(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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30 (A)Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’

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The best of them is (A)like a brier,
    the most upright of them a thorn hedge.
The day of (B)your watchmen, of your punishment, has come;
    (C)now their confusion is at hand.

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(A)Her foes have become the head;
    her (B)enemies prosper,
because (C)the Lord has afflicted her
    (D)for the multitude of her transgressions;
(E)her children have gone away,
    captives before the foe.

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They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a (A)day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; (B)children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.

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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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Let Justice Roll Down

18 Woe to you who desire (A)the day of the Lord!
    Why would you have the day of the Lord?
(B)It is darkness, and not light,
19     (C)as if a man fled from a lion,
    and a bear met him,
or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall,
    and a serpent bit him.
20 (D)Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light,
    and gloom with no brightness in it?

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The high places of (A)Aven, (B)the sin of Israel,
    shall be destroyed.
(C)Thorn and thistle shall grow up
    on their altars,
and (D)they shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,”
    and to the hills, “Fall on us.”

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The Lord (A)has swallowed up (B)without mercy
    all the habitations of Jacob;
in his wrath (C)he has broken down
    the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
he has brought (D)down to the ground (E)in dishonor
    the kingdom (F)and its rulers.

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Alas! (A)That day is so great
    (B)there is none like it;
it is a time of distress for Jacob;
    yet he shall be saved out of it.

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An Oracle Concerning Jerusalem

22 The (A)oracle concerning (B)the valley of vision.

What do you mean that you have gone up,
    all of you, to the housetops,

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16 (A)calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of (B)him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 for (C)the great day of their wrath has come, and (D)who can stand?”

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16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

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10 For the hand of the Lord will rest (A)on this mountain,
    and (B)Moab shall be trampled down in his place,
    as straw is trampled down in a dunghill.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 25:10 The Hebrew words for dunghill and for the Moabite town Madmen (Jeremiah 48:2) sound alike

And now I will tell you
    what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove (A)its hedge,
    and it shall be devoured;[a]
(B)I will break down its wall,
    and it shall be trampled down.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:5 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5

15 (A)The couriers went out hurriedly by order of the king, and the decree was issued in Susa the citadel. And the king and Haman sat down to drink, (B)but the city of Susa was thrown into confusion.

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10 And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, (A)broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

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They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.

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