The earth will be completely devastated and thoroughly ransacked. For the Lord has decreed this judgment.

O Lord, you make us secure, for even all we have accomplished, you have done for us.

Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?

Or when they hand the scroll to one who can’t read and say, “Read this,” he says, “I can’t read.”

For tyrants will disappear, those who taunt will vanish, and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated –

My people will live in peaceful settlements, in secure homes, and in safe, quiet places.

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

You conceive straw, you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you.

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

Let the desert and dry region be happy; let the wilderness rejoice and bloom like a lily!

The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks, as I do today. A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.

A craftsman casts an idol; a metalsmith overlays it with gold and forges silver chains for it.

This is what the Lord says, the one who made a road through the sea, a pathway through the surging waters,

I, I am the one who blots out your rebellious deeds for my sake; your sins I do not remember.

who says to the deep sea, ‘Be dry! I will dry up your sea currents,’

Israel will be delivered once and for all by the Lord; you will never again be ashamed or humiliated.

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

I did this because I know how stubborn you are. Your neck muscles are like iron and your forehead like bronze.

Listen to me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I summoned! I am the one; I am present at the very beginning and at the very end.

I will make all my mountains into a road; I will construct my roadways.”