“If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”

If not, you listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”

for suddenly their destruction will overtake them, and who knows the ruinous judgment both the Lord and the king can bring?

For everything there is an appointed time, and an appropriate time for every activity on earth:

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

My beloved is like a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-Gedi.

So the sovereign master will afflict the foreheads of Zion’s women with skin diseases, the Lord will make the front of their heads bald.”

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

Many will stumble over the stone and the rock, and will fall and be seriously injured, and will be ensnared and captured.”

The thickets of the forest will be chopped down with an ax, and mighty Lebanon will fall.

Indeed, all the tables are covered with vomit; no place is untouched.

The nations will be burned to ashes; like thorn bushes that have been cut down, they will be set on fire.

Hezekiah said, “What is the confirming sign that I will go up to the Lord’s temple?”

The grass dries up, the flowers wither, but the decree of our God is forever reliable.”

Not even Lebanon could supply enough firewood for a sacrifice; its wild animals would not provide enough burnt offerings.

So I defiled your holy princes, and handed Jacob over to destruction, and subjected Israel to humiliating abuse.”

Danger awaits one who says to his father, “What in the world are you fathering?” and to his mother, “What in the world are you bringing forth?”

So listen to this, oppressed one, who is drunk, but not from wine!

All you wild animals in the fields, come and devour, all you wild animals in the forest!

I trampled nations in my anger, I made them drunk in my rage, I splashed their blood on the ground.”