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\c 3
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\p
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\v 1 "You people of Israel, I brought all your ancestors out of Egypt;
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\q2 so listen to what I am saying about you.
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\q1
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\v 2 From all the people groups on the earth,
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\q2 I chose and took care of only you.
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\q1 That is the reason that I will punish you
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\q2 for the sins that you have committed."
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\q1
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\v 3 Two people certainly cannot walk together
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\q2 if they have not already agreed what place they will start walking from.
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\q1
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\v 4 A lion in a forest certainly does not roar
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\q2 if it has not killed another animal.
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\q1 It does not growl in its den
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\q2 if it is not eating the flesh of an animal that it has caught.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 5 No one can catch a bird
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\q2 if he does not set a trap for it.
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\q1 A trap does not spring shut
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\q2 when some animal has not sprung the trap.
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\q1
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\v 6 Similarly, all the people in a city certainly become afraid
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\q2 when they hear someone blowing a trumpet
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\q2 to signal that enemies are attacking.
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\q1 And when a city experiences disaster,
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\q2 Yahweh is the one who has caused it.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 7 Whatever Yahweh plans to do,
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\q2 he tells his prophets about it.
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\q1
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\v 8 Everyone certainly becomes terrified when they hear a lion roar;
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\q2 Yahweh the Lord has given messages to prophets,
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\q1 they certainly must proclaim those messages,
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\q2 even though they terrify people.
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\q1
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\v 9 Proclaim to the people who guard the strongholds in Ashdod,
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\q2 and to those who protect the fortresses in the land of Egypt, and say this,
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\q1 "Come together on the hills of Samaria,
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\q2 and see how much the people in that city are frightened,
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\q2 and see the way the people are suffering because of what they are doing to each other!"
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\q1
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\v 10 Yahweh says that the people there do not know how to do things that are right.
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\q2 Their homes are filled with valuable things that they have stolen or taken violently from others.
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\p
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\v 11 So Yahweh our God says that soon their enemies will come
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\q2 and tear down their defenses
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\q2 and take away those valuable things.
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\p
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\v 12 Yahweh has declared this:
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\q1 "When a lion attacks a sheep,
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\q2 sometimes a shepherd is able to snatch from the lion's mouth
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\q2 only two legs or an ear of the sheep.
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\q1 Similarly, only a few people from Samaria will escape,
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\q2 just as if someone could save only a part of a couch or a bed from a fire in the house."U
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\p
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\v 13 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says this:
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\q2 "Proclaim this message about the descendants of Jacob:
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\q1
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\v 14 When I, Yahweh, punish the people of Israel
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\q2 because of the sins that they have committed,
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\q1 I will cause the altars at the town of Bethel to be destroyed;
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\q2 even the projections at the corners of the altars will be cut off and fall to the ground.
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\q1
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\v 15 I will cause the houses that they live in during the winter to be torn down;
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\q2 and the houses they live in during the summer, they will also be torn down.
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\q2 Beautiful big houses and houses that are decorated with ivory will be destroyed.
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\q1 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!"
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