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Do not look at me because I have dark skin, because the sun has tanned me; my mothers sons contended with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but my own vineyard I have not kept.

They all hold swords, being expert in war; every man has his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.

For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are self-satisfied as in the olden days, and they practice augury like the Philistines, and they have reared many alien children.

For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, provoking God in the majesty of his glory.

Because the daughters of Zion have become haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks, and wanton eyes, making a tinkling with their feet, and thus provoking the LORD;

In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth, it has been heard, that many houses shall be desolate, because there will be no one to dwell in them.

Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their dead are multiplied because of the famine, and have been overcome with thirst.

Who justify the guilty because of his bribe, and take away justice from the righteous!

Therefore as the fire devours the stubble and the flame consumes the chaff, so they shall be consumed by the flame, and their root shall be as dust; and their blossom shall go up like chaff, because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts and despised the command of the Holy One of Israel.

Because Aram, Ephraim, and the son of Romaliah have taken evil counsel against you, saying,

And it shall come to pass because of the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter; for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.

With arrows and with bows shall men come there, because all the land shall be filled with briers and thorns.

As for the law and the testimony, if they do not speak according to this word, it is because they do not receive a bribe for it.

For yet a very little while, and my indignation shall be accomplished, and my anger because of their destruction.

And it shall come to pass in that day that his burden shall be taken away from off your shoulder and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed from your neck because of your strength.

You shall not rejoice with them in the grave, because you have destroyed your land and slain your people; the offspring of the evildoer shall never rise again.

Rejoice not, whole Philistia, because the rod of him that smote you is broken; for out of the serpents root shall come forth a viper, and its offspring shall be a fiery flying serpent.

THE prophecy concerning the fall of Moab. Because in the night the city of Moab is plundered and brought to silence; because in the night the defenses of Moab are despoiled and brought to silence;

Because you have forgotten the God your Saviour, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength; therefore you shall plant pleasant plants and shall graft them with strange branches;

On that day the Egyptian shall be like a woman, and he shall be afraid and tremble because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shakes against him.