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And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? And I said, Here am I; send me.

Let us go up against Judah, and harass it, and make a breach therein for us, and set up a king therein—the son of Tabeal;

for the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken, so as to be no [more a] people;

Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God; ask for it in the deep, or in the height above.

And he said, Hear then, house of David: Is it a small matter for you to weary men, that ye weary also my God?

For before the child knoweth to refuse the evil and to choose the good, the land whose two kings thou fearest shall be forsaken.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will hiss for the fly which is at the extremity of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria;

and it shall come to pass, from the abundance of milk they shall give, [that] he shall eat butter; for every one that remaineth in the midst of the land shall eat butter and honey.

with arrows and with the bow shall they come thither, for the whole land shall become briars and thorns.

And all mountains that have been dug up with the hoe—thither will they not come, from fear of briars and thorns; and they shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of small cattle.

For before the lad knoweth to cry, My father! and, My mother! the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

Settle a plan, and it shall come to nought; speak a word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

For Jehovah spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and he instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

And he will be for a sanctuary; and for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

And I will wait for Jehovah, who hideth his face from the house of Jacob; and I will look for him.

Behold, I and the children that Jehovah hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel, from Jehovah of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.

And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto the necromancers and unto the soothsayers, who chirp and who mutter, [say,] Shall not a people seek unto their God? [Will they go] for the living unto the dead?

To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, for them there is no daybreak.

For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

For every boot of him that is shod for the tumult, and the garment rolled in blood, shall be for burning, fuel for fire.