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\c 24
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\q1
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\v 1 Some day Yahweh is going to destroy the earth.
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\q2 He will devastate it and cause it to become a desert,
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\q2 and he will scatter its people.
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\q1
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\v 2 He will scatter everyone:
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\q2 priests and common people,
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\q2 servants and their masters,
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\q2 maids and their mistresses,
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\q2 buyers and sellers,
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\q2 lenders and borrowers,
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\q2 people who owe money and people who are owed money.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 3 Nothing that is worth anything will be left on earth;
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\q2 everything valuable will be destroyed.
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\q1 That will surely happen because Yahweh has said it.
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\q1
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\v 4 Everything on the earth will dry up and die;
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\q2 its important people will become weak and unimportant.
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\q1
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\v 5 The earth has become unacceptable to Yahweh because the people who live on it have disobeyed his laws;
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\q2 they have rejected the covenant that he intends to last forever.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 6 Therefore, Yahweh will curse the earth;
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\q2 the people who live on it must be punished because of the sins that they have committed.
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\q1 They will be destroyed by fire,
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\q2 and only a few people will remain alive.
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\q1
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\v 7 The grapevines will wither,
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\q2 and there will be no grapes to make wine.
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\q1 All the people who were previously happy will now groan and mourn.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 8 People will no longer play cheerful songs with tambourines,
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\q2 people will no longer play joyfully on their harps,
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\q2 and people will no longer shout noisily during their celebrations.
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\q1
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\v 9 People will no longer sing while they drink wine,
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\q2 and all their alcoholic drinks will taste bitter.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 10 Towns and cities will be desolate;
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\q2 every house will be locked to prevent thieves from entering, for no one will live in them.
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\q1
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\v 11 Mobs will gather in the streets, wanting wine;
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\q2 no one on the earth will be happy anymore.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 12 Cities will be ruined,
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\q2 and all their gates will be battered into pieces.
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\q1
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\v 13 It will be like that all over the earth:
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\q2 there will only be a few people still alive,
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\q1 like what happens when workers beat all the olives off a tree and there are only a few left,
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\q2 or when they harvest the grapes and there are only a few left on the vines.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 14 Those in the west will sing with great happiness;
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\q2 they will declare that Yahweh is very great.
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\q1
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\v 15 Those in the east of Israel will also praise Yahweh;
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\q2 those along the coastlines of the sea will praise Yahweh, the God the people Israel worship.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 16 We will hear people in the most distant places on the earth singing praise to Yahweh, the truly righteous one.
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\q1 But now, I am very sad.
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\q2 Weep for me, because I have become thin and weak.
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\q1 Terrible things are happening!
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\q2 Treacherous people still betray others everywhere.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 17 You people all over the earth,
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\q2 you will be terrified,
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\q2 and you will fall into deep pits and traps.
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\q1
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\v 18 Those who try to flee because they are terrified
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\q2 will fall into deep pits,
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\q1 and those who climb out of the pits
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\q2 will be caught by traps.
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\q1 The sky will split open and torrents of rain will fall;
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\q2 the foundations of the earth will shake.
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\s5
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\v 19 The earth will split apart and be shattered;
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\q2 it will shake violently.
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\q1
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\v 20 It will be as though the earth will stagger like a drunk;
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\q2 it will shake like a hammock in a windstorm.
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\q1 It will collapse and not be able to rise again,
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\q2 because the guilt of the people who rebel against Yahweh is very great.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 21 At that time, Yahweh will punish the wicked powerful beings in the skies
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\q2 and the wicked kings on the earth.
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\q1
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\v 22 They will all be gathered together and thrown into a dungeon.
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\q2 They will be shut in that dungeon,
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\q1 and later they will be punished.
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\q1
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\v 23 At that time the light of the moon and the sun will be lessened;
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\q2 it will be as though they are ashamed in the presence of Yahweh,
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\q1 because he, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, will rule gloriously on Mount Zion,
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\q2 in the presence of all the leaders of his people.
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