311 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help And rely on horses , And trust in chariots because they are many And in horsemen because they are very strong , But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel , nor seek the Lord ! 2 Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster And does not retract His words , But will arise against the house of evildoers And against the help of the workers of iniquity . 3 Now the Egyptians are men and not God , And their horses are flesh and not spirit ; So the Lord will stretch out His hand , And he who helps will stumble And he who is helped will fall , And all of them will come to an end together . 4 For thus says the Lord to me, "As the lion or the young lion growls over his prey , Against which a band of shepherds is called out, And he will not be terrified at their voice nor disturbed at their noise , So will the Lord of hosts come down to wage war on Mount Zion and on its hill ." 5 Like flying birds so the Lord of hosts will protect Jerusalem . He will protect and deliver it; He will pass over and rescue it.
6 Return to Him from whom you have deeply defected , O sons of Israel . 7 For in that day every man will cast away his silver idols and his gold idols , which your sinful hands have made for you as a sin . 8 And the Assyrian will fall by a sword not of man , And a sword not of man will devour him. So he will not escape the sword , And his young men will become forced laborers . 9 "His rock will pass away because of panic , And his princes will be terrified at the standard ," Declares the Lord , whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem .
321 Behold , a king will reign righteously And princes will rule justly . 2 Each will be like a refuge from the wind And a shelter from the storm , Like streams of water in a dry country , Like the shade of a huge rock in a parched land . 3 Then the eyes of those who see will not be blinded , And the ears of those who hear will listen . 4 The mind of the hasty will discern the truth , And the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak clearly . 5 No longer will the fool be called noble , Or the rogue be spoken of as generous . 6 For a fool speaks nonsense , And his heart inclines toward wickedness : To practice ungodliness and to speak error against the Lord , To keep the hungry person unsatisfied And to withhold drink from the thirsty . 7 As for a rogue , his weapons are evil ; He devises wicked schemes To destroy the afflicted with slander e , Even though the needy one speaks what is right . 8 But the noble man devises noble plans ; And by noble plans he stands .
9 Rise up, you women who are at ease , And hear my voice ; Give ear to my word , You complacent daughters . 10 Within a year and a few days You will be troubled , O complacent daughters; For the vintage is ended , And the fruit gathering will not come . 11 Tremble , you women who are at ease ; Be troubled , you complacent daughters; Strip , undress and put sackcloth on your waist , 12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields , for the fruitful vine , 13 For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up; Yea , for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city . 14 Because the palace has been abandoned , the populated city forsaken . Hill and watch-tower have become caves forever e , A delight for wild donkeys , a pasture for flocks ; 15 Until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high , And the wilderness becomes a fertile field , And the fertile field is considered as a forest . 16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness And righteousness will abide in the fertile field . 17 And the work of righteousness will be peace , And the service of righteousness , quietness and confidence forever e . 18 Then my people will live in a peaceful habitation , And in secure dwellings and in undisturbed resting places ; 19 And it will hail when the forest comes down , And the city will be utterly laid low . 20 How blessed will you be, you who sow beside all waters , Who let out freely the ox and the donkey .
331 Woe to you, O destroyer , While you were not destroyed ; And he who is treacherous , while others did not deal treacherously with him. As soon as you finish destroying , you will be destroyed ; As soon as you cease to deal treacherously , others will deal treacherously with you. 2 O Lord , be gracious to us; we have waited for You. Be their strength every morning , Our salvation also in the time of distress . 3 At the sound of the tumult peoples flee ; At the lifting up of Yourself nations disperse . 4 Your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers ; As locusts rushing about men rush about on it. 5 The Lord is exalted , for He dwells on high ; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness . 6 And He will be the stability of your times , A wealth of salvation , wisdom and knowledge ; The fear of the Lord is his treasure . 7 Behold , their brave men cry in the streets , The ambassadors of peace weep bitterly . 8 The highways are desolate , the traveler has ceased , He has broken the covenant , he has despised the cities , He has no regard for man . 9 The land mourns and pines away , Lebanon is shamed and withers ; Sharon is like a desert plain , And Bashan and Carmel lose their foliage. 10 "Now I will arise ," says the Lord , "Now I will be exalted , now I will be lifted up. 11 "You have conceived chaff , you will give birth to stubble ; My breath will consume you like a fire . 12 "The peoples will be burned to lime , Like cut thorns which are burned in the fire .
13 "You who are far away , hear what I have done ; And you who are near , acknowledge My might ." 14 Sinners in Zion are terrified ; Trembling has seized the godless . "Who among us can live with the consuming fire ? Who among us can live with continual burning ?" 15 He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity , He who rejects unjust e gain And shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe ; He who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed And shuts his eyes from looking upon evil ; 16 He will dwell on the heights , His refuge will be the impregnable rock ; His bread will be given him, His water will be sure . 17 Your eyes will see the King in His beauty ; They will behold a far-distant land . 18 Your heart will meditate on terror : "Where is he who counts ? Where is he who weighs ? Where is he who counts the towers ?" 19 You will no longer see a fierce people , A people of unintelligible speech which no one comprehends , Of a stammering tongue which no one understands . 20 Look upon Zion , the city of our appointed feasts ; Your eyes will see Jerusalem , an undisturbed habitation , A tent which will not be folded ; Its stakes will never e be pulled up, Nor any of its cords be torn apart . 21 But there the majestic One, the Lord , will be for us A place of rivers and wide canals On which no boat with oars will go , And on which no mighty ship will pass - 22 For the Lord is our judge , The Lord is our lawgiver , The Lord is our king ; He will save us- 23 Your tackle hangs slack ; It cannot hold the base of its mast firmly , Nor spread out the sail . Then the prey of an abundant spoil will be divided ; The lame will take the plunder . 24 And no resident will say , "I am sick "; The people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity .
341 Draw near , O nations , to hear ; and listen , O peoples ! Let the earth and all it contains hear , and the world and all that springs from it. 2 For the Lord'S indignation is against all the nations , And His wrath against all their armies ; He has utterly destroyed them, He has given them over to slaughter . 3 So their slain will be thrown out, And their corpses will give off their stench , And the mountains will be drenched with their blood . 4 And all the host of heaven will wear away , And the sky will be rolled up like a scroll ; All their hosts will also wither away As a leaf withers from the vine , Or as one withers from the fig tree . 5 For My sword is satiated in heaven , Behold it shall descend for judgment upon Edom And upon the people whom I have devoted to destruction . 6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood , It is sated with fat , with the blood of lambs and goats , With the fat of the kidneys of rams . For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah And a great slaughter in the land of Edom . 7 Wild oxen will also fall with them And young bulls with strong ones ; Thus their land will be soaked with blood , And their dust become greasy with fat . 8 For the Lord has a day of vengeance , A year of recompense for the cause of Zion .
9 Its streams will be turned into pitch , And its loose earth into brimstone , And its land will become burning pitch . 10 It will not be quenched night or day ; Its smoke will go up forever . From generation to generation it will be desolate ; None will pass through it forever and ever . 11 But pelican and hedgehog will possess it, And owl and raven will dwell in it; And He will stretch over it the line of desolation And the plumb line of emptiness . 12 Its nobles -there is no one there Whom they may proclaim king - And all its princes will be nothing . 13 Thorns will come up in its fortified towers , Nettles and thistles in its fortified cities ; It will also be a haunt of jackals And an abode of ostriches . 14 The desert creatures will meet with the wolves , The hairy goat also will cry to its kind ; Yes , the night monster will settle there And will find herself a resting place . 15 The tree snake will make its nest and lay eggs there , And it will hatch and gather them under its protection . Yes , the hawks will be gathered there , Every one with its kind . 16 Seek from the book of the Lord , and read : Not one of these will be missing ; None e will lack its mate . For His mouth has commanded , And His Spirit has gathered them. 17 He has cast the lot for them, And His hand has divided it to them by line . They shall possess it forever e ; From generation to generation they will dwell in it.
