Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, for me it is not  ¹irksome, but for you it is  ²safe.

 ¹Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the  ²concision.

For we are the  ¹circumcision, the ones who  ²serve by the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and  ³have no confidence in the  ⁴flesh,

Though I myself have something to be confident of in the flesh as well. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I more:

Circumcised the  ¹eighth day; of the  ²race of Israel, of the  ³tribe of Benjamin, a  ⁴Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the  ⁵law, a  ⁶Pharisee;

As to  ¹zeal, persecuting the church; as to the righteousness which is in the law, become  ²blameless.

 ¹But what  ²things were gains to me, these I have counted as  ³loss  ⁴on account of Christ.

 ¹But moreover I  ²also count all things to be loss on account of the  ³excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord,  ⁴on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as  ⁵refuse that I may  ⁶gain Christ

And be  ¹found in Him,  ²not having my own righteousness which is  ³out of the law, but that which is through  ⁴faith in Christ, the  ⁵righteousness which is out of God and  ⁶based on faith,

To  ¹know Him and the  ²power of His resurrection and the  ³fellowship of His sufferings, being  ⁴conformed to His death,

If perhaps I may  ¹attain to the  ²out-resurrection from the dead.

 ¹Not that I  ²have already obtained or  ³am already  ⁴perfected, but I  ⁵pursue, if even I may  ⁶lay hold of  ⁷that for which I also have been  ⁸laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

Brothers, I do  ¹not account of myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do:  ²Forgetting the things which are behind and  ³stretching forward to the things which are before,

I  ¹pursue toward the  ²goal for the  ³prize to which God in Christ Jesus has  ⁴called me upward.

Let us therefore, as many as are  ¹full-grown, have  ²this mind; and if in anything you are otherwise minded, this also God will  ³reveal to you.

 ¹Nevertheless  ²whereunto we have attained, by the  ³same rule let us  ⁴walk.

Be imitators together of me, brothers, and observe those who thus walk even as you have us as a pattern.

For  ¹many walk, of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the  ²cross of Christ,

 ¹Whose end is destruction, whose god is their stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on  ²earthly things.

For our  ¹commonwealth exists in the  ²heavens, from which also we eagerly await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Who will  ¹transfigure the  ²body of our humiliation to be conformed to the  ³body of His glory,  ⁴according to His operation by which He is able even to subject all things to Himself.

Woe to the rebellious children,
Declares Jehovah,
Who devise counsel, but not of Me,
And who  ¹make an alliance, but not of My Spirit,
In order to add
Sin upon sin;

Who go down to  ¹Egypt,
Yet do not ask of My mouth,
To take refuge in the refuge of Pharaoh,
And to take shelter in the shadow of Egypt.

Therefore the refuge of Pharaoh will be your shame,
And shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation.

For their princes are at Zoan,
And their ambassadors have come to Hanes.

All are ashamed
Of a people that cannot profit them,
Nor be a help or profit to them,
But rather a shame and also a reproach.

The burden concerning the beasts of the  ¹Negev:
Through the land of distress and anguish,
From which come lioness and lion,
Viper and flying fiery serpent,
They carry their riches upon young donkeys' backs
And their treasures upon camels' humps
To a people that cannot profit them;

For Egypt helps in a vain and empty way.
Therefore I call her
Rahab, who sits still.

Go now; write it on a tablet before them,
And inscribe it on a scroll,
That it may be, for the time to come,
 ¹As a witness forever.

For this is a rebellious people,
False children,
Children who refuse to hear
The instruction of Jehovah;

Who say to those who see, Do not see;
And to those who have visions, Do not give us true visions;
Speak pleasant things to us;
Give us illusions as your visions;

Get out of the way;
Turn aside from the path;
Cause the Holy One of Israel
To cease from before us.

Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel,
Because you despise this word
And trust in oppression and guile,
And rely on them,

Therefore this iniquity
Will be to you
Like a breach ready to fall,
Sticking out on a high wall,
Whose crashing comes
In an instant, suddenly.

And its crashing will be like the crashing of the potters' vessel:
Crushed — he will not spare;
And there will not be found
Among the crushed pieces a shard
With which to take fire from the hearth
Or to draw water from the cistern.

For thus says the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel,
In  ¹returning and rest you will be saved;
In quietness and in trust will be your strength;
But you were not willing,

And said, No, for we will flee on horses;
Therefore you will flee.
And, We will ride upon the swift;
Therefore those who chase you will be swift.

One thousand will flee at the rebuke of one;
At the rebuke of five you will flee,
Until you are left
Like a bare mast upon a mountaintop
And a standard on a hill.

And therefore Jehovah waits to be gracious to you,
And therefore He remains on high to have compassion on you;
For Jehovah is a God of justice;
Blessed are those who wait for Him.

For a people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem —
You will weep no more;
He will be most gracious to you at the sound of your cry;
When He hears it, He will answer you.

And though the Lord has given you
The bread of adversity and the water of oppression,
Your  ¹Teacher will no longer hide Himself in a corner,
But your eyes will see your Teacher.

And your ears will hear a word behind you, saying,
This is the way, walk in it,
When you turn to the right or turn to the left.

And you will defile the silver covering of your graven images
And the gold plating of your molten idols;
You will scatter them like some dirty thing;
You will say to it, Go away!

Then He will give rain for your seed,
Which you will sow in the ground,
And the bread of the increase of the ground;
And it will be fat and plenteous.
Your livestock will feed in that day
In a vast pasture.

And the oxen and donkeys that work the ground
Will eat salted fodder that has been winnowed with shovel and fork.

And upon every high mountain
And upon every prominent hill
There will be brooks and streams of water
In the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

And the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun,
And the light of the sun will be  ¹sevenfold, like the light of seven days,
On the day when Jehovah binds up the breach of His people
And heals the wound left from His stroke.

Behold, the name of Jehovah comes from a distance,
Burning with His anger and heavy with smoke;
His lips are full of indignation,
And His tongue is like a devouring fire;

His breath, like an overflowing stream,
Reaches up to the neck,
To sift the nations with the sieve of  ¹nothingness;
And a bridle that leads them to err is in the jaws of the peoples.

You will have a song
As in the night when the feast is sanctified,
And gladness of heart as when one marches to the flute
To go to the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel.

And Jehovah will cause the majesty of His voice to be heard
And the descending of His arm to be seen,
With the blasting of anger and the flame of devouring fire,
In cloudburst, downpour, and hailstones.

For at the voice of Jehovah, Assyria will be dismayed;
With a staff He will strike.

And every pass of the appointed rod,
Which Jehovah will lay upon him,
Will be with tambourines and harps;
And in battles of brandishing weapons He will fight against them.

For  ¹Topheth has been arranged since long ago;
Indeed it has been prepared for the king;
He made it deep; He made it large.
The pile in it is of fire and much wood;
The breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone,
Sets it on fire.

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.