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chapter 9
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I saw
the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said: Strike the hinges, and let the
lintels be shook: for there is covetousness in the head of them all, and I will
slay the last of them with the sword: there shall be no flight for them: they
shall flee, and he that shall flee of them shall not be delivered.
2 Though they go down even to hell, thence shall my
hand bring them out: and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring
them down.
3 And though they be hid in the top of Carmel, I will
search and take them away from thence : and though they hide themselves from my
eyes in the depth of the sea, there will I command the serpent and he shall
bite them.
4 And if they go into captivity before their enemies,
there will I command the sword, and it shall kill them. And I will set my eyes
upon them for evil, and not for good.
5 And the Lord the God of hosts is he who toucheth the
earth, and it shall melt: and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall
rise up as a river, and shall run down as the river of Egypt.
6 He that buildeth his ascension in heaven, and hath
founded his bundle upon the earth: who calleth the waters of the sea, and
poureth them out upon the face of the earth, the Lord is his name.
7 Are not you as the children of the Ethiopians unto
me, O children of Israel, saith the Lord? did not I bring up Israel, out of the
land of Egypt: and the Philistines out of Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of
Cyrene?
8 Behold the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful
kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth: but yet I will not
utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord.
9 For behold I will command, and I will sift the house
of Israel among all nations, as corn is sifted in a sieve: and there shall not
a little stone fall to the ground.
10 All the sinners of my people shall fall by the
sword: who say: The evils shall not approach, and shall not come upon us.
11 In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David,
that is fallen: and I will close up the breaches of the walls thereof, and
repair what was fallen: and I will rebuild it as in the days of old.
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all
nations, because my name is invoked upon them: saith the Lord that doth these
things.
13 Behold the days come, saith the Lord, when the
ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth
seed: and the mountains shall drop sweetness, and every hill shall be tilled.
14 And I will bring back the captivity of my people
Israel: and they shall build the abandoned cities, and inhabit them: and they
shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine of them: and shall make gardens, and
eat the fruits of them. And I will plant them upon their own land: and I will
no more pluck them out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord
thy God.
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