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\v 1 Woe to the proud garland crown that is worn by each of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
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\q1 the garland that is set on the head of the lush Valley of those who are overcome with wine!
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\v 2 Behold, the Lord sends one who is mighty and strong; like a storm of hail and a destructive windstorm,
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\q1 like a driving rain and overflowing waters;
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\q1 and he will throw each garland crown down to the ground.
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\v 3 The proud garland of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden underfoot.
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\v 4 The fading flower of his glorious beauty, that is on the head of the rich valley,
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\q1 will be as the first ripe fig before the summer, that, when someone sees it,
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\q1 while it is yet in his hand, he gulps it down.
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\v 5 In that day Yahweh of hosts will become a beautiful crown and a diadem of beauty for the remainder of his people,
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\v 6 a spirit of justice for him who sits in judgment, and strength for those who turn back their enemies at their gates.
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\v 7 But even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink.
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\q1 The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, and they are swallowed up by wine.
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\q1 They stagger with strong drink, staggering in vision and reeling in decision.
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\v 8 Truly, all tables are covered with vomit, so that there is no clean place.
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\v 9 To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message?
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\q1 To those who are weaned from milk or to those just taken from the breasts?
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\v 10 For it is command upon command, command upon command; rule upon rule, rule upon rule;
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\q1 here a little, there a little.
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\v 11 Indeed, with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to this people.
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\v 12 In the past he said to them "This is the rest, give rest to him who is weary;
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\q1 and this is the refreshing," but they would not listen.
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\v 13 So the word of Yahweh will be to them
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\q1 command upon command, command upon command; rule upon rule, rule upon rule;
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\q1 here a little, there a little;
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\q1 so that they may go and fall backward, and be broken, ensnared, and captured.
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\v 14 So listen to the word of Yahweh, you who mock,
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\q1 you who rule over this people who are in Jerusalem.
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\v 15 This will happen because you said, "We have made a covenant with death;
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\q1 with Sheol we have reached an agreement. So when the overflowing judgment passes through, it will not reach us,
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\q1 for we have made a lie our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter."
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\v 16 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says,
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\q1 "See: I will lay in Zion a foundation stone, a tried stone,
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\q1 a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation. He who believes will not be ashamed.
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\v 17 I will make justice the measuring stick, and righteousness the plumbline.
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\q1 Hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the floodwaters will overwhelm the hiding place.
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\v 18 Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand.
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\q1 When the raging flood passes through, you will be overwhelmed by it.
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\v 19 Whenever it passes through, it will overwhelm you,
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\q1 and morning by morning it will pass through and by day and night it will come.
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\q1 When the message is understood, it will cause terror.
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\v 20 For the bed is too short for a man to stretch out on, and the blanket too narrow for him to wrap himself in."
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\v 21 Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim; he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon
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\q1 to do his work, his strange work, and perform his strange deed.
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\v 22 Now therefore do not mock, or your bonds will be tightened.
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\q1 I have heard from the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, a decree of destruction on the earth.
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\v 23 Pay attention and listen to my voice; be attentive and listen to my words.
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\v 24 Does a farmer who plows all day to sow, only plow the ground? Does he continually break up and harrow the field?
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\v 25 When he has prepared the ground, does he not scatter caraway seed, sow the cumin,
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\q1 put in the wheat in rows and the barley in the right place, and the spelt at its edges?
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\f + \ft The identification of some of these spices is in doubt, so versions have a variety of translations. In addition, some versions give different interpretations to the expressions translated here as \fqa in rows \fqb and \fqa in the right place \fqb , because these expressions are uncertain in Hebrew. \f*
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\v 26 His God instructs him; he teaches him wisely.
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\v 27 Moreover, the cumin is not threshed with a sledge, nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cumin;
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\q1 but caraway is beaten with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.
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\v 28 Grain is ground for bread but not too finely,
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\q1 and though the wheels of his cart and his horses scatter it, his horses do not crush it.
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\v 29 This too comes from Yahweh of hosts,
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\q1 who is wonderful in instruction and excellent in wisdom.
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