Isaiah 30:27-30

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²⁷Behold, ^(A)the name of the Lord comes from a ^[a]remote place;
^(B)His anger is burning and ^[b]dense with ^[c]smoke;
His lips are filled with ^(C)indignation,
And His tongue is like a ^(D)consuming fire;
²⁸His ^(E)breath is like an overflowing river,
Which ^(F)reaches to the neck,
To ^(G)shake the nations back and forth in a ^[d]sieve,
And to put in the jaws of the peoples ^(H)the bridle which leads astray.
²⁹You will have ^[e]songs as in the night when you keep the festival,
And gladness of heart as when one marches to the sound of the flute,
To go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.
³⁰And the Lord will cause ^[f]His voice of authority to be heard,
And the ^[g]descending of His arm to be seen in fierce anger,
And in the flame of a consuming fire
In cloudburst, downpour, and hailstones.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 30:27 Lit distance
Isaiah 30:27 Lit heaviness
Isaiah 30:27 Lit uplifting
Isaiah 30:28 Lit sifting of the worthless
Isaiah 30:29 Lit the song
Isaiah 30:30 Lit the majesty of His voice
Isaiah 30:30 Lit descent

Isaiah 24

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Judgment on the Earth

24 Behold, the Lord ^(A)lays the earth waste, devastates it, twists its surface, and scatters its inhabitants. ²And the people will be like the priest, the servant like his master, the female servant like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the ^(B)creditor like the debtor. ³The earth will be completely laid waste and completely plundered, for the Lord has spoken this word. ⁴The ^(C)earth dries up and crumbles away, the mainland dries out and crumbles away, the ^(D)exalted of the people of the earth dwindle. ⁵The earth is also ^(E)defiled ^[a]by its inhabitants, for they violated laws, altered statutes, and ^(F)broke the everlasting covenant. ⁶Therefore, a ^(G)curse devours the earth, and those who live on it suffer for their guilt. Therefore, the ^(H)inhabitants of the earth decrease in number, and few people are left.

⁷The ^(I)new wine mourns,
The vine decays,
All the joyful-hearted sigh.
⁸The ^(J)joy of tambourines ceases,
The noise of revelers stops,
The joy of the harp ceases.
⁹They do not drink wine with song;
^(K)Intoxicating drink is ^(L)bitter to those who drink it.
¹⁰The ^(M)city of chaos is broken down;
^(N)Every house is shut up so that no one may enter.
¹¹There is an ^(O)outcry in the streets concerning the wine;
^(P)All joy ^[b]turns to gloom.
The joy of the earth is banished.
¹²Desolation is left in the city
And the ^(Q)gate is battered to ruins.
¹³For ^(R)so it will be in the midst of the earth among the peoples,
As the ^[c]shaking of an olive tree,
As the gleanings when the grape harvest is over.
¹⁴^(S)They raise their voices, they shout for joy;
They cry out from the ^[d]west concerning the majesty of the Lord.
¹⁵Therefore ^(T)glorify the Lord in the ^[e]east,
The ^(U)name of the Lord, the God of Israel,
In the ^[f]^(V)coastlands of the sea.
¹⁶From the ^(W)ends of the earth we hear songs: “^(X)Glory to the Righteous One,”
But I say, “^[g]I am finished! I am finished! Woe to me!
The ^(Y)treacherous deal treacherously,
And the treacherous deal very treacherously.”
¹⁷^(Z)Terror and pit and snare
^[h]Confront you, you inhabitant of the earth.
¹⁸Then it will be that the one who flees the sound of terror will fall into the pit,
And the one who ^[i]climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare;
For the ^(AA)windows ^[j]above are opened, and the ^(AB)foundations of the earth shake.
¹⁹^(AC)The earth is broken apart,
The earth is ^(AD)split through,
The earth is shaken violently.
²⁰The earth ^(AE)trembles like a heavy drinker
And sways like a hut,
For its ^(AF)wrongdoing is heavy upon it,
And it will fall, ^(AG)never to rise again.
²¹So it will happen on that day,
That the Lord will ^(AH)punish the rebellious ^[k]^(AI)angels of ^[l]heaven on high,
And the ^(AJ)kings of the earth on earth.
²²They will be gathered together
Like ^(AK)prisoners in the ^[m]dungeon,
And will be confined in prison;
And after many days they will ^(AL)be punished.
²³Then the ^(AM)moon will be ashamed and the sun be put to shame,
For the ^(AN)Lord of armies will reign on ^(AO)Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,
And His glory will be before His elders.

Footnotes

Isaiah 24:5 Lit under
Isaiah 24:11 Lit is darkened
Isaiah 24:13 Lit striking
Isaiah 24:14 Lit sea
Isaiah 24:15 Lit region of light
Isaiah 24:15 Or islands
Isaiah 24:16 Meaning uncertain
Isaiah 24:17 Lit Are upon you
Isaiah 24:18 Lit goes up from the midst of
Isaiah 24:18 Lit from the height; i.e., heaven
Isaiah 24:21 Lit host
Isaiah 24:21 Lit the height in the height
Isaiah 24:22 Lit pit

Luke 21:20-28

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²⁰“But when you see Jerusalem ^(A)surrounded by armies, then ^[a]recognize that her desolation is near. ²¹Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those who are inside ^[b]the city must leave, and ^(B)those who are in the country must not enter ^[c]the city; ²²because these are ^(C)days of punishment, so that all things which have been written will be fulfilled. ²³Woe to those women who are pregnant, and to those who are nursing babies in those days; for ^(D)there will be great distress upon the ^[d]land, and wrath to this people; ²⁴and they will fall by ^(E)the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations; and ^(F)Jerusalem will be ^(G)trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until ^(H)the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

The Return of Christ

²⁵“There will be ^[e]signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves, ²⁶people fainting from fear and the expectation of the things that are coming upon the ^[f]world; for the powers of ^[g]the heavens will be shaken. ²⁷And ^(I)then they will see ^(J)the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. ²⁸But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because ^(K)your redemption is drawing near.”