<p class="poetry">For with mocking lips and a foreign tonguep> <p class="poetry">he will speak to these people.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">I am the one who gives them reason to celebrate.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Complete prosperity<n id="2" /> is available both to those who are far away and those who are nearby,&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;and I will heal them.p>

<p class="poetry">For your hands are stained with bloodp> <p class="poetry">and your fingers with sin;p> <p class="poetry">your lips speak lies,p> <p class="poetry">your tongue utters malicious words.p>

<p class="bodytext">I said, &#8220;Too bad for me! I am destroyed,<n id="1" /> for my lips are contaminated by sin,<n id="2" /> and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin.<n id="3" /> My eyes have seen the king, the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies.&#8221;<n id="4" />

He touched my mouth with it and said, &#8220;Look, this coal has touched your lips. Your evil is removed; your sin is forgiven.&#8221;<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">He will treat the poor fairly,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and make right decisions<n id="2" /> for the downtrodden of the earth.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and order the wicked to be executed.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="bodytext">At that time five cities<n id="1" /> in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies. One will be called the City of the Sun.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">Look, the name<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> comes from a distant placep> <p class="poetry">in raging anger and awesome splendor.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He speaks angrilyp> <p class="poetry">and his word is like destructive fire.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">You will no longer see a defiant<n id="1" /> peoplep> <p class="poetry">whose language you do not comprehend,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">whose derisive speech you do not understand.<n id="3" />p>

Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk.<n id="1" /> In whom are you trusting, that you would dare to rebel against me?

<p class="poetry">Because you rage against mep> <p class="poetry">and the uproar you create has reached my ears,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will put my hook in your nose,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and my bridle between your lips,p> <p class="poetry">and I will lead you backp> <p class="poetry">the way you came.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">The sovereign master<n id="1" /> says,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;These people say they are loyal to me;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they say wonderful things about me,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">but they are not really loyal to me.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Their worship consists ofp> <p class="poetry">nothing but man-made ritual.<n id="5" />p>