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¹ I saw the Lord standing beside the altar: and he said, Smite the capitals, that the thresholds may shake; and break them to pieces on the head of all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.² Though they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.³ And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they are hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.⁴ And though they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.⁵ For the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, [is] he that touches the land and it melts, and all that dwell therein shall mourn; and it shall rise up wholly like the River, and shall sink again, like the River of Egypt;⁶ [it is] he that builds his staircase in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the face of the earth; Yahweh is his name.⁷ Are you not as the sons of the Ethiopians to me, O sons of Israel? says Yahweh. Haven't I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?⁸ Look, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; save that I will not completely destroy the house of Jacob, says Yahweh.⁹ For, look, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like [grain] is sifted in a sieve, yet the least kernel shall not fall on the earth.¹⁰ All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, The evil shall not overtake nor meet us.

¹¹ In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that has fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;¹² that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations that are called by my name, says Yahweh that does this.¹³ Look, the days come, says Yahweh, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that sows seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.¹⁴ And I will bring back the captivity of my people 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 on their land, and they shall no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them, says Yahweh your God.