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But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; For behold, I create Jerusalem as a rejoicing, And her people a joy.
Why do you gad about so much to change your way? Also you shall be ashamed of Egypt as you were ashamed of Assyria.
As a cage is full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich.
As a fountain wells up with water, So she wells up with her wickedness. Violence and plundering are heard in her. Before Me continually are grief and wounds.
"I have set you as an assayer and a fortress among My people, That you may know and test their way.
Speak, "Thus says the LORD: 'Even the carcasses of men shall fall as refuse on the open field, Like cuttings after the harvester, And no one shall gather them.' "
Inasmuch as there is none like You, O LORD (You are great, and Your name is great in might),
"Therefore, behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "that they shall no longer say, 'As the LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,'
You shall yet plant vines on the mountains of Samaria; The planters shall plant and eat them as ordinary food.
Come against her from the farthest border; Open her storehouses; Cast her up as heaps of ruins, And destroy her utterly; Let nothing of her be left.
The LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself: "Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts, And they shall lift up a shout against you."
Our skin is hot as an oven, Because of the fever of famine.
Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we will be restored; Renew our days as of old,
As for their rims, they were so high they were awesome; and their rims were full of eyes, all around the four of them.
"As for them, whether they hear or whether they refuse - for they are a rebellious house - yet they will know that a prophet has been among them.
"And as for Me also, My eye will neither spare, nor will I have pity, but I will recompense their deeds on their own head."
"By day you shall bring out your belongings in their sight, as though going into captivity; and at evening you shall go in their sight, like those who go into captivity.
" As for his father, Because he cruelly oppressed, Robbed his brother by violence, And did what is not good among his people, Behold, he shall die for his iniquity.
'I will do these things to you because you have gone as a harlot after the Gentiles, because you have become defiled by their idols.