Pay them back for their evil deeds! Pay them back for what they do! Punish them!

But evil men will die; the Lord’s enemies will be incinerated – they will go up in smoke.

Remember your people whom you acquired in ancient times, whom you rescued so they could be your very own nation, as well as Mount Zion, where you dwell!

Proud men will be brought low, arrogant men will be humiliated; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

They called out to one another, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord who commands armies! His majestic splendor fills the entire earth!”

For though your people, Israel, are as numerous as the sand on the seashore, only a remnant will come back. Destruction has been decreed; just punishment is about to engulf you.

At that time the Lord will punish the heavenly forces in the heavens and the earthly kings on the earth.

The sovereign master will give you distress to eat and suffering to drink; but your teachers will no longer be hidden; your eyes will see them.

“I will go before you and level mountains. Bronze doors I will shatter and iron bars I will hack through.

They traded with you choice garments, purple clothes and embroidered work, and multicolored carpets, bound and reinforced with cords; these were among your merchandise.

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because the sweet wine has been taken away from you.

Each will sit under his own grapevine or under his own fig tree without any fear. The Lord who commands armies has decreed it.

Though all the nations follow their respective gods, we will follow the Lord our God forever.

“I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much.

After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.

Finally the woman died too.

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when people lie about us, we answer in a friendly manner. We are the world’s dirt and scum, even now.

Do not treat prophecies with contempt.

I am taking the kingdom from him because they have abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon’s father David did.