“Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel. Because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel!

“They do not know how to do what is right.” (The Lord is speaking.) “They store up the spoils of destructive violence in their fortresses.

You will pick up your images of Sikkuth, your king, and Kiyyun, your star god, which you made for yourselves,

If an alarm sounds in a city, do people not fear? If disaster overtakes a city, is the Lord not responsible?

Certainly the sovereign Lord does nothing without first revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.

(But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion; he can turn the darkness into morning and daylight into night. He summons the water of the seas and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The Lord is his name!

As a result they will conquer those left in Edom and all the nations subject to my rule.” The Lord, who is about to do this, is speaking!

For here he is! He formed the mountains and created the wind. He reveals his plans to men. He turns the dawn into darkness and marches on the heights of the earth. The Lord, the God who commands armies, is his name!”

I will bring back my people, Israel; they will rebuild the cities lying in rubble and settle down. They will plant vineyards and drink the wine they produce; they will grow orchards and eat the fruit they produce.