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Flocks will lie down in her midst,All the beasts of the nation;Both the pelican and the hedgehogWill lodge in the tops of her pillars;Their voice will sing in the window,Ruin will be on the threshold;For He has laid bare the cedar work.

This is the exultant cityWhich inhabits securely,Who says in her heart,"I am, and there is no one besides me."How she has become an object of horror,A resting place for beasts!Everyone who passes by her will hissAnd wave his hand in contempt.

Her princes in her midst are roaring lions;Her judges are wolves at evening;They leave nothing to gnaw for the morning.

"Therefore wait for Me," declares Yahweh,"For the day when I rise up as a witness.Indeed, My judgment is to assemble nations,To gather kingdoms,To pour out on them My indignation,All My burning anger;For all the earth will be devouredBy the fire of My zeal.

For then I will change them to peoples with purified lips,That all of them may call on the name of Yahweh,To serve Him shoulder to shoulder.

In that day you will feel no shameBecause of all your deedsBy which you have transgressed against Me;For then I will remove from your midstYour proud, exulting ones,And you will never again be haughtyOn My holy mountain.

The remnant of Israel will do no injusticeAnd not speak falsehood,Nor will a deceitful tongueBe found in their mouths;For they will feed and lie downWith no one to make them tremble."

Sing for joy, O daughter of Zion!Make a loud shout, O Israel!Be glad and exult with all your heart,O daughter of Jerusalem!

"Thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘This people says, "The time has not come, even the time for the house of Yahweh to be rebuilt."'"

"Is it time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses while this house lies waste?"

"You look for much, but behold, it comes to little; and you bring it home, and I blow it away. Why?" declares Yahweh of hosts, "Because of My house which lies waste, while each of you runs to his own house.

And I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on men, on cattle, and on all the labor of your hands."

But now, be strong, Zerubbabel,' declares Yahweh, ‘be strong also, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all you people of the land, be strong,' declares Yahweh, ‘and work; for I am with you,' declares Yahweh of hosts.

‘As for the promise which I cut with you when you came out of Egypt, My Spirit is standing in your midst; do not fear!'

For thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘Once more—in a little while—I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea also and the dry land.

‘On that day,' declares Yahweh of hosts, ‘I will take you, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, My servant,' declares Yahweh, ‘and I will make you like a signet ring, for I have chosen you,'" declares Yahweh of hosts.

Then the angel of Yahweh answered and said, "O Yahweh of hosts, how long will You have no compassion for Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been indignant these seventy years?"

So the angel who was speaking with me said to me, "Call out, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and Zion.

But I am very wrathful with the nations who are at ease; for I was only a little wrathful, but they helped increase the calamity."

"Ho there! Flee from the land of the north," declares Yahweh, "for I have dispersed you as the four winds of the heavens," declares Yahweh.