I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine. Then all humankind will recognize that I am the Lord, your deliverer, your protector, the powerful ruler of Jacob.”

Zion will be freed by justice, and her returnees by righteousness.

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.

Here is a message about Dumah: Someone calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”

At that time the Lord will punish the heavenly forces in the heavens and the earthly kings on the earth.

A voice cries out, “In the wilderness clear a way for the Lord; construct in the desert a road for our God.

A cow and a bear will graze together, their young will lie down together. A lion, like an ox, will eat straw.

The way of the righteous is level, the path of the righteous that you make is straight.

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

Let your private parts be exposed! Your genitals will be on display! I will get revenge; I will not have pity on anyone,”

My servant is truly blind, my messenger is truly deaf. My covenant partner, the servant of the Lord, is truly blind.

The sovereign Lord has given me the capacity to be his spokesman, so that I know how to help the weary. He wakes me up every morning; he makes me alert so I can listen attentively as disciples do.

My hand made them; that is how they came to be,” says the Lord. I show special favor to the humble and contrite, who respect what I have to say.

They put it on their shoulder and carry it; they put it in its place and it just stands there; it does not move from its place. Even when someone cries out to it, it does not reply; it does not deliver him from his distress.

Like a frightened gazelle or a sheep with no shepherd, each will turn toward home, each will run to his homeland.

I do this so people will recognize from east to west that there is no God but me; I am the Lord, I have no peer.

Shout for joy, O sky! Rejoice, O earth! Let the mountains give a joyful shout! For the Lord consoles his people and shows compassion to the oppressed.

They are unfamiliar with peace; their deeds are unjust. They use deceitful methods, and whoever deals with them is unfamiliar with peace.

Sheol below is stirred up about you, ready to meet you when you arrive. It rouses the spirits of the dead for you, all the former leaders of the earth; it makes all the former kings of the nations rise from their thrones.

It will become a visual reminder in the land of Egypt of the Lord who commands armies. When they cry out to the Lord because of oppressors, he will send them a deliverer and defender who will rescue them.