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And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.

According to the word of Ephraim he adopted ordinances for himself in Israel; and he established them for Baal, and died.

And now they have sinned increasingly, and have made for themselves a molten image of their silver, according to the fashion of idols, the work of artificers accomplished for them: they say, Sacrifice men, for the calves have come to an end.

Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God; for the people have fallen through thine iniquities.

I will restore their dwellings, I will love them truly: for he has turned away my wrath from him.

Awake, ye drunkards, from your wine, and weep: mourn, all ye that drink wine to drunkenness: for joy and gladness and removed are from your mouth.

For a strong and innumerable nation is come up against my land, their teeth are lion�s teeth, and their back teeth those of a lion�s whelp.

Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the corn languishes; the wine is dried up, the oil becomes scarce;

the husbandmen are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley; for the harvest has perished from off the field.

The vine is dried up, and the fig-trees are become few; the pomegranate, and palm-tree, and apple, and all trees of the field are dried up: for the sons of men have have abolished joy.

Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests: mourn, ye that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloths, ye that minister to God: for the meat-offering and drink-offering are withheld from the house of your God.

Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is nigh, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.

The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the wine-presses are broken down; for the corn is withered.

What shall we store up for ourselves? the herds of cattle have mourned, because they had no pasture; and the flocks of sheep have been utterly destroyed.

To thee, O Lord, will I cry: for fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness, and a flame has burnt up all the trees of the field.

And the cattle of the field have looked up to thee: for the fountains of waters have been dried up, and fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness.

Sound the trumpet in Sion, make a proclamation in my holy mountain, and let all the inhabitants of the land be confounded: for the day of the Lord is near;

for a day of darkness and gloominess is near, a day of cloud and mist: a numerous and strong people shall be spread upon the mountains as the morning; there has not been from the beginning one like it, and after it there shall not be again even to the years of many generations.

As the sound of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, and as the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble, and as a numerous and strong people setting themselves in array for battle.