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For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain."

Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving, and their masses are parched with thirst.

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of justice.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw and dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

He lifts a banner for the distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Behold-how speedily and swiftly they come!

Then I said, "Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts."

And with it he touched my mouth and said, "Now that this has touched your lips, your iniquity is removed and your sin is atoned for."

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? Who will go for Us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!"

For Aram, along with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has plotted your ruin, saying,

'Let us invade Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it for ourselves. Then we can install the son of Tabeal over it as king.'"

For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.

"Ask for a sign from the LORD your God, whether from the depths of Sheol or the heights of heaven."

For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.

and from the abundant milk they give, he will eat curds; for all who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.

Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with thorns and briers.

For fear of the thorns and briers, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.

And I will appoint for myself trustworthy witnesses-Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah."

For before the boy knows how to cry 'Father' or 'Mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off to the king of Assyria."

Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be broken; prepare for battle, and be dismayed.

Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us."