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For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more; he will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry; when he shall hear, he will answer you.

He will give the rain for your seed, with which you shall sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day shall your cattle feed in large pastures;

For through the voice of Yahweh shall the Assyrian be dismayed; with his rod will he strike [him].

For a Topheth is prepared of old; yes, for the king it is made ready; he has made it deep and large; the pile of it is fire and much wood; the breath of Yahweh, like a stream of sulfur, does kindle it.

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Yahweh!

For thus says Yahweh to me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds are called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will Yahweh of Hosts come down to fight on Mount Zion, and on the hill of it.

For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made to you for a sin.

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

For days beyond a year shall you be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the harvest shall not come.

They shall strike on the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;

Yahweh, be gracious to us; we have waited for you: be our arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

Yahweh is exalted; for he dwells on high: he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

For Yahweh is our judge, Yahweh is our lawgiver, Yahweh is our king; he will save us.

For Yahweh has indignation against all the nations, and wrath against all their host: he has utterly destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter.

For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky: behold, it shall come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, to judgment.

The sword of Yahweh is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke of it shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.

Thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses of it; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.