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in all their distress. It was no messenger or angel but his presence that saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

But they rebelled and grieved his holy spirit; therefore he became their enemy; he himself fought against them.

Then they remembered the days of old, of Moses his servant. Where is the one who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is the one who put within them his holy spirit,

who caused his glorious arm to march at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name,

You shall leave your name to my chosen to use as a curse, and the Lord God will put you to death; but to his servants he will give a different name.

Hear the word of the Lord , you who tremble at his word: Your own people who hate you and reject you for my name's sake have said, "Let the Lord be glorified, so that we may see your joy"; but it is they who shall be put to shame.

Listen, an uproar from the city! A voice from the temple! The voice of the Lord , dealing retribution to his enemies!

You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice; your bodies shall flourish like the grass; and it shall be known that the hand of the Lord is with his servants, and his indignation is against his enemies.

For the Lord will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to pay back his anger in fury, and his rebuke in flames of fire.

For by fire will the Lord execute judgment, and by his sword, on all flesh; and those slain by the Lord shall be many.

to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of King Josiah son of Amon of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth; and the Lord said to me, "Now I have put my words in your mouth.

Israel was holy to the Lord , the first fruits of his harvest. All who ate of it were held guilty; disaster came upon them, says the Lord .

The lions have roared against him, they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.

you say, "I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me." Now I am bringing you to judgment for saying, "I have not sinned."

If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not such a land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? says the Lord .

A lion has gone up from its thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone out from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.

Look! He comes up like clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles— woe to us, for we are ruined!

I looked, and lo, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the Lord , before his fierce anger.

They were well-fed lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor's wife.