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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.25.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, said to me: &#8220;Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.25.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When they drink it, they will stagger and go mad because of the sword I will send among them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.25.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.25.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So I took the cup from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s hand and made all the nations to whom he sent me drink it: </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.25.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin and an object of horror and scorn, a curse</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:18 </span><span class="ft">That is, their names to be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, to be seen by others as cursed</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;as they are today; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.25.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Pharaoh king of Egypt, his attendants, his officials and all his people, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.25.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and all the foreign people there; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines (those of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the people left at Ashdod); </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.25.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Edom, Moab and Ammon; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.25.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.25.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Dedan, Tema, Buz and all who are in distant places</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:23 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">who clip the hair by their foreheads</span></span></span><span class="content">; </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.25.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the foreign people who live in the wilderness; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.25.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">all the kings of Zimri, Elam and Media; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.25.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">and all the kings of the north, near and far, one after the other&#8212;all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshak</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:26 </span><span class="fq">Sheshak </span><span class="ft">is a cryptogram for Babylon.</span></span></span><span class="content"> will drink it too.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.25.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.25.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then tell them, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk and vomit, and fall to rise no more because of the sword I will send among you.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.25.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink, tell them, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty says: You must drink it! </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JER.25.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">See, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears my Name, and will you indeed go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword on all who live on the earth, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JER.25.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.25.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now prophesy all these words against them and say to them:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.25.30"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will roar from on high;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.25.30"><span class="content">he will thunder from his holy dwelling</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.25.30"><span class="content">and roar mightily against his land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.25.30"><span class="content">He will shout like those who tread the grapes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.25.30"><span class="content">shout against all who live on the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.25.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JER.25.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">The tumult will resound to the ends of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JER.25.31"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will bring charges against the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JER.25.31"><span class="content">he will bring judgment on all mankind</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JER.25.31"><span class="content">and put the wicked to the sword,&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JER.25.31"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JER.25.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JER.25.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JER.25.32"><span class="content">&#8220;Look! Disaster is spreading</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JER.25.32"><span class="content">from nation to nation;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JER.25.32"><span class="content">a mighty storm is rising</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JER.25.32"><span class="content">from the ends of the earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JER.25.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JER.25.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">At that time those slain by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be everywhere&#8212;from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned or gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JER.25.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JER.25.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Weep and wail, you shepherds;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JER.25.34"><span class="content">roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JER.25.34"><span class="content">For your time to be slaughtered has come;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JER.25.34"><span class="content">you will fall like the best of the rams.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:34 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">fall and be shattered like fine pottery</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JER.25.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JER.25.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">The shepherds will have nowhere to flee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JER.25.35"><span class="content">the leaders of the flock no place to escape.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JER.25.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JER.25.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Hear the cry of the shepherds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JER.25.36"><span class="content">the wailing of the leaders of the flock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JER.25.36"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is destroying their pasture.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JER.25.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JER.25.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">The peaceful meadows will be laid waste</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JER.25.37"><span class="content">because of the fierce anger of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JER.25.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JER.25.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Like a lion he will leave his lair,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JER.25.38"><span class="content">and their land will become desolate</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JER.25.38"><span class="content">because of the sword</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:38 </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (see also 46:16 and 50:16); most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">anger</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the oppressor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JER.25.38"><span class="content">and because of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s fierce anger.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">26</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Song of Praise</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.26.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.26.1"><span class="content">We have a strong city;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.26.1"><span class="content">God makes salvation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.26.1"><span class="content">its walls and ramparts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.26.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.26.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Open the gates</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.26.2"><span class="content">that the righteous nation may enter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.26.2"><span class="content">the nation that keeps faith.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.26.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.26.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You will keep in perfect peace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.26.3"><span class="content">those whose minds are steadfast,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.26.3"><span class="content">because they trust in you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.26.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.26.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.26.4"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself, is the Rock eternal.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.26.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.26.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He humbles those who dwell on high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.26.5"><span class="content">he lays the lofty city low;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.26.5"><span class="content">he levels it to the ground</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.26.5"><span class="content">and casts it down to the dust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.26.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.26.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Feet trample it down&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.26.6"><span class="content">the feet of the oppressed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.26.6"><span class="content">the footsteps of the poor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.26.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.26.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The path of the righteous is level;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.26.7"><span class="content">you, the Upright One, make the way of the righteous smooth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.26.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.26.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Yes, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, walking in the way of your laws,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">judgments</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.26.8"><span class="content">we wait for you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.26.8"><span class="content">your name and renown</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.26.8"><span class="content">are the desire of our hearts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.26.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.26.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">My soul yearns for you in the night;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.26.9"><span class="content">in the morning my spirit longs for you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.26.9"><span class="content">When your judgments come upon the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.26.9"><span class="content">the people of the world learn righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.26.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.26.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But when grace is shown to the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.26.10"><span class="content">they do not learn righteousness;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.26.10"><span class="content">even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.26.10"><span class="content">and do not regard the majesty of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.26.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.26.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, your hand is lifted high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.26.11"><span class="content">but they do not see it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.26.11"><span class="content">Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.26.11"><span class="content">let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.26.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.26.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you establish peace for us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.26.12"><span class="content">all that we have accomplished you have done for us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.26.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.26.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.26.13"><span class="content">but your name alone do we honor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.26.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.26.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They are now dead, they live no more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.26.14"><span class="content">their spirits do not rise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.26.14"><span class="content">You punished them and brought them to ruin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.26.14"><span class="content">you wiped out all memory of them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.26.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.26.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You have enlarged the nation, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.26.15"><span class="content">you have enlarged the nation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.26.15"><span class="content">You have gained glory for yourself;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.26.15"><span class="content">you have extended all the borders of the land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.26.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.26.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, they came to you in their distress;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.26.16"><span class="content">when you disciplined them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.26.16"><span class="content">they could barely whisper a prayer.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:16 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.26.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.26.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">As a pregnant woman about to give birth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.26.17"><span class="content">writhes and cries out in her pain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.26.17"><span class="content">so were we in your presence, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.26.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.26.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">We were with child, we writhed in labor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.26.18"><span class="content">but we gave birth to wind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.26.18"><span class="content">We have not brought salvation to the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.26.18"><span class="content">and the people of the world have not come to life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.26.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.26.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But your dead will live, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.26.19"><span class="content">their bodies will rise&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.26.19"><span class="content">let those who dwell in the dust</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.26.19"><span class="content">wake up and shout for joy&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.26.19"><span class="content">your dew is like the dew of the morning;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.26.19"><span class="content">the earth will give birth to her dead.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.26.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.26.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Go, my people, enter your rooms</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.26.20"><span class="content">and shut the doors behind you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.26.20"><span class="content">hide yourselves for a little while</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.26.20"><span class="content">until his wrath has passed by.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.26.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.26.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">See, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is coming out of his dwelling</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.26.21"><span class="content">to punish the people of the earth for their sins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.26.21"><span class="content">The earth will disclose the blood shed on it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.26.21"><span class="content">the earth will conceal its slain no longer.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">27</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Deliverance of Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In that day,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.27.1"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will punish with his sword&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.27.1"><span class="content">his fierce, great and powerful sword&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.27.1"><span class="content">Leviathan the gliding serpent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.27.1"><span class="content">Leviathan the coiling serpent;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.27.1"><span class="content">he will slay the monster of the sea.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.27.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">In that day&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.27.2"><span class="content">&#8220;Sing about a fruitful vineyard:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.27.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, watch over it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.27.3"><span class="content">I water it continually.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.27.3"><span class="content">I guard it day and night</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.27.3"><span class="content">so that no one may harm it.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.27.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I am not angry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.27.4"><span class="content">If only there were briers and thorns confronting me!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.27.4"><span class="content">I would march against them in battle;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.27.4"><span class="content">I would set them all on fire.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.27.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Or else let them come to me for refuge;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.27.5"><span class="content">let them make peace with me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.27.5"><span class="content">yes, let them make peace with me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.27.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">In days to come Jacob will take root,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.27.6"><span class="content">Israel will bud and blossom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.27.6"><span class="content">and fill all the world with fruit.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.27.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Has the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> struck her</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.27.7"><span class="content">as he struck down those who struck her?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.27.7"><span class="content">Has she been killed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.27.7"><span class="content">as those were killed who killed her?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.27.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">By warfare</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:8 </span><span class="ft">See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and exile you contend with her&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.27.8"><span class="content">with his fierce blast he drives her out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.27.8"><span class="content">as on a day the east wind blows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.27.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">By this, then, will Jacob&#8217;s guilt be atoned for,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.27.9"><span class="content">and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.27.9"><span class="content">When he makes all the altar stones</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.27.9"><span class="content">to be like limestone crushed to pieces,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.27.9"><span class="content">no Asherah poles</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah</span></span></span><span class="content"> or incense altars</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.27.9"><span class="content">will be left standing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.27.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The fortified city stands desolate,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.27.10"><span class="content">an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the wilderness;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.27.10"><span class="content">there the calves graze,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.27.10"><span class="content">there they lie down;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.27.10"><span class="content">they strip its branches bare.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.27.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When its twigs are dry, they are broken off</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.27.11"><span class="content">and women come and make fires with them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.27.11"><span class="content">For this is a people without understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.27.11"><span class="content">so their Maker has no compassion on them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.27.11"><span class="content">and their Creator shows them no favor.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.27.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">In that day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch28" data-usfm="ISA.28.1+ISA.28.2+ISA.28.3+ISA.28.4+ISA.28.5+ISA.28.6+ISA.28.7+ISA.28.8+ISA.28.9+ISA.28.10+ISA.28.11+ISA.28.12+ISA.28.13+ISA.28.14+ISA.28.15+ISA.28.16+ISA.28.17">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.28.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to that wreath, the pride of Ephraim&#8217;s drunkards,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.28.1"><span class="content">to the fading flower, his glorious beauty,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.28.1"><span class="content">set on the head of a fertile valley&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.28.1"><span class="content">to that city, the pride of those laid low by wine!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.28.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.28.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">See, the Lord has one who is powerful and strong.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.28.2"><span class="content">Like a hailstorm and a destructive wind,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.28.2"><span class="content">like a driving rain and a flooding downpour,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.28.2"><span class="content">he will throw it forcefully to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.28.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.28.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">That wreath, the pride of Ephraim&#8217;s drunkards,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.28.3"><span class="content">will be trampled underfoot.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.28.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.28.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">That fading flower, his glorious beauty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.28.4"><span class="content">set on the head of a fertile valley,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.28.4"><span class="content">will be like figs ripe before harvest&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.28.4"><span class="content">as soon as people see them and take them in hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.28.4"><span class="content">they swallow them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.28.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.28.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">In that day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.28.5"><span class="content">will be a glorious crown,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.28.5"><span class="content">a beautiful wreath</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.28.5"><span class="content">for the remnant of his people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.28.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.28.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He will be a spirit of justice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.28.6"><span class="content">to the one who sits in judgment,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.28.6"><span class="content">a source of strength</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.28.6"><span class="content">to those who turn back the battle at the gate.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.28.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.28.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And these also stagger from wine</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.28.7"><span class="content">and reel from beer:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.28.7"><span class="content">Priests and prophets stagger from beer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.28.7"><span class="content">and are befuddled with wine;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.28.7"><span class="content">they reel from beer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.28.7"><span class="content">they stagger when seeing visions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.28.7"><span class="content">they stumble when rendering decisions.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.28.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.28.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">All the tables are covered with vomit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.28.8"><span class="content">and there is not a spot without filth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.28.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.28.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Who is it he is trying to teach?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.28.9"><span class="content">To whom is he explaining his message?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.28.9"><span class="content">To children weaned from their milk,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.28.9"><span class="content">to those just taken from the breast?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.28.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.28.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For it is:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.28.10"><span class="content">Do this, do that,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.28.10"><span class="content">a rule for this, a rule for that</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">/ sav lasav sav lasav / kav lakav kav lakav </span><span class="ft">(probably meaningless sounds mimicking the prophet&#8217;s words); also in verse 13</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.28.10"><span class="content">a little here, a little there.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.28.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.28.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.28.11"><span class="content">God will speak to this people,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.28.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.28.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">to whom he said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.28.12"><span class="content">&#8220;This is the resting place, let the weary rest&#8221;;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.28.12"><span class="content">and, &#8220;This is the place of repose&#8221;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.28.12"><span class="content">but they would not listen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.28.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.28.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So then, the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to them will become:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.28.13"><span class="content">Do this, do that,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.28.13"><span class="content">a rule for this, a rule for that;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.28.13"><span class="content">a little here, a little there&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.28.13"><span class="content">so that as they go they will fall backward;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.28.13"><span class="content">they will be injured and snared and captured.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.28.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.28.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you scoffers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.28.14"><span class="content">who rule this people in Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.28.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.28.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You boast, &#8220;We have entered into a covenant with death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.28.15"><span class="content">with the realm of the dead we have made an agreement.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.28.15"><span class="content">When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.28.15"><span class="content">it cannot touch us,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.28.15"><span class="content">for we have made a lie our refuge</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.28.15"><span class="content">and falsehood</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">false gods</span></span></span><span class="content"> our hiding place.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.28.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.28.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.28.16"><span class="content">&#8220;See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.28.16"><span class="content">a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.28.16"><span class="content">the one who relies on it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.28.16"><span class="content">will never be stricken with panic.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.28.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.28.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I will make justice the measuring line</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.28.17"><span class="content">and righteousness the plumb line;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.28.17"><span class="content">hail will sweep away your refuge, the lie,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.28.17"><span class="content">and water will overflow your hiding place.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.28.17"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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