⁶ “Because this people has rejected^(K)
    the gently flowing waters of Shiloah^(L)
and rejoices over Rezin
    and the son of Remaliah,^(M)
7 therefore the Lord is about to bring against them
    the mighty floodwaters^(N) of the Euphrates—
    the king of Assyria^(O) with all his pomp.^(P)
It will overflow all its channels,
    run over all its banks^(Q)
8 and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it,^(R)
    passing through it and reaching up to the neck.
Its outspread wings^(S) will cover the breadth of your land,
    Immanuel^[b]!”^(T)

⁹ Raise the war cry,^[c](U) you nations, and be shattered!^(V)
    Listen, all you distant lands.
Prepare^(W) for battle, and be shattered!
    Prepare for battle, and be shattered!
¹⁰ Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted;^(X)
    propose your plan, but it will not stand,^(Y)
    for God is with us.^[d](Z)

¹² “Do not call conspiracy^(AC)
    everything this people calls a conspiracy;
do not fear what they fear,^(AD)
    and do not dread it.^(AE)
13 The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy,^(AF)
    he is the one you are to fear,^(AG)
    he is the one you are to dread.^(AH)
14 He will be a holy place;^(AI)
    for both Israel and Judah he will be
a stone^(AJ) that causes people to stumble^(AK)
    and a rock that makes them fall.^(AL)
And for the people of Jerusalem he will be
    a trap and a snare.^(AM)
15 Many of them will stumble;^(AN)
    they will fall and be broken,
    they will be snared and captured.”

¹⁶ Bind up this testimony of warning^(AO)
    and seal^(AP) up God’s instruction among my disciples.
¹⁷ I will wait^(AQ) for the Lord,
    who is hiding^(AR) his face from the descendants of Jacob.
I will put my trust in him.^(AS)

² The people walking in darkness^(BL)
    have seen a great light;^(BM)
on those living in the land of deep darkness^(BN)
    a light has dawned.^(BO)
3 You have enlarged the nation^(BP)
    and increased their joy;^(BQ)
they rejoice before you
    as people rejoice at the harvest,
as warriors rejoice
    when dividing the plunder.^(BR)
4 For as in the day of Midian’s defeat,^(BS)
    you have shattered^(BT)
the yoke^(BU) that burdens them,
    the bar across their shoulders,^(BV)
    the rod of their oppressor.^(BW)
5 Every warrior’s boot used in battle
    and every garment rolled in blood
will be destined for burning,^(BX)
    will be fuel for the fire.
⁶ For to us a child is born,^(BY)
    to us a son is given,^(BZ)
    and the government^(CA) will be on his shoulders.^(CB)
And he will be called
    Wonderful Counselor,^(CC) Mighty God,^(CD)
    Everlasting^(CE) Father,^(CF) Prince of Peace.^(CG)
7 Of the greatness of his government^(CH) and peace^(CI)
    there will be no end.^(CJ)
He will reign^(CK) on David’s throne
    and over his kingdom,
establishing and upholding it
    with justice^(CL) and righteousness^(CM)
    from that time on and forever.^(CN)
The zeal^(CO) of the Lord Almighty
    will accomplish this.

Yet for all this, his anger^(DA) is not turned away,
    his hand is still upraised.^(DB)

¹³ But the people have not returned^(DC) to him who struck^(DD) them,
    nor have they sought^(DE) the Lord Almighty.
¹⁴ So the Lord will cut off from Israel both head and tail,
    both palm branch and reed^(DF) in a single day;^(DG)
15 the elders^(DH) and dignitaries^(DI) are the head,
    the prophets^(DJ) who teach lies^(DK) are the tail.
¹⁶ Those who guide^(DL) this people mislead them,
    and those who are guided are led astray.^(DM)
17 Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men,^(DN)
    nor will he pity^(DO) the fatherless and widows,
for everyone is ungodly^(DP) and wicked,^(DQ)
    every mouth speaks folly.^(DR)

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
    his hand is still upraised.^(DS)

¹⁸ Surely wickedness burns like a fire;^(DT)
    it consumes briers and thorns,^(DU)
it sets the forest thickets ablaze,^(DV)
    so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.
¹⁹ By the wrath^(DW) of the Lord Almighty
    the land will be scorched^(DX)
and the people will be fuel for the fire;^(DY)
    they will not spare one another.^(DZ)
20 On the right they will devour,
    but still be hungry;^(EA)
on the left they will eat,^(EB)
    but not be satisfied.
Each will feed on the flesh of their own offspring^[f]:
²¹     Manasseh will feed on Ephraim, and Ephraim on Manasseh;^(EC)
    together they will turn against Judah.^(ED)

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
    his hand is still upraised.^(EE)

10 Woe^(EF) to those who make unjust laws,
    to those who issue oppressive decrees,^(EG)
2 to deprive^(EH) the poor of their rights
    and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,^(EI)
making widows their prey
    and robbing the fatherless.^(EJ)
3 What will you do on the day of reckoning,^(EK)
    when disaster^(EL) comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?^(EM)
    Where will you leave your riches?
⁴ Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives^(EN)
    or fall among the slain.^(EO)

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,^(EP)
    his hand is still upraised.

“‘By the strength of my hand^(FP) I have done this,^(FQ)
    and by my wisdom, because I have understanding.
I removed the boundaries of nations,
    I plundered their treasures;^(FR)
    like a mighty one I subdued^[g] their kings.^(FS)
14 As one reaches into a nest,^(FT)
    so my hand reached for the wealth^(FU) of the nations;
as people gather abandoned eggs,
    so I gathered all the countries;^(FV)
not one flapped a wing,
    or opened its mouth to chirp.^(FW)’”

¹⁵ Does the ax raise itself above the person who swings it,
    or the saw boast against the one who uses it?^(FX)
As if a rod were to wield the person who lifts it up,
    or a club^(FY) brandish the one who is not wood!
¹⁶ Therefore, the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
    will send a wasting disease^(FZ) upon his sturdy warriors;^(GA)
under his pomp^(GB) a fire^(GC) will be kindled
    like a blazing flame.
¹⁷ The Light of Israel will become a fire,^(GD)
    their Holy One^(GE) a flame;
in a single day it will burn and consume
    his thorns^(GF) and his briers.^(GG)
18 The splendor of his forests^(GH) and fertile fields
    it will completely destroy,^(GI)
    as when a sick person wastes away.
¹⁹ And the remaining trees of his forests^(GJ) will be so few^(GK)
    that a child could write them down.

“My people who live in Zion,^(GZ)
    do not be afraid^(HA) of the Assyrians,
who beat^(HB) you with a rod^(HC)
    and lift up a club against you, as Egypt did.
²⁵ Very soon^(HD) my anger against you will end
    and my wrath^(HE) will be directed to their destruction.^(HF)”

²⁶ The Lord Almighty will lash^(HG) them with a whip,
    as when he struck down Midian^(HH) at the rock of Oreb;
and he will raise his staff^(HI) over the waters,^(HJ)
    as he did in Egypt.
²⁷ In that day^(HK) their burden^(HL) will be lifted from your shoulders,
    their yoke^(HM) from your neck;^(HN)
the yoke^(HO) will be broken
    because you have grown so fat.^[i]

²⁸ They enter Aiath;
    they pass through Migron;^(HP)
    they store supplies^(HQ) at Mikmash.^(HR)
29 They go over the pass, and say,
    “We will camp overnight at Geba.^(HS)”
Ramah^(HT) trembles;
    Gibeah^(HU) of Saul flees.^(HV)
30 Cry out, Daughter Gallim!^(HW)
    Listen, Laishah!
    Poor Anathoth!^(HX)
31 Madmenah is in flight;
    the people of Gebim take cover.
³² This day they will halt at Nob;^(HY)
    they will shake their fist^(HZ)
at the mount of Daughter Zion,^(IA)
    at the hill of Jerusalem.

³³ See, the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
    will lop off^(IB) the boughs with great power.
The lofty trees will be felled,^(IC)
    the tall^(ID) ones will be brought low.^(IE)
34 He will cut down^(IF) the forest thickets with an ax;
    Lebanon^(IG) will fall before the Mighty One.^(IH)

He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes,^(IR)
    or decide by what he hears with his ears;^(IS)
4 but with righteousness^(IT) he will judge the needy,^(IU)
    with justice^(IV) he will give decisions for the poor^(IW) of the earth.
He will strike^(IX) the earth with the rod of his mouth;^(IY)
    with the breath^(IZ) of his lips he will slay the wicked.^(JA)
5 Righteousness will be his belt^(JB)
    and faithfulness^(JC) the sash around his waist.^(JD)

⁶ The wolf will live with the lamb,^(JE)
    the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling^[j] together;
    and a little child will lead them.
⁷ The cow will feed with the bear,
    their young will lie down together,
    and the lion will eat straw like the ox.^(JF)
8 The infant^(JG) will play near the cobra’s den,
    and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s^(JH) nest.
⁹ They will neither harm nor destroy^(JI)
    on all my holy mountain,^(JJ)
for the earth^(JK) will be filled with the knowledge^(JL) of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.

¹² He will raise a banner^(KC) for the nations
    and gather^(KD) the exiles of Israel;^(KE)
he will assemble the scattered people^(KF) of Judah
    from the four quarters of the earth.^(KG)
13 Ephraim’s jealousy will vanish,
    and Judah’s enemies^[m] will be destroyed;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
    nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim.^(KH)
14 They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia^(KI) to the west;
    together they will plunder the people to the east.^(KJ)
They will subdue Edom^(KK) and Moab,^(KL)
    and the Ammonites^(KM) will be subject to them.^(KN)
15 The Lord will dry up^(KO)
    the gulf of the Egyptian sea;
with a scorching wind^(KP) he will sweep his hand^(KQ)
    over the Euphrates River.^(KR)
He will break it up into seven streams
    so that anyone can cross over in sandals.^(KS)
16 There will be a highway^(KT) for the remnant^(KU) of his people
    that is left from Assyria,^(KV)
as there was for Israel
    when they came up from Egypt.^(KW)

⁴ My heart is in anguish^(G) within me;
    the terrors^(H) of death have fallen on me.
⁵ Fear and trembling^(I) have beset me;
    horror^(J) has overwhelmed me.
⁶ I said, “Oh, that I had the wings of a dove!
    I would fly away and be at rest.
⁷ I would flee far away
    and stay in the desert;^[c](K)
8 I would hurry to my place of shelter,^(L)
    far from the tempest and storm.^(M)”

⁹ Lord, confuse the wicked, confound their words,^(N)
    for I see violence and strife^(O) in the city.^(P)
10 Day and night they prowl^(Q) about on its walls;
    malice and abuse are within it.
¹¹ Destructive forces^(R) are at work in the city;
    threats and lies^(S) never leave its streets.

¹² If an enemy were insulting me,
    I could endure it;
if a foe were rising against me,
    I could hide.
¹³ But it is you, a man like myself,
    my companion, my close friend,^(T)
14 with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship^(U)
    at the house of God,^(V)
as we walked about
    among the worshipers.

¹⁵ Let death take my enemies by surprise;^(W)
    let them go down alive to the realm of the dead,^(X)
    for evil finds lodging among them.

¹⁶ As for me, I call to God,
    and the Lord saves me.
¹⁷ Evening,^(Y) morning^(Z) and noon^(AA)
    I cry out in distress,
    and he hears my voice.
¹⁸ He rescues me unharmed
    from the battle waged against me,
    even though many oppose me.
¹⁹ God, who is enthroned from of old,^(AB)
    who does not change—
he will hear^(AC) them and humble them,
    because they have no fear of God.^(AD)

²⁰ My companion attacks his friends;^(AE)
    he violates his covenant.^(AF)
21 His talk is smooth as butter,^(AG)
    yet war is in his heart;
his words are more soothing than oil,^(AH)
    yet they are drawn swords.^(AI)

²² Cast your cares on the Lord
    and he will sustain you;^(AJ)
he will never let
    the righteous be shaken.^(AK)
23 But you, God, will bring down the wicked
    into the pit^(AL) of decay;
the bloodthirsty and deceitful^(AM)
    will not live out half their days.^(AN)

But as for me, I trust in you.^(AO)

³ When I am afraid,^(AU) I put my trust in you.^(AV)
4     In God, whose word I praise—^(AW)
in God I trust and am not afraid.^(AX)
    What can mere mortals do to me?^(AY)

⁵ All day long they twist my words;^(AZ)
    all their schemes are for my ruin.
⁶ They conspire,^(BA) they lurk,
    they watch my steps,^(BB)
    hoping to take my life.^(BC)
7 Because of their wickedness do not^[f] let them escape;^(BD)
    in your anger, God, bring the nations down.^(BE)

⁸ Record my misery;
    list my tears on your scroll^[g](BF)—
    are they not in your record?^(BG)
9 Then my enemies will turn back^(BH)
    when I call for help.^(BI)
    By this I will know that God is for me.^(BJ)

¹⁰ In God, whose word I praise,
    in the Lord, whose word I praise—
¹¹ in God I trust and am not afraid.
    What can man do to me?

¹² I am under vows^(BK) to you, my God;
    I will present my thank offerings to you.
¹³ For you have delivered me from death^(BL)
    and my feet from stumbling,
that I may walk before God
    in the light of life.^(BM)