Listen to me, you coastlands! Pay attention, you people who live far away! The Lord summoned me from birth; he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world.

the one who made his majestic power available to Moses, who divided the water before them, gaining for himself a lasting reputation,

Since ancient times no one has heard or perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who intervenes for those who wait for him.

They will not work in vain, or give birth to children that will experience disaster. For the Lord will bless their children and their descendants.

For our leaders are stupid. They have not sought the Lord’s advice. So they do not act wisely, and the people they are responsible for have all been scattered.

If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, tell them that the Lord who rules over all says ‘You most certainly must drink it!

I will send people to winnow Babylonia like a wind blowing away chaff. They will winnow her and strip her land bare. This will happen when they come against her from every direction, when it is time to destroy her.

‘We are ashamed because we have been insulted. Our faces show our disgrace. For foreigners have invaded the holy rooms in the Lord’s temple.’

“Suppose I were to send wild animals through the land and kill its children, leaving it desolate, without travelers due to the wild animals.

Return it to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in your native land, I will judge you.

Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others.

With his horses’ hoofs he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars will tumble down to the ground.

Consider Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches, like a forest giving shade, and extremely tall; its top reached into the clouds.

I will disturb many peoples, when I bring about your destruction among the nations, among countries you do not know.

I will exalt and magnify myself; I will reveal myself before many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’

While I, Daniel, was watching the vision, I sought to understand it. Now one who appeared to be a man was standing before me.

We have not obeyed the LORD our God by living according to his laws that he set before us through his servants the prophets.

When they had completely consumed the earth’s vegetation, I said, “Sovereign Lord, forgive Israel! How can Jacob survive? He is too weak!”

“You have heard that it was said to an older generation, ‘Do not murder,’ and ‘whoever murders will be subjected to judgment.’

The chief priests took the silver and said, “It is not lawful to put this into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.”