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What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord ; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.

Come now, let us argue it out, says the Lord : though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

Therefore says the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I will pour out my wrath on my enemies, and avenge myself on my foes!

What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor? says the Lord God of hosts.

therefore thus says the Lord God : It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass.

Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: O my people, who live in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrians when they beat you with a rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did.

I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, offspring and posterity, says the Lord .

And I will make it a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of hosts.

But now the Lord says, In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all its great multitude; and those who survive will be very few and feeble.

The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of hosts.

Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten— two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, says the Lord God of Israel.

I will deliver the Egyptians into the hand of a hard master; a fierce king will rule over them, says the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts.

The Lord of hosts has revealed himself in my ears: Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die, says the Lord God of hosts.

Thus says the Lord God of hosts: Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is master of the household, and say to him:

On that day, says the Lord of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way; it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will perish, for the Lord has spoken.

therefore thus says the Lord God , See, I am laying in Zion a foundation stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: "One who trusts will not panic."

Therefore thus says the Lord , who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: No longer shall Jacob be ashamed, no longer shall his face grow pale.

Oh, rebellious children, says the Lord , who carry out a plan, but not mine; who make an alliance, but against my will, adding sin to sin;

His rock shall pass away in terror, and his officers desert the standard in panic," says the Lord , whose fire is in Zion, and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

"Now I will arise," says the Lord , "now I will lift myself up; now I will be exalted.