^(B)“Write the vision
And make it plain on tablets,
That he may run who reads it.
³ For ^(C)the vision is yet for an appointed time;
But at the end it will speak, and it will ^(D)not lie.
Though it tarries, ^(E)wait for it;
Because it will ^(F)surely come,
It will not tarry.

⁴ “Behold the proud,
His soul is not upright in him;
But the ^(G)just shall live by his faith.

⁶ “Will not all these ^(I)take up a proverb against him,
And a taunting riddle against him, and say,
‘Woe to him who increases
What is not his—how long?
And to him who loads himself with ^[b]many pledges’?
⁷ Will not ^[c]your creditors rise up suddenly?
Will they not awaken who oppress you?
And you will become their booty.
^8 (J)Because you have plundered many nations,
All the remnant of the people shall plunder you,
Because of men’s ^[d]blood
And the violence of the land and the city,
And of all who dwell in it.

⁹ “Woe to him who covets evil gain for his house,
That he may ^(K)set his nest on high,
That he may be delivered from the ^[e]power of disaster!
¹⁰ You give shameful counsel to your house,
Cutting off many peoples,
And sin against your soul.
¹¹ For the stone will cry out from the wall,
And the beam from the timbers will answer it.

¹² “Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed,
Who establishes a city by iniquity!
¹³ Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts
That the peoples labor ^[f]to feed the fire,
And nations weary themselves in vain?
¹⁴ For the earth will be filled
With the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,
As the waters cover the sea.

¹⁵ “Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbor,
^[g]Pressing him to your ^(L)bottle,
Even to make him drunk,
That you may look on ^[h]his nakedness!
¹⁶ You are filled with shame instead of glory.
You also—drink!
And ^[i]be exposed as uncircumcised!
The cup of the Lord’s right hand will be turned against you,
And utter shame will be on your glory.
¹⁷ For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you,
And the plunder of beasts which made them afraid,
Because of men’s blood
And the violence of the land and the city,
And of all who dwell in it.

¹⁸ “What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it,
The molded image, a teacher of lies,
That the maker of its mold should trust in it,
To make mute idols?
¹⁹ Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’
To silent stone, ‘Arise! It shall teach!’
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
Yet in it there is no breath at all.

²⁰ “But^(M) the Lord is in His holy temple.
Let all the earth keep silence before Him.”

² O Lord, I have heard Your speech and was afraid;
O Lord, revive Your work in the midst of the years!
In the midst of the years make it known;
In wrath remember mercy.

³ God came from Teman,
The Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah

His glory covered the heavens,
And the earth was full of His praise.
⁴ His brightness was like the light;
He had rays flashing from His hand,
And there His power was hidden.
⁵ Before Him went pestilence,
And fever followed at His feet.

⁶ He stood and measured the earth;
He looked and startled the nations.
^(N)And the everlasting mountains were scattered,
The perpetual hills bowed.
His ways are everlasting.
⁷ I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction;
The curtains of the land of Midian trembled.

⁸ O Lord, were You displeased with the rivers,
Was Your anger against the rivers,
Was Your wrath against the sea,
That You rode on Your horses,
Your chariots of salvation?
⁹ Your bow was made quite ready;
Oaths were sworn over Your ^[k]arrows. Selah

You divided the earth with rivers.
¹⁰ The mountains saw You and trembled;
The overflowing of the water passed by.
The deep uttered its voice,
And ^(O)lifted its hands on high.
¹¹ The ^(P)sun and moon stood still in their habitation;
At the light of Your arrows they went,
At the shining of Your glittering spear.

¹² You marched through the land in indignation;
You ^[l]trampled the nations in anger.
¹³ You went forth for the salvation of Your people,
For salvation with Your Anointed.
You struck the head from the house of the wicked,
By laying bare from foundation to neck. Selah

¹⁴ You thrust through with his own arrows
The head of his villages.
They came out like a whirlwind to scatter me;
Their rejoicing was like feasting on the poor in secret.
^15 (Q)You walked through the sea with Your horses,
Through the heap of great waters.

¹⁶ When I heard, ^(R)my body trembled;
My lips quivered at the voice;
Rottenness entered my bones;
And I trembled in myself,
That I might rest in the day of trouble.
When he comes up to the people,
He will invade them with his troops.

^19 [m]The Lord God is my strength;
He will make my feet like ^(T)deer’s feet,
And He will make me ^(U)walk on my high hills.

^4 (E)What the chewing ^[a]locust left, the ^(F)swarming locust has eaten;
What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten;
And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.

⁵ Awake, you ^(G)drunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you drinkers of wine,
Because of the new wine,
^(H)For it has been cut off from your mouth.
⁶ For ^(I)a nation has come up against My land,
Strong, and without number;
^(J)His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And he has the fangs of a ^[b]fierce lion.
⁷ He has ^(K)laid waste My vine,
And ^[c]ruined My fig tree;
He has stripped it bare and thrown it away;
Its branches are made white.

^8 (L)Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth
For ^(M)the husband of her youth.
^9 (N)The grain offering and the drink offering
Have been cut off from the house of the Lord;
The priests ^(O)mourn, who minister to the Lord.
¹⁰ The field is wasted,
^(P)The land mourns;
For the grain is ruined,
^(Q)The new wine is dried up,
The oil fails.

^11 (R)Be ashamed, you farmers,
Wail, you vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the harvest of the field has perished.
^12 (S)The vine has dried up,
And the fig tree has withered;
The pomegranate tree,
The palm tree also,
And the apple tree—
All the trees of the field are withered;
Surely ^(T)joy has withered away from the sons of men.

^15 (Y)Alas for the day!
For ^(Z)the day of the Lord is at hand;
It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.
¹⁶ Is not the food ^(AA)cut off before our eyes,
^(AB)Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
¹⁷ The seed shrivels under the clods,
Storehouses are in shambles;
Barns are broken down,
For the grain has withered.
¹⁸ How ^(AC)the animals groan!
The herds of cattle are restless,
Because they have no pasture;
Even the flocks of sheep ^[d]suffer punishment.

¹⁹ O Lord, ^(AD)to You I cry out;
For ^(AE)fire has devoured the ^[e]open pastures,
And a flame has burned all the trees of the field.
²⁰ The beasts of the field also ^(AF)cry out to You,
For ^(AG)the water brooks are dried up,
And fire has devoured the ^[f]open pastures.

³ A fire devours before them,
And behind them a flame burns;
The land is like ^(AN)the Garden of Eden before them,
^(AO)And behind them a desolate wilderness;
Surely nothing shall escape them.
^4 (AP)Their appearance is like the appearance of horses;
And like ^[h]swift steeds, so they run.
^5 (AQ)With a noise like chariots
Over mountaintops they leap,
Like the noise of a flaming fire that devours the stubble,
Like a strong people set in battle array.

⁶ Before them the people writhe in pain;
^(AR)All faces ^[i]are drained of color.
⁷ They run like mighty men,
They climb the wall like men of war;
Every one marches in formation,
And they do not break ^(AS)ranks.
⁸ They do not push one another;
Every one marches in his own ^[j]column.
Though they lunge between the weapons,
They are not ^[k]cut down.
⁹ They run to and fro in the city,
They run on the wall;
They climb into the houses,
They ^(AT)enter at the windows ^(AU)like a thief.

^10 (AV)The earth quakes before them,
The heavens tremble;
^(AW)The sun and moon grow dark,
And the stars diminish their brightness.
^11 (AX)The Lord gives voice before His army,
For His camp is very great;
^(AY)For strong is the One who executes His word.
For the ^(AZ)day of the Lord is great and very terrible;
^(BA)Who can endure it?

^15 (BI)Blow the ^[l]trumpet in Zion,
^(BJ)Consecrate a fast,
Call a sacred assembly;
¹⁶ Gather the people,
^(BK)Sanctify the congregation,
Assemble the elders,
Gather the children and nursing babes;
^(BL)Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber,
And the bride from her dressing room.
¹⁷ Let the priests, who minister to the Lord,
Weep ^(BM)between the porch and the altar;
Let them say, ^(BN)“Spare Your people, O Lord,
And do not give Your heritage to reproach,
That the nations should ^[m]rule over them.
^(BO)Why should they say among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?’ ”

²⁰ “But ^(BS)I will remove far from you ^(BT)the northern army,
And will drive him away into a barren and desolate land,
With his face toward the eastern sea
And his back ^(BU)toward the western sea;
His stench will come up,
And his foul odor will rise,
Because he has done ^[n]monstrous things.”

²¹ Fear not, O land;
Be glad and rejoice,
For the Lord has done ^[o]marvelous things!
²² Do not be afraid, you beasts of the field;
For ^(BV)the open pastures are springing up,
And the tree bears its fruit;
The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.
²³ Be glad then, you children of Zion,
And ^(BW)rejoice in the Lord your God;
For He has given you the ^[p]former rain faithfully,
And He ^(BX)will cause the rain to come down for you—
The former rain,
And the latter rain in the first month.
²⁴ The threshing floors shall be full of wheat,
And the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.

²⁵ “So I will restore to you the years ^(BY)that the swarming ^[q]locust has eaten,
The crawling locust,
The consuming locust,
And the chewing locust,
My great army which I sent among you.
²⁶ You shall ^(BZ)eat in plenty and be satisfied,
And praise the name of the Lord your God,
Who has dealt wondrously with you;
And My people shall never be put to ^(CA)shame.
²⁷ Then you shall know that I am ^(CB)in the midst of Israel:
^(CC)I am the Lord your God
And there is no other.
My people shall never be put to shame.

³⁰ “And ^(CI)I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth:
Blood and fire and pillars of smoke.
^31 (CJ)The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
^(CK)Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
³² And it shall come to pass
That ^(CL)whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Shall be ^[r]saved.
For ^(CM)in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be ^[s]deliverance,
As the Lord has said,
Among ^(CN)the remnant whom the Lord calls.

⁴ “Indeed, what have you to do with Me,
^(CS)O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia?
Will you ^[t]retaliate against Me?
But if you ^[u]retaliate against Me,
Swiftly and speedily I will return your ^[v]retaliation upon your own head;
⁵ Because you have taken My silver and My gold,
And have carried into your temples My ^[w]prized possessions.
⁶ Also the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem
You have sold to the Greeks,
That you may remove them far from their borders.

⁷ “Behold, ^(CT)I will raise them
Out of the place to which you have sold them,
And will return your ^[x]retaliation upon your own head.
⁸ I will sell your sons and your daughters
Into the hand of the people of Judah,
And they will sell them to the ^(CU)Sabeans,^[y]
To a people ^(CV)far off;
For the Lord has spoken.”

^9 (CW)Proclaim this among the nations:
“Prepare for war!
Wake up the mighty men,
Let all the men of war draw near,
Let them come up.
^10 (CX)Beat your plowshares into swords
And your ^[z]pruning hooks into spears;
^(CY)Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’ ”
¹¹ Assemble and come, all you nations,
And gather together all around.
Cause ^(CZ)Your mighty ones to go down there, O Lord.

¹² “Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
For there I will sit to ^(DA)judge all the surrounding nations.
^13 (DB)Put in the sickle, for ^(DC)the harvest is ripe.
Come, go down;
For the ^(DD)winepress is full,
The vats overflow—
For their wickedness is great.”

¹⁴ Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!
For ^(DE)the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
¹⁵ The sun and moon will grow dark,
And the stars will diminish their brightness.
¹⁶ The Lord also will roar from Zion,
And utter His voice from Jerusalem;
The heavens and earth will shake;
^(DF)But the Lord will be a shelter for His people,
And the strength of the children of Israel.

¹⁷ “So you shall know that I am the Lord your God,
Dwelling in Zion My ^(DG)holy mountain.
Then Jerusalem shall be holy,
And no aliens shall ever pass through her again.”

¹⁹ “Egypt shall be a desolation,
And Edom a desolate wilderness,
Because of violence against the people of Judah,
For they have shed innocent blood in their land.
²⁰ But Judah shall abide forever,
And Jerusalem from generation to generation.
²¹ For I will ^(DI)acquit them of the guilt of bloodshed, whom I had not acquitted;
For the Lord dwells in Zion.”

^(P)“Execute^[d] judgment ^(Q)in the morning;
And deliver him who is plundered
Out of the hand of the oppressor,
Lest My fury go forth like fire
And burn so that no one can quench it,
Because of the evil of your doings.

¹³ “Behold, ^(R)I am against you, O ^[e]inhabitant of the valley,
And rock of the plain,” says the Lord,
“Who say, ^(S)‘Who shall come down against us?
Or who shall enter our dwellings?’
¹⁴ But I will punish you according to the ^(T)fruit of your ^[f]doings,” says the Lord;
“I will kindle a fire in its forest,
And ^(U)it shall devour all things around it.” ’ ”

“You are ^(F)Gilead to Me,
The head of Lebanon;
Yet I surely will make you a wilderness,
Cities which are not inhabited.
⁷ I will prepare destroyers against you,
Everyone with his weapons;
They shall cut down ^(G)your choice cedars
^(H)And cast them into the fire.

¹⁰ Weep not for ^(K)the dead, nor bemoan him;
Weep bitterly for him ^(L)who goes away,
For he shall return no more,
Nor see his native country.

¹³ “Woe^(O) to him who builds his house by unrighteousness
And his ^[d]chambers by injustice,
^(P)Who uses his neighbor’s service without wages
And gives him nothing for his work,
¹⁴ Who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house with spacious ^[e]chambers,
And cut out windows for it,
Paneling it with cedar
And painting it with vermilion.’

¹⁵ “Shall you reign because you enclose yourself in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink,
And do justice and righteousness?
Then ^(Q)it was well with him.
¹⁶ He ^[f]judged the cause of the poor and needy;
Then it was well.
Was not this knowing Me?” says the Lord.
¹⁷ “Yet^(R) your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your covetousness,
For shedding innocent blood,
And practicing oppression and violence.”

^(S)“They shall not lament for him,
Saying, ^(T)‘Alas, my brother!’ or ‘Alas, my sister!’
They shall not lament for him,
Saying, ‘Alas, master!’ or ‘Alas, his glory!’
^19 (U)He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey,
Dragged and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

²⁰ “Go up to Lebanon, and cry out,
And lift up your voice in Bashan;
Cry from Abarim,
For all your lovers are destroyed.
²¹ I spoke to you in your prosperity,
But you said, ‘I will not hear.’
^(V)This has been your manner from your youth,
That you did not obey My voice.
²² The wind shall eat up all ^(W)your ^[g]rulers,
And your lovers shall go into captivity;
Surely then you will be ashamed and humiliated
For all your wickedness.
²³ O inhabitant of Lebanon,
Making your nest in the cedars,
How gracious will you be when pangs come upon you,
Like ^(X)the pain of a woman in ^[h]labor?

²⁸ “Is this man ^[l]Coniah a despised, broken idol—
^(AC)A vessel in which is no pleasure?
Why are they cast out, he and his descendants,
And cast into a land which they do not know?
^29 (AD)O earth, earth, earth,
Hear the word of the Lord!
³⁰ Thus says the Lord:
‘Write this man down as ^(AE)childless,
A man who shall not prosper in his days;
For ^(AF)none of his descendants shall prosper,
Sitting on the throne of David,
And ruling anymore in Judah.’ ”

⁵ “Behold, ^(AK)the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness;
A King shall reign and ^[m]prosper,
^(AL)And execute ^[n]judgment and righteousness in the ^[o]earth.
^6 (AM)In His days Judah will be saved,
And Israel ^(AN)will dwell safely;
Now ^(AO)this is His name by which He will be called:

¹¹ “For ^(AW)both prophet and priest are profane;
Yes, ^(AX)in My house I have found their wickedness,” says the Lord.
¹² “Therefore^(AY) their way shall be to them
Like slippery ways;
In the darkness they shall be driven on
And fall in them;
For I ^(AZ)will bring disaster on them,
The year of their punishment,” says the Lord.
¹³ “And I have seen ^[q]folly in the prophets of Samaria:
^(BA)They prophesied by Baal
And ^(BB)caused My people Israel to err.
¹⁴ Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem:
^(BC)They commit adultery and walk in lies;
They also ^(BD)strengthen the hands of evildoers,
So that no one turns back from his wickedness.
All of them are like ^(BE)Sodom to Me,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

‘Behold, I will feed them with ^(BF)wormwood,
And make them drink the water of gall;
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
^[r]Profaneness has gone out into all the land.’ ”

“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you.
They make you worthless;
^(BG)They speak a vision of their own heart,
Not from the mouth of the Lord.
¹⁷ They continually say to those who despise Me,
‘The Lord has said, ^(BH)“You shall have peace” ’;
And to everyone who ^(BI)walks according to the ^[s]dictates of his own heart, they say,
^(BJ)‘No evil shall come upon you.’ ”

¹⁸ For ^(BK)who has stood in the counsel of the Lord,
And has perceived and heard His word?
Who has marked His word and heard it?
¹⁹ Behold, a ^(BL)whirlwind of the Lord has gone forth in fury—
A violent whirlwind!
It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.
²⁰ The ^(BM)anger of the Lord will not turn back
Until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart.
^(BN)In the latter days you will understand it perfectly.

²¹ “I^(BO) have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.
I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
²² But if they had stood in My counsel,
And had caused My people to hear My words,
Then they would have ^(BP)turned them from their evil way
And from the evil of their doings.

²³ “Am I a God near at hand,” says the Lord,
“And not a God afar off?
²⁴ Can anyone ^(BQ)hide himself in secret places,
So I shall not see him?” says the Lord;
^(BR)“Do I not fill heaven and earth?” says the Lord.

²⁸ “The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream;
And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully.
What is the chaff to the wheat?” says the Lord.
²⁹ “Is not My word like a ^(BT)fire?” says the Lord,
“And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?