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\c 28
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\q1
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\v 1 Terrible things will happen to the city of Samaria, the capital of Israel!
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\q2 It is on a hill above a fertile valley;
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\q1 the people who live there, who get drunk by drinking too much wine, are very proud;
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\q2 it is a beautiful and glorious city,
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\q2 but some day that beauty will disappear like a flower that wilts and dries up.
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\q1
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\v 2 Listen to this: Yahweh will cause a great army to attack it.
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\q2 Their soldiers will be like a huge hailstorm or a very strong wind;
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\q1 they will be everywhere, like the water of a huge flood,
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\q2 and they will smash to the ground the buildings in Samaria.
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\q1
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\v 3 The people of Samaria are proud,
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\q2 but everything that the drunks who live there think is wonderful will be trampled on by their enemies.
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\q1
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\v 4 Yes, Samaria is beautiful, set on a hill above a fertile valley, but that beauty will disappear
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\q2 like a flower that wilts and dries up.
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\q1 Whenever someone sees a good fig at the beginning of the season when figs become ripe, he quickly picks and eats it;
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\q2 similarly, when the enemies of Israel see all the beautiful things in Samaria,
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\q2 they will quickly conquer the city and take away all those things.
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\q1
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\v 5 At that time, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, will be like a glorious wreath of flowers for us Israelite people
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\q2 who are still alive after being exiled.
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\q1
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\v 6 He will cause our judges to want to do what is fair
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\q2 when they decide people's cases.
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\q1 He will enable the soldiers who stand at the city gates
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\q2 to strongly defend the city when our enemies attack it.
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\q1
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\v 7 But now, our leaders stagger,
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\q1 and the priests and prophets also stagger
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\q2 because of drinking a lot of wine and other alcoholic drinks.
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\q1 They are not able to think right;
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\q2 they see visions, but they cannot understand what they mean;
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\q2 they are unable to decide things correctly.
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\q1
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\v 8 All their tables are covered with their vomit;
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\q2 filth is everywhere.
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\q1
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\v 9 Who will he teach so that they can learn about knowledge?
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\q2 Who will listen to him so that he can teach lessons to them so they can learn?
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\q1 Does he think that we are like little children who no longer drink milk,
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\q2 and that we are like babies who, not long ago, were weaned?
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\q1
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\v 10 He continually tells us, 'Do this, do that;'
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\q2 first he tells us one rule, then another rule,
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\q2 he tells us only one line at a time."
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\q1
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\v 11 So now, Yahweh will need to force them to listen to Assyrians
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\q2 speaking to them in a language that they do not understand.
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\q1
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\v 12 Yahweh told his people long ago,
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\q2 "This is a place where you can rest;
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\q1 you are exhausted from all your travels through the desert,
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\q2 but you will be able to rest in this land."
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\q1 But they refused to pay attention to what he said.
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\q1
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\v 13 So Yahweh continues to tell the people of Samaria,
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\q1 one line at a time, "Do this, do that,"
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\q2 first one rule and then another rule.
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\q1 But because of their ignoring what God said, they will be attacked and defeated;
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\q2 they will be wounded and snared and captured.
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\q1
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\v 14 Listen to the word that Yahweh says,
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\q2 you who rule over the people of Jerusalem,
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\q2 you who mock and make fun of me!
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\q1
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\v 15 You boast and say,
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\q1 "We made a promise with death to ensure that the power of death, when it passes over us, it cannot get to us.
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\q2 We tried to turn our lying words into a shelter in which we could hide.
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\p
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\v 16 Therefore, Yahweh our Lord says this:
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\q1 "Listen to this! I am going to place in Jerusalem someone who is like a foundation stone,
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\q2 he is like a stone that has been tested to determine if it is solid.
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\q1 He will be like a valuable stone on which which it will be safe to build a house;
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\q2 and whoever trusts in him will never be disappointed.
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\q1
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\v 17 I will test you people of Jerusalem to find out if you will act justly and righteously,
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\q2 I will measure your character like a carpenter uses a plumb line to determine if a wall is straight and level.
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\q1 And then the hail will fall! And it will destroy everything you have.
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\q2 Your shelter will be destroyed because it is built on a foundation of lies,
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\q2 and the water from the storm will wash your shelter away.
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\q1
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\v 18 I will cancel the covenant that you made with death,
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\q2 and I will bring to an end the covenant you made with the place where the dead dwell.
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\q1 But when the vast flood comes, it will pour over you;
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\q2 and day after day it will pass over you.
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\v 19 When the flood comes, it will pass through and over you like the river when it overflows its banks and causes flooding everywhere.
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\q1 When you finally understand the message of Yahweh, it will cause you to be terrified, not comforted.
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For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in.
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\v 20 You have heard people say, "Your bed is very short; you will not be able to sleep in it;
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\q2 your blankets are very narrow; they will not cover you!"
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\q1
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\v 21 Yahweh will come and cause you to be defeated;
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\q2 he will do to you like he did to the army of Philistia at Mount Perizim,
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\q2 and like he did to the Amorites at Gibeon Valley.
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\q1 What he will do will be very strange and unusual.
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\q1
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\v 22 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, has told me that he is going to destroy the entire land.
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\q1 So do not ridicule what I say anymore,
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\q2 because if you do that,
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\q2 he will punish you even more severely.
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\q1
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\v 23 Listen to what I say;
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\q2 pay attention carefully.
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\q1
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\v 24 When a farmer plows some ground, does he never plant seeds?
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\q2 Does he continue to plow it and never plant anything?
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\v 25 No, he makes the ground very level,
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\q2 and then he plants seeds—
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\q2 caraway seed and cumin and wheat and barley.
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\q1 He plants each kind of seed in the correct manner. He does not plant one kind of seed in the way that is not right for it.
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\v 26 He does that because God has taught him the correct way to do it.
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\v 27 Moreover, the caraway seed is not threshed with a sledge,
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\q1 nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cumin;
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\q1 but caraway is beaten with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.
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\q1
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\v 28 And grain for baking bread is crushed easily,
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\q1 so the farmers do not continue to pound it for a long time.
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\q1 They sometimes cause their horses to pull a cart over it to thresh it,
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\q1 but doing that does not grind the grain.
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\v 29 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies,
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\q2 gives us wonderful advice about how to do things; he gives us great wisdom.
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\q1 So what the farmers do is very smart, but what your leaders are doing is very stupid.
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