Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help;
They 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 Jehovah!

But He also is wise and will bring ill upon them;
And He does not turn back His words,
But will rise up against the house of evildoers
And against the help of the workers of iniquity.

The Egyptians are mere men and not God,
And their horses are mere flesh and not spirit;
Thus Jehovah will stretch out His hand,
And he who helps will stumble and he who is helped will fall,
And all of them will be consumed together.

For Jehovah has spoken thus to me,
As the lion or the lion cub
Roars over its prey
And because of it a crowd of shepherds
Is called out,
But it is not frightened by their voice,
Nor overcome by their noise;
So Jehovah of hosts will descend
To wage war on Mount Zion and on its hill.

Like flying birds
So Jehovah of hosts will protect Jerusalem;
He will protect and deliver it;
He will pass over and rescue it.

Return to Him from whom men have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.

For in that day each man will cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have made for you as a sin.

And the Assyrian will fall by the sword not of a man,
And the sword not of man will devour him.
Thus he will flee from a sword,
And his young men will be forced into labor.

And his rock will pass away in terror,
And his princes will be dismayed by the standard,
Declares Jehovah, whose fire is in Zion
And whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

Indeed a  ¹King will reign according to  ²righteousness,
And the rulers will rule according to  ²justice.

And a  ¹man will be like a refuge from the wind
And a covering from the tempest,
Like streams of water in a dry place,
Like the shadow of a massive rock in a wasted land.

And the  ¹eyes of those who see will not be dim,
And the ears of those who hear will attend.

And the heart of the hasty will understand knowledge,
And the tongue of those who stammer will hasten to speak elegantly.

The fool will no longer be called noble,
Nor will the cheat be said to be generous;

For the fool will speak foolishness,
And his heart will commit iniquity
By committing profaneness
And by speaking error against Jehovah,
By leaving the soul of the hungry empty
And by causing drink for the thirsty to fail.

And as for the cheat, his tools are evil;
He devises wicked schemes
To destroy the poor with false words
Even when the needy speaks rightly.

But the noble man devises noble things,
And upon noble things he stands.

Rise up, O women who are at ease,
And hear my voice;
O daughters of complacency,
Hearken to my words.

In a year and some days
You will be troubled, O complacent ones;
For the vintage is at its end;
The ingathering will not come.

Tremble, O women at ease;
Be troubled, O complacent ones.
Strip yourselves and be bare,
And gird your loins with sackcloth.

They beat their breasts
For the pleasant fields,
For the fruitful vine.

Upon the land of my people
Will come up thorns and briers,
Indeed upon all the jubilant houses
In the exultant city.

Because the palace will be abandoned;
The multitude of the city will be forsaken;
The  ¹Hill and the watchtower
Will become caves forever,
A joy for wild asses,
A pasture for flocks;

Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high,
And the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
And the fruitful field is considered to be a forest.

Then justice will dwell in the wilderness,
And righteousness will remain in the fruitful field;

And the work of righteousness will be peace,
And the result of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.

And my people will live in a peaceful habitation
And in secure dwellings and carefree resting places.

And it will hail when the forest comes down,
And the city will be utterly laid low.

Blessed are you who sow beside all the water,
Who send there the feet of the ox and the donkey.

Woe to you who destroy and were not destroyed,
And to him who deals unfaithfully and was not dealt with unfaithfully!
When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed;
And when you cease to deal unfaithfully, they will deal unfaithfully with you.

O Jehovah, be gracious to us; we have waited for You;
Be  ¹our arm every morning,
Our salvation also in the time of distress.

At the noise of the tumult the peoples flee;
At the lifting up of Yourself the nations were scattered.

And your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers;
As locusts rush to and fro, men will rush to and fro upon it.

Jehovah is exalted, for He dwells on high;
He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

And there will be stability for your times:
A wealth of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge;
The fear of Jehovah is his treasure.

Indeed their heroes cry in the streets;
The ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

The highways are desolate;
The traveler ceases to travel.
He has broken the covenant; he despises the cities;
He does not regard man.

The land mourns and languishes;
Lebanon is ashamed and withers away;
Sharon is like a desert,
And Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

Now I will arise, says Jehovah,
Now I will be exalted; now I will be lifted up.

You will conceive chaff; you will give birth to stubble;
Your own breath, like fire, will devour you;

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

Hear, you who are far off, what I have done;
And know, you who are near, My might.

The sinners in Zion are terrified;
Trembling has seized the profane:
Who among us can dwell with consuming fire?
Who among us can dwell with everlasting burning?

He who walks in righteousness and speaks uprightness;
He who rejects gains seized by extortion;
He who shakes his hands lest they hold on to a bribe,
Who stops his ears so as not to hear of bloodshed
And shuts his eyes so as not to look at evil.

This one will dwell on the heights;
His lofty retreat will be the rocky strongholds;
His bread will be given to him; his water will be sure.

Your eyes will see the King in His beauty;
They will behold a land that is very far away.

Your heart will meditate on terror:
Where is he who counts? Where is he who weighs?
Where is he who counts the towers?

You will not see a fierce people,
A people of unintelligible speech, hardly audible,
Of a stammering tongue which cannot be understood.

Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts;
Your eyes will see Jerusalem,
A secure habitation, a tent that will not be removed;
Its stakes will never be pulled up,
And none of its cords will be torn apart.

But there the Majestic, Jehovah, will be for us
A place of rivers and broad streams,
On which no boat with oars will go
And no majestic ship will pass.

For  ¹Jehovah is our Judge,
Jehovah is our Lawmaker,
Jehovah is our King; He will save us.

Your tackle has been slackened;
It does not support its mast firmly,
Nor does it spread out the sail.
Then the prey of abundant spoil is divided;
The lame take the plunder.

And the inhabitant will not say, I am sick;
The people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.