everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them, who bring neither help nor advantage, but only shame and disgrace.”

Go now, write it on a tablet for them, inscribe it on a scroll, that for the days to come it may be an everlasting witness.

In the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall, streams of water will flow on every high mountain and every lofty hill.

Every stroke the Lord lays on them with his punishing club will be to the music of timbrels and harps, as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm.

For in that day every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold your sinful hands have made.

Scoundrels use wicked methods, they make up evil schemes to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.

how blessed you will be, sowing your seed by every stream, and letting your cattle and donkeys range free.

Lord, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress.

The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: “Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?”

Your rigging hangs loose: The mast is not held secure, the sail is not spread. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided and even the lame will carry off plunder.

It will not be quenched night or day; its smoke will rise forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever pass through it again.

and those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

How then can you repulse one officer of the least of my master’s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

“Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’ Have the gods of any nations ever delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?

Hezekiah received the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his storehouses—the silver, the gold, the spices, the fine olive oil—his entire armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.

The prophet asked, “What did they see in your palace?” “They saw everything in my palace,” Hezekiah said. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”

The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the Lord.

Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.

Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain.

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.

Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;

“Who has stirred up one from the east, calling him in righteousness to his service? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.

everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”

I, even I, am the Lord, and apart from me there is no savior.

“I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.