¹If there is therefore any encouragement in Christ, if any  ²consolation of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any  ³tenderheartedness and compassions,

 ¹Make my  ²joy full, that you  ³think the same thing, having the  ⁴same love,  ⁵joined in soul,  ³thinking  ⁶the one thing,

 ¹Doing nothing by way of  ²selfish ambition nor by way of vainglory, but in  ³lowliness of  ⁴mind considering one another more excellent than yourselves;

Not regarding each his own virtues, but each the  ¹virtues of others also.

 ¹Let this mind be in you, which was also in  ²Christ Jesus,

Who,  ¹existing in the  ²form of God, did  ³not consider being equal with God a treasure to be grasped,

But  ¹emptied Himself, taking the  ²form of a slave,  ³becoming in the  ⁴likeness of men;

And  ¹being found in  ²fashion as a man, He  ³humbled Himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the  ⁴death of a cross.

Therefore also God highly  ¹exalted Him and  ²bestowed on Him the  ³name which is above every name,

That  ¹in the name of Jesus every knee should  ²bow, of those who are  ³in heaven and  ⁴on earth and  ⁵under the earth,

And every tongue should  ¹openly confess that Jesus Christ is  ²Lord  ³to the glory of God the Father.

 ¹So then, my beloved, even as you have always  ²obeyed, not as in my presence only but now much rather in my absence,  ³work out your own  ⁴salvation with  ⁵fear and trembling;

 ¹For it is  ²God who  ³operates in you both the  ⁴willing and the  ⁵working for His  ⁶good pleasure.

Do all things without  ¹murmurings and reasonings

That you may be blameless and  ¹guileless,  ²children of God  ³without blemish in the midst of a crooked and  ⁴perverted generation, among whom you shine as  ⁵luminaries in the  ⁶world,

 ¹Holding forth the  ²word of life, so that I may have a  ³boast in the  ⁴day of Christ that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

But even if I am being poured out as a  ¹drink offering upon the  ²sacrifice and  ³service of your  ⁴faith, I  ⁵rejoice, and I  ⁶rejoice together with you all.

And in like manner you also rejoice, and you  ¹rejoice together with me.

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, that I also may be  ¹encouraged by knowing the things concerning you.

For I have no one  ¹like-souled who will genuinely care for what concerns you;

For all seek their own things, not the things of  ¹Christ Jesus.

But you know his  ¹approvedness, that as a child with a father he has  ²served with me unto the gospel.

Him therefore I hope to send immediately, as soon as I see how things go with me.

But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.

But I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my  ¹brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your  ²apostle and  ³minister to my need,

Since he longed after you all and was greatly distressed because you heard that he had become sick;

For indeed he had become sick, near to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

I have sent him therefore the more eagerly, so that when you see him again, you may rejoice and I may be less sorrowful.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honor,

Because for the work of Christ he drew near unto death,  ¹risking his  ²life, that he might fill up your lack of  ³service toward me.

Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of  ¹Ephraim
And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
Which is at the head of the fat valley of those who are overcome by wine.

Indeed the Lord has  ¹someone strong and mighty;
As a hailstorm and a tempest of destruction,
As a storm of mighty overflowing waters,
He will cast down to the earth with His hand.

The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim
Will be trodden under foot;

And the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
Which is at the head of the fat valley,
Will be like the first-ripe fig before the summer,
Which when someone looks upon it he sees it,
And in an instant it is in his hand, and he swallows it up.

In that day Jehovah of hosts
Will become a  ¹crown of beauty and a diadem of glory to the remnant of His people,

And a spirit of justice for him who sits in judgment
And strength to those who turn away the battle at the gate.

But these also reel with wine
And stagger from liquor:
The priest and the prophet stagger from liquor;
They are swallowed up with wine;
They stagger from liquor, They reel in their visions,
They totter in their judgments.

For all the tables are full of vomit and filth;
There is no place clean.

Whom will he teach knowledge?
And whom will he instruct with the report?
Those weaned from milk?
Those drawn from the breasts?

For his words are:  ¹Rule upon rule, rule upon rule;
Line upon line, line upon line;
Here a little, there a little.

For with stammering lips
And with a  ¹foreign tongue
He will speak to this people,

He who said to them,
This is rest; give rest to the weary;
And, This is repose.
But they would not hear.

Therefore Jehovah's word to them will be:
 ¹Rule upon rule, rule upon rule;
Line upon line, line upon line;
Here a little, there a little;
That they may go and stumble backward,
And be broken, snared, and taken.

Therefore hear the word of Jehovah,
You scoffing men,
Who rule this people
Who are in  ¹Jerusalem:

Because you have said, We have made
A covenant with death,
And with Sheol
We have made an agreement:
When the overflowing scourge passes through,
It will not come upon us;
For we have made falsehood our refuge
And have hidden ourselves in deception.

Therefore thus says
The Lord Jehovah:
Indeed I lay a stone in Zion as a foundation,
A tested stone,
A precious  ¹cornerstone as a foundation firmly established;
He who believes will not hasten away.

And I will make justice the line
And righteousness the plummet;
And the hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,
And the waters will overflow the secret place.

And your covenant with death will be annulled,
And your agreement with Sheol will not stand;
When the overflowing scourge passes through,
You will be a trampling ground to it.

As often as it passes through,
It will take hold of you.
For morning by morning it will pass through,
By day and by night;
And it will be nothing but terror
To understand the report of it.

For the bed is too short for a man to stretch on,
And the sheet is too narrow for him to wrap himself in.

For Jehovah will  ¹rise as on Mount Perazim,
He will be agitated as in the valley of Gibeon,
To do His deed, His strange deed,
And to do His work, His most different work.

Now therefore do not be mockers,
Lest your fetters become stronger;
For I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of hosts
Of complete and decisive destruction upon the whole earth.

Hearken and hear my voice;
Attend and hear my speech.

Does the  ¹plowman plow all day long to sow his seed?
Does he open and harrow his ground continually?

Does he not, once he levels the surface,
Scatter dill and broadcast cummin,
And put the wheat in rows and the barley in its appointed place
And the rye where it belongs?

For his God instructs him toward such discretion
And teaches him so.

For dill is not threshed with a sharp tool,
Nor is the cart wheel turned upon the cummin;
But dill is beaten out with a rod,
And cummin with a stick.

Bread grains are ground,
Yet one does not thresh and thresh forever.
And once the wheel of his cart and his horses drive over it,
One does not grind it.

This also comes forth from Jehovah of hosts,
He who makes His counsel extraordinary and His sound wisdom great.

Woe to  ¹Ariel, to Ariel,
The city where David camped!
Add year to year; let the feasts run their course.

But I will distress Ariel,
And she will become mourning and lamentation
And will be like an Ariel to me.

And I will encamp in a circle against you,
And will besiege you with palisades,
And will raise up siegeworks against you.

And you will be brought down; from the ground you will speak,
And your speech will come from low in the dust.
And your voice will be like that of a departed spirit from the ground,
And your speech will twitter from the dust.

But the multitude of your enemies will be like fine dust,
And the multitude of those who terrorize will be like chaff that passes away;
And it will happen in an instant, suddenly.

From Jehovah of hosts you will be visited,
With thunder and earthquake and great noise,
With whirlwind and tempest and the flame of consuming fire.

And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel,
Even all who fight against her and her stronghold and who distress her,
Will be like a dream, like a vision in the night.

And as when a hungry man dreams and finds himself eating,
But he awakens and what he desires is not there;
Or as when a thirsty man dreams and finds himself drinking,
But he awakens and is indeed faint and what he desires is far from him;
So will the multitude of all the nations be
That fight against Mount Zion.

Linger and be astounded,
Blind yourselves and be blind.
They are drunk, but not with wine;
They stagger, but not with liquor.

For Jehovah has poured out upon you
A spirit of deep sleep
And has shut your eyes, the prophets;
And your heads, the seers, He has covered.

And all the vision will be to you like the words of a book that has been sealed, which when they give to him who is literate, saying, Please read this, he will say, I am not able to, for it is sealed.

Then the book will be given to him who is illiterate, saying, Please read this, and he will say, I am illiterate.

And the Lord said,
Because this people  ¹draws near with their mouth,
And with their lips they honor Me,
Yet they remove their heart far from Me,
And their fear for Me
Is a commandment of men merely learned;

Therefore, indeed, I will once again
Do something wondrous with this people, something wondrously marvelous;
And the wisdom of their wise men will perish,
And the understanding of those who understand will be hidden.

Woe to those who  ¹hide deeply
Their counsel from Jehovah,
And whose deeds are in the dark
And who say, Who sees us? And, Who knows us?

You turn things upside down!
Shall the potter be considered to be like the clay,
That what is made should say of him who made it, He did not make me,
Or what is formed should say of him who formed it, He has no understanding?

 ¹Is it not yet a little while
Before Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field,
And the fruitful field will be considered to be a forest.

And in that day the deaf will hear the words of the book,
And out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see,

And the afflicted will increase their joy in Jehovah,
And the needy of mankind will exult in the Holy One of Israel.

For he who terrorizes will cease to be, and the scorner will be consumed,
And all who watch for iniquity will be cut off,

Those who make a man sin by his words
And ensnare him who judges at the gate
And turn aside the righteous with an empty argument.

Therefore thus says Jehovah, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob,
Jacob will not now be ashamed,
Nor will his face now turn pale;

But when he sees his children, the work of My hands, in his midst,
They will sanctify My name
And sanctify the Holy One of Jacob,
And hold the God of Israel in awe.

And those who have erred in spirit will come to understand,
And the murmurers will learn teaching.