<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> says to Edom,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I will certainly make you small among nations.p> <p class="poetry">I will make you despised by all humankind.p>

<p class="bodytext">I answered, &#8220;Oh, Lord <sc>Godsc>,<n id="1" /> I really<n id="2" /> do not know how to speak well enough for that,<n id="3" /> for I am too young.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<p class="poetry">You will not always be angry with me, will you?p> <p class="poetry">You will not be mad at me forever, will you?&#8217;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">That is what you say,p> <p class="poetry">but you continually do all the evil that you can.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look! The enemy is approaching like gathering clouds.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The roar of his chariots is like that of a whirlwind.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">His horses move more swiftly than eagles.&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">I cry out,<n id="3" /> &#8220;We are doomed,<n id="4" /> for we will be destroyed!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;But just look at you!<n id="1" /> You are putting your confidence in a false belief<n id="2" /> that will not deliver you.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">Your wise men will be put to shame.p> <p class="poetry">They will be dumbfounded and be brought to judgment.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Since they have rejected the word of the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">what wisdom do they really have?p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> says, &#8220;Watch out!<n id="1" /> The time is soon coming when I will punish all those who are circumcised only in the flesh.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">Listen to what they are saying to me.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They are saying, &#8220;Where are the things the <sc>Lordsc> threatens us with?p> <p class="poetry">Come on! Let&#8217;s see them happen!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">But just watch!<n id="1" /> The wrath of the <sc>Lordsc>p> <p class="poetry">will come like a storm!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Like a raging storm it will rage down<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">on the heads of those who are wicked.p>

<p class="poetry">Just watch! The wrath of the <sc>Lordsc>p> <p class="poetry">will come like a storm.p> <p class="poetry">Like a raging storm it will rage downp> <p class="poetry">on the heads of those who are wicked.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Indeed a time is coming,&#8221;<n id="1" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="2" /> &#8220;when the city of Jerusalem<n id="3" /> will be rebuilt as my special city.<n id="4" /> It will be built from the Tower of Hananel westward to the Corner Gate.<n id="5" />

&#8220;I am the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of all humankind. There is, indeed, nothing too difficult for me.<n id="1" />

King Zedekiah said to them, &#8220;Very well, you can do what you want with him.<n id="1" /> For I cannot do anything to stop you.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> says,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Look! Like an eagle with outspread wingsp> <p class="poetry">a nation will swoop down on Moab.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yet in days to comep> <p class="poetry">I will reverse Moab&#8217;s ill fortune.&#8221;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" />p> <p class="bodytext">The judgment against Moab ends here.p>

<p class="poetry">But Babylonia will be put to great shame.p> <p class="poetry">The land where you were born<n id="1" /> will be disgraced.p> <p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="2" /> Babylonia will become the least important of all nations.p> <p class="poetry">It will become a dry and barren desert.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Look! An army is about to come from the north.p> <p class="poetry">A mighty nation and many kings<n id="1" /> are stirring into actionp> <p class="poetry">in faraway parts of the earth.p>

<p class="bodytext">I answered,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Who would listenp> <p class="poetry">if I spoke to them and warned them?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Their ears are so closed<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">that they cannot hear!p> <p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="4" /> what the <sc>Lordsc> says is offensive to them.p> <p class="poetry">They do not like it at all.<n id="5" />p>

Then the <sc>Lordsc> reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, &#8220;I will most assuredly give you the words you are to speak for me.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">They are saying,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Announce to the surrounding nations,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;The enemy is coming!&#8221;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Proclaim this message<n id="4" /> to Jerusalem:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Those who besiege cities<n id="5" /> are coming from a distant land.p> <p class="poetry">They are ready to raise the battle cry against<n id="6" /> the towns in Judah.&#8221;&#8217;p>