<p class="poetry">The splendor of Lebanon will come to you,p> <p class="poetry">its evergreens, firs, and cypresses together,p> <p class="poetry">to beautify my palace;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will bestow honor on my throne room.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed, all the tables are covered with vomit;p> <p class="poetry">no place is untouched.<n id="1" />p>

I will fasten him like a peg into a solid place;<n id="1" /> he will bring honor and respect to his father&#8217;s family.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">Yet the children born during your time of bereavementp> <p class="poetry">will say within your hearing,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;This place is too cramped for us,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">make room for us so we can live here.&#8217;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Make your tent larger,p> <p class="poetry">stretch your tent curtains farther out!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Spare no effort,p> <p class="poetry">lengthen your ropes,p> <p class="poetry">and pound your stakes deep.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Those who accumulate houses are as good as dead,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">those who also accumulate landed property<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">until there is no land left,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and you are the only landowners remaining within the land.<n id="4" />p>

At that time<n id="1" /> every place where there had been a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels will be overrun<n id="2" /> with thorns and briers.

<p class="poetry">So I will shake the heavens,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and the earth will shake loose from its foundation,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because of the fury of the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies,p> <p class="poetry">in the day he vents his raging anger.<n id="3" />p>

Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place. Then the family of Jacob will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s land.<n id="1" /> They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them.

<p class="poetry">I have not spoken in secret,p> <p class="poetry">in some hidden place.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I did not tell Jacob&#8217;s descendants,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Seek me in vain!&#8217;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I am the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">the one who speaks honestly,p> <p class="poetry">who makes reliable announcements.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">They put it on their shoulder and carry it;p> <p class="poetry">they put it in its place and it just stands there;p> <p class="poetry">it does not<n id="1" /> move from its place.p> <p class="poetry">Even when someone cries out to it, it does not reply;p> <p class="poetry">it does not deliver him from his distress.p>

<p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;The heavens are my thronep> <p class="poetry">and the earth is my footstool.p> <p class="poetry">Where then is the house you will build for me?p> <p class="poetry">Where is the place where I will rest?p>

<p class="poetry">At that timep> <p class="poetry">tribute will be brought to the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies,p> <p class="poetry">by a people that are tall and smooth-skinned,p> <p class="poetry">a people that are feared far and wide,p> <p class="poetry">a nation strong and victorious,p> <p class="poetry">whose land rivers divide.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The tribute<n id="2" /> will be brought to the place where the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies has chosen to reside, on Mount Zion.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;At that time,&#8221;<n id="1" /> says the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies, &#8220;the peg fastened into a solid place will come loose. It will be cut off and fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut off.&#8221;<n id="2" /> Indeed,<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc> has spoken.p>

<p class="poetry">For look, the <sc>Lordsc> is coming out of the place where he lives,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">to punish the sin of those who live on the earth.p> <p class="poetry">The earth will display the blood shed on it;p> <p class="poetry">it will no longer cover up its slain.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Instead the <sc>Lordsc> will rule there as our mighty king.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Rivers and wide streams will flow through it;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">no war galley will enter;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">no large ships will sail through.<n id="4" />p>