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And you will know that I, Yahweh your God, am dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem will be a place of holiness, and strangers will pass through it no longer.

Look! I am going to press you down in your place just as a utility cart full of mature stalks of grain is pressed down.

Hear this word that I am going to intone over you as a lament, O house of Israel!

Indeed, I am going to raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, declares Yahweh, the God of hosts. And they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath up to the wadi of the Arabah.

And Yahweh said to me, "What do you see?" And I said, "A plummet." And my Lord said, "Look, I am going to set a plummet in the midst of my people, Israel. I will not pass them by again.

And Amos answered and said to Amaziah, "I am not a prophet and I am not a son of a prophet, but I am a herdsman and I am one taking care of sycamore trees.

"Yes, look, I am going to command and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations like one who shakes with a sieve, but not a pebble will fall to the ground.

And he said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."

And I said, ‘I am banished from your sight; how will I continue to look on your holy temple?'

"Get up! Go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the message that I am telling you."

Therefore, thus says Yahweh: Look! I am planning disaster against this family from which you will not be able to remove your necks. You will not walk proudly, for it is a time of disaster.

But I, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of Yahweh, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his rebellion, and to Israel his sin.

For you have observed the regulations of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab. And you have walked in their counsels, so that I am making you a desolation and your inhabitants an object of scorn. So you will bear the scorn of my people.

"Look! I am against you!" declares Yahweh of hosts. "I will burn her chariots with fire; the sword will devour fierce lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth; the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard."

"Look! I am against you!" declaresYahweh. "I will strip up your skirts over your face; I will let nations look at your nakedness and your shame.

For look! I am raising up the Chaldeans, the bitter and impetuous nation, the one who walks through the spacious places of earth to take possession of dwellings not belonging to it.

This is the city of rejoicing that lived securely; the one saying in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a lair for wild animals! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

And Haggai the messenger of Yahweh spoke to the people with the message of Yahweh, saying, "‘I am with you' declares Yahweh."

‘But now take courage, Zerubbabel,' declares Yahweh. ‘Take courage, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and take courage, all the people of the land,' declares Yahweh. ‘Do the work, because I am with you,' declares Yahweh of hosts,

"Say to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah: I am going to shake the heavens and the earth,