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From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness— only wounds and welts and open sores, not cleansed or bandaged or soothed with olive oil.
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In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own food and provide our own clothes; only let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”
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He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit.
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What more could have been done for my vineyard than I have done for it? When I looked for good grapes, why did it yield only bad?
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A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath of wine; a homer of seed will yield only an ephah of grain.”
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In that day they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and distress; even the sun will be darkened by clouds.
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for the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is only Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.
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The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah’s son. If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.’”
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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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Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.
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Though your people be like the sand by the sea, Israel, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overwhelming and righteous.
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When Moab appears at her high place, she only wears herself out; when she goes to her shrine to pray, it is to no avail.
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At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king’s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:
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We were with child, we writhed in labor, but we gave birth to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth, and the people of the world have not come to life.
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I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle; I would set them all on fire.
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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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No lion will be there, nor any ravenous beast; they will not be found there. But only the redeemed will walk there,
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You say you have counsel and might for war—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me?
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But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”
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They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.
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Now, Lord our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Lord, are the only God.”
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“Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life.
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I said, “In the prime of my life must I go through the gates of death and be robbed of the rest of my years?”
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Like a shepherd’s tent my house has been pulled down and taken from me. Like a weaver I have rolled up my life, and he has cut me off from the loom; day and night you made an end of me.
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Lord, by such things people live; and my spirit finds life in them too. You restored me to health and let me live.
