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Job 5:5

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Hungry people ate all his crops.\par Those hungry people took even\par the grain growing among the thorns.\par Greedy people took all they had.\par

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So the Lord brought commanders from the king of Assyria’s army to attack Judah. Those commanders captured Manasseh and made him their prisoner. They put hooks in him and brass chains on his hands and took him to the country of Babylon.

The Sabean people {\cf2\super [3]} attacked us and took your animals! Those people killed the other servants. I am the only person that escaped. So I came to tell you the news!”

While that messenger was still speaking, another messenger came. This third messenger said, “The Chaldeans sent three groups of soldiers. They attacked us and took the camels! They killed the servants. I am the only person that escaped. So I came to tell you the news!”

But robbers’ tents are not bothered.\par People who make God angry live in peace,\par and their own strength\par is their only god!\par

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you seen my servant Job? There is no person on earth like Job. Job is a good and faithful man. He worships God and refuses to do evil things. He still is faithful, even though you asked me to let you destroy everything he has for no reason.”

The evil man has swallowed riches.\par But he will vomit them out.\par God will make the evil person\par vomit them out.\par

While the evil person has plenty,\par he will become pressed down with trouble.\par His problems will come down on him!\par

That is why traps are all around you,\par and sudden trouble makes you afraid.\par

Let the people my enemy owes money to\par take everything he owns.\par Let strangers take everything he worked for.\par

The Lord made a promise.\par The Lord used his own power as proof.\par And the Lord will use his power\par to keep that promise.\par

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, destroyed us in the past.\par In the past, Nebuchadnezzar hurt us.\par In the past, he took our people away,\par and we became like an empty jar.\par He took the best we had.\par He was like a giant monster\par that ate everything until it was full.\par He took the best we had\par and threw us away.\par

I will punish the false god Bel {\cf2\super [428]} in Babylon.\par I will make him vomit out the people\par that he swallowed.\par The wall around Babylon will fall.\par And other nations will stop coming\par to Babylon.\par

All your enemies laugh at you.\par They whistle and grind their teeth at you.\par They say,\par “We have swallowed them up!\par This is truly the day we were hoping for.\par We have finally seen this happen.”\par

The Lord has become like an enemy.\par He has swallowed up Israel.\par He has swallowed up all her palaces.\par He has swallowed up all her fortresses.\par He has made much sadness\par and crying for the dead\par in the Daughter of Judah. {\cf2\super [12]} \par

The Israelites \{did a foolish thing\}—it was like trying to plant the wind. But \{they will get only troubles\}—they will harvest a whirlwind. The grain in the fields will grow. It will give no food. Even if it grew something, strangers would eat it.

“A nation that you don’t know will take all your crops and all the things you worked for. People will treat you badly and abuse you.

They will take your animals and the food you grow. They will take everything until they destroy you. They will not leave you any grain, wine, oil, cows, sheep or goats. They will take everything, until they destroy you.

At that time, the Angel of the Lord came to a man named Gideon. The Angel of the Lord came and sat down under an oak tree at a place called Ophrah. This oak tree belonged to a man named Joash. Joash was from the Abiezer family. Joash was the father of Gideon. Gideon was beating some wheat [51] in a winepress. [52] The Angel of the Lord sat down near Gideon. Gideon was hiding so the Midianites could not see the wheat.




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