Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.

Therefore the Lord declares, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: “Ah, I will get relief from my enemies and avenge myself on my foes.

So man is humbled, and each one is brought low— do not forgive them!

And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable.

And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach.”

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”

Man is humbled, and each one is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are brought low.

who say: “Let him be quick, let him speed his work that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near, and let it come, that we may know it!”

Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

They will growl over it on that day, like the growling of the sea. And if one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened by its clouds.

And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”

Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.

So the Lord cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day—

Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no one spares another.

My hand has found like a nest the wealth of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken, so I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved a wing or opened the mouth or chirped.”

The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.

The Remnant of Israel Will Return

In that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more lean on him who struck them, but will lean on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe, and Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One.

Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”

I myself have commanded my consecrated ones, and have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger, my proudly exulting ones.

They will be dismayed: pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.

What will one answer the messengers of the nation? “The Lord has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.”

then a throne will be established in steadfast love, and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness.”

And it shall be as when the reaper gathers standing grain and his arm harvests the ears, and as when one gleans the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel.