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But Yahweh of hosts will be lofty in judgment,And the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.

On this account, the anger of Yahweh has burned against His people,And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down.And the mountains trembled, and their corpses lay like refuse in the middle of the streets.For all this His anger is not turned back,But His hand is still stretched out.

He said, "Go, and tell this people:‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand;Keep on seeing, but do not know.'

Now it happened in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not conquer it.

But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not test Yahweh!"

As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place for pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample.

Devise counsel, but it will be thwarted;Speak a word, but it will not stand,For God is with us."

Then He shall become a sanctuary;But to both the houses of Israel, a stone to strike and a rock to stumble over,And a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

But there will be no more gloom for her who was in anguish; in earlier times He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but later on He shall make it glorious, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles.

"The bricks have fallen down,But we will rebuild with cut stones;The sycamores have been cut in pieces,But we will replace them with cedars."

They slice off what is on the right hand but still are hungry,And they eat what is on the left hand but they are not satisfied;Each of them eats the flesh of his own arm.

Nothing remains but to crouch among the captivesOr fall among those killed.In spite of all this, His anger does not turn backAnd His hand is still stretched out.

But it does not intend to act in this way,And it does not think in its heart in this way,Rather, what is in its heart is to destroyAnd to cut off many nations.

Now it will be in that day, that the remnant of Israel and those of the house of Jacob who have escaped, will never again rely on the one who struck them, but will truly rely on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel.

But with righteousness He will judge the poor,And decide with uprightness for the afflicted of the earth;And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,And with the breath of His lips He will put the wicked to death.

But desert creatures will lie down there,And their houses will be full of owls;Ostriches also will dwell there, and shaggy goats will leap there.

But you said in your heart,‘I will ascend to heaven;I will raise my throne above the stars of God,And I will sit on the mount of assemblyIn the recesses of the north.

But you have been cast out of your graveLike an abhorred branch,Clothed with those killed who are pierced with a sword,Who go down to the stones of the pitLike a trampled corpse.

But now Yahweh speaks, saying, "Within three years, as a hired man would count them, the glory of Moab will be dishonored along with all his great population, and his remnant will be very small and not mighty."

In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,And in the morning you cause your seed to flourish;But the harvest will be a heapIn a day of sickliness and incurable pain.