1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the
tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces
on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword:
there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them
escape. 2 Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and
though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down. 3 Though
they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out
there; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I
will command the serpent, and it will bite them. 4 Though they go into
captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will
kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good. 5 For
the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all
who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and
will sink again, like the River of Egypt. 6 It is he who builds his
chambers in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls
for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth;
Yahweh is his name. 7 Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians
to me, children of Israel?” says Yahweh. “Haven’t I brought up Israel out of
the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from
Kir? 8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and
I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not
utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” says Yahweh. 9 “For, behold, I will
command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain
is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, ‘Evil
won’t overtake nor meet us.’ 11 In that day I will raise up the tent of
David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its
ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old; 12 that they may possess
the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name,” says
Yahweh who does this.
13 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,
“That the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
And the one treading grapes him who sows seed;
And sweet wine will drip from the mountains,
And flow from the hills.
14 I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel,
And they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them;
and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them.
They shall also make gardens,
And eat the fruit of them.
15 I will plant them on their land,
And they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given
them,”
says Yahweh your God.
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