Old/New Testament
17 The burden of Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, for it shall be a ruinous heap.
2 “The cities of Aroer shall be forsaken. They shall be for the flocks. For they shall lie there, and no one shall make them afraid.
3 “The fortification also shall cease from Ephraim and the kingdom from Damascus. And the remnant of Aram shall be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says the LORD of Hosts.
4 “And on that day the glory of Jacob shall be made clean.
5 “And it shall be as when the harvester gathers the corn, and reaps the ears with his arm. And he shall be as him who gathers the ears in the Valley of Rephaim.
6 “Still, a gathering of grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the upmost boughs, four or five in the high branches of its fruit,” says the LORD God of Israel.
7 At that day, a man shall look to his Maker. And his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the works of his own hands. Nor shall he look to those things which his own fingers have made, as groves and images.
9 On that day shall the cities of their strength be as forsaken boughs and branches, which were forsaken because of the children of Israel. And there shall be desolation.
10 Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the God of your strength, therefore you shall plant pleasant plants and shall graft strange vine branches.
11 In the day, you shall make your plant grow. And in the morning, you shall make your seed flourish. But the harvest shall be gone on the day of sickness, with desperate sorrow.
12 Ah, the multitude of many people! They shall make a sound like the noise of the sea. For the noise of the people shall make a sound like the noise of mighty waters.
13 The people shall make a sound like the noise of many waters. But God shall rebuke them. And they shall flee far away and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and as a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And lo, in the evening, there is trouble. But before morning, it is gone. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.
18 Oh, the land, shadowed with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
2 sending ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of reeds upon the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation that is scattered abroad and plundered, to a revered people from their beginning onward, a subjugator nation whose land the rivers have spoiled!”
3 All you inhabitants of the world and dwellers in the Earth shall see when He sets up a sign in the mountains. And when He blows the trumpet, you shall hear.
4 For so the LORD said to me, “I will rest and behold in My Tabernacle, as the heat drying up the rain, as a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5 For before the harvest, when the sprout is finished and the grape is ripening in the bud, then he shall cut down the branches with hooks, and shall take away and cut off the branches.
6 They shall be left together for the birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the Earth. For the bird shall summer upon it and every beast of the Earth shall winter upon it.
7 At that time, a present shall be brought to the LORD of Hosts (a people who is scattered abroad and plundered, and from a revered people, from their beginning onward, a subjugator nation whose land the rivers have spoiled) to the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts: Mount Zion.
19 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt. And the idols of Egypt shall be moved at His presence. And the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 “And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians. So everyone shall fight against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.
3 “And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it. And I will destroy their counsel. And they shall seek the idols, and the sorcerers, and those who have spirits of divination, and the soothsayers.
4 “And I will deliver the Egyptians into the hand of the cruel lords. And a mighty king shall rule over them,” says the LORD God of Hosts.
5 Then the waters of the sea shall fail. And the river shall be dried up and wasted.
6 And the rivers shall go far away. The rivers of defense shall be emptied and dried up. The reeds and flags shall be cut down.
7 The grass in the river, at the head of the rivers and all that grows by the river, shall wither, be driven away and be no more.
8 Also, the fishers shall mourn. And all those who cast hooks into the river shall lament. And those who spread their net upon the waters shall be weakened.
9 Moreover, those who work in flax of diverse sorts shall be confounded, and those who weave nets.
10 For their nets shall be broken. And all those who make ponds shall be heavy in heart.
11 Surely, the princes of Zoan are fools. The counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh has become foolish. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise?”, “I am the son of the ancient kings?”
12 Where are the wise men now, that they may tell you or may know what the LORD of Hosts has determined against Egypt?
13 The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Noph are deceived. They have deceived Egypt, the cornerstones of its tribes.
14 The LORD has mingled among them the spirits of error. And they have caused Egypt to err in every work, as a drunken man errs in his vomit.
15 Nor shall there be any work in Egypt which the head may do, or the tail, the branch, or the rush.
16 On that day, Egypt shall be like women. For it shall be afraid and fear because of the moving of the Hand of the LORD of Hosts, which He shakes over it.
17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror to Egypt. Everyone who mentions it shall be afraid of it, because of the counsel of the LORD of Hosts which He has determined upon it.
18 On that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and shall swear by the LORD of Hosts. One shall be called the City of Destruction.
19 On that day shall the Altar of the LORD be in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a Pillar to the LORD by its border.
20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of Hosts in the land of Egypt. For they shall cry to the LORD, because of the oppressors. And He shall send them a Savior, a Mighty One, and shall deliver them.
21 And the LORD shall be known to the Egyptians. And the Egyptians shall know the LORD on that day, and serve sacrifice and oblation, and shall vow vows to the LORD, and perform them.
22 So the LORD shall strike Egypt. He shall strike and heal it. For it shall return to the LORD. And He shall be entreated by them and shall heal them.
23 On that day there shall be a path from Egypt to Assyria. And Assyria shall come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria. So the Egyptians shall worship with Assyria.
24 On that day shall Israel be the third, with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the land.
25 For the LORD of Hosts shall bless it, saying, “Blessed be My people, Egypt and Assyria, the work of My hands, and Israel, My inheritance.”
17 Therefore, be not unwise. But, understand what the will of the Lord is.
18 And do not be drunk with wine (wherein is wastefulness). But, be filled with the Spirit,
19 speaking to yourselves in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts,
20 giving thanks always, for all things, to God, even the Father, in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
21 submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as to the Lord.
23 For the husband is the wife’s head, even as Christ is the head of the Church. And the same is the Savior of the body.
24 But, as the Church is in subjection to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the Church, and gave Himself for her;
26 so that He might sanctify her and cleanse her by the washing of water through the Word,
27 So that He might make her a glorious Church to Himself, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing. But that it should be holy and without blame.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife, loves himself.
29 For no one ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord does the Church.
30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cling to his wife. And the two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great secret. But I speak concerning Christ and concerning the Church.
33 Yet, let every one of you do the same. Let everyone love his wife, even as himself. And let the wife see that she fears her husband.
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