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Offer bread made with yeast as a sacrifice to show your thanks, and brag about the special offerings you bring, because this is what you love to do, Israelites," says the Lord God .

"So this is what I will do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, get ready to meet your God, Israel."

He is the one who makes the mountains and creates the wind and makes his thoughts known to people. He changes the dawn into darkness and walks over the mountains of the earth. His name is the Lord God All-Powerful.

This is what the Lord God says: "If a thousand soldiers leave a city, only a hundred will return; if a hundred soldiers leave a city, only ten will return."

God is the one who made the star groups Pleiades and Orion; he changes darkness into the morning light, and the day into dark night. He calls for the waters of the sea to pour out on the earth. The Lord is his name.

Try to do good, not evil, so that you will live, and the Lord God All-Powerful will be with you just as you say he is.

Hate evil and love good; be fair in the courts. Maybe the Lord God All-Powerful will be kind to the people of Joseph who are left alive.

This is what the Lord, the Lord God All-Powerful, says: "People will be crying in all the streets; they will be saying, ‘Oh, no!' in the public places. They will call the farmers to come and weep and will pay people to cry out loud for them.

You have carried with you your king, the god Sakkuth, and Kaiwan your idol, and the star gods you have made.

So I will send you away as captives beyond Damascus," says the Lord , whose name is the God All-Powerful.

The Lord God made this promise; the Lord God All-Powerful says: "I hate the pride of the Israelites, and I hate their strong buildings, so I will let the enemy take the city and everything in it."

The Lord God All-Powerful says, "Israel, I will bring a nation against you that will make your people suffer from Lebo Hamath in the north to the valley south of the Dead Sea."

This is what the Lord God showed me: He was forming a swarm of locusts, after the king had taken his share of the first crop and the second crop had just begun growing.

When the locusts ate all the crops in the country, I said, "Lord God , forgive us. How could Israel live through this? It is too small already!"

This is what the Lord God showed me: The Lord God was calling for fire to come down like rain. It burned up the deep water and was going to burn up the land.

Then I cried out, "Lord God , stop! How could Israel live through this? It is too small already."

So the Lord changed his mind about this too. "It will not happen," said the Lord God .

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

"On that day the palace songs will become funeral songs," says the Lord God . "There will be dead bodies thrown everywhere! Silence!"

The Lord God says: "At that time I will cause the sun to go down at noon and make the earth dark on a bright day.