Did you not dry up the sea, the waters of the great deep? Did you not make a path through the depths of the sea, so those delivered from bondage could cross over?

Then you will look and smile, you will be excited and your heart will swell with pride. For the riches of distant lands will belong to you and the wealth of nations will come to you.

You will be shocked and amazed! You are totally blind! They are drunk, but not because of wine; they stagger, but not because of beer.

the deep waters! Grain from the Shihor region, crops grown near the Nile she receives; she is the trade center of the nations.

The Lord who commands armies planned it – to dishonor the pride that comes from all her beauty, to humiliate all the dignitaries of the earth.

He is your constant source of stability; he abundantly provides safety and great wisdom; he gives all this to those who fear him.

At that time men will trust in their creator; they will depend on the Holy One of Israel.

The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up; the bulrushes and reeds will decay,

The earth dries up and withers, the world shrivels up and withers; the prominent people of the earth fade away.

Therefore, listen to the Lord’s word, you who mock, you rulers of these people who reside in Jerusalem!

So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh.

The sovereign Lord says this, the one who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will still gather them up.”

Go up into the rocky cliffs, hide in the ground. Get away from the dreadful judgment of the Lord, from his royal splendor!

For this is what the Lord has told me: “I will wait and watch from my place, like scorching heat produced by the sunlight, like a cloud of mist in the heat of harvest.”

Look, the sovereign master sends a strong, powerful one. With the force of a hailstorm or a destructive windstorm, with the might of a driving, torrential rainstorm, he will knock that crown to the ground with his hand.

No, this is the kind of fast I want. I want you to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, and to break every burdensome yoke.

For this reason this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “You have rejected this message; you trust instead in your ability to oppress and trick, and rely on that kind of behavior.

They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.

His God instructs him; he teaches him the principles of agriculture.

Look what’s coming! A charioteer, a team of horses.” When questioned, he replies, “Babylon has fallen, fallen! All the idols of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”