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But with an overflowing floodHe will make a complete destruction of its placeAnd will pursue His enemies into darkness.

Though Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days,Now they are fleeing;"Stand! Stand!"But no one turns back.

"Behold, as for the proud one,His soul is not right within him;But the righteous will live by his faith.

But Yahweh is in His holy temple.Let all the earth be silent before Him."

And it will be that their wealth will become spoilAnd their houses desolate;Indeed, they will build houses but not inhabit them,And plant vineyards but not drink their wine."

But I will cause to remain in your midstA lowly and poor people,And they will take refuge in the name of Yahweh.

You have sown much, but bring in little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but no one is warm enough; and he who earns, earns wages to put into a bag with holes."

"You look for much, but behold, it comes to little; and you bring it home, and I blow it away. Why?" declares Yahweh of hosts, "Because of My house which lies waste, while each of you runs to his own house.

But now, be strong, Zerubbabel,' declares Yahweh, ‘be strong also, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all you people of the land, be strong,' declares Yahweh, ‘and work; for I am with you,' declares Yahweh of hosts.

But now, oh set your heart to consider from this day onward: from before one stone was set on another in the temple of Yahweh,

"Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets called out, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "Return now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds."' But they did not listen or give heed to Me," declares Yahweh.

But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My slaves the prophets, overtake your fathers? Then they returned and said, ‘As Yahweh of hosts purposed to do to us in accordance with our ways and our deeds, so He has done with us.'"'"

But I am very wrathful with the nations who are at ease; for I was only a little wrathful, but they helped increase the calamity."

And I said, "What are these coming to do?" And he said, "These are the horns which have scattered Judah so that no man lifts up his head; but these craftsmen have come to cause them to tremble, to throw down the horns of the nations who have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah in order 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.

For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven will be glad when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel—these are the eyes of Yahweh which roam to and fro throughout the earth."

But they refused to give heed and turned a stubborn shoulder and dulled their ears from hearing.

"but I scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land is desolated behind them so that no one was passing through and returning, for they made the pleasant land desolate."

But now I will not treat the remnant of this people as in the former days,' declares Yahweh of hosts.

But I will camp around My house because of an army,Because of him who passes by and returns;And no taskmaster will pass over them anymore,For now I have seen with My eyes.