The Lord Accuses Israel of Sin

Listen, heaven, and pay attention, earth! Yahweh has spoken, “I raised my children and helped them grow, but they have rebelled against me.

Oxen know their owners, and donkeys know where their masters feed them. But Israel doesn’t know its owner. My people don’t understand who feeds them.

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!

The Lord Invites Israel to Turn Away from Sin

“Wash yourselves! Become clean! Get your evil deeds out of my sight. Stop doing evil.

That’s why Adonay, Yahweh Tsebaoth, the Mighty One of Israel, says, “How horrible it will be when I take revenge on my opponents! I will avenge myself against my enemies.

Israel’s Sins

Yahweh, you have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob, because they are filled with Eastern influences. They are fortunetellers like the Philistines, and they make deals with foreigners.

The Lord’s New Glory for Zion

When that day comes, the branch of Yahweh will be beautiful and wonderful. The fruit of the land will be the pride and joy of Israel’s survivors.

The vineyard of Yahweh Tsebaoth is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the garden of his delight. He hoped for justice but saw only slaughter, for righteousness but heard only cries of distress.

The Virgin Will Have a Child

When Ahaz, son of Jotham and grandson of Uzziah, was king of Judah, Aram’s King Rezin and Israel’s King Pekah, son of Remaliah, went to Jerusalem to attack it, but they couldn’t defeat it.

He will be a place of safety for you. But he will be a rock that makes people trip and a stumbling block for both kingdoms of Israel. He will be a trap and a snare for those who live in Jerusalem.

I am here with the children that Yahweh has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from Yahweh Tsebaoth, who lives on Mount Zion.

The Lord’s Message against His People

Adonay sent a message against Jacob. The message is against Israel.

Yahweh will set Rezin’s oppressors against Israel and will stir up its enemies—

the Arameans from the east and the Philistines from the west. They will devour Israel with open mouths. Even after all this, his anger will not disappear, and he is still ready to use his power.

So in one day Yahweh will cut off from Israel both head and tail, both palm branches and cattails.

Israel’s light will become a flame. Its Holy One will become a fire. He will burn up and devour the weeds and thornbushes in one day.

At that time the remaining few Israelites, the survivors of Jacob’s descendants will no longer depend on the one who struck them. They will only depend on Yahweh, Qedosh Yisrael.

Although your people Israel may be as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore, only a few will return. Destruction will be complete and fair.

He will raise a banner for the nations to gather around. He will gather the outcasts of Israel and bring together the scattered people of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

There will be a highway for the remaining few of his people left in Assyria like there was for Israel when it came out of Egypt.

Israel Will Be Rescued from Babylon

Yahweh will have compassion for Jacob and again choose Israel. He will resettle them in their own country. Foreigners will join them and unite with the descendants of Jacob.

People will take them and bring them to their own place. The nation of Israel will possess nations as male and female slaves in Yahweh’s land. They will take their captors captive and rule their oppressors.

Damascus and Israel Will Be Punished

This is the divine revelation about Damascus. “Damascus will no longer be a city. It will become a pile of rubble.

Fortified cities will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom will disappear from Damascus. The remaining few from Aram will share Israel’s honor,” declares Yahweh Tsebaoth.

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.