A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our protector through all generations!

May our sovereign God extend his favor to us! Make our endeavors successful! Yes, make them successful!

O sovereign Lord, intervene on my behalf for the sake of your reputation! Because your loyal love is good, deliver me!

O sovereign Lord, my strong deliverer, you shield my head in the day of battle.

Surely I am looking to you, O sovereign Lord. In you I take shelter. Do not expose me to danger!

His legs are like pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars.

Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?” The sovereign Lord who commands armies has spoken.

At that time the sovereign master will remove their beautiful ankle jewelry, neck ornaments, crescent shaped ornaments,

The sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, is certainly ready to carry out the decreed destruction throughout the land.

For this is what the sovereign master has told me: “Go, post a guard! He must report what he sees.

At that time the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth.

O sovereign master, your decrees can give men life; may years of life be restored to me. Restore my health and preserve my life.’

The sovereign Lord has spoken to me clearly; I have not rebelled, I have not turned back.

The sovereign Lord says this, the one who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will still gather them up.”

Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones. The sovereign Lord will kill you, but he will give his servants another name.

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

“Listen! I am opposed to you, you proud city,” says the Lord God who rules over all. “Indeed, your day of reckoning has come, the time when I will punish you.

“This is what the sovereign Lord says: This is Jerusalem; I placed her in the center of the nations with countries all around her.

“This is what the sovereign Lord says: A disaster – a one-of-a-kind disaster – is coming!

But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done, says the sovereign Lord.”