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Osija 10

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1 Izrailj je prazna loza vinova, ostavlja rod za se; što više roda ima, to više umnožava oltare; što mu je bolja zemlja, to više kiti likove.

2 Srce im je razdeljeno, zato su krivi; On će oboriti oltare njihove, polomiće likove njihove.

3 Jer sada govore: Nemamo cara; ne bojimo se Gospoda; i šta bi nam učinio car?

4 Govore reči kunući se lažno kad ugovaraju veru, i sud kao otrov raste u brazdama na njivi mojoj.

5 Za junice vet-avenske uplašiće se stanovnici samarijski; jer će za njima žaliti narod njihov, i sveštenici njihovi, koji im se radovahu, jer će slava njihova otići od njih.

6 I on će sam biti odveden u Asirsku na dar caru braniču; Jefrema će popasti stid, i Izrailj će se osramotiti namerom svojom.

7 Cara će samarijskog nestati kao pene povrh vode.

8 I oboriće se visine avenske, greh Izrailjev; trnje će i čkalj rasti po oltarima njihovim, i govoriće gorama: Pokrijte nas, i humovima: Padnite na nas.

9 Od vremena gavajskog grešio si, Izrailju; onde ostaše, ne stiže ih u Gavaji rat na bezakonike.

10 Po svojoj ću ih volji pokarati, i narodi će se skupiti na njih da ih zarobe za dvojako bezakonje njihovo.

11 Jefrem je junica naučena, koja rado vrše; ali ću joj doći na lepi vrat; upregnuću Jefrema, Juda će orati, Jakov će povlačiti.

12 Sejte pravdu, žećete milost; orite krčevinu, jer je vreme da tražite Gospoda, da bi došao i podaždio vam pravdom.

13 Oraste bezbožnost, žeste bezakonje, jedoste plod od laži; jer si se pouzdao u svoj put, u mnoštvo svojih junaka.

14 Zato će se podignuti vreva među tvojim narodom, i svi će se gradovi tvoji raskopati kao što Salman raskopa Vet-Arvel kad beše rat, majka bi razmrskana sa sinovima.

15 Tako će vam učiniti Vetilj za veliku zloću vašu; zorom će poginuti car Izrailjev.

   

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Scriptural Confirmations #75

  
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75. 4.

In that day I will visit, and make an end of the kingdom of Israel (Hosea 1:4-5).

The days of visitation will come, the days of retribution will come, He will visit their sins (Hosea 9:7, 9).

They shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us (Hosea 10:8).

They shall be laid waste as in the day of battle (Hosea 10:14).

The controversy of Jehovah with Judah, to visit upon Jacob, according to his ways, according to his doings will He recompense him (Hosea 12:3).

The day of Jehovah is great and very terrible, who then shall sustain it (Joel 2:11; 3:4).

A day of battle and a day of tempest (Amos 1:14).

Then the powerful one shall not deliver his soul, and the strong of heart among the heroes shall flee away naked in that day (Amos 2:14, 16).

He will visit upon them all their iniquities, in that day (Amos 3:2, 14).

If they dig into hell, if they ascend to the heavens or in the depth of the sea, etc., thence will I draw them out (Amos 9:2-6).

Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah; to what end is the day of Jehovah for you? it is a day of darkness and not of light. Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness and not light? and thick darkness and no brightness in it? (Amos 5:18, 20.)

The end is come upon my people Israel. Wherefore the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day: there shall be many a dead body (Amos 8:2-3).

It is called the day of destruction, the day of straitness (Obadiah 12-14, 18, 18).

The day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations; as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy retribution shall return upon thy head. But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness (Obadiah 14, 15, 17, 17).

  
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Joel 3:4

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4 "Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.