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| [1]Hear this word that the Lord pronounceth against you, O children of Israel, even against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, |
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| [2]You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visit you for all your iniquities. |
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| [3]Can two walk together except they be agreed? |
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| [4]Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? Or will a lion's whelp cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? |
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| [5]Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no fowler is? Or will he take up the snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all? |
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| [6]Or shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people be not afraid? Or shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? |
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| [7]Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. |
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| [8]The lion hath roared: who will not be afraid? The Lord God hath spoken: who can but prophesy? |
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| [9]Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria: so behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof. |
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| [10]For they know not to do right, saith the Lord: they store up violence, and robbery in their palaces. |
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| [11]Therefore thus saith the Lord God, An adversary shall come even round about the country, and shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled. |
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| [12]Thus saith the Lord, As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear: so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus, as in a couch. |
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| [13]Hear, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God, the God of hosts. |
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| [14]Surely in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him, I will also visit the altars of Beth-el, and the horns of the altar shall be broken off, and fall to the ground. |
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| [15]And I will smite the winter house with the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall be consumed, saith the Lord. |
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