Certainly zeal for your house consumes me; I endure the insults of those who insult you.

He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.

May he rain down fiery coals upon them! May he throw them into the fire! From bottomless pits they will not escape.

The one who has a perverse heart does not find good, and the one who is deceitful in speech falls into trouble.

The one who leads the upright astray in an evil way will himself fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.

“The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with chiseled stone; the sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.”

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!

Look, I will take control of his mind; he will receive a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down with a sword in his own land.”’”

If anyone dares to challenge you, it will not be my doing! Whoever tries to challenge you will be defeated.

The Lord said to me, “Tell them, ‘The Lord says, Do people not get back up when they fall down? Do they not turn around when they go the wrong way?

I will send men against it to destroy it with their axes and hatchets. They will hack up its fine cedar panels and columns and throw them into the fire.

The people of the earth will quake when they hear of their downfall. Their cries of anguish will be heard all the way to the Gulf of Aqaba.

So her young men will fall in her city squares. All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time,” says the Lord.

You will stumble and fall, you proud city; no one will help you get up. I will set fire to your towns; it will burn up everything that surrounds you.”

But suddenly Babylonia will fall and be destroyed. Cry out in mourning over it! Get medicine for her wounds! Perhaps she can be healed!

You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

When the wall has collapsed, people will ask you, “Where is the whitewash you coated it with?”

Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your company have sunk along with you.

Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the foreigners, Libya, and the people of the covenant land will die by the sword along with them.

The young men of On and of Pi-beseth will die by the sword; and the cities will go into captivity.