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34 Come near, you nations and hear! And listen, you people! Let the Earth hear and all that is therein, the world and all that proceeds from it.
2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and wrath upon all their armies. He has destroyed them, delivered them to the slaughter.
3 And their slain shall be cast out. And their stink shall come up out of their bodies. And the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4 And all the host of Heaven shall be dissolved. And the heavens shall be folded like a book. And all their hosts shall fall, as the leaf falls from the vine, and as it falls from the fig tree.
5 “For My sword shall be quenched in Heaven. Behold, it shall come down upon Edom, even upon the people of My curse, to judgment.”
6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood. It prospers with the fat, with the blood of the lambs and the goats, with the fat of the kidneys of the rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 And the wild oxen shall come down with them, and the heifers with the bulls. And their land shall be drenched with blood, and their dust made to prosper with fatness.
8 For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, the year of recompense for the judgment of Zion.
9 And its rivers shall be turned into tar, and its dust into brimstone. And its land shall be burning tar.
10 It shall not be quenched, night or day. Its smoke shall go up forever. It shall be desolate from generation to generation. No one shall pass through it, forever and ever.
11 But the pelican and the hedgehog shall possess it. And the great owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And He shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.
12 Its nobles shall call to the kingdom and there shall be none. And all its princes shall be nothing.
13 And it shall bring forth thorns in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its strongholds. And it shall be a home for serpents, and a court for unclean birds.
14 Also, the wild beasts of the desert shall meet the jackals there. And the wild goat shall cry to his companion. And the night demon shall rest there and shall find for herself a quiet dwelling.
15 There shall the owl make her nest and lay and hatch and gather them under her shadow. There shall the vultures also be gathered, each one with her mate.
16 Seek in the Book of the LORD and read. None of these shall fail. None shall want for a mate. For His Mouth has Commanded, and His very Spirit has gathered them.
17 And He has cast the lot for them. And His Hand has divided to them by line. They shall possess it forever. From generation to generation shall they dwell in it.
35 The desert and the wilderness shall rejoice. And the waste ground shall be glad and flourish as the rose.
2 It shall flourish abundantly and shall also greatly rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the beauty of Carmel and of Sharon. They shall see the Glory of the LORD, the excellency of our God.
3 Strengthen the weak hands and comfort the feeble knees.
4 Say to those who are fearful, “Be strong! Do not fear! Behold, your God comes with vengeance! God, with a recompense, He will come and save you!”
5 Then shall the eyes of the blind be lightened, and the ears of the deaf be opened.
6 Then shall the lame man leap as a deer. And the mute man’s tongue shall shout for joy. For waters shall break out in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
7 And the dry ground shall be as a pool, and the thirsty as springs of water. In the habitation of dragons, where they lay, shall be a place for reeds and rushes.
8 And there shall be a path and a way. And the way shall be called holy. The polluted shall not pass by it. But it shall be for those who walk in that way. And they, though fools, shall not err on it.
9 There shall be no lion. Nor shall noisy beasts ascend by it. Nor shall they be found there. So that the redeemed may walk.
10 Therefore, the redeemed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with praise. And everlasting joy shall be upon their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness. And sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
36 Now, in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib, King of Assyria, came up against all the strong cities of Judah, and took them.
2 And the King of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish toward Jerusalem, to king Hezekiah, with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool, in the path of the launderer’s field.
3 Then, Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah (the steward of the house) and Shebna (the chancellor) and Joah (the son of Asaph, the recorder) came forth to him.
4 And Rabshakeh said to them, “Please tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “What confidence is this, in which you trust?
5 “I tell you, surely your eloquence, counsel and strength are for war. On whom, then, do you trust, that you rebel against me?
6 “Lo, you trust in this broken staff of a reed, in Egypt, whereupon if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it, as is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who trust in him.
7 “But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is not that He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah took down and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar’?
8 “Now, therefore, give hostages to my lord, the king of Assyria. And I will give you two thousand horses (if you are able, on your part), to set riders upon them.
9 “For how can you despise any captain of the least of my lord’s servants and still put your trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
10 “And have I now come up without the LORD to this land, to destroy it? The LORD said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it’.”
11 Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Aramaic language. For we understand it. And do not talk with us in the Jews’ tongue in front of the people who are on the wall.”
12 But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master, and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
13 So Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, of the king of Assyria!
14 “Thus says the king, ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you (for he shall not be able to deliver you)
15 ‘or let Hezekiah make you to trust in the LORD, saying, “The LORD will surely deliver us. This city shall not be given over into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
16 ‘Do not listen to Hezekiah! For thus says the king of Assyria, “Make an appointment with me. And come out to me, so that every man may eat of his own vine, and every man of his own fig tree, and every man drink the water of his own well,
17 “until I come and bring you to a land like your own land, a land of wheat and wine, a land of bread and vineyards,
18 “lest Hezekiah deceives you, saying, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
19 “Where is the god of Hamath, and of Arpad? Where is the god of Sepharvaim? Or how have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
20 “Who is he among all the gods of these lands who has delivered their country out of my hand. And the LORD will deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?”’”
21 Then they kept silent. And did not answer him a word. For the king’s commandment was, saying, “Do not answer him.”
22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah (the steward of the house) and Shebna (the chancellor) and Joah (the son of Asaph, the recorder) to Hezekiah with torn clothes, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
2 For I desire that you knew what great struggle I have for you, and for those of Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
2 that their hearts might be encouraged, having been joined together in love and in all the riches of the full assurance of understanding to know the mystery of God and the Father and of Christ,
3 in Whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 And this I say so that no one should deceive you with persuasive words.
5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order and your steadfast faith in Christ.
6 Therefore, as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him;
7 being rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
8 Beware, lest anyone spoil you through philosophy and empty deceit according to the traditions of man, according to the principles of the world and not according to Christ.
9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead, bodily.
10 And you are complete in Him Who is the Head of all principality and power.
11 In Him also are you circumcised, with circumcision made without hands, by putting off the sinful body of the flesh through the circumcision of Christ,
12 buried with Him in baptism (in which you are also risen with Him through the faith of the working of God, Who raised Him from the dead).
13 And you, who were dead in sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, forgiving all trespasses
14 and blotting out the handwriting of the ordinances against us which opposed us. He has taken it out of the way and fastened it upon the cross.
15 And having disarmed the rulers and authorities, and having made a show of them openly, He has triumphed over them in it.
16 Therefore, let no one judge you as regards food and drink, or regarding a holy day or the new moon or the Sabbath,
17 which are a shadow of things to come. But the body is of Christ.
18 Let no one, at his pleasure, bear rule over you by his humbleness of mind and his worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he has never seen, being rashly puffed up with his fleshly mind
19 and not taking hold of the Head (from Whom all the body, supplied and knit together by joints and bonds, grows with a growth that is from God).
20 Therefore, if you have died with Christ from the principles of the world, why then (as though you lived in the world) do you submit to ordinances such as:
21 “Touch not! Taste not! Handle not!”,
22 which all perish with use and are according to the commandments and doctrines of man?
23 These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom and of voluntary religion and humbleness of mind and of not sparing the body but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
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