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For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour her strongholds.

They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests— those who rejoiced over it and over its glory— for it has departed from them.

"So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God."

Ephraim has given bitter provocation; so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him and will repay him for his disgraceful deeds.

So I am to them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.

"So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.

So I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.

So I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour her strongholds.

So I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour her strongholds."

So I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah."

So I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour her strongholds, with shouting on the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;

So I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth, and Moab shall die amid uproar, amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;

So I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem."

those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same girl, so that my holy name is profaned;

And I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?" declares the Lord .

Thus says the Lord : "As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the people of Israel who dwell in Samaria be rescued, with the corner of a couch and part of a bed.

offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them; for so you love to do, O people of Israel!" declares the Lord God .

so two or three cities would wander to another city to drink water, and would not be satisfied; yet you did not return to me," declares the Lord .

who makes destruction flash forth against the strong, so that destruction comes upon the fortress.