Hear what I say, you overconfident daughters.

10 In a little less than a year you overconfident women will tremble, because the grape harvest will fail and no fruit will be brought in from the fields.

11 Shudder, you pampered women.

Tremble, you overconfident women.

Take off your clothes, walk around naked, and wear sackcloth around your waists.

12 Beat your breasts as you mourn for the fields, for the vines bearing grapes.

13 Mourn for my people's land where thorns and briars will grow.

Mourn for all the happy homes in a joyful city.

14 Palaces will be deserted.

Noisy cities will be abandoned.

Fortresses and watchtowers will become permanent caves.

They will be a delight for wild donkeys and pastures for flocks 15 until the Ruach is poured on us from on high.

Then the wilderness will be turned into a fertile field, and the fertile field will be considered a forest.

16 Then justice will live in the wilderness, and righteousness will be at home in the fertile field.

17 Then an act of righteousness will bring about peace, calm, and safety forever.

18 My people will live in a peaceful place, in safe homes and quiet places of rest.

19 The forest will be flattened because of hail, and the city will be completely leveled.

20 Blessed are those who plant beside every stream and those who let oxen and donkeys roam freely.

The LORD Will Rescue Jerusalem from Assyria 33 1 How horrible it will be for you, you destroyer, although you haven't been destroyed.

How horrible it will be for you, you traitor, although you haven't been betrayed.

When you've finished destroying, you will be destroyed.

When you've finished being a traitor, you will be betrayed.

2 O Yahweh, have pity on us.

We wait with hope for you.

Be our strength in the morning.

Yes, be our savior in times of trouble.

3 People flee from the noise of your army.

Nations scatter when you attack.

4 You nations, your loot is gathered as grasshoppers harvest a crop.

Like swarming locusts, people rush for your loot.

5 Yahweh is honored because he lives on high.

He will fill Zion with justice and righteousness.

6 He will be the foundation of your future.

The riches of salvation are wisdom and knowledge.

The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.

7 Heroes cry in the streets.

Messengers of peace cry bitterly.

8 Highways are deserted.

Travelers stop traveling.

Agreements are broken.

Witnessesa are rejected.

People are no longer respected.

9 The country grieves and wastes away.

Lebanon is ashamed and is decaying.

Sharon has become like a wilderness.

Bashan and Carmel are shaken.

10 Yahweh says, "Now I will arise.

Now I will get up.

Now I will be lifted up."

11 You will be pregnant with hay.

You will give birth to straw.

Your breath will be a fire which will burn you up.

12 People will be cremated.

They will be set on fire like dry thornbushes.

13 Hear what I have done, you people who are far away!

Acknowledge my might, you people who are near!

14 The sinners in Zion are terrified.

Trembling seizes the ungodly.

Can any of us live through a fire that destroys?

Can any of us live through a fire that burns forever?

15 The person who does what is right and speaks the truth will live.

He rejects getting rich by extortion and refuses to take bribes.

He refuses to listen to those who are plotting murders.

He doesn't look for evil things to do.

16 This person will live on high.

His stronghold will be a fortress made of rock.

He will have plenty of food and a dependable supply of water.

17 Your eyes will see how handsome the king is.

You will see a land that stretches into the distance.

18 Your mind will be thinking of the terrors in the past.

Where are the scribes?

Where are the tax collectors?

Where are those who counted the towers?

19 You will no longer see those savage people, those people with an unrecognizable language, with a foreign language that you can't understand.

20 Look at Zion, the city of our festivals.

Your eyes will see Jerusalem as a peaceful place.

It is a tent that can't be moved.

Its tent pegs will never be pulled out, and none of its ropes will be broken.

21 Yahweh will be our mighty defender in a place surrounded by wide rivers and streams.

Ships with oars won't travel on them.

Stately ships won't sail on them.

22 Yahweh is our Shophet.

Yahweh is our lawgiver.

Yahweh is our Melek .

Yahweh is our savior.

23 Your ropes hang loose, your mast isn't secure, and your sail isn't spread out.

A large amount of loot will be distributed.

Lame people will carry off your loot.

24 No one who lives in Zion will say, "I'm sick."

The sins of its inhabitants will be forgiven.

The Fall of Edom Is a Glimpse of the LORD'S Judgment 34 1 Come close, you nations, and listen.

Pay attention, you people.

The earth, everyone in it, the world, and everything on it will listen.

2 Yahweh is angry with all the nations.

He is furious with all their armies.

He has claimed them for destruction.

He has handed them over to be slaughtered.

3 Their dead bodies will be thrown out.

A stench will rise from their corpses.

Mountains will be red with their blood.