The people to whom they are prophesying will die through war and famine. Their bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem<n id="1" /> and there will be no one to bury them. This will happen to the men and their wives, their sons, and their daughters.<n id="2" /> For I will pour out on them the destruction they deserve.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then I said,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;<sc>Lordsc>, you give me strength and protect me.p> <p class="poetry">You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Nations from all over the earthp> <p class="poetry">will come to you and say,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Our ancestors had nothing but false gods &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">worthless idols that could not help them at all.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">O royal family descended from David.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;See to it that people each day<n id="2" /> are judged fairly.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Deliver those who have been robbed from those<n id="4" /> who oppress them.p> <p class="poetry">Otherwise, my wrath will blaze out against you.p> <p class="poetry">It will burn like a fire that cannot be put outp> <p class="poetry">because of the evil that you have done.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">So I, the <sc>Lordsc>, tell you not to be afraid,p> <p class="poetry">you descendants of Jacob, my servants.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Do not be terrified, people of Israel.p> <p class="poetry">For I will rescue you and your descendantsp> <p class="poetry">from a faraway land where you are captives.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">The descendants of Jacob will return to their land and enjoy peace.p> <p class="poetry">They will be secure and no one will terrify them.<n id="3" />p>

&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel who rules over all<n id="1" /> says, &#8216;You have seen all the disaster I brought on Jerusalem<n id="2" /> and all the towns of Judah. Indeed, they now lie in ruins and are deserted.<n id="3" />

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="poetry">&#8220;You descendants of Jacob, my servants,<n id="2" /> do not be afraid;p> <p class="poetry">do not be terrified, people of Israel.p> <p class="poetry">For I will rescue you and your descendantsp> <p class="poetry">from the faraway lands where you are captives.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">The descendants of Jacob will return to their land and enjoy peace.p> <p class="poetry">They will be secure and no one will terrify them.p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1494; (<i>Zayini>)p> <p class="poetry">Jerusalem<n id="1" /> remembers,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">when<n id="3" /> she became a poor homeless person,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">all her treasuresp> <p class="poetry">that she owned in days of old.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">When her people fell into an enemy&#8217;s grip,<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">none of her allies came to her rescue.<n id="7" />p> <p class="poetry">Her enemies<n id="8" /> gloated over<n id="9" /> her;p> <p class="poetry">they sneered<n id="10" /> at her downfall.<n id="11" />p>

<p class="bodytext">He said to me, &#8220;The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption,<n id="1" /> for they say, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> has abandoned the land, and the <sc>Lordsc> does not see!&#8217;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">While I was contemplating all this,<n id="1" /> a male goat<n id="2" /> was coming from the west over the surface of all the land<n id="3" /> without touching the ground. This goat had a conspicuous horn<n id="4" /> between its eyes.

<p class="poetry">Now after the sixty-two weeks,p> <p class="poetry">an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">As for the city and the sanctuary,p> <p class="poetry">the people of the coming prince will destroy<n id="2" /> them.p> <p class="poetry">But his end will come speedily<n id="3" /> like a flood.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Until the end of the war that has been decreedp> <p class="poetry">there will be destruction.p>

<p class="poetry">Those survivors from Jacob will live among the nations,p> <p class="poetry">in the midst of many peoples.p> <p class="poetry">They will be like a lion among the animals of the forest,p> <p class="poetry">like a young lion among the flocks of sheep,p> <p class="poetry">which attacks when it passes through;p> <p class="poetry">it rips its prey<n id="1" /> and there is no one to stop it.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The Israelites who remain<n id="1" /> will not act deceitfully.p> <p class="poetry">They will not lie,p> <p class="poetry">and a deceitful tongue will not be found in their mouth.p> <p class="poetry">Indeed, they will graze peacefully like sheep<n id="2" /> and lie down;p> <p class="poetry">no one will terrify them.&#8221;p>