Wild oxen will be slaughtered along with them, as well as strong bulls. Their land is drenched with blood, their soil is covered with fat.

Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch.

Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands. Do you really think you will be rescued?

Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told to you since the very beginning? Have you not understood from the time the earth’s foundations were made?

He is the one who sits on the earth’s horizon; its inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. He is the one who stretches out the sky like a thin curtain, and spreads it out like a pitched tent.

He will not grow dim or be crushed before establishing justice on the earth; the coastlands will wait in anticipation for his decrees.”

Sing to the Lord a brand new song! Praise him from the horizon of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and everything that lives in it, you coastlands and those who live there!

I will say to the north, ‘Hand them over!’ and to the south, ‘Don’t hold any back!’ Bring my sons from distant lands, and my daughters from the remote regions of the earth,

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.

Yes, my hand founded the earth; my right hand spread out the sky. I summon them; they stand together.

Look, they come from far away! Look, some come from the north and west, and others from the land of Sinim!

Yes, your land lies in ruins; it is desolate and devastated. But now you will be too small to hold your residents, and those who devoured you will be far away.

for just as the sky is higher than the earth, so my deeds are superior to your deeds and my plans superior to your plans.

All of your people will be godly; they will possess the land permanently. I will plant them like a shoot; they will be the product of my labor, through whom I reveal my splendor.

Don’t allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem, until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.

The following is a record of what Jeremiah son of Hilkiah prophesied. He was one of the priests who lived at Anathoth in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin.

Then the Lord said, “This means destruction will break out from the north on all who live in the land.

Like lions his enemies roar victoriously over him; they raise their voices in triumph. They have laid his land waste; his cities have been burned down and deserted.

Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she defiled the land through her adulterous worship of gods made of wood and stone.

“I looked at the land and saw that it was an empty wasteland. I looked up at the sky, and its light had vanished.