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Joel chapter 1 the word of Yahweh that
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was addressed to Joel son of pthu listen
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to this you Elders everybody in the
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country attend has anything like this
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ever happened in your day or in your
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ancestors days tell your children about
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it and let your children tell their
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children and their children the Next
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Generation what the Nibbler has left the
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grown Locust has eaten what the grown
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Locus has left the hopper has eaten and
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what the hopper has left the sheerer has
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eaten wake up you drunkards and weep all
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you wine bibbers lament for the new wine
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it has been snatched from your lips for
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a nation has invaded my country Mighty
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and innumerable with teeth like a lion's
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teeth with the fangs of a lioness it has
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reduced my Vines to a desolation and my
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fig trees to splinters strip them and
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broken them down leaving their branches
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white mourn as a virgin bride in
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sackcloth for the bridegroom of her
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youth serial offering and libation are
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lost to yahweh's Temple the priests the
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Ministers of Yahweh are in mourning the
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fields are ruined the land is in
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mourning for the grain has been ruined
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the new wine has failed of olive oil
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only a trickle stand dismayed you
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Farmers whale you Vine dressers for the
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wheat for The Barley the Harvest of the
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fields has been lost the vine has
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withered the Fig Tree wilts away
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pomegranate palm tree apple tree every
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tree in the countryside is dry and for
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human beings Joy has run dry too priests
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put on sackcloth and lament you
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Ministers of the altar whale come here
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lie in sackcloth all night long you
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Ministers of my God for the Temple of
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your God has been deprived of Serial
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offering and libation order a fast
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proclaim a solemn assembly you Elders
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summon everybody in the country to the
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Temple of Yahweh your God cry out to
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Yahweh alas for the day for the day of
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Yahweh is near coming as destruction
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from Shai has not the food disappeared
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before our very eyes have not joy and
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gladness vanished from the Temple of our
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God the seeds shrivel under their clouds
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the granaries are deserted the barns are
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in Ruins because the Harvest is dried
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out loudly the cattle groan the herds of
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oxen are bewildered because they have no
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pasture the flocks of sheep bear the
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punishment too Yahweh to you I cry for
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fire has devoured the desert pastures
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flame has burnt up all the trees in the
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countryside even the wild animals pant
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loudly for you for the water courses
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have run dry and fire has devoured the
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pastures Joel chapter 2 blow the Ram's
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Horn in Zion sound the alarm on my Holy
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Mountain let everybody in the country
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tremble for the day of Yahweh is coming
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yes it is near day of darkness and Gloom
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day of cloud and Blackness like the dawn
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across the mountain spreads a vast and
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mighty people such as has never been
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before such as will never be again to
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the remotest ages in their van a fire
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devours in their rear a flame consumes
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the country is like a Garden of Eden
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ahead of them and a desert waste behind
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them nothing escapes them there look
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like horses like chargers they Gallop on
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with a racket like that of Chariots they
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spring over the mountain tops with a
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crackling like a blazing fire devouring
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the stubble a mighty Army in battle
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array at the sight of them people are
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appalled and every face grows pale like
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fighting men they press forward like
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Warriors they scale the walls each
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marching Straight Ahead not turning from
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his path they never jostle each other
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each marches Straight Ahead arrows fly
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they still press forward never breaking
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ranks they hurl themselves at the city
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they leap onto the walls swarm up the
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houses getting in through the Windows
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like thieves as they come on the earth
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quakes the skies tremble sun and moon
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grow dark the Stars lose their
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Brilliance yahweh's Voice rings out at
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the head of his troops for Mighty indeed
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is his Army Strong the enforcer of his
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orders for great is the day of Yahweh
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and very terrible who can face it but
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now declares Yahweh come back to me with
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all your heart fasting weeping mourning
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tear your hearts and not your clothes
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and come back to Yahweh your God for he
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is gracious and compassionate slow to
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anger rich in faithful love and he
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relents about inflicting disaster who
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knows if he will not come back relent
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and leave a blessing behind him a Serial
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offering and a li ation to be presented
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to Yahweh your God blow the Ram's Horn
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in Zion order a fast proclaim a solemn
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assembly call the people together summon
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the community assemble the elders gather
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the children even infants at the breast
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call the bridegroom from his bedroom and
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the bride from her Bower let the priests
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the Ministers of Yahweh stand weeping
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between Portico and alter saying spare
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your people Yahweh do do not expose your
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heritage to the contempt to the sarcasm
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of the Nations why give the peoples
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cause to say where is their God then
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becoming jealous over his country Yahweh
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took pity on his people Yahweh said in
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answer to his people now I shall send
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you wheat wine and olive oil until you
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have enough never again will I expose
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you to the contempt of the Nations I
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shall take the northerner far away from
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you and drive him into an area desolate
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land his Vanguard to the Eastern Sea his
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rear guard to the Western sea he will
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give off a stench he will give off a
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foul stink for what he made bold to do
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land do not be afraid be glad Rejoice
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for Yahweh has done great things wild
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animals do not be afraid the desert
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pastures are green again the trees bear
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fruit Vine and fig tree yield their
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richness sons of Zion be glad rejoice in
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Yahweh your God for he has given you
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Autumn rain as Justice demands and he
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will send the Rains Down for you the
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Autumn and spring rain as of old the
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threshing floors will be full of grain
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the Vats overflow with wine and oil I
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will make up to you for the years
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devoured by grown Locust and Hopper by
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sheerer and young Locust my great Army
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which I sent to invade you you will eat
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to your heart's content and praise the
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the name of Yahweh your God who has
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treated you so wonderfully my people
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will never be humiliated again and you
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will know that I am among you in Israel
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I Yahweh your God and no one else my
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people will never be humiliated
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again Joel chapter three after this I
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shall pour out my spirit on all Humanity
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your sons and daughters shall prophesy
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your old people shall dream dreams and
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your young people see Visions even on
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the slaves men and women shall I pour
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out my spirit in those days I shall show
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portents in the sky and on Earth blood
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and fire and Columns of smoke the sun
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will be turned into darkness and the
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moon into blood before the day comes
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that great and terrible day all who call
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on the name of Yahweh will be saved for
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on Mount Zion will be those who have
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escaped as Yahweh has said and in
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Jerusalem a Remnant whom Yahweh is
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calling Joel chter 4 for in those days
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and at that time when I restore the
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fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem I Shall
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Gather all the nations together and take
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them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat
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there I shall put them on trial because
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of Israel my people and my heritage for
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having scattered them among the Nations
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and having divided my land among
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themselves they drew lots for my people
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bartering a boy for a and selling
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a girl for wine to drink and what are
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you to me Ty and siden and all you
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regions of philistia can you take
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revenge on me if you take revenge on me
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I shall quickly instantly make your
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revenge recoil on your own heads for
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having taken my silver and gold away and
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carried off my valuable Treasures to
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your temples and for having sold the
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children of Judah and Jerusalem to the
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ionians to be taken far away from their
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own Frontiers look I shall Rouse them
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from the places to which you have sold
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them I shall make your actions recoil on
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your own heads by selling your sons and
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daughters to the sons of Judah who in
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turn will sell them to the sians to a
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nation far away Yahweh has spoken
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Proclaim this among the Nations prepare
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for war Rouse the Champions all you
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troops Advance March Hammer your
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plowshares into swords your bill hooks
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into Spears let the weakling say I am
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tough hurry and come all the nations
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around and assemble there Yahweh send
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Champions let the Nations Rouse
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themselves and March to the valley of
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Jehoshaphat for there I shall sit in
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judgment on all the nations around ply
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the sickle for the Harvest is ripe come
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and tread for the wine press is full the
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Vats are overflowing so great is their
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wickedness multitude on multitude in the
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valley of decision for the day of Yahweh
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is near in the Valley of the verdict sun
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and moon grow dark the Stars lose their
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Brilliance Yahweh Roars from Zion he
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Thunders from Jerusalem Heaven and Earth
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tremble but Yahweh will be a shelter for
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his people a stronghold for the
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then you will know that I am Yahweh your
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God residing on Zion my Holy Mountain
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Jerusalem will then be a sanctuary no
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foreigners will overrun it ever again
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when that day comes the mountains will
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run with new wine and the hills will
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flow with milk and all the stream beds
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of Judah will run with water a fountain
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will spring from yahweh's Temple and
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water The Gorge of the acaas Egypt will
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become a desolation and Edom a desert
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waste on on account of the violence done
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to the children of Judah whose innocent
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blood they shed in their country but
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Judah will be inhabited forever and
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Jerusalem from generation to generation
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I shall avenge their blood and let none
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go unpunished and Yahweh will dwell in
