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Hate sin, and love good. And let what is fair be done at the gate. It may be that the Lord God of All will show kindness to those left of Joseph.

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.

You also carried with you Sikkuth your king and Kiyyun your star god, the false gods you made for yourselves.

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."

The Lord God of All says, "I am going to raise up a nation against you, O people of Israel. And they will bring much suffering upon you from the gate of Hamath to the river of the Arabah."

This is what the Lord God showed me: He was making a gathering of locusts when the spring grain began to grow. The spring grain was after the king's share had been cut.

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

This is what the Lord God showed me: The Lord God was calling for a punishment by fire. It dried up the deep waters and began to destroy the farm land.

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.

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

The songs of the king's house will become loud cries of sorrow on that day," says the Lord God. "There will be many dead bodies. In every place they will be thrown out without a word."

On that day," says the Lord God, "I will make the sun go down at noon. I will make the earth dark in the daytime.

"The days are coming," says the Lord God, "when I will send a time upon the land when the people will be very hungry. They will not be hungry for bread or thirsty for water, but they will be hungry to hear the Words of the Lord.

As for those who swear by the false gods of Samaria, saying, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,' and ‘As the way of Beersheba lives,' they will fall and never rise again."

The Lord God of All is the One Who touches the land and it melts. All those who live in it are filled with sorrow. All of it rises and falls like the Nile River of Egypt.

See, the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful nation, and I will destroy it from the earth. But I will not destroy all the people of Jacob," says the Lord.

I will plant My people on their land. And they will never again be pulled up from the land I gave them," says the Lord your God.

This is the special dream of Obadiah, what the Lord God says about Edom. We have heard this news from the Lord. And a man has been sent among the nations to say, "Get ready! Let us go fight a war against Edom."