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On that day, its fortified cities will be like the abandonment of the wooded place and the summit, which they deserted because of the children of Israel; and there will be desolation.

For Yahweh said this to me: "I will be quiet, and I will look from my dwelling place like clear heat because of light, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."

And the land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt, everyone to whom one mentions it will be afraid in himself because of the plan of Yahweh of hosts that he is planning against him.

And it will be a sign and a witness to Yahweh of hosts in the land of Egypt; when they cry out to Yahweh because of oppressors, he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them.

And they shall be dismayed, and they shall be ashamed because of Cush, their hope, and because of Egypt, their pride.

You will protect a firm inclination in peace, in peace because he trusts in you.

The dead do not live; dead spirits do not rise because you have punished and destroyed them, and you have destroyed all memory of them.

Like a pregnant woman on the point of giving birth, she writhes; she cries in her labor pains. So we were because of your presence, Yahweh.

And these also stagger because of wine and stagger because of strong drink; priest and prophet stagger because of strong drink; they are confused because of wine. They stagger because of strong drink; they err in vision. They stagger in the rendering of a decision,

Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and we have made an agreement with Sheol. The overwhelming flood, when it passes through, will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves in falsehood."

And the Lord said, "Because this people draw near with its mouth, and with its lips it honors me, and its heart is far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men that has been taught,

Everyone will start to stink because of a people that cannot profit them, not for help and not for profiting, but for shame and also for disgrace."

Therefore the holy one of Israel says this: "Because you are rejecting this word and you trust in oppression and cunning and you rely on it,

One thousand because of a threat of one, because of a threat of five you shall flee, until you are left like a flagstaff on top of a mountain, and like a signal on a hill.

Ah! Those who go down to Egypt for help! They rely on horses and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very numerous, and they do not look to the holy one of Israel, and they do not consult Yahweh.

And his rock will pass over because of terror, and his officers will be terrified because of the flag," declares Yahweh, who has a fire in Zion and has a furnace in Jerusalem.

At the sound of tumult, peoples fled; because of your exaltation, nations scattered.

Isaiah said to them, "You must say this to your master: ‘Thus says Yahweh: "You must not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

And Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: ‘Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib, king of Assyria,

Because you were enraged against me, and your noise has come up to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle on your lips, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.