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10 “Woe to those who decree wicked decrees and write grievous things,
2 “to keep back the poor from judgment and to take away the judgment of the poor of My people. So that widows may be their prey and that they may spoil the fatherless.
3 “What will you do now, on the day of visitation, and of destruction, which shall come from afar? To whom will you flee for help and where will you leave your glory?
4 “Without Me, everyone shall fall among those who are bound. And they shall fall down among the slain. Yet for all this, His wrath is not turned away. But His Hand is stretched out still.
5 “O Assyria, the rod of My wrath! And the staff in their hands is My indignation!
6 “I will send him to a profane nation. And I will give him a charge against the people of My wrath, to take the spoil and to take the prey and to tread them under feet like the mire in the street.
7 “But he does not think so, nor does his heart think so. But he imagines to destroy and to cut off not a few nations.
8 “For he says, ‘Are not my princes all kings?
9 ‘Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus,
10 ‘just as my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols (seeing their idols were above Jerusalem and above Samaria).’
11 “Shall not I, as I have done to Samaria and to its idols, so do to Jerusalem and to its idols?
12 “But when the LORD has accomplished all His work upon Mount Zion and Jerusalem, I will visit the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria and his glorious and proud looks.
13 “Because he said, ‘By the power of my own hand I have done it, and by my wisdom. Because I am wise.’ “Therefore I have removed the borders of the people, and have spoiled their treasures, and have pulled down the inhabitants like a valiant man.
14 “And My Hand has found the riches of the people as a nest. And as one who gathers leftover eggs, have I gathered all the Earth. And there was no one to move the wing or to open the mouth or to whisper.
15 “Shall the axe boast itself against him who hews with it? Or shall the saw exalt itself against him who moves it? As if the rod could wield itself against him who raises it, or the staff could lift itself up as if it were not wood?
16 “Therefore, the LORD God of Hosts shall send among His fat men leanness. And under His Glory, He shall kindle a burning, like the burning of fire.
17 “And the light of Israel shall be as a fire, and the Holy One thereof as a flame. And it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day
18 “and shall consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful fields, both soul and flesh. And he shall be as the fainting of a standard bearer.
19 “And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may record them.”
20 And at that day shall the remnant of Israel, and such as have escaped from the House of Jacob, lean no more upon him who struck them, but shall lean upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant shall return (the remnant of Jacob) to the Mighty God.
22 For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, the remnant of them shall return. The decreed destruction shall overflow with righteousness.
23 For the LORD God of Hosts shall make the determined destruction in the midst of all the land.
24 Therefore, thus says the LORD God of Hosts: “O My people, who dwell in Zion. Do not be afraid of Assyria. He shall strike you with a rod and shall lift up his staff against you, just as Egypt did.
25 “But yet a very little time and the wrath shall be consumed, and My anger, in their destruction.”
26 And the LORD of Hosts shall raise up a scourge for him, according to the plague of Midian, in the rock Oreb. And as his staff was upon the sea, so he will lift it up as in Egypt.
27 And at that day shall his burden be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck. And the yoke shall be destroyed, because of the anointing.
28 He has come to Aiath. He has passed into Migron. At Michmash he shall lay up his armor.
29 They have gone over the pass. They stayed in the lodging at Geba. Ramah is afraid. Gibeah of Saul has fled away.
30 Lift up your voice, O daughter Gallim! Cause Laish to hear, O poor Anathoth!
31 Madmenah is removed! The inhabitants of Gebim have gathered themselves together.
32 Yet there is a time that he will stay at Nob. He shall lift up his hand toward the Mount of the daughter Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the LORD God of Hosts shall cut off the bough with terror. And they of high stature shall be cut off. And the high shall be humbled.
34 And He shall cut away the thick places of the forest with iron. And Lebanon shall have a mighty fall.
11 But there shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse. And a Branch shall grow out of his roots.
2 And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him—the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the LORD—
3 and shall make Him prudent in the fear of the LORD. For He shall not judge after the sight of His eyes, nor rebuke by the hearing of His ears.
4 But with righteousness, He shall judge the lowly. And with equality, He shall rebuke for the poor of the Earth. And He shall strike the Earth with the rod of His Mouth. And with the Breath of His Lips shall He slay the wicked.
5 And justice shall be the belt of His loins, and faithfulness the belt of His reins.
6 The wolf, also, shall dwell with the lamb. And the leopard shall lie with the kid and the calf and the lion and the fat beast, together. And a little child shall lead them.
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed. Their young ones shall lie together. And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play upon the hole of the asp. And the weaned child shall put his hand upon the viper’s hole.
9 Then shall no one hurt or destroy in all the mountain of My Holiness. For the Earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters that cover the sea.
10 And on that day the Root of Jesse which shall stand up for a sign to the people, the nations shall seek It. And His rest shall be glorious.
11 And on the same day the LORD shall stretch out His Hand again a second time, to possess the remnant of His people who shall be left: of Assyria and of Egypt and of Pathros and of Ethiopia and of Elam and of Shinar and of Hamath and of the isles of the sea.
12 And He shall set up a sign to the Nations, and assemble the dispersed of Israel, and gather the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the world.
13 The hatred, also, of Ephraim shall depart. And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off. Ephraim shall not envy Judah, nor shall Judah trouble Ephraim.
14 But they shall flee upon the shoulders of the Philistines, toward the West. They shall spoil those of the East together. They shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab and hear the children of Ammon.
15 The LORD, also, shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian’s sea. And with His mighty wind He shall lift up His Hand over the river, and shall strike him in seven streams, and cause men to walk with shoes.
16 And there shall be a path to the remnant of His people who are left in Assyria, like it was to Israel on the day that He came up out of the land of Egypt.
11 I have become a fool in boasting. You have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you. For in nothing was I inferior to the very chief Apostles, though I am nothing.
12 Indeed, the signs of an Apostle were worked out among you with all patience; with signs and wonders and great works.
13 For in what have you been inferior to other churches, except that I myself have not been burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.
14 Behold, I am ready to come to you this third time. And yet I will not be burdensome to you. For I seek not what is yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the fathers, but the fathers for the children.
15 And I will most gladly spend, and will be spent, for your souls; though, the more I love you, the less I am loved.
16 But let it be that I do not burden you. Yet for as much as I was crafty, I took you with guile.
17 Did I defraud you by any of those whom I sent to you?
18 I have urged Titus to go. And with him I have sent a brother. Did Titus defraud you of anything? Have we not walked in the selfsame spirit, in the same steps?
19 Again, do you think that we defend ourselves to you? We speak before God, in Christ. But we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
20 For I fear that when I come, I shall not find you as I would like - and that I shall not be found by you as you would like - and that there is strife, envying, wrath, rivalry, slander, gossip, pride, and discord;
21 that when I come again, my God humbles me among you. And I shall lament many of those who have sinned already and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lewdness which they have committed.
56 Be merciful to me, O God; for man desires to swallow me up. He fights continually and troubles me.
2 My enemies would swallow me up daily; for many fight against me, O You Most High.
3 When I was afraid, I trusted in You.
4 I will rejoice in God because of His Word. I trust in God and will not fear what flesh can do to me.
5 My own words grieve me daily. All their thoughts are against me, to do me hurt.
6 They gather together and keep themselves close. They mark my steps because they wait for my soul.
7 They think they shall escape by iniquity. O God, cast these people down in Your anger.
8 You have counted my wanderings. Put my tears into Your bottle. Are they not in Your register?
9 When I cry, then my enemies shall turn back. This I know; for God is with me.
10 I will rejoice in God because of His Word. I will rejoice in the LORD because of His Word.
11 In God do I trust. I will not be afraid what man can do to me.
12 Your vows are upon me, O God. I will render praises to You.
13 For You have delivered my soul from death—and also my feet from falling—so that I may walk before God in the light of the living. To him who excels: Do not destroy. A Psalm of David, on Michtam, when he fled from Saul in the cave
6 Do not eat the bread of him who has an evil eye; nor desire his delicacies.
7 For as he thinks in his heart, so he is. He will say to you, “Eat and drink.” But his heart is not with you.
8 You shall vomit your morsel that you have eaten, and you shall lose your sweet words.
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