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13 “Look, days are coming,” declares[a] Yahweh, “when the one who plows will overtake the one who reaps, the one who treads grapes will catch up with the one who sows the seed. And the mountains will drip sweet wine and all of the hills will flow with it. 14 And I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they will rebuild the desolated cities and will inhabit them. And they will plant vineyards and will drink their wine, and they will make gardens and will eat their fruit. 15 And I will plant them on their land and they will not be uprooted again from their land that I have given to them,” says Yahweh your God.

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  1. Amos 9:13 Literally “a declaration of”

13 “Behold, (A)the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“When the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
And the treader of grapes him who sows seed;
(B)The mountains shall drip with sweet wine,
And all the hills shall flow with it.
14 (C)I will bring back the captives of My people Israel;
(D)They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them;
They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them;
They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.
15 I will plant them in their land,
(E)And no longer shall they be pulled up
From the land I have given them,”
Says the Lord your God.

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