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Nancy: Welcome To Immerse: The
Daily Bible Reading Experience.

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Day 200 and 49

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immersed in Isaiah

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The prophet.

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Isaiah was a contemporary of
Micah, but his book contains

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12 times as much material.

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It addresses many other
nations besides Judah.

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The entire creation, in fact, And
also a variety of significant periods

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in Israel's covenant history, even
beyond the prophet's lifetime.

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While Isaiah is a long book to read,
it is foundational for seeing how

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God's relationship with humanity moves
forward from the earlier covenants to

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the new covenant introduced by Jesus New
Testament writers quote from Isaiah more

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often than any other book except Psalms.

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The collection of Isaiah's,
Oracles has eight major parts.

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The first part is said During a
significant crisis in Judah's history,

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Israel and Syria, also known as Arum, have
invaded Judah, and they intend to replace

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King Ahaz with a puppet king of their own.

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The Lord uses this occasion to file
a covenant lawsuit against the people

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of Judah for the same injustice
and insincere worship that doomed

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the northern kingdom of Israel.

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In the midst of the disaster,
Isaiah foresees the birth of a

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godly king who will establish
justice and bring peace to the land.

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While these Oracles initially envision
King Hezekiah, they also point to the

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long-term story of the coming Messiah.

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The Oracles in the second part
of the book address Other nations

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and speak of future developments.

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The coming campaigns of the Assyrians, the
rise of Babylon, the conquest of Judah,

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and the exile and return of God's people.

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In both the third and fifth
parts, the perspective expands

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beyond individual nations.

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And in this section, as is so often done
in the prophets, Isaiah first describes

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ruin, but then turns to restoration.

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This vision ultimately merges with
the anticipated return of the Judean

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exiles and reveals the connection
between the rescue of God's people

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and the renewal of God's good world.

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Even the wilderness and desert
will be glad in those days.

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The wasteland will rejoice and
blossom with spring crocuses.

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Yes, there will be an abundance
of flowers and singing and joy.

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Those who have been ransomed
by the Lord will return.

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They will enter Jerusalem singing
crowned with everlasting joy In between

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these two sections, the fourth part
of the book presents six Oracles that

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announce what sorrow awaits is real.

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And Judah.

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These oracles come from the 20 year
period between Assys conquest of

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Israel and its invasion of Judah.

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A series of narratives in the sixth part
of the book describe how God brought

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miraculous deliverance from the Assyrians
when King Hezekiah trusted in him.

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However, they also foreshadow the
eventual Babylonian conquest and exile.

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The seventh part describes
the time in Babylon.

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Over 150 years later, the Persian ruler
Cyrus is about to conquer the Babylonians.

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And his policy and other lands is to
allow exiled populations to return home.

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These long oracles are some of the most
beautiful and encouraging in all of

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scripture assuring God's people that
his word promising the end of exile

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will surely be accomplished as intended.

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These oracles also introduce a
figure referred to as God's servant.

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The servant has a complex identity, likely
referring initially to God's people.

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Through whom God will continue to
work to bring about His purposes.

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Ultimately, these servant songs
point to the future Messiah, who will

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bring deliverance from the deepest
exile of all that of sin and death.

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The final part of the book
speaks to an even later period

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after the return from exile.

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Once again, the people of Judah
need to be warned against injustice,

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oppression, and idolatrous worship.

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But these oracles also look
beyond the return from exile to a

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restoration that has cosmic in scope.

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God's glory will radiate forth from
Jerusalem in a fresh and powerful way,

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and Jerusalem will be a place of great
joy in a new heavens and new earth.

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And so the book of Isaiah, which
begins at a time when God's covenant

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with David was gravely threatened.

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Traces the grand sweep of redemptive
history and points forward to the

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climactic covenant, brought by
David's greatest descendant, and to

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the inauguration of the new creation,

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the prophet Isaiah.

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These are the visions that Isaiah's son of
AMAs saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

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He saw these visions during
the years when Isaiah.

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Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah
were kings of Judah.

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Listen, oh heavens pay attention.

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Earth.

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This is what the Lord says.

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The children I raised and cared
for have rebelled against me.

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Even an ox knows its owner and a
donkey recognizes its master's care,

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but Israel doesn't know its master.

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My people don't recognize
my care for them.

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Oh, what a sinful nation.

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They are loaded down
with a burden of guilt.

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They are evil people, corrupt
children who have rejected the Lord.

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They have despised the holy one of
Israel and turned their backs on him.

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Why do you continue to invite punishment?

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Must you rebel forever?

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Your head is injured
and your heart is sick.

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You are battered from head to
foot, covered with bruises, welts,

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and infected wounds without any
soothing ointments or bandages.

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Your country lies in ruins
and your towns are burned.

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Foreigners plunder your fields before
your eyes and destroy everything they see.

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Beautiful Jerusalem stands abandoned like
a watchman's shelter in a vineyard, like

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a lean to in a cucumber field after the
harvest, like a helpless city under siege.

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If the Lord of heaven's armies
had not spared a few of us, we

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would have been wiped out like
Sodom, destroyed like Gamora.

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Listen to the Lord you leaders of Sodom.

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Listen to the law of our
God people of Gamora.

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What makes you think I want all
your sacrifices says the Lord.

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I am sick of your burnt offerings of
rams and the fat of fattened cattle.

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I get no pleasure from the blood
of bulls and lambs and goats

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when you come to worship me.

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Who asked you to parade through
my courts with all your ceremony?

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Stop bringing me your meaningless gifts.

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The incense of your offerings disgusts me.

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As for your celebrations of the New Moon
and the Sabbath and your special days for

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fasting, they are all sinful and false.

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I want to know more of
your pious meetings.

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I hate your New Moon celebrations
and your annual festivals.

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They are a burden to me.

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I cannot stand them.

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When you lift up your hands
in prayer, I will not look.

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Though you offer many prayers, I will
not listen for your hands are covered

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with the blood of innocent victims.

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Wash yourselves and be clean.

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Get your sins out of my sight.

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Give up your evil ways.

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Learn to do good.

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Seek justice, help the oppressed,
defend the cause of orphans.

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Fight for the rights of widows.

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Come now.

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Let's settle.

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This says the Lord.

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Though your sins are like scarlet,
I will make them as white as snow.

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Though they are red like crimson,
I will make them as white as wool.

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If you will only obey me,
you will have plenty to eat.

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But if you turn away and refuse
to listen, you will be devoured

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by the sword of your enemies.

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I The Lord have spoken.

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See how Jerusalem, once so
faithful has become a prostitute.

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Once the home of justice
and righteousness, she is

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now filled with murderers.

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Once like pure silver, you have
become like worthless slag.

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Once so pure, you are now
like watered down wine.

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Your leaders are rebels,
the companions of thieves.

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All of them love bribes and
demand payoffs, but they refuse

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to defend the cause of orphans or
fight for the rights of widows.

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Therefore, the Lord, the Lord of
heaven's armies, the mighty one of

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Israel says, I will take revenge
on my enemies and pay back my foes.

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I will raise my fist against you.

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I will melt you down
and skimm off your slag.

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I will remove all your impurities, then
I will give you good judges again and

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wise counselors like you used to have.

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Then Jerusalem will again be called
the home of justice and the faithful

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city Zion will be restored by justice.

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Those who repent will be
revived by righteousness.

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Rebels and sinners will be
completely destroyed, and those who

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desert, the Lord will be consumed.

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You will be ashamed of your idol
worship in groves of sacred oaks.

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You will blush because you worshiped
in gardens dedicated to idols.

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You will be like a great tree
with withered leaves like a garden

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without water, the strongest among
you will disappear like straw.

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Their evil deeds will be the
spark that sets it on fire.

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They and their evil works will
burn up together and no one will

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be able to put out the fire.

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This is a vision that Isaiah's
son of Amos saw concerning Judah

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and Jerusalem in the last days.

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The mountain of the Lord's house
will be the highest of all, the

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most important place on earth.

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It will be raised above the other
hills and people from all over the

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world will stream there to worship.

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People from many nations will come and
say, come let us go up to the mountain

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of the Lord, to the House of Jacob's God.

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There he will teach us his ways and
we will walk in His paths for the

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Lord's teaching will go out from Zion.

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His word will go out from Jerusalem.

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The Lord will mediate between nations
and will settle international disputes.

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They will hammer their swords
into plowshares and their

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spears into pruning hooks.

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Nation will no longer fight against
nation nor train for war anymore.

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Come descendants of Jacob, let
us walk in the light of the Lord.

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For the Lord has rejected his
people, the descendants of Jacob.

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Because they have filled their land
with practices from the east and

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with sorcerers as the Philistines do.

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They have made alliances with pagans.

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Israel is full of silver and gold.

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There is no end to its treasures.

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Their land is full of war horses.

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There is no end to its chariots.

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Their land is full of idols.

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The people worship things they
have made with their own hands.

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So now they will be humbled
and all will be brought low.

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Do not forgive them.

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Crawl into caves in the rocks, hide
in the dust from the terror of the

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Lord and the glory of his majesty.

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Human pride will be brought down
and human arrogance will be humbled.

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Only the Lord will be exalted
on that day of judgment.

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For the Lord of heaven's,
armies has a day of reckoning.

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He will punish the proud and mighty and
bring down everything that is exalted.

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He will cut down the tall cedars of
Lebanon and all the mighty oaks of basin.

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He will level all the high
mountains and all the lofty hills.

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He will break down every high
tower and every fortified wall.

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He will destroy all the great trading
ships and every magnificent vessel.

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Human pride will be humbled and
human arrogance will be brought down.

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Only the Lord will be exalted
On that day of judgment, idols

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will completely disappear.

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When the Lord rises to shake
the earth, his enemies will

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crawl into holes in the ground.

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They will hide in caves, in the
rocks from the terror of the Lord

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and the glory of his majesty.

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On that day of judgment, they will
abandon the gold and silver idols

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they made for themselves to worship.

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They will leave their gods to the
rodents and bats while they crawl

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away into caverns and hide among
the jagged rocks and the cliffs.

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They will try to escape the terror of
the Lord and the glory of his majesty

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as he rises to shake the earth.

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Don't put your trust in mere humans.

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They are as frail as breath.

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What good are they?

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The Lord, the Lord of heaven's armies
will take away from Jerusalem and Judah

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everything they depend on, every bit
of bread and every drop of water, all

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their heroes and soldiers, judges and
prophets, fortune tellers and elders,

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army officers and high officials advisors,
skilled sorcerers and astrologers.

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I will make boys their leaders
and toddlers, their rulers, people

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will oppress each other man against
man, neighbor against neighbor.

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Young people will insult their elders and
vulgar people will sneer at the honorable.

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In those days, a man will say
to his brother, since you have

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a coat, you be our leader.

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Take charge of this heap of ruins.

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He will reply, no, I can't help.

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I don't have any extra food or clothes.

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Don't put me in charge for Jerusalem
will stumble and Judah will fall

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because they speak out against
the Lord and refuse to obey him.

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They provoke him to his face.

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The very look on their
faces gives them away.

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They display their sin like the people
of Sodom and don't even try to hide it.

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They are doomed.

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They have brought
destruction upon themselves.

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Tell the Godly that all
will be well for them.

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They will enjoy the rich reward they have
earned, but the wicked are doomed for.

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They will get exactly what they deserve.

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Childish leaders oppress my
people and women rule over them.

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Oh my people.

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Your leaders mislead you.

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They send you down the wrong road.

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The Lord takes his place in court and
presents his case against his people.

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The Lord comes forward to
pronounce judgment on the

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elders and rulers of his people.

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You have ruined Israel, my vineyard.

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Your houses are filled with
things stolen from the poor.

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How dare you crush my people?

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Grinding the faces of
the poor into the dust.

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Demands the Lord.

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The Lord of heaven's armies.

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The Lord says beautiful Zion is haughty,
craning her elegant neck, flirting

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with her eyes, walking with dainty
steps, tinkling her ankle bracelets so

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the Lord will send scabs on her head.

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The Lord will make beautiful Zion bald.

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On that day of judgment, the
Lord will strip away everything

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that makes her beautiful.

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Ornaments, headbands, crescent
necklaces, earrings, bracelets and

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veils, scarves, ankle bracelets,
sashes, perfumes and charms.

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Rings, jewels, party clothes,
gowns, capes and purses.

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Mirrors fine linen garments,
head ornaments, and shawls.

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Instead of smelling of sweet
perfume, she will stink.

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She will wear a rope for a sash
and her elegant hair will fall out.

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She will wear rough burlap
instead of rich robes.

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Shame will replace her beauty.

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The men of the city will be
killed with the sword and her

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warriors will die in battle.

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The gates of Zion will weep and mourn.

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The city will be like a ravaged
woman huddled on the ground.

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In that day, so few men will be left,
that seven women will fight for each

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man saying, let us all marry you.

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We will provide our own food and clothing.

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Only let us take your name so
we won't be mocked as old maids.

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But in that day, the branch of the
Lord will be beautiful and glorious.

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The fruit of the land will be the pride
and glory of all who survive in Israel.

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All who remain in Zion
will be a holy people.

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Those who survived the destruction
of Jerusalem and are recorded among

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the living, the Lord will wash the
filth from beautiful Zion and cleanse

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Jerusalem of its blood stains with
the hot breath of fiery judgment.

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Then the Lord will provide shade for
Mount Zion and all who assemble there.

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He will provide a canopy
of cloud during the day.

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Smoke and flaming fire at night,
covering the glorious land.

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It will be a shelter from daytime heat
and a hiding place from storms and rain.

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Now I will sing for the one I
love, a song about his vineyard.

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My beloved had a vineyard
on a rich and fertile hill.

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He plowed the land, cleared its stones,
and planted it with the best vines.

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In the middle, he built a watchtower and
carved a wine press in the nearby rocks.

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Then he waited for a harvest
of sweet grapes, but the

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grapes that grew were bitter.

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Now you people of Jerusalem and Judah,
you judge between me and my vineyard.

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What more could I have done for my
vineyard that I have not already done?

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When I expected sweet grapes, why did
my vineyard give me bitter grapes?

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Now, let me tell you what
I will do to my vineyard.

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I will tear down its hedges
and let it be destroyed.

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I will break down its walls
and let the animals trample it.

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I will make it a wild place
where the vines are not pruned

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and the ground is not honed.

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A place overgrown With briars
and thorns, I will command the

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clouds to drop no rain on it.

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The nation of Israel is the vineyard
of the Lord of Heaven's armies.

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The people of Judah are
his pleasant garden.

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He expected a crop of justice,
but instead he found oppression.

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He expected to find righteousness, but
instead he heard cries of violence.

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What sorrow for you?

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Who buy up house after house and
field after field until everyone is

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evicted and you live alone in the land?

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I have heard the Lord of Heaven's
army swear a solemn oath.

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Many houses will stand deserted, even
beautiful mansions will be empty.

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10 acres of vineyard will not
produce even six gallons of wine.

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10 baskets of seed will yield
only one basket of grain.

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What sorrow for those who get up early
in the morning looking for a drink of

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alcohol and spend long evenings drinking
wine to make themselves flaming drunk.

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They furnish wine and lovely music at
their grand parties, liar and harp,

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tambourine and flute, but they never think
about the Lord or notice what he is doing.

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So my people will go into exile far
away because they do not know me.

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Those who are great and honored
will starve and the common

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people will die of thirst.

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The grave is licking its lips in
anticipation, opening its mouth wide,

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the great and the lowly, and all the
drunken mob will be swallowed up.

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Humanity will be destroyed, and people
brought down, even the arrogant will

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lower their eyes in humiliation.

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But the Lord of Heaven's armies
will be exalted by his justice.

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The holiness of God will be displayed
by his righteousness in that day.

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Lambs will find good pastures
and fatten sheep and young

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goats will feed among the ruins.

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What sorrow for those who drag their
sins behind them with ropes made

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of lies who drag wickedness behind
them like a cart, they even mock God

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and say, hurry up and do something.

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We want to see what you can do.

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Let the holy one of Israel
carry out his plan for.

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We want to know what it is, what
sorrow for those who say that

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evil is good and good is evil.

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That dark is light, and light is dark,
that bitter is sweet, and sweet is bitter.

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What sorrow for those who are
wise in their own eyes and

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think themselves so clever?

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What sorrow for those who are heroes
at drinking wine and boast about

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all the alcohol they can hold, they
take bribes to let the wicked go

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free and they punish the innocent.

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Therefore, just as fire licks up
stubble and dry grass shrivels

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in the flame, so their roots will
rot and their flowers wither.

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For, they have rejected the law
of the Lord of Heaven's armies.

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They have despised the word
of the holy one of Israel.

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That is why the Lord's anger burns
against his people and why he has

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raised his fist to crush them.

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The mountains tremble and the
corpses of his people litter

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the streets like garbage.

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But even then, the Lord's
anger is not satisfied.

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His fist is still poised to strike.

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He will send a signal to distant
nations far away and whistle to

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those at the ends of the earth.

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They will come racing toward Jerusalem.

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They will not get tired or stumble.

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They will not stop for rest or sleep.

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Not a belt will be loose,
not a sandal strap broken.

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Their arrows will be sharp and
their bows ready for battle.

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Sparks will fly from their horse's
hooves, and the wheels of their

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chariots will spin like a whirlwind.

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They will roar like lions, like
the strongest of lions growling.

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They will pounce on their victims
and carry them off, and no one

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will be there to rescue them.

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They will roar over their victims
on that day of destruction

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like the roaring of the sea.

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If someone looks across the land, only
darkness and distress will be seen.

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Even the light will be darkened by clouds.

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This concludes today's
immerse reading experience.

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Thank you for joining us.

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