⁶ Those who come He shall cause ^(I)to take root in Jacob;
Israel shall blossom and bud,
And fill the face of the world with fruit.

^7 (J)Has He struck ^[b]Israel as He struck those who struck him?
Or has He been slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by Him?
^8 (K)In measure, by sending it away,
You contended with it.
^(L)He removes it by His rough wind
In the day of the east wind.
⁹ Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered;
And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin:
When he makes all the stones of the altar
Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust,
^[c]Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand.

¹⁰ Yet the fortified city will be ^(M)desolate,
The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness;
There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down
And consume its branches.
¹¹ When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off;
The women come and set them on fire.
For ^(N)it is a people of no understanding;
Therefore He who made them will ^(O)not have mercy on them,
And ^(P)He who formed them will show them no favor.

¹² And it shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord will thresh,
From the channel of ^[d]the River to the Brook of Egypt;
And you will be ^(Q)gathered one by one,
O you children of Israel.

^13 (R)So it shall be in that day:
^(S)The great trumpet will be blown;
They will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria,
And they who are outcasts in the land of ^(T)Egypt,
And shall ^(U)worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

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 ^(W)have erred through wine,
And through intoxicating drink are out of the way;
^(X)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 in judgment.
⁸ For all tables are full of vomit and filth;
No place is clean.

⁹ “Whom^(Y) 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 (Z)For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept,
Line upon line, line upon line,
Here a little, there a little.”

¹¹ For with ^(AA)stammering lips and another tongue
He will speak to this people,
¹² To whom He said, “This is the ^(AB)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,
^(AC)For we have made lies our refuge,
And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”

“Behold, I lay in Zion ^(AD)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 ^(AE)Perazim,
He will be angry as in the Valley of ^(AF)Gibeon—
That He may do His work, ^(AG)His awesome work,
And bring to pass His act, His ^[g]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,
^(AH)A ^[h]destruction determined even upon the whole earth.

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,
^(AI)Who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in ^[j]guidance.

³³ He ^(A)turns rivers into a wilderness,
And the watersprings into dry ground;
³⁴ A ^(B)fruitful land into ^[a]barrenness,
For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
^35 (C)He turns a wilderness into pools of water,
And dry land into watersprings.
³⁶ There He makes the hungry dwell,
That they may establish a city for a dwelling place,
³⁷ And sow fields and plant vineyards,
That they may yield a fruitful harvest.
^38 (D)He also blesses them, and they multiply greatly;
And He does not let their cattle ^(E)decrease.

³⁹ When they are ^(F)diminished and brought low
Through oppression, affliction, and sorrow,
^40 (G)He pours contempt on princes,
And causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way;
^41 (H)Yet He sets the poor on high, far from affliction,
And ^(I)makes their families like a flock.
^42 (J)The righteous see it and rejoice,
And all ^(K)iniquity stops its mouth.

^43 (L)Whoever is wise will observe these things,
And they will understand the lovingkindness of the Lord.

²⁰ Like one who takes away a garment in cold weather,
And like vinegar on soda,
Is one who ^(A)sings songs to a heavy heart.