But<n id="1" /> extend your hand and strike<n id="2" /> everything he has, and he will no doubt<n id="3" /> curse you<n id="4" /> to your face!&#8221;p>

But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh,<n id="1" /> and he will no doubt<n id="2" /> curse you to your face!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">For this reason every one of your faithful followers<n id="1" /> should pray to youp> <p class="poetry">while there is a window of opportunity.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Certainly<n id="3" /> when the surging water<n id="4" /> rises,p> <p class="poetry">it will not reach them.<n id="5" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Those who accumulate houses are as good as dead,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">those who also accumulate landed property<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">until there is no land left,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and you are the only landowners remaining within the land.<n id="4" />p>

It will spill into Judah, flooding and engulfing, as it reaches to the necks of its victims. He will spread his wings out over your entire land,<n id="1" /> O Immanuel.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> knocks down those who live in a high place,p> <p class="poetry">he brings down an elevated town;p> <p class="poetry">he brings it down to the ground,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he throws it down to the dust.p>

<p class="poetry">Leave! Leave! Get out of there!p> <p class="poetry">Don&#8217;t touch anything unclean!p> <p class="poetry">Get out of it!p> <p class="poetry">Stay pure, you who carry the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s holy items!<n id="1" />p>

Then the <sc>Lordsc> reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, &#8220;I will most assuredly give you the words you are to speak for me.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">In response to all this<n id="1" /> I said, &#8220;Ah, Lord <sc>Godsc>,<n id="2" /> you have surely allowed<n id="3" /> the people of Judah and Jerusalem<n id="4" /> to be deceived by those who say, &#8216;You will be safe!&#8217;<n id="5" /> But in fact a sword is already at our throats.&#8221;<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;The way you have lived and the things you have done<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">will bring this on you.p> <p class="poetry">This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Foreigners living there will say,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;We tried to heal her, but she could not be healed.p> <p class="poetry">Let&#8217;s leave Babylonia<n id="2" /> and each go back to his own country.p> <p class="poetry">For judgment on her will be vast in its proportions.p> <p class="poetry">It will be like it is piled up to heaven, stacked up into the clouds.&#8217;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1505; (<i>Sameki>)p> <p class="poetry">People cry to them, &#8220;Turn away! You are unclean!p> <p class="poetry">Turn away! Turn away! Don&#8217;t touch us!&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">So they have fled and wander about;p> <p class="poetry">but the nations say,<n id="1" /> &#8220;They may not stay here any longer.&#8221;p>

The time has come; the day has struck! The customer should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for divine wrath<n id="1" /> comes against their whole crowd.

I will break down the wall you coated with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. When it falls you will be destroyed beneath it,<n id="1" /> and you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="poetry">Consider! It is planted, but will it prosper?p> <p class="poetry">Will it not wither completely when the east wind blows on it?p> <p class="poetry">Will it not wither in the soil where it sprouted?&#8217;&#8221;p>

yes, while I was still praying,<n id="1" /> the man Gabriel, whom I had seen previously<n id="2" /> in a vision, was approaching me in my state of extreme weariness,<n id="3" /> around the time of the evening offering.

<p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies will do this.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He touches the earth and it dissolves;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">all who live on it mourn.p> <p class="poetry">The whole earth<n id="3" /> rises like the River Nile,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and then grows calm<n id="5" /> like the Nile in Egypt.<n id="6" />p>

When the news<n id="1" /> reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes.

<p class="poetry">For Samaria&#8217;s<n id="1" /> disease<n id="2" /> is incurable.p> <p class="poetry">It has infected<n id="3" /> Judah;p> <p class="poetry">it has spread to<n id="4" /> the leadership<n id="5" /> of my peoplep> <p class="poetry">and has even contaminated Jerusalem!<n id="6" />p>

Then Haggai asked, &#8220;If a person who is ritually unclean because of touching a dead body<n id="1" /> comes in contact with one of these items, will it become unclean?&#8221; The priests answered, &#8220;It will be unclean.&#8221;p>