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I saw the Lord standing over the altar; and He said, Smite the knobs, that the doorways may quake; and divide them in the head, all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword; he who flees of them shall not flee, and he that escapes of them shall not escape.
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If they dig through into hell, thence shall My hand take them; and if they go up to the heavens, thence will I bring them down;
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and though they hide themselves in the head of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hidden from in front of My eyes in the floor of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them;
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and though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall kill them; and I will set My eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
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And the Lord Jehovih of Armies is He that touches the land, and it shall dissolve, and all that dwell in it shall mourn; and all of it shall go up as the Nile; and shall be drowned, as by the Nile of Egypt.
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It is He who builds His stairs in the heavens, and has founded His troop on the earth; He that calls for the waters of the sea, and spills them on the face of the earth; Jehovah is His name.
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Are you not as sons of the Ethiopians unto Me, O sons of Israel? says Jehovah. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
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Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovih are on the kingdom of the sinful, and I will blot it out from upon the face of the ground; nonetheless surely blotting out I will not blot out the house of Jacob, says Jehovah.
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For, behold, I will command, and I will move the house of Israel back and forth among all the nations, as one moves back and forth with a grate, and not the smallest rock shall fall upon the earth.
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All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, who say, The evil shall not approach nor go before us.
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In that day will I raise up the shelter of David that is fallen, and fence in their breaches; and I will raise up what is broken down with him, and I will build her as in the days of eternity;
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so that they may possess what is left of Edom, and of all the nations, upon whom My name is called, says Jehovah who is doing this.
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Behold, the days are coming, says Jehovah, and the plower shall approach the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who draws the seed; and the mountains shall drop down new wine, and all the hills shall dissolve.
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And I will return the captivity of My people of Israel, and they shall build the desolate cities, and dwell in them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine of it; and they shall make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
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And I will plant them upon their ground, and they shall no more be plucked up out of their ground which I have given to them, says Jehovah thy God. 31
