<p class="poetry">Danger awaits one who says<n id="1" /> to his father,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;What in the world<n id="2" /> are you fathering?&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">and to his mother,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;What in the world are you bringing forth?&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Here is a message about Dumah:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Someone calls to me from Seir,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Watchman, what is left of the night?p> <p class="poetry">Watchman, what is left of the night?&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

Hezekiah said, &#8220;What is the confirming sign that I will go up to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple?&#8221;

<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">Why do you insist on being battered?p> <p class="poetry">Why do you continue to rebel?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Your head has a massive wound,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">your whole body is weak.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Why do you crush my peoplep> <p class="poetry">and grind the faces of the poor?&#8221;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies<n id="2" /> has spoken.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Here is a message about the Valley of Vision:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">What is the reason<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">that all of you go up to the rooftops?p>

<p class="poetry">What can I say?p> <p class="poetry">He has decreed and acted.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will walk slowly all my years because I am overcome with grief.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">What more can I do for my vineyardp> <p class="poetry">beyond what I have already done?p> <p class="poetry">When I waited for it to produce edible grapes,p> <p class="poetry">why did it produce sour ones instead?p>

<p class="poetry">But where, oh where, are your wise men?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Let them tell you, let them find outp> <p class="poetry">what the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies has planned for Egypt.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8216;What right do you have to be here? What relatives do you have buried here?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Why<n id="2" /> do you chisel out a tomb for yourself here?p> <p class="poetry">He chisels out his burial site in an elevated place,p> <p class="poetry">he carves out his tomb on a cliff.p>

Isaiah<n id="1" /> asked, &#8220;What have they seen in your palace?&#8221; Hezekiah replied, &#8220;They have seen everything in my palace. I showed them everything in my treasuries.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">A voice says, &#8220;Cry out!&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">Another asks,<n id="1" /> &#8220;What should I cry out?&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">The first voice responds:<n id="2" /> &#8220;All people are like grass,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and all their promises<n id="4" /> are like the flowers in the field.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Let them produce evidence! Let them tell us what will happen!p> <p class="poetry">Tell us about your earlier predictive oracles,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so we may examine them<n id="2" /> and see how they were fulfilled.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Or decree for us some future events!p>

<t /><p class="poetry">One who argues with his creator is in grave danger,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">one who is like a mere<n id="2" /> shard among the other shards on the ground!p> <p class="poetry">The clay should not say to the potter,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;What in the world<n id="4" /> are you doing?p> <p class="poetry">Your work lacks skill!&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">How delightful it is to see approaching over the mountains<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the feet of a messenger who announces peace,p> <p class="poetry">a messenger who brings good news, who announces deliverance,p> <p class="poetry">who says to Zion, &#8220;Your God reigns!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The chief adviser said to them, &#8220;Tell Hezekiah: &#8216;This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: &#8220;What is your source of confidence?<n id="1" />

Isaiah the prophet visited King Hezekiah and asked him, &#8220;What did these men say? Where do they come from?&#8221; Hezekiah replied, &#8220;They come from the distant land of Babylon.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">And now, what do we have here?&#8221;<n id="1" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Indeed my people have been carried away for nothing,p> <p class="poetry">those who rule over them taunt,&#8221;<n id="2" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;and my name is constantly slandered<n id="3" /> all day long.p>