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Rh :To drink water, and were not satisfied;
 * Yet have ye not returned unto Me,
 * Saith the.


 * I have smitten you with blasting and mildew;
 * The multitude of your gardens and your vineyards
 * And your fig-trees and your olive-trees
 * Hath the palmer-worm devoured;
 * Yet have ye not returned unto Me,
 * Saith the.


 * I have sent among you the pestilence in the way of Egypt;
 * Your young men have I slain with the sword,
 * And have carried away your horses;
 * And I have made the stench of your camp to come up even into your nostrils;
 * Yet have ye not returned unto Me,
 * Saith the.


 * I have overthrown some of you,
 * As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
 * And ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning;
 * Yet have ye not returned unto Me,
 * Saith the.


 * Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel;
 * Because I will do this unto thee,
 * Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
 * For, lo, He that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind,
 * And declareth unto man what is his thought,
 * That maketh the morning darkness,
 * And treadeth upon the high places of the earth;
 * The, the God of hosts, is His name.

Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel:
 * The virgin of Israel is fallen,
 * She shall no more rise;
 * She is cast down upon her land,
 * There is none to raise her up.

For thus saith the Lord : The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, of the house of Israel.


 * For thus saith the unto the house of Israel:
 * Seek ye Me, and live;
 * But seek not Beth-el,
 * Nor enter into Gilgal,
 * And pass not to Beer-sheba;
 * For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,
 * And Beth-el shall come to nought.
 * Seek the, and live
 * Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
 * And it devour, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.
 * Ye who turn justice to wormwood,
 * And cast righteousness to the ground;
 * Him that maketh the Pleiades and Orion,
 * And bringeth on the shadow of death in the morning,
 * And darkeneth the day into night;
 * That calleth for the waters of the sea,
 * And poureth them out upon the face of the earth;
 * The is His name;
 * That causeth destruction to flash upon the strong,
 * So that destruction cometh upon the fortress.


 * They hate him that reproveth in the gate,