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Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord , the God of hosts, will be with you, 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 to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation,

You shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god—your images that you made for yourselves,

and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus," says the Lord , whose name is the God of hosts.

The Lord God has sworn by himself, declares 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."

"For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel," declares the Lord , the God of hosts; "and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah."

This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, 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 , please forgive! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"

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

Then I said, "O Lord God , please cease! 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: behold, a basket of summer fruit.

The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day," declares the Lord God . "So many dead bodies!" "They are thrown everywhere!" "Silence!"

"And on that day," declares the Lord God , "I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.

"Behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord God , "when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord .

Those who swear by the Guilt of Samaria, and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,' and, ‘As the Way of Beersheba lives,' they shall fall, and never rise again."

The Lord God of hosts, he who touches the earth and it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn, and all of it rises like the Nile, and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;

Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," declares the Lord .

I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that I have given them," says the Lord your God.