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So now your harvests will be too small to feed you. There will be no grapes for making new wine.

They spout empty words and make covenants they don't intend to keep. So injustice springs up among them like poisonous weeds in a farmer's field.

So now, come back to your God. Act with love and justice, and always depend on him.

But the people of Israel have bitterly provoked the Lord , so their Lord will now sentence them to death in payment for their sins.

So now I will attack you like a lion, like a leopard that lurks along the road.

Bring your confessions, and return to the Lord . Say to him, "Forgive all our sins and graciously receive us, so that we may offer you our praises.

For there is no grain or wine to offer at the Temple of the Lord . So the priests are in mourning. The ministers of the Lord are weeping.

You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, so they could take them far from their homeland.

So I will send down fire on King Hazael's palace, and the fortresses of King Ben-hadad will be destroyed.

So I will send down fire on the walls of Gaza, and all its fortresses will be destroyed.

So I will send down fire on the walls of Tyre, and all its fortresses will be destroyed."

So I will send down fire on Teman, and the fortresses of Bozrah will be destroyed."

So I will send down fire on the walls of Rabbah, and all its fortresses will be destroyed. The battle will come upon them with shouts, like a whirlwind in a mighty storm.

So I will send down fire on the land of Moab, and all the fortresses in Kerioth will be destroyed. The people will fall in the noise of battle, as the warriors shout and the ram's horn sounds.

So I will send down fire on Judah, and all the fortresses of Jerusalem will be destroyed."

It was I who rescued you from Egypt and led you through the desert for forty years, so you could possess the land of the Amorites.

"So I will make you groan like a wagon loaded down with sheaves of grain.

The lion has roared— so who isn't frightened? The Sovereign Lord has spoken— so who can refuse to proclaim his message?

This is what the Lord says: "A shepherd who tries to rescue a sheep from a lion's mouth will recover only two legs or a piece of an ear. So it will be for the Israelites in Samaria lying on luxurious beds, and for the people of Damascus reclining on couches.

Present your bread made with yeast as an offering of thanksgiving. Then give your extra voluntary offerings so you can brag about it everywhere! This is the kind of thing you Israelites love to do," says the Sovereign Lord .