Israel’s Corrupt Religion

Listen to the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom! Pay attention to the teachings from our Elohim, you people of Gomorrah!

Then many people will come and say, “Let’s go to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the Elohim of Jacob. He will teach us his ways so that we may live by them.” The teachings will go out from Zion. The word of Yahweh will go out from Jerusalem.

“Ask Yahweh your Elohim for a sign. It can be anything you want.”

“Listen now, descendants of David,” Isaiah said. “Isn’t it enough that you try the patience of mortals? Must you also try the patience of my Elohim?

People will say to you, “Ask for help from the mediums and the fortunetellers, who whisper and mutter.” Shouldn’t people ask their Elohim for help instead? Why should they ask the dead to help the living?

They will pass through the land when they are hard-pressed and hungry. When they are hungry, they will be furious. Then they will look up, cursing their king and Elohim.

But there will be no more gloom for the land that is in distress. Elohim humbled the lands of Zebulun and Naphtali in earlier times. But in the future he will bring glory to the road by the sea, to the land across the Jordan River, to Galilee, where foreigners live.

Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the proud beauty of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when Elohim destroyed them.

Only a few people will survive. They will be like an olive tree that has been beaten. Only two or three olives are left at the top of the highest branch, four or five olives on the rest of the branches,” declares Yahweh Elohim of Israel.

You have forgotten the Elohim of your salvation. You haven’t remembered the rock, your stronghold. Instead, you have planted the best plants and have set out the imported grapevines.

The people will make noise like raging water. But Elohim will yell at them, and they will run far away. They will be chased away like husks on the mountains being blown by the wind, like whirling dust being blown by a storm.

You, my people, have been threshed and winnowed. I make known to you what I heard from Yahweh Tsebaoth, the Elohim of Israel.

The remaining number of archers, Kedar’s mighty archers, will be few. Yahweh Elohim of Israel has spoken.

Honor Yahweh in the east. Honor the name of Yahweh Elohim of Israel along the coastlands.

The Lord Protects the Weak

O Yahweh, you are my Elohim. I will highly honor you; I will praise your name. You have done miraculous things. You have been completely reliable in carrying out your plans from long ago.

On that day his people will say, “This is our Elohim; we have waited for him, and now he will save us. This is Yahweh; we have waited for him. Let us rejoice and be glad because he will save us.”

O Yahweh, our Elohim, you are not the only master to rule us, but we acknowledge only you.

Yahweh will guide him in judgment, and his Elohim will teach him.

When they see all their children, the children I made with my hands, they will acknowledge my name as holy. They will treat the Holy One of Jacob as holy. They will stand in terror of the Elohim of Israel.

Yahweh is waiting to be kind to you. He rises to have compassion on you. Yahweh is an Elohim of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Like a lily the land will blossom. It will rejoice and sing with joy. It will have the glory of Lebanon, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. Everyone will see the glory of Yahweh, the majesty of our Elohim.

Tell those who are terrified, “Be brave; don’t be afraid. Your Elohim will come with vengeance, with divine revenge. He will come and rescue you.”

Suppose you tell me, “We’re trusting Yahweh our Elohim.” He’s the god whose places of worship and altars Hezekiah got rid of. Hezekiah told Judah and Jerusalem, “Worship at this altar.”’

Yahweh your Elohim may have heard the words of the field commander. His master, the king of Assyria, sent him to defy Elohim Chay. Yahweh your Elohim may punish him because of the message that Yahweh your Elohim heard. Pray for the few people who are left.”

“Yahweh Tsebaoth, Elohim of Israel, you are enthroned over the angels. You alone are Elohim of the kingdoms of the world. You made heaven and earth.