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The Lord says, "For three sins of Ammon and for four, I will not hold back punishment. They tore open the women of Gilead who were going to have a baby, so that they would get more land.

So I will set a fire on the wall of Rabbah, and it will destroy her strong-places. Then there will be cries of war on the day of battle, and strong winds on the day of the storm.

So I will send fire upon Moab, and it will destroy the strong-places of Kerioth. Moab will die among much noise, with cries of war and the sound of a horn.

So I will send fire upon Judah, and it will destroy the strong-places of Jerusalem."

"You are the only ones I have chosen among all the families of the earth. So I must punish you for all your sins."

So the Lord God says, "Those who hate you will gather around the land. They will pull down your strong-places and rob your strong cities."

The Lord says, "As the shepherd saves from the lion's mouth just two legs or a piece of an ear, so will the people of Israel living in Samaria be saved, with the corner of a bed and a part of a cover.

"So I will do this to you, O Israel. And because I will do this to you, get ready to meet your God, O Israel."

He destroys the strong, so that the strong city is laid waste.

So the Lord, the Lord God of All, says, "There is a loud crying in the city. In all the streets they say, ‘It is bad! It is bad!' They call the farmers to cry in sorrow. They call those whose work is to cry over the dead to sing songs of sorrow.

So I will make you go as prisoners to the other side of Damascus," says the Lord, Whose name is the God of All.

The Lord God has promised by Himself. The Lord God of All has said, "I hate the pride of Jacob, and I hate his strong-places, so I will give up the city and everything in it."

When they had finished eating the grass I said, "Lord God, forgive! O that Jacob may stay alive for he is so small!"

So the Lord changed His mind about this. "It will not be," said the Lord.

Then I said, "Lord God, I beg You to stop! How can Jacob stay alive, for he is so small?"

So the Lord changed His mind about this. "This also will not be," said the Lord God.

So now hear the Word of the Lord. You are saying, ‘Do not speak against Israel or preach against the people of Isaac.'

So this is what the Lord says: ‘Your wife will sell the use of her body in the city. Your sons and daughters will be killed by the sword. Your land will be divided and given to others. You yourself will die in an unclean land. And Israel will be driven away from this land to a strange country.'"

You say, "When will the New Moon be over, so that we may buy grain? When will the Day of Rest be over, so that we may open the store and sell grain? Then we will make the basket smaller and the weight bigger, and we will lie about the weight.

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said, "Break the tops of the pillars so that the bases shake! Break them to pieces on the heads of all the people! Then I will kill the rest of them with the sword. Not one of them will get away.