<p class="poetry">says our protector &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies is his name,p> <p class="poetry">the Holy One of Israel.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies told me this:<n id="1" /> &#8220;Certainly this sin will not be forgiven as long as you live,&#8221;<n id="2" /> says the sovereign master, the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies.p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies will be exalted<n id="1" /> when he punishes,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the sovereign God&#8217;s authority will be recognized when he judges.<n id="3" />p>

Isaiah said to Hezekiah, &#8220;Listen to the word of the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies:

<p class="poetry">If the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies<n id="1" /> had not left us a few survivors,p> <p class="poetry">we would have quickly become like Sodom,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">we would have become like Gomorrah.p>

<p class="poetry">Therefore, the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the powerful ruler of Israel,<n id="2" /> says this:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Ah, I will seek vengeance<n id="3" /> against my adversaries,p> <p class="poetry">I will take revenge against my enemies.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed, the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies has planned a day of judgment,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for<n id="2" /> all the high and mighty,p> <p class="poetry">for all who are proud &#8211; they will be humiliated;p>

<p class="poetry">Why do you crush my peoplep> <p class="poetry">and grind the faces of the poor?&#8221;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies<n id="2" /> has spoken.p>

<p class="poetry">You must recognize the authority of the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He is the one you must respect;p> <p class="poetry">he is the one you must fear.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The people did not return to the one who struck them,p> <p class="poetry">they did not seek reconciliation<n id="1" /> with the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies.p>

The sovereign master, the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies, is certainly ready to carry out the decreed destruction throughout the land.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look, the sovereign master, the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies,p> <p class="poetry">is ready to cut off the branches with terrifying power.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The tallest trees<n id="2" /> will be cut down,p> <p class="poetry">the loftiest ones will be brought low.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;I will turn her into a place that is overrun with wild animals<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and covered with pools of stagnant water.p> <p class="poetry">I will get rid of her, just as one sweeps away dirt with a broom,&#8221;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies.p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies has a plan,p> <p class="poetry">and who can possibly frustrate it?p> <p class="poetry">His hand is ready to strike,p> <p class="poetry">and who can possibly stop it?<n id="2" />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">At that time the sovereign master, the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning,p> <p class="poetry">for shaved heads and sackcloth.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies planned it &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">to dishonor the pride that comes from all her beauty,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">to humiliate all the dignitaries of the earth.p>

<p class="poetry">At that time<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies will become a beautiful crownp> <p class="poetry">and a splendid diadem for the remnant of his people.p>

<p class="poetry">This also comes from the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies,p> <p class="poetry">who gives supernatural guidance and imparts great wisdom.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Just as birds hover over a nest,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies will protect Jerusalem.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He will protect and deliver it;p> <p class="poetry">as he passes over<n id="3" /> he will rescue it.p>