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At this my body is racked with pain, pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor; I am staggered by what I hear, I am bewildered by what I see.
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My heart falters, fear makes me tremble; the twilight I longed for has become a horror to me.
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My people who are crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the Lord Almighty, from the God of Israel.
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The Lord Almighty has revealed this in my hearing: “Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned for,” says the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
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From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I waste away, I waste away! Woe to me! The treacherous betray! With treachery the treacherous betray!”
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Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts.
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Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.
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Listen and hear my voice; pay attention and hear what I say.
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Yet I will besiege Ariel; she will mourn and lament, she will be to me like an altar hearth.
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The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.
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In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
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It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found for taking coals from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern.”
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People of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.
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Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”
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And you will sing as on the night you celebrate a holy festival; your hearts will rejoice as when people playing pipes go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.
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The Lord will cause people to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.
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Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.
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The fearful heart will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will be fluent and clear.
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For fools speak folly, their hearts are bent on evil: They practice ungodliness and spread error concerning the Lord; the hungry they leave empty and from the thirsty they withhold water.
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The Women of Jerusalem
You women who are so complacent, rise up and listen to me; you daughters who feel secure, hear what I have to say!
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You who are far away, hear what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge my power!
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Judgment Against the Nations
Come near, you nations, and listen; pay attention, you peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world, and all that comes out of it!
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say to those with fearful hearts, “Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you.”
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Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
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Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
