A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Sorrow is better than laughter, because sober reflection is good for the heart.

By day it will be a shelter to provide shade from the heat, as well as safety and protection from the heavy downpour.

Is not Calneh like Carchemish? Hamath like Arpad? Samaria like Damascus?

Those who make clothes from combed flax will be embarrassed; those who weave will turn pale.

My heart palpitates, I shake in fear; the twilight I desired has brought me terror.

I will remove you from your office; you will be thrown down from your position.

When the news reaches Egypt, they will be shaken by what has happened to Tyre.

unless they became my subjects and made peace with me; let them make peace with me.

I will threaten Ariel, and she will mourn intensely and become like an altar hearth before me.

Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch.

I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life.

If anyone dares to challenge you, it will not be my doing! Whoever tries to challenge you will be defeated.

They will build houses and live in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Yet even then I will not completely destroy you,” says the Lord.

The Lord gave me knowledge, that I might have understanding. Then he showed me what the people were doing.

Many foreign rulers will ruin the land where I planted my people. They will trample all over my chosen land. They will turn my beautiful land into a desolate wasteland.

Ishmael also killed all the Judeans who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah and the Babylonian soldiers who happened to be there.

So her young men will fall in her city squares. All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time,” says the Lord.

their wings touched each other; they did not turn as they moved, but went straight ahead.