The burden of the word of the Lord, in the land of Hadrach, and His sacrifice shall be in Damascus; for the Lord looks upon men, and upon all the tribes of Israel.

NUN. Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions, and they have not discovered your iniquity, to turn back your captivity; but they have seen for you vain burdens, and worthless visions.

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

thus says the Lord God that judges His people: Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of calamity, the cup of My wrath; and you shall not drink it anymore.

And I will give it into the hands of them that injured you, and them that afflicted you; who said to your soul, Bow down, that we may pass over; and you laid your body to the ground to them passing by outside.

[This translation omits this verse.]

Therefore all that devour you shall be eaten, and all your enemies shall eat all their [own] flesh. And they that spoil you shall become a spoil, and I will give up to be plundered all that have plundered you.

But their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is His name. He will enter into judgment with His adversaries, that He may destroy the earth;

therefore, thus says the Lord: Verily in the fire of My wrath have I spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, because they have appropriated My land to themselves for a possession with joy, disregarding the lives [of its inhabitants], to destroy [it] by plunder.

therefore I will lift up My hand against the nations that are round about you; they shall bear their reproach.

Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate plain, because of the wrongs of the children of Judah, because they have shed righteous blood in their land.

And I will make inquisition for their blood, and will by no means leave it unavenged: and the Lord shall dwell in Zion.

For as you have drunk upon My holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink wine; they shall drink, and go down, and be as if they were not.

But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance, and there shall be a sanctuary; and the house of Jacob shall take for an inheritance those that took them for an inheritance.

He stretches out the north wind upon nothing, and He hangs the earth upon nothing;

In the beginning You, O Lord, laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of Your hands.

They shall perish, but You remain; and [they all] shall grow old like a garment; and as a vesture shall You fold them, and they shall be changed.

who cover Yourself with light as with a garment; spreading out the heaven as a curtain.

To Him who made the heavens by understanding; for His mercy [endures] forever.

To Him who established the earth on the waters; for His mercy [endures] forever.

Who has measured the water in His hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?

[It is] He that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; He that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched [it] out as a tent to dwell in;

Thus says the Lord God, who made the heaven, and established it; who settled the earth, and the things in it, and gives breath to the people in it, and spirit to them that tread on it;

Thus says the Lord that redeems you, and who formed you from the womb: I am the Lord that performs all things; I stretched out the heaven alone, and established the earth.

I have made the earth, and man upon it; with My hand I have established the heavens; I have given commandment to all the stars.

Thus says the Lord that made the heaven, this God that created the earth, and made it; He marked it out, He made it not in vain, but formed it to be inhabited; I am the Lord, and there is no other.

My hand also has founded the earth, and My right hand has fixed the sky; I will call them, and they shall stand together.

And you have forgotten God who made you, who made the sky and founded the earth; and you were continually afraid because of the wrath of him that afflicted you; for [whereas] he counseled to take you away, yet now where is the wrath of him that afflicted you?

It is the Lord that made the earth by His strength, who set up the world by His wisdom, and by His understanding stretched out the sky,

The Lord made the earth by His power, preparing the world by His wisdom, by His understanding He stretched out the heaven.

And: "You, LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.

and like a cloak You will roll them up, and they shall be changed. But You are the same, and Your years will not fail."

And God formed the man of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

And they fell on their faces, and said, O God, the God of spirits and of all flesh, if one man has sinned, [shall] the wrath of the Lord [be] upon the whole congregation?

[before] the dust also return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it.

I will not take vengeance on you forever, neither will I be always angry with you; for My Spirit shall go forth from Me, and I have created all breath.

And the king swore to him, saying, [As] the Lord lives who gave us this soul, I will not slay you, neither will I give you into the hands of these men.

For all souls are Mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son, they are Mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.

Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we respected [them]. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?