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1 I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may
shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that
fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will
I bring them down:
3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though
they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite
them:
4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall
slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
5 And the Lord GOD of hosts
is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise
up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as
by the flood of Egypt.
6 It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth
for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD
is his name.
7 Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought
up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD
are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not
utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as
corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent
us.
11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof;
and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith
the LORD that doeth this.
13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of
grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and
inhabit
them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the
fruit of them.
15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I
have given them, saith the LORD thy God.