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Stormproof

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      <div class="chapter ch16" data-usfm="ISA.16.6+ISA.16.7+ISA.16.8+ISA.16.9+ISA.16.10+ISA.16.11+ISA.16.12+ISA.16.13+ISA.16.14">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">We have heard of Moab&#8217;s pride&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="content">how great is her arrogance!&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="content">of her conceit, her pride and her insolence;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="content">but her boasts are empty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Therefore the Moabites wail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="content">they wail together for Moab.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="content">Lament and grieve</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="content">for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The fields of Heshbon wither,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">the vines of Sibmah also.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">The rulers of the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">have trampled down the choicest vines,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">which once reached Jazer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">and spread toward the desert.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">Their shoots spread out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">and went as far as the sea.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:8 </span><span class="ft">Probably the Dead Sea</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So I weep, as Jazer weeps,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">for the vines of Sibmah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">Heshbon and Elealeh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">I drench you with tears!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">The shouts of joy over your ripened fruit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">and over your harvests have been stilled.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="content">no one sings or shouts in the vineyards;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="content">no one treads out wine at the presses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="content">for I have put an end to the shouting.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My heart laments for Moab like a harp,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.16.11"><span class="content">my inmost being for Kir Hareseth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.16.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When Moab appears at her high place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="content">she only wears herself out;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="content">when she goes to her shrine to pray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="content">it is to no avail.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">This is the word the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has already spoken concerning Moab. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8220;Within three years, as a servant bound by contract would count them, Moab&#8217;s splendor and all her many people will be despised, and her survivors will be very few and feeble.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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The Listener’s Bible®: NIV Edition

New International Version™  (Anglicised), Audio Edition

Holy Bible, New International Version™ (Anglicised), South Asian Audio Edition

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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Damascus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against Damascus:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="content">&#8220;See, Damascus will no longer be a city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="content">but will become a heap of ruins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The cities of Aroer will be deserted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="content">and left to flocks, which will lie down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="content">with no one to make them afraid.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">and royal power from Damascus;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">the remnant of Aram will be</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">like the glory of the Israelites,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day the glory of Jacob will fade;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.17.4"><span class="content">the fat of his body will waste away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">gathering the grain in their arms&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">as when someone gleans heads of grain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">in the Valley of Rephaim.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Yet some gleanings will remain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">as when an olive tree is beaten,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">four or five on the fruitful boughs,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In that day people will look to their Maker</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.17.7"><span class="content">and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They will not look to the altars,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">the work of their hands,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:8 </span><span class="ft">That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">and the incense altars their fingers have made.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You have forgotten God your Savior;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">Therefore, though you set out the finest plants</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">and plant imported vines,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">yet the harvest will be as nothing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">in the day of disease and incurable pain.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Woe to the many nations that rage&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">they rage like the raging sea!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">Woe to the peoples who roar&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">they roar like the roaring of great waters!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">when he rebukes them they flee far away,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">driven before the wind like chaff on the hills,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">like tumbleweed before a gale.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">In the evening, sudden terror!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="content">Before the morning, they are gone!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="content">This is the portion of those who loot us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="content">the lot of those who plunder us.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch18" data-usfm="ISA.18.1+ISA.18.2+ISA.18.3+ISA.18.4+ISA.18.5+ISA.18.6+ISA.18.7">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to the land of whirring wings</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of locusts</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.18.1"><span class="content">along the rivers of Cush,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:1 </span><span class="ft">That is, the upper Nile region</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.18.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">which sends envoys by sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">in papyrus boats over the water.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">Go, swift messengers,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">to a people tall and smooth-skinned,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">to a people feared far and wide,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">an aggressive nation of strange speech,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">whose land is divided by rivers.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">All you people of the world,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">you who live on the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">when a banner is raised on the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">you will see it,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">and when a trumpet sounds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">you will hear it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="content">&#8220;I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="content">like shimmering heat in the sunshine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="content">like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="content">and the flower becomes a ripening grape,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="content">he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="content">and cut down and take away the spreading branches.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="content">and to the wild animals;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="content">the birds will feed on them all summer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="content">the wild animals all winter.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">At that time gifts will be brought to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">from a people tall and smooth-skinned,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">from a people feared far and wide,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">an aggressive nation of strange speech,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">whose land is divided by rivers&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div>
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