Indeed, they will be ashamed of the sacred trees you find so desirable; you will be embarrassed because of the sacred orchards where you choose to worship.

‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

At that time the Lord will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.

Were the nations whom my predecessors destroyed – the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar – rescued by their gods?

Isaiah replied, “This is your sign from the Lord confirming that the Lord will do what he has said:

Isaiah asked, “What have they seen in your palace?” Hezekiah replied, “They have seen everything in my palace. I showed them everything in my treasuries.”

This is a message about Babylon that God revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz:

This is the message the Lord previously announced about Moab.

The land of buzzing wings is as good as dead, the one beyond the rivers of Cush,

You who are far away, listen to what I have done! You who are close by, recognize my strength!”

He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, through whom I will reveal my splendor.”

In the same way, the promise that I make does not return to me, having accomplished nothing. No, it is realized as I desire and is fulfilled as I intend.”

For you will be like a tree whose leaves wither, like an orchard that is unwatered.

Here is the message about Judah and Jerusalem that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz.

Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are prepared. The hooves of their horses are hard as flint, and their chariot wheels are like a windstorm.

Then you must recall the Lord’s instructions and the prophetic testimony of what would happen. Certainly they say such things because their minds are spiritually darkened.

Egypt will not be able to do a thing, head or tail, shoots and stalk.

For this is what the sovereign master has told me: “Go, post a guard! He must report what he sees.

O my downtrodden people, crushed like stalks on the threshing floor, what I have heard from the Lord who commands armies, the God of Israel, I have reported to you.