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And the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, on the day Yahweh binds up the fracture of His people and heals the bruise He has inflicted.

Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from afar;Burning is His anger and heavy is His smoke;His lips are filled with indignationAnd His tongue is like a consuming fire;

His breath is like an overflowing torrent,Which reaches to the neck,To shake the nations back and forth in a sieve of worthlessness,And to put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which staggers one to ruin.

And Yahweh will cause His splendid voice to be heard,And the descending of His arm to be seen in raging anger,And in the flame of a consuming fireIn cloudburst, downpour, and hailstones.

Yet He also is wise and will bring about an evil demiseAnd does not turn His words aside,But will arise against the house of evildoersAnd against the help of the workers of iniquity.

Now the Egyptians are men and not God,And their horses are flesh and not spirit;So Yahweh will stretch out His hand,And he who helps will stumble,And he who is helped will fall,And all of them will come to an end together.

For in that day every man will reject his silver idols and his gold idols, which your hands have made for you as a sin.

And the Assyrian will fall by a sword not of man,And a sword not of man will devour him.So he will flee from the sword,And his choice men will become forced laborers.

"His rock will pass away because of terror,And his princes will be dismayed at the standard,"Declares Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

For a wicked fool speaks wicked folly,And his heart does wickedness:To do ungodliness and to speak error against Yahweh,In order to make the hungry person empty;He even causes the thirsty to lack a drink.

As for a rogue, his weapons are evil;He counsels wicked schemesTo wreak destruction on the afflicted with lying words,Even though the needy one speaks justly.

And He will be the stability of your times,A wealth of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge;The fear of Yahweh is his treasure.

He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly;He who rejects greedy gain of oppression,And shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe;He who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshedAnd shuts his eyes from looking upon evil;

He will dwell on the heights,His refuge will be the strongholds of the cliffs;His bread will be given him,His water will be sure.

Your eyes will behold the King in His beauty;They will see a far‑distant land.

For the indignation of Yahweh is against all the nations,And His wrath against all their hosts;He has devoted them to destruction;He has given them over to slaughter.

Seek from the book of Yahweh, and read:Not one of these will be missing;None will lack its mate.For His mouth has commanded,And His Spirit has gathered them.

He has cast the lot for them,And His hand has divided it to them by line.They shall possess it forever;From generation to generation they will dwell in it.

Behold, you trust in the staff of this crushed reed, even on Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

Do not listen to Hezekiah,' for thus says the king of Assyria, ‘Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat each of his vine and each of his fig tree, and drink each of the waters of his own cistern,