And give not Thy heritage to reproach,

That the nations should make them a byword:

Wherefore should they say among the peoples:

Where is their God?'

Then was the LORD jealous for His land,

And had pity on His people.

19 And the LORD answered and said unto His people:

'Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil,

And ye shall be satisfied therewith; And I will no more make you a reproach among the nations;

But I will remove far off from you the northern one,

And will drive him into a land barren and desolate,

With his face toward the eastern sea, And his hinder part toward the western sea;

That his foulness may come up, and

his ill savour may come up, Because he hath done great things.'

"Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice;

For the LORD hath done great things.

Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field; For the pastures of the wilderness do spring,

For the tree beareth its fruit, The fig-tree and the vine do yield their strength.

"Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice

In the LORD your God;

For He giveth you the former rain in just measure,

And He causeth to come down for you the rain,

The former rain and the latter rain, at the first.

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And that I am the LORD your God, and there is none else;

And My people shall never be ashamed.

And it shall come to pass afterward,

That I will pour out My spirit upon all flesh;

And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,

Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions; 2And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids

In those days will I pour out My spirit.

And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth,

Blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. "The sun shall be turned into darkness,

And the moon into blood,

Before the great and terrible day of

the LORD come.

"And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered;

For in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those that escape,

As the LORD hath said,

And among the remnant those whom the LORD shall call.

4 For, behold, in those days, and in that time,

When I shall bring back the cap

tivity of Judah and Jerusalem, "I will gather all nations,

And will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat;

And I will enter into judgment
with them there

For My people and for My heritage
Israel,

Whom they have scattered among the nations,

And divided My land.

And they have cast lots for My people;

And have given a boy for a harlot, And sold a girl for wine, and have drunk.

And also what are ye to Me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render retribution on My behalf? and if ye render retribution on My behalf, swiftly, speedily will I return your retribution upon your own head. "Forasmuch as ye have taken My silver and My gold, and have carried into your temples My goodly treasures; "the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the sons of the Jevanim, that ye might remove them far from their border; 'behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your retribution upon your own head; and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and

they shall sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off; for the LORD hath spoken.

"Proclaim ye this among the nations,

Prepare war;

Stir up the mighty men;

Let all the men of war draw near,
Let them come up.

10 Beat your plowshares into swords,
And your pruning-hooks into spears;
Let the weak say: 'I am strong.'
"Haste ye, and come, all ye nations
round about,

And gather yourselves together; Thither cause Thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD!

12 Let the nations be stirred up, and come up

To the valley of Jehoshaphat;
For there will I sit to judge
All the nations round about.
13 Put ye in the sickle,

For the harvest is ripe;
Come, tread ye,

For the winepress is full, the vats overflow;

For their wickedness is great.

AMOS

17So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God,

Dwelling in Zion My holy mountain;

Then shall Jerusalem be holy, And there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

18 And it shall come to pass in that day,

That the mountains shall drop down sweet wine,

And the hills shall flow with milk, And all the brooks of Judah shall flow with waters;

And a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD,

The LORD roareth from Zion,

And uttereth His voice from Jerusalem;

And the pastures of the shepherds shall mourn,

And the top of Carmel shall wither.

Thus saith the LORD:

For three transgressions of Damascus,

Yea, for four, I will not reverse it: Because they have threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.

4So will I send a fire into the house of Hazael,

And it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad;

5And I will break the bar of Damascus,

And cut off the inhabitant from Bikath-aven,

And him that holdeth the sceptre from Beth-eden;

And the people of Aram shall go into captivity unto Kir, Saith the LORD.

"Thus saith the LORD:

For three transgressions of Gaza, Yea, for four, I will not reverse it: Because they carried away captive a whole captivity,

To deliver them up to Edom. "So will I send a fire on the wall of Gaza,