Behold, they say to me, Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come.

You have deceived me, O Lord, and I have been deceived. You have been strong, and have prevailed. I have become a laughing stock, I am continually mocked every day.

For I will laugh with my bitter speech, I will call upon rebellion and misery; for the word of the Lord has become a reproach to me and a mockery all my days.

The vision which Isaiah son of Amoz saw against Babylon.

In the year in which King Ahaz died, this word came:

The burden of Nineveh: the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

The burden which the prophet Habakkuk saw.

The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the hand of his messenger. Take this to heart, I pray.

therefore behold, I [will] seize and dash you down and the city which I gave to you and your fathers.

And I will bring upon you an everlasting reproach, and everlasting disgrace, which shall not be forgotten.

I have forsaken My house, I have left My heritage; I have given My beloved one into the hands of her enemies.

And I will be very angry with them in that day, and I will leave them and turn My face away from them, and they shall be devoured. And many evils and afflictions shall come upon them, and they shall say in that day, Because the Lord my God is not with me, these evils have come upon me.

And I will surely turn away My face from them in that day, because of all their evil doings which they have done, because they turned aside after strange gods.

And the Lord saw, and was jealous; and was provoked by the anger of His sons and daughters,

and said, I will turn away My face from them, and will show what shall happen to them in the last days; for it is a perverse generation, sons in whom is no faith.

And he went out to meet Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin, and said, Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin. The Lord [is] with you, while you are with Him; and if you seek Him out, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

God heard and lightly regarded [them], and greatly despised Israel.

And He rejected the tabernacle of Shiloh, His tent where He dwelt among men.

For even if they should rear their children, yet shall they be utterly bereaved. Wherefore also there is woe to them, [though] My flesh is of them.