The LORD will protect Mount Zion, but the people of Moab will be trampled down the way straw is trampled in manure.

The LORD answers, "I have trampled the nations like grapes, and no one came to help me. I trampled them in my anger, and their blood has stained all my clothing.

On the day when I act, you will overcome the wicked, and they will be like dust under your feet.

Some will be killed by the sword, and others will be taken as prisoners to all countries; and the heathen will trample over Jerusalem until their time is up.

The grapes were squeezed out in the wine press outside the city, and blood came out of the wine press in a flood two hundred miles long and about five feet deep.

With all my heart I try to serve you; keep me from disobeying your commandments.

You reprimand the proud; cursed are those who disobey your commands.

For forty years I was disgusted with those people. I said, 'How disloyal they are! They refuse to obey my commands.'

Keep me from going the wrong way, and in your goodness teach me your law.

But their words were all lies; nothing they said was sincere.

They were not loyal to him; they were not faithful to their covenant with him.

but were rebellious and disloyal like their ancestors, unreliable as a crooked arrow.

It makes as much sense as eating ashes. His foolish ideas have so misled him that he is beyond help. He won't admit to himself that the idol he holds in his hand is not a god at all.

So get rid of your old self, which made you live as you used to---the old self that was being destroyed by its deceitful desires.

Do not let anyone deceive you with foolish words; it is because of these very things that God's anger will come upon those who do not obey him.

The Wicked One will come with the power of Satan and perform all kinds of false miracles and wonders,

And so God sends the power of error to work in them so that they believe what is false.

and evil persons and impostors will keep on going from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.

I write you, then, not because you do not know the truth; instead, it is because you do know it, and you also know that no lie ever comes from the truth.

Never again will the light of a lamp be seen in you; no more will the voices of brides and grooms be heard in you. Your merchants were the most powerful in all the world, and with your false magic you deceived all the peoples of the world!"