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28.18 :As often as it passeth through, it shall take you;
 * For morning by morning shall it pass through,
 * By day and by night;
 * And it shall be sheer terror to understand the message.
 * For the bed is too short for a man to stretch himself;
 * And the covering too narrow when he gathereth himself up.
 * For the will rise up as in mount Perazim,
 * He will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon;
 * That He may do His work, strange is His work,
 * And bring to pass His act, strange is His act.
 * Now therefore be ye not scoffers,
 * Lest your bands be made strong;
 * For an extermination wholly determined have I heard from the Lord, the of hosts,
 * Upon the whole land.


 * Give ye ear, and hear my voice;
 * Attend, and hear my speech.
 * Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow,
 * With the opening and harrowing of his ground?
 * When he hath made plain the face thereof,
 * Doth he not cast abroad the black cummin, and scatter the cummin,
 * And put in the wheat in rows and the barley in the appointed place
 * And the spelt in the border thereof?
 * For He doth instruct him aright;
 * His God doth teach him.
 * For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing-sledge,
 * Neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin;
 * But the black cummin is beaten out with a staff,
 * And the cummin with a rod.
 * Is bread corn crushed?
 * Nay, he will not ever be threshing it;
 * And though the roller of his wagon and its sharp edges move noisily,
 * He doth not crush it.
 * This also cometh forth from the of hosts:
 * Wonderful is His counsel, and great His wisdom.


 * Ah, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped!
 * Add ye year to year,
 * Let the feasts come round!
 * Then will I distress Ariel,
 * And there shall be mourning and moaning;
 * And she shall be unto Me as a hearth of God.
 * And I will encamp against thee round about,
 * And will lay siege against thee with a mound,
 * And I will raise siege works against thee.
 * And brought down thou shalt speak out of the ground,
 * And thy speech shall be low out of the dust;
 * And thy voice shall be as of a ghost out of the ground,
 * And thy speech shall chirp out of the dust.
 * But the multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust,
 * And the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away;
 * Yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly—
 * There shall be a visitation from the of hosts
 * With thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise,