Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in  ¹Philippi,  ²with the  ³overseers and  ⁴deacons:

 ¹Grace to you and  ²peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you,

Always in my every petition on behalf of you all, making my petition with joy,

For your  ¹fellowship unto the furtherance of the  ²gospel from the first day until now,

Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun in you a good work will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus;

Even as it is right for me to think this concerning you all because you have me in your heart, since both in my bonds and in the  ¹defense and confirmation of the gospel you are all  ²fellow partakers  ³with me of grace.

For God is my witness how I long after you all in the  ¹inward parts of Christ Jesus.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in  ¹full knowledge and all  ²discernment,

So that you may approve by testing the things which differ and are more excellent, that you may be  ¹pure and  ²without offense unto the day of Christ,

Being filled with the  ¹fruit of righteousness, which is through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Now I want you to know, brothers, that the things concerning me have turned out rather to the  ¹advancement of the gospel,

So that my bonds have become manifest as being  ¹in Christ among the whole  ²Praetorian guard and to all the rest.

And most of the brothers, being confident in the Lord because of my bonds, are more exceedingly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

 ¹Some preach Christ even because of envy and  ²strife, and  ³some also because of good will,

These out of love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel.

But the others announce Christ out of  ¹selfish ambition, not purely, thinking to raise up  ²affliction in my bonds.

What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truthfulness, Christ is announced; and in this I  ¹rejoice; yes, and I will rejoice;

The burden concerning the wilderness of the sea:
Like storm winds
In the  ¹Negev passing through,
It comes from the wilderness
From an awesome land.

A harsh vision
Has been announced to me;
The unfaithful one deals unfaithfully,
And the destroyer destroys.
Go up, Elam;
Lay siege, Media;
I have put an end
To all her groaning.

Therefore my loins
Are full of anguish;
Pangs have taken hold of me
Like the pangs of a woman in labor.
I am bent over at the hearing of it;
I am terrified at the seeing of it.

My heart reels;
Shuddering overwhelms me.
The twilight that I love
Has become a source of trembling to me.

Setting the table!
Spreading out the rug!
Eating! Drinking!
Rise, princes;
Oil the shields.

For thus says
The Lord to me,
Go, set a watchman;
Let him report what he sees.

And he saw riders,
A team of horsemen;
Riders of donkeys,
Riders of camels;
And he attends with attention,
With much attention.

And he calls out like a lion:
On the watchtower, Lord,
I stand continually by day;
At my guardpost
I am stationed
Every night.

And now there come
Riding men,
A team of horsemen.
And one answers and says,
Fallen, fallen is Babylon!
And all the idols of her gods
Has He shattered to the ground.

My threshed ones,
And the son of the threshing floor!
What I have heard
From Jehovah of hosts,
The God of Israel,
I have declared to you.

The burden concerning  ¹Dumah:
Someone is calling to me from Seir:
Guard, what remains of the night?
Guard, what remains of the night?

The guard says,
Morning is coming,
But so also is night;
If you will ask, ask;
Return, come.

The burden against Arabia:
In the thicket of Arabia you must spend the night,
You nomad clans of the Dedanim.

They bring water
To meet the thirsty;
The inhabitants of the land of Tema
Meet with bread those who flee;

For they flee from swords —
From the drawn sword,
From the bent bow,
And from the harshness of battle.

For thus has the Lord said to me, Within a year, like a wage worker's year, all the glory of Kedar will end,

And the remainder of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few; for Jehovah the God of Israel has spoken.

The burden concerning the  ¹valley of vision:
What then troubles you
That all have gone up to the housetops?

You who are full of noise, you tumultuous city,
You exultant town,
Your slain were not slain with the sword,
Nor are they dead because of battle.

All your rulers have fled together;
Apart from the bow they have been captured.
All of you who were found have been captured together,
Though they had fled far away.

Therefore I said, Look away from me!
Let me weep bitterly.
Do not hasten to comfort me
About the destruction of the daughter of my people.

For there is a day of turmoil and trampling down and confusion
With the Lord Jehovah of hosts
In the valley of vision, a breaking down of walls
And crying to the mountains.

And Elam took up the quiver,
With chariots of men and horsemen;
And Kir uncovered the shield.

Then your choicest valleys
Were full of chariots,
And the horsemen firmly fixed themselves at the gate;

And he removed the covering of Judah.
And you looked in that day
To the weapons of the Forest House,

While the breaches of the city of David
You saw to be many.
So you gathered the water of the lower pool;

And the houses of Jerusalem you counted,
And tore down the houses to fortify the wall.

Then you made a reservoir between the walls
For the water of the old pool.
But you did not look to its very Maker,
And He who formed it long ago you did not regard.

Therefore the Lord Jehovah of hosts
Called you in that day
To weeping and to mourning,
To head shaving and to wearing sackcloth.

But now there is gladness and joy,
The slaying of cattle and the slaughtering of sheep,
The eating of meat and the drinking of wine;
Eating and drinking, for tomorrow we die!

But in my ears the Lord Jehovah of hosts revealed this:
This iniquity shall by no means be covered for you until you die,
Says the Lord Jehovah of hosts.

Thus says the Lord Jehovah of hosts:
Get up, go to this steward,
To Shebna, who is over the king's house, saying,

What are you doing here, and whom do you have here
That you have hewn a tomb for yourself here,
As he who has hewn a tomb on the heights,
As he who has cut out a resting place for himself in the rock?

Jehovah soon throws you far away, O mighty one,
And He grasps you firmly;

He will wind you up tightly;
Like a ball He will toss you into a wide land.
There you will die; and there the chariots of your glory
Will become the disgrace of the house of your master.

And I will drive you from your position,
And from your standing He will pull you down.

And in that day
I will call to My servant  ¹Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,

And I will clothe him with your tunic,
And I will strengthen him with your girding sash,
And I will put your dominion into his hand;
And he will become a  ¹father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
And to the house of Judah.

And I will set the  ¹key of the house of David upon his shoulder —
When he opens, no one will shut;
When he shuts, no one will open.

And I will drive him as a  ¹peg into a sure place,
And he will become a  ²throne of glory for his father's house.

And they will hang upon him all the  ¹glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all the smallest vessels, from the  ²bowls to all the jars.

In that day, declares Jehovah of hosts, the  ¹peg driven into the sure place will be removed, even cut away, and it will fall; and the burden that was upon it will be cut down; for Jehovah has spoken.

The burden concerning Tyre:
Howl, O ships of Tarshish,
For  ¹it is destroyed — lacking house,
Lacking entrance. From as far away as the land of  ²Kittim
It is told to them.

Hush, you inhabitants of the coastland,
You, whom the merchants of Sidon,
Who cross the sea, have replenished.

And by way of many waters
The grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue;
And she was profit to the nations.

Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken,
The stronghold of the sea, saying,
I have not been in labor nor given birth;
Neither have I brought up young men,
Nor have I raised virgins.

When the report reaches Egypt,
They will writhe in pain at the report concerning Tyre.

Cross over to Tarshish;
Howl, you inhabitants of the coastland.

Is this your jubilant city,
Whose antiquity is from the days of antiquity,
Whose feet carried her off afar to sojourn?

Who has purposed this
Against Tyre, the giver of crowns,
Whose merchants were princes,
Whose traders were the honorable of the earth?

Jehovah of hosts has purposed it,
To defile the pride of all beauty,
To bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

Overflow your land like a river, O daughter of Tarshish;
There is no more restraint.

He has stretched out His hand over the sea;
He has shaken kingdoms.
Jehovah has given commandment concerning Canaan
To destroy its strongholds.

And He has said, You shall not continue to exult any longer,
O crushed virgin daughter of Sidon.
Arise; cross over to Kittim —
There also you will have no rest.

See the land of the  ¹Chaldeans, this people! They were not — the Assyrians assigned it to desert animals; they raised their siege towers; they stripped their citadels; they brought it to ruin.

Howl, O ships of Tarshish,
For your stronghold is destroyed.

In that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of the seventy years Tyre will be like her in the harlot's song;

Take a harp;
Compass the city,
Forgotten harlot.
Play well;
Abound in song,
That you may be remembered.

And at the end of the seventy years Jehovah will visit Tyre. And she will return to the wages of her harlotry and will be a harlot to all the kingdoms of the earth on land's surface.

And her profit and the wages of her harlotry will be dedicated to Jehovah; it will not be stored up, nor will it be hoarded, for her profit will be for those who dwell before Jehovah, as their sufficient food and their choice clothing.