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The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”
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Woe to the sinful nation, a people whose guilt is great, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the Lord; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him.
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Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
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If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land;
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but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
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Therefore the Lord, the Lord Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: “Ah! I will vent my wrath on my foes and avenge myself on my enemies.
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I will turn my hand against you; I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities.
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I will restore your leaders as in days of old, your rulers as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”
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Zion will be delivered with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness.
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But rebels and sinners will both be broken, and those who forsake the Lord will perish.
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“You will be ashamed because of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen.
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You will be like an oak with fading leaves, like a garden without water.
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The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire.”
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In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
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Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
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He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.
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The Day of the Lord
You, Lord, have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and embrace pagan customs.
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So people will be brought low and everyone humbled— do not forgive them.
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The eyes of the arrogant will be humbled and human pride brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
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The Lord Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled),
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The arrogance of man will be brought low and human pride humbled; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,
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and the idols will totally disappear.
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People will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from the fearful presence of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.
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In that day people will throw away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and idols of gold, which they made to worship.
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They will flee to caverns in the rocks and to the overhanging crags from the fearful presence of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.
