Shake off the dirt! Get up, captive Jerusalem! Take off the iron chains around your neck, O captive daughter Zion!

Look, I made him a witness to nations, a ruler and commander of nations.”

When you performed awesome deeds that took us by surprise, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.

I answered, “Oh, Lord God, I really do not know how to speak well enough for that, for I am too young.”

Tell them: ‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:

The Lord says, “Yes indeed, I am sending an enemy against you that will be like poisonous snakes which cannot be charmed away. And they will inflict fatal wounds on you.”

Poor dear Egypt will be put to shame. She will be handed over to the people from the north.”

I will establish my sovereignty over Elam. I will destroy their king and their leaders,” says the Lord.

so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand.

“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and his hordes: “‘Who are you like in your greatness?

As for you, O king, the most high God bestowed on your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, greatness, honor, and majesty.

The more the priests increased in numbers, the more they rebelled against me. They have turned their glorious calling into a shameful disgrace!

He flashes destruction down upon the strong so that destruction overwhelms the fortified places.)

The men feared the Lord greatly, and earnestly vowed to offer lavish sacrifices to the Lord.

Your bow is ready for action; you commission your arrows. Selah. You cause flash floods on the earth’s surface.

Your eyes will see it, and then you will say, ‘May the Lord be magnified even beyond the border of Israel!’”

And a leper approached, and bowed low before him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”

The herdsmen ran off, went into the town, and told everything that had happened to the demon-possessed men.

Then he touched their eyes saying, “Let it be done for you according to your faith.”

Just then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,