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Isaiah 14

 ¹ The LORD will have compassion on Jacob;
       once again he will choose Israel
       and will settle them in their own land.
       Aliens will join them
       and unite with the house of Jacob.

 ² Nations will take them
       and bring them to their own place.
       And the house of Israel will possess the nations
       as menservants and maidservants in the LORD's land.
       They will make captives of their captors
       and rule over their oppressors.

 ³ On the day the LORD gives you relief from suffering and turmoil and cruel bondage, ⁴ you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:
       How the oppressor has come to an end!
       How his fury ^[a] has ended!

 ⁵ The LORD has broken the rod of the wicked,
       the scepter of the rulers,

 ⁶ which in anger struck down peoples
       with unceasing blows,
       and in fury subdued nations
       with relentless aggression.

 ⁷ All the lands are at rest and at peace;
       they break into singing.

 ⁸ Even the pine trees and the cedars of Lebanon
       exult over you and say,
       "Now that you have been laid low,
       no woodsman comes to cut us down."

 ⁹ The grave ^[b] below is all astir
       to meet you at your coming;
       it rouses the spirits of the departed to greet you—
       all those who were leaders in the world;
       it makes them rise from their thrones—
       all those who were kings over the nations.

 ¹⁰ They will all respond,
       they will say to you,
       "You also have become weak, as we are;
       you have become like us."

 ¹¹ All your pomp has been brought down to the grave,
       along with the noise of your harps;
       maggots are spread out beneath you
       and worms cover you.

 ¹² How you have fallen from heaven,
       O morning star, son of the dawn!
       You have been cast down to the earth,
       you who once laid low the nations!

 ¹³ You said in your heart,
       "I will ascend to heaven;
       I will raise my throne
       above the stars of God;
       I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
       on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. ^[c]

 ¹⁴ I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;
       I will make myself like the Most High."

 ¹⁵ But you are brought down to the grave,
       to the depths of the pit.

 ¹⁶ Those who see you stare at you,
       they ponder your fate:
       "Is this the man who shook the earth
       and made kingdoms tremble,

 ¹⁷ the man who made the world a desert,
       who overthrew its cities
       and would not let his captives go home?"

 ¹⁸ All the kings of the nations lie in state,
       each in his own tomb.

 ¹⁹ But you are cast out of your tomb
       like a rejected branch;
       you are covered with the slain,
       with those pierced by the sword,
       those who descend to the stones of the pit.
       Like a corpse trampled underfoot,

 ²⁰ you will not join them in burial,
       for you have destroyed your land
       and killed your people.
       The offspring of the wicked
       will never be mentioned again.

 ²¹ Prepare a place to slaughter his sons
       for the sins of their forefathers;
       they are not to rise to inherit the land
       and cover the earth with their cities.

 ²² "I will rise up against them,"
       declares the LORD Almighty.
       "I will cut off from Babylon her name and survivors,
       her offspring and descendants,"
       declares the LORD.

 ²³ "I will turn her into a place for owls
       and into swampland;
       I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,"
       declares the LORD Almighty.

A Prophecy Against Assyria

 ²⁵ I will crush the Assyrian in my land;
       on my mountains I will trample him down.
       His yoke will be taken from my people,
       and his burden removed from their shoulders."

 ²⁶ This is the plan determined for the whole world;
       this is the hand stretched out over all nations.

 ²⁷ For the LORD Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him?
       His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?

A Prophecy Against the Philistines

 ²⁹ Do not rejoice, all you Philistines,
       that the rod that struck you is broken;
       from the root of that snake will spring up a viper,
       its fruit will be a darting, venomous serpent.

 ³⁰ The poorest of the poor will find pasture,
       and the needy will lie down in safety.
       But your root I will destroy by famine;
       it will slay your survivors.

 ³¹ Wail, O gate! Howl, O city!
       Melt away, all you Philistines!
       A cloud of smoke comes from the north,
       and there is not a straggler in its ranks.

 ³² What answer shall be given
       to the envoys of that nation?
       "The LORD has established Zion,
       and in her his afflicted people will find refuge."

Isaiah 15

A Prophecy Against Moab

 ² Dibon goes up to its temple,
       to its high places to weep;
       Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba.
       Every head is shaved
       and every beard cut off.

 ³ In the streets they wear sackcloth;
       on the roofs and in the public squares
       they all wail,
       prostrate with weeping.

 ⁴ Heshbon and Elealeh cry out,
       their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.
       Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,
       and their hearts are faint.

 ⁵ My heart cries out over Moab;
       her fugitives flee as far as Zoar,
       as far as Eglath Shelishiyah.
       They go up the way to Luhith,
       weeping as they go;
       on the road to Horonaim
       they lament their destruction.

 ⁶ The waters of Nimrim are dried up
       and the grass is withered;
       the vegetation is gone
       and nothing green is left.

 ⁷ So the wealth they have acquired and stored up
       they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.

 ⁸ Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab;
       their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,
       their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.

 ⁹ Dimon's ^[d] waters are full of blood,
       but I will bring still more upon Dimon ^[e]—
       a lion upon the fugitives of Moab
       and upon those who remain in the land.

Isaiah 16

 ¹ Send lambs as tribute
       to the ruler of the land,
       from Sela, across the desert,
       to the mount of the Daughter of Zion.

 ² Like fluttering birds
       pushed from the nest,
       so are the women of Moab
       at the fords of the Arnon.

 ³ "Give us counsel,
       render a decision.
       Make your shadow like night—
       at high noon.
       Hide the fugitives,
       do not betray the refugees.

 ⁴ Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you;
       be their shelter from the destroyer."
       The oppressor will come to an end,
       and destruction will cease;
       the aggressor will vanish from the land.

 ⁵ In love a throne will be established;
       in faithfulness a man will sit on it—
       one from the house ^[f] of David—
       one who in judging seeks justice
       and speeds the cause of righteousness.

 ⁶ We have heard of Moab's pride—
       her overweening pride and conceit,
       her pride and her insolence—
       but her boasts are empty.

 ⁷ Therefore the Moabites wail,
       they wail together for Moab.
       Lament and grieve
       for the men ^[g] of Kir Hareseth.

 ⁸ The fields of Heshbon wither,
       the vines of Sibmah also.
       The rulers of the nations
       have trampled down the choicest vines,
       which once reached Jazer
       and spread toward the desert.
       Their shoots spread out
       and went as far as the sea.

 ⁹ So I weep, as Jazer weeps,
       for the vines of Sibmah.
       O Heshbon, O Elealeh,
       I drench you with tears!
       The shouts of joy over your ripened fruit
       and over your harvests have been stilled.

 ¹⁰ Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards;
       no one sings or shouts in the vineyards;
       no one treads out wine at the presses,
       for I have put an end to the shouting.

 ¹¹ My heart laments for Moab like a harp,
       my inmost being for Kir Hareseth.

 ¹² When Moab appears at her high place,
       she only wears herself out;
       when she goes to her shrine to pray,
       it is to no avail.

 ¹³ This is the word the LORD has already spoken concerning Moab. ¹⁴ But now the LORD says: "Within three years, as a servant bound by contract would count them, Moab's splendor and all her many people will be despised, and her survivors will be very few and feeble."

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Ephesians 5

 ¹Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children ²and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

 ³But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people. ⁴Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. ⁵For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a man is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.^{[a] 6}Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient. ⁷Therefore do not be partners with them.

 ⁸For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light ⁹(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) ¹⁰and find out what pleases the Lord. ¹¹Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. ¹²For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. ¹³But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, ¹⁴for it is light that makes everything visible. This is why it is said:
   "Wake up, O sleeper,
      rise from the dead,
   and Christ will shine on you."

 ¹⁵Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, ¹⁶making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.