The Lord who commands armies told me this: “Many houses will certainly become desolate, large, impressive houses will have no one living in them.

Look, the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, is ready to cut off the branches with terrifying power. The tallest trees will be cut down, the loftiest ones will be brought low.

They will no longer trust in the altars their hands made, or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made.

Here is a message about the Desert by the Sea: Like strong winds blowing in the south, one invades from the desert, from a land that is feared.

This is what the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, says: “Go visit this administrator, Shebna, who supervises the palace, and tell him:

I will make justice the measuring line, fairness the plumb line; hail will sweep away the unreliable refuge, the floodwaters will overwhelm the hiding place.

A deceiver’s methods are evil; he dreams up evil plans to ruin the poor with lies, even when the needy are in the right.

You will no longer see a defiant people whose language you do not comprehend, whose derisive speech you do not understand.

They are unfamiliar with peace; their deeds are unjust. They use deceitful methods, and whoever deals with them is unfamiliar with peace.

Do you think this temple I have claimed as my own is to be a hideout for robbers? You had better take note! I have seen for myself what you have done! says the Lord.

I will punish any prophet, priest, or other person who says “The Lord’s message is burdensome.” I will punish both that person and his whole family.’”

So if a prophet prophesied peace and prosperity, it was only known that the Lord truly sent him when what he prophesied came true.”

Edom will be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns that were around them. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it,” says the Lord.

For her young men will fall in her city squares. All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time,” says the Lord who rules over all.

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

Then he brought me to the outer sanctuary, and measured the jambs; the jambs were 10½ feet wide on each side.

You will also take the bull for the sin offering, and it will be burned in the appointed place in the temple, outside the sanctuary.

However, I will first tell you what is written in a dependable book. (There is no one who strengthens me against these princes, except Michael your prince.

The women singing in the temple will wail in that day.” The sovereign Lord is speaking. “There will be many corpses littered everywhere! Be quiet!”

As a result they will conquer those left in Edom and all the nations subject to my rule.” The Lord, who is about to do this, is speaking!