New Living Translation NLT
Hebrew Names Version HNV
1 What sorrow awaits you Assyrians, who have destroyed others but have never been destroyed yourselves. You betray others, but you have never been betrayed. When you are done destroying, you will be destroyed. When you are done betraying, you will be betrayed.
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Woe to you who destroy, and you weren't destroyed; and deal treacherously, and they didn't deal treacherously with you! When you have ceased to destroy, you shall be destroyed; and when you have made an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with you.
2 But LORD, be merciful to us, for we have waited for you. Be our strong arm each day and our salvation in times of trouble.
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LORD, be gracious to us; we have waited for you: be our arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
3 The enemy runs at the sound of your voice. When you stand up, the nations flee!
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At the noise of the thunder the peoples are fled; at the lifting up of yourself the nations are scattered.
4 Just as caterpillars and locusts strip the fields and vines, so the fallen army of Assyria will be stripped!
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Your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathers: as locusts leap shall men leap on it.
5 Though the LORD is very great and lives in heaven, he will make Jerusalem his home of justice and righteousness.
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The LORD is exalted; for he dwells on high: he has filled Tziyon with justice and righteousness.
6 In that day he will be your sure foundation, providing a rich store of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD will be your treasure.
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There shall be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of the LORD is your treasure.
7 But now your brave warriors weep in public. Your ambassadors of peace cry in bitter disappointment.
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Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of shalom weep bitterly.
8 Your roads are deserted; no one travels them anymore. The Assyrians have broken their peace treaty and care nothing for the promises they made before witnesses. They have no respect for anyone.
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The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases: [the enemy] has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he doesn't regard man.
9 The land of Israel wilts in mourning. Lebanon withers with shame. The plain of Sharon is now a wilderness. Bashan and Carmel have been plundered.
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The land mourns and languishes; Levanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Karmel shake off [their leaves].
10 But the LORD says: “Now I will stand up. Now I will show my power and might.
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Now will I arise, says the LORD; now will I lift up myself; now will I be exalted.
11 You Assyrians produce nothing but dry grass and stubble. Your own breath will turn to fire and consume you.
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You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.
12 Your people will be burned up completely, like thornbushes cut down and tossed in a fire.
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The peoples shall be as the burning of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.
13 Listen to what I have done, you nations far away! And you that are near, acknowledge my might!”
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Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.
14 The sinners in Jerusalem shake with fear. Terror seizes the godless. “Who can live with this devouring fire?” they cry. “Who can survive this all-consuming fire?”
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The sinners in Tziyon are afraid; trembling has seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting burning?
15 Those who are honest and fair, who refuse to profit by fraud, who stay far away from bribes, who refuse to listen to those who plot murder, who shut their eyes to all enticement to do wrong—
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He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from taking a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking on evil:
16 these are the ones who will dwell on high. The rocks of the mountains will be their fortress. Food will be supplied to them, and they will have water in abundance.
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He shall dwell on high; his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given [him]; his waters shall be sure.
17 Your eyes will see the king in all his splendor, and you will see a land that stretches into the distance.
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Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall see a land that reaches afar.
18 You will think back to this time of terror, asking, “Where are the Assyrian officers who counted our towers? Where are the bookkeepers who recorded the plunder taken from our fallen city?”
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Your heart shall muse on the terror: Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed [the tribute]? where is he who counted the towers?
19 You will no longer see these fierce, violent people with their strange, unknown language.
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You shall not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can not comprehend, of a strange language that you can not understand.
20 Instead, you will see Zion as a place of holy festivals. You will see Jerusalem, a city quiet and secure. It will be like a tent whose ropes are taut and whose stakes are firmly fixed.
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Look on Tziyon, the city of our solemnities: your eyes shall see Yerushalayim a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be removed, the stakes whereof shall never be plucked up, neither shall any of the cords of it be broken.
21 The LORD will be our Mighty One. He will be like a wide river of protection that no enemy can cross, that no enemy ship can sail upon.
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But there the LORD will be with us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams, in which shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
22 For the LORD is our judge, our lawgiver, and our king. He will care for us and save us.
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For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
23 The enemies’ sails hang loose on broken masts with useless tackle. Their treasure will be divided by the people of God. Even the lame will take their share!
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Your rigging is loosed; they could not strengthen the foot of their mast, they could not spread the sail: then was the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame took the prey.
24 The people of Israel will no longer say, “We are sick and helpless,” for the LORD will forgive their sins.
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The inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people who dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
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