<p class="poetry">So listen to this, oppressed one,p> <p class="poetry">who is drunk, but not from wine!p>

<p class="poetry">Listen to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s word,p> <p class="poetry">you leaders of Sodom!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Pay attention to our God&#8217;s rebuke,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">people of Gomorrah!p>

<p class="poetry">We have heard about Moab&#8217;s pride,p> <p class="poetry">their great arrogance,p> <p class="poetry">their boasting, pride, and excess.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">But their boastful claims are empty!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">All you who live in the world,p> <p class="poetry">who reside on the earth,p> <p class="poetry">you will see a signal flag raised on the mountains;p> <p class="poetry">you will hear a trumpet being blown.p>

<p class="poetry">O my downtrodden people, crushed like stalks on the threshing floor,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">what I have heardp> <p class="poetry">from the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies,p> <p class="poetry">the God of Israel,p> <p class="poetry">I have reported to you.p>

<p class="poetry">In the past he said to them,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;This is where security can be found.p> <p class="poetry">Provide security for the one who is exhausted!p> <p class="poetry">This is where rest can be found.&#8221;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">But they refused to listen.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Therefore, listen to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s word,p> <p class="poetry">you who mock,p> <p class="poetry">you rulers of these peoplep> <p class="poetry">who reside in Jerusalem!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">At that time<n id="1" /> the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll,p> <p class="poetry">and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">For these are rebellious people &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">they are lying children,p> <p class="poetry">children unwilling to obey the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s law.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">You complacent<n id="1" /> women,p> <p class="poetry">get up and listen to me!p> <p class="poetry">You carefree<n id="2" /> daughters,p> <p class="poetry">pay attention to what I say!p>

When King Hezekiah heard this,<n id="1" /> he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.

Look, I will take control of his mind;<n id="1" /> he will receive a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down<n id="2" /> with a sword in his own land.&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;p>

Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands.<n id="1" /> Do you really think you will be rescued?<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">Do you not know?p> <p class="poetry">Do you not hear?p> <p class="poetry">Has it not been told to you since the very beginning?p> <p class="poetry">Have you not understood from the time the earth&#8217;s foundations were made?p>

<p class="poetry">Look, my earlier predictive oracles have come to pass;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">now I announce new events.p> <p class="poetry">Before they begin to occur,p> <p class="poetry">I reveal them to you.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;I announced events beforehand,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I issued the decrees and made the predictions;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">suddenly I acted and they came to pass.p>

<p class="poetry">Now they come into being,<n id="1" /> not in the past;p> <p class="poetry">before today you did not hear about them,p> <p class="poetry">so you could not say,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Yes,<n id="2" /> I know about them.&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">Listen to me, O Jacob,p> <p class="poetry">Israel, whom I summoned!p> <p class="poetry">I am the one;p> <p class="poetry">I am present at the very beginningp> <p class="poetry">and at the very end.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Look, the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s hand is not too weak<n id="1" /> to deliver you;p> <p class="poetry">his ear is not too deaf to hear you.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Jerusalem will bring me joy,p> <p class="poetry">and my people will bring me happiness.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The sound of weeping or cries of sorrowp> <p class="poetry">will never be heard in her again.p>