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Yet I have been the Lord your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.

Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword, their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; we will say no more, ‘Our God,' to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy."

Put on sackcloth and lament, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, pass the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God! Grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord .

Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

rend your hearts and not your clothing. Return to the Lord , your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and relents from punishing.

Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the Lord , your God?

Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the Lord , weep. Let them say, "Spare your people, O Lord , and do not make your heritage a mockery, a byword among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?'"

O children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in the Lord your God; for he has given the early rain for your vindication, he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the later rain, as before.

You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame.

You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I, the Lord , am your God and there is no other. And my people shall never again be put to shame.

So you shall know that I, the Lord your God, dwell in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.

I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod, and the one who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; I will turn my hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, says the Lord God .

they lay themselves down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink wine bought with fines they imposed.

Surely the Lord God does nothing, without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

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

Therefore thus says the Lord God : An adversary shall surround the land, and strip you of your defense; and your strongholds shall be plundered.

Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob, says the Lord God , the God of hosts: