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\c 3
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\p
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\v 1 Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:
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\q
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\v 2 "I have chosen only you
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\q from all the families of the earth.
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\q Therefore I will punish you
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\q for all your sins."
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\s5
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\q
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\v 3 Will two walk together
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\q unless they have agreed?
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\q
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\v 4 Will a lion roar in the forest
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\q when he has no victim?
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\q Will a young lion growl from his den
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\q if he has caught nothing?
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\q
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\v 5 Can a bird fall in a trap on the ground
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\q when no bait is set for him?
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\q Will a trap spring up from the ground
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\q when it has not caught anything?
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\q
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\v 6 If a trumpet sounds in a city,
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\q will the people not tremble?
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\q If disaster overtakes a city,
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\q has Yahweh not sent it?
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\q
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\v 7 Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing
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\q unless he reveals his plan to his servants the prophets.
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\q
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\v 8 The lion has roared;
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\q who will not fear?
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\q The Lord Yahweh has spoken;
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\q who will not prophesy?
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\s5
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\q
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\v 9 Proclaim this in the fortresses at Ashdod,
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\q and in the fortresses in the land of Egypt;
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\q say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria
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\q and see what great confusion is in her,
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\q and what oppression is in her.
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\q
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\v 10 For they do not know how to do right
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\q —this is Yahweh's declaration—
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\q They store up violence
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\q and destruction in their fortresses."
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\q
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\v 11 Therefore, this is what the Lord Yahweh says:
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\q "An enemy will surround the land,
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\q and pull down your strongholds
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\q and plunder your fortresses."
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\q
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\v 12 This is what Yahweh says:
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\q "As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion
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\q two legs only, or a piece of an ear;
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\q so will the people of Israel who live in Samaria be rescued;
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\q they will be left with only the corner of a couch
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\q or a piece of a bed."
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\q
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\v 13 Hear and testify
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\q against the house of Jacob
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\q —this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts:
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\q
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\v 14 "For in the day that I punish the sins of Israel,
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\q I will also punish the altars of Bethel.
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\q The horns of the altar will be cut off
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\q and fall to the ground.
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\q
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\v 15 I will destroy the winter house
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\q with the summer house.
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\q The houses of ivory will perish,
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\q and the large houses will vanish,
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\q —this is Yahweh's declaration."
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