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will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of
camels, to a people
that
shall not profit
them.
7
For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no
purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength
is
to sit still.
8
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to
come for ever and ever:
9
That this
is
a rebellious people, lying children, children
that
will not hear
the law of the L
ORD
:
10
Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us
right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11
Get you out of the way, turn aside
out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
12
Wherefore thus saith the
Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and
stay thereon:
13
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a
high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
14
And he shall break it as the breaking
of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in
the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water
withal
out of the pit.
15
For
thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness
and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
16
But ye said, No; for we will flee
upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that
pursue you be swift.
17
One thousand
shall flee
at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye
flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
18
And therefore will the L
ORD
wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be
exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the L
ORD
is
a God of judgment: blessed
are
all they
that wait for him.
19
For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he
will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
20
And
though
the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy
teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
21
And thine ears
shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This
is
the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand,
and when ye turn to the left.
22
Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and
the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou
shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
23
Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the
ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day
shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
24
The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground
shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
25
And there
shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers
and
streams of waters in the
day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
26
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the
light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day
that the L
ORD
bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27
Behold, the name of the L
ORD
cometh from far, burning
with
his anger, and the burden
thereof
is
heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
28
And his breath, as
an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of
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