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Then the children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and on that day cut down to the ground twenty-two thousand men of the Israelites.
And the children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, "One tribe is cut off from Israel today.
"For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And that its tender shoots will not cease.
For what does he care about his household after him, When the number of his months is cut in half?
The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
They have said, "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you, And the cedars of Lebanon, Saying, 'Since you were cut down, No woodsman has come up against us.'
And the peaceful dwellings are cut down Because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut apart and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations! I have laid a snare for you;
'Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Surely I will bring a sword upon you and cut off from you man and beast.
"Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns.
Your carved images I will also cut off, And your sacred pillars from your midst; You shall no more worship the work of your hands;
Then I cut in two my other staff, Bonds, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
"And it shall be in that day that every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they will not wear a robe of coarse hair to deceive.
"But he will say, 'I am no prophet, I am a farmer; for a man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.'
"And one will say to him, 'What are these wounds between your arms?' Then he will answer, 'Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.'
And it shall come to pass in all the land," Says the LORD, "That two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die, But one-third shall be left in it:
May the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob The man who does this, being awake and aware, Yet who brings an offering to the LORD of hosts!
And many spread their clothes on the road, and others cut down leafy branches from the trees and spread them on the road.