Instead of bronze, I will bring you gold, instead of iron, I will bring you silver, instead of wood, I will bring you bronze, instead of stones, I will bring you iron. I will make prosperity your overseer, and vindication your sovereign ruler.

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.”

for all the large ships, for all the impressive ships.

The splendid crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.

Mourn over the field, over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine!

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

They help one another; one says to the other, ‘Be strong!’

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

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

Yes, you are a God who keeps hidden, O God of Israel, deliverer!

For this is what the Lord says, the one who created the sky – he is the true God, the one who formed the earth and made it; he established it, he did not create it without order, he formed it to be inhabited – “I am the Lord, I have no peer.

Listen to me, you stubborn people, you who distance yourself from doing what is right.

“Zion said, ‘The Lord has abandoned me, the sovereign master has forgotten me.’

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?

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

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;

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

Here is why this will be so: Before the child knows how to reject evil and choose what is right, the land whose two kings you fear will be desolate.

A baby will play over the hole of a snake; over the nest of a serpent an infant will put his hand.

We have heard about Moab’s pride, their great arrogance, their boasting, pride, and excess. But their boastful claims are empty!