Study Desk

The archers are the bravest warriors of Kedar, but few of them will be left. I, the Lord God of Israel, have spoken."

you built a reservoir inside the city to hold the water flowing down from the old pool. But you paid no attention to God, who planned all this long ago and who caused it to happen.

So God has pronounced a curse on the earth. Its people are paying for what they have done. Fewer and fewer remain alive.

and those in the East will praise him. The people who live along the sea will praise the Lord , the God of Israel.

God will crowd kings together like prisoners in a pit. He will shut them in prison until the time of their punishment comes.

Lord , you are my God; I will honor you and praise your name. You have done amazing things; you have faithfully carried out the plans you made long ago.

When it happens, everyone will say, "He is our God! We have put our trust in him, and he has rescued us. He is the Lord ! We have put our trust in him, and now we are happy and joyful because he has saved us."

They will reach out their hands as if they were trying to swim, but God will humiliate them, and their hands will sink helplessly.

A day is coming when the people will sing this song in the land of Judah: Our city is strong! God himself defends its walls!

Lord our God, we have been ruled by others, but you alone are our Lord .

The branches of the trees are withered and broken, and women gather them for firewood. Because the people have understood nothing, God their Creator will not pity them or show them any mercy.

Even the prophets and the priests are so drunk that they stagger. They have drunk so much wine and liquor that they stumble in confusion. The prophets are too drunk to understand the visions that God sends, and the priests are too drunk to decide the cases that are brought to them.

If you won't listen to me, then God will use foreigners speaking some strange-sounding language to teach you a lesson.

It will strike you again and again, morning after morning. You will have to bear it day and night. Each new message from God will bring new terror!

They know how to do their work, because God has taught them.

All this wisdom comes from the Lord Almighty. The plans God makes are wise, and they always succeed.

and then God will bring disaster on the city that is called "God's altar." There will be weeping and wailing, and the whole city will be like an altar covered with blood.

God will attack the city, surround it, and besiege it.

The Lord has made you drowsy, ready to fall into a deep sleep. The prophets should be the eyes of the people, but God has blindfolded them.

Poor and humble people will once again find the happiness which the Lord , the holy God of Israel, gives.