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And now, I will break his yoke from upon you; I will snap your bonds."

The shields of his warriors are dyed red; The powerful men are dressed in scarlet. The metal of the chariots shines like fire on the day of battle, and their spears quiver.

He calls his officers; they stumble as they march; they rush to her wall; they set the covering in place.

The lion tore apart enough prey for his cubs, he strangled prey for his lioness; he filled his lair with prey and his den with mangled carcass.

He brings up all of them with a fishhook; he drags them up with a fishnet; he gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore, he rejoices and exults.

Therefore he sacrifices to his fishnet and makes offerings to his dragnet, for by them he makes a good living and his food is rich.

Will he therefore empty his fishnet and continually kill nations without showing mercy?

Look! His spirit within him is puffed up; it is not upright. But the righteous shall live by his faithfulness.

How much less the defiant; the arrogant, treacherous man? He who broadens his throat like Sheol, and who, like death, is not satisfied, and who gathers to himself all the nations, and harvested for himself all the peoples, will not succeed.

Shall not all of these take up a taunt against him, with ridicule and riddles against him, saying, ‘Woe to him who heaps up what is not his'? For how long? And, ‘Woe to him who makes himself heavy with pledges'?

Woe to him who obtains profit from evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be saved from the hand of misfortune!

Woe to him who gives a drink to his neighbors, pouring out your wrath and also making them drunk in order to see their nakedness!

What value is an idol when its carver has fashioned it, a molten idol, a teacher of lies? For he who fashioned his creation trusts in it, though making mute idols!

But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him."

God came from Teman; the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His splendor covers the heavens, and his praise fills the earth.

And his brightness was like the light; flashing rays came from his hand for him; And there is the covering of his strength.

Before him went Disease, and Pestilence went out at his feet.

You pierced the head of his warriors with his own arrows; they came like a whirlwind to scatter me, their exultation like one who devours the afflicted in ambush.

Be silent before the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh draws near, for Yahweh has provided a sacrifice and has consecrated his guests.

Moreover, their silver and their gold will not be able to save them on the day of the wrath of Yahweh. And in the fire of his zeal, the whole land shall be consumed, for a terrifying end he shall make for all the inhabitants of the land.