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This shall be their inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no holding in Israel; I am their holding.

The palace master said to Daniel, "I am afraid of my lord the king; he has appointed your food and your drink. If he should see you in poorer condition than the other young men of your own age, you would endanger my head with the king."

The signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked for me I am pleased to recount.

He said to me, "Daniel, greatly beloved, pay attention to the words that I am going to speak to you. Stand on your feet, for I have now been sent to you." So while he was speaking this word to me, I stood up trembling.

How can my lord's servant talk with my lord? For I am shaking, no strength remains in me, and no breath is left in me."

Then he said, "Do you know why I have come to you? Now I must return to fight against the prince of Persia, and when I am through with him, the prince of Greece will come.

But I am to tell you what is inscribed in the book of truth. There is no one with me who contends against these princes except Michael, your prince.

Then the Lord said, "Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not my people and I am not your God."

Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband— that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts,

Say to your brother, Ammi, and to your sister, Ruhamah. Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband— that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts, or I will strip her naked and expose her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and turn her into a parched land, and kill her with thirst.

Therefore I am like maggots to Ephraim, and like rottenness to the house of Judah.

I will not execute my fierce anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and no mortal, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.

Ephraim has said, "Ah, I am rich, I have gained wealth for myself; in all of my gain no offense has been found in me that would be sin."

I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, as in the days of the appointed festival.

O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; your faithfulness comes from me.

In response to his people the Lord said: I am sending you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a mockery among the nations.

You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I, the Lord , am your God and there is no other. And my people shall never again be put to shame.

Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, "I am a warrior."

Indeed, I am raising up against you a nation, O house of Israel, says the Lord , the God of hosts, and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Wadi Arabah.

And the Lord said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "See, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass them by;