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^(a)"Strike the capitals until ^(b)the thresholds ^(c)shake,
    ^(d)and shatter them on the heads of all the people;^[b]
and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;
    ^(e)not one of them shall flee away;
    not one of them shall escape.

^2 (f)"If they dig into Sheol,
    from there shall my hand take them;
^(g)if they climb up to heaven,
    from there I will bring them down.
³ If they hide themselves on ^(h)the top of Carmel,
    from there I will search them out and take them;
⁽ⁱ⁾and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
    there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
^4 (j)And if they go into captivity before their enemies,
    there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;
^(k)and I will fix my eyes upon them
    for evil and not for good."

⁵ The Lord God of hosts,
he who touches the earth and ^(l)it melts,
    and all who dwell in it mourn,
^(m)and all of it rises like the Nile,
    ⁽ⁿ⁾and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;
^6 (o)who builds his upper chambers in the heavens
    and founds his vault upon the earth;
^(p)who calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
^(q)the Lord is his name.

⁷ "Are you not like ^(r)the Cushites to me,
    O people of Israel?" declares the Lord.
^(s)"Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
    and ^(t)the Philistines from ^(u)Caphtor and the Syrians from ^(v)Kir?
⁸ Behold, ^(w)the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,
    and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,
    ^(x)except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,"
declares the Lord.

⁹ "For behold, I will command,
    ^(y)and shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
    but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
¹⁰ All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,
    who say, ^(z)‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.'

¹¹ "In that day ^(aa)I will raise up
    the booth of David that is fallen
and repair its breaches,
    and raise up its ruins
    and rebuild it as in the days of old,
^12 (ab)that they may possess the remnant of Edom
    and ^(ac)all the nations who are called by my name,"^[c]
    declares the Lord who does this.

¹³ "Behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord,
    ^(ad)"when the plowman shall overtake the reaper
    and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed;
^(ae)the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
    and all the hills shall flow with it.
^14 (af)I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,
    and ^(ag)they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;
^(ah)they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,
    and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.
^15 (ai)I will plant them on their land,
    ^(aj)and they shall never again be uprooted
    out of the land ^(ak)that I have given them,"
says the Lord your God.