\q2 those sails were like flags that people could see far away.
\q1 For shade they hung pieces of blue and purple cloth
\q2 brought from people living on the coastlands of Elishah.
\v 5 The dead bodies of the Israelite people will be lying in front of their idols; and their bones will be scattered around their altars.
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\v 6 Wherever you live, your towns will be ruined and the places where idols were worshiped on the hilltops will be smashed. Your idols will be completely smashed, your altars for burning incense will be destroyed, and everything that you own will become a pile of ruins.
\v 25 And it is evident that the Babylonian army will soon conquer this city. So now, I do not understand why you told me to buy this field with my silver while others were watching."
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Tom Warren
\v 29 Previously, the people often said, 'The parents have eaten sour grapes, but it is the children's teeth that ache.' But when I bring them back to their land, they will no longer say that.
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Tom Warren
\v 15 Yahweh also says this: \q1 "Women were weeping in Ramah, on the border between Israel and Judah;
\q2 they were mourning and crying very loudly.
\q1 The women who descended from Rachel the wife of Jacob were weeping about their children, \q2 and no one could comfort them
\q2 because their children were all dead.
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Tom Warren
\v 18 But listen! I will cause you to be strong, like a city that has strong walls around it. You will be as strong as an iron pillar or a bronze wall. All the people in the land of Judah—including the kings, the royal officials, and the priests—will not be able to defeat you.
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Tom
Hab 1:4-5 now reads:
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\s2 Yahweh replied to me
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\v 5 "This is happening, but look around at what is happening in the other nations. \q2 If you look, you will be amazed, and even astonished, since I am doing something \q1 during this time that you would never have believed would happen, \q2 even if someone told you about it.
Hab 1:11-12
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\s2 Habakkuk asks Yahweh another question
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\v 12 "Are you not from ancient times, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. \q Yahweh has ordained them for judgment, and you, Rock, have established them for correction.
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