<p class="poetry">Whoever strikes it with a sword<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">will have no effect,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.p>

<p class="poetry">How long, you sluggard, will you lie there?p> <p class="poetry">When will you rise from your sleep?<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Plans fail<n id="1" /> when there is no counsel,p> <p class="poetry">but with abundant advisers they are established.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">There are many plans<n id="1" /> in a person&#8217;s mind,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but it<n id="3" /> is the counsel<n id="4" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> which will stand.p>

For this reason the sovereign master,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;It will not take place;p> <p class="poetry">it will not happen.p>

You must stand up in the presence of the aged, honor the presence of an elder, and fear your God. I am the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="poetry">You will rise up and have compassion on Zion.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For it is time to have mercy on her,p> <p class="poetry">for the appointed time has come.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Whatever<n id="1" /> you plot<n id="2" /> against the <sc>Lordsc>, he will completely destroy!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Distress<n id="4" /> will not arise<n id="5" /> a second time.p>

<p class="poetry">Even when an army is deployed against me,p> <p class="poetry">I do not fear.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Even when war is imminent,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I remain confident.<n id="3" />p>

<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies makes this solemn vow:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Be sure of this:p> <p class="poetry">Just as I have intended, so it will be;p> <p class="poetry">just as I have planned, it will happen.p>

<p class="poetry">Your treaty with death will be dissolved;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">your agreement<n id="2" /> with Sheol will not last.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">you will be overrun by it.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">who announces the end from the beginningp> <p class="poetry">and reveals beforehand<n id="1" /> what has not yet occurred,p> <p class="poetry">who says, &#8216;My plan will be realized,p> <p class="poetry">I will accomplish what I desire,&#8217;p>

Then say, &#8216;In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the judgments<n id="1" /> I am ready to bring upon her; they will grow faint.&#8217;&#8221;p> <p class="bodytext">The prophecies of Jeremiah end here.<n id="2" />p>

Now after you another kingdom<n id="1" /> will arise, one inferior to yours. Then a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule in all the earth.

But now your kingdom will not continue! The <sc>Lordsc> has sought out<n id="1" /> for himself a man who is loyal to him<n id="2" /> and the <sc>Lordsc> has appointed<n id="3" /> him to be leader over his people, for you have not obeyed what the <sc>Lordsc> commanded you.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">No weapon forged to be used against you will succeed;p> <p class="poetry">you will refute everyone who tries to accuse you.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc> will do for his servants &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">I will vindicate them,&#8221;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

In the days of those kings the God of heaven will raise up an everlasting kingdom that will not be destroyed and a kingdom that will not be left to another people. It will break in pieces and bring about the demise of all these kingdoms. But it will stand forever.