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14.1 :And their women with child shall be ripped up.
 * Return, O Israel, unto the thy God;
 * For thou hast stumbled in thine iniquity.
 * Take with you words,
 * And return unto the ;
 * Say unto Him: 'Forgive all iniquity,
 * And accept that which is good;
 * So will we render for bullocks the offering of our lips.
 * Asshur shall not save us;
 * We will not ride upon horses;
 * Neither will we call any more the work of our hands our gods;
 * For in Thee the fatherless findeth mercy.'
 * I will heal their backsliding,
 * I will love them freely;
 * For Mine anger is turned away from him.
 * I will be as the dew unto Israel;
 * He shall blossom as the lily,
 * And cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
 * His branches shall spread,
 * And his beauty shall be as the olive-tree,
 * And his fragrance as Lebanon.
 * They that dwell under his shadow shall again
 * Make corn to grow,
 * And shall blossom as the vine;
 * The scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
 * Ephraim [shall say]:
 * 'What have I to do any more with idols?'
 * As for Me, I respond and look on him;
 * I am like a leafy cypress-tree;
 * From Me is thy fruit found.


 * Whoso is wise, let him understand these things,
 * Whoso is prudent, let him know them.
 * For the ways of the are right,
 * And the just do walk in them;
 * But transgressors do stumble therein.

 

word of the that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.


 * Hear this, ye old men,
 * And give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land.
 * Hath this been in your days,
 * Or in the days of your fathers?
 * Tell ye your children of it,
 * And let your children tell their children,
 * And their children another generation.
 * That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten;
 * And that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten;
 * And that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
 * Awake, ye drunkards, and weep,
 * And wail, all ye drinkers of wine,
 * Because of the sweet wine,
 * For it is cut off from your mouth.
 * For a people is come up upon my land,