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The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change [them into] cedars (9:10) Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; (9:11) The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still (9:12) For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts (9:13) Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day (9:14) The ancient and honourable, he [is] the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he [is] the tail (9:15) For the leaders of this people cause [them] to err; and [they that are] led of them [are] destroyed (9:16) Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one [is] an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still (9:17) For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up [like] the lifting up of smoke (9:18) Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother (9:19) And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm: (9:20) Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: [and] they together [shall be] against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still
(9:21)
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