Look, I have inscribed your name on my palms; your walls are constantly before me.

Who would have believed what we just heard? When was the Lord’s power revealed through him?

Those who live uprightly enter a place of peace; they rest on their beds.

Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over its convocations a cloud and smoke by day and a bright flame of fire by night; indeed a canopy will accompany the Lord’s glorious presence.

So look, the sovereign master is bringing up against them the turbulent and mighty waters of the Euphrates River – the king of Assyria and all his majestic power. It will reach flood stage and overflow its banks.

This is a message about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them.

for your sins and your ancestors’ sins,” says the Lord. “Because they burned incense on the mountains and offended me on the hills, I will punish them in full measure.”

Why do you insist on being battered? Why do you continue to rebel? Your head has a massive wound, your whole body is weak.

I hate your new moon festivals and assemblies; they are a burden that I am tired of carrying.

I will attack you; I will purify your metal with flux. I will remove all your slag.

Here is the message about Judah and Jerusalem that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz.

But then one of the seraphs flew toward me. In his hand was a hot coal he had taken from the altar with tongs.

Syria has plotted with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah to bring about your demise.

Then the Lord provoked their adversaries to attack them, he stirred up their enemies –

For very soon my fury will subside, and my anger will be directed toward their destruction.”

For this reason all hands hang limp, every human heart loses its courage.

Their arrows will cut young men to ribbons; they have no compassion on a person’s offspring, they will not look with pity on children.

you will taunt the king of Babylon with these words: “Look how the oppressor has met his end! Hostility has ceased!

The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing, ‘Since you fell asleep, no woodsman comes up to chop us down!’

Look how you have fallen from the sky, O shining one, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O conqueror of the nations!