Study Desk

"When you raise your arms to pray to me, I will refuse to look at you. You will say more and more prayers, but I will refuse to listen because your hands are covered with blood.

Because of this, the Lord God All-Powerful, the Mighty One of Israel, says, "Look, I will get relief from my enemies. You will not cause me any more trouble.

because you will be like an oak tree whose leaves are dying. You will be like a garden dying without water.

Family of Jacob, you have abandoned your people. This is clear because they have been filled with bad influences from the East, and now your people try to tell the future like the Philistines. They have completely accepted those strange ideas.

People will go into the holes in the ground and the cracks in the rocks because they fear the Lord and his great power as he stands to shake the earth.

They will go down into cracks in the rocks and boulders because they are afraid of the Lord and his glorious power as he stands to shake the earth.

This will happen because Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen. They turned against the Lord . They said and did things against him, right in front of his glorious eyes.

But it will be very bad for wicked people, because they, too, will get what they deserve. They will get what they did to others.

because Aram depends on its capital Damascus, and Damascus is led by its weak king Rezin. And don't worry about Ephraim. Within 65 years it will be crushed, no longer a nation.

People once worked the soil and grew food on these hills, but at that time they will not go there, because the fields will be covered with weeds and thorns. It will be a place where cattle graze and sheep wander."

He said that because before the boy learns to say "Mama" and "Daddy," God will take all the wealth and riches from Damascus and Samaria and give them to the king of Assyria.

Make your plans for the fight. Your plans will be defeated. Give orders to your armies, but your orders will be useless, because God is with us!

"Don't think there is a plan against you just because the people say there is. Don't be afraid of what they fear. Don't let them frighten you!"

That will happen because you will lift the heavy yoke off their shoulders and take away their heavy burden. You will take away the rod that the enemy used to punish your people, as you did when you defeated Midian.

All of them are evil. So the Lord is not happy with the young men, and he will not show mercy to their widows and orphans. That is because they are evil hypocrites. They tell lies. The Lord has punished them, but he is not finished yet. He is still angry, and his arm is raised to continue punishing his people.

People will stop hurting each other. People on my holy mountain will not want to destroy things because they will know the Lord . The world will be full of knowledge about him, like the sea is full of water.

Sing songs of praise about the Lord , because he has done great things. Spread this news about God throughout the whole world. Let all people know these things.

Other kings have their own graves, but you will not join them, because you ruined your own country and killed your own people. So your wicked descendants will be stopped.

Prepare to kill his children, because their father is guilty. His children will never take control of the land. They will never fill the world with their cities.

Because of their pride, everyone in Moab will mourn. They will wish for the way things used to be. They will wish for the raisin cakes from Kir Hareseth.