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The burden against Moab .
Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste And destroyed ,
Because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste And destroyed ,
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He has gone up to the temple and Dibon ,
To the high places to weep .
Moab will wail over Nebo and over Medeba ;
On all their heads will be baldness ,
And every beard cut off .
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In their streets they will clothe themselves with sackcloth ;
On the tops of their houses And in their streets Everyone will wail ,
weeping bitterly .
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Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out ,
Their voice shall be heard as far as Jahaz ;
Therefore the armed soldiers of Moab will cry out ;
His life will be burdensome to him .
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My heart will cry out for Moab ;
His fugitives shall flee to Zoar ,
Like a three-year-old heifer .
For by the Ascent of Luhith They will go up with weeping ;
For in the way of Horonaim They will raise up a cry of destruction ,
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For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate ,
For the green grass has withered away ;
The grass fails ,
there is nothing green .
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Therefore the abundance they have gained ,
And what they have laid up ,
They will carry away to the Brook of the Willows .
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For the cry has gone all around the borders of Moab ,
Its wailing to Eglaim And its wailing to Beer Elim .
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For the waters of Dimon will be full of blood ;
Because I will bring more upon Dimon ,
Lions upon him who escapes from Moab ,
And on the remnant of the land ."
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Send the lamb to the ruler of the land ,
From Sela to the wilderness ,
To the mount of the daughter of Zion .
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For it shall be as a wandering bird thrown out of the nest ;
So shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon .
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Take counsel ,
execute judgment ;
Make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day ;
Hide the outcasts ,
Do not betray him who escapes .
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Let My outcasts dwell with you ,
O Moab ;
Be a shelter to them from the face of the spoiler .
For the extortioner is at an end ,
Devastation ceases ,
The oppressors are consumed out of the land .
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In mercy the throne will be established ;
And One will sit on it in truth ,
in the tabernacle of David ,
Judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness ."
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We have heard of the pride of Moab --
He is very proud --
Of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath ;
But his lies shall not be so .
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Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab ;
Everyone shall wail .
For the foundations of Kir Hareseth you shall mourn ;
Surely they are stricken .
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For the fields of Heshbon languish ,
And the vine of Sibmah ;
The lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants ,
Which have reached to Jazer And wandered through the wilderness .
Her branches are stretched out ,
They are gone over the sea .
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Therefore I will bewail the vine of Sibmah ,
With the weeping of Jazer ;
I will drench you with my tears ,
O Heshbon and Elealeh ;
For battle cries have fallen Over your summer fruits and your harvest .
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Gladness is taken away ,
And joy from the plentiful field ;
In the vineyards there will be no singing ,
Nor will there be shouting ;
No treaders will tread out wine in the presses ;
I have made their shouting cease .
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Therefore my heart shall resound like a harp for Moab ,
And my inner being for Kir Heres .
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And it shall come to pass ,
When it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place ,
That he will come to his sanctuary to pray ;
But he will not prevail .
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This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning Moab since that time .
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But now the LORD has spoken ,
saying , "
Within three years ,
as the years of a hired man ,
the glory of Moab will be despised with all that great multitude ,
and the remnant will be very small and feeble ."
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The burden against Damascus . "
Behold ,
Damascus will cease from being a city ,
And it will be a ruinous heap .
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The cities of Aroer are forsaken ;
They will be for flocks Which lie down ,
and no one will make them afraid .
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The fortress also will cease from Ephraim ,
The kingdom from Damascus ,
And the remnant of Syria ;
They will be as the glory of the children of Israel ,"
Says the LORD of hosts .
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In that day it shall come to pass That the glory of Jacob will wane ,
And the fatness of his flesh grow lean .
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It shall be as when the harvester gathers the grain ,
And reaps the heads with his arm ;
It shall be as he who gathers heads of grain In the Valley of Rephaim .
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Yet gleaning grapes will be left in it ,
Like the shaking of an olive tree ,
Two or three olives at the top of the uppermost bough ,
Four or five in its most fruitful branches ,"
Says the LORD God of Israel .
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In that day a man will look to his Maker ,
And his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel .
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He will not look to the altars ,
The work of his hands ;
He will not respect what his fingers have made ,
Nor the wooden images nor the incense altars .
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In that day his strong cities will be as a forsaken bough And an uppermost branch ,
Which they left because of the children of Israel ;
And there will be desolation .
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Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation ,
And have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold ,
Therefore you will plant pleasant plants And set out foreign seedlings ;
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In the day you will make your plant to grow ,
And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish ;
But the harvest will be a heap of ruins In the day of grief and desperate sorrow .
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Woe to the multitude of many people Who make a noise like the roar of the seas ,
And to the rushing of nations That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters !
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The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters ;
But God will rebuke them and they will flee far away ,
And be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind ,
Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind .
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Then behold ,
at eventide ,
trouble !
And before the morning ,
he is no more .
This is the portion of those who plunder us ,
And the lot of those who rob us .
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Woe to the land shadowed with buzzing wings ,
Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia ,
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Which sends ambassadors by sea ,
Even in vessels of reed on the waters ,
saying , "
Go ,
swift messengers ,
to a nation tall and smooth of skin ,
To a people terrible from their beginning onward ,
A nation powerful and treading down ,
Whose land the rivers divide ."
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All inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth :
When he lifts up a banner on the mountains ,
you see it ;
And when he blows a trumpet ,
you hear it .
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For so the LORD said to me , "
I will take My rest ,
And I will look from My dwelling place Like clear heat in sunshine ,
Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest ."
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For before the harvest ,
when the bud is perfect And the sour grape is ripening in the flower ,
He will both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks And take away and cut down the branches .
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They will be left together for the mountain birds of prey And for the beasts of the earth ;
The birds of prey will summer on them ,
And all the beasts of the earth will winter on them .
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In that time a present will be brought to the LORD of hosts From a people tall and smooth of skin ,
And from a people terrible from their beginning onward ,
A nation powerful and treading down ,
Whose land the rivers divide --
To the place of the name of the LORD of hosts ,
To Mount Zion .
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The burden against Egypt .
Behold ,
the LORD rides on a swift cloud ,
And will come into Egypt ;
The idols of Egypt will totter at His presence ,
And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst .
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I will set Egyptians against Egyptians ;
Everyone will fight against his brother ,
And everyone against his neighbor ,
City against city ,
kingdom against kingdom .
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The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst ;
I will destroy their counsel ,
And they will consult the idols and the charmers ,
The mediums and the sorcerers .
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And the Egyptians I will give Into the hand of a cruel master ,
And a fierce king will rule over them ,"
Says the Lord ,
the LORD of hosts .
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The waters will fail from the sea ,
And the river will be wasted and dried up .
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The rivers will turn foul ;
The brooks of defense will be emptied and dried up ;
The reeds and rushes will wither .
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The papyrus reeds by the River ,
by the mouth of the River ,
And everything sown by the River ,
Will wither ,
be driven away ,
and be no more .
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The fishermen also will mourn ;
All those will lament who cast hooks into the River ,
And they will languish who spread nets on the waters .
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Moreover those who work in fine flax And those who weave fine fabric will be ashamed ;
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And its foundations will be broken .
All who make wages will be troubled of soul .
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Surely the princes of Zoan are fools ;
Pharaoh '
s wise counselors give foolish counsel .
How do you say to Pharaoh , "
I am the son of the wise ,
The son of ancient kings ?"
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Where are they ?
Where are your wise men ?
Let them tell you now ,
And let them know what the LORD of hosts has purposed against Egypt .
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The princes of Zoan have become fools ;
The princes of Noph are deceived ;
They have also deluded Egypt ,
Those who are the mainstay of its tribes .
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The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit in her midst ;
And they have caused Egypt to err in all her work ,
As a drunken man staggers in his vomit .
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Neither will there be any work for Egypt ,
Which the head or tail ,
Palm branch or bulrush ,
may do .
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In that day Egypt will be like women ,
and will be afraid and fear because of the waving of the hand of the LORD of hosts ,
which He waves over it .
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And the land of Judah will be a terror to Egypt ;
everyone who makes mention of it will be afraid in himself ,
because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts which He has determined against it .
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In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear by the LORD of hosts ;
one will be called the City of Destruction .
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In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt ,
and a pillar to the LORD at its border .
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And it will be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt ;
for they will cry to the LORD because of the oppressors ,
and He will send them a Savior and a Mighty One ,
and He will deliver them .
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Then the LORD will be known to Egypt ,
and the Egyptians will know the LORD in that day ,
and will make sacrifice and offering ;
yes ,
they will make a vow to the LORD and perform it .
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And the LORD will strike Egypt ,
He will strike and heal it ;
they will return to the LORD ,
and He will be entreated by them and heal them .
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In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria ,
and the Assyrian will come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria ,
and the Egyptians will serve with the Assyrians .
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In that day Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria--a blessing in the midst of the land ,
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whom the LORD of hosts shall bless ,
saying , "
Blessed is Egypt My people ,
and Assyria the work of My hands ,
and Israel My inheritance ."
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In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod ,
when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him ,
and he fought against Ashdod and took it ,