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Look, the Lord will come with fire—his chariots are like the whirlwind—to execute his anger with furyand his rebuke with flames of fire.

For the Lord will execute judgmenton all people with his fiery sword,and many will be slain by the Lord.

Then the Lord reached out his hand, touched my mouth, and told me:

Israel was holy to the Lord,the firstfruits of his harvest.All who ate of it found themselves guilty;disaster came on them.”

The young lions have roared at him;they have roared loudly.They have laid waste his land.His cities are in ruins, without inhabitants.

If a man divorces his wife

A lion has gone up from his thicket;a destroyer of nations has set out.He has left his lairto make your land a waste.Your cities will be reduced to uninhabited ruins.

Look, he advances like clouds;his chariots are like a storm.His horses are swifter than eagles.Woe to us, for we are ruined!

I looked, and the fertile field was a wilderness.All its cities were torn downbecause of the Lordand his burning anger.

Shepherds and their flocks will come against her;they will pitch their tents all around her.Each will pasture his own portion.

Cut off the hair of your sacred vow and throw it away. Raise up a dirge on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned the generation under his wrath.’

I have paid careful attention.They do not speak what is right.No one regrets his evil,asking, ‘What have I done?’Everyone has stayed his courselike a horse rushing into battle.

Everyone has to be on guard against his friend.Don’t trust any brother,for every brother will certainly deceive,and every friend spread slander.

Each one betrays his friend;no one tells the truth.They have taught their tongues to speak lies;they wear themselves out doing wrong.

Their tongues are deadly arrows—they speak deception.With his mouthone speaks peaceably with his friend,but inwardly he sets up an ambush.

Now hear the word of the Lord, you women.Pay attention to the words from his mouth.Teach your daughters a lamentand one another a dirge,

But the Lord is the true God;he is the living God and eternal King.The earth quakes at his wrath,and the nations cannot endure his rage.

He made the earth by his power,established the world by his wisdom,and spread out the heavens by his understanding.

When he thunders,the waters in the heavens are in turmoil,and he causes the clouds to risefrom the ends of the earth.He makes lightning for the rainand brings the wind from his storehouses.

Everyone is stupid and ignorant.Every goldsmith is put to shameby his carved image,for his cast images are a lie;there is no breath in them.