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So people will be brought low and everyone humbled— do not forgive them.
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for every lofty tower and every fortified wall,
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for every trading ship and every stately vessel.
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Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night; over everything the glory will be a canopy.
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So people will be brought low and everyone humbled, the eyes of the arrogant humbled.
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until the Lord has sent everyone far away and the land is utterly forsaken.
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In that day, in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be only briers and thorns.
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“Do not call conspiracy everything this people calls a conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it.
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Every warrior’s boot used in battle and every garment rolled in blood will be destined for burning, will be fuel for the fire.
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Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men, nor will he pity the fatherless and widows, for everyone is ungodly and wicked, every mouth speaks folly. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
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Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
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Because of this, all hands will go limp, every heart will melt with fear.
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Nations will take them and bring them to their own place. And Israel will take possession of the nations and make them male and female servants in the Lord’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
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the man who made the world a wilderness, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?”
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Dibon goes up to its temple, to its high places to weep; Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is shaved and every beard cut off.
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also the plants along the Nile, at the mouth of the river. Every sown field along the Nile will become parched, will blow away and be no more.
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And the land of Judah will bring terror to the Egyptians; everyone to whom Judah is mentioned will be terrified, because of what the Lord Almighty is planning against them.
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so the king of Assyria will lead away stripped and barefoot the Egyptian captives and Cushite exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared—to Egypt’s shame.
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And the lookout shouted, “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; every night I stay at my post.
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The ruined city lies desolate; the entrance to every house is barred.
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You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, “You did not make me”? Can the pot say to the potter, “You know nothing”?
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everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them, who bring neither help nor advantage, but only shame and disgrace.”
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In the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall, streams of water will flow on every high mountain and every lofty hill.
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Every stroke the Lord lays on them with his punishing club will be to the music of timbrels and harps, as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm.
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For in that day every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold your sinful hands have made.
