Bible in 90 Days

⁹ He destroys^[a] you, O Israel,
    for you are against me, against ^(E)your helper.
^10 (F)Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities?
    Where are all your rulers—
those of whom ^(G)you said,
    “Give me a king and princes”?
^11 (H)I gave you a king in my anger,
    and ^(I)I took him away in my wrath.

¹² The iniquity of Ephraim is ^(J)bound up;
    his sin is ^(K)kept in store.
^13 (L)The pangs of childbirth come for him,
    but he is an unwise son,
for at the right time he does not present himself
    ^(M)at the opening of the womb.

^14 (N)I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol;
    ^(O)I shall redeem them from Death.^[b]
(P)O ^(Q)Death, where are your plagues?
    ^(R)O ^(S)Sheol, where is your sting?
    ^(T)Compassion is hidden from my eyes.

¹⁵ Though ^(U)he may flourish among his brothers,
    ^(V)the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come,
    rising from the wilderness,
^(W)and his fountain shall dry up;
    his spring shall be parched;
it shall strip ^(X)his treasury
    of every precious thing.
^16 [c] Samaria ^(Y)shall bear her guilt,
    because ^(Z)she has rebelled against her God;
they shall fall by the sword;
    ^(AA)their little ones shall be dashed in pieces,
    and their ^(AB)pregnant women ripped open.

⁴ I ^(AK)will heal their apostasy;
    ^(AL)I will love them freely,
    for my anger has turned from them.
^5 (AM)I will be like the dew to Israel;
    ^(AN)he shall blossom like the lily;
    he shall take root like the trees ^(AO)of Lebanon;
⁶ his shoots shall spread out;
    his beauty shall be ^(AP)like the olive,
    and his fragrance like Lebanon.
⁷ They shall return and ^(AQ)dwell beneath my^[e] shadow;
    they shall flourish like the grain;
they shall blossom like the vine;
    their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.

⁸ O ^(AR)Ephraim, what have I to do with idols?
    It is I who answer and look after you.^[f]
I am like an evergreen cypress;
    ^(AS)from me comes your fruit.

^9 (AT)Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;
    whoever is discerning, let him know them;
for the ways of the Lord are right,
    and ^(AU)the upright walk in them,
    ^(AV)but transgressors stumble in them.

⁴ What ^(BB)the cutting locust left,
    ^(BC)the swarming locust has eaten.
What the swarming locust left,
    ^(BD)the hopping locust has eaten,
and what the hopping locust left,
    ^(BE)the destroying locust has eaten.

⁵ Awake, you drunkards, and weep,
    and ^(BF)wail, all you drinkers of wine,
because of ^(BG)the sweet wine,
    for it is cut off from your mouth.
⁶ For ^(BH)a nation has come up against my land,
    ^(BI)powerful and beyond number;
^(BJ)its teeth are lions' teeth,
    and it has the fangs of a lioness.
⁷ It has laid waste my vine
    and splintered my ^(BK)fig tree;
it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;
    their branches are made white.

⁸ Lament like a virgin^{[g] (BL)}wearing sackcloth
    for the bridegroom of her youth.
^9 (BM)The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off
    from the house of the Lord.
^(BN)The priests mourn,
    ^(BO)the ministers of the Lord.
¹⁰ The fields are destroyed,
    ^(BP)the ground mourns,
because ^(BQ)the grain is destroyed,
    ^(BR)the wine dries up,
    the oil languishes.

^11 (BS)Be ashamed,^[h] O tillers of the soil;
    wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
    ^(BT)because the harvest of the field has perished.
¹² The vine dries up;
    ^(BU)the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
    all the trees of the field are dried up,
and ^(BV)gladness dries up
    from the children of man.

^14 (CC)Consecrate a fast;
    ^(CD)call a solemn assembly.
Gather ^(CE)the elders
    and ^(CF)all the inhabitants of the land
to the house of the Lord your God,
    and cry out to the Lord.

¹⁵ Alas for the day!
^(CG)For the day of the Lord is near,
    and as destruction from the Almighty^[i] it comes.
¹⁶ Is not the food cut off
    before our eyes,
^(CH)joy and gladness
    from the house of our God?

^17 (CI)The seed shrivels under the clods;^[j]
    the storehouses are desolate;
the granaries are torn down
    because ^(CJ)the grain has dried up.
¹⁸ How ^(CK)the beasts groan!
    The herds of cattle are perplexed
because there is no pasture for them;
    even the flocks of sheep suffer.^[k]

¹⁹ To you, ^(CL)O Lord, I call.
^(CM)For fire has devoured
    the pastures of the wilderness,
^(CN)and flame has burned
    all the trees of the field.
²⁰ Even the beasts of the field ^(CO)pant for you
    because the water brooks are dried up,
^(CP)and fire has devoured
    the pastures of the wilderness.

^3 (CY)Fire devours before them,
    and behind them a flame burns.
The land is like ^(CZ)the garden of Eden before them,
    but ^(DA)behind them a desolate wilderness,
    and nothing escapes them.

^4 (DB)Their appearance is like the appearance of horses,
    and like war horses they run.
^5 (DC)As with the rumbling of chariots,
    they leap on the tops of the mountains,
like the crackling of ^(DD)a flame of fire
    devouring the stubble,
^(DE)like a powerful army
    drawn up for battle.

⁶ Before them peoples are in anguish;
    ^(DF)all faces grow pale.
⁷ Like warriors they charge;
    like soldiers they scale the wall.
They march each on his way;
    they do not swerve from their paths.
⁸ They do not jostle one another;
    ^(DG)each marches in his path;
they burst through the weapons
    and are not halted.
^9 (DH)They leap upon the city,
    they run upon the walls,
^(DI)they climb up into the houses,
    ^(DJ)they enter through the windows ^(DK)like a thief.

^10 (DL)The earth quakes before them;
    the heavens tremble.
^(DM)The sun and the moon are darkened,
    and the stars withdraw their shining.
^11 (DN)The Lord utters his voice
    before ^(DO)his army,
for his camp is exceedingly great;
    ^(DP)he who executes his word is powerful.
^(DQ)For the day of the Lord is ^(DR)great and very awesome;
    ^(DS)who can endure it?

^15 (EC)Blow the trumpet in Zion;
    ^(ED)consecrate a fast;
call a solemn assembly;
¹⁶     gather the people.
^(EE)Consecrate the congregation;
    assemble the elders;
^(EF)gather the children,
    even nursing infants.
^(EG)Let the bridegroom leave his room,
    and the bride her chamber.

^17 (EH)Between the ^(EI)vestibule and the ^(EJ)altar
    ^(EK)let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep
and say, “Spare your people, O Lord,
    and make not your heritage a reproach,
    a byword among the nations.^[l]
(EL)Why should they say among the peoples,
    ‘Where is their God?’”

²⁰ “I will remove the northerner far from you,
    and drive him into a parched and desolate land,
his vanguard^[m] into ^(EQ)the eastern sea,
    and his rear guard^[n] into ^(ER)the western sea;
^(ES)the stench and foul smell of him will rise,
    for he has done great things.

²¹ “Fear not, O land;
    be glad and rejoice,
    for ^(ET)the Lord has done great things!
²² Fear not, ^(EU)you beasts of the field,
    for ^(EV)the pastures of the wilderness are green;
^(EW)the tree bears its fruit;
    the fig tree and ^(EX)vine give their full yield.

^23 (EY)“Be glad, O children of Zion,
    and ^(EZ)rejoice in the Lord your God,
for he has given ^(FA)the early rain for your vindication;
    he has poured down for you abundant rain,
    ^(FB)the early and ^(FC)the latter rain, as before.

²⁴ “The threshing floors shall be full of grain;
    the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
²⁵ I will restore^[o] to you the years
    that ^(FD)the swarming locust has eaten,
^(FE)the hopper, ^(FF)the destroyer, and ^(FG)the cutter,
    ^(FH)my great army, which I sent among you.

^26 (FI)“You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied,
    and praise the name of the Lord your God,
    who has dealt wondrously with you.
And my people ^(FJ)shall never again be put to shame.
^27 (FK)You shall know that I am ^(FL)in the midst of Israel,
    and that ^(FM)I am the Lord your God ^(FN)and there is none else.
And my people ^(FO)shall never again be put to shame.

⁹ Proclaim this among the nations:
^(GN)Consecrate for war;^[s]
    stir up the mighty men.
Let all the men of war draw near;
    let them come up.
^10 (GO)Beat your plowshares into swords,
    and ^(GP)your pruning hooks into spears;
    let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”

^11 (GQ)Hasten and come,
    all you surrounding nations,
    and gather yourselves there.
^(GR)Bring down your warriors, O Lord.
¹² Let the nations stir themselves up
    and come up to ^(GS)the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
^(GT)for there I will sit to judge
    all the surrounding nations.

^13 (GU)Put in the sickle,
    ^(GV)for the harvest is ripe.
^(GW)Go in, tread,
    ^(GX)for the winepress is full.
The vats overflow,
    for their evil is great.

¹⁴ Multitudes, multitudes,
    in the valley of decision!
For ^(GY)the day of the Lord is near
    in the valley of decision.
^15 (GZ)The sun and the moon are darkened,
    and the stars withdraw their shining.

^16 (HA)The Lord roars from Zion,
    and ^(HB)utters his voice from Jerusalem,
    ^(HC)and the heavens and the earth quake.
But the Lord is ^(HD)a refuge to his people,
    a stronghold to the people of Israel.

¹⁸ “And in that day
^(HI)the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
    and the hills shall flow with milk,
and ^(HJ)all the streambeds of Judah
    shall flow with water;
^(HK)and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord
    and water the Valley of ^(HL)Shittim.

^19 (HM)“Egypt shall become a desolation
    and ^(HN)Edom a desolate wilderness,
^(HO)for the violence done to the people of Judah,
    because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
^20 (HP)But Judah shall be inhabited forever,
    and Jerusalem to all generations.
^21 (HQ)I will avenge their blood,
    blood I have not avenged,^{[t]
    (HR)}for the Lord dwells in Zion.”

^(HY)“The Lord roars from Zion
    and utters his voice from Jerusalem;
^(HZ)the pastures of the shepherds mourn,
    and the ^(IA)top of ^(IB)Carmel withers.”

^(IC)“For three transgressions of ^(ID)Damascus,
    and for four, ^(IE)I will not revoke the punishment,^[w]
because they have threshed ^(IF)Gilead
    with threshing sledges of iron.
^4 (IG)So I will send a fire upon the house of ^(IH)Hazael,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of ^(II)Ben-hadad.
⁵ I will ^(IJ)break the gate-bar of ^(IK)Damascus,
    and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of ^(IL)Aven,^[x]
and him who holds the scepter from ^(IM)Beth-eden;
    and the people of ^(IN)Syria shall go into exile to ^(IO)Kir,”
says the Lord.

^(IP)“For three transgressions of ^(IQ)Gaza,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because ^(IR)they carried into exile a whole people
    to deliver them up to Edom.
⁷ So I will send a fire upon the wall of ^(IS)Gaza,
    and it shall devour her strongholds.
⁸ I will cut off the inhabitants from ^(IT)Ashdod,
    and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon;
I will turn my hand against Ekron,
    and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,”
says the Lord God.

^(IU)“For three transgressions of ^(IV)Tyre,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because they delivered up a whole people to Edom,
    and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.
¹⁰ So I will send a fire upon the wall of ^(IW)Tyre,
    and it shall devour her strongholds.”

^(IX)“For three transgressions of ^(IY)Edom,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
^(IZ)because he pursued his brother with the sword
    ^(JA)and cast off all pity,
^(JB)and his anger tore perpetually,
    ^(JC)and he kept his wrath forever.
¹² So I will send a fire upon ^(JD)Teman,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of ^(JE)Bozrah.”

^(JF)“For three transgressions of the ^(JG)Ammonites,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because ^(JH)they have ripped open pregnant women in ^(JI)Gilead,
    that they might enlarge their border.
¹⁴ So I will kindle a fire in the wall of ^(JJ)Rabbah,
    ^(JK)and it shall devour her strongholds,
with shouting on the day of battle,
    ^(JL)with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;
¹⁵ and ^(JM)their king shall go into exile,
    he and his princes^[y] together,”
says the Lord.

^(JN)“For three transgressions of ^(JO)Moab,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,^[z]
because ^(JP)he burned to lime
    the bones of the king of Edom.
² So I will send a fire upon Moab,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of ^(JQ)Kerioth,
and Moab shall die amid uproar,
    amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;
^3 (JR)I will cut off the ruler from its midst,
    and will kill ^(JS)all its princes^[aa] with him,”
says the Lord.

^(JT)“For three transgressions of Judah,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because ^(JU)they have rejected the law of the Lord,
    and have not kept his statutes,
but ^(JV)their lies have led them astray,
    those after which their fathers walked.
⁵ So ^(JW)I will send a fire upon Judah,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.”

^(JX)“For three transgressions of Israel,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because ^(JY)they sell the righteous for ^(JZ)silver,
    and the needy for a pair of sandals—
⁷ those who trample the head of the poor ^(KA)into the dust of the earth
    and ^(KB)turn aside the way of the afflicted;
^(KC)a man and his father go in to the same girl,
    so that my holy name is profaned;
⁸ they lay themselves down beside every altar
    on garments ^(KD)taken in pledge,
and in the house of their God they drink
    the wine of those who have been fined.

⁹ “Yet ^(KE)it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,
    ^(KF)whose height was like the height of the cedars
    and who was as strong as the oaks;
^(KG)I destroyed his fruit above
    and his roots beneath.
^10 (KH)Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt
    ^(KI)and led you forty years in the wilderness,
    ^(KJ)to possess the land of the Amorite.
¹¹ And I raised up some of your sons for prophets,
    and some of your young men for ^(KK)Nazirites.
    Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?”
declares the Lord.

¹² “But you made the Nazirites ^(KL)drink wine,
    and commanded the prophets,
    saying, ^(KM)‘You shall not prophesy.’

¹³ “Behold, I will press you down in your place,
    as a cart full of sheaves presses down.
^14 (KN)Flight shall perish from the swift,
    ^(KO)and the strong shall not retain his strength,
    ^(KP)nor shall the mighty save his life;
¹⁵ he who handles the bow shall not stand,
    and he who is ^(KQ)swift of foot shall not save himself,
    ^(KR)nor shall he who rides the horse save his life;
¹⁶ and he who is stout of heart among the mighty
    shall flee away naked in that day,”
declares the Lord.

^2 (KT)“You only have I known
    of all the families of the earth;
^(KU)therefore I will punish you
    for all your iniquities.

³ “Do two walk together,
    unless they have agreed to meet?
⁴ Does a lion roar in the forest,
    when he has no prey?
Does a young lion cry out from his den,
    if he has taken nothing?
⁵ Does a bird fall in a snare on the earth,
    when there is no trap for it?
Does a snare spring up from the ground,
    when it has taken nothing?
^6 (KV)Is a trumpet blown in a city,
    and the people are not afraid?
^(KW)Does disaster come to a city,
    unless the Lord has done it?

⁷ “For the Lord God does nothing
    ^(KX)without revealing his secret
    to his servants the prophets.
⁸ The lion has roared;
    who will not fear?
^(KY)The Lord God has spoken;
    who can but prophesy?”

⁹ Proclaim to the strongholds in ^(KZ)Ashdod
    and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt,
and say, “Assemble yourselves on ^(LA)the mountains of Samaria,
    and see the great tumults within her,
    and ^(LB)the oppressed in her midst.”
¹⁰ “They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord,
    ^(LC)“those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”

^(LD)“An adversary shall surround the land
    and bring down^[ab] your defenses from you,
    and ^(LE)your strongholds shall be plundered.”

¹³ “Hear, ^(LI)and testify against the house of Jacob,”
    declares the Lord God, ^(LJ)the God of hosts,
¹⁴ “that on the day I punish Israel for his transgressions,
    ^(LK)I will punish the altars of Bethel,
and ^(LL)the horns of the altar shall be cut off
    and fall to the ground.
^15 (LM)I will strike ^(LN)the winter house along with ^(LO)the summer house,
    and ^(LP)the houses of ivory shall perish,
and the great houses^[ad] shall come to an end,”
declares the Lord.

4 “Hear this word, ^(LQ)you cows of Bashan,
    who are ^(LR)on the mountain of Samaria,
^(LS)who oppress the poor, ^(LT)who crush the needy,
    who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’
^2 (LU)The Lord God has sworn by his holiness
    that, behold, the days are coming upon you,
^(LV)when they shall take you away with hooks,
    ^(LW)even the last of you with fishhooks.
^3 (LX)And you shall go out through the breaches,
    each one straight ahead;
    and you shall be cast out into Harmon,”
declares the Lord.

^4 (LY)“Come to Bethel, and transgress;
    to ^(LZ)Gilgal, and multiply transgression;
^(MA)bring your ^(MB)sacrifices every morning,
    your tithes every three days;
⁵ offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of ^(MC)that which is leavened,
    and proclaim ^(MD)freewill offerings, publish them;
    ^(ME)for so you love to do, O people of Israel!”
declares the Lord God.

⁷ “I also ^(MH)withheld the rain from you
    when there were yet three months to the harvest;
^(MI)I would send rain on one city,
    and send no rain on another city;
one field would have rain,
    and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
⁸ so two or three cities ^(MJ)would wander to another city
    to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
^(MK)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

^9 (ML)“I struck you with blight and mildew;
    your many gardens and your vineyards,
    your fig trees and your olive trees ^(MM)the locust devoured;
^(MN)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

¹⁰ “I sent among you a pestilence ^(MO)after the manner of Egypt;
    I killed your young men with the sword,
and ^(MP)carried away your horses,^[ae]
    and ^(MQ)I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
^(MR)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

¹¹ “I overthrew some of you,
    ^(MS)as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
    and you were ^(MT)as a brand^[af] plucked out of the burning;
^(MU)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

¹² “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;
    because I will do this to you,
    prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”

¹³ For behold, ^(MV)he who forms the mountains and creates the wind,
    and ^(MW)declares to man what is his thought,
^(MX)who makes the morning darkness,
    and ^(MY)treads on the heights of the earth—
    ^(MZ)the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!

² “Fallen, no more to rise,
    is ^(NB)the virgin Israel;
forsaken on her land,
    with none to raise her up.”

“The city that went out a thousand
    shall have a hundred left,
and that which went out a hundred
    shall have ten left
    to the house of Israel.”

^(NC)“Seek me and live;
⁵     but do not seek ^(ND)Bethel,
and do not enter into ^(NE)Gilgal
    or cross over to ^(NF)Beersheba;
for ^(NG)Gilgal shall surely go into exile,
    and ^(NH)Bethel shall come to nothing.”

^6 (NI)Seek the Lord and live,
    ^(NJ)lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
    and it devour, with none to quench it for ^(NK)Bethel,
⁷ O ^(NL)you who turn justice to wormwood^[ag]
    and cast down righteousness to the earth!

⁸ He who made the ^(NM)Pleiades and Orion,
    and turns deep darkness into the morning
    and ^(NN)darkens the day into night,
who ^(NO)calls for the waters of the sea
    ^(NP)and pours them out on the surface of the earth,
^(NQ)the Lord is his name;
^9 (NR)who makes destruction flash forth against the strong,
    so that destruction comes upon the fortress.

^10 (NS)They hate him who reproves ^(NT)in the gate,
    and they ^(NU)abhor him who speaks the truth.
¹¹ Therefore because you ^(NV)trample on^[ah] the poor
    and you exact taxes of grain from him,
^(NW)you have built houses of hewn stone,
    but you shall not dwell in them;
^(NX)you have planted pleasant vineyards,
    but you shall not drink their wine.
¹² For I know how many are your transgressions
    and how great are your sins—
you who afflict the righteous, who ^(NY)take a bribe,
    and ^(NZ)turn aside the needy ^(OA)in the gate.
¹³ Therefore he who is prudent will ^(OB)keep silent in such a time,
    ^(OC)for it is an evil time.

^14 (OD)Seek good, and not evil,
    that you may live;
and so the Lord, ^(OE)the God of hosts, will be with you,
    as you have said.
^15 (OF)Hate evil, and love good,
    and establish justice ^(OG)in the gate;
^(OH)it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts,
    will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

“In all the squares ^(OJ)there shall be wailing,
    and in all the streets they shall say, ‘Alas! Alas!’
They shall call the farmers to mourning
    and ^(OK)to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation,
¹⁷ and in all vineyards there shall be wailing,
    for ^(OL)I will pass through your midst,”
says the Lord.

^21 (OQ)“I hate, I despise your feasts,
    and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
^22 (OR)Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings,
    I will not accept them;
and the peace offerings of your fattened animals,
    I will not look upon them.
²³ Take away from me the noise of your songs;
    to ^(OS)the melody of your harps I will not listen.
²⁴ But let justice roll down like waters,
    and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

⁴ “Woe to those ^(PI)who lie on ^(PJ)beds of ivory
    ^(PK)and stretch themselves out on their couches,
and eat lambs from the flock
    ^(PL)and calves from the midst of the stall,
^5 (PM)who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp
    and like David ^(PN)invent for themselves instruments of music,
^6 (PO)who drink wine in bowls
    and ^(PP)anoint themselves with the finest oils,
    but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!
^7 (PQ)Therefore they shall now be the first of those who go into exile,
    and the revelry of those who stretch themselves out shall pass away.”

“I abhor ^(PS)the pride of Jacob
    and hate his strongholds,
    ^(PT)and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.”

¹¹ For behold, the Lord commands,
    and ^(PX)the great house shall be struck down into fragments,
    and the little house into bits.
¹² Do horses run on rocks?
    Does one plow there^[ai] with oxen?
^(PY)But you have turned justice into ^(PZ)poison
    ^(QA)and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood^[aj]—
¹³ you who rejoice in Lo-debar,^[ak]
    who say, ^(QB)“Have we not by our own strength
    captured Karnaim^[al] for ourselves?”
¹⁴ “For behold, ^(QC)I will raise up against you a nation,
    O house of Israel,” declares the Lord, the God of hosts;
“and they shall oppress you from ^(QD)Lebo-hamath
    to the Brook of ^(QE)the Arabah.”

“O Lord God, please forgive!
    ^(QH)How can Jacob stand?
    He is so small!”
^3 (QI)The Lord relented concerning this:
    “It shall not be,” said the Lord.

“O Lord God, please cease!
    ^(QL)How can Jacob stand?
    He is so small!”
^6 (QM)The Lord relented concerning this:
    “This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.

“Behold, I am setting ^(QQ)a plumb line
    in the midst of my people Israel;
    ^(QR)I will never again pass by them;
^9 (QS)the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate,
    and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste,
    and I will rise against ^(QT)the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

“‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
    and ^(QX)Israel must go into exile
    away from his land.’”

“You say, ^(RH)‘Do not prophesy against Israel,
    and ^(RI)do not preach against the house of ^(RJ)Isaac.’

“‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city,
    and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,
    and your land ^(RL)shall be divided up with a measuring line;
you yourself shall die in an unclean land,
    and ^(RM)Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.’”

^(RQ)“The end^[an] has come upon my people Israel;
    I will never again pass by them.
^3 (RR)The songs of the temple^{[ao] (RS)}shall become wailings^[ap] in that day,”
declares the Lord God.
^(RT)“So many dead bodies!”
“They are thrown everywhere!”
^(RU)“Silence!”

⁴ Hear this, ^(RV)you who trample on the needy
    and bring the poor of the land to an end,
⁵ saying, “When will ^(RW)the new moon be over,
    that we may sell grain?
And ^(RX)the Sabbath,
    that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make ^(RY)the ephah small and the shekel^[aq] great
    and deal deceitfully with false balances,
⁶ that we may buy the poor for ^(RZ)silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals
    and sell the chaff of the wheat?”

⁷ The Lord has sworn by ^(SA)the pride of Jacob:
“Surely ^(SB)I will never forget any of their deeds.
^8 (SC)Shall not the land tremble on this account,
    and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
^(SD)and all of it rise like the Nile,
    and be tossed about ^(SE)and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”

⁹ “And on that day,” declares the Lord God,
    ^(SF)“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.
^10 (SG)I will turn your feasts into mourning
    and all your songs into lamentation;
^(SH)I will bring sackcloth on every waist
    ^(SI)and baldness on every head;
^(SJ)I will make it like the mourning for an only son
    and the end of it like a bitter day.

¹¹ “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
    “when ^(SK)I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
    ^(SL)but of hearing the words of the Lord.
^12 (SM)They shall wander from sea to sea,
    and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,
    ^(SN)but they shall not find it.

^13 (SO)“In that day the lovely virgins and the young men
    shall ^(SP)faint for thirst.
¹⁴ Those who swear by ^(SQ)the Guilt of Samaria,
    and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
and, ‘As ^(SR)the Way of ^(SS)Beersheba lives,’
    they shall fall, and never rise again.”

^(ST)“Strike the capitals until ^(SU)the thresholds ^(SV)shake,
    ^(SW)and shatter them on the heads of all the people;^[as]
and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;
    ^(SX)not one of them shall flee away;
    not one of them shall escape.

^2 (SY)“If they dig into Sheol,
    from there shall my hand take them;
^(SZ)if they climb up to heaven,
    from there I will bring them down.
³ If they hide themselves on ^(TA)the top of Carmel,
    from there I will search them out and take them;
^(TB)and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
    there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
^4 (TC)And if they go into captivity before their enemies,
    there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;
^(TD)and I will fix my eyes upon them
    for evil and not for good.”

⁵ The Lord God of hosts,
he who touches the earth and ^(TE)it melts,
    and all who dwell in it mourn,
^(TF)and all of it rises like the Nile,
    ^(TG)and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;
^6 (TH)who builds his upper chambers in the heavens
    and founds his vault upon the earth;
^(TI)who calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
^(TJ)the Lord is his name.

⁷ “Are you not like ^(TK)the Cushites to me,
    O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.
^(TL)“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
    and ^(TM)the Philistines from ^(TN)Caphtor and the Syrians from ^(TO)Kir?
⁸ Behold, ^(TP)the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,
    and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,
    ^(TQ)except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.

⁹ “For behold, I will command,
    ^(TR)and shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
    but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
¹⁰ All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,
    who say, ^(TS)‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’