Your dead will come back to life; your corpses will rise up. Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits.

Though the Lord desired to crush him and make him ill, once restitution is made, he will see descendants and enjoy long life, and the Lord’s purpose will be accomplished through him.

The Lord says, “The women of Zion are proud. They walk with their heads high and flirt with their eyes. They skip along and the jewelry on their ankles jingles.

All who form idols are nothing; the things in which they delight are worthless. Their witnesses cannot see; they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.

Their descendants will be known among the nations, their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will recognize that the Lord has blessed them.”

My hand made them; that is how they came to be,” says the Lord. I show special favor to the humble and contrite, who respect what I have to say.

headdresses, ankle ornaments, sashes, sachets, amulets,

Tie up the scroll as legal evidence, seal the official record of God’s instructions and give it to my followers.

Madmenah flees, the residents of Gebim have hidden.

In the year King Ahaz died, this message was revealed:

Wail, you large ships, for your fortress is destroyed!

The one who runs away from the sound of the terror will fall into the pit; the one who climbs out of the pit, will be trapped by the snare. For the floodgates of the heavens are opened up and the foundations of the earth shake.

An honorable man makes honorable plans; his honorable character gives him security.

To whom can you compare God? To what image can you liken him?

The father of your nation sinned; your spokesmen rebelled against me.

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

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

At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live,

They called out to one another, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord who commands armies! His majestic splendor fills the entire earth!”

I replied, “How long, sovereign master?” He said, “Until cities are in ruins and unpopulated, and houses are uninhabited, and the land is ruined and devastated,