(A)Is a trumpet blown in a city,
    and the people are not afraid?
(B)Does disaster come to a city,
    unless the Lord has done it?

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I form light and create darkness;
    I make well-being and (A)create calamity;
    I am the Lord, who does all these things.

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16     (A)a day of trumpet blast and battle cry
(B)against the fortified cities
    and against the lofty battlements.

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An Oracle Concerning Assyria

24 The Lord of hosts has sworn:
(A)“As I have planned,
    so shall it be,
and as I have purposed,
    so shall it stand,
25 that (B)I will break the Assyrian in my land,
    and on my mountains trample him underfoot;
and (C)his yoke shall depart from them,
    and (D)his burden from their shoulder.”

26 This is the purpose that is purposed
    concerning the whole earth,
and this is (E)the hand that is stretched out
    over all the nations.
27 (F)For the Lord of hosts has purposed,
    and who will annul it?
(G)His hand is stretched out,
    and who will turn it back?

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The Ministry of Reconciliation

11 Therefore, knowing (A)the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But (B)what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.

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20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but (A)God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people[a] should be kept alive, as they are today.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 50:20 Or a numerous people

23 this Jesus,[a] (A)delivered up according to (B)the definite plan and (C)foreknowledge of God, (D)you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 2:23 Greek this one

Impending Disaster for Jerusalem

Flee for safety, (A)O people of Benjamin,
    from the midst of Jerusalem!
Blow the trumpet in (B)Tekoa,
    and raise a signal on (C)Beth-haccherem,
for disaster looms (D)out of the north,
    and great destruction.

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Disaster from the North

Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say,

(A)“Blow the trumpet through the land;
    cry aloud and say,
(B)‘Assemble, and let us go
    into the fortified cities!’

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28 (A)to do whatever your hand and (B)your plan had predestined to take place.

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and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and (A)blows the trumpet and warns the people,

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(A)Who would not fear you, O King of the nations?
    For this is your due;
for among all the wise ones of the nations
    and in all their kingdoms
    there is none like you.

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(A)Blow the horn in (B)Gibeah,
    the trumpet in (C)Ramah.
Sound the alarm at (D)Beth-aven;
    we follow you,[a] O Benjamin!

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 5:8 Or after you

22 (A)Do you not fear me? declares the Lord.
    Do you not tremble before me?
I placed the sand (B)as the boundary for the sea,
    a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass;
though the waves toss, they cannot prevail;
    though (C)they roar, they cannot pass over it.

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