Prophecy Against Ammon

25 The word of the Lord came to me: ^2 (A)“Son of man, ^(B)set your face toward ^(C)the Ammonites and prophesy against them. ³ Say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord God: ^(D)Thus says the Lord God, Because you said, ^(E)‘Aha!’ over my ^(F)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, ⁴ therefore behold, I am handing you over to ^(G)the people of the East for a possession, and they shall set their encampments among you and make their dwellings in your midst. They shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk. ⁵ I will make ^(H)Rabbah a ^(I)pasture for camels and Ammon^{[a] (J)}a fold for flocks. ^(K)Then you will know that I am the Lord. ⁶ For thus says the Lord God: Because ^(L)you have clapped your hands ^(M)and stamped your feet and ^(N)rejoiced with all the ^(O)malice within your soul against the land of Israel, ⁷ therefore, behold, ^(P)I have stretched out my hand against you, and ^(Q)will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Prophecy Against Moab and Seir

⁸ “Thus says the Lord God: Because ^(R)Moab and ^(S)Seir^[b] said, ‘Behold, the ^(T)house of Judah is like all the other nations,’ ⁹ therefore ^(U)I will lay open the flank of Moab from the cities, from its cities on its frontier, the glory of the country, ^(V)Beth-jeshimoth, ^(W)Baal-meon, and ^(X)Kiriathaim. ¹⁰ I will give it ^(Y)along with the Ammonites ^(Z)to the people of the East as a possession, ^(AA)that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations, ^11 (AB)and I will execute judgments upon Moab. ^(AC)Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Prophecy Against Edom

¹² “Thus says the Lord God: Because ^(AD)Edom acted revengefully against the house of Judah and has grievously offended ^(AE)in taking vengeance on them, ¹³ therefore thus says the Lord God, ^(AF)I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it man and beast. And I will make it desolate; from ^(AG)Teman even to ^(AH)Dedan they shall fall by the sword. ¹⁴ And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom ^(AI)by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and ^(AJ)they shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord God.

Prophecy Against Philistia

¹⁵ “Thus says the Lord God: Because ^(AK)the Philistines ^(AL)acted revengefully and took vengeance ^(AM)with malice of soul to destroy in never-ending enmity, ¹⁶ therefore thus says the Lord God, ^(AN)Behold, I will stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off ^(AO)the Cherethites and destroy the rest of the seacoast. ¹⁷ I will execute great vengeance on them ^(AP)with wrathful rebukes. ^(AQ)Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I lay my vengeance upon them.”

Prophecy Against Tyre

26 ^(AR)In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: ^2 (AS)“Son of man, because ^(AT)Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, ^(AU)‘Aha, the gate of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,’ ³ therefore thus says the Lord God: ^(AV)Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up ^(AW)many nations against you, ^(AX)as the sea brings up its waves. ⁴ They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers, and I will scrape her soil from her and ^(AY)make her a bare rock. ⁵ She ^(AZ)shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, ^(BA)for I have spoken, declares the Lord God. And she shall become plunder for the nations, ⁶ and her daughters on the mainland shall be killed by the sword. ^(BB)Then they will know that I am the Lord.

⁷ “For thus says the Lord God: ^(BC)Behold, I will bring against Tyre ^(BD)from the north Nebuchadnezzar^[c] king of Babylon, ^(BE)king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers. ⁸ He will kill with the sword ^(BF)your daughters on the mainland. ^(BG)He will set up a siege wall against you and throw up a mound against you, and raise ^(BH)a roof of shields against you. ^9 (BI)He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. ¹⁰ His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as men enter a city that has been breached. ¹¹ With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground. ¹² They will plunder ^(BJ)your riches and loot ^(BK)your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. Your stones and timber and ^(BL)soil they will cast into the midst of the waters. ^13 (BM)And I will stop the music of your songs, and ^(BN)the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more. ^14 (BO)I will make you a bare rock. ^(BP)You shall be a place for the spreading of nets. You shall never be rebuilt, ^(BQ)for I am the Lord; I have spoken, declares the Lord God.

¹⁵ “Thus says the Lord God to Tyre: Will not ^(BR)the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, ^(BS)when the wounded groan, when slaughter is made in your midst? ¹⁶ Then all ^(BT)the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones and ^(BU)remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; ^(BV)they will sit on the ground and ^(BW)tremble every moment and ^(BX)be appalled at you. ¹⁷ And they will ^(BY)raise a lamentation over you and say to you,

¹⁹ “For thus says the Lord God: When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities that are not inhabited, ^(CB)when I bring up the deep over you, and the great waters cover you, ²⁰ then ^(CC)I will make you go down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the world below, among ruins from of old, ^(CD)with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set beauty ^(CE)in the land of the living. ²¹ I will bring you ^(CF)to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more. ^(CG)Though you be sought for, you will never be found again, declares the Lord God.”

A Lament for Tyre

27 The word of the Lord came to me: ² “Now you, ^(CH)son of man, ^(CI)raise a lamentation over Tyre, ³ and say to Tyre, who dwells at ^(CJ)the entrances to the sea, ^(CK)merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, thus says the Lord God:

^10 (CX)“Persia and ^(CY)Lud and ^(CZ)Put were in your army as your men of war. ^(DA)They hung the shield and helmet in you; they gave you splendor. ¹¹ Men of ^(DB)Arvad and Helech were on your walls all around, and men of Gamad were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around; they made ^(DC)perfect your beauty.

^12 (DD)“Tarshish did ^(DE)business with you because of your great wealth of every kind; silver, iron, tin, and lead they exchanged for your ^(DF)wares. ^13 (DG)Javan, ^(DH)Tubal, and ^(DI)Meshech traded with you; they exchanged human beings and vessels of bronze for your merchandise. ¹⁴ From ^(DJ)Beth-togarmah they exchanged horses, war horses, and mules ^(DK)for your wares. ¹⁵ The men of ^(DL)Dedan^[d] traded with you. Many coastlands were your own special markets; they brought you in payment ivory tusks and ebony. ¹⁶ Syria ^(DM)did business with you because of your abundant goods; they exchanged for your wares ^(DN)emeralds, ^(DO)purple, ^(DP)embroidered work, ^(DQ)fine linen, coral, and ^(DR)ruby. ¹⁷ Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise ^(DS)wheat of ^(DT)Minnith, meal,^[e] honey, oil, and ^(DU)balm. ^18 (DV)Damascus did business with you for your abundant goods, because of your great wealth of every kind; wine of Helbon and ^(DW)wool of Sahar ¹⁹ and casks of wine^[f] from Uzal they exchanged for your wares; wrought iron, ^(DX)cassia, and ^(DY)calamus were bartered for your merchandise. ²⁰ Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding. ²¹ Arabia and all the princes of ^(DZ)Kedar were your favored dealers ^(EA)in lambs, rams, and goats; in these they did business with you. ²² The traders of ^(EB)Sheba and ^(EC)Raamah traded with you; they exchanged ^(ED)for your wares ^(EE)the best of all kinds of spices and all precious stones and gold. ^23 (EF)Haran, Canneh, ^(EG)Eden, traders of Sheba, ^(EH)Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you. ²⁴ In your market these traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of ^(EI)blue and ^(EJ)embroidered work, and in carpets of colored material, bound with cords and made secure. ^25 (EK)The ships of ^(EL)Tarshish traveled for you with your merchandise. So you were filled and heavily laden ^(EM)in the heart of the seas.

Revive Us Again

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of ^(A)the Sons of Korah.

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

9 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. ² And his disciples asked him, ^(A)“Rabbi, ^(B)who sinned, ^(C)this man or ^(D)his parents, that he was born blind?” ³ Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but ^(E)that the works of God might be displayed in him. ⁴ We must ^(F)work the works of him who sent me ^(G)while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. ⁵ As long as I am in the world, ^(H)I am the light of the world.” ⁶ Having said these things, ^(I)he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. ^(J)Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud ⁷ and said to him, “Go, wash in ^(K)the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and ^(L)came back seeing.

⁸ The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, ^(M)“Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” ⁹ Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” ¹⁰ So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” ¹¹ He answered, ^(N)“The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.” ¹² They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”

¹³ They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. ^14 (O)Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. ^15 (P)So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” ¹⁶ Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not ^(Q)from God, ^(R)for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, ^(S)“How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And ^(T)there was a division among them. ¹⁷ So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, ^(U)“He is a prophet.”

^18 (V)The Jews^[a] did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight ¹⁹ and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” ²⁰ His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. ²¹ But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.” ²² (His parents said these things ^(W)because they feared the Jews, for ^(X)the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should ^(Y)confess Jesus^[b] to be Christ, ^(Z)he was to be put out of the synagogue.) ²³ Therefore his parents said, ^(AA)“He is of age; ask him.”

²⁴ So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, ^(AB)“Give glory to God. We know that ^(AC)this man is a sinner.” ²⁵ He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I ^(AD)was blind, now I see.” ²⁶ They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” ²⁷ He answered them, ^(AE)“I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?” ²⁸ And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but ^(AF)we are disciples of Moses. ²⁹ We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, ^(AG)we do not know where he comes from.” ³⁰ The man answered, “Why, this is ^(AH)an amazing thing! ^(AI)You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. ³¹ We know that ^(AJ)God does not listen to sinners, but ^(AK)if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him. ³² Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. ^33 (AL)If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” ³⁴ They answered him, ^(AM)“You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they ^(AN)cast him out.

³⁵ Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in ^(AO)the Son of Man?”^{[c] 36} He answered, ^(AP)“And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” ³⁷ Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and ^(AQ)it is he who is speaking to you.” ³⁸ He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. ³⁹ Jesus said, ^(AR)“For judgment I came into this world, ^(AS)that those who do not see may see, and ^(AT)those who see may become blind.” ⁴⁰ Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, ^(AU)“Are we also blind?” ⁴¹ Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, ^(AV)you would have no guilt;^[d] but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.