Old/New Testament
14 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and cause them to rest in their own land. And the stranger shall join himself to them. And they shall cling to the House of Jacob.
2 And the people shall receive them and bring them to their own place. And the House of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD, for servants and handmaids. And they shall take them prisoners, whose captives they were, and rule over their oppressors.
3 And on that day when the LORD shall give you rest from your sorrow and from your fear and from the sore bondage in which you served,
4 then you shall take up this Proverb against the king of Babel, and say, “How has the oppressor ceased and the gold-thirsty rested?
5 “The LORD has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,
6 “who struck the people in anger with a continual plague, ruled the nations in wrath, persecuted and were not hindered.
7 “The whole world is at rest and is quiet. They sing for joy.
8 Also, the fir trees rejoiced in You, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you were put down, no hewer came up against us.”
9 “Hell beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming, raising up the dead for you, all the princes of the Earth, and has raised from their thrones all the kings of the Nations.
10 “All they shall cry and say to you, ‘Have you become as weak as us? Have you become like us?
11 ‘Your pomp is brought down to the grave and the sound of the strings. The worm is spread under you. And the worms cover you.’
12 “How have you fallen from Heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning, cut down to the ground which casts lots upon the Nations?
13 “Yet you said in your heart, ‘I will ascend into Heaven and exalt my throne above beside the stars of God. I will also sit upon the Mount of the Congregation, on the sides of the North.
14 ‘I will ascend above the height of the clouds. I will be like the Most High.’
15 “But you shall be brought down to the grave, to the side of the pit.
16 “Those who see you shall look upon you and consider you, saying, ‘Is this the man who made the Earth tremble, that shook the kingdoms?
17 ‘He made the world as a wilderness, destroyed its cities and did not open the house of his prisoners.’
18 “All the kings of the Nations, they all sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.
19 “But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, the clothing of those who are killed, thrust through with a sword, which go down to the stones of the pit as a carcass trodden under foot.
20 “You shall not be joined with them in the grave because you have destroyed your own land, killed your people. The seed of the wicked shall not be renowned forever.
21 “Prepare a slaughter for his children, for the iniquity of their fathers. Let them not rise up or possess the land, or fill the face of the world with enemies.
22 “For I will rise up against them,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and will cut off the name and the remnant and the son and the nephew from Babel,” says the LORD.
23 “And I will make it a possession to the hedgehog, and pools of waste. And I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the LORD of Hosts.
24 The LORD of Hosts has sworn, saying, “Surely, just as I have purposed, so shall it come to pass. And as I have consulted, it shall stand:
25 “That I will break Assyria to pieces in My land. And upon My mountains I will tread him under Foot. So that his yoke shall depart from them, and his burden shall be taken from off their shoulder.
26 “This is the counsel that is consulted upon the whole world, and this is the hand stretched out over all the Nations,
27 “because the LORD of Hosts has determined. And who shall annul? His Hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?”
28 In the year that King Ahaz died, was this burden.
29 “Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia, because the rod of him who beat you is broken. For out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a viper, and its fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
30 “For the firstborn of the poor shall be fed, and the needy shall lie down in safety. And I will kill your root with famine. And it shall kill your remnant.
31 “Howl, O gate! Cry, O city! All of Philistia is dissolved! For a smoke shall come from the north. And no one shall be alone at his appointed time.”
32 What, then, shall one answer the messengers of the Gentiles: that the LORD has established Zion, and the poor of His people shall trust in it.
15 The burden of Moab. Surely, Ar of Moab was destroyed, brought to silence in a night. Surely, Kir of Moab was destroyed, brought to silence in a night.
2 He shall go up to the Temple, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. For Nebo and for Medeba shall Moab howl. Upon all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard shall be shaven.
3 In their streets, they shall be girded with sackcloth. On the tops of their houses, and in their streets, everyone shall howl and come down with weeping.
4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh. Their voice shall be heard to Jahaz. Therefore, the warriors of Moab shall shout. The soul of everyone shall lament in himself.
5 “My heart shall cry for Moab. Its fugitives shall flee to Zoar, as a heifer of three years old. For they shall go up with weeping by the mounting up of Luhith. And by the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
6 “For the waters of Nimrim shall be dried up. Therefore, the grass is withered, the herbs consumed. There was no green herb.
7 “Therefore, what has been left, and their substance, they shall bear to the brook of the willows.
8 “For the cry went all around about the borders of Moab, its howling to Eglaim, and its shrieking to Beer Elim,
9 “Because the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood. For I will bring more upon Dimon, even lions, upon him who escapes from Moab, and to the remnant of the land.”
16 Send a lamb to the ruler of the world from the rock of the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter Zion.
2 For it shall be as a bird that flies, and a nest forsaken. The daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
3 “Gather a counsel, execute judgment, make your shadow as the night in the midday. Hide those who are chased out. Do not betray him who has fled.
4 “Let My banished dwell with you. Moab, be their shelter from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner shall end. The destroyer shall be consumed, the oppressor shall cease from the land.
5 “And in mercy shall the throne be prepared. And He shall sit upon it in steadfastness, in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hastening justice.”
6 We have heard of the pride of Moab (he is very proud), its pride and its arrogance and its indignation. But not so its lies.
7 Therefore, Moab shall howl to Moab. Everyone shall howl. For the foundations of Kir Hareseth you shall mourn. Yet they shall be stricken.
8 For the vineyards of Heshbon are cut down, the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the heathen have broken its principal vines. Branches stretched themselves out and went over the sea.
9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer, and of the vine of Sibmah, O Heshbon! And Elealeh, I will make you drunk with my tears, because upon your summer fruits, and upon your harvest, a shouting has fallen.
10 And gladness is taken away, and joy, out of the plentiful field. And in the vineyards shall be no singing or shouting for joy. The treader shall not tread wine in the wine presses. I have caused the rejoicing to cease.
11 Therefore, my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my core for Kir Heres.
12 And when it shall appear that Moab shall be weary of its high places, then shall it come to its temple to pray, but it shall not prevail.
13 This is the Word that the LORD has spoken against Moab since that time.
14 And now the LORD has spoken, saying, “In three years (as the years of a hireling) the glory of Moab shall be despised in all the great multitude. And the remnant shall be very small and feeble.”
5 Therefore, be imitators of God, as beloved children.
2 And walk in love, just as Christ has loved us and has given Himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice of a sweet-smelling savor to God.
3 But do not let fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness even be named among you (as is also becoming to saints),
4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse joking (which are not fitting); but rather the giving of thanks.
5 For this you know: that no fornicator, nor impure or covetous person, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ, and of God.
6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.
7 Therefore, do not be companions with them.
8 For you were once darkness but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.
9 For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
10 approving that which is pleasing to the Lord.
11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. But rather, even expose them.
12 For it is shameful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
13 But all things, when they are exposed by the light, are made visible. For it is light that makes all things visible.
14 Therefore it says, “Awake, you who sleep. And stand up from the dead. And Christ shall shine upon you.”
15 Be mindful, therefore, that you walk carefully - not as fools, but as wise -
16 redeeming the season. For the days are evil.
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