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Arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

For thus hath the Lord said unto me,
Go, set a watchman,

Let him declare what he seeth.

And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen,
A chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels;
And he hearkened diligently with much heed:
And he cried, A lion:

My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime,

And I am set in my ward whole nights:

And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen.

And he answered and said,

Babylon is fallen, is fallen;

And all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

O my threshing, and the corn of my floor:

That which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,

Have I declared unto you.

The burden of Dumah.

HE calleth to me out of Seir,

Watchman, what of the night?
Watchman, what of the night?

The watchman said,

The morning cometh, and also the night:

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The burden upon Arabia.

In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge,
O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.

The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty,

They prevented with their bread him that fled. For they fled from the swords,

From the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, And from the grievousness of war.

For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years ling,

And all the glory of Kedar shall fail:

of an hire

And the residue of the number of archers,

The mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished:

For the Lord God of Israel hath spoken it.

THE burden of the valley of vision.

WHAT aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone

up to the housetops?

Thou that art full of stirs,

A tumultuous city, a joyous city:

Thy slain men are not slain with the sword,

Nor dead in battle.

All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers:

All that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.

Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly,

Labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity

By the Lord God of hosts in the valley of vision, Breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.

And Elam bare the quiver

With chariots of men and horsemen,

And Kir uncovered the shield.

And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots,

And the horsemen shall set themselves in array

the gate.

And he discovered the covering of Judah,

And thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.

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Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many:

And ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem,

And the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.

Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool:

But ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, Neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.

And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning,

And to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: And behold joy and gladness,

Slaying oxen, and killing sheep,

Eating flesh, and drinking wine:

Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. And it was revealed in mine ears by the Lord of hosts,

Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you

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Thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Go, get

thee unto

this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,

WHA

HAT hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, That thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, As he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high,

And that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?

Behold, the Lord will

captivity,

carry thee away with a mighty

And will surely cover thee.

He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a

ball

Into a large country:

There shalt thou die,

And there the chariots of thy glory
Shall be the shame of thy lord's house.

And I will drive thee from thy station,

And from thy state shall he pull thee down.
And it shall come to pass in that day,

That I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

And I will clothe him with thy robe,

And strengthen him with thy girdle,

And I will commit thy government into his hand :

And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

And to the house of Judah.

And the key of the house of David will I lay upon

his shoulder;

So he shall open, and none shall shut;

And he shall shut, and none shall open.

And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place;

And he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.

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