I will threaten Ariel, and she will mourn intensely and become like an altar hearth before me.

You conceive straw, you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you.

So put on sackcloth! Mourn and wail, saying, ‘The fierce anger of the Lord has not turned away from us!’”

My message is like a fire that purges dross! It is like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces! I, the Lord, so affirm it!

“Get out of Babylon, my people! Flee to save your lives from the fierce anger of the Lord!

“‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the city of bloodshed! I will also make the pile high.

It has tried my patience; yet its thick rot is not removed from it. Subject its rot to the fire!

I will desolate Pathros, I will ignite a fire in Zoan, and I will execute judgments on Thebes.

There was a chamber with its door by the porch of the gate; there they washed the burnt offering.

Thus they will provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the olive oil morning by morning, as a perpetual burnt offering.

For I delight in faithfulness, not simply in sacrifice; I delight in acknowledging God, not simply in whole burnt offerings.

So I will set Hazael’s house on fire; fire will consume Ben Hadad’s fortresses.

So I will set Gaza’s city wall on fire; fire will consume her fortresses.

So I will set fire to Tyre’s city wall; fire will consume her fortresses.”

I will angrily seek vengeance on the nations that do not obey me.”

The mountains tremble before him, the hills convulse; the earth is laid waste before him, the world and all its inhabitants are laid waste.

Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.

But when the sun came up, they were scorched, and because they did not have sufficient root, they withered.

They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Simon’s mother-in-law was lying down, sick with a fever, so they spoke to Jesus at once about her.