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Therefore thus says Yahweh,"Behold, I am devising against this family an evil demiseFrom which you cannot remove your necks;And you will not walk haughtily,For it will be an evil time.

Arise and go,For this is no place of restBecause of the uncleanness that wreaks destruction,A painful destruction.

And I said,"Hear now, heads of JacobAnd rulers of the house of Israel.Is it not for you to know justice?

And who eat the flesh of my people,Strip off their skin from them,Break their bones,And spread them out as for the potAnd as meat in a caldron."

Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray;When they have something to bite with their teeth,They call out, "Peace,"But against him who puts nothing in their mouths,They set themselves apart for war.

Therefore it will be night for you—without vision,And darkness for you—without divination.The sun will go down on the prophets,And the day will grow black over them.

Her heads pronounce judgment for a bribe,And her priests instruct for a price,And her prophets divine for money.Yet they lean on Yahweh saying,"Is not Yahweh in our midst?Evil will not come upon us."

And many nations will come and say,"Come and let us go up to the mountain of YahwehAnd to the house of the God of Jacob,That He may instruct us from His waysAnd that we may walk in His paths."For from Zion will go forth the law,And the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.

And He will judge between many peoplesAnd will render decisions for mighty, distant nations.And they will hammer their swords into plowsharesAnd their spears into pruning hooks;Nation will not lift up sword against nation,And never again will they learn war.

And each of them will sit under his vineAnd under his fig tree,With no one to make them tremble,For the mouth of Yahweh of hosts has spoken.

Though all the peoples walkEach in the name of his god,As for us, we will walkIn the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.

And as for you, tower of the flock,Hill of the daughter of Zion,To you it will come—Even the former dominion will come,The kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

Writhe and labor to give birth,Daughter of Zion,Like a woman in childbirth;For now you will go out of the city,Dwell in the field,And go to Babylon.There you will be delivered;There Yahweh will redeem youFrom the hand of your enemies.

But they do not know the thoughts of Yahweh,And they do not understand His counsel;For He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion,For your horn I will make iron,And your hoofs I will make bronze,That you may pulverize many peoples,That you may devote to Yahweh their greedy gain unto destructionAnd their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,Too little to be among the clans of Judah,From you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel.His goings forth are from everlasting,From the ancient days."

Then the remnant of JacobWill be among many peoplesLike dew from Yahweh,Like showers on vegetationWhich do not hope for manOr wait for the sons of men.

Is Yahweh pleased with thousands of rams,With ten thousand rivers of oil?Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

For the rich men of the city are full of violence,And her inhabitants speak lies,And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

You will eat, but you will not be satisfied,And your vileness will be in your midst.And you will try to remove something for safekeeping,But you will not cause anything to escape,And that which you do have escape, I will give to the sword.