37 lines
1.6 KiB
Markdown
37 lines
1.6 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 31
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1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help
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and rely on horses,
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who trust in chariots because they are many
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and in horsemen because they are very strong,
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but do not look to the Holy One of Israel
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or consult the Lord!
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2 And yet he is wise and brings disaster;
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he does not call back his words,
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but will arise against the house of the evildoers
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and against the helpers of those who work iniquity.
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3 The Egyptians are man, and not God,
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and their horses are flesh, and not spirit.
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When the Lord stretches out his hand,
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the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall,
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and they will all perish together.
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4 For thus the Lord said to me,
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“As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey,
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and when a band of shepherds is called out against him
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he is not terrified by their shouting
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or daunted at their noise,
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so the Lord of hosts will come down
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to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill.
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5 Like birds hovering, so the Lord of hosts
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will protect Jerusalem;
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he will protect and deliver it;
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he will spare and rescue it.”
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6 Turn to him from whom people have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.
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7 For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.
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8 “And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man;
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and a sword, not of man, shall devour him;
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and he shall flee from the sword,
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and his young men shall be put to forced labor.
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9 His rock shall pass away in terror,
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and his officers desert the standard in panic,”
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declares the Lord, whose fire is in Zion,
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and whose furnace is in Jerusalem. |