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Proclamation Against Syria and Israel

¹The ⚓burden against Damascus.
“Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city,
And it will be a ruinous heap.
²The cities of ⚓Aroer are forsaken;
They will be for flocks
Which lie down, and ⚓no one will make them afraid.
³⚓The fortress also will cease from Ephraim,
The kingdom from Damascus,
And the remnant of Syria;
They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
⁴“In that day it shall come to pass
That the glory of Jacob will wane,
And ⚓the fatness of his flesh grow lean.
⁵⚓It shall be as when the harvester gathers the grain,
And reaps the heads with his arm;
It shall be as he who gathers heads of grain
In the Valley of Rephaim.
⁶⚓Yet gleaning grapes will be left in it,
Like the shaking of an olive tree,
Two or three olives at the top of the uppermost bough,
Four or five in its most fruitful branches,”
Says the Lord God of Israel.
⁷In that day a man will ⚓look to his Maker,
And his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
⁸He will not look to the altars,
The work of his hands;
He will not respect what his ⚓fingers have made,
Nor the wooden images nor the incense altars.
⁹In that day his strong cities will be as a forsaken bough
And an uppermost branch,
Which they left because of the children of Israel;
And there will be desolation.
¹⁰Because you have forgotten ⚓the God of your salvation,
And have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold,
Therefore you will plant pleasant plants
And set out foreign seedlings;
¹¹In the day you will make your plant to grow,
And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish;
But the harvest will be a heap of ruins
In the day of grief and desperate sorrow.
¹²Woe to the multitude of many people
Who make a noise ⚓like the roar of the seas,
And to the rushing of nations
That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
¹³The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters;
But God will ⚓rebuke them and they will flee far away,
And ⚓be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
¹⁴Then behold, at eventide, trouble!
And before the morning, he is no more.
This is the portion of those who plunder us,
And the lot of those who rob us.

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Tej lug kws has txug Ntamaxaka

¹Tej lug kws has txug lub nroog Ntamaxaka.
“Saib maj, Ntamaxaka yuav tsw tau ua lub nroog lawm
yuav pob taag ua tej nam pawg ca.
²Alau‑aw tej moos yuav nyob do cuas ca moog ib txhws,
yuav ua chaw rua yaaj rua tshws nyob hab pw,
tsw muaj leejtwg yuav ua rua tej tsaj hov ntshai.
³Tej chaw ruaj khov huv Efa‑i yuav pluj taag,
hab tej fwjchim kws kaav tebchaws
yuav pluj taag huv Ntamaxaka moog.
Hab cov Alaa kws tseed tshuav nyob
yuav zoo ib yaam le cov Yixayee kws poob koob meej.”
Yawmsaub kws muaj fwjchim luj kawg nkaus
has le nuav ntaag.

Txav txem rua cov Yixayee

⁴“Txug nub hov Yakhauj lub meej mom yuav poob qeg
hab nwg lub cev kws rog yuav ntxaug.
⁵Yuav zoo yaam nkaus le thaus tug hlais qoob
moog sau tej teg qoob kws muab tsaa ca
hab nwg txhais teg nruam tej naab mog,
hab zoo yaam le thaus ib tug xawb tej naab qeb
huv haav Lefa‑i.
⁶Yuav tshuav ib txha nyob huv,
ib yaam nkaus le thaus ntaus tsob txwv aulib zeeg
mas tseed tshuav ob peb lub nyob sau ntsws ceg,
lossws tshuav plaub tswb lub nyob sau tej ceg ntoo.”
Yawmsaub kws yog Yixayee tug Vaajtswv has le nuav ntaag.

⁷Nub hov tej tuabneeg yuav muab tsua sau sab rua tug kws tswm puab, hab puab yuav tsaa qhov muag saib ntsoov tug Dawb Huv huv cov Yixayee. ⁸Puab yuav tsw quav ntsej tej thaaj teev daab kws puab txhais teg ua, hab puab yuav tsw saib ntsoov tej kws puab xuas ntiv teg ua, tsw has tej ncej daab Asela lossws tej thaaj hlawv moov xyaab.
⁹Nub hov puab tej moos kws muaj ntsaa loog ruaj khov yuav zoo yaam nkaus le cov Hivai hab cov Amaulai tej chaw kws nyob do cuas ca, yog tej chaw kws puab muab tso tseg vem cov tuabneeg Yixayee. Tsuas yog muaj nyob do cuas ca xwb.

¹⁰Mej nov qaab Vaajtswv kws cawm mej dim
hab tsw ncu ntsoov txhwb zeb kws yog mej lub chaw cawm sav.
Txawm yog mej cog qoob loos zoo
hab cog tej ceg ntoo kws teev lwm haiv tuabneeg le daab,
¹¹txawm yog nub kws mej cog mej ua kuas tuaj hab hlub,
hab ua kuas tawg paaj rua taagkig kws mej tseb,
los tej ntawd yuav tswv taag mej tsw tau sau,
tsuas muaj nub kws lwj sab hab muaj mob khu tsw tau xwb.
¹²Muaj suab nrov ntsug qeeg ntawm ntau haiv tuabneeg tuaj,
puab tej suab nrov vig voog yaam le havtxwv ndaas.
Muaj suab nyooj luj lawg huv tej tebchaws tuaj,
puab tej suab nyooj luj lawg nrov yaam le dej ntsawj.
¹³Tej tebchaws nyooj luj lawg yaam nkaus le dej ntsawj nrov,
tassws Yawmsaub yuav txwv mas puab yuav tswv moog deb,
hab yuav raug muab lawv yaam le tej npluag
kws cua ntsawj yaa sau tej roob
hab yaam le tej cua daaj cua dub ntsawj tej quav nyaab.⚓
¹⁴Saib maj, thaus tsaus ntuj kuj muaj kev ntshai kawg le.
Tsw tau kaaj ntug tub tsw muaj puab taag lawm.
Cov tuabneeg kws txeeb peb tej hov txhua chaw
hab cov kws lws peb yuav raug tej xwm txheej nuav.