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And their women with child shall be ripped up.

²Return, O Israel, unto the Lord thy God;

For thou hast stumbled in thine iniquity.

³Take with you words,

And return unto the Lord;

Say unto Him: 'Forgive all iniquity,

And accept that which is good;

So will we render for bullocks the offering of our lips.

⁴Asshur shall not save us;

We will not ride upon horses;

Neither will we call any more the work of our hands our gods;

For in Thee the fatherless findeth mercy.'

⁵I will heal their backsliding,

I will love them freely;

For Mine anger is turned away from him.

⁶I will be as the dew unto Israel;

He shall blossom as the lily,

And cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

⁷His branches shall spread,

And his beauty shall be as the olive-tree,

And his fragrance as Lebanon.

⁸They that dwell under his shadow shall again

Make corn to grow,

And shall blossom as the vine;

The scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

⁹Ephraim [shall say]:

'What have I to do any more with idols?'

As for Me, I respond and look on him;

I am like a leafy cypress-tree;

From Me is thy fruit found.

 

¹⁰Whoso is wise, let him understand these things,

Whoso is prudent, let him know them.

For the ways of the Lord are right,

And the just do walk in them;

But transgressors do stumble therein.

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JOEL

1The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

 

²Hear this, ye old men,

And give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land.

Hath this been in your days,

Or in the days of your fathers?

³Tell ye your children of it,

And let your children tell their children,

And their children another generation.

⁴That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten;

And that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten;

And that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.

⁵Awake, ye drunkards, and weep,

And wail, all ye drinkers of wine,

Because of the sweet wine,

For it is cut off from your mouth.

⁶For a people is come up upon my land,

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