Every valley must be elevated, and every mountain and hill leveled. The rough terrain will become a level plain, the rugged landscape a wide valley.

There was no one to lead her among all the children she bore; there was no one to take her by the hand among all the children she raised.

All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the Lord caused the sin of all of us to attack him.

I reported, “All of them are the most stubborn of rebels! They are as hard as bronze or iron. They go about telling lies. They all deal corruptly.

I will give away your wealth and your treasures as plunder. I will give it away free of charge for the sins you have committed throughout your land.

and on the mountains and in the fields. I will give your wealth and all your treasures away as plunder. I will give it away as the price for the sins you have committed throughout your land.

Lord, you coerced me into being a prophet, and I allowed you to do it. You overcame my resistance and prevailed over me. Now I have become a constant laughingstock. Everyone ridicules me.

all the kings of Arabia who live in the desert;

“I am the Lord, the God of all humankind. There is, indeed, nothing too difficult for me.

I will take delight in doing good to them. I will faithfully and wholeheartedly plant them firmly in the land.’

“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by it will be filled with horror; they will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.

“They have blown the trumpet and everyone is ready, but no one goes to battle, because my anger is against their whole crowd.

They will wear sackcloth, terror will cover them; shame will be on all their faces, and all of their heads will be shaved bald.

“When they return to it, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.

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

On its ruins all the birds of the sky will live, and all the wild animals will walk on its branches.

“Assyria is there with all her assembly around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword.

I will multiply your people – the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities will be populated and the ruins rebuilt.

I will sprinkle you with pure water and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.

Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, all of its service and all that will be done in it.