Against a (A)godless nation I send him,
    and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take (B)spoil and seize plunder,
    and to (C)tread them down like the mire of the streets.

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17 Therefore the Lord does not (A)rejoice over their young men,
    and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows;
for everyone is (B)godless and an evildoer,
    and every mouth speaks (C)folly.[a]
(D)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

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  1. Isaiah 9:17 Or speaks disgraceful things

They shall be like mighty men in battle,
    (A)trampling the foe in the mud of the streets;
they shall fight because the Lord is with them,
    and they shall put to shame (B)the riders on horses.

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(A)Ah, sword of the Lord!
    How long till you are quiet?
Put yourself into your scabbard;
    rest and be still!
How can it[a] be quiet
    (B)when the Lord has given it a charge?
Against (C)Ashkelon and against the seashore
    (D)he has appointed it.”

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  1. Jeremiah 47:7 Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew you

22 Behold, (A)I will command, declares the Lord, and will (B)bring them back to this city. (C)And they will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire. (D)I will make the cities of Judah a desolation (E)without inhabitant.”

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(A)behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (B)my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, (C)and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

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26 (A)“‘Have you not heard
    that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
    what now I bring to pass,
that you should make fortified cities
    crash into heaps of ruins,
27 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
    are dismayed and confounded,
and have become like plants of the field
    and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
    blighted[a] before it is grown.

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  1. Isaiah 37:27 Some Hebrew manuscripts and 2 Kings 19:26; most Hebrew manuscripts a field

17 And the land of Judah will become a terror to the Egyptians. Everyone to whom it is mentioned will fear because of the purpose that the Lord of hosts has purposed against them.

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13 (A)For he says:

“By the strength of my hand I have done it,
    and by my wisdom, for I have understanding;
I remove the boundaries of peoples,
    and plunder their treasures;
    like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.
14 My hand has found like a nest
    the wealth of the peoples;
and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken,
    so I have gathered all the earth;
and there was none that moved a wing
    or opened the mouth or chirped.”

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(A)You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:

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10 Then (A)my enemy will see,
    and shame will cover her who (B)said to me,
    “Where is the Lord your God?”
(C)My eyes will look upon her;
    now she will be trampled down
    (D)like the mire of the streets.

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14 O Jerusalem, (A)wash your heart from evil,
    that you may be saved.
How long shall your wicked thoughts
    lodge within you?

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10 Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me (A)with her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the Lord.”

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I trampled down the peoples in my anger;
    (A)I made them drunk in my wrath,
    and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

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(A)“I have trodden the winepress alone,
    (B)and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
    and trampled them in my wrath;
their lifeblood[a] spattered on my garments,
    and stained all my apparel.

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  1. Isaiah 63:3 Or their juice; also verse 6

Cyrus, God's Instrument

45 Thus says the Lord to (A)his anointed, to Cyrus,
    (B)whose right hand I have grasped,
to subdue nations before him
    and (C)to loose the belts of kings,
to open doors before him
    that gates may not be closed:
“I will go before you
    and (D)level the exalted places,[a]
(E)I will break in pieces the doors of bronze
    and cut through the bars of iron,
(F)I will give you the treasures of darkness
    and the hoards in secret places,
that you may know that it is I, the Lord,
    the God of Israel, (G)who call you by your name.
For the sake of my servant Jacob,
    and Israel my chosen,
(H)I call you by your name,
    (I)I name you, though you do not know me.
(J)I am the Lord, and there is no other,
    besides me there is no God;
    (K)I equip you, though you do not know me,

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  1. Isaiah 45:2 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint level the mountains

25 (A)I stirred up one from the north, and he has come,
    (B)from the rising of the sun, (C)and he shall call upon my name;
he shall trample on rulers as on mortar,
    as the potter treads clay.

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14 The sinners in Zion are afraid;
    trembling has seized the godless:
(A)“Who among us can dwell (B)with the consuming fire?
    Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?”

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(A)For they are a rebellious people,
    lying children,
children unwilling to hear
    the instruction of the Lord;
10 (B)who say to (C)the seers, “Do not see,”
    and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;
speak to us (D)smooth things,
    prophesy illusions,
11 leave the way, turn aside from the path,
    let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”

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13 And the Lord said:
“Because (A)this people (B)draw near with their mouth
    and honor me with their lips,
    while their hearts are far from me,
and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,

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(A)For the Lord God of hosts has (B)a day
    of tumult and (C)trampling and (D)confusion
    in (E)the valley of vision,
a battering down of walls
    and a shouting to the mountains.

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19 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts
    the land is scorched,
and (A)the people are like fuel for the fire;
    (B)no one spares another.

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29 Their roaring is like a lion,
    like young lions they roar;
they growl and (A)seize their prey;
    they carry it off, and none can rescue.

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43 I beat them fine (A)as the dust of the earth;
    I crushed them and stamped them down (B)like the mire of the streets.

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