The happy sound of the tambourines stops, the revelry of those who celebrate comes to a halt, the happy sound of the harp ceases.

you will taunt the king of Babylon with these words: “Look how the oppressor has met his end! Hostility has ceased!

Egypt is totally incapable of helping. For this reason I call her ‘Proud one who is silenced.’”

Highways are empty, there are no travelers. Treaties are broken, witnesses are despised, human life is treated with disrespect.

The people who do this will be blessed, the people who commit themselves to obedience, who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it, who refrain from doing anything that is wrong.

From one month to the next and from one Sabbath to the next, all people will come to worship me,” says the Lord.

As for foreigners who become followers of the Lord and serve him, who love the name of the Lord and want to be his servants – all who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it, and who are faithful to my covenant –