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Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

Verse ConceptsAttitudes Of RebellionLordship, Human And DivinePay Attention To God!Rebellion against GodRaising ChildrenListening To GodTaking Care Of The Earth

Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.

Verse ConceptsKnowing PeopleDonkeysLack Of DiscernmentIngratitudeSpiritual IgnoranceMangersIgnorance Towards God, Examples OfInstinctDullnessFeeding AnimalsBeing Without UnderstandingMammalsThose Who Were Ignorant

Why do you insist on being battered? Why do you continue to rebel? Your head has a massive wound, your whole body is weak.

Verse ConceptsSinful HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedRebellion Against God, Shown InOther References To The HeartPersistence

The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.

Verse ConceptsBruisesAnointing, Medical PurposedoctorsBoils Or UlcersHeadsHealingMedicineOilOintmentHoly Spirit, Types OfDisfigurement Of SinWoundsscars

Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.

Verse ConceptsForeignersPeace, Human Destruction OfPoverty, Causes OfDestruction Of CountriesBurning CitiesSuffering From ForeignersStrangers in israelAliens

And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies.

Verse ConceptsCucumbersFruitBoothsAttacks On Jerusalem Foretold

When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

Verse ConceptsPilgrimageTrampling Places

But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.

Verse ConceptsRebellion, Of IsraelWar As God's JudgmentGod Might Kill His People

How has the faithful city become a harlot! it was full of justice; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

Verse ConceptsBabylonSpiritual HarlotryInjustice, Examples OfProstitutionHarlotswhores

Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

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

For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me;

Verse ConceptsGod, Power OfRetributionGod Executes VengeanceRevengeventing

For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with what comes from the east, and use auguries like the Philistines, and ally themselves with the children of foreigners.

Verse ConceptsAbandoning FriendsAbandonmentDivination, Practiced ByJacob, The PatriarchPagansSyncretismOut Of The EastRelations With ForeignersAliens

Their land has also been filled with silver and gold
And there is no end to their treasures;
Their land has also been filled with horses
And there is no end to their chariots.

Verse ConceptsChariotsGoldHorsesFilling PlacesSilverSupplied With MoneyAcquiring HorsesGetting Rich

Their land has also been filled with idols;
They worship the work of their hands,
That which their fingers have made.

Verse ConceptsFingersBowingFilling PlacesPolytheismIdol WorshipWorshiping God

So the common man has been humbled
And the man of importance has been abased,
But do not forgive them.

Verse ConceptsUnforgivenessGod Not Forgiving

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;

Verse ConceptsDay of the LORDTradeAbaseAbasement Of The ProudThe Day Of JudgementGod Opposes The ProudBeing Humble

The strong man and the man of war; the judge and the prophet; the man who has knowledge of secret arts, and the man who is wise because of his years;

Verse ConceptsProphecy Abolishedheroes

When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father,'saying , Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand;

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyOuter Garments

For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.

Verse ConceptsdefianceJerusalem, Significance OfDisobedience, To GodInfidelity To GodDownfall Of Israel

Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?" The sovereign Lord who commands armies has spoken.

Verse ConceptsCrushingGrindingUnkindnessPoor, The Wicked Response ToGrinding PeopleNot Helping The Poorcrushes

Again, the Lord has said, Because the daughters of Zion are full of pride, and go with outstretched necks and wandering eyes, with their foot-chains sounding when they go:

Verse ConceptsNecksDebaucheryOrnamentsSuperiorityCosmeticsHaughtinessWantonnessDecadenceEvil Eyesmakeupbrandingzion

And it will come about that the rest of the living in Zion, and of those who have been kept from destruction in Jerusalem, will be named holy, even everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem:

Verse ConceptsZion, As A PlaceNames Written In HeavenSurvivors FavouredA Holy Nationzion

Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved regarding his vineyard. My well-beloved has a vineyard on a very fruitful hill:

Verse ConceptsSongsfruitfulness

The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.

Verse ConceptsEmpty PlacesGod Swearing Harm

Therefore sheol has enlarged itself, and opened its mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that exults, shall descend into it.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheThe Glory Of ManThe Fact Of Death

Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he has stretched forth his hand against them, and has stricken them: and the hills did tremble, and their dead bodies were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Verse ConceptsdirtRoadsGod's HandMountains QuakingNo BurialsGod's Hands Stretched Out

And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged.

Verse ConceptsGuilt, Removal OfLipsSin, Deliverance From GodTouchCoal, Uses OfPurgingTouching For HealingOther References To Mouths

And He saith, 'Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye -- to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye -- to see, and ye do not know.

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

And the LORD has removed men far away, and there are many forsaken places in the midst of the land.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesExile In Prospect

And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy seed is the broken end).

Verse ConceptsRemnantNames And Titles For The ChristianTreesStumps Of A TreeA Tenth Of People

It was reported to the family of David, "Syria has allied with Ephraim." They and their people were emotionally shaken, just as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.

Verse ConceptsForestsdoubtersPessimismAllegiancesGroups Trembling

and thou hast said unto him: 'Take heed, and be quiet, fear not, And let not thy heart be timid, Because of these two tails of smoking brands, For the fierceness of the anger of Rezin and Aram, And the son of Remaliah.

Verse ConceptsBattlesAliancesFaint HeartednessTwo Other MenFear And Worrysmoking

Because Aram has made evil designs against you, saying,

Verse ConceptsEvil Planssyria

"But this is what the Lord GOD has to say: ""It won't take place. It won't ever happen.

Verse ConceptsNeverEverything Happening For A Reason

“Ask a sign for yourself from the Lord your God [one that will convince you that God has spoken and will keep His word]; make your request as deep as Sheol or as high as heaven.”

Verse ConceptsSeeking SignsSigns From GodSeeking A SignTrusting God In Difficult Times

The Lord is about to send on you, and on your people, and on your father's house, such a time of trouble as there has not been from the days of the separating of Ephraim from Judah; even the coming of the king of Assyria.

Verse Conceptselection, responsibilities ofUnique EventsOther Times

And Jehovah said unto me, Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, For Maher-shalal-hash-baz;

Verse ConceptsPensScrollsTabletsWritingSpeedAlphabetMaking The Message Clear

And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said Jehovah unto me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

Verse ConceptsWomenAnnunciationsProphetessSpeedGod Naming People

"Because this people has refused the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoices [over] Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

Verse ConceptsRejection Of GodTrust, Lack Of

Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells in mount Zion.

Verse ConceptsChildren Of GodProphetic SignsSpiritual AdoptionChildren In The FaithOther MiraclesSigns And Wonders Before ChristFamily Conflict

for instruction and for testimony? Surely they are speaking like this because the truth hasn't dawned on them.

Verse ConceptsFalse ProphetsStudyOvertaken By DarknessExcellent LawLighttestimony

But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

Verse ConceptsHumilityComing Out Of DarknessDespair

Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased their joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

Verse ConceptsHarvestJoy, And Human ExperienceGod Multipling PeopleYou Will Rejoice In SalvationDividing The SpoilJoyjoyfulness

For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou hast broken as in the day of Midian.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toCivil LibertyYokesRemoving BurdensGod Freeing Captives

The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it has fallen upon Israel.

Verse ConceptsJacob, The PatriarchWord Of God

For this cause the Lord has made strong the haters of Israel, driving them on to make war against him;

Aram from [the] east and Philistines from [the] west-- and they devoured Israel with the whole mouth. He has not turned away his anger in all of this, and his hand is still stretched out.

Verse ConceptseastHand Of GodGod's HandEast And WestGod's Hands Stretched Outsyria

So the LORD has cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in a single day

Verse ConceptsBeheadingA Short TimeTailsShort Time For ActionHead As ChiefFake Friends

Therefore the Lord does not rejoice
over Israel’s young men
and has no compassion
on its fatherless and widows,
for everyone is a godless evildoer,
and every mouth speaks folly.
In all this, His anger is not removed,
and His hand is still raised to strike.

Verse ConceptsOrphansSin, Nature OfWidowsDecadenceGod's HandVirtues Of Young PeopleGod's Hands Stretched OutLack Of RejoicingNot Helping WidowsHypocrisy

"For wickedness has burned like a blaze that consumes briers and thorns; it sets thickets of the forest on fire, and skyward they swirl in a column of smoke.

Verse ConceptsForestsBriersDebaucheryThornsFruits Of SinFire Of Evil

The land is scorched
by the wrath of the Lord of Hosts,
and the people are like fuel for the fire.
No one has compassion on his brother.

Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsFire Of God's AngerNot Sparingwrath

Manasseh [devoured] Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh; together they [were] against Judah. In all of this his anger has not turned away, and still his hand [is] stretched out.

Verse ConceptsGod's HandGod's Hands Stretched OutDisunity

{save that they bow down under the prisoners and fall under the slain}? In all of this his anger has not turned away, and still his hand [is] stretched out.

Verse ConceptsGod's HandCrouchingGod's Hands Stretched Out

As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria:

Verse ConceptsGod Is Truthful

Therefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

Verse ConceptsCondemned HeartsExile, in assyriaHeart, Fallen And RedeemedPride, Results OfSuperiorityBusiness EthicsAssyria, Prophecies OfHaughtinessThe Prophecy Towards AssyriaHumbling The ProudEnd Of ActionsGod Opposes The Proud

For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them;

Verse ConceptsPride, Examples OfWisdom, Human NatureFalse WisdomActing For Oneself

And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathers eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

Verse ConceptsNestsWingsWings Of BirdsBird Soundsrelentless

Israel, even if your people were as numerous
as the sand of the sea,
only a remnant of them will return.
Destruction has been decreed;
justice overflows.

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfRemnantGod Doing RightDoing RightEnd Of ActionsMany In IsraelSand And Gravel

because the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies will bring about destruction, as has been decreed, throughout the entire region.

Verse ConceptsEnd Of Actions

He has come to Aiath, he has passed to Migron; at Michmash he has stored his supplies:

Verse ConceptsStoring

They are gone over the pass: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul has fled.

Verse ConceptsGroups Trembling

Madmenah has fled; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.

On that day you will say:
“I will praise You, Lord,
although You were angry with me.
Your anger has turned away,
and You have had compassion on me.

Verse ConceptsAfflictions, Consolation DuringComfort, Of GodGod Has ComfortedGod Will No More Be AngryWe Thank GodreunitingFinding Comfort In God


Hyenas will howl in their castles,
And jackals in their luxurious palaces.
Babylon’s time has nearly come,
And her days will not be prolonged.

Verse ConceptsPerils Of LuxuryPalacesAnimals, Types OfShort Time Till The End

And it will be in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and from the harsh service in which you have been enslaved,

Verse ConceptsRest, PhysicalGod Giving RestSuccess And Hard Work

That you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

Verse ConceptsBabylon, History OfCessationStopping Fighting

The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers.

Verse ConceptsSceptreBreaking Sticksrelentless

Yea, the cypress trees rejoice at you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you were laid low, no hewer has come up against us.

Verse ConceptsCedarFir TreesFelling Trees

Sheol from beneath is excited for you to meet you at your coming: it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheGreetingsSpiritsThroneDeath Of The Wickedwelcome

All of them answer and say unto thee, Even thou hast become weak like us! Unto us thou hast become like!

Verse ConceptsBecoming Like People

Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.

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

For thou hast said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

Verse ConceptsLove, Abuse OfNames Of GodSelf ExaltationGoing Up To HeavenRebellion of Satan and AngelsKarma

And -- thou hast been cast out of thy grave, As an abominable branch, raiment of the slain, Thrust through ones of the sword, Going down unto the sons of the pit, As a carcase trodden down.

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

Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named for ever.

Verse ConceptsBad ParentsParents SinSins Of The Fathers

“I will make her a swampland and a region for screech owls, and I will sweep her away with a broom of destruction.”

This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfPoolsThreateningsHedgehogsSweepingdistractions

Don't be so happy, all you Philistines, just because the club that beat you has been broken! For a viper will grow out of the serpent's root, and its fruit will be a darting adder.

Verse ConceptsPoisonRootsSerpentsSnakesBreaking SticksLack Of RejoicingThose Flying

Send out a cry, O door! Make sounds of sorrow, O town! All your land has come to nothing, O Philistia; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and everyone keeps his place in the line.

Verse ConceptsNorthSmokeOut Of The NorthOrderly ArmysmokingSmoke Used Poetically

What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

Verse ConceptsenvoyAnswering People

The word about Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer; for in a night Kir of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer.

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Strategies InDisastersDuring One Night

He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall wail over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseBaldnessBeardsHeadsHigh PlacesKnives

For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the green grass has withered away, the grass fails, there is no green thing.

Verse ConceptsColors, GreendrynessGrassGrass Withered

Therefore they carry [the] abundance it has made and their store of goods over the river of the poplars.

For the cry has gone all around the borders of Moab; its wailing unto Eglaim, its wailing unto Beerelim.

Let those who have been forced out of Moab have a resting-place with you; be a cover to them from him who is making waste their land: till the cruel ones are cut off, and wasting has come to an end, and those who take pleasure in crushing the poor are gone from the land.

Verse ConceptsSatan as Destroyer

So Moab wails over its demise -- they all wail! Completely devastated, they moan about what has happened to the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth.

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Expression OfLamentingDried Fruit

Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water you with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for your summer fruits and for your harvest has fallen.

Verse ConceptsGod, Suffering OfHarvestDestroying VineyardsI Mourn CatastropheSummer Fruit

And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and its glad cry has been stopped.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholWinepressDestroying VineyardsVintageCessationTreading GrapesLack Of Rejoicing