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The Lord God has sworn by his holiness: The time is surely coming upon you, when they shall take you away with hooks, even the last of you with fishhooks.

bring a thank offering of leavened bread, and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them; for so you love to do, O people of Israel! says the Lord God .

I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a brand snatched from the fire; yet you did not return to me, says the Lord .

Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!

For lo, the one who forms the mountains, creates the wind, reveals his thoughts to mortals, makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth— the Lord , the God of hosts, is his name!

For thus says the Lord God : The city that marched out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which marched out a hundred shall have ten left.

Seek good and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord , the God of hosts, will be with you, just as you have said.

Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord , the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Therefore thus says the Lord , the God of hosts, the Lord: In all the squares there shall be wailing; and in all the streets they shall say, "Alas! alas!" They shall call the farmers to mourning, and those skilled in lamentation, to wailing;

You shall take up Sakkuth your king, and Kaiwan your star-god, your images, which you made for yourselves;

therefore I will take you into exile beyond Damascus, says the Lord , whose name is the God of hosts.

The Lord God has sworn by himself (says the Lord , the God of hosts): I abhor the pride of Jacob and hate his strongholds; and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.

Indeed, I am raising up against you a nation, O house of Israel, says the Lord , the God of hosts, and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Wadi Arabah.

This is what the Lord God showed me: he was forming locusts at the time the latter growth began to sprout (it was the latter growth after the king's mowings).

When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, "O Lord God , forgive, I beg you! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"

This is what the Lord God showed me: the Lord God was calling for a shower of fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.

Then I said, "O Lord God , cease, I beg you! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"

The Lord relented concerning this; "This also shall not be," said the Lord God .

This is what the Lord God showed me—a basket of summer fruit.

The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day," says the Lord God ; "the dead bodies shall be many, cast out in every place. Be silent!"