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Prophecy 75,102,148;
Deuteronomy 32:1-52;
Hosea 14:1-9;
Joel 2:15-27;

Hosea 14:1-9

1 O Israel, return to YAHUVEH your Elohim, for you have fallen by your sin.
2 Take words with you and return to YAHUVEH. Say to Him, Lift up all iniquity and receive us well, that we may repay with the calves of our lips.
3 Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses. We shall not say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods! For in You the fatherless finds mercy. (Hos 1:6, 10)
4 I will heal their backslidings; I will love them freely; for MY anger has turned away from him. (Jer 31:31-34)
5 I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall blossom as the lily and cast out his roots like Lebanon.
6 His branches shall go out, and his beauty shall be like the olive tree, and his scent as Lebanon to him.
7 They who live under his shadow shall return; they shall live like the grain, and blossom like the vine; their memorial shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
8 Ephraim shall say, What is it to me any more with idols? I answered him, and I surveyed him. I am as a green cypress tree; your fruit is found from Me. (Jer 16:19, Eze 17:23)
9 Who is wise and discerns these things? Who is discerning and knows them? For the ways of YAHUVEH are right, and the righteous shall walk in them; but transgressors shall stumble in them.

Joel 2:15-27

15 Blow a shofar in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly.
16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, gather the elders, gather the children, and those who suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her bridal chamber.
17 Let the priests, ministers of YAHUVEH, weep between the porch and the altar; and let them say, Have pity on Your people, O YAHUVEH, and do not give Your inheritance to shame, for a proverb among those of the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their Elohim?
18 Then YAHUVEH will be jealous for His land and have pity on His people.
19 Yea, YAHUVEH will answer and say to His people, Behold, I will send you grain, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied with it. And I will no more make you a disgrace among the nations.
20 But I will remove the northern army far from you, and I will drive him into a dry and desolated land with his face toward the eastern sea, and his rear toward the western sea. And his stench shall come up, and his ill odor shall come up, because he was doing great things.
21 Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice, for YAHUVEH is doing great things.
22 Fear not, beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness grow green, for the tree bears its fruit, the fig tree and the vine give their strength.
23 Then be glad, sons of Zion, and rejoice in YAHUVEH your Elohim. For He has given to you the early rain according to righteousness, and He will cause the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain in the first month.
24 And the floors shall be full with grain, and the wine vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
25 And I will restore to you the years which the swarming locust has eaten, the locust larvae, and the stripping locust, and the cutting locust, MY great army which I sent among you.
26 And you shall eat fully and be satisfied; and you shall praise the name of YAHUVEH your Elohim, who has dealt wondrously with you. And MY people shall not be ashamed forever.
27 And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am YAHUVEH your Elohim, and there is no other. And MY people shall not be ashamed forever.