Instead the Lord will rule there as our mighty king. Rivers and wide streams will flow through it; no war galley will enter; no large ships will sail through.

The Lord says, “I will make youths their officials; malicious young men will rule over them.

headdresses, ankle ornaments, sashes, sachets, amulets,

Your men will fall by the sword, your strong men will die in battle.

“Now, listen, Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen!”

Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?

Remember this, so you can be brave! Think about it, you rebels!

I can clothe the sky in darkness; I can cover it with sackcloth.”

Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has planned a day of judgment, for all the high and mighty, for all who are proud – they will be humiliated;

He will lift a signal flag for the nations; he will gather Israel’s dispersed people and assemble Judah’s scattered people from the four corners of the earth.

The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing, ‘Since you fell asleep, no woodsman comes up to chop us down!’

For at that time everyone will get rid of the silver and gold idols your hands sinfully made.

Sinners are afraid in Zion; panic grips the godless. They say, ‘Who among us can coexist with destructive fire? Who among us can coexist with unquenchable fire?’

You will no longer see a defiant people whose language you do not comprehend, whose derisive speech you do not understand.

they will say about me, “Yes, the Lord is a powerful deliverer.”’” All who are angry at him will cower before him.

“Hey, all who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come! Buy and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk without money and without cost!

They hatch the eggs of a poisonous snake and spin a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, a poisonous snake is hatched.

Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker, “He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter, “He doesn’t understand”?

he says, “Is it too insignificant a task for you to be my servant, to reestablish the tribes of Jacob, and restore the remnant of Israel? I will make you a light to the nations, so you can bring my deliverance to the remote regions of the earth.”

Why do you forget the Lord, who made you, who stretched out the sky and founded the earth? Why do you constantly tremble all day long at the anger of the oppressor, when he makes plans to destroy? Where is the anger of the oppressor?