Listen, all you nations! Pay attention, all inhabitants of earth! The sovereign Lord will testify against you; the Lord will accuse you from his majestic palace.

Then Samuel said to Saul, "Wait a minute! Let me tell you what the Lord said to me last night." Saul said to him, "Tell me."

Then I said to the people of Judah, "Listen and pay attention! Do not be arrogant! For the Lord has spoken.

Listen, you Israelites, to this message which the Lord is proclaiming against you! This message is for the entire clan I brought up from the land of Egypt:

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!

Contend

I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will surely and swiftly be removed from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be annihilated.

Listen, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

A psalm by Asaph. El, God, the Lord speaks, and summons the earth to come from the east and west.

Listen, O heavens, pay attention, O earth! For the Lord speaks: "I raised children, I brought them up, but they have rebelled against me!

O land of Judah, land of Judah, land of Judah! Listen to what the Lord has to say!

"As for you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say: 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord!

He answered, "I tell you, if they keep silent, the very stones will cry out!"

Before

The mountains will disintegrate beneath him, and the valleys will be split in two. The mountains will melt like wax in a fire, the rocks will slide down like water cascading down a steep slope.

Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has planned a day of judgment, for all the high and mighty, for all who are proud -- they will be humiliated;

Let

Then he said to me, "Prophesy over these bones, and tell them: 'Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

General references

For the Lord has planned a day of revenge, a time when he will repay Edom for her hostility toward Zion.

O land of Judah, land of Judah, land of Judah! Listen to what the Lord has to say!