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JESUS CHRIST

The message of Jesus Christ

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The Lord God created man, created this book (Old Testament + Revelation) 
also that people knew and recognized him. This book is prophetic, rather than
historical, which has written Lord God, during the creation of world, their own 
hands, (because he can do it, because he created man) latest book of Revelation 
(New Testament in fact fictitious) because the Bible, Old Testament, Consist of 
different sorts of books (more than 1000 chapters and 43 headline). Of 
Revelation John, is the same John, from the book Maccabees, which is the 
smallest, and that I, as John and Jesus Christ, this is the same person. Book of 
Maccabees penultimate book is the Bible, who do not have many Bibles. Bible 
is almost 4000 years of history of prophetic, advanced, and this prophetic 
history is torn off sense between books of Revelation and the 
Maccabees, nearly thirty years, these thirty years a clean sheet which my life 
and your life, these 4000 years of history, too prophetic. The prophetic story of 
Jesus Christ is not written in the Bible as the written history of the prophetic 
book of David separately from the psalm, David and Jesus Christ, the same 
person. The so-called Jews took Bible as its own history, which can not be, 
because this book is prophetic, allegoric, rather than historical, from beginning 
to end, even invent a name for its city from Bible, calling it Jerusalem, and 
the so-called apostles of thought and stole the names book of Revelation and 
invented New Testament. Noah Ark is a Bible that God created and I built, I 
Noah and the prophet Moses and Aaron and the prophet Isaiah and 
Jeremiah, which will be you, your families, your children and wives, you 
withdraw from the Egyptian (allegoric, which the whole world) of land, it is a 
miracle, a new, which the Lord God is our father, would do for us who believe 
that my said, and will be a new city, holy Jerusalem. I tell you, all peoples of 
the world and all peoples of Government and the President, those who hear 
my words, will release my people, Israel, where those who believe my words, 
but if not then make your head will fall one strikes which is written in this book, 
in the bible, so it will be, will in all possible means to say all this and show that I 
wrote and testified. First man were not Adam and Eve, because Adam and Eve 
this prophecy. The Lord God created man male and female, their nations, all 
nations created once, at his place. The prophetic story of Alexander the Great, 
which is written in the Bible, in the book of Maccabees, historians took this as a 
real story, but it is not because Alexander the Great was not in the past, as 
Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babel, that's me. God blessing and glory and 
honor and strength and salvation and Power in the eyelid centuries! Amen.

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Our concept of the establishment of peace, such that the distance of stars from 
the land, a billion kilometers, and space consists of galaxies, but it is not because 
God is the creator of the world. We represent this, fussiness and silly ideas, 
because the star cluster of galaxies, not far away, as they say and show 
astronomers, the same as the bow of the microscope will see, having dripped 
iodine on capsule. The Earth does not rotate around its axis because it does not, 
and earth does not revolve around sun because the sun revolves around the earth, 
also stars and planets revolve around the earth, the stars and planets the same 
subject, only their difference, appearance and distinction rotation time. Above the 
stars of water, this is the same water, which is located in our seas and oceans, 
slightly modified form, which we call Milky way, here's an example from the Bible 
-> 6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let 
it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided 
the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the 
firmament: and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the 
evening and the morning were the second day. 9 And God said, Let the waters 
under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: 
and it was so. 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven 
to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and 
for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven 
to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the 
greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars 
also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the 
earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from 
the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 19 And the evening and the morning 
were the fourth day. Days establishment has no meaning in reality, because creator 
and human life, it can create all in one day or one hour, or in one century, because 
God is very strong and he created man. Celestial kingdom and allegoric looks, 
written in the Bible, in Revelation, this our life and nature, because our land to be in 
heaven, angels and Satan or the first snake, dragon and the devil, so we, the people 
who choose or angel or Satan. In addition to God in the sky above the star, not who 
is not. Jesus Christ was not in the past, if was, then wrote to the truth for us, 
so-called apostles Jesus invented, because 12 Apostles, written in Revelation, it's 12 
sons of Israel who believe that my words, the whole world nations, I am Jesus 
Christ and the Lamb in the book of Revelation. Lord God sent me to testify about it. 
The sun revolves around the earth, as in a spiral path that is parallel to the equator, 
climb and descend from the equator, to keep the same distance from land and 
alters the season.

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Isaiah 9
2The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
3Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
4For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
5For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

Jeremiah 11

15 “ What has My beloved to do in My house,
Having done lewd deeds with many?
And the holy flesh has passed from you.
When you do evil, then you rejoice.
16 The LORD called your name,
Green Olive Tree, Lovely and of Good Fruit.
With the noise of a great tumult
He has kindled fire on it,
And its branches are broken.
17 “For the LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced doom against you for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke Me to anger in offering incense to Baal.”
18 Now the LORD gave me knowledge of it, and I know it; for You showed me their doings. 19 But I was like a docile lamb brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised schemes against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
20 But, O LORD of hosts,
You who judge righteously,
Testing the mind and the heart,
Let me see Your vengeance on them,
For to You I have revealed my cause.
21 “Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of Anathoth who seek your life, saying, ‘Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, lest you die by our hand’— 22 therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine; 23 and there shall be no remnant of them, for I will bring catastrophe on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their punishment.’”

Isaiah 52

Isaiah 52 *

1 Awake, awake!
Put on your strength, O Zion;
Put on your beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, the holy city!
For the uncircumcised and the unclean
Shall no longer come to you.
2 Shake yourself from the dust, arise;
Sit down, O Jerusalem!
Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion!

3 For thus says the LORD:

“ You have sold yourselves for nothing,
And you shall be redeemed without money.”

4 For thus says the Lord GOD:

“ My people went down at first
Into Egypt to dwell there;
Then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
5 Now therefore, what have I here,” says the LORD,

“ That My people are taken away for nothing?
Those who rule over them
Make them wail,” says the LORD,

“ And My name is blasphemed continually every day.
6 Therefore My people shall know My name;
Therefore they shall know in that day
That I am He who speaks:

‘ Behold, it is I.’”
7 How beautiful upon the mountains
Are the feet of him who brings good news,
Who proclaims peace,
Who brings glad tidings of good things,
Who proclaims salvation,
Who says to Zion,

“ Your God reigns!”

Nahum 2

1 He who scatters has come up before your face.
Man the fort!
Watch the road!
Strengthen your flanks!
Fortify your power mightily.
2 For the LORD will restore the excellence of Jacob
Like the excellence of Israel,
For the emptiers have emptied them out
And ruined their vine branches.
3 The shields of his mighty men are made red,
The valiant men are in scarlet.
The chariots come with flaming torches
In the day of his preparation,
And the spears are brandished.
4 The chariots rage in the streets,
They jostle one another in the broad roads;
They seem like torches,
They run like lightning.
5 He remembers his nobles;
They stumble in their walk;
They make haste to her walls,
And the defense is prepared.
6 The gates of the rivers are opened,
And the palace is dissolved.
7 It is decreed:
She shall be led away captive,
She shall be brought up;
And her maidservants shall lead her as with the voice of doves,
Beating their breasts.
8 Though Nineveh of old was like a pool of water,
Now they flee away.
“ Halt! Halt!” they cry;
But no one turns back.
9 Take spoil of silver!
Take spoil of gold!
There is no end of treasure,
Or wealth of every desirable prize.
10 She is empty, desolate, and waste!
The heart melts, and the knees shake;
Much pain is in every side,
And all their faces are drained of color.
11 Where is the dwelling of the lions,
And the feeding place of the young lions,
Where the lion walked, the lioness and lion’s cub,
And no one made them afraid?
12 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs,
Killed for his lionesses,
Filled his caves with prey,
And his dens with flesh.
13 “Behold, I am against you,” says the LORD of hosts, “I will burn your[e] chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions; I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall be heard no more.”

Isaiah 42

6 “ I, the LORD, have called You in righteousness,
And will hold Your hand;
I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people,
As a light to the Gentiles,
7 To open blind eyes,
To bring out prisoners from the prison,
Those who sit in darkness from the prison house.
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Micah 3

Wicked Rulers and Prophets

1 And I said:
“ Hear now, O heads of Jacob,
And you rulers of the house of Israel:
Is itnot for you to know justice?
2 You who hate good and love evil;
Who strip the skin from My people,
And the flesh from their bones;
3 Who also eat the flesh of My people,
Flay their skin from them,
Break their bones,
And chop them in pieces
Like meat for the pot,
Like flesh in the caldron.”
4 Then they will cry to the LORD,
But He will not hear them;
He will even hide His face from them at that time,
Because they have been evil in their deeds.
5 Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets
Who make my people stray;
Who chant “Peace”
While they chew with their teeth,
But who prepare war against him
Who puts nothing into their mouths:
6 “ Therefore you shall have night without vision,
And you shall have darkness without divination;
The sun shall go down on the prophets,
And the day shall be dark for them.
7 So the seers shall be ashamed,
And the diviners abashed;
Indeed they shall all cover their lips;
For there is no answer from God.”
8 But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the LORD,
And of justice and might,
To declare to Jacob his transgression
And to Israel his sin.
9 Now hear this,
You heads of the house of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel,
Who abhor justice
And pervert all equity,
10 Who build up Zion with bloodshed
And Jerusalem with iniquity:
11 Her heads judge for a bribe,
Her priests teach for pay,
And her prophets divine for money.
Yet they lean on the LORD, and say,
“ Is not the LORD among us?
No harm can come upon us.”
12 Therefore because of you
Zion shall be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins,
And the mountain of the temple
Like the bare hills of the forest.

 

Milky Way... Waters...

Psalm 82

A Psalm of Asaph.

1 God stands in the congregation of the mighty;
He judges among the gods.
2 How long will you judge unjustly,
And show partiality to the wicked? Selah
3 Defend the poor and fatherless;
Do justice to the afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy;
Free them from the hand of the wicked.
5 They do not know, nor do they understand;
They walk about in darkness;
All the foundations of the earth are unstable.
6 I said, “You are gods,
And all of you are children of the Most High.
7 But you shall die like men,
And fall like one of the princes.”
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth;
For You shall inherit all nations.

A Song of Salvation

Isaiah 26

A Song of Salvation

 ¹ In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

       We have a strong city; 

       God will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks. 

        ² Open the gates, 

       That the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in. 

        ³ You will keep him in perfect peace, 

       Whose mind is stayed on You,

       Because he trusts in You. 

        ⁴ Trust in the LORD forever, 

       For in YAH, the LORD, is everlasting strength.

        ⁵ For He brings down those who dwell on high, 

       The lofty city; 

       He lays it low, 

       He lays it low to the ground, 

       He brings it down to the dust. 

        ⁶ The foot shall tread it down— 

       The feet of the poor 

       And the steps of the needy.” 

        ⁷ The way of the just is uprightness; 

       O Most Upright, 

       You weigh the path of the just. 

        ⁸ Yes, in the way of Your judgments, 

       O LORD, we have waited for You; 

       The desire of our soul is for Your name 

       And for the remembrance of You. 

        ⁹ With my soul I have desired You in the night, 

       Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; 

       For when Your judgments are in the earth, 

       The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. 

        ¹⁰ Let grace be shown to the wicked, 

       Yet he will not learn righteousness; 

       In the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, 

       And will not behold the majesty of the LORD. 

        ¹¹ LORD, when Your hand is lifted up, they will not see. 

       But they will see and be ashamed 

       For their envy of people; 

       Yes, the fire of Your enemies shall devour them. 

        ¹² LORD, You will establish peace for us, 

       For You have also done all our works in us. 

        ¹³ O LORD our God, masters besides You 

       Have had dominion over us; 

       But by You only we make mention of Your name. 

        ¹⁴ They are dead, they will not live; 

       They are deceased, they will not rise. 

       Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, 

       And made all their memory to perish. 

        ¹⁵ You have increased the nation, O LORD, 

       You have increased the nation; 

       You are glorified; 

       You have expanded all the borders of the land. 

        ¹⁶ LORD, in trouble they have visited You, 

       They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them. 

        ¹⁷ As a woman with child 

       Is in pain and cries out in her pangs, 

       When she draws near the time of her delivery, 

       So have we been in Your sight, O LORD. 

       ¹⁸ We have been with child, we have been in pain; 

       We have, as it were, brought forth wind; 

       We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth, 

       Nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen. 

        ¹⁹ Your dead shall live; 

       Together with my dead body they shall arise. 

       Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; 

       For your dew is like the dew of herbs, 

       And the earth shall cast out the dead.

    ²⁰ Come, my people, enter your chambers, 

       And shut your doors behind you; 

       Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, 

       Until the indignation is past. 

        ²¹ For behold, the LORD comes out of His place 

       To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; 

       The earth will also disclose her blood, 

       And will no more cover her slain.

 

Prayer of Azariah

Prayer of Azariah.1

 

[2] Then Azariah stood and offered this prayer; in the midst of the fire he opened his mouth and said: 
[3] "Blessed art thou, O Lord, God of our fathers,
and worthy of praise;
and thy name is glorified for ever.
[4] For thou art just in all that thou hast done to us,
and all thy works are true and thy ways right,
and all thy judgments are truth.
[5] Thou hast executed true judgments in all that
thou hast brought upon us
and upon Jerusalem, the holy city of our fathers,
for in truth and justice thou hast brought
all this upon us because of our sins.
[6] For we have sinfully and lawlessly departed from thee,
and have sinned in all things and have not
obeyed thy commandments;
[7] we have not observed them or done them,
as thou hast commanded us that it might go well with us.
[8] So all that thou hast brought upon us,
and all that thou hast done to us,
thou hast done in true judgment.
[9] Thou hast given us into the hands of lawless
enemies, most hateful rebels,
and to an unjust king, the most wicked in all the world.
[10] And now we cannot open our mouths;
shame and disgrace have befallen thy servants and worshipers.
[11] For thy name's sake do not give us up utterly,
and do not break thy covenant,
[12] and do not withdraw thy mercy from us,
for the sake of Abraham thy beloved
and for the sake of Isaac thy servant
and Israel thy holy one,
[13] to whom thou didst promise
to make their descendants as many as the stars of heaven
and as the sand on the shore of the sea.
[14] For we, O Lord, have become fewer than any nation,
and are brought low this day in all the world
because of our sins.
[15] And at this time there is no prince, or prophet, or leader,
no burnt offering, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense,
no place to make an offering before thee or to find mercy.
[16] Yet with a contrite heart and a humble spirit
may we be accepted,
as though it were with burnt offerings of rams and bulls,
and with tens of thousands of fat lambs;
[17] such may our sacrifice be in thy sight this day,
and may we wholly follow thee,
for there will be no shame for those who trust in thee.
[18] And now with all our heart we follow thee,
we fear thee and seek thy face.
[19] Do not put us to shame,
but deal with us in thy forbearance
and in thy abundant mercy.
[20] Deliver us in accordance with thy marvelous works,
and give glory to thy name, O Lord!
Let all who do harm to thy servants be put to shame;
[21] let them be disgraced and deprived of all power and dominion,
and let their strength be broken.
[22] Let them know that thou art the Lord, the only God,
glorious over the whole world."
[23] Now the king's servants who threw them in did not cease feeding the furnace fires with naphtha, pitch, tow, and brush.

[24] And the flame streamed out above the furnace forty-nine cubits, 

[25] and it broke through and burned those of the Chaldeans whom it caught about the furnace. 
[26] But the angel of the Lord came down into the furnace to be with Azariah and his companions, and drove the fiery flame out of the furnace, 
[27] and made the midst of the furnace like a moist whistling wind, so that the fire did not touch them at all or hurt or trouble them. 
[28] Then the three, as with one mouth, praised and glorified and blessed God in the furnace, saying:
[29] "Blessed art thou, O Lord, God of our fathers,
and to be praised and highly exalted for ever;
[30] And blessed is thy glorious, holy name
and to be highly praised and highly exalted for ever;
[31] Blessed art thou in the temple of thy holy glory
and to be extolled and highly glorified for ever.
[32] Blessed art thou, who sittest upon cherubim
and lookest upon the deeps,
and to be praised and highly exalted for ever.
[33] Blessed art thou upon the throne of thy kingdom
and to be extolled and highly exalted for ever.
[34] Blessed art thou in the firmament of heaven
and to be sung and glorified for ever.
[35] "Bless the Lord, all works of the Lord,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

[36] Bless the Lord, you heavens,

sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[37] Bless the Lord, you angels of the Lord,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[38] Bless the Lord, all waters above the heaven,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[39] Bless the Lord, all powers,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[40] Bless the Lord, sun and moon,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[41] Bless the Lord, stars of heaven,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[42] Bless the Lord, all rain and dew,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[43] Bless the Lord, all winds,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[44] Bless the Lord, fire and heat,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[45] Bless the Lord, winter cold and summer heat,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[46] Bless the Lord, dews and snows,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[47] Bless the Lord, nights and days,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[48] Bless the Lord, light and darkness,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[49] Bless the Lord, ice and cold,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[50] Bless the Lord, frosts and snows,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[51] Bless the Lord, lightnings and clouds,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[52] Let the earth bless the Lord;
let it sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[53] Bless the Lord, mountains and hills,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[54] Bless the Lord, all things that grow on the earth,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[55] Bless the Lord, you springs,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[56] Bless the Lord, seas and rivers,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[57] Bless the Lord, you whales and all creatures
that move in the waters,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[58] Bless the Lord, all birds of the air,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[59] Bless the Lord, all beasts and cattle,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[60] Bless the Lord, you sons of men,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[61] Bless the Lord, O Israel,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[62] Bless the Lord, you priests of the Lord,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[63] Bless the Lord, you servants of the Lord,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[64] Bless the Lord, spirits and souls of the righteous,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[65] Bless the Lord, you who are holy and humble in heart,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.
[66] Bless the Lord, Hananiah, Azariah, and Mishael,
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever;
for he has rescued us from Hades and saved
us from the hand of death,
and delivered us from the midst of the burning fiery furnace;
from the midst of the fire he has delivered us.
[67] Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
for his mercy endures for ever.
[68] Bless him, all who worship the Lord, the God of gods,
sing praise to him and give thanks to him,
for his mercy endures for ever."

 

 

Exodus 23

¹Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. ²Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: ³Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. ⁴If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. ⁵If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him. ⁶Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. ⁷Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. ⁸And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. ⁹Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. ¹⁰And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: ¹¹But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard. ¹²Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed. ¹³And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. ¹⁴Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. ¹⁵Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:) ¹⁶And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. ¹⁷Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God. ¹⁸Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning. ¹⁹The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. ²⁰Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. ²¹Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. ²²But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. ²³For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off. ²⁴Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images. ²⁵And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. ²⁶There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. ²⁷I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. ²⁸And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. ²⁹I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. ³⁰By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. ³¹And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. ³²Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. ³³They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

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    1: Then the second, that had spoken of the strength of the king, began to say, 

2: O ye men, do not men excel in strength that bear rule over sea and land and all things in them? 
3: But yet the king is more mighty: for he is lord of all these things, and hath dominion over them; and whatsoever he commandeth them they do. 
4: If he bid them make war the one against the other, they do it: if he send them out against the enemies, they go, and break down mountains walls and towers. 
5: They slay and are slain, and transgress not the king's commandment: if they get the victory, they bring all to the king, as well the spoil, as all things else. 
6: Likewise for those that are no soldiers, and have not to do with wars, but use husbundry, when they have reaped again that which they had sown, they bring it to the king, and compel one another to pay tribute unto the king. 
7: And yet he is but one man: if he command to kill, they kill; if he command to spare, they spare; 
8: If he command to smite, they smite; if he command to make desolate, they make desolate; if he command to build, they build; 
9: If he command to cut down, they cut down; if he command to plant, they plant. 
10: So all his people and his armies obey him: furthermore he lieth down, he eateth and drinketh, and taketh his rest: 
11: And these keep watch round about him, neither may any one depart, and do his own business, neither disobey they him in any thing. 
12: O ye men, how should not the king be mightiest, when in such sort he is obeyed? And he held his tongue. 
13: Then the third, who had spoken of women, and of the truth, (this was Zorobabel) began to speak. 
14: O ye men, it is not the great king, nor the multitude of men, neither is it wine, that excelleth; who is it then that ruleth them, or hath the lordship over them? are they not women? 
15: Women have borne the king and all the people that bear rule by sea and land. 
16: Even of them came they: and they nourished them up that planted the vineyards, from whence the wine cometh. 
17: These also make garments for men; these bring glory unto men; and without women cannot men be. 
18: Yea, and if men have gathered together gold and silver, or any other goodly thing, do they not love a woman which is comely in favour and beauty? 
19: And letting all those things go, do they not gape, and even with open mouth fix their eyes fast on her; and have not all men more desire unto her than unto silver or gold, or any goodly thing whatsoever? 
20: A man leaveth his own father that brought him up, and his own country, and cleaveth unto his wife. 
21: He sticketh not to spend his life with his wife. and remembereth neither father, nor mother, nor country. 
22: By this also ye must know that women have dominion over you: do ye not labour and toil, and give and bring all to the woman? 
23: Yea, a man taketh his sword, and goeth his way to rob and to steal, to sail upon the sea and upon rivers; 
24: And looketh upon a lion, and goeth in the darkness; and when he hath stolen, spoiled, and robbed, he bringeth it to his love. 
25: Wherefore a man loveth his wife better than father or mother. 
26: Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes. 
27: Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women. 
28: And now do ye not believe me? is not the king great in his power? do not all regions fear to touch him? 
29: Yet did I see him and Apame the king's concubine, the daughter of the admirable Bartacus, sitting at the right hand of the king, 
30: And taking the crown from the king's head, and setting it upon her own head; she also struck the king with her left hand. 
31: And yet for all this the king gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth: if she laughed upon him, he laughed also: but if she took any displeasure at him, the king was fain to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him again. 
32: O ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus? 
33: Then the king and the princes looked one upon another: so he began to speak of the truth. 
34: O ye men, are not women strong? great is the earth, high is the heaven, swift is the sun in his course, for he compasseth the heavens round about, and fetcheth his course again to his own place in one day. 
35: Is he not great that maketh these things? therefore great is the truth, and stronger than all things. 
36: All the earth crieth upon the truth, and the heaven blesseth it: all works shake and tremble at it, and with it is no unrighteous thing. 
37: Wine is wicked, the king is wicked, women are wicked, all the children of men are wicked, and such are all their wicked works; and there is no truth in them; in their unrighteousness also they shall perish. 
38: As for the truth, it endureth, and is always strong; it liveth and conquereth for evermore. 
39: With her there is no accepting of persons or rewards; but she doeth the things that are just, and refraineth from all unjust and wicked things; and all men do well like of her works. 
40: Neither in her judgment is any unrighteousness; and she is the strength, kingdom, power, and majesty, of all ages. Blessed be the God of truth. 
41: And with that he held his peace. And all the people then shouted, and said, Great is Truth, and mighty above all things. 
42: Then said the king unto him, Ask what thou wilt more than is appointed in the writing, and we will give it thee, because thou art found wisest; and thou shalt sit next me, and shalt be called my cousin. 
43: Then said he unto the king, Remember thy vow, which thou hast vowed to build Jerusalem, in the day when thou camest to thy kingdom, 
44: And to send away all the vessels that were taken away out of Jerusalem, which Cyrus set apart, when he vowed to destroy Babylon, and to send them again thither. 
45: Thou also hast vowed to build up the temple, which the Edomites burned when Judea was made desolate by the Chaldees. 
46: And now, O lord the king, this is that which I require, and which I desire of thee, and this is the princely liberality proceeding from thyself: I desire therefore that thou make good the vow, the performance whereof with thine own mouth thou hast vowed to the King of heaven. 
47: Then Darius the king stood up, and kissed him, and wrote letters for him unto all the treasurers and lieutenants and captains and governors, that they should safely convey on their way both him, and all those that go up with him to build Jerusalem. 
48: He wrote letters also unto the lieutenants that were in Celosyria and Phenice, and unto them in Libanus, that they should bring cedar wood from Libanus unto Jerusalem, and that they should build the city with him. 
49: Moreover he wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm up into Jewry, concerning their freedom, that no officer, no ruler, no lieutenant, nor treasurer, should forcibly enter into their doors; 
50: And that all the country which they hold should be free without tribute; and that the Edomites should give over the villages of the Jews which then they held: 
51: Yea, that there should be yearly given twenty talents to the building of the temple, until the time that it were built; 
52: And other ten talents yearly, to maintain the burnt offerings upon the altar every day, as they had a commandment to offer seventeen: 
53: And that all they that went from Babylon to build the city should have free liberty, as well they as their posterity, and all the priests that went away. 
54: He wrote also concerning. the charges, and the priests' vestments wherein they minister; 
55: And likewise for the charges of the Levites, to be given them until the day that the house were finished, and Jerusalem builded up. 
56: And he commanded to give to all that kept the city pensions and wages. 
57: He sent away also all the vessels from Babylon, that Cyrus had set apart; and all that Cyrus had given in commandment, the same charged he also to be done, and sent unto Jerusalem. 
58: Now when this young man was gone forth, he lifted up his face to heaven toward Jerusalem, and praised the King of heaven, 
59: And said, From thee cometh victory, from thee cometh wisdom, and thine is the glory, and I am thy servant. 
60: Blessed art thou, who hast given me wisdom: for to thee I give thanks, O Lord of our fathers. 
61: And so he took the letters, and went out, and came unto Babylon, and told it all his brethren. 
62: And they praised the God of their fathers, because he had given them freedom and liberty 
63: To go up, and to build Jerusalem, and the temple which is called by his name: and they feasted with instruments of musick and gladness seven days.  

Psalm 32

¹ Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,
         Whose sin is covered.
 ² Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity,
         And in whose spirit there is no deceit. 
         
 ³ When I kept silent, my bones grew old
         Through my groaning all the day long.
 ⁴ For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me;
         My vitality was turned into the drought of summer.  Selah  
 ⁵ I acknowledged my sin to You,
         And my iniquity I have not hidden. 
         I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” 
         And You forgave the iniquity of my sin.  Selah  
         
 ⁶ For this cause everyone who is godly shall pray to You
         In a time when You may be found; 
         Surely in a flood of great waters 
         They shall not come near him.
 ⁷ You are my hiding place;
         You shall preserve me from trouble; 
         You shall surround me with songs of deliverance.  Selah  
         
 ⁸ I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
         I will guide you with My eye.
 ⁹ Do not be like the horse or like the mule,
         Which have no understanding, 
         Which must be harnessed with bit and bridle, 
         Else they will not come near you. 
         
 ¹⁰ Many sorrows shall be to the wicked;
         But he who trusts in the LORD, mercy shall surround him.
 ¹¹ Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you righteous;
         And shout for joy, all you upright in heart!

Psalm 136

Thanksgiving to God for His Enduring Mercy

 ¹ Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good!
         For His mercy endures forever.
 ² Oh, give thanks to the God of gods!
         For His mercy endures forever.
 ³ Oh, give thanks to the Lord of lords!
         For His mercy endures forever: 
         
 ⁴ To Him who alone does great wonders,
         For His mercy endures forever;
 ⁵ To Him who by wisdom made the heavens,
         For His mercy endures forever;
 ⁶ To Him who laid out the earth above the waters,
         For His mercy endures forever;
 ⁷ To Him who made great lights,
         For His mercy endures forever—
 ⁸ The sun to rule by day,
         For His mercy endures forever;
 ⁹ The moon and stars to rule by night,
         For His mercy endures forever. 
         
 ¹⁰ To Him who struck Egypt in their firstborn,
         For His mercy endures forever;
 ¹¹ And brought out Israel from among them,
         For His mercy endures forever;
 ¹² With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm,
         For His mercy endures forever;
 ¹³ To Him who divided the Red Sea in two,
         For His mercy endures forever;
 ¹⁴ And made Israel pass through the midst of it,
         For His mercy endures forever;
 ¹⁵ But overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea,
         For His mercy endures forever;
 ¹⁶ To Him who led His people through the wilderness,
         For His mercy endures forever;
 ¹⁷ To Him who struck down great kings,
         For His mercy endures forever;
 ¹⁸ And slew famous kings,
         For His mercy endures forever—
 ¹⁹ Sihon king of the Amorites,
         For His mercy endures forever;
 ²⁰ And Og king of Bashan,
         For His mercy endures forever—
 ²¹ And gave their land as a heritage,
         For His mercy endures forever;
 ²² A heritage to Israel His servant,
         For His mercy endures forever. 
         
 ²³ Who remembered us in our lowly state,
         For His mercy endures forever;
 ²⁴ And rescued us from our enemies,
         For His mercy endures forever;
 ²⁵ Who gives food to all flesh,
         For His mercy endures forever. 
         
 ²⁶ Oh, give thanks to the God of heaven!

         For His mercy endures forever.

Isaiah 57

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15 For thus says the High and Lofty One 
Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: 
“ I dwell in the high and holy place,
With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, 
To revive the spirit of the humble, 
And to revive the heart of the contrite ones. 
16 For I will not contend forever, 
Nor will I always be angry; 
For the spirit would fail before Me, 
And the souls which I have made. 
17 For the iniquity of his covetousness 
I was angry and struck him; 
I hid and was angry, 
And he went on backsliding in the way of his heart. 
18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him; 
I will also lead him, 
And restore comforts to him 
And to his mourners. 
19 “ I create the fruit of the lips: 
Peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near,” 
Says the LORD, 
“ And I will heal him.” 
20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, 
When it cannot rest, 
Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. 
21 “ There is no peace,” 
Says my God, “for the wicked.”

15 Ибо так говорит Высокий и Превознесенный, 
вечно Живущий, --Святый имя Его: Я живу на высоте 
[небес] и во святилище, и также с сокрушенными и 
смиренными духом, чтобы оживлять дух смиренных и 
оживлять сердца сокрушенных.
16 Ибо не вечно буду Я вести тяжбу и не до конца 
гневаться; иначе изнеможет предо Мною дух и всякое 
дыхание, Мною сотворенное. 
17 За грех корыстолюбия его Я гневался и поражал 
его, скрывал лице и негодовал; но он, отвратившись, 
пошел по пути своего сердца.
18 Я видел пути его, и исцелю его, и буду водить его и 
утешать его и сетующих его.
19 Я исполню слово: мир, мир дальнему и ближнему, 
говорит Господь, и исцелю его.
20 А нечестивые--как море взволнованное, которое не 
может успокоиться и которого воды выбрасывают ил и грязь.
21 Нет мира нечестивым, говорит Бог мой.

15 Այսպէս է ասում Բարձրեալը, որ յաւիտենապէս բնակւում է բարձունքներում, սուրբը սրբերի մէջ. նրա անունը Բարձրեալ է, եւ նա սրբերի մէջ է մնում, համբերութիւն է տալիս տարակուսանքի մէջ ընկածներին եւ կեանք՝ նրանց, որոնք սրտամաշ են եղել։ 16 «Ես յաւիտեան վրէժխնդիր չեմ լինելու ձեզանից եւ ոչ էլ մշտապէս բարկանալու եմ ձեզ վրայ, քանզի հոգին ինձնից է բխում, եւ ամէն շունչ ես եմ ստեղծել։ 17 Մեղքի պատճառով սակաւ ժամանակ տրտմութիւն հասցրի նրան, հարուածեցի նրան ու իմ երեսը շրջեցի նրանից, եւ նա տրտմեց ու իմ առաջ թախծոտ՝ անցաւ իր ճանապարհները։ 18 Ես տեսայ նրա սրտի ճանապարհները եւ բժշկեցի նրան, սփոփեցի ու ճշմարիտ մխիթարութիւն տուի նրան։ Նրա սգաւորների համար պտուղ ստեղծեցի։ 19 Թող խաղաղութիւն, խաղաղութիւն լինի հեռաւորներին եւ մերձաւորներին, -ասում է Տէրը, -ու ես պիտի բժշկեմ նրանց։ 20 Իսկ անօրէնները պիտի ծփան ծովի նման եւ հանգիստ չգտնեն, ու նրա ջրերը պիտի անհետանան՝ կաւի հետ խառնուելով։ Ամբարիշտների համար խաղաղութիւն չկայ», -ասում է Տէրը։

Jeremiah - Revelation

Jeremiah 7

Trusting in Lying Words

 ¹ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, ² “Stand in the gate of the LORD’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah who enter in at these gates to worship the LORD!’” ³ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. ⁴ Do not trust in these lying words, saying, ‘The temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD are these.’
⁵ “For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor, ⁶ ifyou do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other gods to your hurt, ⁷ then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever. 
⁸ “Behold, you trust in lying words that cannot profit. ⁹ Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know, ¹⁰ and then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered to do all these abominations’? ¹¹ Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of thieves in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” says the LORD. 
¹² “But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I set My name at the first, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel. ¹³ And now, because you have done all these works,” says the LORD, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I called you, but you did not answer, ¹⁴ therefore I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to this place which I gave to you and your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. ¹⁵ And I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brethren—the whole posterity of Ephraim. 
¹⁶ “Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, nor make intercession to Me; for I will not hear you. ¹⁷ Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? ¹⁸ The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger. ¹⁹ Do they provoke Me to anger?” says the LORD. “Do they not provoke themselves, to the shame of their own faces?” 
²⁰ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place—on man and on beast, on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground. And it will burn and not be quenched.” 
²¹ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. ²² For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices. ²³ But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’ ²⁴ Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward. ²⁵ Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them. ²⁶ Yet they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers. 
²⁷ “Therefore you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not obey you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.

Judgment on Obscene Religion

   
²⁸ “So you shall say to them, ‘This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the LORD their God nor receive correction. Truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth. ²⁹ Cut off your hair and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the desolate heights; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’ ³⁰ For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight,” says the LORD. “They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to pollute it. ³¹ And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart. 

³² “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD, “when it will no more be called Tophet, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; for they will bury in Tophet until there is no room. ³³ The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth. And no one will frighten them away. ³⁴ Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. For the land shall be desolate.

Revelation 18

Finality of Babylon’s Fall   

²¹ Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down, and shall not be found anymore. ²² The sound of harpists, musicians, flutists, and trumpeters shall not be heard in you anymore. No craftsman of any craft shall be found in you anymore, and the sound of a millstone shall not be heard in you anymore. ²³ The light of a lamp shall not shine in you anymore, and the voice of bridegroom and bride shall not be heard in you anymore. For your merchants were the great men of the earth, for by your sorcery all the nations were deceived. ²⁴ And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who were slain on the earth.” 

Jeremiah 51

 ⁵⁸ Thus says the LORD of hosts: 


      “ The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, 
      And her high gates shall be burned with fire; 
      The people will labor in vain, 
      And the nations, because of the fire; 
      And they shall be weary.”

Jeremiah’s Command to Seraiah

   
⁵⁹ The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And Seraiah was the quartermaster. ⁶⁰ So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that would come upon Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon. ⁶¹ And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you arrive in Babylon and see it, and read all these words, ⁶² then you shall say, ‘O LORD, You have spoken against this place to cut it off, so that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but it shall be desolate forever.’ ⁶³ Now it shall be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall tie a stone to it and throw it out into the Euphrates. ⁶⁴ Then you shall say, ‘Thus Babylon shall sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon her. And they shall be weary.’” 
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Zephaniah 3

The Wickedness of Jerusalem

 ¹ Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted,
      To the oppressing city! 
       ² She has not obeyed His voice, 
      She has not received correction; 
      She has not trusted in the LORD, 
      She has not drawn near to her God. 
       ³ Her princes in her midst are roaring lions;
      Her judges are evening wolves 
      That leave not a bone till morning. 
       ⁴ Her prophets are insolent, treacherous people; 
      Her priests have polluted the sanctuary, 
      They have done violence to the law. 
       ⁵ The LORD is righteous in her midst, 
      He will do no unrighteousness. 
      Every morning He brings His justice to light;
      He never fails, 
      But the unjust knows no shame. 
       ⁶ “ I have cut off nations, 
      Their fortresses are devastated; 
      I have made their streets desolate, 
      With none passing by. 
      Their cities are destroyed; 
      There is no one, no inhabitant. 
       ⁷ I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me, 
      You will receive instruction’— 
      So that her dwelling would not be cut off, 
      Despite everything for which I punished her.
      But they rose early and corrupted all their deeds. 

A Faithful Remnant

    ⁸ “ Therefore wait for Me,” says the LORD, 

      “ Until the day I rise up for plunder;
      My determination is to gather the nations 
      To My assembly of kingdoms, 
      To pour on them My indignation, 
      All My fierce anger; 
      All the earth shall be devoured 
      With the fire of My jealousy. 
       ⁹ “ For then I will restore to the peoples a pure language, 
      That they all may call on the name of the LORD, 
      To serve Him with one accord. 
       ¹⁰ From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia 
      My worshipers, 
      The daughter of My dispersed ones, 
      Shall bring My offering. 
       ¹¹ In that day you shall not be shamed for any of your deeds
      In which you transgress against Me; 
      For then I will take away from your midst 
      Those who rejoice in your pride, 
      And you shall no longer be haughty 
      In My holy mountain. 
       ¹² I will leave in your midst 
      A meek and humble people, 
      And they shall trust in the name of the LORD. 
       ¹³ The remnant of Israel shall do no unrighteousness 
      And speak no lies, 
      Nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth; 
      For they shall feed their flocks and lie down, 
      And no one shall make them afraid.” 

Joy in God’s Faithfulness

    ¹⁴ Sing, O daughter of Zion! 
      Shout, O Israel! 
      Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, 
      O daughter of Jerusalem! 
       ¹⁵ The LORD has taken away your judgments, 
      He has cast out your enemy. 
      The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; 
      You shall see disaster no more. 
       ¹⁶ In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: 

      “ Do not fear; 
      Zion, let not your hands be weak. 
       ¹⁷ The LORD your God in your midst, 
      The Mighty One, will save; 
      He will rejoice over you with gladness, 
      He will quiet you with His love, 
      He will rejoice over you with singing.” 
       ¹⁸ “ I will gather those who sorrow over the appointed assembly, 
      Who are among you, 
      To whom its reproach is a burden. 
       ¹⁹ Behold, at that time 
      I will deal with all who afflict you; 
      I will save the lame, 
      And gather those who were driven out; 
      I will appoint them for praise and fame 
      In every land where they were put to shame. 
       ²⁰ At that time I will bring you back, 
      Even at the time I gather you; 
      For I will give you fame and praise 
      Among all the peoples of the earth, 
      When I return your captives before your eyes,” 
      Says the LORD.

Սոփոնիա

3 Ո՛վ երեւելիդ՝ փրկեա՛լ քաղաք, աղաւնի, որ ո՛չ ականջ դրեց Տիրոջ ձայնին եւ ո՛չ խրատն ընդունեց։ ²Յոյսը չդրեց Տիրոջ վրայ եւ Աստծուն չմօտեցաւ։ ³Նրա իշխանները առիւծի պէս պիտի մռնչեն, եւ նրա դատաւորները՝ արաբական գայլերի պէս, որոնք մինչեւ առաւօտ ոչինչ չեն թողնում։ ⁴Նրա մարգարէները այսահար են, արհամարհող։ Նրա քահանաները պղծում են սրբութիւնները եւ ամբարշտանում օրէնքը խախտելով։ ⁵Սակայն արդար Տէրը նրա մէջ է եւ անիրաւութիւն չի անի. ամէն առաւօտ կանուխ իմ դատաստանը ի յայտ կը բերի եւ չի թաքցնի,⁶պահանջելիս չի ճանաչում անիրաւութիւն, երբեք անիրաւութիւն չի անի եւ ապականութեամբ կը կործանի ամբարտաւաններին։ Քանդուեցին նրանց աշտարակները։ «Կ՚աւերեմ նրանց ճանապարհները, որպէսզի ոչ ոք այլեւս երբեք դրանցով չգնայ։ Կը պակասեն նրանց քաղաքները բնակիչներ չլինելու պատճառով։⁷Ասացի, թէ՝ «Վախեցէ՛ք ինձնից, խրա՛տ լսեցէք եւ չէք մեռնի երկրի երեսից ամբողջովին, քանի դեռ կը պատժեմ նրանց։ Պատրաստուի՛ր, առաւօտեան վա՛ղ արթնացիր. ապականուեցին նրա բոլոր արդիւնքները։ ⁸Դրա համար սպասի՛ր ինձ, - ասում է Տէրը, - այն օրը, երբ ոտքի կանգնեմ վկայելու։ Ազգերի դէմ իմ դատաստանը կը լինի՝ բռնել թագաւորներին, նրանց վրայ թափել իմ բարկութիւնը, իմ ամբողջ բարկութիւնն ու սրտմտութիւնը, քանի որ իմ վրէժխնդրութեան կրակով պիտի մաշուի ամբողջ երկիրը։ ⁹Այն ժամանակ ժողովուրդներին կը վերադարձնեմ իրենց լեզուն ըստ ազգի, որպէսզի բոլորը Տիրոջ անունը կանչեն, որպէսզի նրանք ծառայեն նրան մէկ լծի տակ։¹⁰Եթովպացիների գետերից այն կողմ իմ ցրուածներին կ՚ընդունեմ, եւ նրանք զոհ կը մատուցեն ինձ։ ¹¹Այն օրը չես ամաչի քո բոլոր գործերից, որով ամբարշտացար իմ դէմ, որովհետեւ այն ժամանակ քո միջից պիտի հանեմ քո ամբարտաւան չարութիւնը, եւ այլեւս չես շարունակելու գոռոզանալ իմ սուրբ լերան վրայ։ ¹²Քեզ կը թողնեմ հեզ եւ խոնարհ ժողովուրդ։ ¹³Իսրայէլի մնացորդները կը վախենան Տիրոջ անունից, անիրաւութիւն չեն անի, սնոտի բաներ չեն խօսի, եւ նրանց բերանում նենգ լեզու չի գտնուի, որովհետեւ նրանք կ՚արածեն եւ կը մակաղեն, եւ ոչ մէկը չի լինի, որ վախեցնի նրանց»։ ¹⁴Հրճուի՛ր, դո՛ւստր Սիոնի, բարձրաձայն աղաղակի՛ր, Երուսաղէ՛մ, ուրախացի՛ր եւ զուարճացի՛ր քո ամբողջ սրտով, դո՛ւստր Երուսաղէմի, ¹⁵որովհետեւ Տէրը վերացրեց քեզնից քո անիրաւութիւնները, Տէրը քեզ փրկեց քո թշնամիների ձեռքից. Իսրայէլի թագաւորը՝ Տէրը, քո մէջ է, եւ դու այլեւս չարիք չես տեսնի։ ¹⁶Այն ժամանակ Տէրը կ՚ասի Երուսաղէմին. «Քաջալերուի՛ր, Սիո՛ն, թող չթուլանան քո ձեռքերը։ ¹⁷Հզօրը՝ Տէր Աստուած, քո մէջ է եւ կը փրկի քեզ, ուրախութիւն կը բերի քեզ, կը նորոգի քեզ իր սիրով եւ ուրախ կը լինի քո մէջ զուարճութեամբ, ինչպէս տօնի օրը։ Ես կը հաւաքեմ քո ցրուածներին։ ¹⁸Վա՜յ ով կը նախատի նրան։ ¹⁹Ահա թէ ինչ կ՚անեմ քեզ համար այն ժամանակ. կը փրկեմ ճնշուածին, մերժուածին կ՚ընդունեմ եւ նրանց պանծալի ու հռչակաւոր կը դարձնեմ ամբողջ աշխարհում։ ²⁰Նրանք կ՚ամաչեն ե՛ւ այն ժամանակ, երբ բարիք կ՚անեմ ձեզ, ե՛ւ այն ժամանակ, երբ կ՚ընդունեմ ձեզ, որովհետեւ անուանի եւ պանծալի կը դարձնեմ ձեզ երկրի բոլոր ազգերի մէջ՝ ձեր աչքերի առաջ փոխելով ձեր գերութեան վիճակը», - ասում է Տէրը։

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The Utter Destruction of Babylon

Jeremiah 51

The Utter Destruction of Babylon

 ¹ Thus says the LORD:


      “ Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, 
      Against those who dwell in Leb Kamai,
      A destroying wind. 
       ² And I will send winnowers to Babylon, 
      Who shall winnow her and empty her land. 
      For in the day of doom 
      They shall be against her all around. 
       ³ Against her let the archer bend his bow, 
      And lift himself up against her in his armor. 
      Do not spare her young men; 
      Utterly destroy all her army. 
       ⁴ Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, 
      And those thrust through in her streets. 
       ⁵ For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, 
      By his God, the LORD of hosts, 
      Though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.” 
       ⁶ Flee from the midst of Babylon, 
      And every one save his life! 
      Do not be cut off in her iniquity, 
      For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; 
      He shall recompense her. 
       ⁷ Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD’s hand, 
      That made all the earth drunk. 
      The nations drank her wine; 
      Therefore the nations are deranged. 
       ⁸ Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed. 
      Wail for her! 
      Take balm for her pain; 
      Perhaps she may be healed. 
       ⁹ We would have healed Babylon, 
      But she is not healed. 
      Forsake her, and let us go everyone to his own country; 
      For her judgment reaches to heaven and is lifted up to the skies. 
       ¹⁰ The LORD has revealed our righteousness. 
      Come and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God. 
       ¹¹ Make the arrows bright! 
      Gather the shields! 
      The LORD has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. 
      For His plan is against Babylon to destroy it, 
      Because it is the vengeance of the LORD, 
      The vengeance for His temple. 
       ¹² Set up the standard on the walls of Babylon; 
      Make the guard strong, 
      Set up the watchmen, 
      Prepare the ambushes. 
      For the LORD has both devised and done 
      What He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon. 
       ¹³ O you who dwell by many waters, 
      Abundant in treasures, 
      Your end has come, 
      The measure of your covetousness. 
       ¹⁴ The LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself:!RM 

      “ Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts, 
      And they shall lift up a shout against you.” 
       ¹⁵ He has made the earth by His power; 
      He has established the world by His wisdom, 
      And stretched out the heaven by His understanding. 
       ¹⁶ When He utters His voice— 
      There is a multitude of waters in the heavens: 

      “ He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; 
      He makes lightnings for the rain; 
      He brings the wind out of His treasuries.”
       ¹⁷ Everyone is dull-hearted, without knowledge; 
      Every metalsmith is put to shame by the carved image; 
      For his molded image is falsehood, 
      And there is no breath in them. 
       ¹⁸ They are futile, a work of errors; 
      In the time of their punishment they shall perish. 
       ¹⁹ The Portion of Jacob is not like them, 
      For He is the Maker of all things; 
      And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance. 
      The LORD of hosts is His name. 
       ²⁰ “ You are My battle-ax and weapons of war: 
      For with you I will break the nation in pieces; 
      With you I will destroy kingdoms; 
       ²¹ With you I will break in pieces the horse and its rider; 
      With you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider; 
       ²² With you also I will break in pieces man and woman; 
      With you I will break in pieces old and young; 
      With you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden; 
       ²³ With you also I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; 
      With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen; 
      And with you I will break in pieces governors and rulers. 
       ²⁴ “ And I will repay Babylon 
      And all the inhabitants of Chaldea 
      For all the evil they have done 
      In Zion in your sight,” says the LORD. 
       ²⁵ “ Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, 
      Who destroys all the earth,” says the LORD. 

      “ And I will stretch out My hand against you, 
      Roll you down from the rocks, 
      And make you a burnt mountain. 
       ²⁶ They shall not take from you a stone for a corner 
      Nor a stone for a foundation, 
      But you shall be desolate forever,” says the LORD. 
       ²⁷ Set up a banner in the land, 
      Blow the trumpet among the nations! 
      Prepare the nations against her, 
      Call the kingdoms together against her: 
      Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. 
      Appoint a general against her; 
      Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts. 
       ²⁸ Prepare against her the nations, 
      With the kings of the Medes, 
      Its governors and all its rulers, 
      All the land of his dominion. 
       ²⁹ And the land will tremble and sorrow; 
      For every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, 
      To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant. 
       ³⁰ The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting, 
      They have remained in their strongholds; 
      Their might has failed, 
      They became like women; 
      They have burned her dwelling places, 
      The bars of her gate are broken. 
       ³¹ One runner will run to meet another, 
      And one messenger to meet another, 
      To show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on allsides; 
       ³² The passages are blocked, 
      The reeds they have burned with fire, 
      And the men of war are terrified. 

³³ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: 


      “ The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor 
      When it is time to thresh her; 
      Yet a little while 
      And the time of her harvest will come.” 
       ³⁴ “ Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon 
      Has devoured me, he has crushed me; 
      He has made me an empty vessel, 
      He has swallowed me up like a monster; 
      He has filled his stomach with my delicacies, 
      He has spit me out. 
       ³⁵ Let the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon,” 
      The inhabitant of Zion will say; 

      “ And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea!” 
      Jerusalem will say. 

³⁶ Therefore thus says the LORD: 


      “ Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance for you. 
      I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry. 
       ³⁷ Babylon shall become a heap,!RM 
      A dwelling place for jackals, 
      An astonishment and a hissing, 
      Without an inhabitant. 
       ³⁸ They shall roar together like lions, 
      They shall growl like lions’ whelps. 
       ³⁹ In their excitement I will prepare their feasts; 
      I will make them drunk, 
      That they may rejoice, 
      And sleep a perpetual sleep 
      And not awake,” says the LORD. 
       ⁴⁰ “ I will bring them down 
      Like lambs to the slaughter, 
      Like rams with male goats. 
       ⁴¹ “ Oh, how Sheshach is taken! 
      Oh, how the praise of the whole earth is seized! 
      How Babylon has become desolate among the nations! 
       ⁴² The sea has come up over Babylon; 
      She is covered with the multitude of its waves. 
       ⁴³ Her cities are a desolation, 
      A dry land and a wilderness, 
      A land where no one dwells, 
      Through which no son of man passes. 
       ⁴⁴ I will punish Bel in Babylon, 
      And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed; 
      And the nations shall not stream to him anymore. 
      Yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall. 
       ⁴⁵ “ My people, go out of the midst of her! 
      And let everyone deliver himself from the fierce anger of the LORD. 
       ⁴⁶ And lest your heart faint, 
      And you fear for the rumor that will be heard in the land 
      (A rumor will come one year, 
      And after that, in another year 
      A rumor will come,
      And violence in the land, 
      Ruler against ruler), 
       ⁴⁷ Therefore behold, the days are coming 
      That I will bring judgment on the carved images of Babylon; 
      Her whole land shall be ashamed, 
      And all her slain shall fall in her midst. 
       ⁴⁸ Then the heavens and the earth and all that is in them 
      Shall sing joyously over Babylon; 
      For the plunderers shall come to her from the north,” says the LORD. 
       ⁴⁹ As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, 
      So at Babylon the slain of all the earth shall fall. 
       ⁵⁰ You who have escaped the sword, 
      Get away! Do not stand still! 
      Remember the LORD afar off, 
      And let Jerusalem come to your mind. 
       ⁵¹ We are ashamed because we have heard reproach. 
      Shame has covered our faces, 
      For strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the LORD’s house. 
       ⁵² “ Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD, 

      “ That I will bring judgment on her carved images, 
      And throughout all her land the wounded shall groan. 
       ⁵³ Though Babylon were to mount up to heaven, 
      And though she were to fortify the height of her strength, 
      Yet from Me plunderers would come to her,” says the LORD. 
       ⁵⁴ The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, 
      And great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans, 
       ⁵⁵ Because the LORD is plundering Babylon 
      And silencing her loud voice, 
      Though her waves roar like great waters, 
      And the noise of their voice is uttered, 
       ⁵⁶ Because the plunderer comes against her, against Babylon, 
      And her mighty men are taken. 
      Every one of their bows is broken; 
      For the LORD is the God of recompense, 
      He will surely repay. 
       ⁵⁷ “ And I will make drunk 
      Her princes and wise men, 
      Her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men. 
      And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep 
      And not awake,” says the King, 
      Whose name is the LORD of hosts. 

⁵⁸ Thus says the LORD of hosts: 


      “ The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, 
      And her high gates shall be burned with fire; 
      The people will labor in vain, 
      And the nations, because of the fire; 
      And they shall be weary.”

A Cornerstone in Zion

Isaiah 28

Woe to Ephraim and Jerusalem

¹ Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim,
      Whose glorious beauty is a fading flower 
      Which is at the head of the verdant valleys, 
      To those who are overcome with wine! 
       ² Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, 
      Like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, 
      Like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, 
      Who will bring them down to the earth withHis hand. 
       ³ The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, 
      Will be trampled underfoot; 
       ⁴ And the glorious beauty is a fading flower
      Which is at the head of the verdant valley, 
      Like the first fruit before the summer, 
      Which an observer sees; 
      He eats it up while it is still in his hand. 
       ⁵ In that day the LORD of hosts will be 
      For a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty
      To the remnant of His people, 
       ⁶ For a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, 
      And for strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate. 
       ⁷ But they also have erred through wine, 
      And through intoxicating drink are out of the way; 
      The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink, 
      They are swallowed up by wine, 
      They are out of the way through intoxicating drink; 
      They err in vision, they stumble injudgment. 
       ⁸ For all tables are full of vomit and filth; 
      No place is clean.
       ⁹ “ Whom will he teach knowledge? 
      And whom will he make to understand the message? 
      Those just weaned from milk? 
      Those just drawn from the breasts? 
       ¹⁰ For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, 
      Line upon line, line upon line, 
      Here a little, there a little.” 
       ¹¹ For with stammering lips and another tongue 
      He will speak to this people, 
       ¹² To whom He said, “This is the rest with which
      You may cause the weary to rest,” 
      And, “This is the refreshing”; 
      Yet they would not hear. 
       ¹³ But the word of the LORD was to them, 

      “ Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, 
      Line upon line, line upon line, 
      Here a little, there a little,” 
      That they might go and fall backward, and be broken 
      And snared and caught. 
       ¹⁴ Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, 
      Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem, 
       ¹⁵ Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, 
      And with Sheol we are in agreement. 
      When the overflowing scourge passes through, 
      It will not come to us, 
      For we have made lies our refuge, 
      And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”

A Cornerstone in Zion

¹⁶ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 


      “ Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, 
      A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; 
      Whoever believes will not act hastily. 
       ¹⁷ Also I will make justice the measuring line, 
      And righteousness the plummet; 
      The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, 
      And the waters will overflow the hiding place. 
       ¹⁸ Your covenant with death will be annulled, 
      And your agreement with Sheol will not stand; 
      When the overflowing scourge passes through, 
      Then you will be trampled down by it. 
       ¹⁹ As often as it goes out it will take you; 
      For morning by morning it will pass over, 
      And by day and by night; 
      It will be a terror just to understand the report.” 
       ²⁰ For the bed is too short to stretch out on,
      And the covering so narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it.
       ²¹ For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim, 
      He will be angry as in the Valley of Gibeon— 
      That He may do His work, His awesome work, 
      And bring to pass His act, His unusual act. 
       ²² Now therefore, do not be mockers, 
      Lest your bonds be made strong; 
      For I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts, 
      A destruction determined even upon the whole earth.

Listen to the Teaching of God

²³ Give ear and hear my voice, 
      Listen and hear my speech. 
       ²⁴ Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow? 
      Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods? 
       ²⁵ When he has leveled its surface, 
      Does he not sow the black cummin 
      And scatter the cummin, 
      Plant the wheat in rows, 
      The barley in the appointed place, 
      And the spelt in its place? 
       ²⁶ For He instructs him in right judgment, 
      His God teaches him. 
       ²⁷ For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge, 
      Nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cummin; 
      But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick, 
      And the cummin with a rod. 
       ²⁸ Bread flour must be ground; 
      Therefore he does not thresh it forever, 
      Break it with his cartwheel, 
      Or crush it with his horsemen. 
       ²⁹ This also comes from the LORD of hosts, 
      Whois wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance.

Zechariah 1 - Bible

Zechariah 1

A Call to Repentance

 ¹ In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, ² “The LORD has been very angry with your fathers. ³ Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Return to Me,” says the LORD of hosts, “and I will return to you,” says the LORD of hosts. ⁴ “Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets preached, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.”’ But they did not hear nor heed Me,” says the LORD.
       ⁵ “ Your fathers, where are they? 
      And the prophets, do they live forever? 
       ⁶ Yet surely My words and My statutes, 
      Which I commanded My servants the prophets, 
      Did they not overtake your fathers? 

“So they returned and said: 


      ‘ Just as the LORD of hosts determined to do to us, 
      According to our ways and according to our deeds, 
      So He has dealt with us.’”’”

Vision of the Horses

   
⁷ On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet: ⁸ I saw by night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and it stood among the myrtle trees in the hollow; and behind him were horses: red, sorrel, and white.⁹ Then I said, “My lord, what are these?” So the angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what they are.” 
¹⁰ And the man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, “These are the ones whom the LORD has sent to walk to and fro throughout the earth.” 
¹¹ So they answered the Angel of the LORD, who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, “We have walked to and fro throughout the earth, and behold, all the earth is resting quietly.”

The LORD Will Comfort Zion

   
¹² Then the Angel of the LORD answered and said, “O LORD of hosts, how long will You not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which You were angry these seventy years?” 
¹³ And the LORD answered the angel who talked to me, with goodand comforting words. ¹⁴ So the angel who spoke with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: 


      “ I am zealous for Jerusalem 
      And for Zion with great zeal. 
       ¹⁵ I am exceedingly angry with the nations at ease; 
      For I was a little angry, 
      And they helped—but with evil intent.” 

¹⁶ ‘Therefore thus says the LORD: 


      “ I am returning to Jerusalem with mercy; 
      My house shall be built in it,” says the LORD of hosts, 

      “ And a surveyor’s line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.”’ 

¹⁷ “Again proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: 


      “ My cities shall again spread out through prosperity; 
      The LORD will again comfort Zion, 
      And will again choose Jerusalem.”’” 

Vision of the Horns

   
¹⁸ Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were four horns.¹⁹ And I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” 
So he answered me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.” 
²⁰ Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen. ²¹ And I said, “What are these coming to do?” 
So he said, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one could lift up his head; but the craftsmen are coming to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations that lifted uptheir horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

Isaiah 54

The Future Glory of Zion

 ¹ “Sing, barren woman, 
   you who never bore a child; 
burst into song, shout for joy, 
   you who were never in labor; 
because more are the children of the desolate woman 
   than of her who has a husband,” 
            says the LORD. 
² “Enlarge the place of your tent, 
   stretch your tent curtains wide, 
   do not hold back; 
lengthen your cords, 
   strengthen your stakes. 
³ For you will spread out to the right and to the left; 
   your descendants will dispossess nations 
   and settle in their desolate cities.

 ⁴ “Do not be afraid; you will not be put to shame. 
   Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated. 
You will forget the shame of your youth 
   and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood. 
⁵ For your Maker is your husband— 
   the LORD Almighty is his name— 
the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; 
   he is called the God of all the earth. 
⁶ The LORD will call you back 
   as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit— 
a wife who married young, 
   only to be rejected,” says your God. 
⁷ “For a brief moment I abandoned you, 
   but with deep compassion I will bring you back. 
⁸ In a surge of anger 
   I hid my face from you for a moment, 
but with everlasting kindness 
   I will have compassion on you,” 
   says the LORD your Redeemer.

 ⁹ “To me this is like the days of Noah, 
   when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. 
So now I have sworn not to be angry with you, 
   never to rebuke you again. 
¹⁰ Though the mountains be shaken 
   and the hills be removed, 
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken 
   nor my covenant of peace be removed,” 
   says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

 ¹¹ “Afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted, 
   I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise,
   your foundations with lapis lazuli. 
¹² I will make your battlements of rubies, 
   your gates of sparkling jewels, 
   and all your walls of precious stones. 
¹³ All your children will be taught by the LORD, 
   and great will be their peace. 
¹⁴ In righteousness you will be established: 
Tyranny will be far from you; 
   you will have nothing to fear. 
Terror will be far removed; 
   it will not come near you. 
¹⁵ If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing; 
   whoever attacks you will surrender to you.

 ¹⁶ “See, it is I who created the blacksmith 
   who fans the coals into flame 
   and forges a weapon fit for its work. 
And it is I who have created the destroyer to wreak havoc; 
 ¹⁷ no weapon forged against you will prevail, 
   and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. 
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, 
   and this is their vindication from me,” 
            declares the LORD.