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And there shall be a booth for a shade from the heat, and for a refuge, and for a hiding place from storm and rain.

And He dug it, and cleared it of stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in its midst, and also hewed out a wine vat in it. And He waited for it to produce grapes, but it produced rotten grapes.

What more could have been done to My vineyard that I have not done in it? Who knows? I waited for it to yield grapes, but it yielded rotten grapes.

For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah is His delightful plant. And He waited for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, a cry!

For this My people go into exile without knowledge, and his men of glory into famine; and his multitude is parched with thirst.

Woe to those who say to evil, good; and to good, evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

who justify the wicked for a bribe, and turn aside the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Then I said, Woe is me! For I am cut off; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live amongst a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of Hosts.

And I heard the voice of Jehovah, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us? Then I said, Behold me. Send me!

Let us go up against Judah and make her to dread, and break her for ourselves, and set a king in her midst, the son of Tabeal.

For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty five years Ephraim shall be broken from being a people.

For before the boy shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you hate will be forsaken before both her kings.

And it shall be in that day Jehovah shall hiss for the fly that is in the end of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee in the land of Assyria.

And it shall be, he shall eat curds from the plenty of milk making; for everyone who is left in the land shall eat curds and honey.

And it shall be in that day, every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand pieces of silver, it shall be for briers and thorns.

And all the hills which were hoed with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of the ox, and for trampling of sheep.

And I took faithful witnesses to record for me, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

For before the boy knows to cry, My father, or, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria shall be lifted up before the king of Assyria.

Counsel a counsel, and it is frustrated; speak a word, and it shall not rise; for God is with us.

For so Jehovah spoke to me with a strong hand, and taught me against walking in the way of this people, saying,