Wine is a mocker and strong drink is a brawler; whoever goes astray by them is not wise.

Why do you insist on being battered? Why do you continue to rebel? Your head has a massive wound, your whole body is weak.

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.

For this reason all hands hang limp, every human heart loses its courage.

along with the plants by the mouth of the river. All the cultivated land near the river will turn to dust and be blown away.

Come near, you nations, and listen! Pay attention, you people! The earth and everything it contains must listen, the world and everything that lives in it.

Her nobles will have nothing left to call a kingdom and all her officials will disappear.

Every valley must be elevated, and every mountain and hill leveled. The rough terrain will become a level plain, the rugged landscape a wide valley.

I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up; I will dry up all their vegetation. I will turn streams into islands, and dry up pools of water.

who commissions Cyrus, the one I appointed as shepherd to carry out all my wishes and to decree concerning Jerusalem, ‘She will be rebuilt,’ and concerning the temple, ‘It will be reconstructed.’”

I will make your pinnacles out of gems, your gates out of beryl, and your outer wall out of beautiful stones.

Now listen to what the Lord has to say, you descendants of Jacob, all you family groups from the nation of Israel.

I looked and saw that the fruitful land had become a desert and that all of the cities had been laid in ruins. The Lord had brought this all about because of his blazing anger.

The land of Judah will be inhabited by people who live in its towns as well as by farmers and shepherds with their flocks.

Johanan and all the officers of the troops that had been hiding in the open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah.

So her young men will fall in her city squares. All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time,” says the Lord.

along with their entire bodies, their backs, their hands, and their wings. The wheels of the four of them were full of eyes all around.

He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Take note – he gave his promise and did all these things – he will not escape!

Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your trade partners; for lambs, rams, and goats they traded with you.

Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your company have sunk along with you.