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20 Woe to those saying to evil “Good,” and to good “Evil,” putting darkness for light and light for darkness, putting bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe to the wise ones in their own eyes, and before their own faces discerning. 22 Woe to the mighty at drinking wine and men of strength in mixing strong drink, 23 those declaring right the wicked for a bribe, and justice for the righteous ones they turn aside from him. 24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the chaff and the flame consumes the stubble, their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom will go up like dust, because they have rejected the instruction of YHWH of hosts, and the Word of the Holy One of Israel they have despised. 25 Thus the anger of YHWH burns against His people; and therefore He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them, and the hills trembled; and their carcasses became like refuse in the midst of the streets. In all this, His anger is not turned away, and still His hand is stretched out. 26 And He will lift up a signal for the nations from afar, and He will whistle to them from the end of the earth—and behold, swiftly with haste it will come! 27 No one will be weary nor stumbling among them; he will not will he slumber and not sleep, and not will be loosed the girdle of his loins, and not will be broken the strap of his sandals— 28 whose arrows are sharp, and all his bows bent; the hooves of his horses like flint are reckoned, and his wheels like a whirlwind. 29 The roaring of him is like a lion—he roars like the young lions, and growls and seizes prey and carries it away safely, and there is no one delivering. 30 And he will roar over it that on the day, like the roaring of the sea. And one looks over the land, and behold, darkness and distress, and the light is darkened by its clouds. Isaiah 5:20-30, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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