in the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says Yahweh of hosts.