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A Rebellious Nation
Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth! For the Lord has spoken: “I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.
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People will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from the fearful presence of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.
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They will flee to caverns in the rocks and to the overhanging crags from the fearful presence of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.
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the earrings and bracelets and veils,
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Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after their drinks, who stay up late at night till they are inflamed with wine.
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He lifts up a banner for the distant nations, he whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Here they come, swiftly and speedily!
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And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”
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Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
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Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.
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and he will delight in the fear of the Lord. He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears;
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but with righteousness he will judge the needy, with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.
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They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
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He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth.
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Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the Lord Almighty, in the day of his burning anger.
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How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!
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Those who see you stare at you, they ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble,
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Prepare a place to slaughter his children for the sins of their ancestors; they are not to rise to inherit the land and cover the earth with their cities.
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All you people of the world, you who live on the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it, and when a trumpet sounds, you will hear it.
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The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the wage earners will be sick at heart.
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In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing on the earth.
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Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are renowned in the earth?
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The Lord Almighty planned it, to bring down her pride in all her splendor and to humble all who are renowned on the earth.
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At the end of seventy years, the Lord will deal with Tyre. She will return to her lucrative prostitution and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.
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Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the Lord; they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the Lord, for abundant food and fine clothes.
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The Lord’s Devastation of the Earth
See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants—
