<p class="poetry">Wine<n id="1" /> is a mocker<n id="2" /> and strong drink is a brawler;p> <p class="poetry">whoever goes astray by them is not wise.<n id="3" />p>

<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">Their arrows are sharpened,p> <p class="poetry">and all their bows are prepared.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The hooves of their horses are hard as flint,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and their chariot wheels are like a windstorm.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">For this reason all hands hang limp,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">every human heart loses its courage.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">along with the plants by the mouth of the river.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">All the cultivated land near the riverp> <p class="poetry">will turn to dust and be blown away.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Come near, you nations, and listen!p> <p class="poetry">Pay attention, you people!p> <p class="poetry">The earth and everything it contains must listen,p> <p class="poetry">the world and everything that lives in it.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Her nobles will have nothing left to call a kingdomp> <p class="poetry">and all her officials will disappear.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Every valley must be elevated,p> <p class="poetry">and every mountain and hill leveled.p> <p class="poetry">The rough terrain will become a level plain,p> <p class="poetry">the rugged landscape a wide valley.p>

<p class="poetry">I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will dry up all their vegetation.p> <p class="poetry">I will turn streams into islands,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and dry up pools of water.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">who commissions<n id="1" /> Cyrus, the one I appointed as shepherd<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">to carry out all my wishes<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and to decree concerning Jerusalem, &#8216;She will be rebuilt,&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">and concerning the temple, &#8216;It will be reconstructed.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will make your pinnacles out of gems,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">your gates out of beryl,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and your outer wall<n id="3" /> out of beautiful<n id="4" /> stones.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Now listen to what the Lord has to say, you descendants<n id="1" /> of Jacob,p> <p class="poetry">all you family groups from the nation<n id="2" /> of Israel.p>

<p class="poetry">I looked and saw that the fruitful land had become a desertp> <p class="poetry">and that all of the cities had been laid in ruins.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> had brought this all aboutp> <p class="poetry">because of his blazing anger.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The land of Judah will be inhabited by people who live in its townsp> <p class="poetry">as well as by farmers and shepherds with their flocks.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Johanan and all the officers of the troops that had been hiding in the open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah.

<p class="poetry">So her young men will fall in her city squares.p> <p class="poetry">All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time,&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="1" />p>

along with their entire bodies,<n id="1" /> their backs, their hands, and their wings. The wheels of the four of them were full of eyes all around.

He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Take note<n id="1" /> &#8211; he gave his promise<n id="2" /> and did all these things &#8211; he will not escape!p>

Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your trade partners; for lambs, rams, and goats they traded with you.

<p class="poetry">Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters;p> <p class="poetry">your merchandise and all your company have sunk<n id="1" /> along with you.<n id="2" />p>