<p class="poetry">All the nations are insignificant before him;p> <p class="poetry">they are regarded as absolutely nothing.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Stop trusting in human beings,p> <p class="poetry">whose life&#8217;s breath is in their nostrils.p> <p class="poetry">For why should they be given special consideration?p>

<p class="poetry">Their arrows are sharpened,p> <p class="poetry">and all their bows are prepared.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The hooves of their horses are hard as flint,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and their chariot wheels are like a windstorm.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">In just a very short time<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Lebanon will turn into an orchard,p> <p class="poetry">and the orchard will be considered a forest.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">This desolation will continue until new life is poured out on us from heaven.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Then the desert will become an orchardp> <p class="poetry">and the orchard will be considered a forest.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Highways are empty,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">there are no travelers.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Treaties are broken,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">witnesses are despised,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">human life is treated with disrespect.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket;p> <p class="poetry">they are regarded as dust on the scales.p> <p class="poetry">He lifts<n id="1" /> the coastlands<n id="2" /> as if they were dust.p>

<p class="poetry">But he lifted up our illnesses,p> <p class="poetry">he carried our pain;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">even though we thought he was being punished,p> <p class="poetry">attacked by God, and afflicted for something he had done.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">But he does not agree with this,p> <p class="poetry">his mind does not reason this way,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for his goal is to destroy,p> <p class="poetry">and to eliminate many nations.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look, I am stirring up the Medes to attack them;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they are not concerned about silver,p> <p class="poetry">nor are they interested in gold.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your thinking is perverse!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Should the potter be regarded as clay?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Should the thing made say<n id="3" /> about its maker, &#8220;He didn&#8217;t make me&#8221;?p> <p class="poetry">Or should the pottery say about the potter, &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t understand&#8221;?p>

<p class="poetry">He was despised and rejected by people,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness;p> <p class="poetry">people hid their faces from him;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he was despised, and we considered him insignificant.<n id="3" />p>