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I will make the heavens shake. And the earth will be shaken from its place with the anger of the Lord of All in the day of His burning anger.

Every man will turn to his own people and run to his own land like a hunted gazelle or like sheep with no shepherd.

People will never live in it again, even all the people-to-come. No Arab will set up his tent there. No shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.

you will speak against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the one who made it hard for us has been stopped! How his anger has been stopped!

"All the kings of the nations lie in greatness, each in his own grave.

Make a place ready for his sons to be killed because of the sin of their fathers. They must not come into power and take the earth, and fill the world with cities."

I will break Assyria in My land. I will crush him under foot on My mountains. Then his load will be taken from My people. His load will be taken from their shoulder."

For the Lord of All has planned, and who can keep it from happening? Who can turn His hand back?

Cry out, O gate. Cry, O city. All you Philistines are weak in heart. For smoke comes from the north, and everyone keeps his place in his army.

What answer will be given to the men sent by the nation? That the Lord is the builder of Zion, and it will be a safe place for His people who are poor and troubled."

My heart cries out for Moab. His men have run away as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah. For they go up the hill of Luhith crying. On the road to Horonaim they cry in sorrow over their being destroyed.

We have heard of the pride of Moab, how very proud he is. We have heard of how proud he is of himself and of his anger. His proud words are false.

When Moab goes to his high place, he will only become tired. When he goes to his holy place to pray, it will do him no good.

But now the Lord says, "In three years, as a servant would count them, the shining-greatness of Moab and all his many people will be hated. And those left alive will be very few and weak."

In that day Jacob will lose his shining-greatness. And he will lose the fat of his flesh.

It will be like one who gathers the standing grain, taking the ears of grain with his arm or like one who gathers the ears of grain in the valley of Rephaim.

In that day man will turn to his Maker. His eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.

He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands. He will not look to what his fingers have made, or to the false goddess Asherah and the altars of special perfume.

"I will make Egyptians go against Egyptians. Each of them will fight against his brother, and each against his neighbor. City will fight against city, and nation against nation.

In the year that Sargon the king of Assyria sent his head captain to fight against Ashdod, he took it in battle.