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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"How terrible it will be for you, destroyer, you who have not been destroyed yourself! And how terrible it will be for you, traitor, one whom people have not betrayed! When you have sunk so low in destroying others, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you." |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"LORD, be gracious to us; we long for you; and be our strength every morning, our salvation in times of trouble. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3At the thunder of your voice, the peoples flee; at your silence, the nations scatter. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Your plunder is gathered as when grasshoppers gather; just like locusts pounce, people have pounced on it. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"The LORD is exalted, for he lives on high; he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6He will be a sure foundation for your times, abundance and salvation, wisdom and knowledge — the fear of the LORD is Zion's treasure." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Listen! Their brave men cry out in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The highways are deserted; travelers have quit the road. The enemy has broken treaties; he despises their witnesses, and respects no one. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9The land mourns and wastes away; Lebanon feels ashamed and withers. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"Now I'll rise up," the LORD has said, "now I'll exalt myself; now I'll be lifted up. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11You conceive dried grass, you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And the peoples will be burned as if to ashes; like cut thorn bushes, they will be set ablaze. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Those who are far away have heard what I've done; and those that are near have acknowledged my power. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: "Who among us can live with the consuming fire? Who among us can live with everlasting flames?" |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The one who walks righteously and has spoken sincere words, who rejects gain from extortion and waves his hand, rejecting bribes, who blocks his ears from hearing plots of murder and shuts his eyes against seeing evil— |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16this is the one who will live on the heights; his refuge will be a mountain fortress. His food will be supplied, and his water will be guaranteed. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"Your eyes will see the king in his elegance, and will view a land that stretches afar. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Your mind will ponder at that time of terror: 'Where is the king's accountant? Where is the one who weighed the revenue? Where is the officer who supervises the towers?' |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19No longer will you see those arrogant people, those people with their obscure speech you cannot comprehend, stammering in a language you cannot understand. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"Look at Zion, city of our festivals! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an undisturbed abode, an immovable tent; its stakes will never be pulled up, nor will any of its ropes be broken. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21But there the LORD in majesty will be for us our source of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go, where no stately ship can sail. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22For the LORD is our judge, and the LORD is our lawgiver; and the LORD is our king, and it is he who will save us. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"Your rigging hangs loose; it cannot reliably hold the mast in its place, and the sail cannot spread out. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided — even the lame will carry off plunder. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24And no one living there will say, 'I am ill.' The people living there will have their sins forgiven." |
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