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They come from a far country, from the farthest part of heaven, even the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, with destruction for all the land.

For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.

For this cause the heavens will be shaking, and the earth will be moved out of its place, in the wrath of the Lord of armies, and in the day of his burning passion.

And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.

People will never be living in it again, and it will have no more men from generation to generation: the Arab will not put up his tent there; and those who keep sheep will not make it a resting-place for their flocks.

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob.

Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.

All the kings of the earth are at rest in glory, every man in his house,

Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.

To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away from them, and his rule over them come to an end.

For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back?

Send out a cry, O door! Make sounds of sorrow, O town! All your land has come to nothing, O Philistia; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and everyone keeps his place in the line.

What answer, then, will my people give to the representatives of the nation? That the Lord is the builder of Zion, and she will be a safe place for the poor of his people.

Heshbon is crying out, and Elealeh; their voice is sounding even to Jahaz: for this cause the heart of Moab is shaking; his soul is shaking with fear.

We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride and passion: his high words about himself are false.

And when Moab goes up to the high place, and makes prayer in the house of his god, it will have no effect.

And it will be in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made small, and the strength of his body will become feeble.

And it will be like a man cutting the growth of his grain, pulling together the heads of the grain with his arm; even as when they get in the grain in the valley of Rephaim.

In that day a man's heart will be turned to his Maker, and his eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.