For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy: “I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.

Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

The Lord who commands armies will be exalted when he punishes, the sovereign God’s authority will be recognized when he judges.

Indeed, the Lord’s shout will shatter Assyria; he will beat them with a club.

Isaiah ordered, “Let them take a fig cake and apply it to the ulcerated sore and he will get well.”

The coastlands see and are afraid; the whole earth trembles; they approach and come.

“Present your argument,” says the Lord. “Produce your evidence,” says Jacob’s king.

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 you will nurse from her satisfying breasts and be nourished; you will feed with joy from her milk-filled breasts.

It will be like a dream, a night vision. There will be a horde from all the nations that fight against Ariel, those who attack her and her stronghold and besiege her.

The one who lives uprightly and speaks honestly; the one who refuses to profit from oppressive measures and rejects a bribe; the one who does not plot violent crimes and does not seek to harm others –

This is what the Lord, Israel’s king, says, their protector, the Lord who commands armies: “I am the first and I am the last, there is no God but me.

He was despised and rejected by people, one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; he was despised, and we considered him insignificant.

Having suffered, he will reflect on his work, he will be satisfied when he understands what he has done. “My servant will acquit many, for he carried their sins.

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

Do not bring any more meaningless offerings; I consider your incense detestable! You observe new moon festivals, Sabbaths, and convocations, but I cannot tolerate sin-stained celebrations!

I will reestablish honest judges as in former times, wise advisers as in earlier days. Then you will be called, ‘The Just City, Faithful Town.’”

Indeed every boot that marches and shakes the earth and every garment dragged through blood is used as fuel for the fire.

The Lord has made them undiscerning; they lead Egypt astray in all she does, so that she is like a drunk sliding around in his own vomit.

A voice says, “Cry out!” Another asks, “What should I cry out?” The first voice responds: “All people are like grass, and all their promises are like the flowers in the field.