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14 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and cause them to rest in their own land. And the stranger shall join himself to them. And they shall cling to the House of Jacob.
2 And the people shall receive them and bring them to their own place. And the House of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD, for servants and handmaids. And they shall take them prisoners, whose captives they were, and rule over their oppressors.
3 And on that day when the LORD shall give you rest from your sorrow and from your fear and from the sore bondage in which you served,
4 then you shall take up this Proverb against the king of Babel, and say, “How has the oppressor ceased and the gold-thirsty rested?
5 “The LORD has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,
6 “who struck the people in anger with a continual plague, ruled the nations in wrath, persecuted and were not hindered.
7 “The whole world is at rest and is quiet. They sing for joy.
8 Also, the fir trees rejoiced in You, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you were put down, no hewer came up against us.”
9 “Hell beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming, raising up the dead for you, all the princes of the Earth, and has raised from their thrones all the kings of the Nations.
10 “All they shall cry and say to you, ‘Have you become as weak as us? Have you become like us?
11 ‘Your pomp is brought down to the grave and the sound of the strings. The worm is spread under you. And the worms cover you.’
12 “How have you fallen from Heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning, cut down to the ground which casts lots upon the Nations?
13 “Yet you said in your heart, ‘I will ascend into Heaven and exalt my throne above beside the stars of God. I will also sit upon the Mount of the Congregation, on the sides of the North.
14 ‘I will ascend above the height of the clouds. I will be like the Most High.’
15 “But you shall be brought down to the grave, to the side of the pit.
16 “Those who see you shall look upon you and consider you, saying, ‘Is this the man who made the Earth tremble, that shook the kingdoms?
17 ‘He made the world as a wilderness, destroyed its cities and did not open the house of his prisoners.’
18 “All the kings of the Nations, they all sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.
19 “But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, the clothing of those who are killed, thrust through with a sword, which go down to the stones of the pit as a carcass trodden under foot.
20 “You shall not be joined with them in the grave because you have destroyed your own land, killed your people. The seed of the wicked shall not be renowned forever.
21 “Prepare a slaughter for his children, for the iniquity of their fathers. Let them not rise up or possess the land, or fill the face of the world with enemies.
22 “For I will rise up against them,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and will cut off the name and the remnant and the son and the nephew from Babel,” says the LORD.
23 “And I will make it a possession to the hedgehog, and pools of waste. And I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the LORD of Hosts.
24 The LORD of Hosts has sworn, saying, “Surely, just as I have purposed, so shall it come to pass. And as I have consulted, it shall stand:
25 “That I will break Assyria to pieces in My land. And upon My mountains I will tread him under Foot. So that his yoke shall depart from them, and his burden shall be taken from off their shoulder.
26 “This is the counsel that is consulted upon the whole world, and this is the hand stretched out over all the Nations,
27 “because the LORD of Hosts has determined. And who shall annul? His Hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?”
28 In the year that King Ahaz died, was this burden.
29 “Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia, because the rod of him who beat you is broken. For out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a viper, and its fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
30 “For the firstborn of the poor shall be fed, and the needy shall lie down in safety. And I will kill your root with famine. And it shall kill your remnant.
31 “Howl, O gate! Cry, O city! All of Philistia is dissolved! For a smoke shall come from the north. And no one shall be alone at his appointed time.”
32 What, then, shall one answer the messengers of the Gentiles: that the LORD has established Zion, and the poor of His people shall trust in it.
15 The burden of Moab. Surely, Ar of Moab was destroyed, brought to silence in a night. Surely, Kir of Moab was destroyed, brought to silence in a night.
2 He shall go up to the Temple, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. For Nebo and for Medeba shall Moab howl. Upon all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard shall be shaven.
3 In their streets, they shall be girded with sackcloth. On the tops of their houses, and in their streets, everyone shall howl and come down with weeping.
4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh. Their voice shall be heard to Jahaz. Therefore, the warriors of Moab shall shout. The soul of everyone shall lament in himself.
5 “My heart shall cry for Moab. Its fugitives shall flee to Zoar, as a heifer of three years old. For they shall go up with weeping by the mounting up of Luhith. And by the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
6 “For the waters of Nimrim shall be dried up. Therefore, the grass is withered, the herbs consumed. There was no green herb.
7 “Therefore, what has been left, and their substance, they shall bear to the brook of the willows.
8 “For the cry went all around about the borders of Moab, its howling to Eglaim, and its shrieking to Beer Elim,
9 “Because the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood. For I will bring more upon Dimon, even lions, upon him who escapes from Moab, and to the remnant of the land.”
16 Send a lamb to the ruler of the world from the rock of the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter Zion.
2 For it shall be as a bird that flies, and a nest forsaken. The daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
3 “Gather a counsel, execute judgment, make your shadow as the night in the midday. Hide those who are chased out. Do not betray him who has fled.
4 “Let My banished dwell with you. Moab, be their shelter from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner shall end. The destroyer shall be consumed, the oppressor shall cease from the land.
5 “And in mercy shall the throne be prepared. And He shall sit upon it in steadfastness, in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hastening justice.”
6 We have heard of the pride of Moab (he is very proud), its pride and its arrogance and its indignation. But not so its lies.
7 Therefore, Moab shall howl to Moab. Everyone shall howl. For the foundations of Kir Hareseth you shall mourn. Yet they shall be stricken.
8 For the vineyards of Heshbon are cut down, the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the heathen have broken its principal vines. Branches stretched themselves out and went over the sea.
9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer, and of the vine of Sibmah, O Heshbon! And Elealeh, I will make you drunk with my tears, because upon your summer fruits, and upon your harvest, a shouting has fallen.
10 And gladness is taken away, and joy, out of the plentiful field. And in the vineyards shall be no singing or shouting for joy. The treader shall not tread wine in the wine presses. I have caused the rejoicing to cease.
11 Therefore, my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my core for Kir Heres.
12 And when it shall appear that Moab shall be weary of its high places, then shall it come to its temple to pray, but it shall not prevail.
13 This is the Word that the LORD has spoken against Moab since that time.
14 And now the LORD has spoken, saying, “In three years (as the years of a hireling) the glory of Moab shall be despised in all the great multitude. And the remnant shall be very small and feeble.”
17 The burden of Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, for it shall be a ruinous heap.
2 “The cities of Aroer shall be forsaken. They shall be for the flocks. For they shall lie there, and no one shall make them afraid.
3 “The fortification also shall cease from Ephraim and the kingdom from Damascus. And the remnant of Aram shall be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says the LORD of Hosts.
4 “And on that day the glory of Jacob shall be made clean.
5 “And it shall be as when the harvester gathers the corn, and reaps the ears with his arm. And he shall be as him who gathers the ears in the Valley of Rephaim.
6 “Still, a gathering of grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the upmost boughs, four or five in the high branches of its fruit,” says the LORD God of Israel.
7 At that day, a man shall look to his Maker. And his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the works of his own hands. Nor shall he look to those things which his own fingers have made, as groves and images.
9 On that day shall the cities of their strength be as forsaken boughs and branches, which were forsaken because of the children of Israel. And there shall be desolation.
10 Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the God of your strength, therefore you shall plant pleasant plants and shall graft strange vine branches.
11 In the day, you shall make your plant grow. And in the morning, you shall make your seed flourish. But the harvest shall be gone on the day of sickness, with desperate sorrow.
12 Ah, the multitude of many people! They shall make a sound like the noise of the sea. For the noise of the people shall make a sound like the noise of mighty waters.
13 The people shall make a sound like the noise of many waters. But God shall rebuke them. And they shall flee far away and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and as a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And lo, in the evening, there is trouble. But before morning, it is gone. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.
18 Oh, the land, shadowed with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
2 sending ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of reeds upon the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation that is scattered abroad and plundered, to a revered people from their beginning onward, a subjugator nation whose land the rivers have spoiled!”
3 All you inhabitants of the world and dwellers in the Earth shall see when He sets up a sign in the mountains. And when He blows the trumpet, you shall hear.
4 For so the LORD said to me, “I will rest and behold in My Tabernacle, as the heat drying up the rain, as a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5 For before the harvest, when the sprout is finished and the grape is ripening in the bud, then he shall cut down the branches with hooks, and shall take away and cut off the branches.
6 They shall be left together for the birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the Earth. For the bird shall summer upon it and every beast of the Earth shall winter upon it.
7 At that time, a present shall be brought to the LORD of Hosts (a people who is scattered abroad and plundered, and from a revered people, from their beginning onward, a subjugator nation whose land the rivers have spoiled) to the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts: Mount Zion.
19 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt. And the idols of Egypt shall be moved at His presence. And the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 “And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians. So everyone shall fight against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.
3 “And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it. And I will destroy their counsel. And they shall seek the idols, and the sorcerers, and those who have spirits of divination, and the soothsayers.
4 “And I will deliver the Egyptians into the hand of the cruel lords. And a mighty king shall rule over them,” says the LORD God of Hosts.
5 Then the waters of the sea shall fail. And the river shall be dried up and wasted.
6 And the rivers shall go far away. The rivers of defense shall be emptied and dried up. The reeds and flags shall be cut down.
7 The grass in the river, at the head of the rivers and all that grows by the river, shall wither, be driven away and be no more.
8 Also, the fishers shall mourn. And all those who cast hooks into the river shall lament. And those who spread their net upon the waters shall be weakened.
9 Moreover, those who work in flax of diverse sorts shall be confounded, and those who weave nets.
10 For their nets shall be broken. And all those who make ponds shall be heavy in heart.
11 Surely, the princes of Zoan are fools. The counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh has become foolish. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise?”, “I am the son of the ancient kings?”
12 Where are the wise men now, that they may tell you or may know what the LORD of Hosts has determined against Egypt?
13 The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Noph are deceived. They have deceived Egypt, the cornerstones of its tribes.
14 The LORD has mingled among them the spirits of error. And they have caused Egypt to err in every work, as a drunken man errs in his vomit.
15 Nor shall there be any work in Egypt which the head may do, or the tail, the branch, or the rush.
16 On that day, Egypt shall be like women. For it shall be afraid and fear because of the moving of the Hand of the LORD of Hosts, which He shakes over it.
17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror to Egypt. Everyone who mentions it shall be afraid of it, because of the counsel of the LORD of Hosts which He has determined upon it.
18 On that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and shall swear by the LORD of Hosts. One shall be called the City of Destruction.
19 On that day shall the Altar of the LORD be in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a Pillar to the LORD by its border.
20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of Hosts in the land of Egypt. For they shall cry to the LORD, because of the oppressors. And He shall send them a Savior, a Mighty One, and shall deliver them.
21 And the LORD shall be known to the Egyptians. And the Egyptians shall know the LORD on that day, and serve sacrifice and oblation, and shall vow vows to the LORD, and perform them.
22 So the LORD shall strike Egypt. He shall strike and heal it. For it shall return to the LORD. And He shall be entreated by them and shall heal them.
23 On that day there shall be a path from Egypt to Assyria. And Assyria shall come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria. So the Egyptians shall worship with Assyria.
24 On that day shall Israel be the third, with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the land.
25 For the LORD of Hosts shall bless it, saying, “Blessed be My people, Egypt and Assyria, the work of My hands, and Israel, My inheritance.”
20 In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, (when Sargon, king of Assyria, sent him) and had fought against Ashdod and taken it,
2 at the same time, the LORD spoke by the hand of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loose the sackcloth from your loins. And take off your shoe from your foot.” And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
3 And the LORD said, “Just as my servant, Isaiah, has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and wonder upon Egypt and Ethiopia,
4 “so shall the king of Assyria take away the captivity of Egypt, and the captivity of Ethiopia, young men and old men, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
5 “And they shall fear and be ashamed of Ethiopia (their expectation) and of Egypt (their glory).
6 “Then shall the inhabitants of this isle say on that day, ‘Behold, such is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And how shall we be delivered?’”
21 The burden of the Desert Sea. As the whirlwinds in the South used to pass from the wilderness, so shall it come from the horrible land.
2 A grievous vision was shown to me: “The treacherous deal treacherously and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam. Besiege Media. I have caused all its mourning to cease.”
3 Therefore, my loins are filled with sorrow. Sorrows have taken me, as the sorrows of a woman in childbirth. I was bowed down when I heard it. I was amazed when I saw it.
4 My heart failed. Fearfulness troubled me. He has turned the night of my pleasures into fear for me.
5 Prepare the table. Watch in the watchtower. Eat. Drink. Arise, you princes. Anoint the shield.
6 For thus has the LORD said to me, “Go. Set a watchman to tell what he sees.”
7 And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a chariot of a donkey and a chariot of a camel. And he listened and took great care.
8 And he cried like a lion, “My lord! I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime. And I am set in my watch every night!
9 “And behold, this man’s chariot comes with two horsemen.” And he answered and said, “Babel has fallen! It has fallen! And He has broken all the images of its gods to the ground!”
10 O, my threshing, and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, I have shown to you.
11 The burden of Dumah. It calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what was in the night? Watchman, what was in the night?”
12 The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will, (as he) inquire. Return and come!”
13 The burden against Arabia. In the forest of Arabia you shall stay the night, you caravans of Dedanites.
14 O inhabitants of the land of Tema, bring forth water to meet the thirsty. Meet him who flees with bread.
15 For they flee from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
16 For thus has the LORD said to me, “Within a year (according to the years of a hireling), all the glory of Kedar shall fail.
17 “And the residue of the number of the strong archers of the sons of Kedar shall be few. For the LORD God of Israel has spoken it.”
22 The burden of the Valley of Vision. What ails you now, that you have wholly gone up to the housetops?
2 You who are full of noise, a city full of brutes, a joyous city. Your slain men shall not be slain with sword, nor die in battle.
3 All your princes shall flee together from the bow. They shall be bound. All who shall be found in you, who have fled from far, shall be bound together.
4 Therefore I said, “Turn away from me. I will weep bitterly. Do not try to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
5 “For it is a day of trouble, and of ruin, and of perplexity—by the LORD God of Hosts, in the Valley of Vision, breaking down the city—and of crying to the mountains.”
6 And Elam bore the quiver in a man’s chariot with horsemen. And Kir uncovered the shield.
7 And your chief valleys were full of chariots. And the horsemen set themselves in array against the gate.
8 And he uncovered the covering of Judah. And on that day, you looked to the armor of the house of the forest.
9 And you have seen the breaches of the City of David. For they were many. And you gathered the waters of the lower pool.
10 And you numbered the houses of Jerusalem. And you have broken down the houses to fortify the wall,
11 and have also made a ditch between the two walls for the waters of the old pool, and have not looked to its Maker, nor had respect to Him Who formed it of old.
12 And on that day, the LORD God of Hosts called for weeping and mourning and for baldness and girding with sackcloth.
13 and behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine, eating and drinking. For tomorrow, we shall die.
14 And it was declared in the Ears of the LORD of Hosts. “Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you, till you die,” says the LORD God of Hosts.
15 Thus says the LORD God of Hosts: “Go! Get to that steward, to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,
16 “What do you have here and whom do you have here that you should carve yourself out a sepulcher here, as he who carves out his sepulcher in a high place, or that chisels a habitation for himself in a rock?
17 “Behold, the LORD will carry you away. The mighty man will surely cover you.
18 “He will surely roll and turn you, like a ball in a large country. There you shall die. And there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your lord’s house.
19 “So I will drive you from your station. And out of your dwelling will he destroy you.
20 “And on that day, I will call My servant, Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah.
21 “And with your garments I will clothe him. And with your belt I will strengthen him. Your power I will also commit into his hand. And he shall be a father of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the House of Judah.
22 “And I will lay the key of the House of David upon his shoulder. So he shall open, and no man shall shut. And he shall shut, and no man shall open.
23 “And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place. And he shall be the throne of glory for his father’s House.
24 “And they shall hang all the glory of his father’s House upon him, of the nephews and posterity, and all small vessels, from the vessels of the cups to all the instruments of music.
25 “On that day,” says the LORD of Hosts, “shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place depart and shall be broken and fall. And the burden that was upon it shall be cut off. For the LORD has spoken it.”
23 The burden of Tyre. Howl you ships of Tarshish! The land of Kittim, it is revealed to them.
2 Be still, you who dwell in the isles. The merchants of Sidon, such as pass over the sea, have replenished you.
3 The seed of Nile, by the abundance of waters, the harvest of the river was her revenue and she was a marketplace of the nations.
4 Be ashamed, you Sidon! For the sea has spoken, the strength of the sea, saying, “I have neither labored, nor brought forth children, nor nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.”
5 When the fame comes to the Egyptians, they shall be sorry concerning the rumor of Tyre.
6 Go over to Tarshish. Howl, you who dwell in the isles!
7 Is not this your glorious city, her antiquity of ancient days? Her own feet shall lead her far away to be a sojourner.
8 Who has decreed this against Tyre, who crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the nobles of the world?
9 The LORD of Hosts has decreed this to stain the pride of all glory and to bring to contempt all those who are glorious on the Earth.
10 Pass through your land like a stream, O daughter of Tarshish! There is no more strength.
11 He stretched out His Hand upon the sea. He shook the kingdoms. The LORD has given a Commandment concerning the place of merchandise, to destroy its power.
12 And He said, “No more shall you rejoice, O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon! Rise up. Go out to Kittim. Even there you shall have no rest.”
13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans. This was no people. Assyria founded it by the inhabitants of the wilderness. They set up its towers. They raised its palaces. And He brought it to ruin.
14 Howl you ships of Tarshish! For your strength is destroyed!
15 And on that day, Tyre shall be forgotten for seventy years (according to the years of one king). At the end of seventy years, Tyre shall sing as a harlot,
16 “Take a harp and go around the city, you harlot who has been forgotten. Make sweet melody, sing more songs, so that you may be remembered.”
17 And at the end of seventy years, the LORD shall visit Tyre. And it shall return to its wages and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the Earth in the world.
18 Yet, her profit and her wages shall be holy to the LORD. They shall not be laid up or kept in storage. But her merchandise shall be for those who dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently and to have durable clothing.
24 Behold, the LORD lays waste to the Earth and makes it empty. He turns it upside down and scatters abroad its inhabitants.
2 And as with people, so it shall be with priest; as with servant, so with master; as with maid, so with mistress; as with buyer, so with seller; as with lender, so with borrower; as with creditor, so with debtor.
3 The Earth shall be completely emptied and utterly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this Word.
4 The Earth laments and fades away. The world languishes and withers. The proud people of the Earth are weakened.
5 The Earth also deceives, because of its inhabitants. For they transgressed the Laws. They changed the Ordinances, broke the everlasting Covenant.
6 Therefore, the curse has devoured the Earth, and its inhabitants are desolate. Therefore, the inhabitants of the land are burned up. And few men are left.
7 The wine fails. The vine has no might. All who were of merry heart, mourn.
8 The rejoicing of tambourines ends. The noise of those who rejoice stops. The joy of the harp ceases.
9 They shall not drink wine with joy. Strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.
10 The city of vanity has broken down. Every house is shut up, so that no one may come in.
11 There is a crying for wine in the streets. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the world has gone away.
12 In the cities, desolation is left. And the gate is stricken with destruction.
13 Surely, thus it shall be in the midst of the Earth, among the people, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the grapes when the vintage has ended.
14 They shall lift up their voice. They shall shout for the magnificence of the LORD. They shall rejoice from the sea.
15 Therefore, praise the LORD in the valleys, the Name of the LORD God of Israel, in the isles of the sea.
16 From the outermost part of the Earth we have heard praises, glory to the just. And I said, “My leanness! My leanness! Woe to me! The transgressors have offended. Yea, the transgressors have grievously offended.”
17 Fear and the pit and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the Earth!
18 And he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit. And he who comes up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For the windows from on high are open. And the foundations of the Earth shake.
19 The Earth has utterly broken down. The Earth has completely dissolved. The Earth has moved exceedingly.
20 The Earth shall reel to and fro like a drunken man, and shall be removed like a tent. And its iniquity shall be heavy upon it, so that it shall fall and rise no more.
21 And on that day, the LORD shall visit the host above that is on high, the kings of the world that are upon the Earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together as the prisoners in the pit. And they shall be shut up in the prison. And after many days, they shall be visited.
23 Then the Moon shall be ashamed, and the Sun, when the LORD of Hosts shall reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem. And glory shall be before His ancient men.
25 O LORD, You are my God! I will exalt You. I will praise Your Name. For You have done wonderful things, ancient counsel, with firm faithfulness!
2 For You have made a heap of a city, a ruin of a strong city, a fortress of strangers to be no city. It shall never be built.
3 Therefore, the mighty people shall give glory to You. The city of the strong nations shall fear You.
4 For You have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his trouble, a refuge from the storm, a shade in the heat. For the blast of the mighty is like a hard rain against the wall.
5 You shall bring down the noise of the strangers, as the heat in a dry place. He will bring down the song of the mighty, as the heat with the shade of a cloud.
6 And on this mountain shall the LORD of Hosts make a feast of fat things for all people, a feast of refined wines, of fat things full of marrow, of refined and purified wines.
7 And on this mountain, He will destroy the covering that covers all people, and the veil that is spread upon all nations.
8 He will destroy death forever. And the LORD God will wipe away the tears from all faces. And He will take away the rebuke of His people out of all the Earth. For the LORD has spoken it.
9 And on that day men shall say, “Lo, this is our God! We have waited for Him, and He will save us! This is the LORD! We have waited for Him! We will rejoice and be joyful in salvation!”
10 For on this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest. And Moab shall be threshed under Him, as straw is threshed in Madmenah.
11 And He shall stretch out His hand in the midst of them, as he who swims stretches out to swim. And with the strength of His hands He shall bring down their pride.
12 Also, He shall bring down the defense of the height of your walls and lay them low, cast them to the ground, into the dust.
26 On that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city, God shall set salvation for walls and bulwarks.
2 “Open the gates so that the righteous nation, which keeps the truth, may enter in.
3 “By an assured purpose will You preserve perfect peace, because they trusted in You.
4 “Trust in the LORD forever, For in the LORD God is strength forevermore.
5 “For He will bring down those who dwell on high, The high city He will lay low, He will cast it down to the ground and bring it to dust.
6 “The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.
7 “The way of the just is righteousness, You will make equal the righteous path of the just.
8 “Also, we, O LORD, have waited for You in the way of Your judgments. The desire of our soul is to Your Name and to the remembrance of You.
9 “With my soul have I desired You in the night. And with my spirit within me will I seek You in the morning. For seeing Your judgments on the Earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn righteousness.
10 “Let mercy be shown to the wicked, he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness, he will do wickedly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11 “O LORD, they will not behold Your high Hand. They shall see it and be confounded with the zeal of the people. And the fire of Your enemies shall devour them.
12 “LORD, to us You will ordain peace. For You also have wrought all our works for us.
13 “O LORD our God, lords besides You have ruled us. We will remember You only, Your Name.
14 “The dead shall not live, nor shall the dead arise, because You have visited and scattered them, and destroyed all their memory.
15 “You have increased the nation, O LORD. You have increased the nation. You are made glorious, You have enlarged all the territories of the Earth.
16 “LORD, in trouble have they visited You. They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.
17 “Like a woman with child who draws near to the birth is in sorrow and cries in her pains, so have we been in Your sight, O LORD.
18 “We have conceived, we have born in pain, as though we should have brought forth wind. There was no help on the Earth, nor did the inhabitants of the world fall.
19 “Your dead men shall live, with my body shall they rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust. For your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the Earth shall cast out the dead.
20 “Come, my people, enter into your chambers and shut your doors after you. Hide yourself for a very little while, until the indignation passes over.
21 “For lo, the LORD comes out of His place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the Earth upon them. And the Earth shall disclose her blood, and shall hide her slain no more.”
27 On that day, the LORD, with His severe and great and mighty sword shall visit Leviathan, that piercing serpent, even Leviathan, that crooked serpent. And He shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
2 “On that day, sing of the vineyard of red wine!
3 “I, the LORD, keep it. I will water it every moment, lest anyone hurt it. I will keep it night and day.
4 “Anger is not in Me. Who would set the briers and the thorns against Me in battle? I would go through them. I would burn them, together.
5 “Or will he feel My strength, so that he may make peace with Me, be at one with Me?”
6 Hereafter, Jacob shall take root. Israel shall flourish and grow. And the world shall be filled with fruit.
7 Has he struck him, as he struck those who struck him? Or is he killed according to the slaughter of those who were killed by him?
8 In measure, when it stretches forth, you will contend with it. He blows, with his rough wind, on the day of the east wind.
9 By this, therefore, shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged. And this is all the fruit, the taking away of his sin, when he shall make all the stones of the altars as chalk stones broken in pieces. The groves and images shall not stand up.
10 Yet, the defensed city shall be desolate, the habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness. There shall the calf feed. And there shall he lie and consume its branches.
11 When the boughs of it are dry, they shall be broken. The women come and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore, He Who made them shall not have compassion on them. And He Who formed them shall have no mercy on them.
12 And on that day shall the LORD thresh from the channel of the river to the river of Egypt. And you shall be gathered, one by one, O children of Israel.
13 Also on that day shall the great trumpet be blown. And those who perished in the land of Assyria shall come, and those who were chased into the land of Egypt. And they shall worship the LORD on the Holy Mount at Jerusalem.
28 Woe to the crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim. For his glorious beauty shall be as a fading flower upon the head of the valley of fatness to those who are overcome with wine.
2 Behold, the LORD has a mighty and strong one, like a tempest of hail, a whirlwind that overthrows, like a tempest of mighty waters that overflow, which throw to the ground mightily.
3 They shall be trampled underfoot: the crown, the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim.
4 For his glorious beauty shall be as a fading flower upon the head of the valley of fatness, as the first fruits before Summer. When one has looked upon it, he sees it. And while it is in his hand, he eats it.
5 On that day, shall the LORD of Hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, to the residue of His people,
6 and for a spirit of judgment to him who sits in judgment, and for strength to those who turn away the battle at the gate.
7 But they have erred because of wine and are out of the way due to strong drink. The priest and the prophet have erred by strong drink. They are swallowed up with wine. They have gone astray through strong drink. They fail in vision. They stumble in judgment.
8 For all their tables are full of filthy vomiting. No place is clean.
9 To whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom shall he make understand the things that he hears? Those who are weaned from the milk drawn from the breasts.
10 For “precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”
11 For with a stammering tongue and with a strange language he shall speak to this people,
12 to whom He said, “This is the rest: give rest to him who is weary.” And, “This is the refreshing.” But they would not hear.
13 Therefore shall the Word of the LORD be to them “precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line unto line, line unto line, here a little, there a little”, so that they may go and fall backward and be broken and be snared and be taken.
14 Therefore, hear the Word of the LORD, you scornful men who rule this people who are at Jerusalem,
15 because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Hell are we in agreement. Though a scourge run over and pass through, it shall not come at us, for we have made falsehood our refuge, and under vanity are we hidden.”
16 Therefore, thus says the LORD God: “Behold, I will lay a stone in Zion, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation. He who believes shall not hurry.
17 “I will also lay judgment to the rule, and righteousness to the balance. And the hail shall sweep away the vain confidence. And the waters shall overflow the secret place.
18 “And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand. When a scourge shall run over and pass through, then shall you be trampled down by it.
19 “When it passes over, it shall take you away. For it shall pass through every morning, in the day and in the night. And there shall be only fear to make you understand the hearing.”
20 For the bed is so short that it cannot suffice, and the covering so narrow that one cannot wrap himself.
21 For the LORD shall stand, as on Mount Perazim. He shall be angry, as in the Valley of Gibeon, so that He may do His work (His strange work) and bring to pass His act (His strange act).
22 Now, therefore, do not be mockers, lest your bonds increase. For I have heard the LORD of Hosts has determined a consumption upon the whole Earth.
23 Listen and hear my voice! Listen and hear my speech!
24 Does the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he open and break the clots of his ground?
25 When he has made it level, will he not then sow the black cumin, and sow cumin, and cast in wheat by measure, and the appointed barley and rye in their place?
26 For his God instructs him to have discretion, teaches him.
27 For black cumin shall not be threshed with a threshing instrument, nor shall a cartwheel be turned upon the cumin. But the black cumin is beaten out with a staff, and cumin with a rod.
28 Bread (when it is threshed) he does not always thresh, nor does the wheel of his cart make a noise, nor will he break it with its teeth.
29 This also comes from the LORD of Hosts, Who is wonderful in counsel, excellent in works.
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