I have seen another misfortune on the earth: It is an error a ruler makes.

Who planned this for royal Tyre, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the dignitaries of the earth?

All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing.

The Lord wanted to exhibit his justice by magnifying his law and displaying it.

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

Turn to me so you can be delivered, all you who live in the earth’s remote regions! For I am God, and I have no peer.

For the Lord judges all humanity with fire and his sword; the Lord will kill many.

“I am the Lord, the God of all humankind. There is, indeed, nothing too difficult for me.

The people of the earth will quake when they hear Babylon has been captured. Her cries of anguish will be heard by the other nations.”

“See how Babylon has been captured! See how the pride of the whole earth has been taken! See what an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations!

“‘But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands.

And everyone will see that I, the Lord, have burned it; it will not be extinguished.’”

For this reason no watered trees will grow so tall; their tops will not reach into the clouds, nor will the well-watered ones grow that high. For all of them have been appointed to die in the lower parts of the earth; they will be among mere mortals, with those who descend to the pit.

This is what the sovereign Lord says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will turn you into a desolation.

I was concerned for my holy reputation which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they went.

The tree grew large and strong. Its top reached far into the sky; it could be seen from the borders of all the land.

Daniel explained: “I was watching in my vision during the night as the four winds of the sky were stirring up the great sea.

I will pelt you with filth; I will treat you with contempt; I will make you a public spectacle.

The Lord who rules over all says, ‘It will someday come to pass that people – residents of many cities – will come.

On that day there will be no light – the sources of light in the heavens will congeal.