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Thus says Yahweh of hosts,"They will thoroughly glean as the vine the remnant of Israel;Pass your hand again like a grape gathererOver the branches."

Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Make your ways and your deeds good, and I will let you dwell in this place.

Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.

And death will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family, that remains in all the places to which I have banished them," declares Yahweh of hosts.

Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts,"Behold, I will refine them and test them;For what else can I do, because of the daughter of My people?

therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

Thus says Yahweh of hosts,"Carefully consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come;And send for the skillful women, that they may come!

The portion of Jacob is not like these;For the Maker of all is He,And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance;Yahweh of hosts is His name.

Yahweh of hosts, who planted you, has spoken forth evil against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.

But, O Yahweh of hosts, who judges righteously,Who tests the insides and the heart,Let me see Your vengeance on them,For to You have I revealed my case.

therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, "Behold, I am about to punish them! The choice men will die by the sword; their sons and daughters will die by famine;

For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I am going to cause to cease from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride.

and say, ‘Hear the word of Yahweh, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Behold, I am about to bring a calamity upon this place, at which the ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle.

and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "Just so will I break this people and this city, even as one breaks a potter's vessel, which cannot again be repaired; and they will bury in Topheth because there is no other place for burial.

"Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and all its towns the entire calamity that I have spoken against it because they have stiffened their necks so as not to hear My words.'"

Yet, O Yahweh of hosts, You who test the righteous,Who see the mind and the heart;Let me see Your vengeance on them,For to You I have revealed my cause.

Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts concerning the prophets,‘Behold, I am going to feed them wormwoodAnd make them drink poisoned water,For from the prophets of JerusalemPollution has gone forth into all the land.'"

Thus says Yahweh of hosts,"Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you.They are leading you into vanity;They speak a vision of their own heart,Not from the mouth of Yahweh.

For you will no longer remember the oracle of Yahweh because every man's own word will become the oracle, and you have perverted the words of the living God, Yahweh of hosts, our God.

"Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘Because you have not listened to My words,