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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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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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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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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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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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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—
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The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The Lord has spoken this word.
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The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers, the heavens languish with the earth.
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The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant.
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Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.
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In the streets they cry out for wine; all joy turns to gloom, all joyful sounds are banished from the earth.
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So will it be on the earth and among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.
