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so deaf to the divine voice, when the prophets that served thee bade us follow thy law! (Daniel 9, 10)
and if yonder unexampled punishment befell Jerusalem, it was but a threat fulfilled; warning we had of it, we and the princes that governed us. (Daniel 9, 12)
what wonder if bane, not blessing, the divine regard brought us? Be our punishment what it will, not ours to find fault with the God we have disobeyed. (Daniel 9, 14)
When first the divine voice made itself heard through Osee, this was the command given him: Wanton wed thou, wantons breed thou; in a wanton land thou dwellest, that keeps troth with its Lord never. (Hosea 1, 2)
Alas for Ephraim, in the hour of punishment left forlorn! Mine to teach Israel’s tribes a lesson of faithfulness. (Hosea 5, 9)
All is vain promise and making of treaties; never a furrow in your land but shall yield the bitter fruit of punishment.✻ (Hosea 10, 4)
Here is Ephraim boasting that he has grown rich, has found a false god to worship; will not these earnings of mine, thinks he, buy me out from the punishment I have deserved?✻ (Hosea 12, 8)
Thronging, thronging they come, in yonder valley to try their destiny, appointed trysting-place of a divine audit; (Joel 3, 14)
Roars lion, who but will tremble? Comes the divine warning, who but will prophesy?✻ (Amos 3, 8)
you would not come back to me, when ruin threatened, swift as the divine stroke that ruined Sodom and Gomorrha, and you yourselves were like a brand saved from the burning. (Amos 4, 11)
By my divine power I swear it, says the Lord God of hosts, pride of yours shall weary me, great houses of yours shall offend my sight, no longer; city and citizens, I will leave you at the enemy’s mercy. (Amos 6, 8)
Here, then, is the divine doom pronounced on thee: Wife of thine, here in the city streets, shall be dishonoured; sons and daughters of thine shall die at the sword’s point; lands of thine shall feel the measuring-rope. And for thyself, on unhallowed soil death awaits thee, when Israel is banished, as banished it needs must be, from the land of its birth. (Amos 7, 17)
