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VII] :And he will smite the great house with breaches,
 * And the little house with clefts.


 * Shall horses run upon the rock?
 * Will one plow there with oxen?
 * For ye have turned judgment into gall,
 * And the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
 * Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought,
 * Which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
 * But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts;
 * And they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.

hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said,


 * God, forgive, I beseech thee:
 * By whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
 * The Lord repented for this:
 * It shall not be, saith the Lord.

Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord God called to contend by fire, and it