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The LordGOD of hosts, The One who touches the land so that it melts, And all those who dwell in it mourn, And all of it rises up like the Nile And subsides like the Nile of Egypt;
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The One who builds His upperchambers in the heavens And has founded His vaulteddomeover the earth, He who calls for the waters of the sea And pours them out on the face of the earth, The LORD is His name.
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"Are you not as the sons of Ethiopia to Me, O sons of Israel?" declares the LORD. "Have I not brought up Israel from the land of Egypt, And the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?
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"Behold, the eyes of the LordGOD are on the sinfulkingdom, And I will destroy it from the face of the earth; Nevertheless*, I will not totallydestroy the house of Jacob," Declares the LORD.
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"For behold, I am commanding, And I will shake the house of Israel among allnations As grain is shaken in a sieve, But not a kernel will fall to the ground.