Just a handful of archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be left.” Indeed, the Lord God of Israel has spoken.

Here is a message about the Valley of Vision: What is the reason that all of you go up to the rooftops?

You saw the many breaks in the walls of the city of David; you stored up water in the lower pool.

The earth will be completely devastated and thoroughly ransacked. For the Lord has decreed this judgment.

The earth is defiled by its inhabitants, for they have violated laws, disregarded the regulation, and broken the permanent treaty.

Trust in the Lord from this time forward, even in Yah, the Lord, an enduring protector!

O Lord, you make us secure, for even all we have accomplished, you have done for us.

For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.

For tyrants will disappear, those who taunt will vanish, and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated –

For these are rebellious people – they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the Lord’s law.

In a year’s time you carefree ones will shake with fear, for the grape harvest will fail, and the fruit harvest will not arrive.

The Lord is exalted, indeed, he lives in heaven; he fills Zion with justice and fairness.

For the Lord, our ruler, the Lord, our commander, the Lord, our king – he will deliver us.

He says, “Indeed, my sword has slaughtered heavenly powers. Look, it now descends on Edom, on the people I will annihilate in judgment.”

This is what the king says: ‘Don’t let Hezekiah mislead you, for he is not able to rescue you!

They were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered, “Don’t respond to him.”

“For a remnant will leave Jerusalem; survivors will come out of Mount Zion. The intense devotion of the Lord who commands armies will accomplish this.

Indeed Sheol does not give you thanks; death does not praise you. Those who descend into the pit do not anticipate your faithfulness.

The splendor of the Lord will be revealed, and all people will see it at the same time. For the Lord has decreed it.”

The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the Lord blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.