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You will know that I am present in Israeland that I am the Lord your God,and there is no other.My people will never again be put to shame.

Then you will knowthat I am the Lord your God,who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain.Jerusalem will be holy,and foreigners will never overrun it again.

I will cut off the ruler from Ashdod,and the one who wields the scepter from Ashkelon.I will also turn my hand against Ekron,and the remainder of the Philistines will perish.The Lord God has spoken.

Indeed, the Lord God does nothingwithout revealing his counselto his servants the prophets.

A lion has roared;who will not fear?The Lord God has spoken;who will not prophesy?

Therefore, the Lord God says:

The Lord God has sworn by his holiness:

Therefore, Israel, that is what I will do to you,and since I will do that to you,Israel, prepare to meet your God!

He is here:the one who forms the mountains,creates the wind,and reveals his thoughts to man,the one who makes the dawn out of darknessand strides on the heights of the earth.The Lord, the God of Armies, is his name.

For the Lord God says:

Pursue good and not evilso that you may live,and the Lord, the God of Armies,will be with youas you have claimed.

Hate evil and love good;establish justice in the city gate.Perhaps the Lord, the God of Armies, will be graciousto the remnant of Joseph.

Therefore the Lord, the God of Armies, the Lord, says:

But you have taken up Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, images you have made for yourselves.

So I will send you into exile beyond Damascus.” The Lord, the God of Armies, is his name. He has spoken.

The Lord God has sworn by himself—this is the declaration of the Lord, the God of Armies:

The Lord God showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the time the spring crop first began to sprout—after the cutting of the king’s hay.

When the locusts finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, “Lord God, please forgive! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”

The Lord God showed me this: The Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.

Then I said, “Lord God, please stop! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”