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"What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says Yahweh. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

Verse ConceptsMultitudesGoatsBullsBlood Of SacrificesDelighting, Wrong Kinds OfGod, Will OfPleasureNot Pleasing GodMore Than EnoughSacrificesMeat offeringsRewards Of RitualSacrificetired

Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Verse ConceptsGiftsBribery, Results OfExploitationsWicked RulersOppression, Nature OfOrphansReward, HumanRiches, Dangers OfRulersStealingLeadershipRulers, WickedCovetousness, Example OfEvil AssociationsCompanionshipNot Helping Widows

and I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.

Verse ConceptsTestingPurgingRefining Influences Of AfflictionClean Objects

I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called 'The city of righteousness, a faithful town.'

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodNames For JerusalemBeginningReinstatementA Righteous PeopleLeaders

Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled; therefore don't forgive them.

Verse ConceptsUnforgivenessGod Not Forgiving

The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

Verse ConceptsHumilityStubbornness, Consequences OfArrogance, Punishment OfHumbling The ProudBeing Humble

The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.

Verse ConceptsSuperiorityPrideBeing Humblearrogance

The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

Verse ConceptsSodom And GomorrahFruits Of SinDisfigurement Of SinCountenanceExpressions On FacesSin Made KnownHarming OneselfWoe To Israel And JerusalemAppearances of

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

Verse ConceptsRejection Of God, Results Of

Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.

Verse ConceptsWallsFigurative Fields

The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don't respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

Verse ConceptsFlutesAmusementsBanquets, ActivitiesHarpsLyreMusical Instruments, types ofWorldly Pleasures, Leads ToDrunkenness, ResultsDissipationTambourinesLyresdrums

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordDecayGrassRejection Of GodStrawRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRootsPeople RottingBurning Plants

He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, but don't understand; and you see indeed, but don't perceive.'

Verse ConceptsGospel, Responses ToSecrecyRejection Of God's CallReprobatesBeing Without Understanding

Tell him, 'Be careful, and keep calm. Don't be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

Verse ConceptsBattlesAliancesFaint HeartednessTwo Other MenFear And Worrysmoking

"Don't say, 'A conspiracy!' concerning all about which this people say, 'A conspiracy!' neither fear their threats, nor be terrorized.

Verse ConceptsBattlesFalse ConfidenceConspiraciesAllegiancesFearlessnessConspiracy

Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

Verse ConceptsFalse ProphetsStudyOvertaken By DarknessExcellent LawLighttestimony

"The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place."

Verse ConceptsBricksHousesMasonsProperty, HousesStonesSycamoresFortsStone ItemsCedar WoodThings ImprovedChristmas Treerebuilding

They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Verse ConceptsGod's HandCrouchingGod's Hands Stretched Out

I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingGodlessnessNationalismTrampling People

shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

Verse ConceptsGod Opposes Idolatry

For he has said, "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.

Verse ConceptsPride, Examples OfWisdom, Human NatureFalse WisdomActing For Oneself

Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says "My people who dwell in Zion, don't be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.

Verse ConceptsSpecial Revelation

Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.

Verse ConceptsCutting Off BranchesPutting Things Down

He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

Verse ConceptsThe Prophecy Towards Lebanon

The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them.

Verse ConceptsLeopardMillennial KingdomLambsLionsAnimals, Types OfDeliverance From LionsWolvesChildren And The KingdomDeerPetsSleeping Peacefully

The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.

Verse ConceptsCowsFeedingStrawBearsYoung AnimalDeliverance From LionsNoting What Animals Eatcats

The nursing child will play near a cobra's hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den.

Verse ConceptsNestsCobrasSnakesAnimals, Types OfCrawlingPower Over SnakesChildren And The Kingdombaby

They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them.

Verse ConceptsThe Prophecy Towards AmmonThe Prophecy Towards Edom

Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent things! Let this be known in all the earth!

Verse ConceptsGod, Glory OfPraiseGod's Glory RevealedGod's Deed RevealedExcellence

It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.

Verse ConceptsNomadsEmpty CitiesNo More Tending The Flock

Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

Verse ConceptsHarpsCovering The BodyMusical Instruments, types ofHumbling The ProudPeople Eaten By WormMaggotsNo Musicworms

But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadCovering The BodyPitsWicked Described AsUnburied BodiesPits As A Term For Graves

Don't rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.

Verse ConceptsPoisonRootsSerpentsSnakesBreaking SticksLack Of RejoicingThose Flying

The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.

Verse ConceptsPeace, Divine In OtRootsSafetyFamine Coming From GodThose Helping The PoorFeeding The Poor

Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the midst of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don't betray the fugitive!

Verse ConceptsNoonOutcastsrelentless

For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.

Verse ConceptsDestroying Vineyards

The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

Verse ConceptsEmpty CitiesPasturing The Flock

that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!"

Verse ConceptsBabylonenvoyPapyrusDivision Of WatersTall PeopleSea TravelBoatsWaters DividingFearing Other People

For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.

Verse ConceptsPruningKnivesToolsCutting Off Branches

In that time, a present will be brought to Yahweh of Armies from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of Armies, Mount Zion.

Verse ConceptsGiftsGiving To GodDivision Of WatersTall PeopleWaters DividingFearing Other PeopleAmerica

You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.

Therefore I said, "Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don't labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Verse ConceptsBeing Earnest For IsraelSorrowNo Comfort

For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains."

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsValleysWallsVisions From God

You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

Verse ConceptsNumberingCounting BuildingsDestruction Of HousesBuilding Jerusalem's Wall

You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn't look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who purposed it long ago.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of ConfidenceFalse Confidence, Examples OfFalse ConfidencePoolsGod Planning Of OldDoubting GodGod's Plans

I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station.

Verse ConceptsHumiliationDeposing

"In that day," says Yahweh of Armies, "the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down, and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for Yahweh has spoken it."

Verse ConceptsTentsPegs

Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.

Verse ConceptsChaosWasteScattering The PeoplesDestruction Of The World

The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CitiesFormlessnessShutting Doors

For it will be so in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.

Verse ConceptsGleaningHarvestOrchardsVintagePotential Of FruitOlive Trees

As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.

Verse ConceptsForeignersSilenceHot WeatherForeigners SubduedAliensrelentless

For in this mountain the hand of Yahweh will rest. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.

Verse Conceptsdung and manureStrawThe Prophecy Towards EdomGod's HandTrampling PeopleDefecationGod's Hands In Opposition

He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

Verse ConceptsStrongholdsFortsPutting Things Downdust

For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust.

Verse ConceptsHumiliationHumilityPride, Results OfHumbling The ProudDestruction Of CitiesPutting Things Down

The foot shall tread it down; Even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy."

Verse ConceptsTrampling Placesfootsteps

Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfJealousyHand Of GodShameStoringZealGod's HandBurning PeopleNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsShame Will Come

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

Verse ConceptsChaosCities Under AttackEmpty CitiesChaos As JudgmentHomestead

Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.

Verse ConceptsBitingHailRainGod Giving StrengthGod Gives Strength

Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.

Verse ConceptsAgreementTrampling PeopleNot DyingDeath Preventedcovenantcheaters

Now therefore don't be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.

Verse ConceptsChainsMockeryRejection Of God, Results OfRidicule, Objects OfDestructionTying Upmockers

Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don't grind it.

Verse ConceptsGrindingHorsesSeedCartsFarmingprocesscrushes

You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.

Verse ConceptsNecromancyAbasing PeopleSpeechghostsdust

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, "He didn't make me;" or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding?"

Verse ConceptsCriticism, amongst believersClayPotterPotteryTurning Upside DownBeing Without UnderstandingMan's Relationship With His CreatorWeedatheismpot

who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

Verse ConceptsForbidden AlliancesTrusting In Man, Warnings AgainstGod's Counsel

who tell the seers, "Don't see!" and to the prophets, "Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceSeersNo VisionsProphecy MuzzledProphecyTelling The Truthprophets

For thus says Yahweh to me, "As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.

Verse ConceptsNoiseShepherds, As Kings And LeadersStock Keeping

The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.

Verse ConceptsThorns

Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might."

Verse ConceptsAcknowledged

For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment.

Verse ConceptsMore Than EnoughGod's Sword

The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat.

Verse ConceptsCovered With BloodFat Of AnimalsWild OxUnicorns

Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and don't speak to us in the Jews' language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."

Verse ConceptsLanguages

Thus says the king, 'Don't let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.

Verse ConceptsAbilityTo DeliverPeople's Inability To SaveBeing MisleadSalvation By Other ThingsUnable To Save

Don't let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, "Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city won't be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."'

Verse ConceptsTrust, Importance OfBelief In GodGod Saves The NeedyNot Given Into One's Hands

Don't listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;

Verse ConceptsCisternsVinesDo Not Listen!

But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king's commandment was, "Don't answer him."

Verse ConceptsResponseIndividuals Being SilentOthers Not Answering

Isaiah said to them, "Tell your master, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Don't be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

Verse ConceptsWord Of God

"Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, 'Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem won't be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

Verse ConceptsGod DeceivingBelief In GodNot Given Into One's HandsKings of judah

Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?

Verse ConceptsBad NewsNot SparingPeople Destroying Foreign Nations

By your servants, have you defied the Lord, and have said, "With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.

Verse ConceptsChariotsCedarFelling TreesTrusting In Chariots

Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, God's Promises OfHistoryDestruction Of CitiesHearing About GodGod Planning Of OldGod's Plans

But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.

Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingGoing Out And Coming InGoing Through the Motions

and said, "Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight." Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfLoyaltyOthers MourningOne's Deedsdevotion

Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down."'"

Verse ConceptsAstronomyLight, NaturalShadowsStairwaysThe SunSun DialsTen ThingsStepsMoving OnRecoveryEclipseSolar Eclipse

What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

Verse ConceptsHumilityBitterness

You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength. Lift it up. Don't be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold, your God!"

Verse Conceptsevangelists, identity ofevangelism, nature ofClimbingGospel, Descriptions OfHeraldVoicesWatchfulness, Of BelieversNames And Titles For ChristGood TidingsHe Is Our God

Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you," says Yahweh, "and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerRedemption, In OtTypesNames And Titles For ChristMan, Insignificance OfMaggotsOther Unimportant PeopleDo Not Fear For God Will Helpbugsworms

that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

Verse ConceptsUnderstandingisrael

Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands and their inhabitants.

Verse ConceptsNew ThingsMarinersAttitudes Of PraiseIslandsPraisePraise, Manner And Methods OfPraise, Reasons ForSongsSea DwellersA New SongThe End Of The World

I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know. I will lead them in paths that they don't know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesdecisionsGuardiansGuidance, God's Promises OfWalking In DarknessPaths Of BelieversStraight ThingsLight Of God's PeopleNot Knowing WhereDarknessBlindnessguidancePathscredibility