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And Hamath also, which borders on it;And Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.

But I will camp around My house because of an army,Because of him who passes by and returns;And no taskmaster will pass over them anymore,For now I have seen with My eyes.

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant,I have set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.

For the teraphim speak wickedness,And the diviners behold false visionsAnd speak worthless dreams;They comfort in vain.Therefore the people journey like sheep;They are afflicted because there is no shepherd.

I will make the house of Judah mighty,And I will save the house of Joseph,And I will cause them to return,Because I have had compassion on them;And they will be as though I had not rejected them,For I am Yahweh their God, and I will answer them.

Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,Because the mighty trees have been destroyed;Wail, O oaks of Bashan,For the impenetrable forest has come down.

If you do not listen, and if you do not set it upon your heart to give honor to My name," says Yahweh of hosts, "then I will send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; and indeed, I have cursed them already because you are not setting it upon your heart.

"And this is a second thing you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with groaning because He no longer regards the offering or receives it as acceptable from your hand.

But you say, ‘For what reason?' Because Yahweh has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

"A voice was heard in Ramah,Weeping and great mourning,Rachel weeping for her children;And she was refusing to be comforted,Because they were no more."

"Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.

And seeing the crowds, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and downcast like sheep without a shepherd.

And you will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.

Then He began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles were done, because they did not repent.

The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment, and will condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

The Queen of the South will rise up with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

And others fell on the rocky places, where they did not have much soil; and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of soil.

But when the sun had risen, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear.