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| 3:1 |
Ah, soiled, defiled, oppressing city!
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| 3:2 |
It has listened to no voice; it has accepted no correction. It has not trusted in the LORD; it has not drawn near to its God.
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| 3:3 |
The officials within it are roaring lions; its judges are evening wolves that leave nothing until the morning.
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| 3:4 |
Its prophets are reckless, faithless persons; its priests have profaned what is sacred, they have done violence to the law.
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| 3:5 |
The LORD within it is righteous; he does no wrong. Every morning he renders his judgment, each dawn without fail; but the unjust knows no shame.
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| 3:6 |
I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without people, without inhabitants.
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| 3:7 |
I said, "Surely the city will fear me, it will accept correction; it will not lose sight of all that I have brought upon it." But they were the more eager to make all their deeds corrupt.
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| 3:8 |
Therefore wait for me, says the LORD, for the day when I arise as a witness. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all the heat of my anger; for in the fire of my passion all the earth shall be consumed.
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| 3:9 |
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| 3:10 |
From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, my scattered ones, shall bring my offering.
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| 3:11 |
On that day you shall not be put to shame because of all the deeds by which you have rebelled against me; for then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty in my holy mountain.
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| 3:12 |
For I will leave in the midst of you a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the LORD--
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| 3:13 |
the remnant of Israel; they shall do no wrong and utter no lies, nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouths. Then they will pasture and lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.
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| 3:14 |
Sing aloud, O daughter Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem!
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| 3:15 |
The LORD has taken away the judgments against you, he has turned away your enemies. The king of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; you shall fear disaster no more.
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| 3:16 |
On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: Do not fear, O Zion; do not let your hands grow weak.
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| 3:17 |
The LORD, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing
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| 3:18 |
as on a day of festival. I will remove disaster from you, so that you will not bear reproach for it.
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| 3:19 |
I will deal with all your oppressors at that time. And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth.
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| 3:20 |
At that time I will bring you home, at the time when I gather you; for I will make you renowned and praised among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says the LORD.
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