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Rh :Shall not the land tremble for this,
 * And every one mourn that dwelleth therein?
 * Yea, it shall rise up wholly like the River;
 * And it shall be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
 * And it shall come to pass in that day,
 * Saith the Lord ,
 * That I will cause the sun to go down at noon,
 * And I will darken the earth in the clear day.
 * And I will turn your feasts into mourning,
 * And all your songs into lamentation;
 * And I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins,
 * And baldness upon every head;
 * And I will make it as the mourning for an only son,
 * And the end thereof as a bitter day.


 * Behold, the days come, saith the Lord ,
 * That I will send a famine in the land,
 * Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
 * But of hearing the words of the.
 * And they shall wander from sea to sea,
 * And from the north even to the east,
 * They shall run to and fro to seek the word of the ,
 * And shall not find it.
 * In that day shall the fair virgins
 * And the young men faint for thirst.
 * They that swear by the sin of Samaria,
 * And say: 'As thy God, O Dan, liveth';
 * And: 'As the way of Beer-sheba liveth';
 * Even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar; and He said:


 * Smite the capitals, that the posts may shake;
 * And break them in pieces on the head of all of them;
 * And I will slay the residue of them with the sword;
 * There shall not one of them flee away,
 * And there shall not one of them escape.
 * Though they dig into the nether-world,
 * Thence shall My hand take them;
 * And though they climb up to heaven,
 * Thence will I bring them down.
 * And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel,
 * I will search and take them out thence;
 * And though they be hid from My sight in the bottom of the sea,
 * Thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.
 * And though they go into captivity before their enemies,
 * Thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them;
 * And I will set Mine eyes upon them
 * For evil, and not for good.


 * For the Lord, the of hosts,
 * Is He that toucheth the land and it melteth,
 * And all that dwell therein mourn;
 * And it riseth up wholly like the River,
 * And sinketh again, like the River of Egypt;
 * It is He that buildeth His upper chambers in the heaven,
 * And hath founded His vault upon the earth;
 * He that calleth for the waters of the sea,