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"Because of violence to your brother Jacob,You will be covered with shame,And you will be cut off forever.

Because just as you all drank on My holy mountain,All the nations will drink continually.They will drink and swallow,And they will be as if they never were.

Then the men became greatly fearful, and they said to him, "What is this you have done?" For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh because he had told them.

Because of this I must lament and wail;I must go barefoot and naked;I must make a lament like the jackalsAnd a mourning like the ostriches.

Harness the chariot to the team of horses,O inhabitant of Lachish—She was the beginning of sinTo the daughter of Zion—Because in you were foundThe transgressions of Israel.

Make yourself bald and cut off your hair,Because of the children of your delight;Extend your baldness like the eagle,For they will go from you into exile.

Listen, you mountains, to the case of Yahweh,And you enduring foundations of the earth,Because Yahweh has a case against His people;Even with Israel He will reprove.

So also I will make you sick, striking you down,Desolating you because of your sins.

And the earth will become desolate because of her inhabitants,On account of the fruit of their deeds.

Mountains quake because of Him,And the hills melt;Indeed the earth is upheaved by His presence,The world and all the inhabitants in it.

All because of the many harlotries of the harlot,The charming one, the mistress of sorceries,Who sells nations by her harlotriesAnd families by her sorceries.

"See among the nations! And look!Be also astonished! Be astounded!Because I am doing something in your days—You would not believe if it was recounted to you.

Because you have taken many nations as spoil,All that is left of the peoples will take you as spoil—Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land,To the town and all its inhabitants.

For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you,And the devastation of its beasts by which you terrified them,Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land,To the town and all its inhabitants.

This they will have in return for their pride because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of hosts.

"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.

Therefore, because of you the sky has restrained its dew and the earth has restrained its produce.

and said to him, "Run, speak to that young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited without walls because of the multitude of men and cattle within it.

Thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘Old men and old women will again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each man with his staff in his hand because of age.

For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for animal; and for him who went out or came in there was no peace because of the adversary, and I set all men one against another.