Rise up, Lord! Deliver me, my God! Yes, you will strike all my enemies on the jaw; you will break the teeth of the wicked.

And you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, and like one who lies down on the top of the rigging.

When I tried to gain wisdom and to observe the activity on earth – even though it prevents anyone from sleeping day or night –

The Lord told me, “Take a large tablet and inscribe these words on it with an ordinary stylus: ‘Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.’

On a bare hill raise a signal flag, shout to them, wave your hand, so they might enter the gates of the princes!

Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales. He lifts the coastlands as if they were dust.

I post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they should keep praying all day and all night. You who pray to the Lord, don’t be silent!

I will certainly punish them for doing such things!” says the Lord. “I will certainly bring retribution on such a nation as this!

Wild donkeys stand on the hilltops and pant for breath like jackals. Their eyes are strained looking for food, because there is none to be found.”

Then a wind came into me and stood me on my feet. The Lord spoke to me and said, “Go shut yourself in your house.

You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his.

But upright men will punish them appropriately for their adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.

To arouse anger, to take vengeance, I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.

They will descend from their ships – all who handle the oar, the sailors and all the sea captains – they will stand on the land.

I placed you there with an anointed guardian cherub; you were on the holy mountain of God; you walked about amidst fiery stones.

You will present them before the Lord, and the priests will scatter salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord.

On the day he enters the sanctuary, into the inner court to serve in the sanctuary, he must offer his sin offering, declares the sovereign Lord.

On the day of the new moon he will offer an unblemished young bull, and six lambs and a ram, all without blemish.

He rescues and delivers and performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth. He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions!”

You will once again have mercy on us; you will conquer our evil deeds; you will hurl our sins into the depths of the sea.