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"But I am the LORD your God, Ever since the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in tents, As in the days of the appointed feast.

When Ephraim spoke, trembling, He exalted himself in Israel; But when he offended through Baal worship, he died.

"Yet I am the LORD your God Ever since the land of Egypt, And you shall know no God but Me; For there is no savior besides Me.

"O Israel, you are destroyed, [fn] But your help [fn] is from Me.

Who is wise? Let him understand these things. Who is prudent? Let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right; The righteous walk in them, But transgressors stumble in them.

"But I will remove far from you the northern army, And will drive him away into a barren and desolate land, With his face toward the eastern sea And his back toward the western sea; His stench will come up, And his foul odor will rise, Because he has done monstrous things."

"Indeed, what have you to do with Me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? Will you retaliate against Me? But if you retaliate against Me, Swiftly and speedily I will return your retaliation upon your own head;

The LORD also will roar from Zion, And utter His voice from Jerusalem; The heavens and earth will shake; But the LORD will be a shelter for His people, And the strength of the children of Israel.

But Judah shall abide forever, And Jerusalem from generation to generation.

But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, Which shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad.

But I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza, Which shall devour its palaces.

But I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, Which shall devour its palaces."

But I will send a fire upon Teman, Which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah."

But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, And it shall devour its palaces, Amid shouting in the day of battle, And a tempest in the day of the whirlwind.

But I will send a fire upon Moab, And it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth; Moab shall die with tumult, With shouting and trumpet sound.

But I will send a fire upon Judah, And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem."

"But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, And commanded the prophets saying, "Do not prophesy!'

A lion has roared! Who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken! Who can but prophesy?

So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water, But they were not satisfied; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD.

But do not seek Bethel, Nor enter Gilgal, Nor pass over to Beersheba; For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, And Bethel shall come to nothing.