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For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!
Seek the LORD, and ye
shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and
devour it, and there be none to
quench it in
Bethel.
Seek the LORD and live, or He will
sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will
devour everything, with no one at
Bethel to
extinguish it.
That strengtheneth the
spoiled against the strong, so that the
spoiled shall come against the fortress.
Forasmuch therefore as your
treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of
hewn stone, but ye
shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye
shall not drink wine of them.
Therefore, because you
trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the
lush vineyards you have planted.
Therefore the
prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Therefore, the
prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.
Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be
wailing in all the public squares and
cries of ‘
Alas!
Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to
mourn, and the mourners to
wail.
And in all vineyards
shall be
wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.
There will be
wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even
gloom with no brightness in it?
Therefore now
shall they go
captive with the first that go
captive, and the
banquet of them that stretched themselves
shall be removed.
Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the
captives, and your feasting and
lounging will come to an end.
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die.
And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.
And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is
anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will
retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be
invoked.”
Shall horses run upon the rock? will one
plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into
hemlock:
“Do horses
gallop on the cliffs? Does one
plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into
wormwood—
But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they
shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.
For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will
oppress you from Lebo-
hamath to the
Brook of the Arabah.”
And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD,
forgive, I
beseech thee: by whom
shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please
forgive! How will Jacob
survive, since he is so small?”
The LORD
repented for this: It
shall not be, saith the LORD.
So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.
Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I
beseech thee: by whom
shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob
survive, since he is so small?”
The LORD
repented for this: This also
shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.
And the high places of Isaac
shall be
desolate, and the
sanctuaries of Israel
shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of
Jeroboam with the sword.
The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the
sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of
Jeroboam with My sword.”
For thus
Amos saith,
Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel
shall surely be led away
captive out of their own land.
for this is what
Amos has said: ‘
Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife
shall be an
harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters
shall fall by the sword, and thy land
shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a
polluted land: and Israel
shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a
prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you
yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to
wailing. Many will be the corpses,
strewn in silence everywhere!”
Shall not the land
tremble for this, and every one
mourn that dwelleth therein? and it
shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it
shall be cast out and
drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
Will not the land
quake for this, and all its dwellers
mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will
surge and then
subside like the Nile in Egypt.
And it
shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at
noon, and I will
darken the earth in the clear day:
And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at
noon, and I will
darken the earth in the
daytime.
And they
shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they
shall run to and
fro to seek the word of the LORD, and
shall not find it.
People will
stagger from sea to sea and
roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.
In that day
shall the fair virgins and young men
faint for
thirst.
In that day the lovely young women— the young men as well— will
faint from
thirst.
They that
swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O
Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-
sheba liveth; even they
shall fall, and never rise up again.
Those who
swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O
Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of
Beersheba lives’— they will fall, never to rise again.”
I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said,
Smite the
lintel of the door, that the posts may
shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will
slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them
shall not
flee away, and he that escapeth of them
shall not be delivered.
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds
shake.
Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who
flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.
Though they
dig into
hell, thence
shall mine hand take them; though they
climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
Though they
dig down to
Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they
climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.
And though they hide themselves in the top of
Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be
hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he
shall bite them:
Though they hide themselves
atop Carmel, there I will
track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to
bite them.
And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it
shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
Though they are driven by their enemies into captivity, there I will command the sword to
slay them. I will fix My eyes upon them for
harm and not for good.”
And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it
shall melt, and all that dwell therein
shall mourn: and it
shall rise up wholly like a flood; and
shall be
drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers
mourn— all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—
For, lo, I will command, and I will
sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is
sifted in a
sieve, yet
shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
“For surely I will give the command, and I will
shake the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is
sifted in a
sieve; but not a
pebble will reach the ground.
All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
All the sinners among My people will die by the sword— all those who say, ‘
Disaster will never draw near or
confront us.’”
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the
plowman shall overtake the
reaper, and the
treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains
shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills
shall melt.
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the
plowman will overtake the
reaper and the
treader of grapes, the
sower of seed. The mountains will
drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.
And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.
I will firmly plant them in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land that I have given them,” says the LORD your God.
The pride of thine heart hath
deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose
habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who
shall bring me down to the ground?
The pride of your heart has
deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose
habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of
Edom, and understanding out of the mount of
Esau?
In that day, declares the LORD, will I not destroy the wise men of
Edom and the men of understanding in the mountains of
Esau?
And thy mighty men, O Teman,
shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of
Esau may be cut off by slaughter.
Then your mighty men, O Teman, will be
terrified, so that
everyone in the mountains of
Esau will be cut down in the slaughter.
For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off
forever.
For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your
recompense will return upon your own head.
For as ye have
drunk upon my holy mountain, so
shall all the heathen drink continually,
yea, they
shall drink, and they
shall swallow down, and they
shall be as though they had not been.
For as you
drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and
gulp it down; they will be as if they had never existed.
But upon mount
Zion shall be
deliverance, and there
shall be
holiness; and the house of Jacob
shall possess their possessions.
But on Mount
Zion there will be
deliverance, and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will reclaim their possession.
And the house of Jacob
shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of
Esau for
stubble, and they
shall kindle in them, and
devour them; and there
shall not be any remaining of the house of
Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.
Then the house of Jacob will be a
blazing fire, and the house of Joseph a burning flame; but the house of
Esau will be
stubble— Jacob will set it
ablaze and
consume it. Therefore no
survivor will remain from the house of
Esau.” For the LORD has spoken.
And they of the south
shall possess the mount of
Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they
shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin
shall possess
Gilead.
Those from the Negev will possess the mountains of
Esau; those from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess
Gilead.
And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel
shall possess that of the
Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad,
shall possess the cities of the south.
And the exiles of this host of the Israelites will possess the land of the
Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev.
And saviours
shall come up on mount
Zion to judge the mount of
Esau; and the kingdom
shall be the LORD’S.
The deliverers will
ascend Mount
Zion to rule over the mountains of
Esau. And the kingdom will belong to the LORD.
Then said they unto him, What
shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was
tempestuous.
Now the sea was growing worse and worse, so they said to
Jonah, “What must we do to you to calm this sea for us?”
And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so
shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great
tempest is upon you.
“
Pick me up,” he answered, “and cast me into the sea, so it may quiet down for you. For I know that I am to
blame for this violent storm that has come upon you.”
And
Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he
cried, and said, Yet forty days, and
Nineveh shall be overthrown.
On the first day of his journey,
Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and
Nineveh will be overturned!”
And the mountains
shall be
molten under him, and the valleys
shall be
cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
The mountains will
melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water
rushing down a slope.
And all the
graven images thereof
shall be beaten to pieces, and all the
hires thereof
shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay
desolate: for she gathered it of the
hire of an
harlot, and they
shall return to the
hire of an
harlot.
All her carved images will be
smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a
prostitute, they will be used again on a
prostitute.
Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the
mourning of Beth-ezel; he
shall receive of you his standing.
Depart in shameful nakedness, O dwellers of Shaphir. The dwellers of Zaanan will not come out. Beth-ezel is in
mourning; its support is taken from you.
Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moresheth-
gath: the houses of
Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he
shall come unto
Adullam the glory of Israel.
I will again bring a conqueror against you, O dweller of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will come to
Adullam.
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I
devise an evil, from which ye
shall not remove your necks; neither
shall ye go
haughtily: for this time is evil.
Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am
planning against this nation a
disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of
calamity.
In that day
shall one take up a parable against you, and
lament with a
doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly
spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
In that day they will take up a
proverb against you and
taunt you with this bitter
lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has
allotted our fields to traitors.’”
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.
“Do not
preach,” they
preach. “Do not
preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”
Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is
polluted, it
shall destroy you, even with a
sore destruction.
Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its
defilement brings destruction— a
grievous destruction!
If a man walking in the spirit and
falsehood do lie, saying, I will
prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he
shall even be the prophet of this people.
If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will
preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people!
I will surely
assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the
remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of
Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they
shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.
I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the
remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture— a
noisy throng.
The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.
One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate, and go out by it. Their King will pass through before them, the LORD as their leader.
Then
shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have
behaved themselves ill in their doings.
Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.
Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without
divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the
daylight will turn black over them.
Then
shall the seers be
ashamed, and the diviners confounded:
yea, they
shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
Then the seers will be
ashamed and the diviners will be disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.”
Therefore
shall Zion for your sake be
plowed as a field, and Jerusalem
shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
Therefore, because of you,
Zion will be
plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a
heap of
rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
But in the last days it
shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD
shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it
shall be
exalted above the hills; and people
shall flow unto it.
In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to it.
And many nations
shall come, 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 teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law
shall go forth of
Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
And many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from
Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
And he
shall judge among many people, and
rebuke strong nations
afar off; and they
shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation
shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither
shall they learn war any more.
Then He will judge between many peoples and
arbitrate for strong nations far and wide. Then they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into
pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor will they train anymore for war.
But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to
frighten him. For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.
And I will make her that
halted a
remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD
shall reign over them in mount
Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
And I will make the
lame into a
remnant, and the outcast into a strong nation. Then the LORD will rule over them in Mount
Zion from that day and
forever.
And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of
Zion, unto thee
shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom
shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
And you, O
watchtower of the flock, O
stronghold of the Daughter of
Zion— the former dominion will be restored to you; sovereignty will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem.”
Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of
Zion, like a woman in
travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD
shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
Writhe in
agony, O Daughter of
Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be
rescued; there the LORD will
redeem you from the hand of your enemies!
But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he
shall gather them as the
sheaves into the floor.
But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand His plan, for He has gathered them like
sheaves to the
threshing floor.
Now gather
thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they
shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the
cheek.
Now, O daughter of troops,
mobilize your troops; for a siege is laid against us! With a rod they will strike the
cheek of the judge of Israel.
But thou,
Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee
shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from
everlasting.
But you,
Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel— One whose origins are of old, from the days of
eternity.
Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the
remnant of his brethren
shall return unto the children of Israel.
Therefore Israel will be abandoned until she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of His brothers will return to the children of Israel.
And he
shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they
shall abide: for now
shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
He will stand and
shepherd His flock in the strength of the LORD, in the
majestic name of the LORD His God. And they will dwell securely, for then His greatness will extend to the ends of the earth.
And this man
shall be the peace, when the Assyrian
shall come into our land: and when he
shall tread in our palaces, then
shall we raise against him seven
shepherds, and eight principal men.
And He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land and tramples our citadels. We will raise against it seven
shepherds, even eight leaders of men.
And they
shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of
Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus
shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
And they will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of
Nimrod with the
blade drawn. So He will deliver us when Assyria invades our land and marches into our borders.
And the
remnant of Jacob
shall be in the midst of many people as a
dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
Then the
remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like
dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or
linger for mankind.
And the
remnant of Jacob
shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
Then the
remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to
rescue them.
Thine hand
shall be lifted up upon thine
adversaries, and all thine enemies
shall be cut off.
Your hand will be lifted over your foes, and all your enemies will be cut off.
And it
shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy
chariots:
“In that day,” declares the LORD, “I will remove your horses from among you and
wreck your
chariots.
Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God?
shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with
calves of a year old?
With what
shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old
calves?
Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
shall I give my
firstborn for my
transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil?
Shall I present my
firstborn for my
transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
The LORD’S voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.
The voice of the LORD calls out to the city (and it is sound wisdom to fear Your name): “
Heed the rod and the One who ordained it.
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the
bag of
deceitful weights?
Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.
You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword.
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of
Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a
desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an
hissing: therefore ye
shall bear the reproach of my people.
You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of
Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a
desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the
scorn of the nations.”
The best of them is like a
brier; the most upright is sharper than a
hedge of thorns. The day for your
watchmen has come, the day of your
visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.
Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I
shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD
shall be a light unto me.
Do not
gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
I will bear the
indignation of the LORD, because I have
sinned against him, until he
plead my cause, and
execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I
shall behold his righteousness.
Because I have
sinned against Him, I must
endure the
rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.
Then she that is mine enemy
shall see it, and shame
shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes
shall behold her: now
shall she be
trodden down as the
mire of the streets.
Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame— she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be
trampled like mud in the streets.
In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.
The day for rebuilding your walls will come— the day for extending your boundary.
In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
On that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, even from Egypt to the Euphrates, from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.
Notwithstanding the land
shall be
desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
Then the earth will become
desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.