And the Lord your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you.

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15 And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil (A)diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.

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21 (A)Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom,
    you who dwell in (B)the land of Uz;
but to you also (C)the cup shall pass;
    you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare.

22 (D)The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished;
    he will keep you in exile no longer;[a]
but (E)your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will punish;
    he will uncover your sins.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:22 Or he will not exile you again

24 (A)“I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the Lord.

25 “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain,
declares the Lord,
    which destroys the whole earth;
I will stretch out my hand against you,
    and roll you down from the crags,
    (B)and make you a burnt mountain.
26 No (C)stone shall be taken from you for a corner
    and no stone for a foundation,
but you shall be (D)a perpetual waste,
    declares the Lord.

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The Restoration of Jacob

14 (A)For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and (B)will set them in their own land, and (C)sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob. And (D)the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the Lord's land (E)as male and female slaves.[a] (F)They will take captive those who were their captors, (G)and rule over those who oppressed them.

Israel's Remnant Taunts Babylon

When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve, you will take up this (H)taunt against the king of Babylon:

“How the oppressor has ceased,
    (I)the insolent fury[b] ceased!
The Lord has broken the (J)staff of the wicked,
    the (K)scepter of rulers,
(L)that struck the peoples in wrath
    with unceasing blows,
that ruled the nations in anger
    with unrelenting persecution.
The whole earth is at rest and quiet;
    (M)they break forth into singing.
(N)(O)The cypresses rejoice at you,
    (P)the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
‘Since you were laid low,
    no woodcutter comes up against us.’
Sheol beneath is stirred up
    to meet you when you come;
it rouses the shades to greet you,
    all who were leaders of the earth;
it raises from their thrones
    all who were kings of the nations.
10 (Q)All of them will answer
    and say to you:
‘You too have become as weak as we!
    You have become like us!’
11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,
    the sound of your harps;
maggots are laid as a bed beneath you,
    and worms are your covers.

12 “How (R)you are fallen from heaven,
    O Day Star, (S)son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
    you who laid the nations low!
13 You said in your heart,
    (T)‘I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God
    (U)I will set my throne on high;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
    in the far reaches of the north;[c]
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
    I will make myself like the Most High.’
15 (V)But you are brought down to Sheol,
    to the far reaches of the pit.
16 Those who see you will stare at you
    and ponder over you:
‘Is this (W)the man who made the earth tremble,
    who shook kingdoms,
17 who made the world like a desert
    and overthrew its cities,
    (X)who did not let his prisoners go home?’
18 All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
    each in his own tomb;[d]
19 but you are cast out, away from your grave,
    like a loathed branch,
(Y)clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword,
    who go down to the stones of the pit,
    like a dead body trampled underfoot.
20 You will not be joined with them in burial,
    because you have destroyed your land,
    you have slain your people.

“May (Z)the offspring of evildoers
    nevermore be named!
21 Prepare slaughter for his sons
    (AA)because of the guilt of their fathers,
lest they rise and possess the earth,
    and fill the face of the world with cities.”

22 “I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and (AB)remnant, (AC)descendants and posterity,” declares the Lord. 23 “And I will make it a possession of the (AD)hedgehog,[e] and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.

An Oracle Concerning Assyria

24 The Lord of hosts has sworn:
(AE)“As I have planned,
    so shall it be,
and as I have purposed,
    so shall it stand,
25 that (AF)I will break the Assyrian in my land,
    and on my mountains trample him underfoot;
and (AG)his yoke shall depart from them,
    and (AH)his burden from their shoulder.”

26 This is the purpose that is purposed
    concerning the whole earth,
and this is (AI)the hand that is stretched out
    over all the nations.
27 (AJ)For the Lord of hosts has purposed,
    and who will annul it?
(AK)His hand is stretched out,
    and who will turn it back?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:2 Or servants
  2. Isaiah 14:4 Dead Sea Scroll (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate); the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain
  3. Isaiah 14:13 Or in the remote parts of Zaphon
  4. Isaiah 14:18 Hebrew house
  5. Isaiah 14:23 Possibly porcupine, or owl

12 (A)When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, (B)he[a] will punish the speech[b] of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 10:12 Hebrew I
  2. Isaiah 10:12 Hebrew fruit

14 And now, behold, I am going to my people. Come, (A)I will let you know what this people will do to your people (B)in the latter days.”

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(A)On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. (B)All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And (C)all the nations of the earth will gather against it.

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Edom's Violence Against Jacob

10 (A)Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob,
    shame shall cover you,
    (B)and you shall be cut off forever.

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13 Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of the (B)Ammonites,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because (C)they have ripped open pregnant women in (D)Gilead,
    that they might enlarge their border.

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11 Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of (B)Edom,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
(C)because he pursued his brother with the sword
    (D)and cast off all pity,
(E)and his anger tore perpetually,
    (F)and he kept his wrath forever.

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Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of (B)Tyre,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because they delivered up a whole people to Edom,
    and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.

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Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of (B)Gaza,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because (C)they carried into exile a whole people
    to deliver them up to Edom.

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Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of (B)Damascus,
    and for four, (C)I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because they have threshed (D)Gilead
    with threshing sledges of iron.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 1:3 Hebrew I will not turn it back; also verses 6, 9, 11, 13

Prophecy Against Philistia

15 “Thus says the Lord God: Because (A)the Philistines (B)acted revengefully and took vengeance (C)with malice of soul to destroy in never-ending enmity,

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Prophecy Against Edom

12 “Thus says the Lord God: Because (A)Edom acted revengefully against the house of Judah and has grievously offended (B)in taking vengeance on them,

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Prophecy Against Moab and Seir

“Thus says the Lord God: Because (A)Moab and (B)Seir[a] said, ‘Behold, the (C)house of Judah is like all the other nations,’

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 25:8 Septuagint lacks and Seir

For thus says the Lord God: Because (A)you have clapped your hands (B)and stamped your feet and (C)rejoiced with all the (D)malice within your soul against the land of Israel,

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Say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord God: (A)Thus says the Lord God, Because you said, (B)‘Aha!’ over my (C)sanctuary when it was profaned, and over the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and over the house of Judah when they went into exile,

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54 (A)water closed over my head;
    I said, (B)‘I am lost.’

55 (C)“I called on your name, O Lord,
    from the depths of the pit;
56 (D)you heard my plea, ‘Do not close
    your ear to my cry for help!’
57 (E)You came near when I called on you;
    you said, (F)‘Do not fear!’

58 “You have (G)taken up my cause, (H)O Lord;
    you have (I)redeemed my life.
59 You have seen the wrong done to me, (J)O Lord;
    judge my cause.
60 You have seen all their vengeance,
    all (K)their plots against me.

61 (L)“You have heard their taunts, O Lord,
    all (M)their plots against me.
62 The lips and thoughts (N)of my assailants
    are against me all the day long.
63 (O)Behold their sitting and their rising;
    (P)I am the object of their taunts.

64 (Q)“You will repay them,[a] O Lord,
    (R)according to the work of their hands.
65 You will give them[b] dullness of heart;
    your curse will be[c] on them.
66 You will pursue them[d] in anger and (S)destroy them
    from under (T)your heavens, O Lord.”[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:64 Or Repay them
  2. Lamentations 3:65 Or Give them
  3. Lamentations 3:65 Or place your curse
  4. Lamentations 3:66 Or Pursue them
  5. Lamentations 3:66 Syriac (compare Septuagint, Vulgate); Hebrew the heavens of the Lord

34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon (A)has devoured me;
    he has crushed me;
he has made me an empty vessel;
    (B)he has swallowed me like (C)a monster;
he has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
    he has rinsed me out.[a]
35 The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon,”
    let the inhabitant of Zion say.
“My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
    let Jerusalem say.
36 Therefore thus says the Lord:
“Behold, (D)I will plead your cause
    and take vengeance for you.
(E)I will dry up her sea
    and (F)make her fountain dry,
37 and Babylon shall become (G)a heap of ruins,
    (H)the haunt of jackals,
(I)a horror (J)and a hissing,
    without inhabitant.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:34 Or he has expelled me

33 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: (A)The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah with them. All who took them captive have held them fast; (B)they refuse to let them go. 34 (C)Their Redeemer is strong; (D)the Lord of hosts is his name. (E)He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.

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29 For behold, (A)I begin to work disaster at the city that is called by my name, and shall you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, (B)for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the Lord of hosts.’

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12 Then after (A)seventy years are completed, (B)I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, (C)the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, (D)making the land an everlasting waste. 13 I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written (E)in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations. 14 (F)For many nations (G)and great kings shall make slaves even of them, (H)and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”

The Cup of the Lord's Wrath

15 Thus the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: (I)“Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it. 16 They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of (J)the sword that I am sending among them.”

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Remember, O Lord, against the (A)Edomites
    (B)the day of Jerusalem,
how they said, (C)“Lay it bare, lay it bare,
    down to its foundations!”
O daughter of Babylon, (D)doomed to be destroyed,
    blessed shall he be who (E)repays you
    with what you have done to us!
Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
    and (F)dashes them against the rock!

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