Isaiah 14:12-32
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12 How you are fallen from heaven,
O Morning Star, son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
you who laid the nations low!(A)
13 You said to yourself,
“I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise my throne
above the stars of God;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
on the heights of Zaphon;[a](B)
14 I will ascend to the tops of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.”(C)
15 But you are brought down to Sheol,
to the depths of the Pit.(D)
16 Those who see you will stare at you
and ponder over you:
“Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
who shook kingdoms,(E)
17 who made the world like a desert
and overthrew its cities,
who would not let his prisoners go home?”(F)
18 All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
each in his own tomb,
19 but you are cast out, away from your grave,
like loathsome carrion,[b]
clothed with the dead, those pierced by the sword,
who go down to the stones of the Pit
like a corpse trampled underfoot.(G)
20 You will not be joined with them in burial
because you have destroyed your land;
you have killed your people.
May the descendants of evildoers
nevermore be named!(H)
21 Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons
because of the guilt of their father.[c]
Let them never rise to possess the earth
or cover the face of the world with cities.(I)
22 I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, offspring and posterity, says the Lord.(J) 23 And I will make it a possession of the screech owl[d] and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of hosts.(K)
An Oracle concerning Assyria
24 The Lord of hosts has sworn:
As I have designed,
so shall it be,
and as I have planned,
so shall it come to pass:(L)
25 I will break the Assyrian in my land
and on my mountains trample him under foot;
his yoke shall be removed from them
and his burden from their shoulders.(M)
26 This is the plan that is planned
concerning the whole earth,
and this is the hand that is stretched out
over all the nations.(N)
27 For the Lord of hosts has planned,
and who will annul it?
His hand is stretched out,
and who will turn it back?(O)
An Oracle concerning Philistia
28 In the year that King Ahaz died this oracle came:(P)
29 Do not rejoice, all you Philistines,
that the rod that struck you is broken,
for from the root of the snake will come forth an adder,
and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.(Q)
30 In my pastures the poor[e] will graze
and the needy lie down in safety,
but I will make your root die of famine,
and your remnant I[f] will kill.(R)
31 Wail, O gate; cry, O city;
melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you!
For smoke comes out of the north,
and there is no straggler in its ranks.(S)
32 What will one answer the messengers of the nation?
“The Lord has founded Zion,
and the needy among his people
will find refuge in her.”(T)
Job 1:6-7
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Attack on Job’s Character
6 One day the heavenly beings[a] came to present themselves before the Lord, and the accuser[b] also came among them.(A) 7 The Lord said to the accuser,[c] “Where have you come from?” The accuser[d] answered the Lord, “From going to and fro on the earth and from walking up and down on it.”(B)
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