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Adonai , show us mercy; we have waited for you. Be their arm every morning, and our salvation in time of trouble.

Adonai is exalted, for he dwells on high; he has filled Tziyon with justice and right.

Hear their brave men crying out for help! The envoys of peace weep bitterly.

The highways are deserted, there are no travelers. He has broken the covenant, despised the cities; he has no regard for human life.

For Adonai is our judge, Adonai is our lawgiver, Adonai is our king. He will save us.

For your ropes are hanging loose, not holding the mast, not spreading the sail. Then the plunder shared out is so huge that even the lame get part of the spoil.

For Adonai is angry at every nation, furious with all their armies; he has completely destroyed them, handed them over to slaughter.

"For my sword has drunk its fill in heaven; now it descends on Edom to judge them, the people I have doomed to destruction."

There is a sword that belongs to Adonai . It is filled with blood, gorged with fat, filled with the blood of lambs and goats, gorged with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For Adonai has a sacrifice in Botzrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

For Adonai has a day of vengeance, a year of requital for fighting with Tziyon.

Thorns will overgrow its palaces, nettles and thistles its fortresses; it will become a lair for jackals, an enclosure for ostriches.

Consult the book of Adonai and read it: not one of these will be missing, none will be lacking a mate. For by his own mouth he gave the order, and by his Spirit he brought them together.

It is he who cast the lot for them, his hand measured out their shares. They will possess it forever, and live there through all generations.

then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the mute person's tongue will sing. For in the desert, springs will burst forth, streams of water in the ‘Aravah;

A highway will be there, a way, called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not pass over it, but it will be for those whom he guides — fools will not stray along it.

I say: do mere words constitute strategy and strength for battle? In whom, then, are you trusting when you rebel against me like this?

Look! Relying on Egypt is like using a broken stick as a staff — when you lean on it, it punctures your hand. That's what Pharaoh king of Egypt is like for anyone who puts his trust in him.

All right, then, make a wager with my lord the king of Ashur: I will give you two thousand horses if you can find enough riders for them.

How then can you repulse even one of my master's lowest-ranked army officers? Yet you are relying on Egypt for chariots and riders!

Don't listen to Hizkiyahu.' For this is what the king says: ‘Make peace with me, surrender to me. Then every one of you can eat from his vine and fig tree and drink the water in his own cistern,