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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.”
2 Then, fourteen years after, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took with me Titus also.
2 And I went up by revelation and declared to them that Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles (but privately to those who were the chief, lest by any means I should run - or had run - in vain).
3 But not even Titus - who was with me, though he were a Grecian - was compelled to be circumcised,
4 This was because of the false brethren who were craftily sent in; and crept in privately to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into bondage.
5 But we gave them no place, not even for an hour, that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you.
6 But by those who seemed to be great, I was not taught (whatever they were in time past, I am nothing the better; God accepts no man’s person) For those who are the chief have added nothing to me above what I had.
7 But on the contrary, when they saw that the Gospel was committed to me over the uncircumcision, as the Gospel over the circumcision was to Peter:
8 (For he who was mighty by Peter in the Apostleship over the circumcision, was also mighty by me toward the Gentiles.)
9 And when James and Cephas and John knew of the grace that was given to me - who are counted as pillars - they gave to me and to Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that we should preach to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision,
10 warning only that we should remember the poor (which I was also diligent to do).
11 And when Peter had come to Antioch, I opposed him to his face. For he was to be condemned.
12 For before certain ones came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they had come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.
13 And the other Jews likewise played the hypocrites with him. So much so that Barnabas was led away with them by their hypocrisy.
14 But when I saw that they did not go the right way to the truth of the Gospel, I said to Peter before all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, why constrain the Gentiles to do like the Jews?
15 “We, who are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners,
16 “know that a man is not justified by the works of the Law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ. Even we, I say, have believed in Jesus Christ; that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the Law. Because, by the works of the Law, no flesh shall be justified.
59 O, my God, deliver me from my enemies. Defend me from those who rise up against me.
2 Deliver me from the wicked doers; and save me from the bloody men.
3 For lo, they have laid in wait for my soul. The mighty men have gathered against me, not for my offense, nor for my sin, O LORD.
4 Without fault on my part, they run and prepare themselves against me. Arise to assist me; and behold!
5 You, O LORD God of Hosts, O God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen. Do not be merciful to all who transgress maliciously. Selah.
6 They go to and fro in the evening. They bark like dogs and go about the city.
7 Behold, they brag in their talk, with swords in their lips (“For who hears?” they say).
8 But You, O LORD, shall hold them in derision. You shall laugh at all the heathen.
9 He is strong. I will wait upon You. For God is my Defense.
10 My merciful God will go before me. God will let me see my desire upon my enemies.
11 Do not kill them, lest my people forget it. But scatter them by Your power; and put them down, O LORD, our shield,
12 for the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips. And let them be taken in their pride, for their perjury and lies they speak.
13 Consume them in Your wrath. Consume them, so that they are no more; and let them know that God rules in Jacob unto the ends of the world. Selah.
14 And in the evening, they shall go to and fro and bark like dogs and go about the city.
15 They shall run here and there for food. Surely, they shall not be satisfied though they stay all night.
16 But I will sing of Your power and will praise Your mercy in the morning. For You have been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.
17 To You, O my Strength, I will sing. For God is my Defense, my merciful God. To him who excels upon Shushan Eduth, or Michtam: A Psalm of David, to teach, when he fought against Aram Naharaim, and against Aram Zobah; when Joab returned and slew twelve thousand Edomites in the salt valley
13 Do not withhold correction from the child. If you strike him with the rod, he shall not die.
14 You shall strike him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from Hell.
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