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Ah! Those who call evil good and good evil, those who put darkness for light and light for darkness, those who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will become like the stench, and their blossom will go up like the dust. For they have rejected the instruction of Yahweh of hosts, and they have treated the word of the holy one of Israel with contempt.

And he will raise a signal for a nation from afar, and he will whistle for it from the end of the earth. And look! It comes quickly, swiftly!

And I said, "Woe to me! For I am destroyed! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I am living among a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the king, Yahweh of hosts!"

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "I am here! Send me!"

Make the heart of this people insensitive, and make its ears unresponsive, and shut its eyes so that it may not look with its eyes and listen with its ears and comprehend with its mind and turn back, and it may be healed for him."

This happened in the days of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah. Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem for warfare against it, but he was not able to fight against it.

For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin, and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.

"Ask for a sign for yourself from Yahweh God; make it deep as Sheol or make it high as above."

Then he said, "Hear, house of David! Is it too little for you to make men weary, that you should also make my God weary?

For before the boy knows to reject the evil and to choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be abandoned.

And this shall happen: On that day, Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the stream of Egypt and the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

And this shall happen: because of the abundance of milk production, he will eat curds, for every one that is left in the midst of the land will eat curds and honey.

And this shall happen on that day: Every place where there are a thousand vines for a thousand silver pieces will become briers, and it will be thornbushes.

One will go there with arrows and bow, for all of the land will be briers and thornbushes.

And as for all of the hills that they hoed with the hoe, you will not go there, for fear of briers and thornbushes. And it will become like pastureland for cattle and overtrodden land for sheep.

And I will require reliable witnesses as a witness for me: Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah."

For before the boy knows to call ‘my father' and ‘my mother,' one will carry away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria in the presence of the king of Assyria."

Make a plan, but it will be frustrated! Speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us!

For Yahweh said this to me while his hand weighed heavily on me, and he warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,