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judged for gifts, and her priests gave answers for a price, and her prophets divined for silver, and they leaned upon the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord among us? No evil will come upon us. 2.3.8 Therefore, because of you, Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a lodge in a garden, and the mountain of the house into a grove of the forest. And it shall be in the last of days that the mountain of the Lord shall be manifest, prepared upon the tops of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and peoples shall hasten to it, and many nations shall go and say, Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord and to the house of the God of Jacob, and they will show us his way, and we will walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.” 2.3.9 28. From Zechariah. “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; proclaim, O daughter of Jerusalem. Behold, your king comes to you, just and saving, he is meek and mounted on a beast of burden and a young colt. And he will destroy the chariots from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem, and he will destroy the battle bow. And a multitude of peace from the nations, and he will rule from sea to sea, and from the rivers to the ends of the earth.” 2.3.10 29. From Malachi. “I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord Almighty, and I will not accept a sacrifice from your hands. For from the rising of the sun even to its setting my name has been glorified among the nations, and in every place incense is offered to my name, and a pure sacrifice. For my name is great among the nations, says the Lord Almighty, but you profane it.” 2.3.11 30. From Isaiah. “The daughter of Zion will be left like a booth in a vineyard, and like a lodge in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.” And next he adds: “How the faithful city, Zion, has become a prostitute, in which righteousness lodged, but now murderers?” 2.3.12 And in addition to these things: “For they shall be as a terebinth that has cast off its leaves, and as a garden that has no water. And their strength shall be as the tow of flax, and their works as sparks of fire, and the lawless and the sinners shall be burned up together, and there shall be none to quench it.” 2.3.13 To all these he adds: “And it shall be in the last days that the mountain of the Lord shall be manifest, and the house of God on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all the nations shall come to it. And many nations shall go and say, Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will announce to us his way, and we will walk in it. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem, and he will judge between the nations.” 2.3.14 31. From the same. “Thus says the Lord Sabaoth, and it shall be in the manner that if one should gather an ear of corn in a deep valley, and some stubble should be left in it, or as two or three olive berries on the top of the uppermost bough, or four or five be left on their branches. 2.3.15 Thus says the Lord the God of Israel: in that day a man will trust in the one who made him, and his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel; and they will not trust in the altars, nor in the works of their hands, which their fingers have made, and they will not look upon the trees, nor their abominations. In that day your cities shall be forsaken, in the manner that the Amorites and the Hivites forsook them from before the sons of Israel, 2.3.16 and they shall be desolate. Because you have forsaken God your savior, and you have not been mindful of the Lord your God. Therefore you shall plant a faithless plant; but in the day that you plant, you shall be led astray.” 2.3.17 32. From the same. “O Lord my God, I will glorify you, I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, an ancient, true counsel. May it be, Lord. For you have made cities into a heap, fortified cities, that their foundations should fall. The city of the ungodly shall never be built. Therefore the people will bless you, the

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δώρων ἔκρινον, καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖς αὐτῆς μετὰ μισθοῦ ἀπεκρίναντο, καὶ οἱ προφῆται αὐτῆς μετὰ ἀργυρίου ἐμαντεύοντο, καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν κύριον ἐπανεπαύοντο, λέγοντες, οὐχὶ κύριος μεθ' ἡμῶν ἐστιν; οὐ μὴ ἐπέλθῃ ἐφ' ἡμᾶς κακά. 2.3.8 διὰ τοῦτο δι' ὑμᾶς Σιὼν ὡς ἀγρὸς ἀροτριαθήσεται, καὶ Ἱερουσαλὴμ ὡς ὀπωροφυλάκιον ἔσται, καὶ τὸ ὄρος τοῦ οἴκου εἰς ἄλσος δρυμοῦ. καὶ ἔσται ἐπ' ἐσχάτου τῶν ἡμερῶν ἐμφανὲς τὸ ὄρος κυρίου, ἕτοιμον ἐπὶ τὰς κορυφὰς τῶν ὀρέων, καὶ μετεωρισθήσεται ὑπεράνω τῶν βουνῶν· καὶ σπεύσουσιν ἐπ' αὐτὸ λαοί, καὶ πορεύσονται ἔθνη πολλὰ καὶ ἐροῦσι, δεῦτε καὶ ἀναβῶμεν εἰς τὸ ὄρος κυρίου καὶ εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ θεοῦ Ἰακώβ, καὶ δείξουσιν ἡμῖν τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ, καὶ πορευσόμεθα ἐν ταῖς τρίβοις αὐτοῦ· ὅτι ἐκ Σιὼν ἐξελεύσεται νόμος, καὶ λόγος κυρίου ἐξ Ἱερουσαλήμ». 2.3.9 κηʹ. Ἀπὸ τοῦ Ζαχαρίου. «Χαῖρε σφόδρα, θύγατερ Σιών, κήρυσσε, θύγατερ Ἱερουσαλήμ, ἰδοὺ ὁ βασιλεύς σου ἔρχεταί σοι δίκαιος καὶ σώζων, αὐτὸς πρᾶος καὶ ἐπιβεβηκὼς ἐπὶ ὑποζύγιον καὶ πῶλον νέον, καὶ ἐξολοθρεύσει ἅρματα ἐξ Ἐφραῒμ καὶ ἵππον ἐξ Ἱερουσαλήμ, καὶ ἐξολοθρεύσει τόξον πολεμικόν· καὶ πλῆθος εἰρήνης ἐξ ἐθνῶν, καὶ κατάρξει ἀπὸ θαλάσσης ἕως θαλάσσης, καὶ ἀπὸ ποταμῶν δι' ἐκβολῶν γῆς». 2.3.10 κθʹ. Ἀπὸ τοῦ Μαλαχίου. «Οὐκ ἔστι μου θέλημα ἐν ὑμῖν, λέγει κύριος παντοκράτωρ, καὶ θυσίαν οὐ προσδέξομαι ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν ὑμῶν. διότι ἀπ' ἀνατολῶν ἡλίου καὶ μέχρι δυσμῶν τὸ ὄνομά μου δεδόξασται ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσι, καὶ ἐν παντὶ τόπῳ θυμίαμα προσάγεται τῷ ὀνόματί μου, καὶ θυσία καθαρά. διότι μέγα τὸ ὄνομά μου ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, λέγει κύριος παντοκράτωρ, ὑμεῖς δὲ βεβηλοῦτε αὐτό». 2.3.11 λʹ. Ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἡσαΐου. «Ἐγκαταλειφθήσεται ἡ θυγάτηρ Σιὼν ὡςσκηνὴ ἐν ἀμπελῶνι, καὶ ὡς ὀπωροφυλάκιον ἐν σικυηράτῳ, ὡς πόλις πολιορκουμένη». καὶ ἑξῆς ἐπιλέγει· «πῶς ἐγένετο πόρνη πόλις πιστὴ Σιών, ἐν ᾗ δικαιοσύνη ἐκοιμήθη ἐν αὐτῇ, νῦν δὲ φονευταί»; 2.3.12 καὶ ἐπὶ τούτοις· «ἔσονται γὰρ ὡς τερέβινθος ἀποβεβληκυῖα τὰ φύλλα, καὶ ὡς παράδεισος ὕδωρ μὴ ἔχων. καὶ ἔσται ἡ ἰσχὺς αὐτῶν ὡς καλάμη στιππύου, καὶ αἱ ἐργασίαι αὐτῶν ὡς σπινθῆρες πυρός, καὶ κατακαυθήσονται οἱ ἄνομοι, καὶ οἱ ἁμαρτωλοὶ ἅμα, καὶ οὐκ ἔσται ὁ σβέσων». 2.3.13 τούτοις ἅπασιν ἐπιλέγει· «καὶ ἔσται ἐν ταῖς ἐσχάταις ἡμέραις ἐμφανὲς τὸ ὄρος κυρίου, καὶ ὁ οἶκος τοῦ θεοῦ ἐπ' ἄκρων τῶν ὀρέων, καὶ ὑψωθήσεται ὑπεράνω τῶν βουνῶν, καὶ ἥξουσιν ἐπ' αὐτὸ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη· καὶ πορεύσονται ἔθνη πολλὰ καὶ ἐροῦσιν, δεῦτε καὶ ἀναβῶμεν εἰς τὸ ὄρος τοῦ κυρίου καὶ εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ θεοῦ Ἰακώβ, καὶ ἀναγγελεῖ ἡμῖν τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ, καὶ πορευσόμεθα ἐν αὐτῇ. ἐκ γὰρ Σιὼν ἐξελεύσεται νόμος, καὶ λόγος κυρίου ἐξ Ἱερουσαλήμ, καὶ κρινεῖ ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν ἐθνῶν». 2.3.14 λαʹ. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ. «Τάδε λέγει κύριος Σαβαώθ, καὶ ἔσται ὃν τρόπον ἐάν τις συναγάγῃ στάχυν ἐν φάραγγι στερεᾷ, καὶ καταλειφθῇ ἐν αὐτῇ καλάμη, ἢ ὡς ῥῶγες ἐλαίας δύο ἢ τρεῖς ἐπ' ἄκρου μετεώρων, ἢ τέσσαρες ἢ πέντε ἐπὶ τῶν κλάδων αὐτῶν καταλειφθῇ. 2.3.15 τάδε λέγει κύριος ὁ θεὸς τοῦ Ἰσραήλ· τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ πεποιθὼς ἔσται ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἐπὶ τῷ ποιήσαντι αὐτόν, οἱ δὲ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸν ἅγιον τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ ἐμβλέψονται· καὶ οὐ μὴ πεποιθότες ὦσιν ἐπὶ τοῖς βωμοῖς, οὔτε ἐπὶ τοῖς ἔργοις τῶν χειρῶν αὐτῶν, ἃ ἐποίησαν οἱ δάκτυλοι αὐτῶν, καὶ οὐκ ὄψονται τὰ δένδρα, οὔτε τὰ βδελύγματα αὐτῶν. τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἔσονται αἱ πόλεις σου ἐγκαταλελειμμέναι, ὃν τρόπον ἐγκατέλιπον οἱ Ἀμορραῖοι καὶ οἱ Εὐαῖοι ἀπὸ προσώπου τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ, 2.3.16 καὶ ἔσονται ἔρημοι· διότι ἐγκατέλιπες τὸν θεὸν τὸν σωτῆρά σου, καὶ κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ σου οὐκ ἐμνήσθης. διὰ τοῦτο φυτεύσεις φύτευμα ἄπιστον· τῇ δὲ ἡμέρᾳ ᾗ ἂν φυτεύσῃς, πλανηθήσῃ». 2.3.17 λβʹ. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ. «Κύριε ὁ θεός μου δοξάσω σε, ὑμνήσω τὸ ὄνομά σου, ὅτι ἐποίησας θαυμαστὰ πράγματα, βουλὴν ἀρχαίαν, ἀληθινήν. γένοιτο κύριε. ὅτι ἔθηκας πόλεις εἰς χῶμα, πόλεις ὀχυρὰς τοῦ πεσεῖν αὐτῶν τὰ θεμέλια. τῶν ἀσεβῶν πόλις εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα οὐ μὴ οἰκοδομηθῇ. διὰ τοῦτο εὐλογήσει σε ὁ λαὸς ὁ