<p class="poetry">But Judah will reside securely forever,p> <p class="poetry">and Jerusalem will be secure<n id="1" /> from one generation to the next.p>

<p class="poetry">You<n id="1" /> build Zion through bloody crimes,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Jerusalem<n id="3" /> through unjust violence.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The king summoned all the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">The king summoned all the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem.<n id="1" />

Jehozadak went into exile when the <sc>Lordsc> sent the people of<n id="1" /> Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.p>

<p class="bodytext">Jehoshaphat stood before the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem<n id="1" /> at the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, in front of the new courtyard.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">At the beginning of the reign of Ahasuerus<n id="2" /> they filed an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">A proclamation<n id="1" /> was circulated<n id="2" /> throughout Judah and Jerusalem<n id="3" /> that all the exiles were to be assembled in Jerusalem.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Here is the message about Judah and Jerusalem<n id="1" /> that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz.<n id="2" />p>

He sent it after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the palace officials,<n id="1" /> the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metal workers had been exiled from Jerusalem.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="poetry"><v id="(4:1)" /><n id="1" /> For look! In those<n id="2" /> days and at that timep> <p class="poetry">I will return the exiles<n id="3" /> to Judah and Jerusalem.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Therefore, because of you,<n id="1" /> Zion will be plowed up like<n id="2" /> a field,p> <p class="poetry">Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins,p> <p class="poetry">and the Temple Mount<n id="3" /> will become a hill overgrown with brush!<n id="4" />p>

The offerings<n id="1" /> of Judah and Jerusalem<n id="2" /> will be pleasing to the <sc>Lordsc> as in former times and years past.p>

Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem returned joyfully to Jerusalem with Jehoshaphat leading them; the <sc>Lordsc> had given them reason to rejoice over their enemies.

They abandoned the temple of the <sc>Lordsc> God of their ancestors,<n id="1" /> and worshiped<n id="2" /> the Asherah poles and idols. Because of this sinful activity, God was angry with Judah and Jerusalem.

And now you are planning<n id="1" /> to enslave<n id="2" /> the people<n id="3" /> of Judah and Jerusalem. Yet are you not also guilty before the <sc>Lordsc> your God?

The <sc>Lordsc> was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn,<n id="1" /> as you can see with your own eyes.

But Hezekiah was ungrateful; he had a proud attitude, provoking God to be angry at him, as well as Judah and Jerusalem.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Here is the message about Judah and Jerusalem<n id="1" /> that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz during the time when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah reigned over Judah.<n id="2" />p>

Indeed, the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel who rules over all<n id="1" /> has already spoken<n id="2" /> about the valuable articles that are left in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, in the royal palace of Judah, and in Jerusalem.