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Be not like your fathers, to whom the former prophets preached, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and from your evil doings; but they did not listen, nor give ear to me, says the LORD.

But my words and my statutes which I commanded my servants the prophets, your fathers did remember them and thought of them, saying, As the LORD of hosts thought to deal with us, according to our ways and according to our devices, so has he dealt with us.

And I am very angry with the nations who are raging; for while I was but a little angry, they helped to carry the disaster to the extreme.

Then I said, What are these coming to do? And he said to me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah so that no man did lift up his head; but these are come to frighten and to uproot the horns of the Gentiles who lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.

Then he said to me, This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by power nor by might, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts.

But they refused to hearken, they rebelled and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

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

For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD: but, 1o, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbors hand and into the hand of his king; and they shall divide the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands.

For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who shall not search for those that are lost, neither shall seek those that have gone astray nor bind those that are broken nor heal those that are sick nor feed those that stand still; but he shall eat the flesh of the fat and break off their shanks.

But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a farmer; and a man made me zealous to prophesy from my youth.

And it shall come to pass that in all the land, says the LORD, two parts therein shall perish and be destroyed; but the third shall be left therein.

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go into captivity, but half of the people shall not perish from the city.

And it shall come to pass in that day there shall be no light, but cold and ice.

And the people shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more a curse; but Jerusalem shall dwell in safety.

I have loved you, says the LORD. But you say, In what way hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacobs brother? says the LORD; yet I have loved Jacob, and I have not favored Esau;

And if the Edomites say, We are impoverished, but let us return and build the desolate places; thus says the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will demolish; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness and, The people against whom the LORD is angry for ever.

But you are profaning it, in that you say, The table of the LORD is polluted and its food is contemptible.

But you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts.

Therefore have I also made you contemptible and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept the ordinances, but have been partial in the law.

But who can endure the day of his coming? And who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiners fire and like fullers soap;