25 Pour out your wrath on the nations(A)
    that do not acknowledge you,
    on the peoples who do not call on your name.(B)
For they have devoured(C) Jacob;
    they have devoured him completely
    and destroyed his homeland.(D)

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Pour out your wrath(A) on the nations
    that do not acknowledge(B) you,
on the kingdoms
    that do not call on your name;(C)
for they have devoured(D) Jacob
    and devastated his homeland.

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16 The snorting of the enemy’s horses(A)
    is heard from Dan;(B)
at the neighing of their stallions
    the whole land trembles.(C)
They have come to devour(D)
    the land and everything in it,
    the city and all who live there.

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Do all these evildoers know nothing?(A)

They devour my people(B) as though eating bread;
    they never call on the Lord.(C)

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21 Surely such is the dwelling(A) of an evil man;(B)
    such is the place(C) of one who does not know God.”(D)

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He will punish(A) those who do not know God(B) and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.(C)

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not in passionate lust(A) like the pagans,(B) who do not know God;(C)

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15 and I am very angry with the nations that feel secure.(A) I was only a little angry,(B) but they went too far with the punishment.’(C)

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those who turn back from following(A) the Lord
    and neither seek(B) the Lord nor inquire(C) of him.”

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10 Because of the violence(A) against your brother Jacob,(B)
    you will be covered with shame;
    you will be destroyed forever.(C)
11 On the day you stood aloof
    while strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
    and cast lots(D) for Jerusalem,
    you were like one of them.(E)
12 You should not gloat(F) over your brother
    in the day of his misfortune,(G)
nor rejoice(H) over the people of Judah
    in the day of their destruction,(I)
nor boast(J) so much
    in the day of their trouble.(K)
13 You should not march through the gates of my people
    in the day of their disaster,
nor gloat over them in their calamity(L)
    in the day of their disaster,
nor seize their wealth
    in the day of their disaster.
14 You should not wait at the crossroads
    to cut down their fugitives,(M)
nor hand over their survivors
    in the day of their trouble.

15 “The day of the Lord is near(N)
    for all nations.
As you have done, it will be done to you;
    your deeds(O) will return upon your own head.
16 Just as you drank(P) on my holy hill,(Q)
    so all the nations will drink(R) continually;
they will drink and drink
    and be as if they had never been.(S)

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For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you have clapped your hands(A) and stamped your feet, rejoicing with all the malice of your heart against the land of Israel,(B) therefore I will stretch out my hand(C) against you and give you as plunder(D) to the nations. I will wipe you out from among the nations and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy(E) you, and you will know that I am the Lord.(F)’”

A Prophecy Against Moab

“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because Moab(G) and Seir(H) said, “Look, Judah has become like all the other nations,”

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17 “Israel is a scattered flock(A)
    that lions(B) have chased away.
The first to devour(C) them
    was the king(D) of Assyria;
the last to crush their bones(E)
    was Nebuchadnezzar(F) king(G) of Babylon.”

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Whoever found them devoured(A) them;
    their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty,(B)
for they sinned against the Lord, their verdant pasture,
    the Lord, the hope(C) of their ancestors.’

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When the wicked advance against me
    to devour[a] me,
it is my enemies and my foes
    who will stumble and fall.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 27:2 Or slander

34 Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God(A)—I say this to your shame.(B)

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23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship(A)—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.

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25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you,(A) I know you, and they know that you have sent me.(B)

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Therefore wait(A) for me,”
    declares the Lord,
    “for the day I will stand up to testify.[a]
I have decided to assemble(B) the nations,(C)
    to gather the kingdoms
and to pour out my wrath(D) on them—
    all my fierce anger.(E)
The whole world will be consumed(F)
    by the fire of my jealous anger.

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  1. Zephaniah 3:8 Septuagint and Syriac; Hebrew will rise up to plunder

“‘Because you harbored an ancient hostility and delivered the Israelites over to the sword(A) at the time of their calamity,(B) the time their punishment reached its climax,(C) therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will give you over to bloodshed(D) and it will pursue you.(E) Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you. I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste(F) and cut off from it all who come and go.(G) I will fill your mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines.(H) I will make you desolate forever;(I) your towns will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.(J)

10 “‘Because you have said, “These two nations and countries will be ours and we will take possession(K) of them,” even though I the Lord was there,

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22 “As you summon to a feast day,
    so you summoned against me terrors(A) on every side.
In the day of the Lord’s anger
    no one escaped(B) or survived;
those I cared for and reared(C)
    my enemy has destroyed.”

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34 “Nebuchadnezzar(A) king of Babylon has devoured(B) us,(C)
    he has thrown us into confusion,
    he has made us an empty jar.
Like a serpent he has swallowed us
    and filled his stomach with our delicacies,
    and then has spewed(D) us out.
35 May the violence(E) done to our flesh[a] be on Babylon,”
    say the inhabitants of Zion.
“May our blood be on those who live in Babylonia,”
    says Jerusalem.(F)

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  1. Jeremiah 51:35 Or done to us and to our children

No one(A) calls on your name(B)
    or strives to lay hold of you;
for you have hidden(C) your face from us
    and have given us over(D) to[a] our sins.

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  1. Isaiah 64:7 Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew have made us melt because of

22 “Yet you have not called on me, Jacob,
    you have not wearied(A) yourselves for[a] me, Israel.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 43:22 Or Jacob; / surely you have grown weary of

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