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The labor of a fool so wearies him that he does not even know how to go to a city.

Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who works all things.

So, remove vexation from your heart and put away evil from your flesh because childhood and the prime of life are vanity.

"Behold, you are handsome, my beloved,Indeed, so pleasant!Indeed, our couch is luxuriant!

"Like a lily among the thorns,So is my darling among the daughters."

"Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest,So is my beloved among the sons.In his shade I had great desire and sat down,And his fruit was sweet to my taste.

So when you spread out your hands in prayer,I will hide My eyes from you;Indeed, even though you multiply prayers,I will not listen.Your hands are full of blood.

So the common man has been bowed down,And the man of importance has been made low,But do not forgive them.

"So now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,Please judge between Me and My vineyard.

So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard:I will remove its hedge, and it will be consumed;I will break down its wall, and it will become trampled ground.

Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field,Until there is no more room,So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!

So the common man will be bowed down and the man of importance will be made low,The eyes of the lofty also will be made low.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubbleAnd dry grass collapses into the flame,So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust;For they have rejected the law of Yahweh of hostsAnd the word of the Holy One of Israel they have spurned.

For the head of Aram is Damascus and the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered, so that it is no longer a people),

So Yahweh cuts off head and tail from Israel,Both palm branch and bulrush in a single day.

So as to turn the poor away from their causeAnd rob the afflicted of My people of their justice,So that widows may be their spoilAnd that they may plunder the orphans.

So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, "I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the pomp of his eyes which are raised high."

And the rest of the trees of his forest will be so small in numberThat a child could write them down.

So it will be in that day, that his burden will be removed from your shoulders and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be broken because of fatness.

Yahweh of hosts has sworn saying, "Surely, just as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have counseled so it will stand,