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"Will not all these people make fun of him and say, ‘It is bad for him who gathers what is not his and makes himself rich with other people's money. How long will this go on?'

"It is bad for him who builds his house by sinful ways, to put his nest in a high place to be safe from trouble!

"It is bad for him who makes his neighbors drink, mixing in his poison to make them drunk, so he can look on their shame!

"Of what worth is a false god when a workman has made it? Of what worth is an object of worship, a teacher of lies? For the workman trusts in his own work when he makes these false gods that cannot speak.

But the Lord is in His holy house. Let all the earth be quiet before Him."

God comes from Teman. The Holy One comes from Mount Paran. His shining-greatness covers the heavens, and the earth is full of His praise.

He is as bright as the sun. He has light shining from His hand, where His power is hidden.

He stood and looked over the earth. He looked and shook the nations. The lasting mountains were broken to pieces, and the old hills fell down. His ways last forever.

With his own spear You cut through the head of his soldiers. They came like a storm to send us everywhere, finding joy as if they were destroying in secret those who had it very hard.

Their silver and gold will not be able to save them on the day of the Lord's anger. All the earth will be destroyed in the fire of His jealousy. For all at once He will make an end of all the people of the earth.

Look for the Lord, all you people of the earth who are not proud, and who have obeyed His Laws. Look for what is right and good. Have no pride. You may be kept safe on the day of the Lord's anger.

They will be filled with fear because of the Lord. He will destroy all the gods of the earth. All the nations beside the sea will worship Him, every one in his own land.

He will put out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria. And He will destroy Nineveh, making it a waste land like the desert.

The Lord your God is with you, a Powerful One Who wins the battle. He will have much joy over you. With His love He will give you new life. He will have joy over you with loud singing.

"You look for much, but it turns out to be little. When you bring it home, I blow it away. Why?" says the Lord of All. "Because My house lies waste, while each of you takes care of his own house.

If a man carries holy meat in the fold of his clothing, and this fold touches bread or hot food, or wine, oil, or any other food, will it become holy?'" The religious leaders answered and said, "No."

I said, "What are these coming to do?" And he said, "These are the horns which have sent the people of Judah everywhere, so that no man raised his head. But these workmen have come to make them afraid and to throw down the horns of the nations who have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah so the people would be sent everywhere."

The Lord will receive Judah as His share in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

All of you be quiet before the Lord. For He is coming from His holy place."

Then he showed me Joshua the head religious leader standing before the angel of the Lord. And Satan was standing at his right side to blame him.