Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves. All of them love bribery, and look for payoffs. They do not take up the cause of the orphan, or defend the rights of the widow.

Indeed, a man will grab his brother right in his father’s house and say, ‘You own a coat – you be our leader! This heap of ruins will be under your control.’

We were pregnant, we strained, we gave birth, as it were, to wind. We cannot produce deliverance on the earth; people to populate the world are not born.

“O Lord who commands armies, O God of Israel, who is enthroned on the cherubim! You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the sky and the earth.

The Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 troops in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses!

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is an eternal God, the creator of the whole earth. He does not get tired or weary; there is no limit to his wisdom.

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?

As for foreigners who become followers of the Lord and serve him, who love the name of the Lord and want to be his servants – all who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it, and who are faithful to my covenant –

Men bow down to them in homage, they lie flat on the ground in worship. Don’t spare them!

the mighty men and warriors, judges and prophets, omen readers and leaders,

Men will be humiliated, they will be brought low; the proud will be brought low.

The Lord who commands armies will be exalted when he punishes, the sovereign God’s authority will be recognized when he judges.

They pronounce the guilty innocent for a payoff, they ignore the just cause of the innocent.

At that time a man will keep alive a young cow from the herd and a couple of goats.

Is not Calneh like Carchemish? Hamath like Arpad? Samaria like Damascus?

The sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, is certainly ready to carry out the decreed destruction throughout the land.

Wail, for the Lord’s day of judgment is near; it comes with all the destructive power of the sovereign judge.

Their children will be smashed to pieces before their very eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives raped.

All of them respond to you, saying: ‘You too have become weak like us! You have become just like us!

In their streets they wear sackcloth; on their roofs and in their town squares all of them wail, they fall down weeping.