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Assyria will not save us; we will not ride on horses, and we will say no more, "Our God," to the work of our hands because in you the fatherless child finds mercy.

Gird yourselves and lament, O priests! Wail, O ministers of the altar! Come spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because offering and libation are withheld from the house of your God.

Solemnize a fast! Call an assembly! Gather the elders, all of the inhabitants of the land in the house of Yahweh your God, and cry out to Yahweh.

Is not food cut off before our eyes, from the house of our God, joy and gladness?

Rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to Yahweh your God, because he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and great in loyal love, and relenting from harm.

Who knows whether he will turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, an offering and a libation, for Yahweh your God?

Between the colonnade and the altar, let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep. And let them say, "Take pity, Yahweh, on your people. Do not make your inheritance a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the nations, ‘Where is their God?'"

Be glad, O children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in Yahweh your God, because he has given for you the autumn rains for your righteousness, and he has poured down for you rainwater, the autumn and spring rains, as before.

And you will eat abundantly and be satisfied, and praise the name of Yahweh your God, who has dealt with you wondrously. My people will never be ashamed.

And you will know that I am in the midst of Israel, and I am Yahweh, your God, and there is no other. My people will never be ashamed again.

And you will know that I, Yahweh your God, am dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem will be a place of holiness, and strangers will pass through it no longer.

They stretch themselves out beside every altar on clothing taken in pledge and they drink wine, bought with fines imposed, in the house of their God.

"Listen and testify against the house of Jacob," declares my Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts.

"I overthrew some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a stick snatched from the fire, and yet you did not return to me," is the declaration of Yahweh.

"Therefore, thus I will do to you, O Israel. Because I will do this to you, O Israel, prepare to meet your God!

Yes, here is the one who forms the mountains, and the one who creates the wind, and the one who reveals to humans what his thoughts are, and the one who treads on the heights of the earth; Yahweh, the God of hosts, is his name!"

Seek good and not bad in order that you may live, and so Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.

Hate evil and love good and establish justice in the gate; perhaps Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Therefore, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, my Lord, "In all of the public squares there will be wailing, and in all of the streets they will say, ‘Alas, alas, alas!' They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing, to those who are skilled in lamentation.

And I will deport you beyond Damascus," says Yahweh—the God of hosts is his name.