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5.28 :They are waxen fat, they are become sleek;
 * Yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness;
 * They plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless,
 * That they might make it to prosper;
 * And the right of the needy do they not judge.
 * Shall I not punish for these things?
 * Saith the ;
 * Shall not My soul be avenged
 * On such a nation as this?


 * An appalling and horrible thing
 * Is come to pass in the land:
 * The prophets prophesy in the service of falsehood,
 * And the priests bear rule at their beck;
 * And My people love to have it so;
 * What then will ye do in the end thereof?


 * Put yourselves under covert, ye children of Benjamin,
 * Away from the midst of Jerusalem,
 * And blow the horn in Tekoa,
 * And set up a signal on Beth-cherem;
 * For evil looketh forth from the north,
 * And a great destruction.
 * The comely and delicate one,
 * The daughter of Zion, will I cut off.
 * Shepherds with their flocks come unto her;
 * They pitch their tents against her round about;
 * They feed bare every one what is nigh at hand.
 * 'Prepare ye war against her;
 * Arise, and let us go up at noon! '
 * 'Woe unto us! for the day declineth,
 * For the shadows of the evening are stretched out! '
 * 'Arise, and let us go up by night,
 * And let us destroy her palaces.'


 * For thus hath the of hosts said:
 * Hew ye down her trees,
 * And cast up a mound against Jerusalem;
 * This is the city to be punished;
 * Everywhere there is oppression in the midst of her.
 * As a cistern welleth with her waters,
 * So she welleth with her wickedness;
 * Violence and spoil is heard in her;
 * Before Me continually is sickness and wounds.
 * Be thou corrected, O Jerusalem,
 * Lest My soul be alienated from thee,
 * Lest I make thee desolate,
 * A land not inhabited.


 * Thus saith the of hosts:
 * They shall thoroughly glean as a vine
 * The remnant of Israel;
 * Turn again thy hand
 * As a grape-gatherer upon the shoots.
 * To whom shall I speak and give warning,
 * That they may hear?
 * Behold, their ear is dull,
 * And they cannot attend;
 * Behold, the word of the is become unto them a reproach,
 * They have no delight in it.
 * Therefore I am full of the fury of the ,
 * I am weary with holding in:
 * Pour it out upon the babes in the street,
 * And upon the assembly of young men together;
 * For even the husband with the wife shall be taken,
 * The aged with him that is full of days.
 * And their houses shall be turned unto others,